BANGERNOMICS (sub2k) of the week/day

Toyotafanboi

The engine bay is silver, would that not mean the rest of the car was too? You'd hardly go out of your way to paint that bay.

commited

commited wrote: »

This is getting silly now....

2005 XJ6 for €1500:

https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/jaguar-xj6/16428886

A ridiculous amount of car for the money.

And up again for sale from a trader for an easy profit:
https://www.donedeal.ie/vintagecars-for-sale/quick-sale-jaguar-xj6/17129933

BorneTobyWilde

https://www.donedeal.ie/vintagecars-for-sale/mazda-mx5/17133011
MX5
78kms
Hardon and soft top
1.8

Close to 2k should buy

Toyotafanboi

Love that Mazda but being Jap might make it a bit of an issue insurance wise.

JJJJNR

First post in a while in here, this looks good, 5 cylinder diesel with a manual gearbox, it also has the silver trim on the instrument cluster which means it's the ford one. These are good for stratospheric mileage and have a long service interval. Plus its got the nct..

https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/diesle-d5-s60-volvo-nct-2-18/17133221

D5 manual with nct for 500 euro.

corkalien

https://www.adverts.ie/car/renault/megane/2006-renault-megane/14144534

Selling this in Cork (Ballincollig). Genuine seller. Been driving it <10k km/year for last 6 years. Just NCT'd. Taxed till end of year.

colm_mcm

Looks like a Dairy Milk, and the 1.2 engine is made of butter, But for 500 lids it's cheap motoring for a few months
https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/2005-polo-nct-03-18-bargain/17118754?campaign=3

hometruths

This is mine, I am a long term bangernomics driver, but want to go back to a V70 for bigger space.

Cracking little car, 2005 1.8 petrol, tax out, but NCTd until August 2018. Low mileage. €1500



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unkel

Nice car Will, but you might have to accept a lot less than your asking price if I'm honest.

hometruths

unkel wrote: »

Nice car Will, but you might have to accept a lot less than your asking price if I'm honest.

what's it worth?

colm_mcm

If it was a saloon, I'd say €1,000. Not sure if estate adds value, they're certainly rarer, but I would be asking €1300 to get €1250

hometruths

colm_mcm wrote: »

If it was a saloon, I'd say €1,000. Not sure if estate adds value, they're certainly rarer, but I would be asking €1300 to get €1250

I could live with €1250. Obviously I'm biased but it is a decent car for that money, but I guess as ever insurance is the problem given the age. It wasn't a problem for me when I got the policy as I was going from an older 2.0 l petrol V70. Exactly what I want to go back to!

Whatever about value, I think the estate is a better looking shape, the saloon looks a bit odd to me.

kindalen

Maybe I'm being a bit mean, but a grand would be max money for me on Volvo. Best of luck with sale. Insurance issue putting perfectly good cars off the road.

unkel

There's no insurance issue on a '05 car. Don't know why people are saying that.

schmittel wrote: »

what's it worth?

Hard to say. Obviously it's worth what someone is willing to pay for it. Every seller of anything in the world ever would like to think their item is worth x while it will only fetch y

If I were selling your car, I'd advertise at €995 and take whatever offer that came in close enough to that. Of course it is possible that if you keep your ad like it is, someone would ring you and offer €1500. It's possible but not likely. We try to give you our honest advice on here. And you've heard mine.

vandriver

schmittel wrote: »

This is mine, I am a long term bangernomics driver, but want to go back to a V70 for bigger space.

Cracking little car, 2005 1.8 petrol, tax out, but NCTd until August 2018. Low mileage. €1500

Donedeal ad

The ad is a bit low on detail.
Eg service history
What spec(air con?)

JohnBoy26

unkel wrote: »

There's no insurance issue on a '05 car. Don't know why people are saying that.



Hard to say. Obviously it's worth what someone is willing to pay for it. Every seller of anything in the world ever would like to think their item is worth x while it will only fetch y

If I were selling your car, I'd advertise at €995 and take whatever offer that came in close enough to that. Of course it is possible that if you keep your ad like it is, someone would ring you and offer €1500. It's possible but not likely. We try to give you our honest advice on here. And you've heard mine.

There is. Now you still have the freedom to shop around as it's still under 15 years old but as it's over ten years there is a loading and it could actually be very difficult to insure for some people.

rizzodun

JohnBoy26 wrote: »

There is. Now you still have the freedom to shop around as it's still under 15 years old but as it's over ten years there is a loading and it could actually be very difficult to insure for some people.

My missus insured our 2003 V40 estate on a new policy not having insurance for 1 year without much issue.

Its true older cars are being priced out, but depends on the type of car too. There'd be a bigger difficulty insuring a 2003 mx5 for instance over our Volvo.
I can't see much issue with insuring that V50.

166man

JohnBoy26 wrote: »

There is. Now you still have the freedom to shop around as it's still under 15 years old but as it's over ten years there is a loading and it could actually be very difficult to insure for some people.

Not sure how you can possibly come to that conclusion unless you work in industry and know each and every variable?

A Bugatti Veyron could be hard to insure for some people and not hard for others....


Poor attempt at looking for arguments really. :pac:

BorneTobyWilde

https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/alfa-147-2006-new-nct-today-01-19-109000-klm/17047598

Alfa 147
Low miles
Nct 1/19
1695

johndaman66

rizzodun wrote: »

My missus insured our 2003 V40 estate on a new policy not having insurance for 1 year without much issue.

Its true older cars are being priced out, but depends on the type of car too. There'd be a bigger difficulty insuring a 2003 mx5 for instance over our Volvo.
I can't see much issue with insuring that V50.

While yes, the type of car makes a difference, the same could be said of 2 different types of car both less than 10 years old so I see that as a moot point.... Fair to say a lot will have difficulty insuring a new convertible MX5 also - many companies just won't quote you on it irrespective of your other particulars.


I'm driving a bog standard 04' Corolla with the last 2 years and even since I started driving it (just over 10 years old then) a lot of providers would not quote me and of the providers that did there was a general theme that the same bog standard Corolla would have being cheaper to insure if it was less than 10 years old. No issue in that I was able to insure it for a premium that I could afford eventually with shopping around but yes it was an issue in that it curtailed my ability to shop around and for those that did quote me the premium was generally higher than the same less than 10 year old motor.

johndaman66

https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/ford-mondeo-tdci-diesel-tax-and-test-very-clean/17101642?campaign=3


A bit light on test but ticks the boxes to meet the criteria of the thread.
TDCI Mondeo saloon 07 - Old model.
209K KM
NCT 01/18;
Tax 12/17.
Give it a good going over and if all's in order and you get it for closer to €1k your laughing!

Johnboy1951

johndaman66 wrote: »

https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/ford-mondeo-tdci-diesel-tax-and-test-very-clean/17101642?campaign=3


A bit light on test but ticks the boxes to meet the criteria of the thread.
TDCI Mondeo saloon 07 - Old model.
209K KM
NCT 01/18;
Tax 12/17.
Give it a good going over and if all's in order and you get it for closer to €1k your laughing!

Mileage 209 km

Hardly driven at all

JohnBoy26

rizzodun wrote: »

My missus insured our 2003 V40 estate on a new policy not having insurance for 1 year without much issue.

Its true older cars are being priced out, but depends on the type of car too. There'd be a bigger difficulty insuring a 2003 mx5 for instance over our Volvo.
I can't see much issue with insuring that V50.

That's why I said for some people but regardless there will be a loading on the car as it's over 10.

commited

01 520i with NCT 3/18 €350
https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/bmw-520i/17154597
Not exactly the best example, but that is very cheap for a facelift e39 with NCT.

high horse

commited wrote: »

01 520i with NCT 3/18 €350
https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/bmw-520i/17154597
Not exactly the best example, but that is very cheap for a facelift e39 with NCT.

I know it's only €350 but it has the tamper dot on the display that appears when a BMW has been clocked. Eyes wide open if you want to buy that one

bear1

Would you really care though? I mean ok eyes wide open and all that but it's a 350e car which you'd probably get for 300e.
You'd nearly expect it to have some flaws.
Even if it has 500k more than it should on the clock i wouldn't care.
Even if it blows up before the end of the nct you've had seriously cheap motoring and the angel eyes you could probably sell back for nearly the asking price.

high horse

bear1 wrote: »

Would you really care though? I mean ok eyes wide open and all that but it's a 350e car which you'd probably get for 300e.
You'd nearly expect it to have some flaws.
Even if it has 500k more than it should on the clock i wouldn't care.
Even if it blows up before the end of the nct you've had seriously cheap motoring and the angel eyes you could probably sell back for nearly the asking price.

I agree with you, but I still wouldn't buy it

Trojan

To put into context, I just sold my E39 525i with a blown head gasket for €300.

commited

Here's an interesting e39:

https://www.carzone.ie/used-cars/bmw/5-series/used-2001-bmw-5-series-2-2-with-g-waterford-fpa-8187014901255594793
01 520i SE, 190k kms, €650

It's an Oceania model which means it came from Oz or NZ. Pretty poverty spec for Australia but has climate, high OBC, upgraded HiFi and it's Cosmos black which is a great colour. If it was imported relatively recently then much lower chance of rust etc.

Didn't originally have leather so that's retrofitted. Still, a lot of car for <€700. I have an e60 but strongly considering an e39 on classic insurance now...

Edit: Nvm dealer isn't being honest re NCT expiry in text, it expired July 17

W123-80's

'00 E240 Estate
147k miles
NCT March '18
Tax Dec '17
Might be worth asking to have it tested early and guage the reaction, but it seems an honest advert.
I really like these boats cars!
Asking €1,250

https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/mercedes-benz-e240-7-seater/17148398