Bangernomics car of the week/day part III

Red Kev

johndaman66 wrote: »

Circa 32-35 mpg combined from the Mazda if you are cute about your driving? Do you really think you'd be getting much above 50mpg from the Passat in mixed driving in the real world? Maybe but I'd be somewhat skeptical. You'd still need to cover some considerable mileage before you'd draw in the potential difference in the initial outlay and begin to save money.

I do take your point though that parts can be extremely expensive for Mazda's. They were never hugely popular so you won't be finding loads of them in breakers yards either. Cousin has a 01' Mazda 626 and he paid through the nose a few times to fix what you'd assume would be straight forward simple problems.

Fair point too re the Passat engine. Probably the last of the more basic straight forward reliable diesel engines before the toucy feely ones that are common place these times

bladespin wrote: »

Have had a Passat on several occasions as a company cay, never got much better than an indicated 47mpg, mostly driven on motorway and main roads, rarely in town so I'd tend to agree about 50mpg being the stuff of dreams, that said there would be a very noticable difference between the Passat diesel giving 40ish mpg and any petrol giving 30ish, again I had a loan of an E280 for a while and wasn't slow about handing it back :eek:

Got an 04 1.9 diesel Passat (red i) 3 months ago, does 46.8 MPG (6.05 l/100km) mixed over 8,300 km, essentially 33% each of N-roads, motorway and country roads, don't go into cities. Driven nice and easy on local roads, push it on a bit on good, wide N-roads, cruising at 150 km/h on motorways. This is measured by tanks fills btw, though to be fair the trip computer shows 47.2 MPG which is nice and accurate.

Interslice

jharr100 wrote: »

Agreed, but it was very well looked after by the previous owner and he thinks its his old car too. He recognises the scratch over the wheel arch.

I suppose if you are going to clock it you'll look at the condition a decide what you can get away with. In this case alot .

bladespin

Red Kev wrote: »

Got an 04 1.9 diesel Passat (red i) 3 months ago, does 46.8 MPG (6.05 l/100km) mixed over 8,300 km, essentially 33% each of N-roads, motorway and country roads, don't go into cities. Driven nice and easy on local roads, push it on a bit on good, wide N-roads, cruising at 150 km/h on motorways. This is measured by tanks fills btw, though to be fair the trip computer shows 47.2 MPG which is nice and accurate.

For god's sake keep it, changed to a newer golf as company car and it doesn't come close, was shocked, always thought the smaller car would be better

That said I had an Alfa JTDM 1.9 (150) a few years back and it regularly touched the 50mpg mark (measured - the trip comp often gave over 70 lol), again on mainly good roads, driven with spirit lets say lol. There's a lot to be said for the diesels.

dgt

Far too much bollox talk.... Here, chat over these

NCT till Oct, 725

dgt

NCT till May, 1650

dgt

NCT till March, 950

Crashed before?

dgt

NCT Till May, 1500

Holy sh*t, don't see many of these....

dgt

NCT till Oct, 1150

dgt

NCT Till March, 1070

Dayyysel

Old diesel

Nice spots DGT

Like the Xsara - and those are based on the 306 (on which the Berlingo is also based) - so should be fairly decent to drive.

Good stuff

nd

Volvo V40 diesel, nct to Sep 14 , 1350

http://cars.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/01-volvo-v40-1-9d-new-nct/6144456

Red Kev

Reliable, economical engine, seriously comfortable, and a years NCT to boot, all for €700. A few marks on it, but serious value for that money, engine is worth a few bob for scrap if it doesn't make the 12 months.


http://cars.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/99-citroen-xantia-turbo-diesel-new-nct-/5734706




Here's another, same engine, 13 months NCT, €950.

http://cars.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/citroen-xantia-diesel/6141256



Another nice looking estate, 6 speed, 130bhp so very economical on longer runs, looks clean, nice colour as well, 12 months NCT, €1900

http://cars.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/2001-vw-passat-estate-130bhp-6-speed/6085560

colm_mcm

dgt wrote: »

NCT Till March, 1070

Dayyysel

Easy 130hp on that with new injectors and some fiddling

johndaman66

colm_mcm wrote: »

Easy 130hp on that with new injectors and some fiddling

Its not the BMW lump found in the Rover 75 so?

Old diesel

johndaman66 wrote: »

Its not the BMW lump found in the Rover 75 so?

No - shes the Rover L series engine - but its supposed to be actually a decent engine reliability wise.

And from what I remember hearing before - they are decent on fuel.

Think the L series was a development of the old Perkins Prima engine that was used in the Maestro and Montego in the late 80s/early 90s - but I could be wrong on that - apologies in advance if so.

While the Maestro and Montegos themselves don't have a great rep (later ones were much improved I believe) - the Perkins Prima was actually quite good.

Old diesel

V40 diesel and Passat tdi estate are great spots.

nice one lads

jharr100

http://cars.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/06-skoda-octavia-1-4-petrol/6142374


http://cars.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/skoda-octavia-1-9tdi-04-quick-sale/6117113


2x Octavias..

Both slightly over budget but with a small bit of haggling, you never know..

Mr.Fred

Not sure if this would be more suited to fixxerupper thread but it's a lot of car for little money.

http://cars.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/05-peugeot-407/6140030

jharr100

Mr.Fred wrote: »

Not sure if this would be more suited to fixxerupper thread but it's a lot of car for little money.

http://cars.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/05-peugeot-407/6140030

No nct = fixxerupper

ted1742

http://www.adverts.ie/car/bmw/3-series/2001-bmw-318/4341999

was thinking of getting this, what do yous thinK?

Kaiser D

Mr.Fred wrote: »

Not sure if this would be more suited to fixxerupper thread but it's a lot of car for little money.

http://cars.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/05-peugeot-407/6140030
http://photos2.donedeal.ie/cars/05-peugeot-407/Full/25467565.jpeg

Thats just so dodgy.

CALL OR TEXT MICK ON 0863578868 FOR MOR INFO

Another ad from "mick"

SO CALL OR TEXT SIMON ON

And another

CALL OR TEXT DEREK ON

I'd rather spend a few hundred more on an honest car than €1000 of my money on a guy who won't even tel you his first name.

Mr.Fred

ted1742 wrote: »

http://www.adverts.ie/car/bmw/3-series/2001-bmw-318/4341999

was thinking of getting this, what do yous thinK?

From the description of the interior I'm not surprised there's no pics of it. :eek:

ted1742

what do you mean?

Mr.Fred

ted1742 wrote: »

what do you mean?

aluminum wrapped interior with ultra bright led lighting, sports gear stick, carbon black kidney grille

I'd doubt this had one careful owner.

ted1742

Mr.Fred wrote: »

aluminum wrapped interior with ultra bright led lighting, sports gear stick, carbon black kidney grille

I'd doubt this had one careful owner.

yeah i doubt that too, its a twelve year old car in the end, but it looks clean and i do like the alpine wheels

Mr.Fred

ted1742 wrote: »

alpine wheels

You mean alpine wheels, coughcough

I'd be looking for a good bit of the price this is bangernomics after all

Kaiser D

12 y/o bog standard E46 with a months NCT and a couple of weeks tax left for €1800?

Eh, no thanks.

Alanstrainor

Kaiser D wrote: »

12 y/o bog standard E46 with a months NCT and a couple of weeks tax left for €1800?

Eh, no thanks.

Looks rough enough too...

Interslice

http://cars.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/seat-1-4-tdi/6146020





1.4 tdi 105k miles, good spec, NCT april 14

1650 euro

egit: balls, just noticed it was LHD, it all makes sense now :cool:.

JohnBoy26

Interslice wrote: »

http://cars.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/seat-1-4-tdi/6146020





1.4 tdi 105k miles, good spec, NCT april 14

1650 euro

egit: balls, just noticed it was LHD, it all makes sense now :cool:.

Things would be a bit awkward if you ever came across a toll booth in that yoke :pac: