The £80 Micra lives!

"Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell." (oppisitelock) 08/19/2015 at 12:07 • Filed to: None

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It’s now fully road legal and runs great. New pal for the Twingo.

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. 08/19/2015 at 12:21

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80 for a running, driving car. Tell me your secrets.

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap 08/19/2015 at 12:25

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Actually it didn’t run nor drive at first...

Needed:

Brake bleed: free

Battery: £40

Coolant temp sensor: £7

Crank position sensor: £32

Full service (guess it would’ve ran without this though) : £45

Rear wiper : £40

So totalled £244 to pass it’s MOT, still not bad.

Cé hé sin > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. 08/19/2015 at 12:28

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There, fixed!

Still good value though.

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. 08/19/2015 at 12:30

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That’s still not bad. I didn’t remember all of that though.

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > Cé hé sin 08/19/2015 at 12:31

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That has less of a ring to it though...

But yeah it was a great deal all told, has 4 good tyres and the engine is strong so if we can hold the rust back it’ll survive at least a few years. May need a clutch though.

Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. 08/19/2015 at 12:48

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I’m torn.

In the end, you still end up with a micra. But, £80. But, micra. But, £80. But, micra.

CalzoneGolem > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. 08/19/2015 at 12:56

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Just needs some outrageously colored wheels and you’re good to go.

MonkeePuzzle > Cé hé sin 08/19/2015 at 13:29

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well, “£80 Micra” is its, name, it just took and additional £144 to make it a running car, so,

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Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer 08/19/2015 at 15:44

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I'm not guna lie it's one of the worst cars I've ever driven. But he couldn't afford anything better and bad car is better than no car.

Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. 08/19/2015 at 16:26

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Recommend.

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer 08/19/2015 at 16:53

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Haha I see you're being Kinja'd too

Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. 08/19/2015 at 16:55

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I'm on an ancient browser at the moment. Work blocked the kinjaverse, doing a little backdoor exploration.

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer 08/19/2015 at 18:30

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Huehuehue

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > CalzoneGolem 08/19/2015 at 18:31

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I’m trying to sell him on some metallic gold racing stripes too but haven’t made much progress as of yet.

CalzoneGolem > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. 08/19/2015 at 22:14

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Tell him that some bloke on the interweb thinks that’d be dope

Amoore100 > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. 08/19/2015 at 22:47

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A Micra is still eons better than whatever we can get here for cheap. For example:

Look at this heap. Doesn’t run, no paint, no bill of title, rebuilt title when it existed, missing a million parts, probably worth $200 in scrap metal.

He wants $1200 for it. £80 is the bargain of the century to us, even if it was really £224, all said and done. Still, you really should have gotten Clarkson’s £1 Volvo :)

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/pen/cto/516635…

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > CalzoneGolem 08/20/2015 at 08:23

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That may be the final push he needs to actually do it!

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > Amoore100 08/20/2015 at 08:26

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Haha you can’t get deals like the £1 Volvo anymore. That was common when scrap prices bottomed out a while ago, but scrap is worth a few quid these days.

Used car prices are excellent here though. My car was £11’000 new, I bought it 4 and a half years later with 34k on it for a bit over £3’000.