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[Johnboy0811]

Some of you may have seen my post on here a couple of days ago banging on about modifying my 2.5V6 CDX auto. To cut a long story short I brought it in November for £480.00 and since then I have have had nearly £1500.00 spent on the engine results of breaking down. I kept spending the money because she is a lovley car and wanted to give it a chance. Yesterday the heater matrix went and my mechanic (who is a Vauxhall Specilist) doesn't want to do and sugessted I go to main dealer who Quoted me £630.00 and I still need to get the cambelt changed and a service. Question is (now the wife has started whinging about how much "your bloody car" is costing) do I get rid and put my money into something else. If I am to get something else it will definatly be an Omega but this time a 2.2 Facelift. Seen a nice 53 reg for £1800.

Thanks all for reading this essay speak soon

John

[webby23]

Good money after bad mate......get shot and replace it with a newer one

[Big Fra]

Dep on age, just sell it, you have already spent far too much on it.

With all due respect.

I bought mine for 300 and 10 months mot.
Spent 200 on parts for mot and ran it till the mot ran out.
Clutch went and the car is now a cube.

Miggy's are great, but money is still money at the end of the day.

If you buy a new one, and if you have the space, keep the old one for parts or break it for spares.

[Elite Pete]

It difficult to say, you could sell it at a loss and buy another car which has as many problem as this one had and end up spending another £1500 to get to where you are now.

[tigra-ann]

get rid of it once things like that start going wrong you will al;lways be doing one thing or other

[Omega man 2]

get shot of it. sounds like a big money pit

[Marks DTM Calib]

More info please

Age and spec?

What have you spent the money on/

[craig]

Some of you may have seen my post on here a couple of days ago banging on about modifying my 2.5V6 CDX auto. To cut a long story short I brought it in November for £480.00 and since then I have have had nearly £1500.00 spent on the engine results of breaking down. I kept spending the money because she is a lovley car and wanted to give it a chance. Yesterday the heater matrix went and my mechanic (who is a Vauxhall Specilist) doesn't want to do and sugessted I go to main dealer who Quoted me £630.00 and I still need to get the cambelt changed and a service. Question is (now the wife has started whinging about how much "your bloody car" is costing) do I get rid and put my money into something else. If I am to get something else it will definatly be an Omega but this time a 2.2 Facelift. Seen a nice 53 reg for £1800.

Thanks all for reading this essay speak soon

John

I would keep it because you've obviously replaced alot of things on your engine and know whats been done and for a bit more money you are going to end up with an excellent car with a good engine and are you going to get anywhere near what you've already spent on the car back :-/
And if you decide to sell and buy a new one you might end up spending more money on further engine issues down the line because you won't know what condition the new engine is in :-/

keep it

[Lazydocker]

TBH if you can't do the matrix then it's getting to the point where you really need to weigh it up. :-/ :-/ There is a way to cheat but I can't seem to find it at the moment

If you've got the space, I'd break the car and sell the parts as it's worth more that way

[Lazydocker]

I'd probably still fix it as per other posts

[nick v6]

keep it mate
end of the dayif you do buy a new mig you could always strip the one you got

but for what youve spent if you buy another mig you could be paying out again for the same bits

[Iain]

Mate,you have spent just short of 2k on.......

If you are able to write off that kind of money then fair enough but in my opinion you have already gone to the point of no return....

What i would do personally is park it up,buy your other one as a daily driver and keep the original one as a project car......

That way you have a 'hobby' and can take your time and work on it as and when you have spare cash....

[albitz]

If you can do the matrix yourself it wont be an expensive job, if you cant then the labour costs could render the car economically unviable.

[markey mark]

i would keep it as you have already spent a lot on it matrix wont have gone per say will need flushing spend a bit of time doing things yourself  

[amigov6]

Buy a sh*tter. Anything that runs for £2/300 with a bit of T&T finish the Mig off in your own time then hopefully you can enjoy her for a couple of years & justify what you've spent.
     I understand your dilemma, sometimes you think break this, enough is enough & the old bundle giving you gbh of the ear'oles doesn't help matters!!!!