Hi, wondering whether to buy a new car or keep old one, any advice would be appreciated!
Car I've got at the moment is a peugeot 206, 51 reg, done about 86000 miles. Took it in for its mot and it failed on about twelve different things. These were (sorry for long list):
- offside stop lamp & nearside front position lamp not working
- Nearside & offside front anti roll bar linkage has excessive play in a ball joint
- Nearside front suspension arm ball joint dust cover excessively deteriorated so that it no longer prevents the ingress of dirt
- Offside front suspension arm has excessive play in a ball joint
- Nearside front constant velocity joint gaiter damaged to the extent that it no longer prevents the ingress of dirt etc
- Offside brake pipe excessively corroded front to rear
- Brake load sensing valve seized
- Central exhaust system not adequately supported
- Exhaust emissions carbon monoxide content/lambda reading after 2nd fast idle excessive/outside specified limits
Plus advisories:
- Nearside & offside front shock absorber has a light misting of oil
- Front brake disc worn pitted or scored but not seriously weakened
- Nearside front tyre worn close to the legal limit
Apparently these are all minor things but added together the guy said it would cost about £480 to fix. He advised me to think about getting a new car as my current car would only be worth about £200.
Originally I was thinking about getting a peugeot 107 and tried to work out whether it would be cheaper to repair my old car or buy a new one based on that. Decided it would make more sense to buy a new car as it would be slightly less to insure a 107 plus much cheaper tax etc. However I took one for a test drive and didn't like it that much, was smaller than I'm used to and had a higher driving position. Started thinking about different cars and decided I'd quite like a mini as apparently they're fun to drive, low driving position and sat in one and liked the feel of it. However I've got a budget of around £2000 (max £3000) and am now wondering whether it would be worth buying a new car as I don't know whether I could get a mini for a much better condition than my old car at that price?
Basically I'm wondering given all the items it failed on whether it would be worth keeping? I still enjoy driving it (and am slightly attached to it!) and although it's had quite a few problems in the past a lot of them are sorted now (eg. new clutch). I'm pretty clueless about cars so not sure how bad all the items it failed on are for a car of its age. Do you think it would be worth repairing it or should I get a new car instead given all the items it failed on?
Thanks in advance :)
Car I've got at the moment is a peugeot 206, 51 reg, done about 86000 miles. Took it in for its mot and it failed on about twelve different things. These were (sorry for long list):
- offside stop lamp & nearside front position lamp not working
- Nearside & offside front anti roll bar linkage has excessive play in a ball joint
- Nearside front suspension arm ball joint dust cover excessively deteriorated so that it no longer prevents the ingress of dirt
- Offside front suspension arm has excessive play in a ball joint
- Nearside front constant velocity joint gaiter damaged to the extent that it no longer prevents the ingress of dirt etc
- Offside brake pipe excessively corroded front to rear
- Brake load sensing valve seized
- Central exhaust system not adequately supported
- Exhaust emissions carbon monoxide content/lambda reading after 2nd fast idle excessive/outside specified limits
Plus advisories:
- Nearside & offside front shock absorber has a light misting of oil
- Front brake disc worn pitted or scored but not seriously weakened
- Nearside front tyre worn close to the legal limit
Apparently these are all minor things but added together the guy said it would cost about £480 to fix. He advised me to think about getting a new car as my current car would only be worth about £200.
Originally I was thinking about getting a peugeot 107 and tried to work out whether it would be cheaper to repair my old car or buy a new one based on that. Decided it would make more sense to buy a new car as it would be slightly less to insure a 107 plus much cheaper tax etc. However I took one for a test drive and didn't like it that much, was smaller than I'm used to and had a higher driving position. Started thinking about different cars and decided I'd quite like a mini as apparently they're fun to drive, low driving position and sat in one and liked the feel of it. However I've got a budget of around £2000 (max £3000) and am now wondering whether it would be worth buying a new car as I don't know whether I could get a mini for a much better condition than my old car at that price?
Basically I'm wondering given all the items it failed on whether it would be worth keeping? I still enjoy driving it (and am slightly attached to it!) and although it's had quite a few problems in the past a lot of them are sorted now (eg. new clutch). I'm pretty clueless about cars so not sure how bad all the items it failed on are for a car of its age. Do you think it would be worth repairing it or should I get a new car instead given all the items it failed on?
Thanks in advance :)