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BANGERNOMICS (sub2k) of the week/day

BorneTobyWilde

Modnote - Thread moved to new thread because the other one was near 10k posts.

Bangernomics part 5 here
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057493741

Bangernomics rules:
Under €2000
Valid NCT
Something you'd actually drive yourself
VRT paid
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https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/2005-bmw-520i-nct-05-18/15133222

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nct 5/18
2005

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MEGA BRO WOLF 5000

I lol at all of you skoda driving peasants.

0lddog

Hunky Monster wrote: »

I lol at all of you skoda driving peasants.

Wrong thread for that attitude ducks

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BANGERNOMICS (sub2k) of the week/day

TychoCaine

Hunky Monster wrote: »

I lol at all of you skoda driving peasants.

Better than being a Toyota driving peasant!

Ian OB

Hunky Monster wrote: »

I lol at all of you skoda driving peasants.

I used to drive a 15 year old Astra.

Now I drive a 16 year old one. Progress baby!! ðŸ˜Ž

Esel

ltd440 wrote: »

https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/seat-ibiza/21444274
bought on this thread from another boards member about 6 months ago as an in between cars car... as always discount available to forum
users

If the original seats are any way normal looking, I think it would be a good idea to remove the covers and retake the pics of the interior.

cadaliac

James Bond Junior wrote: »

I have one in my S60 and they are shíte gearboxes. Sealed for life and you run the huge risk of destroying them if you don't change the oil perfectly.

I had an S80 with 200k on it. Box was perfect in every way but I had a petrol one so hardly the same box as the diesel 2.4, so, I cannot really comment on that.
I didn’t know they were sh1te.

cadaliac

JJJJNR wrote: »

Simple terms its not a bangernomics car its an expensive 1900 euro, anything goes wrong over the course of ownership its factory parts only, new gearbox 5k, new instrument cluster 3k, the dif is another weak part on them good luck at finding anything in a breakers for them, garden ornaments is what a lot of them end up as, laugh out loud at that.

Well, yes, if your approach to bangernomics is to replace parts with factory parts (yes I understand no scrappie parts available) then you’re out of luck with a 1900 Euro car that goes pop.
Eyes wide open to be fair with all those type of cars that are just in bangernomics territory. I’m looking at you merc e200, Audi A6 and Volvo whatever.
No car worth €2k is worth investing any more than its own value unless you’re fairly confident that thecar will last as long as you want it to and you are happy to keep the car. You can, and people do, find plenty of Volvo cars that are perfect bangernomics cars. I know what car I’d rather have if I had to choose between a superb and an xc 70

ltd440

Esel wrote: »

If the original seats are any way normal looking, I think it would be a good idea to remove the covers and retake the pics of the interior.

The drivers seat has a small tear so unfortunately a bit necessary

JJJJNR

cadaliac wrote: »

Well, yes, if your approach to bangernomics is to replace parts with factory parts (yes I understand no scrappie parts available) then you’re out of luck with a 1900 Euro car that goes pop.
Eyes wide open to be fair with all those type of cars that are just in bangernomics territory. I’m looking at you merc e200, Audi A6 and Volvo whatever.
No car worth €2k is worth investing any more than its own value unless you’re fairly confident that thecar will last as long as you want it to and you are happy to keep the car. You can, and people do, find plenty of Volvo cars that are perfect bangernomics cars. I know what car I’d rather have if I had to choose between a superb and an xc 70

Well the ill informed might agree, but from a sound banger you could do a lot worse than a skoda. Yes I did pick one up for 750 12 months ago and yes it's been a great buy costing me nothing other than the tax and test and the consumables.

terrydel

Hunky Monster wrote: »

I lol at all of you skoda driving peasants.

Didnt know you posted here Leo.

selectamatic

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https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/bmw-520-se-just-nctd/21457629

Cheap and chancey but low owner 2005 520i
Test till next January
Looks pretty clean considering the price
Recent change of ownership 12/3/19
Asking €850

alan partridge aha

What are these like, cheap tax for 1.5 petrol
https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/mitsubishi-lancer-1-5-mivec/21460416

bazz26

They are grand if all you want is basic reliable transport that feels like it was designed in the 1990s.

For what it's worth they haven't changed much in 11 years since then either:
https://www.carsireland.ie/detail.php?ad_id=2046570&r=s.php%3Fm%3D58%26o%3D488%26r%3D2019%26pp%3D50%26g%3D0

nice_guy80

I sat in a new one of those recently

I thought it was one of the cheapest looking car interiors I've ever seen.

nice_guy80

https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/2004-honda-civic-nct-31-03-20/20742466?campaign=3

No tax, but nct till next year and cheap enough tax

nice_guy80

https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/yaris-2002-1-0-petrol/21460860

1.0 litre Yaris

nice_guy80

https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/96-vw-golf-1-4/21460517

A 1996 petrol Golf with only 119k miles?

nice_guy80

https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/2003-toyota-corolla-for-sale/21460091

2003 1.4 Corrolla

Mad_Mike

nice_guy80 wrote: »

https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/96-vw-golf-1-4/21460517

A 1996 petrol Golf with only 119k miles?

NCT is out today on this one

Toyotafanboi

nice_guy80 wrote: »

https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/96-vw-golf-1-4/21460517

A 1996 petrol Golf with only 119k miles?

It's hard to tell because the paint is so **** on them but they look like Enkei Racing-S wheels, probably worth more than the car if so.

gooner99

https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/08-toyota-avensis-1-6-71-000-miles-1-owner/21461667

Not quite bangernomics money, but sounds promising and seems genuine? .

Looking for some thing to tie me over for a year or two.

Do you reckon it could be got for closer to the 2k mark?

I'd imagine the tax is 514 a year?

I believe they are very reliable, what are they like on juice?

Anything in particular to look out for on them?

Duke O Smiley

I'd say you'd be doing well to even get that for €2500

somebody_else

gooner99 wrote: »

https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/08-toyota-avensis-1-6-71-000-miles-1-owner/21461667

I'd imagine the tax is 514 a year?

Yes according to motortax.ie tax is for 1501 - 1600 so 514 for a year.

I believe they are very reliable, what are they like on juice?

Funny thing, colleague from work have exactly the same car.

And he is using Dart to commute due to cost of driving (sic!)

Tom

Rows Grower

Snap it up.

Toyotafanboi

I think the tax on the late registered 08 models is €750 for the 1.6 engine? I think I remember Colm posting before that they had to offer them new with a years road tax thrown in to try and shift them.

Very reliable and not a bad yoke on fuel in all honesty. Anyone saying they cost an excessive amount to fuel is someone who's ideal combined fuel and servicing bill is €5.00. Handy driving I'd expect th guts of 40npg motorway and maybe late 20's around town.

Duke O Smiley

Tax on the one in the link anyway is €514 (08dl1721)

CoBo55

Toyotafanboi wrote: »

I think the tax on the late registered 08 models is €750 for the 1.6 engine? I think I remember Colm posting before that they had to offer them new with a years road tax thrown in to try and shift them.

Very reliable and not a bad yoke on fuel in all honesty. Anyone saying they cost an excessive amount to fuel is someone who's ideal combined fuel and servicing bill is €5.00. Handy driving I'd expect th guts of 40npg motorway and maybe late 20's around town.

You're right with the mid twenties for town but not much better on long spins, certainly nothing near the forties, the diesel could barely manage that.

Duke O Smiley

Anyway, it’s obviously being sold by a trader but still, it looks so nice and genuine. I’d say you’d have little to worry about for a while if you bought that particular car. 71k miles is an average of about 6k a year. I’d guess it was probably owned by some elderly gent who, as the old line goes, only used it to go to mass and the shops a few times a week...in 3rd gear!!

johndaman66

gooner99 wrote: »

https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/08-toyota-avensis-1-6-71-000-miles-1-owner/21461667

Not quite bangernomics money, but sounds promising and seems genuine? .

Looking for some thing to tie me over for a year or two.

Do you reckon it could be got for closer to the 2k mark?

I'd imagine the tax is 514 a year?

I believe they are very reliable, what are they like on juice?

Anything in particular to look out for on them?

I ran the registration number through Motor Tax online enquiry and right enough its on the cheaper cubic capacity based motor tax for that engine. Its €514 p.a. to tax. Would be €750 if on the CO2 basis of assessment.

No harm in trying but if I was selling a car for €2,750 I wouldn't be accepting anything that very close to €2,000. Otherwise I'd be pricing it much more closely to €2,000 to generate interest in the first place. But that's just me and that's not to say in any shape or form that the car is worth €2,750 either.

I see that on motor tax online change of ownership enquiry it was purchased by a dealer on 06/03/2019. If it was genuinely bought by a dealer and is now being sold on by that dealer they are showing themselves as a private seller in the ad. Not a good start in my book if this is the case. I'm not really sure why the ad is showing to have 0 previous owners. Was that doctored I wonder.

Otherwise if sold by a dealer onto another private consumer who is now selling it on again I'd really be wondering why....asking myself rather than accepting the usual cock and bull story.

Generally speaking nothing goes too terribly wrong with them. Check for uneven tyre wear, particularly wear on the inside of the front tyres as it can be a problem. Check its relatively clean underneath with no serious corrosion. No doubt the obligatory Toyota water leak into boot will be present (there has being a hell of a lot of Toyotas in the family at this stage over the years and all without fail leaked water into the boot). If your viewing lift the boot carpet and check and maybe use as a bargaining point if there is water there. Also gearboxes can be a weak enough point in Petrol Toyotas of that era - make sure its smooth, no grinding etc and all gears work, that it doesn't pop out of any gears, that sort of thing.

I had a 2001 1.6 VVTI Avensis saloon before and it wasn't bad on fuel at all - lighter on it than my current 2009 1.4 VVTI Auris. Mind you that model is a heavier car. I drove on once only really and it felt pretty sluggish and heavy with the 1.6 compared to the previous model. Can only imagine fuel economy would take a hit. Unless I'm away of the mark I'd imagine you would be looking toward 35 mpg tops real world mixed driving on a pretty good day (you may not be a dinosaur like me and work in those fang dadly Eurpoean measures that work the other way around).

colm_mcm

€2500 is too much for that IMO.