Peugeot 106 SOLD - was it cheaper than a train ticket? Plus Fleet Update.
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- Опубликовано: 8 июн 2023
- Recently, I bought a car instead of a train ticket. Now the car has sold, did it make sense and was it cheaper than just buying a £118 train ticket? Also contains an update on the fleet: a 1972 Invacar, 1986 Citroen 2CV, 1986 Citroen GSA, 1999 Daewoo Matiz, 2001 Ford AU Fairmont, 2002 Citroen Berlingo and a 2006 Daihatsu Charade. And a folding camper called Bob. #waffle #cheapcars #reallife
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In my head Scott (the train driver) got off the train, leaving *ALL* the passengers sitting there wondering when the train is going to start moving again.
As a train driver, here in Australia, I have often wanted to pop out at a station, with a good coffee shop, to get a flat white but the controllers take a dim view to leaving trains on main running lines. 🤪
@@paulscountrygarage9180 Heh heh heh 👍
I believe that's considered normal service for UK commuters.
From Mebane North Carolina. One day years ago the freight train stopped in town, the engineer (driver) got out and ran across route 70 to hardees fast food. I always got a kick out of that
A train driver left the cab in Melbourne and it rolled away empty. 17kms later it crashed in the city. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_Melbourne_runaway_train
In your calculations you ignored one thing. Time of travel. It seems to me that the train home was going to be horrendously long in terms of hours in transit. You would also be stuck on their timetable. By buying the car, you got home on your own schedule and saved not only money but time. So, adding up, you saved time and money, gained convenience on the day, had a fun collection caper, got to enjoy a different car for a spell, plus made more content for the channel. The only downside, such as it was, was the time it took to sell. I think you made the right decision to buy the car.
Letting Mini HubNut at Chemmy's old engine is an excellent idea. It'd give him some great insight into how an internal combustion engine works, along with some really useful life skills. Who knows, he may even be able to get it fixed.
I need a collection Caper again. Great little fleet update and nice to see the 106 go to a good home.
Twice I’ve come across dual filament 21/5w bulbs where the filament had collapsed and caused a dead short between the brake light and tail light circuit. This can cause ridiculous faults. In the case of a Ford Escort 1.8D, it meant if you tried to switch off the engine with the lights on and your foot on the brake, the tail light circuit kept the stop solenoid energised via the brake light circuit and ‘ignition’ switch until you released the brake pedal. I had no idea how to start with that fault, so dealt with the faulty rear light first to give me thinking time and then discovered I’d also cured the inability to stop the engine! I then had to investigate to find out how I’d fixed it and discovered the fused filament within the bulb.
If you cleared some space on the left next to Myrtle, then you could fit 3 up the back. Would love to see the Matiz in action again!
That area does need clearing. Now the Peugeot has gone, hopefully we can crack on.
I recently bought a remote operated battery isolator for my daughters car that’s infrequently used and has so many different insurance black boxes on board that it goes flat. I think it’s a great safety feature as electrical fires in older cars are common.
Thanks for the welcome update, Ian. The Peugeot was a decent purchase and did the job you needed it to do. Points you already know, but I've got to get off my chest: The unit is a tip, Bob is taking up a lot of space, and you've got too many cars. But who cares? Keep rolling!
Expect a Foxanne update this weekend!
Can't believe how expensive your train tickets are there - 118 quid (close to AU$220), bloody hell. So yeah, buy a car is better. Wouldn't work here though, cars (at least roadworthy ones) are much more expensive, and our state (Victoria) government has recently placed a $10 cap on train fares within the state (as part of the recent cost of living relief measures). Love your video's. Cheers!
Once upon a day I regularly used to buy old bangers at Shoreham auction to get home to Eastbourne late at night.
Don't think I ever lost money on any of them but, different times??
Big thumbs up on turning Hublet loose on taking Chemmy's old engine apart. He'll have lots to talk about at school and remember it for the rest of his days....
Nice one HubNutters. A great overview of the fleet and many jobs to do. A good result on saying farewell to the 106 and it saved you money as well. Great to say hello to you both at the social earlier today as well getting the Triangle of Doom T shirt that should fit me better than the TWC one that has either shrunk (unlikely) or that I've inflated (highly likely) since I got it. Many thanks for sharing.
You two were made for each other.
Miss Hubnut having her own channel seems a great idea. It will give her the chance to speak without you interrupting her!
That clears up, the 106 to a new home.
You do have a lot of 2CV wheels lying around.
We are coming over to the UK from Eltham in the Naki in NZ next month. So coming from winter to way warmer weather. Keep up the good work guys. A great channel..
I used to know somebody who would buy cheap cars at auction, drive them home, weigh them in for scrap and cash in the tax disc to make a profit. The trick was to look for cars with a long date on the disc.
And plenty of petrol in the tank.
Can't do that with Tax anymore , and auction car will cost more than scrap value
i love driving around in small cars esecially cheap stuff a 1999 ford Puma is my daily for this month but i always fix them up and sell them on/ I do like local bus travel as well
At least you managed to break even on the 106.
Miss Hubnut said something about a 60 second erection and I didnt snort like a teenager. This is testament to her contribution to your engaging content and my possible emerging maturity at the age of 60. Time marches on!
I think you're extremely lucky to get shot of that for 550 quid with the amount of rot on it (and that's before you looked at the backend) Still, as long as he's happy - "Carry Out Empties" or whatever the Latin is...
Plenty of jobs to do folks. Thanks for the lovely vids. Looking forward to Miss Hubnuts new vid
Nice one, Ian. Winner. Profit easily covers a nice lunch and a pot of tea.
Giselle seems to be a lot of work, I'd say sell Giselle and put your money and effort into cars you drive a lot more... I think a smaller fleet needs to be on the cards for sure
Totally agree David though I do
Love Giselle
Yes…swap gsa for a xantia 🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀
Trade it for a nice XM......you know you wanna! 😉
Or a giant clear out in the one corner of the lockup
Well this is more interesting than someone having the moss cleaned off an old Golf and wanting 10 grand for it.
I think you had a good bargain with the green 106 sold it for what you paid for it, you had really a free ride home that,s good going Take care you two see you on the next video
Nice update, thank you. Possibly you can work something out with Tim from the garage for the future Hubnut 'collect & sell' cars? Here an idea. Good fun with duo presenters👍
Good idea!
I very much relate to the 'keep it forever' syndrome! I love searching for cars, collecting them, having the new car excitement, and swearing it's a keeper. Then just weeks later getting bored and looking for something else. My main issue though is my taste for much newer & expensive vehicles!
My friend use to buy cars pretty close to scrap value then get rid of them before it's MOT was due as he knew they wouldn't pass. He only used to keep them for a few weeks or a month or 2 before getting another one. Never understood that logic.
I do the same with computer hardware which cost probably not far off the price of autish1te style “flipper”. Yet I buy cars then keep them forever until they turn to dust
When i buy a car i try and make them last as long as i can as i need to get my value for money out of one. I have 2 rules when owning cars if it turns out to be unreliable it's gone if reliable it stays like my Corolla.
Love the chemistry.
Love you guys 👏👏👏👏
Would love to see a video getting Bella restored to full health again 😊
We were filming with her today.
Bella's a gonna.
Make sure you have spare injector fuel return joints and pipes when you do the leak off test.
After 21 years and 100K+ miles they are going to be quite brittle and prone to cracking or snapping.
We have no collect caper planned (at the moment)😂
At least £20 ROAD TAX. my 2cv is a rediculous £200 per anum !
Paul , Glasgow
I understand the hesitance in getting the train back and opting to take the car. I recently travelled by train to pick up a car myself. Bought the tickets in advance, and arrived at the train station on the day, only to find my first train was cancelled (looking at you Transpennine!). Fortunately, I was in time to get another train which got me to where I wanted to be. Fortunately, my car purchase had no issues whatsoever (full service history, 6 months warranty and low mileage for a 13 year old car), so was quite happy to drive the 120 miles back. I don't think it's a Hubnut car, as it's a Honda CR-Z hybrid. What I will say is that it only costs £25 a year road tax, has relatively cheap group 17 insurance and has good mpg.
I think I was very lucky to have a successful Trans Penine journey to get the Peugeot!
@@HubNut You were beating the odds there! I live in the north east and their service is nothing short of absolutely dire up here.
Glad the 106 has gone.Happy Birthday Ian( whenever it is) Don’t forget to have a great weekend
Thanks. Birthday was last month and a good time was had. (We had a second birthday outing on Wednesday!)
@@HubNut can’t fault you 👍
Another episode of Ian getting a bollockin
I’m looking forward to Miss Hubnut’s first solo drive/video in the other members of the fleet (first up TWC), as soon as the test is out of the way.
I did this, made a little money and my friend has now owned his first car for two years!
I think Giselle needs to go, too much money tied in it, too much fragile...
But tbh best of the bunch, it is also a Citroen and they are loved by Ian. If it goes probably another Daihatsu with pop up 😂🙂👍
So, it's a yes on buying a car just to avoid the trains, good advice, if only I had a driving licence, and the money for a car, or even a train ticket, you know, I think I'll just stay put... :P
"No Collection capers in the plans at the moment" I look forward to your imminent collection caper 😂
2CV no.2 appears to be an F reg blue celeste much like my (current) 2CV. I look forward to more tinkering videos
Looking forward to a new MH video
If Gissele was overcharging then it could have blown the bulbs. Had that with motorbikes twice.
I’m having to bring my 3rd choice to the social. 2CV broken, Aygo mk1 broken, so it’s my not very Hubnut BMW daily driver unfortunately. At least I’ll be there👍
Ah no worries. It's the Social aspect that matters most.
Made perfect sense to buy are car to avoid paying for a train fare as a senior in N.S.W l can travel anywere in the state for $2.50 on a train also you broke even on the green car which is a win and with petrol and insurance you are in front compared to the train fare
In regards to the fuel in the tank to get home and any additional expense occured (which was still cheaper than the train fare home), how much of that was recupped by the Collection Caper and drive homw video? Or at least in part as it made the Miss Daisy departing video a lot longer.
Is it me, or is Bob taller than Mrs Hubnut?
You had B82PEA, when I grew up the family car was J62EAP.
Worth it.
Relays for each headlight may help with the Giselle ? It saved my headlight switch from over heating in a Saab 9000 a few years back.
I saw a Mint 106 on Autotrader with a 1.4 engine very nippy but it was like £3 grand too much for me lol
It shouldn't be more than 3 grand anyway!
@@clivet3252 Yeah nowadays as most have been welded or undersealed but great cars , I would not buy a Saxo though as they were very badly made , same engines but the metal they used on the Saxo's rusted a lot faster for some reason
@@christineayres7199 well you don't see as many Saxos these days. The styling isn't as pure either.
@@clivet3252 Yeah I had a Vtr Saxo years back very fast in corners but on straights I got destroyed , and I agree the 106 just looked better especially front end
@@christineayres7199 I suppose Citroen had to differentiate between the styling, especially as the 106 had already been out for 5 years, but it just looked more bloated.
5:55 🚨🚨 TRAILER TENT ALERT! 🚨🚨
I think you need to rent a skip and have a clean up. Then Betty might fit as well. How can you find anything in there?
Absaloutly brilliant video Ian miss hubnut ❤👍all the cars which to repair you should do a video of mini hubnut stripping the engine down that would be great brilliant
Safe travels, little Peugeot. Get the rust fixed and may you never get french electrics/electronics gremlins.
Also you made a couple of videos of the Peugeot, so you made money on you tube too, well done!
You didn't factor in a month's tax into your calculation.
Have you had a good look around the wiring on Bella? I found the wiring harness on mine had chaved against the engine block and it created and intermittent fault which were the chaved wire was touching the engine block and shorting out
Yes, wiring looks ok.
I believe for Bob you can do everything yourself but probably best to get it checked. Vandemonium built his own campervan and only got things checked for his own piece of mind, and his history is in local TV/radio and the work he did to is narrowboat when he had one.
Naturally statics are a bit different and of course you need proper gas safe registered people to work on it, plus they're generally a bit more complicated.
I think we're probably ditching gas, so that makes me happier.
@@HubNut Vandemonium has just replaced his refillable gas system with a diesel heater and induction hob and it seems to have gone OK, again he did it all himself.
Quite a good channel to see how someone with basic DIY skills can do a small camper conversion.
I only sold the cars I owned, never bought one to sell, and I absolutely hate it. I prefer making a loss to dealing with car buyers, especially when it comes to budget cars.
I remember trying to sell a Renault 4 and the guy during the test drive treated it like it was a Fiat Punto Abarth, wringing every last horsepower out of it. And then not buying it because it is 'too slow'. I recommended him to not buy any oldtimer... I had no idea you could make a Renault 4 fly like that, and I never want to live through that again.
Also if Top Gear has taught us anything, other than 'don't go to america' it is that even when you give cars away people can sue you. Go see the America special, where they try to buy cars instead of rent. They end up giving them away to the victims of hurricane Katrina. One of the three gets given away, one gets given away but they get sued for getting the year wrong, and there's on no one even wants for free. Not staged, that bit. To be honest, in those days Top Gear was way less staged anyway.
Bye bye 106. It Didn't last long but it did prove its point. Especially if you take into account not only money but also time and fun (and I'd also say choice of eating along the trip)
Id say bulbs on giselle idoubt burned NYTHING OUT. IVE WAS ALWAYS TOLD TO HAVE LIGHTS ON IN A FORD QHEN JUMPSTARTING BECAUSE OF THE SMART CHARGE THE VOLTAGE CAN SPIKE AND PUT LIGHTS ON SO IF IT SPIKES THEY TAKE THE BRUNT. The extra current probably just cooked the bulb elements. I wouldnt be too worried as circuits are usually designed with some kind leeway. Luckilynit is an older car without loads of modules that wouldnt be fun.
Looking forward to miss hub nuts video and happy birthday to you
Got to ask about the blue Fiesta Road Rally Car parked outside?
What happened to learning to weld?
Your beginning to be like Project Nigel the garage of broken dreams too many broken cars.
Saved 68 quid and got door to door. Big win.
What about ROAD TAX ??
Funny but Scott caught a train only to buy a car and drive it home.
Master. You need to clean the shed out or get a bigger shed to fill up. Haha.
ANYTHING is cheaper than a train ticket these days!🤬
Feels like it.
Did you not tax it? Tax is minimum one month and not transferable from you to the next owner (Scott) or from the previous owner to you.
I didn't. I drove home before the owner transfer was done, so it was taxed in the name of the seller. It's a stupid, stupid system where two people end up paying for the same month.
"Waffle" The best ending ever.
Plus what the videos, earned
A fair point, but the aim was to replicate what someone else might do so I didn't factor that in.
Did you quote Scott £550 plus carriage..?
haha, Not in Victoria Australia it isn't. It costs a fortune to flip cars down under as we have to get an MOT certificate when you purchase a second-hand vehicle & then when you sell it either you or the purchaser must get another MOT done to transfer it into the new ownership.
also, in our case, we pay 45 quid each time you buy or sell a car in transfer fees to the DVLA (Vic Roads). That is on top of the purchase price they also take motor vehicle duty as well which is another %5 of the purchase price which you must pay the DVLA again.
Your trains are cheaper too...
I sold an Austin Princess to a bloke for £160 back in the day. Cheaper than the train ticket to Liverpool he said .
I often wonder if he completed the journey as the layshaft was grinding it's way out of the gearbox and I had bodged it up. I did tell him but he wasn't bothered.
another great video has always Ian and miss hubnut and hublets and hubmutts 👍
I reckon TWC looks great with her patina. IMO concentrate on her mechanics.
The fibreglass has developed osmosis. If I don't deal with it, she'll literally just fall apart.
@@HubNut I didn't know that.
Fiberglass boats can live with osmosis for decades but obviously TWC's body is much thinner.
I'll be interested to see how extensive it is and how you deal with it.
Does it occur on other fiberglass cars; Reliants for example?
when did that happen? congrats for over 100k
Thanks! Celebrated in style. ruclips.net/video/1bStgbvuP7s/видео.html
My parents' old Conway Carmargue trailer tent is stood on its side on special castor brackets - is such a thing available or even possible for Bob? It would save a lot of space.
I mean, it's feasible but you'd want to empty the contents first... Also half a ton is quite a lot to lift.
If you had not met Miss Hubnut that Dahaitsu would have been kicked in to the long grass a long, long time ago 😂😂
Train economics really stack up if more than one person travelling. You could make a fortune selling official pink Hubnut shorts if wearing them really is a valid reason for not working on a car today.... Are you going to test drive the "brand new" electric 2CV featured on Late Brake Show?
Not sure what you sold it for but considering 6/7 years a go even a 106 gti top spec model could be had for 2k, nowadays then are at 7/8k!
Cooking models like these less so but then again when they’ve all but disappeared, even things like Citroen c2s have gone too which used to be 500 quid cars no matter the spec.
That said the second market for cars these days has gone crazy,cars what were 500-1k 2 years ago are now 2k or more
Miss Hubnut keeps a snesible balance to this channel!
Sorry "sensible"
How are the good olsit
AY UP MR AND MRS HUBNUT
How do I find out about the socials? Would like to go to one this year!
I announce them in videos. This one is fully booked so I'll announce when the next one is. When we know...
Ah, OK! Must have missed one somewhere. Will make sure I watch them all in future 😊
Bella needs to be moved on or replaced for a newer version
Nah. We're close to having her running fine again.
😀
Did the Yugo go for scrap with the two Olcits or did that get sold?
No. Yugo is with an enthusiast who now has two of them, good Oltcit was sold to a Romanian, bad one was purchased out of the scrapyard for spares.
@@HubNut Great, even the scrap one gas been made good use of.
I think Giselle is a good candidate for moving on because she needs a specialist for so much. The rest of the fleet can be attacked with hammers and screwdrivers just fine, but Giselle is a complex beast. As lovely as she is.
Was the 106 the same colour as Bella?
No. A deeper green.
@HubNutVids Are you growing a modern mullet?
Yes. A little.
@@HubNut ha ha! Glorious.
😎👍🏻
These train fare comparisons always assume you are buying full price tickets on the day.
If you can book ahead and stick to a schedule you can get tickets at a fraction of the price.
Even if you can't stick to a schedule you can still get advance tickets a lot cheaper.
There are also all sorts of discount schemes like railcards.
I recently travelled 450 miles by car on a return journey and could have travelled cheaper by train despite getting 55mpg on my journey. The travel time would have been a little longer by train but only an hour or so each way.
I realise this is not always the case and if I had more than one person in the car it would not have been the case but train isn't as bad as often made out by car channels.
Public transport should be reliable and cheap - at all times. Greed has reduced the UK to a shambles.
@@Codzilla71 Public transport is subsidised in the UK and cars are not subsidised and pay for themselves (though arguably cars should also pay for the pollution and health issues they cause).
So it is not accurate to say it is greed that keeps public transport expensive as the prices are kept down, paid by the UK tax payers.
Unless you want the UK tax payer to pay several times as much as they currently do like some European countries ?
Personally I think we should subsidise bus and train further and have a very high quality system like many European countries but many people will disagree.
From my experience services are better than they were in the old British Railway days though that might just be because things generally do improve over the years and comparing services now with services thirty plus year ago is an unfair comparison.
I'll just add that bus services in the UK are generally quite cheap and for most people it would be a lot cheaper than owning a fairly modern car (which most do) if you can put up with the inconvenience factor.
Obviously, if you live in a very rural area like Hub Nut and need to travel to a variety of different locations frequently (which is not typical for the majority of the population) then buses are not a practical method of travel.
What a preposterous train ticket system where it is cheaper to buy, fuel, insure and resell a car then buy a train ticket.
I've got a ticket for tomorrow's social and now can't make it. First to message me can have it, I'll email it to you.
It would help if you say where it's being held.
And why is it ticketed? Surely anyone can just turn up at a pub or wherever it is!
So,a Train Driver takes the Train buy a car from you.....who originally bought the car to AVOID taking the Train home,wind up selling the Car for what you payed for it?? Glad to see you didn't get Rail-Roaded on the price 😜😛!