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Did anyone say you should fix that yet? 😀
Don't think so - good shout that - I'd fix as well! 🤣
I pretty much always budget for £500 every MOT - there's nearly always something you've not thought about. My cars are 16 and 21 years old though!
Putting a car into an MOT with bald tyres reminds me how crap people are with looking after their cars - and how no one on the road can be trusted.
If you're following someone with decent tyres in and they slam on, say a kid ran out, odds on you'd run straight into the back of them.
#slacker
So your looking at 2 tires (say 150 quid fitted)
a spring (100 quid)
caliper( 100 quid)
and possibly a bit of faffing.
get it fixed
The bigger question is did you know about any of these before you put it in for the mot? do you do things like check tire pressures or just get an mot and thats it for a year (like the wife)
Do you have a breakdown of the £650...how much was for tyres?
You can easily shop around for tyres and knock a few quid off. If costs are tight, part worn (used to be £10/£15 each) would see you through a month or two before upgrading to mid-range new tyres and help space the cost out.
Good advice there from 2019.
I'm still a member of a FB ST170 group and there are plenty that come up under 2k. As long as you are happy with a 5 door base spec rather than an imperial blue 3 door with leather Recaro's and all the optional packs.
intheborders
Putting a car into an MOT with bald tyres reminds me how crap people are with looking after their cars – and how no one on the road can be trusted.
Bit of an eye opener sitting in a tyre place a while back waiting for a slow puncture to be repaired on a Sat morning. In the space of 30mins, 3 different people came in, all asking if they could get new tyre fitted as their cars had just failed the MOT for bald tyres.
One needed all 4.
One just needed 1 on the front (sounded like an alignment issue as it was knackered inside edge)
One needed 2 new fronts, as they were down to the casing.
My brother insisted on getting a car with a 5* NCAP safety rating when his kids came along & then moaned when it failed the MOT because the front tyres were bald.
ANYWAY - yeah, I would repair.
^ yeah, all this. It's most likely very common that folk do nothing about tyres or any maintenance items unless it's at a service or MOT. At least that's likely to be 2x per year that stuff gets looked at. Modern cars with monitors for this and that have probably helped in taking away the mindset of preventative checking of tyres, pressures, fluid levels etc on a regular basis.
Yeah, I would fix all that and carry on driving it unless there are other reasons for needing a different car.
Fix it. Tyres are a daft thing to fail on to be fair so need replaced anyway.
A £2k car will have a whole host of problems you don't know about and may end up fixing sooner rather than later.
Those issues are all largely service items. There's nothing pointing to the car being dangerous such as corrosion, or expensive to fix engine parts. If you spend £650, then you have a car with 1 yrs MOT and that must be worth £1k, with a wash and polish.
Or you spend £2k, and then have to change that cars tyres next year anyway......
I'm wondering whether anyone who is saying fix it has actually driven a 23 year old golf recently... it's perfectly reasonable to be happy to get rid imo.
rsl1
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I’m wondering whether anyone who is saying fix it has actually driven a 23 year old golf recently… it’s perfectly reasonable to be happy to get rid imo.
Why get rid? It still functions as a car for getting from A to B despite not having Apple car play or massaging seats.
I've got a 20 year old MK4 Golf 1.4E and happily spend £300 to £500 a year to keep it going!(I've just replaced the front suspension) It's basic but will happily do 70mph all day on the motorway.
I think it's great!
I’m wondering whether anyone who is saying fix it has actually driven a 23 year old golf recently… it’s perfectly reasonable to be happy to get rid imo.
Perhaps if he was looking at a much newer car - but he's not. At a budget £2k it'll still be an old car he's looking at.
And 20 year old cars aren't like driving a Morris Minor!
20 year old cars are just getting tot hat point where by they dont seem modern to me. Its strange that the kids at work arnt interested in engine size or badge, its all about the interior for them.
Having said that one of them almost took me out on a round about yesterday as they were speeding and operating their in car tv
I’m wondering whether anyone who is saying fix it has actually driven a 23 year old golf recently… it’s perfectly reasonable to be happy to get rid imo.
It's a golf, it's petrol, it'll drive similar to similar today if the steering and suspension are ok, the Mk4 was pretty much the best for finish and since then each mark has had a lower build cost vs retail cost, with 123k miles as well, his Mk4 hasn't exactly been around the clock either, so confidence that the transmission should be sound.
Nonsense. I had a similar vintage car for a few years and although lots of fun it was a million miles away from modern standards. The mk4 Golf might be solid but it was seen as dynamically poor even back then so won't have improved.
I'd avoid 'interesting' with that budget.
I've just had my nans car valued at about 2.1k.
2011 1.2 micra, 30k on the clock, so basically brand new, new tyres all round (not due to wear, they had plenty of tread but were of 2011 vintage0
and new battery, superb condition, FNSH, tax is 35 quid a year, and it does 50 to the gallon according to the trip computer, aircon, cruise control.
Exciting, it isn't, but it's a fabulous little runabout... I'm not selling it, I'm keeping it (so not a stealth ad).. but just to give you an idea of what you can get for your budget if you don't care about street cred 🙂
So I would be looking at small Jap cars, owened by ex-pensioners for best VFM.
The mk4 Golf might be solid but it was seen as dynamically poor even back then so won’t have improved.
Who cares it's reliable and cheap to run!