Good value second hand cars - COVID times, Falcon/Commodore tax

[oldel]

Originally Posted by fordomatic

Got two mates with Land Rovers, they are great when they are going, I reckon they spend about 66.6% of their time at the mechanics. One mate calculated its cost him $24500 all up in 10 years for maintenance

There's two types of euro owners. Those with newer ones that like throwing away money (new or near new, and buying for the badge and can't DIY), or those that want a DIY classic that isn't stupid amounts of aussie tax.

Yeah, I'm not interested in paying dumb money for a falcon, kingswood, commo or toyota, patrol etc; neither would I take a modern euro that's semi broken or cheap.
But older ones were fine and because of opinions like yours, cheap in comparison.

E:
my 2005 BA ute cost me $15500 (in 2010) and I've had to rebuild trans ($4k), it has electrical gremlins, needs a respray, did headliner some rubber, gaskets brakes.
My 1990 e34 cost me $2400 (in 2017), I did headliner and some rubber, hoses, gaskets, susp and brakes, (about $4k). No electrical gremlins, can still buy most parts, doesn't need a respray! Probably worth more than the falcon these days as well.

Don't mean to bite your head off., but the conversation ended up talking about a 2001 merc. While there's some iconic mercs around the owners aren't really in the diy category and neither were the landrovers you mentioned.
I first liked maxdas, then fords, then bmws, going back into the hey days where they'd be running around bathurst (falcons, rx3s, bmws etc)

[fordomatic]

Originally Posted by oldel

There's two types of euro owners. Those with newer ones that like throwing away money (new or near new, and buying for the badge and can't DIY), or those that want a DIY classic that isn't stupid amounts of aussie tax.

Yeah, I'm not interested in paying dumb money for a falcon, kingswood, commo or toyota, patrol etc; neither would I take a modern euro that's semi broken or cheap.
But older ones were fine and because of opinions like yours, cheap in comparison.

E:
my 2005 BA ute cost me $15500 (in 2010) and I've had to rebuild trans ($4k), it has electrical gremlins, needs a respray, did headliner some rubber, gaskets brakes.
My 1990 e34 cost me $2400 (in 2017), I did headliner and some rubber, hoses, gaskets, susp and brakes, (about $4k). No electrical gremlins, can still buy most parts, doesn't need a respray! Probably worth more than the falcon these days as well.

Don't mean to bite your head off., but the conversation ended up talking about a 2001 merc. While there's some iconic mercs around the owners aren't really in the diy category and neither were the landrovers you mentioned.
I first liked maxdas, then fords, then bmws, going back into the hey days where they'd be running around bathurst (falcons, rx3s, bmws etc)

Didn't bite my head off mate, all good.

I just bought a 2009 335i convertable for $7500, which is good value, but I will flip it, because even being a little DIY, if anything electrical goes wrong, it'll be $$$.

My falcons have cost me practically nothing and i've only had good experiences. I'm blessed that I have mates that know them back to front and help me. I currently own 6 falcons and a territory, upkeep is bugger all. For my manual V8 Au's, the prices have sky rocketed and mine are worth a pretty penny now. horses for courses i guess. No way I would pay what mine would fetch now.

[Franco Cozzo]

Originally Posted by fordomatic

Didn't bite my head off mate, all good.

I just bought a 2009 335i convertable for $7500, which is good value, but I will flip it, because even being a little DIY, if WHEN anything electrical goes wrong, it'll be $$$.

My falcons have cost me practically nothing and i've only had good experiences. I'm blessed that I have mates that know them back to front and help me. I currently own 6 falcons and a territory, upkeep is bugger all. For my manual V8 Au's, the prices have sky rocketed and mine are worth a pretty penny now. horses for courses i guess. No way I would pay what mine would fetch now.

Fixed, there's a reason that sort of Euro stuff depreciates so quickly