Well, it's gone

[oldbloke]

Sold the Cavvy, for 150 more than I was offered for trade-in. The V5 is winging its way to the DVLA as I type. Well it will be after the Sunday 12:30 post collection.
To a bloke from Brighton... yes, he came about 280 miles to buy it.
OK, so he gets to see his boyf wot lives in Manc as well, but still...

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[oldbloke.livejournal.com]

Apparently, 250.
I suspect I could have asked more, if I'd got the guy at C&G to stop the clutch pedal binding on its pivot again.
If all the electrics had been working and it hadn't had those few small rust patches, quite a lot more.

The last two cars seem to have cost about 1000 a year, buying price / years kept. So I'm thinking it'd be cleverer than I usually am if I stuck 100 a month into a savings account specifically to cover the cost of the next one.

But you can't ride in my car no more.

[hoiho.livejournal.com]

Hmm, £1000 per year, eh? I reckon the Pug did me at less than £400pa. Bought in 1992 for about 4000, sold in 2003 for 300. And it had done 150,000 miles by then - it was at 14,000 when I bought it.

The Honda, however... it cost around £10,000 4 years ago. And it's up to 95,000 miles already.

[t--m--i.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that sounds about right. I had a Daihatsu Mira (*) which cost nearly five grand and it lasted me five years and 90K. Now I have half shares in a volvo estate & a diesel Fabia - both of those are still going so the jury is technically out, but the Brick's cost about 15-1600 so far for buying, fixing, MoT-ing and the odd oil change for good behaviour, so if that lasts another year without further intervention it'll be running .8K a year BUT it doesn't do many miles. The Skoda's cost was all upfront (5K again) but hasn't really cost owt at all since AND it runs on water more or less.

(*) I always thought I should take a photo of this with me whenever I went to the States, so that when the car hire bloke asked if I wanted to upgrade I could slap it down on the counter and say,
"THIS is what I normally drive - and it only has three cylinders - and if you offered me the chance I would prefer to DOWNGRADE to that rather than drive yet another wallowy, badly designed Chevy "Cavalier" so there"
but I always forgot.