Mot fail- when is it too much to repair?

HI
There are people on this forum that would buy your car to break, or possibly get back on road (depends on what spec yours has) no need to contact a scrap man. Something to consider the A2 is very quirky (all aluminium) looks different on the road and has a really good following. With your car in 19 years only covered 130k, and average mileage 12-15k per year, so would say yours is deffo below average mileage.
As all second hand cars have gone up in value it really depends on your budget and if you really like the A2.
Selling your car as is with no mot, wouldn't generate much money. And then you would have to take a risk on another car?
If you decide to keep and either get garage to repair or yourself, Post up what parts you need in the wanted section.
Best of luck
Steve
 
stevec said:
HI
There are people on this forum that would buy your car to break, or possibly get back on road (depends on what spec yours has) no need to contact a scrap man. Something to consider the A2 is very quirky (all aluminium) looks different on the road and has a really good following. With your car in 19 years only covered 130k, and average mileage 12-15k per year, so would say yours is deffo below average mileage.
As all second hand cars have gone up in value it really depends on your budget and if you really like the A2.
Selling your car as is with no mot, wouldn't generate much money. And then you would have to take a risk on another car?
If you decide to keep and either get garage to repair or yourself, Post up what parts you need in the wanted section.
Best of luck
Steve
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Yep, @A2Steve isn’t a million miles from you and if it’s viable I’m sure he’d keep it on the road
 
dj_efk said:
Hello Mike, I’ve read many of your posts on here and on the TDI forum and found your advice on the subject of fuel economy to be invaluable. Glad you’re not forum-dead after all!
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Mine is still going strong, 277k miles, although I'm finding it harder & harder to get parts. I've been a bit obsessed with Aptera recently - https://aptera.us/vehicle/ which I feel is the logical successor to the A2 3L / VW XL1 hyper efficient vehicles. Current design is too wide for UK roads though (there'll probably be a European model in 2024).
 
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bristolCraig said:
I have a Audi A2 2003 plate 1.4 sport. It’s had 8 previous owners prior to me. Which for a 19-year-old car probably isn’t that bad. I bought it is as a runaround. It’s done 130,000 miles. At its last MOT the only thing it failed was emissions. Since I’ve had it it’s had nothing but issues. At what point do you scrap a car of this age when it’s costing more than you ever paid for it? Be keen to know? I keep thinking it’s lasted this long it must be a good quality car.
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I have a 2003 plate 1.4 petrol SE which I paid £850 for last year.It passed the mot with advisories but this year I've had to spend £850 in garage repairs including ..new front wishbone,track rod balljoint,discs and pads and a new o/s caliper,2 brake pipes,o/s wheel bearing,abs sensor and i'm still getting the abs warning light from the nearside.Found another A2 in a scrapyard and removed the wiring that's been cut on my car by the previous owner.Hopefully that will cure it.Jobs to do over the coming year are,rear wheel bearings,front tyres are 13 years old and a split c.v boot.
I was lucky in that a Tesco delivery man hit my car and they paid me £900 to settle the insurance otherwise not sure I would have been able to fork out my garage bill which just grew and grew.I only did 1200 miles last year and intend to do all future work myself and keep the car as long as possible.I never get tired of it's design as most cars today are just so boring.
 
Should the MoT online system be flagging up that the first test station was negligent?

If your first test station had correctly identified the points of failure, you might not have spent £ remedying that. Once you had, what you thought to be a fixed car, you resubmitted only to be presented with a dilemma: fix or scrap

I think I would be reporting the first MoT test station had it put me in that position
 
andrewparkeruk said:
Should the MoT online system be flagging up that the first test station was negligent?

If your first test station had correctly identified the points of failure, you might not have spent £ remedying that. Once you had, what you thought to be a fixed car, you resubmitted only to be presented with a dilemma: fix or scrap

I think I would be reporting the first MoT test station had it put me in that position
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I reported them to DVLA, they said they would audit the garage, but there was little else they could do, as I had repaired the car. Oh well, a lesson learnt.
 
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