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£2600 is not bangernomics to me, it is worth investing in as it is still a valuable car and it will increase the value/sellability (is that a word) with a new flywheel clutch fitted.
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While £2600 is not full banger territory, it’s still a 17 year old car ready to shit the bed in a magnitude of ways that I can’t afford to repair, and I now longer really have the time to work on it myself. I’m already trying to figure out what bits I can squeeze in while the DMF is done, other than the aforementioned diff and gearbox oils. Fuel filter is one I deffo CBA with. Gearbox mount bushings come to mind, I’d assume they’re perishing away.
Nef
Just in an economic sense, although if the second hand market stays the way it is, it might actually hold a bit of value (only comparable one on autotrader at the moment has 40k more miles on the clock and is £2600 which is what I paid last year).
It’s just the pang of “I should get something sensible, boring and cheap”, rather than gambling on the longevity of an older but nicer car.
DMF is deffo failing - making noise with half depressed clutch, juddery when pulling away and in stop start traffic. It’s a bit of a PITA but nothing too awful. Mate has confirmed it’s deffo DMF when I showed him.