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EssDeeWon Rank: Renault 16

EssDeeWon

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Have never put a price on tyres and brakes, as the saying goes there is only one thing worse than a car that wont start..............

EssDeeWon Rank: Renault 16

EssDeeWon

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Take it in my local Indy and let them poke about, had bushes and brakes done costing nearly £500 on my current car within a week of buying it, I did know the front pads/discs were tired when I bought it because of an advisory on the current MOT but wasn't expecting new bushes too. Front Potenza tyres have had there best days and they'll be off soon.

Lankytim Rank: Isuzu Florian

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I'm sorry, but you don't buy safety critical parts from a scrapyard. Not ever.

 

Ever.

 

 

Yes you do! Why not buy and fit a calliper or tyre or steering rack if it still has 50% of it's life remaining?

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Ratdat Rank: Renault 16

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Yes it's low mileage and very nice... but £4k?

 

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jbz2079 Rank: Austin Maxi

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That Sprinter is minging, they can be a very expensive thing to keep too.

If you buy one that needs brakes all round, handbrake cables and tyres.

The handbrake design on these is seriously flawed, they have a poxy little set of brake shoes inside the discs that always gets destroyed

by drivers pulling them on while moving, the cables stretch badly too meaning they run out of travel on the ratchet quickly.

Heidel_Kakao Rank: Renault 16

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When did these become worth this much?

 

Some time between 2006 when I bought a 1.5 Riva with tax & MOT off ebay for £100 & now. I would love another but too expensive now.
dugong Rank: Renault 16

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When you buy a used car, do you replace all the safety critical parts, wat?

Odd you should mention it, but yeah.

 

None of my used cars are on the road at the moment, and I can't get bits for my Amazon from EMR. It may work differently for you, who knows.

 

I have contacts in the trade who can parts for the C4 through Halfords and the Citroen dealer network, although I'm going to get some trim panels off a dead 'un when I have the money. I spent the titivation fund on new Brembo rear discs and pads. I could have unscrewed a pair of rusty 'nearly new' rotors from a 2006 SX in Wrexham - but that would have been stupid, surely? The discs and pads were £80 all-in, new.

 

My Renault 19 with Volvo badges had the brand new ditch finders lobbed in the skip (you'd call them 'good tyres' I'm sure) and the front and rear brakes done - mainly because they were dire.

 

The calipers need sorting for the MOT so they're getting done before it comes out of storage. The steering components checked out so they've stayed, but the shocks and springs are pretty tired and one of the bump stops was frigged. I had a poly bush company make up a pair of replacements using the last new stop available in the Volvo UK dealer network. These will be coming on the market soon for the 400 series cars left in service and I'll take the hit on the tooling and drawing costs because it helps keep them on the road in a miniscule way.

 

My other old motor is too new for me to have worked through yet, but given that it had new tyres a month before I bought it (and there's a stack of receipts from garages and parts suppliers rather than scrapyards) I'll give it the benefit of the doubt for the moment. I've barely driven it since I picked it up.

 

Anything else? You obviously like doing things in the cheapest manner possible and seem proud of it.

Rusty_Rocket Rank: Citroen Ami

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You are a magnificent example of dear old poisoned Capitalism, dugong.

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dugong Rank: Renault 16

dugong

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You are a magnificent example of dear old poisoned Capitalism, dugong.

Gonna have to disagree with you there, sorry.

Doing things right and safely isn't synonymous with spending a fortune. All you do is shop around - that's what the Web is great for.

 

I didn't agree with this SCRAPYARD PARTS YO mentality on AS before and I don't think I ever will.

Richard Rank: Talbot Matra Rancho

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I wouldn't have any qualms about using second hand brake discs and pads if they were in decent condition and cheap enough. It's quite common to find nearly new or even brand new parts on scrap cars and I can't see any reason not to use them.

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Hertz Rank: Lancia Gamma

Hertz

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/\ I was just about to post that! In my own mannerism I have just done a karate chop signal with my hand at the laptop and uttered the words "no chance"...

Micrashed Rank: Renault 16

Micrashed

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Re the Mk 1 Fiesta - very early ones had a screw in cap which was painted in the same colour as the body - Ghia/ hi-spec examples had a chrome version with a lock.

These changed to the black lockable ones  for the base spec versions somewhere roundabout 1980/81 due to some legislation or other i think, or rising petrol thefts Im not sure which.

trigger Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

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That blue Fiesta photo was only a library photo, here's the real car.

 

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It's now dropped to "only" £7000...

Junkman Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

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This is a briliant ad.

 

He's glowering out of virtually every photo.

 

Is he some sort of curmudgeonly sitting tenant who has to come with the purchase?

 

He is Josef Fritzl AICMFP.

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burraston2006 Rank: Citroen Ami

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This dreamer's advertising four Rover 800s for a total of £14,000 with utterly shite ads. Deranged does not even begin to cover it...

He states that it's an early reg mk1. Looks like a later face lift one to me with the bigger bumpers. IIRC they turned up a couple of years after the original. I'll bow to Lord Sterlings expertise on this one though- I could be totally wrong!

Spiny Norman Rank: Lancia Gamma

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I think most non-Rover types lump all the pre-chrome grille cars into one 'MK1' tag, but as you say LS will keep us right if he sees this.

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