A how much.... cos I need new wheels

[tigers_eye]

My car is now officially a deathwish and is stopping me working, it also randomly goes sideways when travelling at high speeds and the garage just laughed at me when I said I wouldn't spend more than £200 on it. So I need new wheels (they said so, as did RAC man). Question is do I buy another poxy cheap thing that will fall apart in a year, or do I sell Liberty and buy a proper car (still 2nd hand mind), and have enough change to clear a bit of debt. Cos I'm only selling him now if it means I can do that. So what do you think? He's a nice type, looks the business but has no real experience. He's BSJA'd at 4 venues, and consistently has 4 faults in the JO of BN and Disco. Won his only unaff prelim with 72%. Hunted beautifully on Boxing Day (his only time out). Is 16.3 dark bay gelding by Catherston Liberator out of an Intermediate event mare by Dutch Gold, 7 this time. Can be quite wimpy about things like drain covers but excellent in nasty traffic. With a confident rider to show him things aren't going to eat him he could go very far. Pops 1m35 easily, moves nicely but still rides quite big and gangley. Obviously an ad wouldn't read quite like this.

Original plan was to sj and hunt over the winter, then BE if I thought gutsy enough, do few PN and an N and sell. Then I decided that he was rather nice and I might keep him for the whole season and sell him at the end of it. But now I'm in this quandry! So what's he worth - I'm almost hoping people will say not much so that I can justify keeping him!

Some more recent pics:

And a couple from the summer:

 

[Skhosu]

hmm. TBH I couldn't see him going for more than 3-4K without a bit more experience,

 

[madhector]

i'll have him! now i just have to sell mine...

 

[kick_On]

is it new wheels you need, new rubber or more mechnical work??? as i always think it best keeping a vehicle you know. even if cr*ppy, but you do need friendy mechanic or good OH. Looks like you could get very nice car for gg but i would keep gg, and repair car but that just me.........
I hate buy ing cars almost as bad as buying a horse!!

 

[Broodle]

No idea on the how much - sorry! But, if you do want to keep your chap (and it sounds like you do really...) I highly recommend a Ford Mundano for a cheap and cheerful runaround - they devalue sooo quickly (so many offcasts from so many sales reps) that you can pick up a cracker for £500 or so - car yards are full of px ones. And they are built to eat the miles so 100k miles plus is nothing to them. Big boots too.

Not a Ford rep or anything - OH is a bit of a car expert, but also v tight with his money... lol

 

[Tufty]

I think you could get more than 4k for him, sorry not what you want to hear !

 

[madhector]

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I think you could get more than 4k for him, sorry not what you want to hear !

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damn... there go my chances

 

[Bossanova]

Buy crappy car and keep pony.
You know it makes sense

 

[severnmiles]

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Buy crappy car and keep pony.
You know it makes sense

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Sell the pony...sell the pony....*business and practical waves coming at you*....oooops sorry!

If it was me I'd buy a crappy car and keep the pony

(what am I saying?), they all have the same purpose of getting you from A to B and if you're anything like me it will only be abused by JRTs, hay and mud!

I think he's smart, I'm usually a tight a*se but I'd go to 4.5k on him, maybe 5k if you caught me on a good day, he's a nice type!

 

[Malibu]

agree with boss, its the only way

 

[tigers_eye]

Excellent, a few more answers along those lines would be good!

 

[madhector]

as i cant afford him

, i would keep him, he looks fab

 

[dieseldog]

If you bought a £500 car now evented him half a season he would increase by more than £500 and you would be able to sell £500 car for £500 still as they tend to hit rock bottom at that point and buy a better car and have fun. Personally I don't buy nice cars anymore, just cheap throwaway ones.

A few years ago I had a really nice Nissan 200sx, I needed a new horse so I sold it, bought a horse and a car and had change - thats the right way to do it

 

[MissDeMeena]

It's say he's worth about £800, £1k tops

therefore buy new crappy car now, and keep pony till atleast end of the season!!

How much have you got to spend on a new car?? am quite good on cars at the mo.. spending most my time looking at the autotrader website

 

[vic07]

If ready to go just before eventing starts. I'd stick an advert in for £7000 ono and see what happens! I'd value him at about that and if you don't get it don't sell him!

 

[spooks]

i agree with katie A regarding mondeos, ive had 2, the first one had a stupid amount of miles on the clock and i put a few thousand more on it before it i gave it to some blokes to use for banger racing (it wouldnt have passed its MOT) the one i have now i paid 650 for its 10 yr old was in perfect condition , i do approx 100 miles a day in it as im a courier..it currently resembles a tack room cross a stable and is quite economical to run..so buy one of the and keep the horse! you could alway try and put a bit away each month until new crappy car dies a death by which time you could afford a better one or the horse will have done more and be worth more ?

 

[tigers_eye]

I am liking your idea! Looking round on autotrader atm and I see what you mean!

Severnmiles, what on earth posessed you just then. You said you would KEEP the horse if you were me?! That's utter balderdash, I'm firmly under the impression you'd sell your granny if the price was right!

 

[vicijp]

I will sell you my dads rover if you like. Has smashed rear bumper, and the battery connection jobbies need spraying with magic oil before you start it - but apart from that its ok! £500.