Shite-ish car GOT

[Pillock]

I've just found myself without a car.I need a car.Something not too expensive to insure, yet fun to drive. Economy is a bonus. £800 or so tops?

[Parky]

Any requirements on size? If something small and cheap is in the offing, a Pug 106 is a hoot to drive and should cost buttons to run. Probably my first choice for cheapish transport.Very early Ford Focus might just scrape in at £800. Mid 90's Corolla a decent default. I had a 1993 Exec model which would probably retail at£400 or so now and that was a decent bit of kit.Mate bought a Saab 9000 for £750 recently and thats a lot of car for the money but I doubt its cheap on juice or insurance

[pogweasel]

World's your oyster at that sort of money. Scruffy 205 GiT [sic], E36 318iS, ZX Volcane, Golf Mk2/3 of quickish persuasion, etc, all GR8 for entertaining sensiblish transport. Or spazz it on a proper pub-landlord chariot & bankrupt yourself on the fuel costs. XJ40 FTW.

[Guest]

World's your oyster at that sort of money. Scruffy 205 GiT [sic], E36 318iS, ZX Volcane, Golf Mk2/3 of quickish persuasion, etc, all GR8 for entertaining sensiblish transport. Or spazz it on a proper pub-landlord chariot & bankrupt yourself on the fuel costs. XJ40 FTW.

You could get a Piazza Turbo for that kind of wedge. If you can find one. I'd rather sking myself on one of those TBH.

[sporty-shite]

Got a mk3 Golf GTi here, 5 door 8v, so not the most sought after, but could be yours for a budget-busting 550 of the Queen's English. Long T&T, too.Self-pimping? Yes. But it's worth a go!

[Pillock]

sporty-shite, you may well have an interested party! I have just been perusing 16v MK3s but I could be convinced with an eight, they're not a bad engine.Got any pics and stuff?Otherwise folks.... same sorta size. Won't touch a 205 GTI with a bargepole I'm afraid, I just don't like them. A sporty Astra maybe? Most of Pog's suggestions are on the ball so I'm off to trawl Autotrader.....

[sporty-shite]

sporty-shite, you may well have an interested party! I have just been perusing 16v MK3s but I could be convinced with an eight, they're not a bad engine.Got any pics and stuff?Otherwise folks.... same sorta size. Won't touch a 205 GTI with a bargepole I'm afraid, I just don't like them. A sporty Astra maybe? Most of Pog's suggestions are on the ball so I'm off to trawl Autotrader.....

I'll get the camera out in the morning, and whizz a couple up on here.

[Pillock]

Radical. Cheers!

[Pete-M]

Volvo S40 with leather, S reg, 129,000 miles, few dents and grazes but it's not bad really. Bit of tax and test, £450?

[pogweasel]

^I would hit that^Keep looking at V40's with the turdblower on, mmmm, vroom value.

[Pillock]

Volvo S40 with leather, S reg, 129,000 miles, few dents and grazes but it's not bad really. Bit of tax and test, £450?

What engine is that, for the purposes of insurance quotes?

[Pete-M]

Not sure, think it's a 2.0 petrol. It sounds sweet, but other than that I've not taken much notice. It's not a T4 or a diseasel and it's not a 1.6, and I don't think it's the 1.8. I've not taken much notice of it. My mate has had it for years and likes it, but it's taken a few knocks and scrapes along the way. He was a mechanic a few years ago, and a bloody good tyre fitter so it shouldn't be dog rough to drive. I know it's got the Alpine stereo in, I think therefore it's probably a 2.0 CD. If they make one...

[whitevanman]

2.0 S40's are cracking cars, it's the only post 92 car I have owned that I liked and didn't let me down, 38mpg on a run 32mpg in town, and the seats are great as well

[Pillock]

Are Seat Ibiza GTIs any good? All the good points of a Mk3 Goof GTI 16v (i.e. the engine), but both cheaper and generally better nick.I went to look at an 8v Golf today. £1895 on a forecourt (!) with knackered Aircon, one knackered electric window, scratches on every panel and some worrying smoke off the back of the block - oil? wiring? who cares, I walked away ;)Also saw a Audi 1.8T which looked smart, but is probably a) too big and too thirsty. It was also a bizarre spec - cruise control, tape player, no aircon, sports stuff. I wish Audi would actually give their models badges so you could see what to expect.

[pogweasel]

Mk3 Goof

Please don't do that. I'll let it go this time, but any more and you'll be in big trouble. Ok?

[Pillock]

Mk3 Goof

Please don't do that. I'll let it go this time, but any more and you'll be in big trouble. Ok?

You and whose army? ;)OK, point taken. I spent too long on retro-rides and it's not all out of my system yet. Apologies!

[chester drawers]

Also saw a Audi 1.8T which looked smart, but is probably a) too big and too thirsty.

Between 30 & 36 (with the boot full of gubbins most of the time) on my A4 1.8T Sport so not too bad.

 

Anything involving the turbo has been cripplingly expensive to sort though. Drop the undertray and have a good look for oil leaks around the pick up & return pipes. The ends aren't flared on and they can leak under pressure. Penny pinching German bastards

[lovejoy]

Pillock ? one of these ? this is only an 8valve 1600 mind.... apologies for fuzzy pic...

I run one on occasions in my fleet, totally bulletproof / reliable, only trouble i get is with sensors upsetting mixture richness. Impressively reliable panzerwagon for an everyday motor.

You may find the insurance on the GTi version a bit high though, the Mk2 GTi I had in UK was Group 15 !! (the twit in Budget Insurance 's Cape Town office asked me "had I experienced such a powerful car before")

- total prat !!

[Pillock]

Yeah, the 8v Golf GTI isn't bad, the 16v would be better but they seem to attract both a price premium, and the kind of knobs that put wanky lights and chrome wheels on. A tidy 16v is much harder to find than an eight.

 

I have been looking at the Ibiza Cupra though - it's got the same 2.0 lumps as the Golf range, can get 'em in both 8v and 16v. Much cheaper though, found a tidy R-plate, well looked after, a few choice mods like coilovers and tasteful wheels - £1200. Same thing with a VW badge would be half as much again, and thrashed.

 

Should be able to squeeze a Mk3 GTI on a classic policy, not sure about the SEAT but worth a shot. Anything 15 years + with a decent owners club normally qualifies.

[sporty-shite]

Sorry about the delay, Pil, photos as promised.....

 

 

 

 

Found a bit of bubbling around the roof aerial and on the window corner on the tailgate. Still have original wheels, too. Taxed end of June, tested December. 142k, runs well.

 

Oh, you will get this on a classic policy. I added it to my Footman James multi car for twenty-five clams.

[Pillock]

Twenty five?? I rang for a quote on a 5dr 16v yesterday and was told their very best price was a mind-boggling £631.....I'll try my local bricks and mortar place tomorrow, they're pretty good at finding decent classic quotes. I gotta say though, at that price it looks pretty good. Really good in fact. I'd like to come and look it over if I may, I don't want to be one of "those" buyers but all the ones I've looked at so far have been in such bad condition I've not wanted to take them on a drive. Especially the one yesterday, where I pressed the AC button and the pump made some banging noises, the light flickered and went out, and the engine stalled.Whereabouts in the world are you?Edit: Yes, I'm a spaz - I'm assuming Bolton from the sig

[Pillock]

Got it

 

 

Cheers sporty-shite for your hospitality, very nice meeting you! Sorry I didn't text as promised, stopped off at a friends on way home so it was gone midnight. Lovely drive across the moors though, car behaved excellently

[STUNO]

Nice !

[sporty-shite]

Glad you like it. Not sure how you got to where the pic was taken, though Hopefully it's not a sign that the pic was in the gates of a scrapyard!!Have fun with it

[Pillock]

Glad you like it. Not sure how you got to where the pic was taken, though Hopefully it's not a sign that the pic was in the gates of a scrapyard!!Have fun with it

Did you not see my eyes glaze over as you started giving me directions? That always happens, I'm a man I went past Atherton station (on the road this time, not the shonky train) and found a motorway thing with a signpost to the trafford centre - I know where I am then so it was easy, did the moors - overtaking is easy when it's pitch black!Lots of fun so far, a couple of 'reminders' to take it steady (it's got a lot of poke in 3rd and 4th, 70-90 is only a few seconds! (km/h obviously, officer)) but I've used a tankful already at 33mpg. Replaced that split hose and it seems to idle better, and I think the cat monolith has shattered rather than the joint blowing but it's coming off anyway :)Thanks again

[Pillock]

Oh, and I've rectified the nose-up stance in the photos by taking the wheels out of the boot