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Bangernomics car of the week/day - Part II

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    #2012
    blastman
    Registered Users Posts: 5,449 ✭✭✭blastman


    Have to say I love those 406 coupes and I'd love to pick up a cheap one and run it for a year. I'd be a bit wary that he didn't post a pic of the actual car but the description seems honest and for that money it would be hard to feel cheated.


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    #2013
    Top Dog
    Registered Users Posts: 4,160 ✭✭✭Top Dog


    406 is marked as sold ;)


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    #2014
    Owen
    Registered Users Posts: 12,683 ✭✭✭✭Owen


    It is now, it wasn't when I made the post. Couldn't hang around at that price, even for scrap value.


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    #2015
    Saab Ed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,374 ✭✭✭Saab Ed


    Fiat Punto for next to nothing with a years test ....


    .... in Laois which is in Leinster .... just beside Kildare ...... or Tipperary depending where bouts you're coming at it from. Serviced by both the M7 & M8 Motorways. That okay Owen ;):D

    http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/cars/2668399

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    Put in place name, read the bleadin ad will ya ;-)


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    #2016
    Owen
    Registered Users Posts: 12,683 ✭✭✭✭Owen


    Cross posted that 406 on my FB, turns out a friend knew the owner - motorway miles apparently and it was in great nick.


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    #2017
    -Corkie-
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,025 ✭✭✭✭-Corkie-


    maidhc wrote: »
    Cannot go wrong here.
    http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/cars/3178148
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    If I was buying it I would spend a bit on it to sort the bodywork though. The TDI was so far ahead of everything in 1992, and you can tell people about Procon Ten!

    I get a feeling the seller is decent.

    Its gone...:mad:

    You are right the seller was decent I just had a chat with him and he was a very nice fella. Great find though..


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    #2018
    maidhc
    Registered Users Posts: 7,473 ✭✭✭maidhc


    -Corkie- wrote: »
    Its gone...:mad:

    You are right the seller was decent I just had a chat with him and he was a very nice fella. Great find though..

    Ah well. I was tempted to buy it over the phone when I saw it, but I need €350+x more than another car!

    Price of this new (assuming it was a TDI, which I think all the facelifts were) was £25,000 IEP. You could build a three bed bungalow for the same money in the same year. My grandfather bought one of the first of the TDIs, I loved it!


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    #2019
    pcardin
    Registered Users Posts: 2,089 ✭✭✭pcardin


    Top Dog wrote: »
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    No mention of test, but seems like a reasonably honest description. €950

    http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/vintagecars/3124275

    this XJ is X300 model but front and back bumper is from next generation - X308 (1998-2002). Question is, why were they changed? :confused:


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    #2020
    unkel
    Registered Users Posts: 64,762 ✭✭✭✭unkel


    Saab Ed wrote: »
    Fiat Punto for next to nothing with a years test ....

    There's actually less than 9 months test left and the last NCT test was done nearly 17 months ago. Unless a phone call would be very reassuring, I wouldn't even bother go see it. Plenty of other fish...


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    #2021
    dougie-lampkin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 677 ✭✭✭dougie-lampkin


    unkel wrote: »
    There's actually less than 9 months test left and the last NCT test was done nearly 17 months ago. Unless a phone call would be very reassuring, I wouldn't even bother go see it. Plenty of other fish...

    Picked up a mk2 Punto (this one) with NCT until 05/13, tax is up this month for 350 beans/lids/bottle caps. Within the first week of owning it it threw a rod and tore a hole in the sump, limped home on 3 cylinders and haemorrhaging oil. €100 on a new engine later, and it's like a brand new car. The interior is so fresh it feels like it's done 8,000 miles, not 80,000. Being the ELX, it has almost every optional extra bar the factory subwoofer. Taking it handy I've seen 55+ mpg, usually more around 45-47. No idea about the condition of the cam belt, but these are non-interference engines so I can keep going until it snaps and just fit a new one. For €450, that's what I call bangernomics ;)

    Really makes the mk1's seem overpriced, considering the spec that comes with the mk2 and the far more modern body. There's no shortage of mk2's with long tests (> 1 year), I found 3 within my €400 budget when I bought that one, all within tyre kicking distance. It's pot luck whether you get one that's been abused or not, but with the availability of second hand parts (I mean, I got a replacement engine for €100 and fitted it myself over a weekend!) they're an ideal bangernomics candidate for those who can't afford to run LS400s :pac:


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    #2022
    Ronnie Beck
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,452 ✭✭✭Ronnie Beck


    Punto's seriously ... what you save today you pay back double tomorrow, probably in the form of a new clutch. Between them and the 500 euro focus i wouldn't touch them.


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    #2023
    unkel
    Registered Users Posts: 64,762 ✭✭✭✭unkel


    dougie-lampkin wrote: »
    €100 on a new engine later, and it's like a brand new car.

    A new engine for €100? LOL, that's good going. You obviously fitted it yourself? Fair play :)
    Ronnie Beck wrote: »
    Punto's seriously ... what you save today you pay back double tomorrow, probably in the form of a new clutch.

    What a load of bollox. Needing a new clutch means you don't know how to drive a car.


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    #2024
    Ronnie Beck
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,452 ✭✭✭Ronnie Beck


    unkel wrote: »
    What a load of bollox. Needing a new clutch means you don't know how to drive a car.

    them punto are known for having dodgy clutch's (suspension, brakes, door seals...). Bearing in mind too that alot of people don't know how to drive a car. Engines probably the best part and he had to replace that. Anyway just saying that given the chance I definitely wouldn't.


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    #2025
    dougie-lampkin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 677 ✭✭✭dougie-lampkin


    Ronnie Beck wrote: »
    Punto's seriously ... what you save today you pay back double tomorrow, probably in the form of a new clutch.

    I now have 3 clutches to fit this car, so I think I'll be OK for a while. Not that the clutch is a particularly common fault in these. If you want to be clever, it's well known that the head gasket is the main weak point.

    Or are you one of those people who takes stories down the pub as gospel? "My mate's brother's dog's cousin had a clutch fail in a Punto after pulling a cattle box for 80,000 miles" = all Puntos have weak clutches.
    unkel wrote: »
    A new engine for €100? LOL, that's good going. You obviously fitted it yourself? Fair play :)

    Cheers unkel, I did it over a weekend with an engine crane and a lot of swearing. They're a ridiculously simple engine to work on anyway, I'd swear the A series engine off my (now relegated to weekend use) classic is more complicated :pac:


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    #2026
    Jimdagym
    Registered Users Posts: 3,843 ✭✭✭Jimdagym


    Less talk, more bangers!

    Some of us are trying to buy cars!!!!!


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    #2027
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users Posts: 73,382 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    525 TeDiouS manual. 98
    €1500
    Wexford
    Nct 02/13
    Resprayed front left anyway


    http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/cars/3181978?cid=3181978&


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    #2028
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users Posts: 73,382 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    03 mazda6 Dublin

    http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/cars/3180859


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    #2029
    langdang
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,864 ✭✭✭langdang


    colm_mcm wrote: »
    03 mazda6 Dublin

    http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/cars/3180859
    And it's not silver - bonus! Nice bangernomics cars but insipid in silver.


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    #2030
    andyseadog
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,412 ✭✭✭andyseadog


    http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/cars/3171912

    squeeze another 50 quid off, could be good. mileage dependent.


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    #2031
    Owen
    Registered Users Posts: 12,683 ✭✭✭✭Owen


    Volvo V70 taxed until the end of April, NCT's just out, 7 seater, 400 Euro! Carrigaline in Cork.

    http://cork.gumtree.ie/c-Cars-and-vehicles-for-Sale-cars-PRICE-DROP-Volvo-V70-2L-petrol-W0QQAdIdZ367500935

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    #2032
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users Posts: 73,382 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    Stilo 1.6 3 door

    No nct or tax, but worth a look at €650 (Ashbourne)

    http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/cars/3185076


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    #2033
    [Deleted User]
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    Owen wrote: »
    ........ 7 seater..............

    I wouldn't be certain it is :)
    There's very little about in that price range in Cork at the mo, was amazed during the week when I was looking at how little selection there is in Cork for peanuts.


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    #2034
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 23,339 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    colm_mcm wrote: »
    Stilo 1.6 3 door

    No nct or tax, but worth a look at €650 (Ashbourne)

    location supplied :)
    Actual add..... :pac:


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    #2035
    L-M
    Registered Users Posts: 23,694 ✭✭✭✭L-M


    "Was replaced with a 7 seater"


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    #2036
    Owen
    Registered Users Posts: 12,683 ✭✭✭✭Owen


    And the beer's kicking in. My bad.


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    #2037
    Minister Boyce
    Registered Users Posts: 520 ✭✭✭Minister Boyce


    http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/cars/2888428

    Advert doesn't give a lot of detail as to what work/servicing has been done to the car but anto sure has a funny bone in him somewhere


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    #2038
    Saab Ed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,374 ✭✭✭Saab Ed


    Change from a grand, less the repair and you've got a potential modern classic

    http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/cars/3137069

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    #2039
    dahamsta
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,659 ✭✭✭✭dahamsta


    I don't get that Volvo ad either. That's a 1st gen V70, which is a carryover from the 850, which had a pair of seats folded down into the boot. It's not an MPV, but it's almost certainly a 7 seater. I wonder does the owner know they're there.... :)

    They're a great car, the price is bizarre: can't believe they've had to price drop it to that. The mileage is a bit high for a 2l, but still, who cares; drive it till it dies and then break it. Nearly buy that meself.


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    #2040
    ongarite
    Registered Users Posts: 8,200 ✭✭✭ongarite


    Focus Saloon, NCT 1/13, TAX 8/12 for €1450:
    http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/cars/3186193
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    #2041
    [Deleted User]
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    dahamsta wrote: »
    .......

    They're a great car, the price is bizarre: can't believe they've had to price drop it to that. The mileage is a bit high for a 2l, but still, who cares; drive it till it dies and then break it. Nearly buy that meself.

    No NCT so many folks won't consider it :) Rightly or wrongly, of course it is very much dependent on the actual condition of the car. The price of the test and a small job or two could require €300/€400 investment which makes it look less attractive very quickly. Might fly through as is too.


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