BANGERNOMICS (sub3k) of the week/day Part 7

My uncle had an O6 from new until earlier this year when he traded it in against a brand new yoke. He wasn't bothered selling it privately and was buying the new car from a pension lump so wasn't counting every penny but regardless his 2006 with 140,000kms was allowed 1200e on a new car worth 60k. Is 2 and a half grand realistic? Or was my uncle just rooked by the dealers (neither would surprise me)

I bought this last Friday from donedeal. Gave the guy 450 for it. NCT is out since end of September but it actually has 2 weeks of tax on it.

My usual car needs a dmf and I urgently needed something to cover me for 2 weeks until I get the dmf.

Plan is to scrap it once my daily is back up and running but you know what, other than a lot of scrapes and faded paint and a few small electric faults it's really quite a good car. Engine, gearbox, brakes etc are perfect. It has 98k miles on the clock. Last owner for 13 years.

Also, the more I think about it, when's the last time you saw a mark 1 Mazda6 on the road? And when's the last time you saw a liftback mark 1 Mazda 6?

Presume you are referring to the diesel versions only?

Yes, there are literally no petrol ones for sale. Only 3 petrols for sale from 09 to 19, vs 243 diesels

Yeah when it attempts to regen the oil dilutes with diesel. Also EGR issues, oil pressure issues and timing chain issues I think. Just a terrible engine altogether but I’d say a remap would do them a world of good

Nice looking car. Parkers give it 4.5 stars.

If it passes (which it probably will) someone will buy it from you, and you'll probably make a profit or at least break even!

I'm desperately in need of a car that will do me for 6months, with an NCT

If the electrical problems are actually small but it's mechanically sound I'd definitely talk to you about buying it?

Even bangernomics cars these days are mainly out of my budget 😩

And emissions I’d say. Hopefully neither.

Did they ever sort them or are they all junk? I couldn't find out by googling when I was looking at cars earlier this year.

Just out of curiosity. I acquired an A6, so that's me done with cars for at least a couple of years.

Will do. The guy I bought it from bought it in a job lot of 8 old cars from a main dealer. Apparently the previous owner traded it in against a brand new 40 grand car. I have the fail sheet from the NCT done at the end of September and the two things it failed on are handbrake effectiveness and secondary structural corrosion. The rust was the rear offside sill and weirdly it has been fixed. Not particularly well but definitely more than enough to pass an NCT.

The handbrake is a cable working on the rear discs and there is a slight squeak from the rear brakes so that might not have been put right yet. On the other hand, the handbrake seems to be working perfectly, no excessive travel, strong bite point, no problem holding on steep slopes etc and since the rust was fixed maybe that has been too.

All that leads me to believe exactly what you said. It's probably been through another NCT after those items were fixed and it then failed on something else and the guy gave up and just traded it and then someone along the line strategically removed that second NCT fail sheet.

Guess I'll find out tomorrow!

I'd love to know this too. Neighbour has a 2015 one from new and he swears by it. Reckons it gets near 70mpg on a long run. From what I can see 90% of his driving is very short trips. If he's having any consequences from that he hasn't said so.

Looks great in red imo

What year was the Corolla? They didn't suffer terribly with rust in general. Do you live near the sea?

2005, and not near the sea, but our roads get salted at the whiff of frost

The owner before me wasn't v good to wash the car

Rust in mounting points as kermitpwee said there, along with boot, sills, etc etc

I'd be very surprised if your CU requires you to save before lending ? Nearly all have a "Join & Borrow" policy now. Once you have a clean record and can show "ability to repay" you should be good to go.