Buying a SH motor

BigAl

Some of you may have seen that I trashed my Fiesta. I used to work for Ford and got it new at a cheap employee price. It had 220k on it and was cheap as chips to run and maintain ( not that I did!)

Need something to replace it

Thinking of a Focus, around 06 / 07, around 80k miles, diesel, max £4k. Estate would be good, hatch fine, CMax no ( missus has one)

I haven't bought a SH motor for over 20 years. Just remind me what I need to check - and if any of you have experience of a Focus of that vintage - what do I particularly need to look out for

Btw, how many bikes can you fit in a Focus estate?

Kowalski675

Depends if you cut their heads off. No, sorry, that's prostitutes.

buddy_club

BigAl wrote:

Btw, how many bikes can you fit in a Focus estate?

About 50

FishFish

That vintage and that mileage - very noisy car. Prone to failures on the fuel injector. Diagnostic for that is mpg - should be > 45 nearer 49mpg. Check exhaust and clutch - all of these are expensive repairs - other than that good car.
Add a towbar for £300 and get a carrier - much easier.

Briggo

BigAl wrote:

Some of you may have seen that I trashed my Fiesta. I used to work for Ford and got it new at a cheap employee price. It had 220k on it and was cheap as chips to run and maintain ( not that I did!)

Need something to replace it

Thinking of a Focus, around 06 / 07, around 80k miles, diesel, max £4k. Estate would be good, hatch fine, CMax no ( missus has one)

I haven't bought a SH motor for over 20 years. Just remind me what I need to check - and if any of you have experience of a Focus of that vintage - what do I particularly need to look out for

Btw, how many bikes can you fit in a Focus estate?

Check the tyres, they're prone to exploding on a Focus.

cat_with_no_tail

BigAl wrote:

Focus, around 06 / 07, around 80k miles, diesel, max £4k. Estate

I heard they cause more accidents than they prevent.

They don't have as much torque as a BMW 335d either.

cooldad

The BMW 335D is well known to be the most powerful motor in the world.

I believe they originally powered the Enterprise.

Stevo_666

I think this was posted in the wrong forum

Now if it was in The Hub, I could tell you about my Mondy diesel jalopy thing without going off topic.

cat_with_no_tail

If it was in the hub, I'd be asking VWsurfbum for some advice on Jaaaaaaaaag estates (it was you who used to have one of them, right?)

But it isn't, so I will point out that a clapped out old focus will be more expensive to run than GTs mum, but it's probably got less miles on the clock.

BigAl

Cat With No Tail wrote:

If it was in the hub

If it was in the hub, no fecker would have said anything at all.

Anyways a very dull day today looking at boring cars. Probably found the right one to buy though.

Next year I'll be looking to replace my weekend car which will be much more fun (and much more costly)

Stevo_666

BigAl wrote:

Cat With No Tail wrote:

If it was in the hub

If it was in the hub, no fecker would have said anything at all.

You'd have got more info from one reply in the hub than you have from this entire ferkin thread

BigAl

Got offered a guaranteed £500 trade in on my Fiesta. The look on the salesman's face when I tod him:

a) it has 221,000 miles on it
b) the power steering pump is farked (you can her it from 1000 yards)
c) it has a gash all down the passenger side - both doors and rear wheel arch farked

Only one owner though

If its worth £100 - it's only because there's £50 of fuel in it

BigAl

Stevo 666 wrote:

BigAl wrote:

Cat With No Tail wrote:

If it was in the hub

If it was in the hub, no fecker would have said anything at all.

You'd have got more info from one reply in the hub than you have from this entire ferkin thread

Probably.

I might have had a few London Prides before posting last night. Probably

thekickingmule

Ignore everything the car salesperson has said, and buy my car off me. Very trusty and reliable, and a paltry 112,000 miles on the clock compared to your current car.
£1k and it's yours

BigAl

thekickingmule wrote:

Ignore everything the car salesperson has said, and buy my car off me. Very trusty and reliable, and a paltry 112,000 miles on the clock compared to your current car.
£1k and it's yours

I'm in!

What colour is it?

White's a no-no

BigAl

Kowalski675 wrote:

Depends if you cut their heads off. No, sorry, that's prostitutes.

Amateur, tsshh

Obviously you'd use a saloon for murdering whores

cat_with_no_tail

BigAl wrote:

Got offered a guaranteed £500 trade in on my Fiesta. The look on the salesman's face when I tod him:

a) it has 221,000 miles on it
b) the power steering pump is farked (you can her it from 1000 yards)
c) it has a gash all down the passenger side - both doors and rear wheel arch farked

Only one owner though

If its worth £100 - it's only because there's £50 of fuel in it

FishFish

BigAl wrote:

Got offered a guaranteed £500 trade in on my Fiesta. The look on the salesman's face when I had sex with him:

I don't think we want to know about this. Slut.

thekickingmule

BigAl wrote:

thekickingmule wrote:

Ignore everything the car salesperson has said, and buy my car off me. Very trusty and reliable, and a paltry 112,000 miles on the clock compared to your current car.
£1k and it's yours

I'm in!

What colour is it?

White's a no-no

It's a kind of bluey grey, that only Vauxhall could pull off. It's like an Eeyore colour.
It also has some nice 'go faster' stripes on the drivers rear door/back bumper. To the untrained eye these look like scratches, but they really make a difference in the vehicles performance!
Just wire me the money, and I'll send it down to you for free delivery!

VWsurfbum

Cat With No Tail wrote:

If it was in the hub, I'd be asking VWsurfbum for some advice on Jaaaaaaaaag estates (it was you who used to have one of them, right?)

It was, But had more than a few cars since then. Still a bargain Barge though.

Northwind

BigAl wrote:

Thinking of a Focus, around 06 / 07, around 80k miles, diesel, max £4k. Estate would be good, hatch fine, CMax no ( missus has one)

I haven't bought a SH motor for over 20 years. Just remind me what I need to check - and if any of you have experience of a Focus of that vintage - what do I particularly need to look out for

Btw, how many bikes can you fit in a Focus estate?

It'll be excessively expensive tbh, Focus diesels always are- I really wanted to track down a 2.0 but there were basically none on the market, and 10 million 1.6 petrols. Which you do not want. I did the same thing just about everyone does when they try and fail to get a diesel Focus, and got a Mondeo instead as they're cheaper for more car.

I haven't used a Mk2 estate but the mk1 had a portal to another dimension in the boot- massive, square, excellent entrance too, you could fit another Focus inside it. I had 4 bikes in mine + kit for a long weekend with the back seats down, or 3 bikes and 3 people with 1 rear seat. Kind of spoiled me for less well designed estates.

BigAl

Funnily enough - I have tracked down a 58 plate 2 litre diesel estate. High spec too. Should be picking it up early next week

Northwind

You git I could only find shagged ex-paramedic ones.