BANGERNOMICS (sub3k) of the week/day Part 7

A proper car at nearly 300k miles, doubt modern electric rubbish would get near that

The guards don't stamp anything now, those days are long gone, the only way to cancel the arrears is to change ownership.

My personal favourite is registering the car in a friends name and claiming you just bought it and haven’t received the new logbook to tax it yet😂

Driving other cars extension would cover it. I have motor trade insurance anyway so I don’t have to worry about that

Speaking of Audis and not paying tax …

How about this 2.7 A6 Avant with a fresh test and couple months tax?

https://www.donedeal.ie/view/37621147

A driving other cars extension wouldn't cover you for the situation you described where the car is yours but it's registered in your mate's name. Whose name and personal details are on the insurance policy? If it's yours then the insurance would be void. If you go through a checkpoint and tell them it was your mate's car and you've just bought it that day then they'll probably ask you to produce the insurance certificate. When you give them that they'll see that you've been insured on the car for 6 months or whatever, despite you claiming you had just bought it off your mate.

Anyway, if you've got a trade policy then you shouldn't need to worry about the car you're driving being taxed either I presume?

A fine lump of a car! I'm tempted to get an A4 Estate as my next car but

folk are still looking for mad money for them. I'll carry on with the C5 for the minute.

Toyota Prius? You should be able to pick up a 2008 model with cheap tax for under €3k.

delete - NCT expired.

I have a 12 Qashqai, slightly different configuration... I have the standard Qashqai (the Qashqai +2 is about 8" longer and has an extra row of child seats in the boot). I have the 1.6 (130bhp) diesel with 4wd. Its raucous but the extra bit of power is nice. The 1.5 diesel is only 110bhp but is quieter I'd say. Both are sourced from Renault and are capable of putting up big mileage. (Just check on DD to see the kind of intergalactic mileages some of them have).

I have 240k kms on the clock and have had no real problems. (DPF gave trouble, but that happens with all post 08 diesels that are not consistently doing long runs). Everything works as it should which is a first for any car I have ever owned. Thats just my experience anyway.

Herself bought a Qashqai about 18 months ago as it ticked a lot of boxes for her but still held on to her Alfa Romeo 159 😂

The one she got is a high spec with leather interior, pano roof etc and in that length of ownership, she had a starter motor fail and for last years NCT, the rear trailing arms on the suspension were absolutely rotten! No idea how it went through a year before, but in any case, they were changed and not a cheap job either, but apart from that she loves it. Decent driving position, lots of room especially with seats down for carrying large items etc and a miser on fuel. It's the 1.5 version. Think it has about 250k kms on it now but it's actually due in on Saturday for the NCT again and she has no plans to move it on as overall she's very happy with it. Just be careful regarding the rear suspension as we found out when she had that issue that it's quite a common problem with them, so much so, that if you look around on Donedeal etc you'll see that rear trailing arms for Qashqais are a thing. I know it's not easy to inspect underneath when buying a car, but definitely have a look at that area to be sure there's nothing lurking or maybe they have previously been sorted

[EDIT]Just noticed the one you are looking at is an Irish car, hers is a UK/NI import, so whether that made any difference on the amount of corrosion on the arms, I'm not sure [/EDIT]

Have a look at this video from about 4mins 40 seconds in

God be with the good old days when this thread was full of E10 Corollas, K11 Micras, W124s and 1.4tdi A2s for less than €1k!

The world has changed.

Found some Jap petrol reliability for lugging around whatever you need to lug.

Short on test but what can you do!

06 Lancer estate

1.6 petrol

NCT Jan 2025

Irish car

Asking €800

https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/mitsubishi-lancer-2006/37854966

Why, does your wife drive one?😂

I don’t disagree with his statement at all

Less chat, more bangers….of any variety 😂

I always keep any sheets in the glove box of my bars, fails and passes. At least then when I'm selling a car, I can show potential buyers the issues and the work carried out to fix them.