Is the car worth fixing?

Yorky · 22-06-2009 12:48pm #1

A friend has just put a 1995 Corsa diesel through the NCT and it has failed. The repairs are going to cost a maximum of €150 plus the retest fee.

I appreciate the second hand car market is depressed but would this car make more money than the cost of repair as they intend selling it in the near future? The chassis wash cost €15 and the NCT cost €50 but that money is gone regardless.

It has only done 150,000 miles and has a Japanese engine so would make a good buy as a second car.

Is it worth fixing or should it just be (very reluctantly) scrapped ? It would have two years NCT.

peasant · 22-06-2009 12:51pm

€ 200.-- for a possible two more years of cheap motoring?

Sound investment if I ever saw one (but only if your friend wants to drive it himself ...nobody will buy a (1.7 ?) 95 corsa with 150 k miles, NCT or no NCT)

Anan1 · 22-06-2009 12:52pm

I'd fix it.

itarumaa · 22-06-2009 12:53pm

Fix the car and drive it for next two years?

I don´t think that market for that car actually exists, hard to say, but I think most people buying a small car do not want 1.7l engine.

smash · 22-06-2009 12:55pm

Yorky wrote: »

It has only done 150,000 miles

Only.... :eek: what would you consider high mileage?

It's worth fixing though if you're planning on running it to the ground.

zilog_jones · 22-06-2009 1:37pm

150k miles for a car of that age sounds pretty normal, especially a diesel. If everything else is good (no serious rust, etc.) that kind of expense seems reasonable IMO - for comparison a set of new tyres would probably cost more.

robtri · 22-06-2009 1:48pm

fix the car and have some damn cheap motoring for the enxt couple of years....

Mycroft H · 22-06-2009 2:05pm

itarumaa wrote: »

Fix the car and drive it for next two years?

I don´t think that market for that car actually exists, hard to say, but I think most people buying a small car do not want 1.7l engine.

Arent those corsas 1500cc??

Barr · 22-06-2009 2:08pm

What Japanese engine is in there , was it converted or something?

smash · 22-06-2009 2:09pm

zilog_jones wrote: »

150k miles for a car of that age sounds pretty normal

I have a 97 car and the mileage is just under 70k

EPM · 22-06-2009 2:15pm

Barr wrote: »

What Japanese engine is in there , was it converted or something?

The 1.7's were Isuzu lumps AFAIK.

Think there was like a 1.5d, 1.5td and the 1.7. Dunno if the 1.5's are a version of the 1.7 or not

Yorky · 22-06-2009 2:18pm

Thanks for all of the replies. The owner needs a commercial vehicle so needs to sell it.

The consensus seems to be to repair it if keeping but not to if wanting to sell it - is that correct?

zilog_jones · 22-06-2009 2:26pm

steve06 wrote: »

I have a 97 car and the mileage is just under 70k

Still, 10-11k miles a year is by no means excessive.

Yorky wrote: »

Thanks for all of the replies. The owner needs a commercial vehicle so needs to sell it.

The consensus seems to be to repair it if keeping but not to if wanting to sell it - is that correct?

People seem to say you'll get at least €500 for a car with an NCT - not sure how true this is in real life, but I wouldn't think the car in the state it is now with no NCT would sell for that much.

Barr · 22-06-2009 3:00pm

Yorky wrote: »

Thanks for all of the replies. The owner needs a commercial vehicle so needs to sell it.

The consensus seems to be to repair it if keeping but not to if wanting to sell it - is that correct?

Its worth nothing without an NCT , I'd get it fixed. Its surly worth 500-600 with a 2 year NCT.

Is the car worth fixing?

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