Thread: Small Runabout Car

One other thing I've run into is with cheap runabouts - add in changing the shocks and brakes out, possibly a new set of boots especially if it's been sitting and then alignment and suspension/steering components etc etc. Once you've got that far the aircon will crap out followed by the speakers and central locking then the battery starter and charging setup haha. I got all that sorted with the wife's little runabout while she was working at schools and the little bastards were into keying the adult workers cars, then the waterpump shit itself - but before I got onto that she got rear ended as the fourth car up a 6 car pile up at a set of lights after a ute and boat couldn't stop. Her car took the crumple for the entire line of thump thumps!

Power windows and central locking are the other piss-me-offs, and driver's seat frames falling to bits. Had a run a while back around Tauranga where they must have been told to hit driver's seats at WOF time - anything with a bit of wiggle got the big F.

Basically get whatever you are looking at fully checked out so you know what you're in for - probably won't save you from all the surprises but it might give you an idea what you're in for.