GF Car Buying Advice Required

[Elite]

4 minutes ago, Paulie Dangerously said:

Not buying but a maintenance question. 

 

Put our 2011  206 through its MOT and got an advisory about the clutch. Just had it serviced and clutch aside it's in decent shape. However they were clear the clutch is going to go imminently.  

 

Any mechanics on here can let me know what I'm looking at price wise here? 

Google says about £300-£500.

[Paulie Dangerously]

1 minute ago, Elite said:

Google says about £300-£500.

I checked Google but there's always the "fuckery tax" on top of that. 

[VladimirIlyich]

49 minutes ago, Elite said:

Google says about £300-£500.

I paid around 500 about 12 years ago. This was on a Focus.

[Elite]

32 minutes ago, VladimirIlyich said:

I paid around 500 about 12 years ago. This was on a Focus.

Well given that, you're bordering on 'Never pay more to fix a car than it's worth' territory.

[VladimirIlyich]

1 hour ago, Elite said:

Well given that, you're bordering on 'Never pay more to fix a car than it's worth' territory.

Yes mate. I think you are right given your car. My car was fairly new at the time and had a value around the 2k mark at the time therefore was worth it for us.

[littletedwest]

See I disagree on that. I have a battered old yaris but it's reliable. It needed a new clutch which was about 350. It's probably worth a grand. But that said I think if you can only spend 1500 quid on a car it's 50/50 if its an old banger.

[Sweeney287]

I'd say it's worth replacing if you think the cars got more years in it when it's done. You know the history of the car and if its been well maintained, should be OK. 

[Poor Scouser T]

Sorry I had to tell someone the wife don't know.

£75 new. 22k miles. Every option. 14 plate. 18k.

 

 

[Poor Scouser T]

[VladimirIlyich]

49 minutes ago, Poor Scouser T said:

Sorry I had to tell someone the wife don't know.

£75 new. 22k miles. Every option. 14 plate. 18k.

 

 

£75 quid is a steal for that.

[Bjornebye]

1 hour ago, Poor Scouser T said:

Sorry I had to tell someone the wife don't know.

£75 new. 22k miles. Every option. 14 plate. 18k.

 

 

 

[Fugitive]

2 hours ago, Poor Scouser T said:

Fuck off, you dirty racist cunt. 

 

 

[Bjornebye]

12 minutes ago, Fugitive said:

Fuck off, you dirty racist cunt. 

 

 

How can be racist? He’s got a black car you fucking waddle 

[Bjornebye]

How he plans to hide it from the missus is another level of brilliance 

[Clem H Fandango]

Does auto trader operate on twitter?

[VladimirIlyich]

8 hours ago, Clem H Fandango said:

Does auto trader operate on twitter?

 

[lifetime fan]

15 hours ago, Poor Scouser T said:

Sorry I had to tell someone the wife don't know.

£75 new. 22k miles. Every option. 14 plate. 18k.

 

 

2,200 miles a year sounds legit. 
 

Bellend. 

[tokyojoe]

The drug dealers choice of vehicle.

[Captain Turdseye]

[Captain Turdseye]

My missus got hit head on a few weeks ago. Completely wrote off my trusty 207. Had that thing for five and a half years. 

 

She wanted something with a bigger front end and she wanted us to change to an automatic. I just wanted something with a nice interior and the ability to play my Spotify tunes. 
 

Ended up buying an old Merc C-Class Kompressor. Same as this…

 

 

… for £2.5k. It’s only done 57k even though it’s nearly 20 years old, and the interior is still good shit. With any luck I’ll clock up at least another 100k in it. 
 

Proper old man car. Lovely bit of ‘oomph’ though, when you put your foot down, same as all automatics I suppose. 

[Bobby Hundreds]

I'd never go back to manual after driving an automatic fuck the purists I love that go cart rush!

[KMD7]

5 minutes ago, Captain Turdseye said:

My missus got hit head on a few weeks ago. Completely wrote off my trusty 207. Had that thing for five and a half years. 

 

She wanted something with a bigger front end and she wanted us to change to an automatic. I just wanted something with a nice interior and the ability to play my Spotify tunes. 
 

Ended up buying an old Merc C-Class Kompressor. Same as this…

 

 

… for £2.5k. It’s only done 57k even though it’s nearly 20 years old, and the interior is still good shit. With any luck I’ll clock up at least another 100k in it. 
 

Proper old man car. Lovely bit of ‘oomph’ though, when you put your foot down, same as all automatics I suppose. 

 

Looks the business CT. 

[Captain Turdseye]

Just now, KMD7 said:

 

Looks the business CT. 

If we get a few years out of it I’ll be happy mate. 

[redinblack]

5 minutes ago, Bobby Hundreds said:

I'd never go back to manual after driving an automatic fuck the purists I love that go cart rush!

Yes same here. Saves the arthritic knee as well in my case. 

[Bjornebye]

75 quid what?! Am I missing something here