Smudge374

We'll to cut a long story short, my daily driver put up a miserable show for the MOT. Instead of wasting money on parts and my time I decided to have a look for a cheap second hand car, has anyone else noticed how much people want for absolute piles of crud?

Luckily I found a BMW compact with 12 months MOT and 6 months tax for £295!

The woman wondered why she had over 30 calls in one day for it!

Anyone else had an absolute bargain lately?

louis_2012

focus st170 bluefin remap, piper cams, pumaspeed throttle body, full magnex exhaust including decat 10 month mot 5 month tax full history won it for £900 just needs a central locking motor

Smudge374

Absolute bargain! I just couldn't believe some of the crap for sale for silly money.

Glenn_

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Thats a bargain Louis. I like the ST170s. There a quick car imo.

louis_2012

Its not bad its more of a top end car really, its not quick off the mark, and its got a flatspot at 2000 ish revs but once it gets up to 4000 revs the IMRC suprisingly works and it proper flys, sounds immense too with the stainless and filter on it.

studabear

the engines are good with a turbo on them fitted into a escort

Gazzonator

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Just sold my ST170 for £450

Needed a few bits doing to it (clutch and flywheel, timing belt, heater blower motor and a couple of wheel bearings) and by the time I'd spent time and money doing those bits, I would've struggled to get £1k for it I reckon so just bit the bullet.

gjh

I thought my fiesta was a bargain (£350), then I looked underneath it

No I'm being harsh it wasn't that bad.

andy2577

had a K&N typoon kit on my focus ST170 and a full scorpion system .....the noise was just rude ....the way it took off up the road wasnt bad either

marky_g

Looking to buy a 07 plate mini copper d for my mrs book price is 4 to 5.5k for average mileage car

All seem to start at 5500 pmsl see on last week no service history and still wanted top dollar

jameswrx

I just bought an Audi A3, 2003 1.8 SE, 96k, 12 months MOT, 6 months tax, £1500. Thought that was ok, I know you can get these cheap but it's so straight, I expected dents and bad paint repairs etc but the body is hardly marked and it's straight as an arrow. Smart little car for £1500!

STeve

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st170 was such a overated car by ford with the running costs of bloody range rover and mix that with expensive tax no wonder they are so cheap

Smudge374

I always thought they were meant to be a good car. Seems people think differently. Wouldn't mind having one so I could steal the engine for my mk4 lol

YOREVOL

2004 mondeo ghia x v6, full ford history, 18s with branded tyres, full mot £900

Less.

About 10 years ago bought a Peugeot 205 1.6 Gti for £20 cleaned it and it cost me £55 to mot and fix it got stolen though

Smudge374

Sod's law! They are another appreciating classic now too! Don't see many of them around.

HaggisTurbo

I remember the cheapest car I ever bought was a Fiesta Popular 1.0 for £23 lol! It had a few months tax and was rotten to the core lol! Still lasted as long as I needed it for.

DavebST170

When I wrote my 1st fiesta off, I paid 50 quid for an g reg mk3 fiesta.

I only paid 800 quid for my 170 too

Steve.L

Golf 1.9 tdi w plate,£400 huge miles drives like new
Flew through the mot aswell

dojj

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most new cars now fall foul of those "emissions" things, so when you are paying what the cars worth in tax every year, it sort of makes you wonder how long they will last for

Psycho Warren

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They wont last long dojj, but then thats how the manufacturers and government want it.

Such cars will be worthless.

Also all the complex electronics, once that starts to go wrong its scrap yard time.

I do reckon the starter motor business will be booming in a few years with all this start stop engine nonsense.

James

Bought v6 ghia x manual mondeo estate on a y plate new shape. 55k miles full ford history. Paid 200 for it. It even had two months tax and air con works. All pannels straight drives mint. Had to put 2 tyres on it and front to back fuel pipe and an mot but so far so good. Done 500 miles in it last week with no issues. Cant beat cheap cars!!!

gcfcos

Just got a 54 plate grand espace 2.2dci for £250 they spent £5000 on it between 2011 and 2013 including a recon engine. They gave up on it when a driveshaft went and it was laid up for a year. New battery and mot and a driveshaft and she's mint £2000 car all day long

gcfcos

And got a mk4 golf gti 1 month ago for £200, just needed a battery and rear caliper

Sinbad

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What a strange price I bet you got your money back weighing it in

mk1trb

i give 300 for my mg zs+ in feb. done 145k but is real clean with full rover history, only need it till end of july when mot runs out and i'm certainly getting my 300 quids worth out of it. cheap cars are few and far between these days everyone wants top dollar for scrap suppose we have the scrapage scheme to thank for that

vaughant

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i was mincing about on facebook t'other day and theres a group on there called cars for sale under £500, some very good bargains on there. Found another good source is gumtree, just set max price at what you want to pay, no distance and see what comes up, often people desperate to sell stuff with very little wrong with it.
I'm well happy with my £550 mondeo td, mk1, no rust, just flew mot after changing an ORIGINAL back box and front anti roll bar bushes. Does Aberdeen to Swansea on a full tank and a bit left to run about in, starts first time, everytime, handles well and goes ok too. I was given a V6 estate mk1 mondeo years ago with an apparent siezed engine, wouldn't turn over. Turned out the aircon pump had siezed, cut the belt, put a non aircon belt on, battery and way to go. Needed a spring for the mot. Awesome car, went well, but a tad thirsty.
Theres loads of cheapies out there if you stay mainstream, biggish cars.

dojj

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the scrappage scheme was a great big con as it got rid of all the cars that would have fallen just before the tax change over date

been looking at getting a new car if the fiesta dies a death come mot time yet the first thing i'll be looking for is the tax bracket, then the mpg before looking at a price or crash worthiness or the size etc ideally it'll be something vag like a polo diseasal but if something goes wrong i won't be bale to fix it with a spanner so when does it become a pointless exercise?

gcfcos

So true, that's how I make my sideline selling cars I'm driving a mk3 mondeo later reg I paid £200 for lol

Diesel combi pete

Some years ago the scrap pricese of mettle went through the roof. I believe they have come back down again now, but people that have seen old motor high in price because of this think that their old cars are still worth lots but without any mot they are just scrap and that is not lots now. Yes there are still some good cars about at the right prices. Cheers, Pete

Diesel combi pete

Did you look underneith after you briught her or before?

Diesel combi pete

Back in the old days when we used to be able to buy an old banger for £20 or so drive it till it stopped we would. The value of scrap back then was only about £3 per ton so never used to make any or scrap many either as the mots back then were so easy to pass.
Cheers Pete

gcfcos

Yeah I remember those days. I used to pay no more than £150 for Absoloutely mint mk3 xr3is and mk1 and 2 xr2s :-( I wish I knew then what I knew now !

dojj

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still looking for a fiesta

gingeRS

my E39 was a bargain, then it needed new tyres 265/35/18 and 235/40/18

Diesel combi pete

I hate to think how much all the old motor bike we used to scramble up the fields would be worth now if we had just stored them.. Pete

gcfcos

Yeah we used to trash c70s and c90s for fun and now there selling for silly money. These were 60s and 70s ones too :-(

Hancockshire

My fiesta, £700 a year ago & I didn't exactly buy a banger

gjh

After

1st car, 1st mistake! Thankfully I was in college at the time so the sills were patched up for free!

Munchkin6288

I payed £600 for my E36 328i about a year and a half ago and it's only done 37,000 miles from new