I BOUGHT TWO CHEAP CARS FOR £550!
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Matt!!!!! That ignis is my mine and my wifes old car!!!! We bought it in 2015 with 18000 and part exed it with 30000 ish in 2016 for a focus!!!!
To this day this was my favorite car we owned. We even took it to italy and back camping with bikes on the roof. I have pictures if you'd like to see. I miss that car. I'm gutted it looks like that now!!
I've just watched to the end and i'm so gutted to see it scrapped!!! I really wish we kept it. It was a gem back when we had it
@@rhysd4934 With that Vertical thingy showing a value of £2206 for a 56 in average condition Matt was a fool to scrap it. The faults he read out were trivial and for £300 to £400 he could have had it back on the road in great condition. Fools and their money
@@stevelewis8394 It may have needed a lot more than 300-400, more likely 1K+. Better as scrap.
@@leonb2637 No, parts are REALLY CHEAP on those Ignis. A rear spring is silly money! £25... Wheel bearing. £20. They are so cheap to run. He was silly scrapping that motor.
@@rhysd4934Sadly the years weren't kind to it!
Matt's barber must be driving a Bentley considering how many times in a month Matt has his hair and beard trimmed!
Honestly they are 😂 I pay 25 every 2 weeks and they are always busy would he a handy skill if I could cut it my self.
@@Blaine_04 50 quid a month. I get away with 19 every 2 months ( no beard ). But then I live in Czech Republic. Things are cheaper here :)
Get the wife to do it. I haven't paid for a haircut for 25 years 😂
@@nickyoung4799 I am still 19😂 won't be having a wife for another next 10 years I guess
He did say he has it done every week tbf
"Buy cheap, buy twice.."
And you did!
😂
I’ve always heard this as “Buy it nice, or buy it twice”
And got a good deal. "Buy cheap buy twice" is a perfect way to keep people getting the good deals I'm getting so I am very happy with people shouting that all the time :D.
What an absolute state.How people keep there car,s amazes me.
Matt, have you ever considered buying a bio-hazard suit? The way some people keep their cars is utterly disgusting 🤢
He's juist building resistance
Imagine what the owners of these cars look like, how filthy their clothes must be, how repulsive their houses must be and how poor their personal hygiene is.
A cat this bad just shows a ludicrous lack of self respect.
Just like Manlove of Top Gear 😅
A second-class ride is better than a first-class walk. 😮
Probably third or fourth class at that point
It shocks me how perfectly good cars in the UK are sent to be scrapped for just a few minor mechanical faults. In Canada these would be fixed and be kept on the road until serious rust or a massive failure like transmission or timing chain take them off the road.
As somebody from mainland Europe I agree.
We do have a disposable car culture. I love watching the videos of what cars are saved in Poland - There was a MK1 relay van that would be considered scrap and a guy welded it back together like it was nothing.
My first car was a 05 plate fiat Punto Active 3dr, which I bought in 2007 for around £3k. Left me with around 24k on the clock and didn’t give me a single issue. Loved it, and if I could find one in good condition I would buy one as a first car for the kids 😂 New cars are amazing, but I enjoy seeing older cars shown some love, miss the simplicity of them 👍🏻
That Punto sounds better than the new C63…
Dent on the bonnet of the Ignis. Dent on the rear of the Punto. Poirot says they've had a coming together.
Dent on the roof on the Ignis now....
The Punto is actually a really decent little car. If it has service history, it might even sell for closer to £1800, possibly a smidge more. There's a ready market for stuff like this. Should sell really quickly.
Glad to see the Punto saved, I've always liked these (I owned an early mk1, decent thing).
First time I've seen anyone who promotes car vertical actually mention the cost let alone show it. Well done boss 😊
I just saved a 1999 Daihatsu Cuore. It was supposed to be horrible and only good for scraps. Came with no oil, no coolant, loads of rattles. I gave it a look, paid scrap value, had a drive axle replaced, took it for its MOT and it actually got compliments from the mechanic. The thing is in great shape. The rattles are just rattles (exhaust rattling against the bottom of the car, air filter housing rattling a little). It could do with a minor service and an alignment but other than that, the thing is in great shape. Not keeping it, I have no use for it. But drove about 1500km in it in the last month and it's actually a very lovable little car. Shitboxes are the shit.
Also this video knows you know your stuff; I fully expected the Ignis to be the good car out of the two. But no.
Daihatsu...I've always wondered why they never took off in so many countries, considering that they're owned by Toyota who has global influence.
I have a 2004 Daihatsu Cuore in Pakistan (which is actually a 94 - 97 model they just had a longer run in Pakistan) and it's quite a nice little thing. Fun to run around in and quite basic no power steering no abs no sort of electronics bar a radio even the windows are keep fit windows
@@Afraz_9n3 Mine has air conditioning for some reason. Probably more needed in Pakistan!
I actually saved this same car twice. My parents gave it away to a girl living nearby and she wanted to scrap it. I did a video on it back in the day:
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@@damilolaakanni They are great little cars. We bought a 850 guilder (about 400 dollar) Charade G10 in 1988 (very new back then), that's how we got into them. We bought 95 euro (about 100 dollar) G11 in 2007, which then ran until 2020. And now the 150 euro, which is about 160 dollar one. In another response to my message above I shared a bit more about it, including this video:
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Daihatsu are all over a Japan, my gf had a wee kei car called a Cast, it’s a nice little thing for running about
To be fair, that Punto is 20 years old and has cleaned up quite nicely. Sporting a few minor dents and scratches is to be expected of a car like that given the age it is.
The Ignis has been beaten every day of it's life, the Great Car Park In The Sky is probably very welcome at this point. To me, tobacco leaves everywhere is worse than dog hair, I can just imagine how absolutely disgusting that car smelt.
I wonder the type of person who owns a car in that state and thinks "This is fine."
I agree about the cigs vs dog. I recently rented a Nissan Rogue from Enterprise while I was between cars for 2 weeks. The “no smoking” Rogue stank only slightly less like an old ash tray than the other 3 vehicles they showed me. I cleaned the tobacco film off the windows and cleaned the plastic surfaces with lemon fresh upholstery cleaner and kept the windows open as much as possible during the rental. It still smelled as bad when I returned it after 2 weeks. I think I’ve heard Matt talking about some kind of odor eating/concealing “bomb”that they use for smelly cars. Pity Enterprise hasn’t heard of it!
Those Puntos were actually decent little cars the fire engine was also dead reliable my auntie and my mom who live in Europe both got Lancia Ypsilons back in 05 which are based on that gen punto my moms got written off this year with just under 200k miles and my unties is still going with probably 300k miles
Was gonna say the engines on that model were fine. The electrics however... Well 🤣
My neighbour opposite my house bought an 2004 3 door yellow ignis nearly 10 years ago now for £1000. It gets used on a regular basis and it's still going strong 😉 he said its only ever needed maintenance related work in the whole time he's owned it. Best £1000 he's ever spent.
The 1.2 engine in the punto is actually quite reliable and cheap to maintain. A large number of them have traveled over 400,000 km, when the counter on the board stops counting further km.
Right and the older Diesel JTDs engines are among the most reliable engines ever.
The Fiat Punto 188 is a very good and cheap car. And the engine rocks. Only the head gasket is its weak point.
I drove many of that puntos older cousins ( Before it had the goppy grill) brand new at Portbury Docks nr Bristol, The 1.2 8V “ Fire” Engine was a good unit .
Glad you did save the punto .
I loved my Fiat Punto 1.2 Go! Edition 3dr. If I had space I'd have a yellow HGT as a little nostalgia/ boyhood goal achieved.
I'm loving the Punto! Needs to be saved!
Absolutely nothing wrong with the 1.2 in the Punto, it was ECU faults early in their lifespan that earnt them the reputation for unreliability, but most of the ones that are left are probably capable of many more years service
Great video Matt. I really do find these older car vids more interesting than the newer vehicles. I get what you mean about driving an older car makes you appreciate driving more. I suppose it’s because you have to do more rather than the car doing it for you like most modern cars do.
I've had two fiat punto one of the best cars I've owned mine was 55 plate paid 400 quid serviced it myself then the mrs used it it for work she loved and i would have another one.
Love the Punto, brings back memories of my first car- same age, same spec, same engine, but a 3-door in black. Did everything from city commuting to camping holidays in that thing and it only ever set a foot wrong when stood during the winter, because water got in places it shouldn't. As far as fun, practical, economical small cars go, I reckon it's hard to beat
Well done Matt, glad that u saved that lil Punto...I like the color... I bought mine back in 2018 and was hoping for a year or two of use, now we're in year 6 and im keeping the lil bugger...Ugly as f... but extremely nippy and reliable... Mine is dark gray originaly but after 18 yearsof sun it looks brown 😂 Mine only had 10k miles when i bought him and was sitting for quite some time... Btw exhaust for him costed me 80 euro and they go for 3k-3.5k now on the Continent...
The Fiat reminded me of the two Fiat Stilo 1.9JTD's I've had (a good few years ago). Really thin metal, like you could push the roof down with one hand easily, so dead light, and that 1.9 common rail pulled like a train, it felt like it could take off at top speed, which was actually about 120. I think you can pick them up for that money aswell now. Great little cheap motor with a pretty phenomenal engine.
Nice looking Berlingo in the background. 😊
I bought an Escort 55 van in white £650 i drove it from manchester to morocco slept in it then i sold it to a guy in Morocco in a dress and a funyy hat for £900 then flew home .
I bought a Punto out of desperation for £700 last may (23), ran it for about 5 months and sold it for £950, I hadn't even done a decent advert for it, first to view it bought it without even haggling. It had bodywork scuffs, starter motor on its way out but again about 46k on it. They just sell. Yours is in far better condition than mine and won't be around long
I love my SAABs and my Jaguars, however there is something quite rewarding about pottering around in a car that is cheaper than your neighbours monthly installment on a car they do not own, Great video, keep up the momentum x
Also, your local spending Matt keeps roofs above people's heads and food in their bellies. 👍🤗
Two cheap cars into one video this is like a gift
That's the first time I've seen a TH-camr be transparent about the cost of a Car Vertical check. Not massively surprised it was Matt. 👍
Scrapyard radiator part worn tyre exhaust repaired max bill£200you can't treat these old bangers like a young car no margin
Love how the punto was saved. I remember a mate of mine had a maroon one with the worlds most awful bodykit on it with 6x9s and a suuuub. 2005. Good I'm times
Fantastic episode off scrap heap challenge 👏 👌 😂
I think Fiats are definitely underated i brought a Panda as a 2nd car to commute go shopping & basically park anywhere without worry had it for 18 month's travelled from the West Midlands to North Wales twice London once Blackpool twice & Morecambe as well as 20 mile commute daily to work its a great little car economical & cheap to tax that Fiat you have will definitely be gone especially with that mileage...there is a big community on ss for the Panda & the Punto you could of probably asked a bit more especially with a clean MOT...
Well done Matt “ saving a car it will make somebody really happy “ your a star 🌟 I’m going to sell my 2004 TT roadster convertible only done 66.000 “ not got a clue where to sell it I’m 77 years now it’s time for it to go “ happy days yours Allan 🚗👍👍👍
How the hell did that Ignis past its last test? Un-fookin-believable.
Either of these would be a new drivers dream. Older fiats were very strong and those ignis superb. Just wants a diy repair not a paid mech. How someone can leave the ignis in that state though my god. Scrappers will enjoy selling bits no problem
Matt how could you say the legendary 1.2 fire on the punto is unreliable, it’s absolutely bulletproof
I worked valeting cars for a while. It’s truly astounding the filth people drive around in. Do these people realise cars have windows and you can see inside.
Both amazing cars in their day. Still great now.
There's nowt wrong with punto's . Worth saving. Good honest little cars and more reliable than most. Only suffer from badge snobbery. Those last of line before the grande punto were well built and nicely finished inside. Much preferred them to the fiesta of the same age. At that time I hired a lot of them when I had a place in Spain. Then bought a new grande punto in 07 as it drove better than the fiesta 206 and horrible corsa.
Your videos are always on point, keep it going
The world is safer without that Ignis 👍🍻 The Punto will make a great first car or general runabout, great save 👍👍
Oh I’m here for some double buffing and two massive overspends!!
“They need to scrapped..”, Matt: “No wait, I could massively overspend on them and save them…”
When I was a lad, many years ago, driving beat up 105es and HA vivas, these 2 cars would be luxury. I was forever patching exhausts, replacing springs, raiding local scrapyards for bits,I would have kept these going in those days.
Yes in those days there were plenty of dodgy MOT places, no-one cared about emissions and smoky exhausts, but I approve of all the improvements in regulations and MOTs,driving is much more complex these days. Why call it an MOT, we have not had a ministry of transport for decades and we do not have road tax either.
Thanks for the video, entertaining as always.
Her on the phone sounds happy in her work.🙃
Well I never knew the Ignis shared the same light switch panel as the Mk4 Astra!
I was getting tired of you regular car park… New edition welcome! Keep up the imagination. Save the Puntos ❤
I still have a punto classic (mk2) as a 2nd car. It is so fun to drive and just keeps on going without major costs. The power steering tends to play up sometimes but after a while it's back to normal. Overall really practical fun car that's quite a lot bigger inside than it would seem.
Fiats are terribly underrated cars. But on the other side you can buy them cheap since nobody wants them and you have a great car.
@longdonglarry Oh definitely, i love how it feels like youre sitting inside a tic tac box 😂😂
Vacuum cleaner? Don't people have some self respect, that Ignis is rank!
4:50 Never realised the boot lids have different designs! The 3 door also had different rear lights, with another section on the boot.
Matt £2995 with 48000 that Punto
Excellent video! Matt the car dealer - saving the planet, one Fiat Punto at a time (pity about the stinky Ignis) - Good Luck!
Interesting what you say about cheap cars. I have an AWD, Auto Kuga, but have much more fun driving around my wife's 14 year old KA, it always puts a smile on my face 😎
I wish we had previously owned car dealers like High Peaks and Matt here in the US. He doesn’t put junk on the lot and when he approves it you can pretty much guarantee you have a pretty good and safe automobile. Wondering if Matt has ever carried those tiny Japanese Kei trucks and if their road legal in Britain, I’m seeing a ton of them here, I think they have to be over 20 years old to get em tagged here, not sure why.
Road legal? Look up the Bedford Rascal.
We actually had a few of that class of vehicle sold here. See the Bedford Rascal, Vauxhall Midi or Piaggio Porter. In the US cars have to be 25 years old before you can import them for some strange reason however here in the UK we can get them imported straight away if you can afford it🤷🏽♂️there are quite a few Suzuki Carrys around. We also have a lot of jdm minivans like the nissan elgrand, Toyota vellfire and Alphard and the honda stepwagon the modern ones like 2015 16 hybrid models
That ignis was one of the most basic cars when new so no surprise its shot to pieces at 18 years old. Sounds like that ones lived off road!
Every time I see a notification, I tap to see if it's a Suzuki Celerio DualJet 1.0l. It never is :( But this is close!
High Peak Autos banger racing championship? You could give all those scrappers a proper send off!
Love these episodes! Cheap basic cars are great.
It's the hedonic treadmill Matt. You get to drive all sorts of flash cars in your job. And they're all great in so many ways. In short, you've gotten bored of driving great cars. So now you're slumming it - and the contrast has made you happy. Don't worry. You'll soon get bored of bangers and be back into flash in no time! Repeat cycle...
Hi Matt, surely you must be charged something for those detailed mechanical inspections performed for the MOT? Can't imagine those mechanics working for free...
Well, that was a mix bag Matt, 😊, at least you saved one, did like the Ignis, especially 4x4 one, was a little gem in the winter weather.
Matt is it just me or have you never added the cost of the carvertical report when adding up your total cost at the back end of your videos?
This might sound entirely false, but it is 100% true. Myself and a colleague who moved to a different location at work and both started on the same day, parked our cars about half a mile down the road for fear of not being able to park. The colleague who had been there some time knew where to park, and offered to give us both a lift back to our cars after we finished shift, one freezing cold rainy december afternoon several years back. He got in the rear passenger seat and I went to get into the front passenger seat... I say "went", because this chap as lovely as he was LITERALLY used his passenger seat and passenger footwell as a bin, I shit ye not. I had to move a pile of crisp packet wrappers, chocolate bar wrappers, old coke cans and letters from the seat onto what I thought was the footwell floor ontop of the pile of rubbish that was piled high enough up the footwell that my feet couldn't even touch the footwell floor. If you imagine a large bin in a teenager's room not being emptied for an entire month that was probably akin to what it was like.
Made even more amusing by the fact he said "Just to warn you my car is a bit dirty at the moment"... so there was me expecting some crumbs, the odd stained seat and a bit of dirt... but no, this was crisp packet mountain and chocolate mount fiji. Understatment of the century.
The most dirtiest car nah I'll wait for the bus 😂😂😂😂😂 halirious matt love the content love your sense of humour!!
Just 'dirtiest'
your scrap car corner is growing
Can we get more will it start videos Matt? Watching you attempt the practical stuff could be a vein of hilarity.
Haha definitely
With all you put them through Matt, I worry that you're gonna have to marry the mechanic and make the valet chaps board members at High Peak Autos! 😂
Brilliant video as always. I love it when you do a dog rescue mission.
It just goes to show that, as expected, the Ignis' issues aren't down to poor reliability, just chronic abuse. That Punto's a great result, and as I learned to drive in an early Mk. 2 3-door, I've good memories.
The Qashqai's plate spells (to me, anyway) pee-eww, which is appropriate given you mentioned the stink of the Ignis around the time it was on camera.
Given a free bet pre-inspection on which old car out of a Suzuki and a Fiat would be scrapped, 90% including me would have called it wrong.
Honestly, me and the wife aren’t particular with cars, I’ve had all kinds - German, Japanese etc..we both drive Alfas and we also agree the best overall car one of us has owned has been a Fiat 500.
Its almost as if the Italians have worked really hard to improve the cars over time whereas German and Japanese ones have continually cut corners as they know people will keep buying their cars like people keep strangely voting tory..
Late 1990 - 2000 Fiats are very reliable. Except for the head gaskets, those engines last.
@@seany8787 this is exactly what I've been thinking - I also feel like German, French and Japanese cars have kinda declined in quality over time (not all of them of course), but Italian and Korean cars have improved in the last few decades. I owned 3 Puntos myself: a 1998 Mk1 55 S (horrible in every way), a 2004 Mk2 1.3 Multijet (best car I've ever owned) and currently a 2011 Evo 1.3 Multijet (not bad, but the 2004 car was more reliable).
I totally get your "love of clunkers" quirk. When we we first married (40 years ago) we could only afford clunkers so would buy 100 quid cars with longish MOTs and drive them til a) they died or b) they failed the MOT ........some of the most fun driving i've ever had!😊😊😊
Really enjoy the matts bangers videos. More please
I absolutely love your optimism for these types of cars. I think everyone else does too which is why your views on them are so consistent. Your proper down to earth and these cheap cars are relatable to the everyday person. Well done Matt for hitting a niche 👍👌
Two Partridge references in one video? What a blessing!
Honestly Matt, that DeWALT inflater is one of the better ones on the market. If the 20v. battery is low, you can use the 12v. DC to power it up, or 110v. AC. (But the 110v. is sold separately.) So you've got three options for using it. Most only let you use the battery-pack. A couple also provide the 12v. option. If your DeWALT charger is a bit old, might want to perhaps consider getting another one.
A man after my own heart!!! 😅. Likewise, something about an old knacker for a bit of a laugh. Just the simple, nothing to lose, so what if it's sh#t, it's funny. After a bad day this video has cheered me right up! Lol. Cheers Matt. 😂
These are the videos I look forward to most Matt. Love a banger.
Matt now on the 'how low can i go' vibe! Love it ❤
And bonus points Matt for the last minute, very niche, Partridge reference 😂
That Punto can and will run for many more years if you show it a little bit of love and proper maintenance.
Rust, from personal experience, will have eaten the sills and the underside too.
@@PJWey of course, you have to check that before you buy one. I am in southern Spain and rust is no issue on no car here. In the UK and even more in countries where salt is used they have already died anyway.
I've said it once with scrappers like this and I'll say it again. Barnyard scrapyard racing. Matt we would love to see you do that
A "mini vallet"?.. I would've told you to do one 😂😂
Video on the Land cruiser please.
Put the dewalt compressor in the boot of either car, call the scrap chap and buy a coffee to celebrate the right decision!
I drove a similar Punto for a few years when I was skint. Mine was the 3 door, which looks slightly better. Absolute pile of crap! Engine problems. Wipers fell off (design fault). Fuel filler fell off. Eventually, it just refused to start. Sold it as spares. Bangernomics.
Bring it Birmingham will have a mot on it same day and on the road
Shame you couldn't turn the Ignis into a rally car, but it is too far gone. Really glad you saved the fiat Punto. Great video and content.
Help me god...i'm watching this from my home city Edinburgh and it's Germany V Scotland in 1 hr 23 mins....Cheers Matt...🤣🤣❤❤🚗🚗
I had an ignis 4 grip, it was incredibly versatile, its the ideal vehicle for narrow country lanes in a rural setting. Cheap to run and maintain, I would have saved it! That one had been abused no doubt.
One of the most Partridge-esque HPA video releases to date, Matt. First class.
Car vertical is a complete joke! £30 for 1 report! I got one which was £3.99 which told me everything I needed to know apart from outstanding finance (I was looking at a £1300 car so didn't need to check thst. if I wanted the full package it was £9.99.
They've got to pay all these TH-camrs commission somehow 😂
@@markopazlo yeah but 3x the price is terrible. I'm pretty sure it used to be £18 a few years ago
I always love driving past broken down new cars in my mk3 21 year old Mondeo 2ltr petrol.
The Ignis is an ideal dog walker car. The Fiat will be bought by a boy racer, so leave the exhaust alone and he will fit a new 2 grand exhaust system to wake up the neighbours on a Sunday morning.
just get a foot pump. always works and more compact.
Very funny, great entertainment for a Friday evening.
Hi Matt, I thought I’d mention. I know you most probably know, but if you ever come across an older fiat, this is worth taking note of. One time, my dad’s van fiat doblo just wouldn’t start, the van had been in the family since brand new and is 57 plate. Tried starting wouldn’t turn over, fiats have a ‘immobiliser’ that people aren’t getting aware of. Fiat said they have had calls after calls about this, if you ever come across a fiat not wanting to turn over but battery isn’t flat, turn to click with all lights on dash and turn off and on the headlights on the stork repeatedly. The older fiat we had, you had to turn the key repeatedly between the first few clicks a few times before turning over. Fiat said these are the 2 things the ‘immobiliser’ can be effected by. Of course they’re not made with an immobiliser hence the quotation marks as it’s more a figure of speech as to it not starting.
Great video HPA,I had a Punto for a couple of years, great little nippy car,loved the city button, great for parking 👍👌😀