just took her out for a last bit of spirited driving, accelerating in 2nd, hard shifted to 3rd and bang :/

 

managed to limp her home but 3rd gear was writing off and the gearbox sounded like a bag of spanners.

 

just weighing up my options now, what am i looking at for a new gearbox fitted? tbf, I doubt i've got the money to do it for a while as per my old thread so if anyone wants to shoot me offers for the car or bits off it nows the time, cba with her atm

Ive got a box going for £50 ;)

sorry to here that fella, take it it was manual box and not a auto judging by your comments. shame if it was auto i have a spare in the garage. what were you thinking of price wise for the car as a whole fella?

Fix it. Gearbox can be done in a afternoon. dont break a nice zed for just a gearbox.

swap it for mine, straight swap, ill sort the gear box out

i'll have to see but i've just spat my dummy out with it at the mo. i love the car but i'm sick of it been on my mind over the last few weeks and while i'd enjoy changing the box if i was keeping it, changing it just to then mess about trying to sell it would be a pig.

 

i'm unsure what to ask for the car as a whole. i'm just sat adding up the price of parts and it looks the better option. i think i'd get more and it would be easier to sell small bits. plus i only need £1500 for the new car so i'd probably have my run around a lot faster that way. best thing would be to shoot me an offer if your interested in it as a whole

personally for a gearbox i think you would be mad to break it, would take about a 4 hours to change it with tea breaks, then she would be up and running again. a zed with a knackered gearbox, with wide arch kit, think you would be looking roughly around 2k on ebay if someone was interested in breaking it. fixed it tax and test, as long as there are no major issues, think you could be asking for around 5 to 6k on a sale, summer is coming as well so things on selling car front with a T roof should pick up again as the hotter weather starts approaching. and if the last couple of years are anything to go by we will have a hot spell in march.

it would be and maybe its a bit unfair to blame it soley on the gearbox, more a really big last straw. i really hate the whole car selling process in all honesty and like you say i'd expect it to be summer before it sold so thats a few months to strech it out over.

 

atm there are other things i could do with, a new run about would be ideal which i could cover by selling just a few parts relatively quickly. I would be breaking it myself and adding everything up atm it doesn't look to come out too badly, plus i'd have the money a lot faster.

 

it would be a shame to break it though and although i could loose out i'm happy for a forum member to shoot me an offer and it go to a good home but i'm just fed up at the minute.

bud i know what your on about, having had 5 zeds, (2 breakers) 3 cars that needed sorting out (one not massively lol)

 

It does wear you down eventually until you get back in it and start driving it again then fall in love with it, whats the problem with the reason you need a cheaper run around? i use mine as a daily driver at the moment, its not too bad.

bud i know what your on about, having had 5 zeds, (2 breakers) 3 cars that needed sorting out (one not massively lol)

 

It does wear you down eventually until you get back in it and start driving it again then fall in love with it, whats the problem with the reason you need a cheaper run around? i use mine as a daily driver at the moment, its not too bad.

 

best thing i done is buy a 406 diesel estate for £400. It means im able to keep the zed as im not using it everyday so look forward to taking it for a drive plus i save a shed load of fuel costs. If you can get a cheap run around its going to help you keep the zed as it can be parked up till you have finshed your training. Could you not sell the wheels or something thats easy to replace once once you have good money coming back in?

best thing i done is buy a 406 diesel estate for £400. It means im able to keep the zed as im not using it everyday so look forward to taking it for a drive plus i save a shed load of fuel costs. If you can get a cheap run around its going to help you keep the zed as it can be parked up till you have finshed your training. Could you not sell the wheels or something thats easy to replace once once you have good money coming back in?

 

I had a 406 exec 2litre turbo, rare as hell, loved that car, got me from wellingborough to the isle of skye on one tank of fuel, 677 miles or so. fantastic car and for a saloon it was pretty quick.

 

But the biggest problem was insurance, i was paying £800 a year on it, im paying 340 on my zed. a large difference, yes the pug did 30mpg round town and 35 to 37 on a cruise, but i love driving my zed lol

your right you do get in em and fall in love with it, thats what was happening tonight and then just as i'm thinking 'i will miss this' the gearbox went. nothing like bad timing to leave a sour taste in your mouth.

 

as for the seperate run around thats what i do at the minute but i begrudge paying two insurance premiums. my insurance is daft, i pay £1000 for the zed and then £1300 for a 1.7 dti corsa. i've got a EF civic too ha so not short of cars but i'm just fed up of spending money on cars so i'm selling everything and just going to try and get one that ticks all boxes. it might be controvertial but i'll probably end up with an mx5 or something, good on fuel, cheap as to insure and can still have a bit of fun in it.