BANGERNOMICS (sub2k) of the week/day Part 6

I do a lot of business with the seller of that A4, his ads can be abrupt but he is sound out and will be up front about the smallest of issues with anything he is selling.

Must have bought about 30 cars off him

2006 Peugeot 307 petrol cabrio

1699 eur

http://www.adverts.ie/20786222

colm_mcm wrote: »

I’d have that Eos a million times before this!

Me too but never say no a french brie...

In typical VW fashion a TSi isnt always a turbo though, like this Polo https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/volkswagen-polo-1-0-tsi-65hp-trendline/24436397

Id say that Eos is turbo though. The non turbo was an FSi and turbo was a TFSi.

If it only has 65bhp with a turbo then heaven forbid how slow it would be without one. The Polo TSI has something like 90bhp not 65bhp.

Sam Russell wrote: »

In VW speak, the back of the car has either TDi or TSi' The T signifies Turbo, the D signifies diesel, and the S signifies petrol, and the i signifies injection.

More relevant part is the colour of the letters. If the only red letter is i then that is the basic power, if they are all red then that is the highest power.

The EOS had only the i in red so low power.

Not really. The logic as regards badge colours changed a good bit through the years.

padyjoe wrote: »

The Eos and Polo are non-turbos. The fsi is direct injection, the other one is mpi.
From the master of red letters it'd be a silly move to leave the mighty T out, they won't be silent on them whiny wheels. ;-)

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User1998 wrote: »

That Polo isn’t a TSi, the dealer just wrote TSi in the description, if it was a TSi it would most definitely be turbo and would say TSi on the boot. There are no non turbo TSi’s

Im confident that there was a kerfuffle with those Polos at launch in 2018 where the 65hp cars were advertised as a TSi when they were not before the 90hp actual turbo engine became available to us.

Cant find anything to back it up on the web but im fairly sure that was a thing and there is a fair few 2018 65hp cars advertised as TSi, they cant all be dealers making mistakes. Well, maybe, but i still think it was a thing.

I also remember soon after launch a number of people returning the cars for a complaint of down on power but it turns out the cars were absolutely fine, just the 65hp is exceptionally strangled and is literally around 16 seconds to 100kmh. They wouldnt pull your pants down.

Thats getting a bit off bangernomics though.

TigerTim wrote: »

I bought my (wife's) bangernomics Ford C-Max from him last Jan. Small trader. Does get in a lot of clean higher mileage cars with plenty of test left.

T.

I was going to look at an Octavia he was selling just over a year ago but a more suitable car at a more convenient location turned up for me at the 11th hour. He does seem to present his stock very well in fairness but again he is a trader masquerading as a private seller on Donedeal.

Speaking of Octavia's.
https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/08-skoda-octavia-nct/24755823
2008 1.9 TDI,
310K KM,
NCT 10/2020,
Chape tax,
Asking €1,750.

I had a non turbo 1.0 Fabia estate as a rental, and while it wasn’t quick by any means, It wasn’t horrendous either.

For Forks Sake wrote: »

It's an Alfa, it's got low mileage, over a years test (07/21) and it'll even come with a warranty.

Granted, it's not the best Alfa or the best engine. And €1895 seems optimistic.

https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/alfa-romeo-147-2008/25079288

https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/alfa-147-low-miles-high-spec-e999-nct-amptaxed/25038163?campaign=3

flexcon wrote: »

This brings back memories!

Last year I arrived at Zadar airport at midnight and picked up my rental Polo to drive 3 hours across the border into B&H and it was painful. The foot was planted to the floor and on some gradients, it literally was dying. I spent a few days going to Split and Dubrovinik and never again. I'll happily pay a hundred euro more next time for an Astra or something!

Not as bad as my journey from Split to Dubrovnik, where the bus driver was ragging it so much that the engine shat itself. Had to wait 2 hours for a replacement bus to come, it was sweltering hot too.

Genuine mistake on my part.

Thanks for being so polite and helpful. This kind of thing is why I love boards.ie and didn't leave it for 5 years....

Chape tax Hyundai i30 diesel.

Once it's not making noises going into reverse, this is probably the least risky cheap diesel you can get, No DMF, no DPF, and well built.
This one is reasonably well specced too

1 owner in Ireland (it's a UK import), and sold by a dealer, so some semblance of a warranty probably applies.

https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/hyundai-i30-2008/25121242

2 owner 2007 Swift with low mileage

https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/suzuki-swift-nct-11-20-54-000-miles/24829189

Price maybe on the high side, but looks to be well kept.