Bangernomics car of the week/day - Part II

maidhc · 07-02-2012 9:50pm

Clean looking Golf estate from a time when diesel's were slow but wonderfully reliable.

http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/cars/2972864

L-M · 07-02-2012 10:01pm

God they are torture-ing-ly slow!

Reliable, but slow.

07-02-2012 10:04pm

maidhc wrote: »

Clean looking Golf estate from a time when diesel's were slow but wonderfully reliable.

http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/cars/2972864

Limerick man wrote: »

God they are torture-ing-ly slow!

Reliable, but slow.

When I worked in a factors the rep for Hella and Sonax had one of them as a company car, he got a job with 3M than and got a 156 off them iirc.

jharr100 · 07-02-2012 11:49pm

http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/cars/2979009

Price drop from €2250

Tax till end of the year..

FSH

Bargain of the year?

Is the GDI engine the only drawback?

Notch000 · 07-02-2012 11:52pm

jharr100 wrote: »

http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/cars/2979009

Price drop from €2250

Tax till end of the year..

FSH

Bargain of the year?

Is the GDI engine the only drawback?

Sweet car

colm_mcm · 07-02-2012 11:53pm

Who taxes a car for a year then sells it? Good enough value

alias no.9 · 08-02-2012 12:00am

colm_mcm wrote: »

Who taxes a car for a year then sells it? Good enough value

I wonder if its an accidentally on purpose typo and was really taxed until 12/11

08-02-2012 12:00am

That seller is defo a trader, you'd think he'd potter around in it while 'tis taxed.

jharr100 · 08-02-2012 12:02am

alias no.9 wrote: »

I wonder if its an accidentally on purpose typo and was really taxed until 12/11

Nope..

12/12 pics of tax disc on carzone..
I nearly bought it last week but picked a different v40 with the volvo engine rather than the Mitsubishi lump..

Just wondering if anyone has experience of the GDI engine & box?

jharr100 · 08-02-2012 12:04am

RoverJames wrote: »

That seller is defo a trader, you'd think he'd potter around in it while 'tis taxed.

For sale in Kealys I think..

dan hibiki · 08-02-2012 10:40am

jharr100 wrote: »

Nope..

12/12 pics of tax disc on carzone..
I nearly bought it last week but picked a different v40 with the volvo engine rather than the Mitsubishi lump..

Just wondering if anyone has experience of the GDI engine & box?

its not nearly as bad as some would have you believe. a friend has 200+ on his. regular servicing and very little goes wrong really. good mp from that 1.8 too.

justsomebloke · 08-02-2012 11:01am

it's sold anyway

An Ri rua · 08-02-2012 4:13pm

http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/cars/2883034

"The car has recently had tyres fitted, is recently serviced, new alternator belt, oil change etc. 159K miles and NCT'd 3/12" €1550. Cork. Looks quite legit, no trace of number when searched and pictures are far from professional. Well worth a look I'd say?

L-M · 08-02-2012 4:16pm

Ring the seller, ask him go out to the car and rev the engine and put the phone out near it.

if you hear a rattle, stay in your seat, if not, if it came for 1000-1100, maybe. Wouldn't be excited at 1550 tbh.

W123-80's · 08-02-2012 4:58pm

Would love to give this a go... Not to everyone's taste but I like 'em..!

http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/cars/2766408

Something similar, but a little more realistic on the tax front..!

http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/cars/2884297

Both nice low milage examples.

Top Dog · 08-02-2012 5:06pm

W123-80's wrote: »

Would love to give this a go... Not to everyone's taste but I like 'em..!

http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/cars/2766408

Something similar, but a little more realistic on the tax front..!

http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/cars/2884297

Both nice low milage examples.

First one is on UK plates so add in VRT, NCT & Tax and its not so attractive

W123-80's · 08-02-2012 5:09pm

Top Dog wrote: »

First one is on UK plates so add in VRT, NCT & Tax and its not so attractive

For sure.!

The tax is a proper pain in the ass.

An Ri rua · 08-02-2012 5:35pm

Limerick man wrote: »

Ring the seller, ask him go out to the car and rev the engine and put the phone out near it.

if you hear a rattle, stay in your seat, if not, if it came for 1000-1100, maybe. Wouldn't be excited at 1550 tbh.

Don't get me wrong, not excited at paying €1550 either. But that's just the asking price I've quoted here for the benefit of lazy Boardsies! But I would be excited by Saabs, yes. Advice appreciated though.

pappyodaniel · 08-02-2012 5:44pm

Long test on her, no mention of mileage though.

http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/cars/2902590

edit. Going by the picture of the dash, it looks like there is 145k on the clock

Saab Ed · 08-02-2012 7:55pm

Summer lovin, happened so fast

http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/cars/2988005

Piriz · 08-02-2012 8:56pm

what do you's generally think when you google the phone number for a seller and it turns out they sell alot of cars privately? avoid?

colm_mcm · 08-02-2012 8:58pm

Generally means they haven't a clue about the cars past. You can tell a lot about a car from the owner and their house,

Piriz · 08-02-2012 9:00pm

yea was thinking the same thanks.. however; if the car had a year nct would you still care? what has the sellers house got to do with anything?

unkel · 08-02-2012 9:04pm

An Ri rua wrote: »

Don't get me wrong, not excited at paying €1550 either. But that's just the asking price I've quoted here for the benefit of lazy Boardsies! But I would be excited by Saabs, yes. Advice appreciated though.

There's no mention of service history. If these engines haven't been fed fully synth oil every 6k miles throughout their lives they can go boom anytime. Worth the risk if you pay peanuts for it, but at €1,5k you'd need to be fairly confident it won't happen

Bought mine ('01) last year with very low miles (77k) and plenty of service history in excellent condition for €1,350. Just serviced by Saab with discs, brakes, breather kit (>€2k :eek:), just NCTd

Now that turned out to be a pretty sweet deal, won't find one like that again too soon, but I'm with LM here - no history, sure it's worth a gamble. For hundreds rather than thousands...

colm_mcm · 08-02-2012 9:25pm

Piriz wrote: »

yea was thinking the same thanks.. however; if the car had a year nct would you still care? what has the sellers house got to do with anything?

Just gut feeling stuff. If its in a state, then maintainance on the car well may have been overlooked too. It's not a foolproof system but it's certainly more reliable than putting your trust in a small time tax dodger who has his sales technique perfected and would say mass to get the money out of your pocket