Thin about it?
Tax and mot until end of MAY. Not that far away.
Do you think the owner might realise it wont go through an mot maybe?
best advice is to tell him to give you the £100 and you will get rid of the car for him? Then you might stand a chance of getting a bargain!
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What's its current scrap value?
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Non-runners older than that on eBay seem to make about £100. Scrap I guess is £50.
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The lady who called me described it as a car that "goes like a bomb." I imagine a thirteen year old 1.0 litre automatic will never quite fit that description, but the point is she described it as running and in good nick.
I have until next Wednesday to decide - I work for a local newspaper hence her calling me (I'm in the advertising dept) so I only need look at it between now and then, without comitting. I reckon it'll go quickly once published because used prices here can be pretty erratic and £100 for a running vehicle is cheap!
If I got it it would be with a view to taking it to my Mum's and advertising it from there - given that it's 140 miles away, there'd be little chance of the lady who sold it to me complaining that I'd exploited my position to profit from her bargain banger!
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Oh take a risk, buy it. I'd try and put a ticket on it when you get. There might be £40.00 worth of fuel in it even !
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Buy it, take a punt that it'll pass the MoT, and put it up for £350 with the new MoT.
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You could double its value by taxing it.
Get a parking ticket, mind, and you'd be back to zero.
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>>described it as a car that "goes like a bomb.">>
Unfortunately, bombs blow up......
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I have a friend makes a sport of buying and using cars like this. He's never paid more than £250 for a car in his life and sometimes he gets a couple of years out of them and others rather less. On average he reckons about 18 months is normal. He is admittedly a bit alternative being a self-employed artist and has no sense of automotive status or pride. He just looks for things which are large enough to accomodate his needs and in his case with more than 9 months MOT / Tax. The only concession he makes to convenience is membership of a breakdown organisation. He regularly drives down to the south of France to paint and has been known to wander as far as the Greek islands accompanied by one of his bargain basement cars. Not everyone would want to take the inconvenience risk but I have to say that on balance as a philosophy it has not caused him much trouble in the scheme of things.
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I have a car already, a P reg Ka - this would be either a second car for the sake of a second car or more realistically, something to have as a second car for two months and then if it passes the MOT, great, nice profit thankyouplease.
Alternatively it may be a runaround for my partner whose Seat Cordoba is rotting away at his Mum's and which could pay for driving lessons if he sells it rather than watching it lose value day by day because he doesn't want to lose out having paid an insane £3.5k two years ago and then not taking a test. The Seat could pay for lessons and a bit towards insurance.
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I'm a confirmed bangernomics fan - but IIRC correctly that model Micra had an engine life of 100k...
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I thought Nissans were like old VWs - engine lasts forever and the other bits break!
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Could you please tell us who gives continental breakdown coverage on a car 10+ yr. old-I would be most interested.
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Hi jc2 - Not sure if this helps but in the year 2000 my Westfield was 11 years old and I got AA European cover for it for a "grand tour". The reality was of course that its' running gear was much older. I seem to think they wanted a small premium over the normal price but it was covered. Of course things may have changed since then but it would be worth a phone call I guess.
Best Regds SS
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I sold my Mondeo with a short MOT purely because I had a new car, didn't have space for both, and just couldn't be bothered to get it MOT'd and then try and hold out for a good price. As it turns out, it sold on Ebay for only about £200 less than it would have fetched in mint condition with a full MOT, so it was a risk worth taking.
Not all cars sold with short MOT are dogs. It depends on the circumstances. A good crawl around the car and a test drive will give you a very good indication if it's likely to fail on major items such as corrosion or the condition of suspension components.
This old Mondeo, with no preparation apart from a quick check of fluid levels made it 900-odd miles back to Poland without skipping a beat.
For £100, it's worth a punt if you need a car like this. And I'm sure you'll find someone else willing to give you most of it back if it doesn't work out.
Cheers
DP
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Could you please tell us who gives continental breakdown coverage on a car 10+ yr. old-I would be most interested.
AA 5 Star cover no problem, who do you think covers classics like mine when abroad. The premium is slightly higher but not massively so. Only ever used it once when the pinion bearing in the TR7 broke up when in France.
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Up until 2002 I got Continental cover for a car more than 10 years old with Europ Assist for 75 quid a year - no problems and they were most helpful the only time I ever needed them.
I'm almost sure the limited life of this Micra engine was well known - maybe it used to figure in the CBCB.
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It did - I tinkered with the idea of buying one once as a hack but was put off by HJ's comments.
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