Ok so i passed my driving test finally... in summer and bought my self cheap £450 Ford Fiesta Fun. It looked good, drove good etc. Cut the long story short It failed MOT on many levels i ended up spending £500 more to get it all sorted. Breaks, tires, welding etc... and now after some months later it strikes again and my catalytic converter breaks down ( another £230 to get it fixed ) so i just went for it coz i need a car to get to work and i already put too much money in it to back off

i dont know what to do now... what if it gonna break down again what should i do ? should i carry on fixing it or start saving for different car ? my insurance is very high atm till summer so i cant get anything decent until it goes down by 50%

"cheap £450 [car]" is the problem

That's insane for a cat... Even the 50 state legal ones in the US are a fraction of that price.

My 2 cents would be to start saving for a new car. You've already surpassed the value of this car 2 fold in the amount of money you've stuck into it.

This would be my take on it Keep driving the wheels off it until it either A) dies, or does not pass emissions testing anymore.

Then take what you've saved and buy a new dd

thats what im hoping for, it has its MOT passed , i just want it to run till i get my 50% off insurance. But if theres any more major fault like this i dont know if i should stop putting money into it to keep it going

ye cars are stupidly cheap in UK but to fix them its very expensive, its mainly man hours that cost a lot not the parts

This post was edited by -=vasya=- on Jan 27 2015 11:41am

it depends on the cat not all of them are the cheap one that looks like a muffler. my mazda protege had one that was built into the exhaust manifold and you had to buy the entire thing. it was 400 dollars for the cat alone.




can you work on it yourself? it sounds like an older car and a fiesta should be pretty simple to change stuff on saving you a lot of money on your repair.

This post was edited by JDH on Jan 27 2015 05:32pm

^ this, pretty much.

If you're buying a used car (and one that cheap!!) you pretty much resign yourself to the fact that you're inheriting someone else's problems.

Since it sounds like you're working on a budget, you're rolling the dice on whether you inherit more or fewer problems with the next used car.

May want to invest in an ODB II reader. If something else goes wrong, you can get the engine code, Google the result, then look up videos on YouTube to fix the problem.

You should move someplace where they don't have MOT.

Hope this helps.