I don’t think that’s a thing here as far as I can gather.
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I’m sure I posted that on here when it was being built.
Well you know it a straight yes from me , I’d be tempted to buy it and ship it back
That’s giving me jurassic park vibes.
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Looking for some advice from car heads please.
Want to sell my Mazda Bongo to get a more modern, modestly-priced 7 or 8 seater that’s less thirsty and hopefully won’t cost me a grand plus to get through its MOT annually.
It’s got a decent amount of rust around the rear wheel arches. Bongos suffer from that.
Thoughts on whether I get it sorted and then sell, or avoid the expense and hassle and sell as-is?
Also if anyone has recommendations for 7 or 8 seaters that might fit the bill, I’m all ears. Ta.
What’s it worth at top money? Getting arches repaired and painted properly won’t be cheap, and you’ll want to get photo evidence that you’ve done it properly and not just bodged it and painted it.
Do not throw money at it
Get rid
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Not a car person so this is rare I’m lurking this thread. I saw your post about polestars. Are these like an alternative to teslas?
More to the point, I don’t know where you live but I live in a pretty congested city and I don’t understand why having a car that can accelerate that fast would be of any use on roads where the majority of time you’re riding under 20mph? That’s without mentioning the pedestrians, lights, bikes and short lengths of road.
Another thing I always find hard to understand is why a lot of cars go up to and above 200kmh when realistically the roads and laws never permit such speeds?
Sorry, non car head asking the equivalent of off side rules questions.
Yeah most likely scenario:
You send it into the garage for repairs.
You get stressed when you realise you don’t have a car any more, so you buy something cheap to run around in.
The repairs take longer than you expected…and cost much more…you get even more stressed.
Your runaround breaks down, you scrap it and start pressuring the garage to finish the Bongo.
They finish it, it costs a fortune, it looks ok but it’s still not right. Another random fault develops on the drive home.
You sell the Bongo for less than you spent on repairing it.
After months of stress and expense you decide you don’t want another car ever again.
If I gave you the option of buying a car that only does 20mph or one that does 200mph which one would you choose?
Other (common) scenario:
You decide to try to get money for your battered old car than selling it for x.
You spend y doing the car up, fixing all the faults and preparing it for sale.
Once finished you think ‘awwwww, but I really like this car, why am I selling it? It’s great!’
Someone wanders over and buys car from you for what is very likely to be less than x+y.
Now you’ve sold the car, but in the process someone else has benefitted from all the hard work and money you’ve put into it, and you haven’t made a coin.
Also, when it comes to sell the car you will have an overinflated sense of it’s worth as you had x in mind originally but now have to make y on top for it to have been worthwhile.
A car is only worth what someone will pay for it.
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Well yeah, if I lived in a congested city I’m not sure I’d have a car at all. But the thing with EVs is that it’s pretty easy to make them capable of going fast and sometimes that’s fun but when they aren’t going fast they’re no different than any other cars. With petrol engines very quick cars are invariably horribly compromised, highly strung and use tons of fuel just to get around normally. So yeah just a case of why not.
I’ll take the car that does the speed limit 
If I want a race car I’ll get a race car and use it on a race course.
Not trying to be snide or argumentative. I just don’t get these details.
I also almost got hit by a (drunk?) driver the other day speeding down residential streets. It’s a sad and common occurrence here.
Not getting into this but there’s no safe car in the hands of a dickhead.
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Thanks for the replies. I think the Bongo might go for somewhere around £4k to £6k based on ten minutes research on auto trader.
Consensus seems to be sack the fucker off then, yeah? Suits me tbh.
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Electric cars having fast acceleration is great for city driving, eg. see a spot in a roundabout that you otherwise wouldn’t try to get into, you can now get into it thanks to the almost instant response of an electric car.
Yes, you can be a dickhead with it, but it’s a good thing when used sensibly.
My sister is a damage assessor for an insurance repair shop and they get quite a few leccies in where that response has put the car through the garage door/into a wall/through a garden! 
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