BANGERNOMICS CAR OF THE WEEK/DAY

JohnBoy26

Moneymaker wrote: »

Nice colour, decent-ish spec, looks clean. **** engine but oh well. :pac:

http://cars.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/ford-focus-1-4-nct/7880646

The engine isn't bad if just pottering around the place, if your not used of the more nippy 1.4 alternatives it's grand. I seen a few focuses up on DD by what appears to be the same seller in the not too distant past so maybe he's a bit of a wheeler dealer.

Anyhow the body is a bit ropey on that car, cleaner examples can be found for similar money.

Moneymaker

JohnBoy26 wrote: »

Anyhow the body is a bit ropey on that car, cleaner examples can be found for similar money.

In what way is the body ropey?

toyotaavensis

dents over the back right wheel arch

For Forks Sake

Moneymaker wrote: »

In what way is the body ropey?

Rear driver side wheelarch is crumpled and there looks to be a number of colours of paint on the back bumper.

Moneymaker

I must be going blind :pac:

Interslice

Ded_Zebra wrote: »

Great looking car here :pac:

http://cars.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/nissan-primera-td-sri/7920186




Would love to see it go to someone who'll look after it

Obviously clocked :pac:. Best of look with the sale. No one came to view mine. It is up for 900euro though.

Ded_Zebra

Interslice wrote: »

Obviously clocked :pac:. Best of look with the sale. No one came to view mine. It is up for 900euro though.

Uptake is slow on mine too. Might need a price drop. I had one guy offer me a Primera 1.6 and cash my way. Don't know if the 1.6 would be an easier sell...

CJhaughey

Moneymaker wrote: »

I must be going blind :pac:

Hairy palms too? Stop looking at pron cars:D

commited

Ded_Zebra wrote: »

Uptake is slow on mine too. Might need a price drop. I had one guy offer me a Primera 1.6 and cash my way. Don't know if the 1.6 would be an easier sell...

What are the details on the 1.6?

justsomebloke

commited wrote: »

http://cars.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/2007-407-coupe-2-2-bargain/7923244
2007 Peugeot 407 coupe 2.2, 125k kms, 9 months NCT, €2450
Probably tough to get this into bangernomics budget but looks like a lot of relatively fresh car for the money.

Came up at the end of september http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=92421737&postcount=4231 so it could well have been sale fell through. However you would need to check as it was mentioned that it only changed ownership in August as well http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=92422039&postcount=4233

unkel

Aye could very well be someone got a good deal on it and is hoping to make a few hundred by flipping it again. Current seller seems like a small time dealer, which would be consistent with that.

As always, eyes wide open, but that 407 Coupé surely is one of the nicest / newest cars this thread has ever seen

Moneymaker

Even if it needed a grand worth of work done it's still feck all money.

And it does look beautiful.

Moneymaker

http://cars.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/rover-600/7931869



I can think of worse places to sit for 800 notes.

26000 Elephants

For Forks Sake wrote: »

Oh yeah, they're a great wee car, but you'd want a haz-mat suit before you'd sit into that particular one

Half an hour with astonish upholstery cleaner will get that back looking decent.
Certainly not a deal breaker at his level of the market.

jharr100

Moneymaker wrote: »

Even if it needed a grand worth of work done it's still feck all money.

And it does look beautiful.

If you were to nct it again would it get another 2 years test?

Esel

Moneymaker wrote: »

http://cars.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/rover-600/7931869



I can think of worse places to sit for 800 notes.

Nice, should have shown a pic of the 'small amount of damage to the passenger door'.

toyotaavensis

A rover with the k series engine makes me think of two words. One starts with H and the other starts with G. Especially when he mentions that the radiator has been replaced.

unkel

jharr100 wrote: »

If you were to nct it again would it get another 2 years test?

Yes. Any car younger than 10 years old will get a 2 years test!

Moneymaker

No mention of a belt change but surely with all the paperwork there it's been done?

http://cars.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/alfa-gtv-mint/7835418

Esel

toyotaavensis wrote: »

A rover with the k series engine makes me think of two words. One starts with H and the other starts with G. Especially when he mentions that the radiator has been replaced.

Thought they had a Honda engine? Is it the fact that is 1.8 that tells you it has the Rover K-series engine?

ba_barabus

toyotaavensis wrote: »

A rover with the k series engine makes me think of two words. One starts with H and the other starts with G. Especially when he mentions that the radiator has been replaced.

But it's not a Kettle-Series.

It's a Honda 1.8 in the 600. The later 75 got the Kettle Series.......

unkel

toyotaavensis wrote: »

A rover with the k series engine makes me think of two words. One starts with H and the other starts with G. Especially when he mentions that the radiator has been replaced.

The Rover 600 was a Honda Accord. Including all the boring Honda petrol engines. The only interesting engine (in the turbocharged 620TI) was made by Rover. I almost bought one once

roper1664

Moneymaker wrote: »

No mention of a belt change but surely with all the paperwork there it's been done?

http://cars.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/alfa-gtv-mint/7835418

Looks good but note the following:

VEHICLE
Vehicle Registration Number 02D17501
Vehicle Details ALFA ROMEO / OTHER
Change Of Vehicle Ownership
Transferred to an Individual on :

Notified on : 01/10/2014

06/10/2014
Vehicle Registration Certificate
Most recent Vehicle Registration Certificate issued on : 08/10/2014

toyotaavensis

My bad lads.

JohnBoy26

unkel wrote: »

The Rover 600 was a Honda Accord. Including all the boring Honda petrol engines. The only interesting engine (in the turbocharged 620TI) was made by Rover. I almost bought one once

Nothing at all wrong with the Honda engines. They were a breath of fresh air compared to the unreliable muck rover were producing at the time. It was also one of the reasons why rover stayed going as long as they did, as they actually had a car with a good rep for reliability for once.

ba_barabus

JohnBoy26 wrote: »

They were a breath of fresh air compared to the unreliable muck rover were producing at the time. .

OH JOHN. You were doing so well.

They were making the K-Series engine which was revolutionary for the time. It was also repliable back then as it hadn't suffered from cost cutting.

JohnBoy26

ba_barabus wrote: »

OH JOHN. You were doing so well.

They were making the K-Series engine which was revolutionary for the time. It was also repliable back then as it hadn't suffered from cost cutting.

The k series was over hyped by the British press. On paper it was a great engine but it was a poorly designed unit where reliability is concerned, even the early ones.

The Honda engine is a much more robust unit and offers similar performance. It doesn't suffer from any of the k series's faults and it ages much better. E.g no noisy tappets, piston slap, dropped liners, hg failures etc

ba_barabus

JohnBoy26 wrote: »

The k series was over hyped by the British press.

Early ones had relatively few issues and were no worse than any of the competition in that regard. They also pushed out over 100hp (105?) from a 1.4l engine. VW only managed to do that in the Golf over 15 years later. Toyota didn't do it until the VVTI came along.

I'm not for a second dissing the Honda engine at all but I don't think it's fair to say Rover engines were all shyte. And lets not forget, the Rover L-Series engine was good enough for Honda

unkel

ba_barabus wrote: »

And lets not forget, the Rover L-Series engine was good enough for Honda

Only because Honda were unable to make a diesel engine themselves

Two decades later and they're till struggling

Simonigs1.0

unkel wrote: »

Only because Honda were unable to make a diesel engine themselves

Two decades later and they're till struggling

We have new diesel Civic estates in work. I drove one briefly. I actually pity the guys who have to drive them.