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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ต.ค. 2024
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In this short video I talk about this cheap Fiat Punto Grande Evo I have just purchased for £450 and how a car that might look cheap on paper can soon rack up costs.
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If my 2011 Panda hadn't just passed it's MOT this week, that's the sort of car I'd have been in the market for and if I'm getting a well fettled car for that price and you're getting a decent margin from it then everyone is a winner. We can't all be in the position to be spending £10-15k on a second hand motor.
Hello from Ireland again Lee. It's great to see you up and back to yourself. You were missed. Take things easy Mate. 🙏🙏👌👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Deffo, very underrated. Tough little cars and nice mechanicals. Rubbished by people that haven’t owned/run bangers. Hope u recovering well
you having a laff fiat are crap
Great video explaining why older cars are good when your hands on.
The attention to detail and PDI is second to none Lee. Credit to you. Glad you're looking and sounding better m8.
I think this video is a great advert for your business, the buyer may well be a subscriber and therefore can be confident that they are getting a sound little car which it will be shortly👍🏻
Great work Lee. You do things which very few do but you make a living and enjoy what you do so why not do it. You have a great following and sales are good so why do otherwise. Hope you are feeling better. Take care.👍👍
It would be scrapped if somebody didn't put a bit of effort in. Be a shame to see it crushed.
Cracking video, opens your eyes up to what goes into prepping a car for sale.
Trade it on mate, use your time more wisely.
Hope your feeling better
Naa,there's money in it. He's done the right thing to fix it back up.
Hey Lee good to see you up and about again.
Thing is I guess you get plenty of sales and a good reputation and you're never stuck with expensive stock.
The 1.4, 8 valve was the best engine. We had one for 10 years in Ska red throughout. The only problem an occasional knocking sound, n/s rear, with a crushed wheel bearing (too many pot holes). Otherwise, started on the key. 👍👍
H Lee. I agree entirely. For a few parts and a couple of days, another has survived !!
Great video mate. With all this work being done, it should make a nice car for someone. I think you're MOT testing experience helps you decide when a car needs to go to the scapyard in the sky.
I think because you are a mechanic and you know what you are doing then it’s probably worth doing. But if I was trading, buying and selling cars, then I wouldn’t bother because it would probably cost me dearly! 😂
Check the sub-frame behind the lower arms, they go holey. That driveshaft may be okay, the gearbox selector shaft seals above go and the oil runs down and looks like the drive shaft seal has failed. You're lucky the paint is also good as the white ones have a paint flake issue over the roof and bonnet, often looks like a poor respray flaking off but actually the original paint (happened to ours). I think the 500's also suffer similarly. Good luck nice to see it live on.
Problem with cheapies is that those who are maximizing their budget for that want it to be like a new car . See recent chops garage vids for e.g. Good job you've got the skills to keep the costs down
Chops is an old woman who wants everyone to feel sorry for him. Take no notice of him.
If that were a 12 plate Corsa or something, id say trade it on. But that is a fairly unique good looking car in my opinion, and with the decent margin left in it, it's worth a fix.
Hope you are feeling well.
I used to trade cheap cars I often made more money on the cheapies basically paid scrap money for them and it's sense of achievement saving something from being scrapped often to give several yrs more motoring
Had an 11 plate punto evo myself, 1.4 petrol 5 door in a lovey blue. Gave me a fair bit of hassle compared to a standard 60 plate punto my other half had. Also seemed to go through a lot of oil. Ended up binning it off after a leak in the boot at 50k miles. Still going now at 110k according to mot history
If you can make a decent margin then it makes sense. It's also eco friendly. Glad you're on the mend lee 👍
One man's rubbish is another man's treasure... get its new life it deserves
If I had a ramp to use ide never have got rid of my older cars
I would fix,somebody would pay good money for it.
yeah come back saying theres a issue fiat are bangers that why you dont really see them as they bad as alfo
I get saving older cars, as well as my books I run a laptop repair business, I love buying older broken laptops, repair them and then sell on.
Thinkpads are my personal favourite, due to their brilliant engineering and free service manuals, and how well they perform when modernised.
@@EgoShredder agreed, solid and reliable.
Pretty little car. I had an uno years ago, over 30k miles very reliable. Your punto is worth mending and keeping, maybe as a curtesy car
It's good to see your fit and well Lee!
Hi Lee, welcome back to work. This is a simple fix and a budget of £1000 gives you a good profit. All the work will be plus points for selling and if you can get it done at a price then it is worth it.
This is the dilemma of all businesses. Good luck. £2500 all day long.
I thought they stopped making the Vauxhall Viva in the 70s your red motor 😳🙈😂😂
It's an Opel Karl, but Vauxhall management had had enough of $hitty car names (the Adam) putting punters off, so they went all rebellious, and the Viva had a second coming.
Lots of bits and bobs to do so yes will take up space on the ramp but it will be a quick seller at a good price, you'd know all those bits are good so less likely to be claimed on and although it's a business... If you enjoy turning these older cars around you hopefully get a bit of pleasure out of it
I guess 1st-time drivers, want 5 door cars so they take their friends out on the roads. It is a car I would save aswell. Good to see you up and about Lee, I hope your feeling better.
Given the costs to you with your own mechanic, it's definitely worth doing. But for the bloke in the street who has to take it to a garage and pay £50 or more per hour, then it probably isn't.
I do like to see older things kept going, far better for the world/ environment than binning stuff and buying new. There could easy be another 10 years life in that car once you've titivated it.
£50 per hour!! Let me know what year you went to that garage! Try £75 PLUS.
It's old? That's 18 years newer than my new car (and 40 years newer than my old one!). We just bought a 2008 Honda Jazz for my son to learn in, cost more than double this, it's higher miles and has a small dent at the back. But being a Honda there's almost nothing to fix on it.
Reliable definitely, but you've got to watch for rust on the Jazz. If it's outside all weathers then would be a good idea to underseal it.
Ideal car for an on the drive DIY'er.
You do more for the environment than EVs. 👍
Yip would do the repairs. Hope u are feelin better.
Will ring you tomorrow , I work in Europe and from audlem close to you and I’m back beginning of November and looking for a cheap run around . This looks like just what I’m after 💪💪
Hi Lee,in these circumstances, I believe it's worth doing such repairs.Bodywork seems to be straight too.Do all the stuff you mentioned which are the essentials, less wheel refurbishments.You don't need to go to town with it either, given it's current age.
the older cars are far more ecologicaly friendly than even electric cars ! you keep going Lee without guys like you the likes of kier starmer will scrap em all!
Hello Lee, yes I would repair and refurbish the Punto. Despite its high mileage, it’s not rusty and if it can pass its MOT easy enough, then why not refurbish it. We are too quick to junk cars that still have life in them. It will serve someone well for a few years yet and that person on a tight budget wouldn’t have a car otherwise. Good work I would say. That customer will return again for another well prepared car from you and hopefully recommend your Car Pitch.
Good vlog Lee, I would save it as it would do someone a really good turn once all fixed and serviced kind regards Mark from Billericay 😃
Lee, great to see u back!! 💪💪
My Ford fiesta 2010 is on the same clutch, no leaks, just the usual consumables, tyres, brake pads and discs
Great video I would repair it and get it back on the road and save an older car 👍
If I were looking for a cheap car I would certainly give your stock list a browse but it always amuses me when you talk of vehicles being 'old'. My daily driver is 22 years old and my wife's is older than that. Fortunately we can maintain them with no labour charges.
The issue is people just don't look after their cars and they'll trade them in with loads of defered maintaince that should have been done years ago in many cases. People would rather spend £500 a month on a car than look after the ones they have.
If there's a profit Lee then yes mate I'd have it up on my ramps getting the work done then knocking it out!!!
I helped get my wife's pal a fiat same as this 11 plate cat n it sailed through its last 2 mots after getting new suspension etc and i got it for £1050 it has 90k miles but very clean so she was happy.
I have a 2013 Fiesta (1.5 diesel) with 82k on the clock. Apart from servicing, tyre changes, and cam belt/water pump at 80k, she's cost me barely anything bar a new starter motor and battery a few months ago (original battery). I fully expect repairs given the age but I have no plans to retire her because just north of 80k for a diesel is nothing and her engine etc still feel like how they did 11 years ago.
I would fix it because they are becoming rare
rare you having a laugh they a bag of crap cars they not classic pal ya in lala land you that dumb that would buy them and cry when you in debt because of it even last year someone selling a turbo edition for £1k and no1 wanted it
Be great to save a car that's probably got a few years left of service,but only because you can do the work yourself
Just driven past a dealership with a Nissan Murano on the front. I think.
62 plate (2012)
Price?….£14,000
$18,340, €16,741
I nearly crashed.
Is there any 12 year old, school run car that costs as much?
Previously a main dealer showroom. Now, new name, & second hand cars. I think they kept their dealership mentality.
from my extremely out of date experience I'd say fix it if you're finding it really hard to get stock as a professional trader, do it if you're an amateur trader-mechanic and do it slow-time, or maybe a 1 out of 2 job with a wrecker. its one of those cars that could quickly end up in a corner of the site for months and months and never get fixed
I wouldn’t do the wheels at £200! A new owner isn’t going to be so fussy with those miles and year. Think it’s a bit fussy, but yes to the rest just as long as the mechanics are okay 👌
2012 car isn't old. It's still relatively new.
I agree with you Lee,i'd make an effort to keep that Fiat on the road....maybe F.ix I.t A.gain T.omorrow, i'll get my coat 😆 Jokes aside,you did the right thing fella.
It’s more than within your capabilities and if there’s a profit still. The why not?
Definatly worth saving,will make a good little budget car n do someone a turn for a couple of years hopefully.
Defo a fixer, lots of jobs need done, but theyre all small
Iv got a 2010 1.4 8v punto with 25k on the clock . Still needs a few quid spent on it now and again but has just gone though the MOT with no advisories.
Check for movement on the driveshaft where it enters the gearbox ( diff outlet bearing ) see the video iv uploaded on TH-cam.
Nothing wrong with that car bearing in mind what you have said about having the expertise to overhaul it and produce a decent margin on it. To me that’s a more downright honest way of putting a car on the road as opposed to having a large group of child labourers mining out cobalt in dangerous conditions to produce cobalt for EVs in places like the Democratic Republic of the Congo etc.
Definitely worth retailing with that margin in it.
Fix, puntos are great
Cheapest Ford and Honda, near £26,000 Puma and Jazz. VW Up, Fiat Panda, the City Bug Trio, Fiesta all discontinued. Decent spec Golf, Focus, Civic £30,000-£40,000. This should be dragging up the value of used cars? The new stuff is OK when new and under warrenty but all that electricery is going to make simple stuff like this Punto appeal even more as they get older.
Love your videos.
What would I do?
Sorry, but I would not spend a further penny on it.
My simplistic guess is that your'e looking at having to spend at least £1000 in order to get it back into a safe mechanical condition maybe more in labour, overheads etc.
Just my opinion, good luck ro you.
Suspension rusts as you can see with the car but it's not terminal on the main components. Do you ever say put Lanoguard or Bilt anti rust on to future protect them?
What happened to your old masarati, any vids coming
I've got one of these puntos am selling currently Has a issue with heaters not working has previously had all the wiring redone etc but the blower motor just doesn't kick in
One thing I have noticed in the cars you choose and deliberate over which to buy or not, is that none of them have had electrical wiring issues, e.g. cars that have been stood a while and developed these wiring issues due to the inside of the car not being dried out with regular driving and having the heater on etc. So electrical gremlins with things becoming intermittent or stopping working (indicators, windows, mirrors etc). Is that because those cars are too expensive or too much hassle to repair?
Your a man in the know, do you know " roughly" the price a garage would charge to replace 2 wet belts in a 1.0 ecoboost including labour ?
£2000 or more. Typically a 1.0 Ecoboost is £1000 a pop to replace the timing belt plus you'd get fresh oil and filters too.
Hi Lee, you say you deal with the bottom end of the market £2 to £5k and this is for 'younger drivers and people who want a second car'. This is a mystery to me, I am a 46 year old man and a car for under £5k is all I have ever been able to afford. I have had a full time job for the last 5 and a half years, my wife has a full time job earning a lot more than me so we are not a poor family by any means but there is no way I can pay or will ever pay more than £5k for a car. Is the vast majority of the UK population funding cars with loans? Not me that's for sure
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Hope you get a good price👍
are one of the reasons you try to keep your prices under 5k that you doesn't have the equipment to fix all the modern nanny systems or just to make software updates?
Fix the one that makes the most profit
Do it Lee!
yes fix it lee
Yes thats sound business sense, margin is what its about, okay theres work to do but you are paying wages anyway, selling lots of newer cars for a lot less margin means you could all end up being busy fools
Lee!!!! That will be the gearbox sha££Ed!!! Trade it out mate..... it's not nice underneath.... you can do better n earn more money n free time!!!
you are getting a bigger profit out of a older car than a younger one so crack on.££'s
Cars are just not made to last
It is adding up isn't it?
to be fair if I didnt have electric rear windows which could be disabled by the driver, and I had children, I would take the handles off the windows for the rear doors. its way too much hassle and risk to allow kids in the back to be able to open their windows.
FIAT ....... Fix it again Tony !!
Wouldn't even touch something that age let alone try to bodge it up to sell.
I've got a spare Barge Pole if anyone wants to borrow it.
FIAT Fix It Again Tony
Lee don't waste your time and money , bin it
fiat are a banger not worth it same as peugeot