14-09-2015, 08:56 PM
(13-09-2015, 10:54 PM)Redordead89 Wrote: £250 is cheap enough to make sense as there's always a few bits you should do after buying a 306 and first up is a service and timing belt kit with water pump unless you have absolute printed proof that it's just been done in the last 10-15K miles!
Do you do your own work or do you pay a mechanic?
If you do your own work then theyre great little cars and will serve you well so long as you maintain her, ignore the servicing at your peril!!! There may be swearing and broken bolts etc!
At £250 you can't really go wrong as if you only get 3-6 months out of it then scrap it you will likely get £70-100 for it and 3-6 months motoring for £150 so win win! :-)
I love them!
Heh,
Put it this way. The only reason I'll be keeping me 'ead above water this month is the £50 I'll get for the scrap Astra that's being collected tomorrow. (£70 to 100 ?? Only if I can actually drive it to the scrappers) So, yes, I weild my own spanners, in my own parking space, if the weather's nice, and I can be a>$ed. I received a whole bunch of MOTs and receipts going back to 2011, but no mention of a cam belt. So that'll be under consideration come payday.
MOTs indicate 26000miles covered since the lady purchased it. Cam belt deffinitely overdue. Keep going for two or three weeks more little Puglet and you'll get some lovely TLC. 
I used up my swearing quota on Saturday morn, when my mountain bike threw me down the coarsly tarmac-ed path. (wet cement rain gully was slippery as hell). Hope the neighbours all had their windows shut.
I won't post the image of my shredded right palm.
WoW! That was cheap! 