What to do with a free KA?

Post by **Bailes1992** » Tue Jun 17, 2014 10:52 am

Looks like I'm going to be getting a free KA in the next few weeks.
2006 KA, poverty spec with about 70k on the clock.
It's a solid motor, usual KA rust around the filler cap.

Question is what to do with it?
Do I use it as a daily and use the Mondeo for weekends?

Or

Get a cheap SportKA engine, fettle with the suspension an little and use it as a weekend/track day thrash-about?

Bailes.

PeterN · Post by **PeterN** » Tue Jun 17, 2014 11:20 am

Sell it and buy a 406.

Peter

jonsowman · Post by **jonsowman** » Tue Jun 17, 2014 11:21 am

PeterN wrote:Sell it and buy a 406.

+1. Do it Sam

scotty73 · Post by **scotty73** » Tue Jun 17, 2014 11:51 am

Or give it to me, I'll sell it and my 406 and get a 2.2 exec.

Post by **steve_earwig** » Tue Jun 17, 2014 11:55 am

Push it over a cliff, film it & stick it on Yew Toob

Keeping a Mondano for the weekends, well, it's hardly a classic you're saving there. You could flog the Mondeo and buy something interesting/hugely uneconomical for the weekends, and use the Ka for work as planned.

Track day car, didn't you just buy a house?

Flog it & stick the money under your mattress/buy something you actually need/take t'wife on helliday/blow it all on booze.

Post by **Welly** » Tue Jun 17, 2014 12:18 pm

Take one pair of these:

And drive the KA for work.

Some window stickerz like: "my other car's a Mondeo" etc might help......

rwb · Post by **rwb** » Tue Jun 17, 2014 1:09 pm

The Ford KA serves no purpose and must be disposed of.

Anyway, what's the point having the Mondeo if you don't drive it?

Post by **Welly** » Tue Jun 17, 2014 1:32 pm

rwb wrote: Anyway, what's the point having the Mondeo if you don't drive it?

It's Brown that's why.

Post by **steve_earwig** » Tue Jun 17, 2014 1:56 pm

Nothing wrong with brown cars, I had a brown Marina once. Well, it was mostly brown with rust spots. And then I killed it. I still have a picture of it somewhere...

Good job there was no youtube in them days

Post by **Bailes1992** » Tue Jun 17, 2014 2:01 pm

I'd love another 406 but insurance on a KA is £400/y and a HDi110 406 is more like £800.

PeterN · Post by **PeterN** » Tue Jun 17, 2014 3:06 pm

Our 406 insurance was £135.00 you need to be old and live in the country.

Peter

gumby6371 · Post by **gumby6371** » Tue Jun 17, 2014 3:46 pm

My 2.2 is cheaper to insure than my old 1.9, IIRC £340 fully comp with 5 years no claims, tax was less and economy is about the same.
£800 sounds very expensive to me.

Buy a 406, you know it makes sense

fattail95 · Post by **fattail95** » Tue Jun 17, 2014 5:57 pm

406! 406! 406! You know you want to

Post by **Bailes1992** » Tue Jun 17, 2014 5:59 pm

Quick insurance quote...

Said KA... £476.42

2003 406 HDi 110 SE... £784.32

My Modified Mondeo only costs me £570.

FarmerPug · Post by **FarmerPug** » Tue Jun 17, 2014 6:32 pm

If you wanted a small hatchback for occasional track day use a 106/saxo would be better.

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