The 150 quid clio we got 2 years ago has died.


It didnt like the big freeze as shortly after its vital fluids began to leak from the sump. Then today it expired in a cloud of steam....... the radiator split and Lizzy had to keep going to get off the dual carriageway ( no hard shoulder).
To sum it up the car got very hot and took the head gasket out.....

So she has RAC cover with one of her bank accounts.

Rac turn up and say cant be fixed but can be towed...... Ok no biggie then I get a call saying they will only tow 10 miles....
Shes in Edinburgh on route to Karate

So she gets dropped off halfway home in Dunfermline with my daughter and her pal.

So RAC are prepared to leave three ladies at the side of the road cause they will only tow 10 miles..
She said he wanted to leave them in Rosyth but she asked if he could stretch to Dunfermline as there was a warm pub to wait in.

Any way my good side kick Macspeedy went and fetched the girls and Kriss and I went and got the Clio. Filled it full of oil and water and ragged it home on the b roads......died at the front gate. So we will weigh it in Monday 110 quid..

We are trying to buy a golf gti for sweety money.....to keep the bangernomic movement alive.
Hell 2 years motoring for 60 quid isnt that bad....a depreciation rate.

Next banger please

Lizzy does not want expensive cars as her record with idiots driving into her is second to none..... she also picks on carpark posts and trolley bays.

If its a cheapy she thinks I cant get to cross with her if she gets it wrong.....

The my beloved SMARTIE got Smacked 3 times...at merc prices for parts it wasnt a good situation for insurance purposes.


Should go and get that miniciti corsa and get a mot stuck on it. To late

Lets all repeat together the Bangernomics Code

Bangernomics contrasts the absurd expense of buying new, with the supreme good sense of buying used.

Bangernomics will show the mechanically bewildered how to buy a safe, durable car and most important of all save money.

Bangernomics is all about motoring at the blunt end.

Bangernomics means never having to be fussy about what you drive.

Bangernomics defines no-nonsense motoring in the new millennium.

Bangernomics is a way of life, but remember, beware of the dog.

Just found the ol rust 2 rome 106 at the bottom of the garden.....needs brake calipers up front.

[Edited on 30-1-10 by mangogrooveworkshop]

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It's a Red 5 door Golf GTI 8V you need.....
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Time for another Clio.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/MK1-RENAULT-CLIO-1-2-ENGINE_W0QQitemZ230427036978QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM?hash=item35a6858d32


or an engine for this

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It's a Red 5 door Golf GTI 8V you need.....

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It's a Red 5 door Golf GTI 8V you need.....

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For £150.....? I will!

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Originally posted by dhutch

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It's a Red 5 door Golf GTI 8V you need.....

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For £150.....? I will!

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Multply that by around, say 4x or thereabouts

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90 for engine
65 for sup as clios sumps are made of wafer biscuits
65 for radiator
34 for the rear shock and
25 bucks for oil..... add some petrol money to pick the engine up.....and the maths is simple.
get the gti with a starting problem and drop the spare 2 liter engine into it (Just happen to have one foc)

Also will need shoes for the rear ....
34.

Time to start again besides never got over the rain inside the car from the crappy leaky sunroof

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I love Bangernomics.

Bought a Mk1 MR2 for £400 as a track day toy. Have thrashed the pods off it on
four events with nowt but a set of front discs and pads. It's dragged out of the yard, jump
started, thrashed and parked up again. So far it appears to be invincible

I also have a 1995 Discovery 300Tdi Auto that I also paid 400 squid for 2 years ago
and have done 30k in and spent about £50 on it

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Volvo bangers myself, and Citroen/Pug vans. I push the boat out a bit and spend a grand, done 104,000 in the Berlingo, cost me a rad and an alternator, plus normal services, had 108,000 when I bought it. Volvo S80 was £1400 and had nothing other than cheap services for the 20,000 I've had it. Bloke at work spent £18,000 on a Rangie, sold it after 6 months for 12,000. Called him an idiot.

Yeh bangernomics is the way to go my last four cars have cost the following
Rover 800 fastback = free
Mk1 Mondeo estate = 260 quid
Mk1 Mondeo estate = free
Volvo 245 = free
Saves a fortune in petrol as well because I daren't go very far in them. The only downside is I don't get much time to spend on Locost build cos too busy repairing the tintop sheds.

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Yeh bangernomics is the way to go my last four cars have cost the following
Rover 800 fastback = free
Mk1 Mondeo estate = 260 quid
Mk1 Mondeo estate = free
Volvo 245 = free
Saves a fortune in petrol as well because I daren't go very far in them. The only downside is I don't get much time to spend on Locost build cos too busy repairing the tintop sheds.

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A friend of mine is looking at a 3.0 Mk1 Capri this weekend for the bargain price of £15k Till I started buying write offs and putting them back on the road I never paid above £250 for a car but eventually you get fed up of fixing them all the time and give in. Another mate of mine used to do TV aerials and I helped him out at weekends and maintained his two Avenger estates with him and we got one of them 3 times round the clock which was good for a motor in those days.

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I love Bangernomics.

Bought a Mk1 MR2 for £400 as a track day toy. Have thrashed the pods off it on
four events with nowt but a set of front discs and pads. It's dragged out of the yard, jump
started, thrashed and parked up again. So far it appears to be invincible

I also have a 1995 Discovery 300Tdi Auto that I also paid 400 squid for 2 years ago
and have done 30k in and spent about £50 on it

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Had a free mondeo that lasted for five years.....
and that was after my father in law was told that it was not going to last much longer.....got it cause it was misfiring.....dealer couldnt sort it ....had it for weeks...we changed the oil and it stopped missing changed the thermostat and the heater worked
liz went on to crunch it four times , number four wrote it off....still had years of life in it.