I've had a similar situation with a wee Corsa I got a few years back. I paid £450 for it with 12 months MOT and 42k miles, it had an intermittent check engine light which needed a new MAF sensor and EGR valve, got them off ebay for £25 and £15 and I fitted them myself. SO my initial investment was £490 all in. 3 years later and It's now on 92k and still going strong. so I've done 50k miles. Less than 1p per mile on my investment!
I was given, for free, a 17 (now 19) year old Peugeot 206 to get me to work during the lockdowns. It's a dog but it serves me well. I've had to fit 2 tyres last year for £120 (new Goodyears, over Christmas nowhere local had anything cheaper/better in stock) and a fuel injector failed earlier this year which cost me £16 quid and half an hour of time to fit. It's sailed through 2 MOTs with no advisories.
Bought a 2004 Ford Fiesta 1.25 last August for £799. Done 4000 miles since then. Yorkshire Dales, Thirsk to Scarborough to Whitby and back to Newcastle. Also the Lake District last weekend up the Kirkstone Pass. No bother whatsoever. Currently works out at 20p per mile on purchase plus £10,000 in ⛽️ Bargain 🤣🤣
How do we buy them from you? been after a car for ages and it feels like its the wild west with all the cowboys... I just want someone who knows what they're doing and is honest to sell me a car that hasnt been bodged back to life to make a quick buck with an impending repair bill down the line. Great find
In South Australia we don't have any thing similar to MOT . How is the attitude to these reports from the public ? I wonder if achieves anything . We have lots of old cars going back the 70's still on the road
We're just used to them tbh. In fairness the one in the UK though pretty thorough isn't anywhere near as stringent as places like Germany. It mainly focuses on tyres, brakes and suspension although an emission test is also carried out.
I love these hundreds of pounds cars. get one that cleans up or is dirt cheap to keep and you're set. reliable, don't care where you leave it, any damage is just 'patina', and all in your running around cheaper than one months lease cost on just about anything.. They just make me smile... Nice job Gary..
Fantastic and what a bargain! Had a Rover 600, when I lived in Stewarton, and the radiator had bust so went to the scrappy near the fire station in Kilmarnock. Got my radiator and saw a gold S-reg Rover 820 with tax and MOT for sale for £250 and this was in 2006. The Rover 600 had had it as the head gasket had gone. Went to Kilmarnock, bought the 820 and used it for tow years commuting between Stewarton and Greenock. The only thing I had to replace was an ABS sensor and that's why the car was going to be scrapped. It had 80K on the clock when I got it.
Getting to the stage now when it's cheaper to buy a car than fill it wi fuel ffs, apart fae the colour ( Banana-man yellow 🤮 ) crackin wee car Gary. 👍🏴
That's the one thing I envy about the UK car market, 200 quid won't even get you part of a broken tail light here in America... Car prices here are just stupid crazy now.
Yank here. What is an MOT? Official vehicle inspection? Here that varies by state. Most places, you can drive virtually any piece of scrap on the highway.
Ministry Of Transport test. Every 12 months all cars over 3 years old have to be deemed to be roadworthy. This is carried out at government approved testing stations, to a standard that is predetermined by the powers that be👍🏻
@@smasica Its not particularly stringent here compared to mainland European countries. Main focus here is; can it steer fine, handle bumps, do lights work, is anything else about to become worn/ dangerous and does it emit more smoke than the Iraqi oil fires? Germany / Spain for example can impound cars for even the slightest modifications that aren’t approved by Government quangos. In the UK a guy made a road legal car from a sofa 😂
