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money pit car

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user876512 · 15/04/2019 15:11

does anyone have a money pit car story which can make me laugh please

my car has gone from working great for 6 months to needing fix after fix after fix after fix and I want to know that i'm not the only person in this situation.

did you keep fixing it or walk away / when did you give up on it

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babysharkah · 15/04/2019 15:22

Got rid when it needed 1.5k to get through MOT. What's wrong with yours?

GummyGoddess · 15/04/2019 15:23

What car is it?

StrongerThanIThought76 · 15/04/2019 15:35

Mine has just gone through it's final expensive MOT. If it fails next year I'll scrap it - though it is 15 years old and costs me pennies to insure and run, it's now a fine line between saving up for the MOT repairs and paying out for a new car.

Trustingmygut · 15/04/2019 15:40

I needed a second car when I got a new job, it was in the other direction from DP’s work. I shopped around and found a fairly good car, it was £1500 and was average price.

In the 12 months I have had it, the amount of money I have spent on repairs is unreal, including 3 wheel bearings, 3! Just last week the brakes started grinding, get them replaced and the grinding has continued, I need new disks. I give up with it.

Notmorewashing · 15/04/2019 15:42

Spent 2k on mine to get through MOT 10 years old and will send to scrapyard when it next goes wrong. Not getting another banger.

JaceLancs · 15/04/2019 16:09

DP is using my old car which is now 16 years old with 250k mileage
I bought it at 3 years old - it had a really bad patch around 8-10 years old when one thing after another went on it - fortunately DP is very handy and fixes all our cars
Blessing is now it’s in fantastic condition for it’s age as so many things have been replaced! I’m expecting it to last to at least 300k

IloveJudgeJudy · 15/04/2019 18:27

DS2's car! He travelled with a friend to view it (about 100 miles away), wouldn't wait for his father or me to be available to go with him. I told him just to look, go away and think about it, but he had his loan that he got from the bank on his own and had a rush of blood to the head. It broke down on the way home, but he still didn't take it back to the vendor garage. He loved the car Hmm.

Long story short he paid for £350-500 for various tests to be done and the car still didn't work properly so he's given it in part exchange for a new car. He's also spent goodness knows how much in fuel and time in trying to get it sorted.

mommybear1 · 15/04/2019 18:54

@user876512 hope this makes you laugh as it made me cry many many times!!!

Had a back op and was told no more sporty Audi A3 for me surgeons recommended 4x4 for height etc. Went for an Audi Q5 2 years old. My dad has always said to me when you buy a car it takes 12
Months to get it in order and sort any niggles or issues. Not so in my case had the car for 6 years - it literally bleed me dry with no sign of it just getting and staying roadworthy. I got rid of it last September when it turned out an oil leak was looking like a Head Gasket replacement and a fault was also found with the water tank and power steering it was the final straw. In the time I had it the tyres were all replaced £250 a pop, at every service it needed something doing usually costing in the region of 1k and when the garage (Audi approved no shitty service for my lovely car 🙄) said I'd got to the point where the spend on it was within tipping distance of it being the value of the car coupled with the latest fault it was time to bale - not great timing as on mat leave as well!!! I am hoping and praying with every fibre of my being that my car now sails through it's MOT and Service Grin

does anyone have a money pit car story which can make me laugh please

my car has gone from working great for 6 months to needing fix after fix after fix after fix and I want to know that i'm not the only person in this situation.

did you keep fixing it or walk away / when did you give up on it

Original poster
user876512 · 15/04/2019 19:28

thanks for your responses

the non-routine repairs over the last 3 months all added together are about 75% of the original cost of it! each time one bit gets fixed another bit goes wrong and they are all surprise expenses

knowing it's not just me helps a bit
thanks for your replies and making me laugh
it's awful luck but does not feel nearly as bad as it did this afternoon

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IWouldPreferNotTo · 15/04/2019 19:35

Golf GTi MK3 so most car people will be laughing at the fact that I bought a fat slow GTi.

It ate parts. Two mass air flow sensors, coil packs, lambda sensors (all), new exhaust and rear suspension. For a 4K car I spent about 2.5K on fixes over two years.

Thats ignoring what I spent on consumables like tyres, brakes and the fuel economy was abysmal compared to the performance

WellGoshDarnIt · 15/04/2019 19:42

My DH has a 1999 MGF that he bloody loves. Car cost £750 to buy, and he's spent over £2k on the things that have gone wrong with it, (including over £1k on the head gasket). I've pointed out that he could have bought three comparable cars with what he's spent, but he doesn't see it like that. He's now at the stage of, "I've spent so much that I can't get rid of it now!" Madness!

Arnoldthecat · 15/04/2019 19:50

Always buy jap if you want a quiet life (in general)

Hearthside · 15/04/2019 22:56

Mine Sad probably would have been cheaper to buy new car than the amount i have recently spent 1,300 at least out of my savings .It is an 08 ford and i blame my DH who keeps telling me you spent so much money on it you wouldn't get that back if you sold it .I really wish i had instead of spending the money on it .

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