Sold Daewoo Lanos SX 1.6 - W-reg - £200, offers welcome

[dollywobbler]

A friend of a friend is selling her Daewoo Lanos. It's been well looked after, and looks remarkably bonny! Not a hint of Pog. Located South Birmingham, conveniently near a train station.
 
 
 

Daewoo Lanos SX.
Includes CD player.
MOT TIL October.
FSH 2 lady owners. Clicking cv joints. Could be  packed. Offers. Sold as seen.

 



 
They're wrong on the MOT. It actually runs out at the start of November. 1.6-litre engine, sporty three-door body. I suspect offers would be entertained. Contact me in the first instance. 70,000 miles at the last test, and it had only clocked up 1000 miles from the previous one. It hasn't had a hard life.

[Wingz123]

That looks nice - Astra underneath I believe....is it an auto or manual?

[dollywobbler]

Good question. Pretty sure it's a manual. Will check!

[Daviedv]

I have had two of these. Decent little cars. Im pretty sure the lanos was the first daewoo not based on a vauxhall. I could be talking crap though

[Dirk Diggler]

Lanos is Kadett / Astra based

[dollywobbler]

Yes, you do have to change gears yourself.

[wuvvum]

These are not a bad little motor at all.  Pants on fuel for a small car but otherwise a decent runaround.  And being pre-2001 this one will avoid the comedy tax band the later ones were afflicted with (£305 a year for a 1.6 I believe).

[Cavcraft]

Can we have a 'watched list' here like eBay?

[loserone]

These are great.  T911AJR RIP.

[New POD]

If I needed a car. I'd buy it NOW.

[clayts450]

Rover 25-esque looking aren't they ? Nice looking motor

[wuvvum]

I see them as more of a poor man's Proton Satria Neo myself.

[SRi05]

Offers? It's a running MOT'D car with 6 months test for 200 quid ffs. Someone get it boughted

[Jim Bell]

Everybody stand back.

 

Ive done this before.

[gadgetgricey]

Everybody stand back.

 

Ive done this before.

 

If you are taking the plunge and need Birmingham taxi services, drop me a pm

[bub2006]

Everybody stand back.

 

Ive done this before.

Call in for a brew when passing alfreton on the a38

[beko1987]

Everybody stand back.

 

Ive done this before.

Your not starting the poo count early are you?

[23rdian]

Tempted by this but needs more doors.

[Pat Earrings]

Ww also can offer you a free cab and a brew if needed

[Jim Bell]

Thanks for all the offers of help dudes. Think the purchase is ON and hopefully Autoshites own roving reporter Lord of Stirling will be doing the actual thing.

[beko1987]

Can Mo do the report in the style of the ones he did when plating? That would be ace!

[oldcars]

Can Mo do the crap count to, That would be ace!

fify

[Jim Bell]

fify

 

 

Can Mo do the report in the style of the ones he did when plating? That would be ace!

 

 

In both cases, I really hope so!

[davehedgehog31]

How cheap do you want them?

 

Also a film star, played a leading role in the film Pineapple Express. (Not this one, it was yellow.)

[Pat Earrings]

[Lord Sterling]

Collected....

 

Sometime last week, I received a PM with a mission. Collect a Deawoo Lanos from deepest darkest Birmingham.

 

This early afternoon (because I'm a bit lazy) I found myself on one of these:

 

 

Then here:

 

To catch one of these:

 

Luxury...

 

Sometime around 3pm I landed in Acocks Green and it was less than a couple of minutes walk to the car. On the way I spotted this early Mk3 Fiesta:

 

 

Anyway, I eventually found the flat after a walk up and down and a phone call to the seller's husband.

 

The couple were lovely. The seller didn't really want to sell the car but as they had newer ones... plus they were going to scrap it but not before at least trying to sell it.

 

I was shown the car which looked pretty forlorn, a couple of flat tyres, tree dust, twigs, bird shit were adorning the paintwork. It hadn't been started for a month but fired straight up. The seller had a small compressor so the tyres could have some air returned.

 

After a nice chinwag, a cup of tea, some phone calls to Wilson Wilson, money and papers exchanged it was time for me to take this little thing away. I got some pics at the top of the road:

 

 

Not sure if the pics speak on how unclean it was. I wasn't expecting to be clean anyway. I mean £150 car....

 

Anyhow. I set out on the road and the car just felt uneasy to drive. The 'click click' noise sounded more like a knock as I drove on more. However, fearful that the CV joint would give way on the journey up to Newcastle I phoned Wilsonx2 a call. We thought a visit to a friendly mechanic might be on the cards.

 

I stopped by at a petrol station for a cheap wash;

 

 

Now its looking a bit sweeter:

 

 

And believe it or not, it's actually driving better! No knocking noises, I'm guessing the brakes were binding or something. So now at some point, it'll be heading up Newcastle way.

[Jim Bell]

Fwar.  It looks pretty man.  Three door shell with a spoiler, so its basically a mk2 Astra GTE.

The power of just plain worry can fix a lot of things so after the phone call from LS I pulled on my worry-pants and worried as hard as I could. What happens if a drive shaft CV lets go while hes driving? What If the front falls off? I dont want to scrap two cars in one week?

 

It seems to have worked anyway, as it sounds like the driving experience is much improved.

 

We done and thanks very much Lord Stirling.

[NorthernMonkey]

Chances are it’ll have been a rusty brake disc from being sat around.

They can sound remarkably like a CV joint click until the crap has been rubbed off.

[Split_Pin]

Top shiteing all round. I'm sure my mate who worked at Halfords back in the day had a W reg one of these which he got through some sort of staff deal there.

[DVee8]

So Mr WW if this is now yours,I could bring my self to look after the BROON BMW that you no longer need.