Car Advice

[longboy]

Being in debt means paying interest/initiation fee/admin fees monthly. Do the math beforehand and then make a decision.

 

[ahoudet]

So with your logic, you are going to be in car debt for the rest of your natural life?
There is a difference between a 20 Year old expensive car with a huge amount of mileage on and a newer cheaper car with mileage that should be good for a another 100 000 km

120 000km is hardly something to worry about getting rid of, close to the 200 000km perhaps

Family has a Renault with 295000km on the clock. Drove to Maun, Botswana earlier in the year and the car is in Grahmstown now.

A corsa with that mileage is nothing to worry about. They are extremely solid!

 

[Ricksta123]

There's nothing more F******* irritating than a mechanic trying to drain every last cent you have.

I use this to see what needs replacing http://www.etis.ford.com/fordservice/home.do;jsessionid=50B3C6EB2C9635ADCB666E589D32937B.fcvas502 this is for ford and i dont know if any other manufacturers have such a system ?

Usually i replace oil,air filter, oil filter, fuel filter, lights, all the small **** i do myself, one occasion i did my whole radiator system.

Another thing is its nice knowing what you have bought is what is going in the car.

Id say there are very few passionate mechanics that exist today and therefore they will take the easy way out.

 

[Lawnchairman]

Get it fixed up. Look around for parts at Midas and give them to a local mechanic in you neighbourhood, not the agents you can usually negotiate with them for the labour charges. Seems the most cost effective way for you to go. Ask around the Opel community on this forum and on the interwebs to find out who is recommended private mechanic that does repairs. There is usually a guy for that!

 

[Pho3nix]

I dunno, R3000 for a piece of cloth that goes around the gear lever sounded a bit excessive to me They're also always super keen to want to replace my perfectly fine windscreen wipers >.< The time I went before that I needed a new battery as well, they wanted to charge me R1200 for the battery and R300 for labour to install it. I walked across the road to Midas and paid like R800 and they installed it for free (not that I'm such a noob that I wouldn't have been able to install it )

Dude I saw that and thought they must def mean something else

 

[S1ght]

So my car is finally sorted

Had to replace radiator, water pump, thermostat and apparently I had blown a head gasket which also warped the head so had to have it skimmed. Also had the brakes and shocks replaced..So looks like I'm eating water for the rest of the month

 

[longboy]

Yoh! At least you can drive around now though - look on the bright side. Payday isn't so far away as well... maybe go visit different family members every weekday and scrounge dinner off them like I used to do in the past when I was broke :erm:

 

[InternetSwag]

So my car is finally sorted

Had to replace radiator, water pump, thermostat and apparently I had blown a head gasket which also warped the head so had to have it skimmed. Also had the brakes and shocks replaced..So looks like I'm eating water for the rest of the month

Did you end up using another mechanic?

Does the car drive/handle better now that you replaced the shocks?

 

[S1ght]

Did you end up using another mechanic?

Does the car drive/handle better now that you replaced the shocks?

Yeah. Took it first to Silverton Radiators to get them to check the radiator and the thermostat etc. They found a leak and recommended I replace the radiator cause it couldn't be fixed but they said it wasn't the cause of the heat and the recommended I visit a mechanic. Luckily there was a mechanic there picking up a radiator who overheard it all and his shop was just around the corner so I was just like sure why not, not like I know any other mechanics But at least it's all fixed.

 

[X-Gamer]

I had a radiator problem, local Silverton radiators franchise checked it out and told me to first get my head gasket replaced... before they do any work on the radiator side. Went to a different place, they said I just needed to replace the radiator as the engine was fine.

That was more than two years ago. So I guess Silverton got it wrong.

EDIT: What did it cost you in the end?