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05 Vaux Astra Estate Diesel - Sell or hold on to it...

  • 24-05-2012 7:51pm
    #1
    seachto7
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,863 ✭✭✭


    Hi all,

    I currently have the worst piece of ****e you could ever own. I have spent I dunno how many 1,000s on it since I got it 3 years ago. I bought it privately off some Eastern Europeans who went back home soon after!!! Not saying I was stung, but..........

    What I thought was a routine job turned into a €480 job again today. So, it currently has new shocks, new shock mounts, new brakes, new altenator, new seals for altenators, pumps etc. New timing belt, new radiator, new water pump. All within the last year or so.

    One part of me is thinking "flog it and be done!!". Other part of me is thinking, well, it's all fairly new parts, just keep driving it till it goes no more. I'd have to deal with the hassle of selling, and I would defo try and buy off a garage next time to have some come back.

    So, drive it into the ground, or get rid.........?

    I wouldn't have a lot of money to play around with if I did sell, but if I had put an extra 3 or 4K into a car instead of buying it at the time, I wouldn't be having these issues now......


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  • #2
    Alanstrainor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,157 ✭✭✭✭Alanstrainor


    If there's nothing wrong with it now, I think it'd be crazy to get rid after putting all that work into it really.


  • #3
    seachto7
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,863 ✭✭✭seachto7


    True, that's what I am thinking, but it's like every time I go to the mechanice, it's never a small job, it's always hundreds at a time........
    what else can go wrong with it........ :)


  • #4
    Anan1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,815 ✭✭✭✭Anan1


    It's impossible to advise you without seeing the car. Did you have a mechanic examine this car prior to purchase? Did you check out the service history? Did you run a history check? If not (and i'm guessing not) then those, rather than buying privately, were your mistakes.


  • #5
    rocksimmo
    Registered Users Posts: 112 ✭✭rocksimmo


    seachto7 wrote: »
    Hi all,

    I currently have the worst piece of ****e you could ever own. I have spent I dunno how many 1,000s on it since I got it 3 years ago. I bought it privately off some Eastern Europeans who went back home soon after!!! Not saying I was stung, but..........

    What I thought was a routine job turned into a €480 job again today. So, it currently has new shocks, new shock mounts, new brakes, new altenator, new seals for altenators, pumps etc. New timing belt, new radiator, new water pump. All within the last year or so.

    One part of me is thinking "flog it and be done!!". Other part of me is thinking, well, it's all fairly new parts, just keep driving it till it goes no more. I'd have to deal with the hassle of selling, and I would defo try and buy off a garage next time to have some come back.

    So, drive it into the ground, or get rid.........?

    I wouldn't have a lot of money to play around with if I did sell, but if I had put an extra 3 or 4K into a car instead of buying it at the time, I wouldn't be having these issues now......

    I am in the exact same boat as you. Have a 06 Vectra Diesel and have spent a fortune on it over the last year. I have did the Alternator, Flywheel, Wheel bearings, and only last week the water pump seized causing engine damage and a hefty bill of €922 to rectify. My head is telling me to hold on to it as we have done all the work but if I have to spend another penny on it I will crack up. Let us know what you decide to do. My advice would be to keep it and if it lets you down again get rid then. Hopefully you will have a bit of luck with it.


  • #6
    seachto7
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,863 ✭✭✭seachto7


    They were my mistakes. I could see the service history, and in fairness I bought it in 2008, so stuff is going to go wrong along the way. I am curses with it. Anything that ever went wrong seemed to be a big job all the time, never an "In and out" job.
    I could get a new car and be in the same situation I guess........


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  • #7
    seachto7
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,863 ✭✭✭seachto7


    Getting rid is another headf**K. I am tempted to literally drive it into the ground until it goes no more............

    Who would buy it? I'd have to be dealing with people offering this and that etc, though I could go the trade in route. Hard to say really........I can't afford anything really good for now, so could just be putting myself in the same situation again.........


  • #8
    Anan1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,815 ✭✭✭✭Anan1


    seachto7 wrote: »
    They were my mistakes. I could see the service history, and in fairness I bought it in 2008, so stuff is going to go wrong along the way. I am curses with it. Anything that ever went wrong seemed to be a big job all the time, never an "In and out" job.
    I could get a new car and be in the same situation I guess........
    Are you sure that the problem is with the car, as opposed to your mechanic?


  • #9
    seachto7
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,863 ✭✭✭seachto7


    how do you mean? Not things he would have looked out for, as he was too busy locating effing parts for what was going wrong......... :/


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