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Post by bigdave95 on Nov 24, 2012 17:01:05 GMT 1
Matt's Best Bargain thread got me thinking it hurts lol So what was the Biggest Moneypit you Brought Mine was Either the 1993 k reg Ford Sierra 1.8 Azure, brought from a so called friend for £2150 in april 1999, sold in april 2000 for £600,after costing £3500 in repair's,New engine,box,ECU and various sensor's and other bit's, never ran or drove 100% right    or the banger 1998 r reg Renault Megane 1.4 RN, brought for £550 in march 06,when i sold the Leganza to fund the house move, in hindsight should have kept it (the Leganza i mean),the migraine cost over £1200 in repair's in 6 month's, then rewarded me by cooking it's engine    , sold for £120 on fleabay |
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Post by mattsbeamer on Nov 24, 2012 17:52:59 GMT 1
Mine was when i was 21, I brought a P reg BMW 740i, for my 21st, (7.5 years ago)was perfect, apart from the windscreen they put in let in water and done over £8k damage to computers etc  miss that car. lives in Russia now, prob fixed by the mafia lol. |
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Post by natedog on Nov 24, 2012 18:11:15 GMT 1
The focus I bought for the other half. It's keeping the local garage in business, and is currently sat in cirencester waiting for the very nice man to try and get it started. Piece of crap! She loves it though, or it would have been gone ages ago
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Post by rhyds on Nov 24, 2012 18:56:31 GMT 1
My Alfa 146. Bought at 10 yrs old with history for £1800. It needed over the course of a year:
Clutch slave cyl (the day after I bought it)
New exhaust (one piece from behind the CAT to the tailpipe, £350+ fitting)
New sump (Alfa fitted a downpipe protector using steel studs in to an alloy sump, hit the studs and crack goes the sump)
Suspension arm
New clutch (bearing went through the presusre plate)
New plugs (£80!)
handbrake cables (as they would get water in and freeze over)
Headlamp self levelers never worked
And many, many more. Binned it after a year.
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Post by Welshy on Nov 24, 2012 18:58:55 GMT 1
Bought is Pissrat estate 8 years ago, when we bought our house. Was supposed to be the ideal car to take rubbish to the dump and transport to b&q. Spent more time broken down than in use. Used for a few thousand miles and sold on for a few hundred quid
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Post by Monkey on Nov 24, 2012 20:45:16 GMT 1
My 1996 Nissan 200sx S14... Spent £10k on it, 360bhp, all the right bits (no crap bodykits or whatever) just a fast, reliable car. And 15 (at best) MPG to suit..
I loved that car... It just broke me! I stripped it and sold the lot in a bid to make the most money back.. Never again!
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Post by roadknight on Nov 24, 2012 21:44:18 GMT 1
Many years ago. Rover P6, the head gasket blew, the ali head was corroded away, done all that started it up the drive plate went box out, new drive plate, the exhaust down pipe went. it was one thing after the other so:- Ended up stripping out the reclining seats for my mk2 cortina and sending it to the scrappy. (this was in 1978) |
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Post by natedog on Nov 24, 2012 21:55:33 GMT 1
The focus... is currently sat in cirencester waiting for the very nice man to try and get it started Turned out to be a flat battery. Daughter had stayed in the car to keep warm while herself went round supermarket. She turned the ign on but didn't start it to run the heater and have the stereo on. She didn't realise the heater don't get hot without the engine running. Of course I'm far to nice to take the p*ss even a little bit... sent from my HTC using proboards android app |
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, sold for £120 on fleabay 
miss that car. lives in Russia now, prob fixed by the mafia lol.
