I BOUGHT A CHEAP MINI CLUBMAN FOR £1,500!

Today, I've bought a Mini Clubman for just £1,500! Let's see what it's like...

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[johnayres]

You’re helping the environment by prolonging the life of these cars. You’re generating business for local companies. Your preventing old men like me from watching TV game shows and soaps.

[funkeeee]

'I MASSIVELY OVERSPENT' should be merch.

[darrengraves]

You sir are vital to your local economy not only are you keeping cars on the road (not taking short cuts or bogging) your willingness to spend on 50/50 cars and giving the work local is admirable 👍

[StuartRiley]

We recently sold our clubman Cooper D. It was on 150, 000 miles and was as tight as a drum. Didn’t spend a penny on it (other than normal oil/filter change) and sold it for £700 more than we paid for it 2 years ago. One of the best cars we’ve had. Maybe we were lucky

[PuddingPeep-fskw]

I’ve been waiting ages for you to do a Mini Video.

I always swore I’d never sell Minis and several years on 80% of what I sell is Mini - just late 2010 Petrol models onwards - not the Cooper S however.

Buying them right is essential and a neglected one is a no go unless it’s for nothing, I’m fortunate enough to get everything done in house apart from mot and paint.

They are a recon nightmare, I’ve 3 good gearboxes on the shelf ready to go, plus a few spares cars tucked out the back 😅

I’m amazed how popular the product is and we have people drive hundreds of miles for them just because of spec etc. You just have make sure all the failure points are good before advertising

I’ve had 5 go out since September the 1st and all with very respectable profits, I can’t buy enough of them - bare me in mind if you have any you want to trade 😀

As always great video !

[Headline_Hunter]

Great job reviving the plastic parts of the Mini! You've made me proud. Excellent work, Matt! 🚙

[richardallsop]

Hello Again, Matt this formula of you buying and selling secondhand vehicles really works, great to watch and offers viewers true expected costs of buying a 'cheap' car, please keep doing more of the same. Regards, RichardA.

[kieranlarkin]

Always loved the Clubman. Happy memories of the 1970s impossibly small one with a dodgy orangey ish colour. Think it’s largely style over function, but if you don’t need the back seats the van back end is really useful. And racing green. Should have added another £500 just for that!

[charliewelton_]

Been waiting to see a mini of this age for ages!! I’ve got a 2012 Mini Hatch Cooper as my first car - had it over a year and it’s never cost me a penny, has had a life full of love though, and never been unloved! Still going strong at 106, 000 miles now 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻

[brentfairlie]

Matt, the frequent sarcasm in your humor is delightful.

[philtoni]

Great fun watching your videos! Recently acquired my brother in law's 2008 Cooper S after he suffered a stroke. He worked 25 yrs at Mini in Oxford so feel the need to cherish it. Hours spent cleaning it, replacing rotted rubber strips, fixing 2 oil leaks plus other issues. £1k spent but I've developed a deep attachment 🙄. Looks like a baby next to my Jeep Wrangler Overland 😂.

[leedorey]

I bought a MCS recently for my daughter to learn in. 2007 80k miles. So far in two months I have done the following preventative and required maintenance on the woeful PSA N14.
1. Uprated timing chain and guides
2. PCV and valve cover replacement
3. Crankcase breather
4. 4 x new tyres Hankook Ventus
5. Oil filter housing (it was leaking)
6. New fog lights
7. Light refurb
8. Boot button rubber replacement
9. Coil packs and plugs
10. New parcel shelf
11. Various sensors
12. New windscreen cowls
13. New wipers
14. Front discs and pads
15. AC regas
16. Pollen and air filters, plus two oil changes.


Basically I've spent the same repairing the car as I paid for it!

Labour of love these things, it now drives lovely!

[shatnersbassoon]

Hi Matt, I traded my last car in a week after the MOT. It wasn't for shady reasons, it needed two rear suspension bushes and had a couple of buttock-clenching drives in it where it felt like the rear end was doing it's own thing (which it was!) before I got them replaced. I didn't feel comfortable driving it after that. Sometimes you just fall out of love with a car I think! I've always been a 'replace whatever needs doing' bloke when I take my car to the mechanic but that just got overlooked I think and it ruined it for me. 6 years ownership and 50000 miles from new, haven't regretted losing it at all. Sometimes you just don't want it anymore 👍

[reececollison]

Fair play on the wheel refurb guy saying you’re wasting money on it, shows he’s a decent one. Most would snap it up and take max money for an easy job

[GL]

I knew a guy up here in the NE who moved from Nissan at Sunderland to Mini at Cowley around 2004. He was paid well and moved the family to Oxfordshire.
He agreed with you on the MINI - style over substance. Drove a Micra himself!

[RussianSpaceman]

Ah Matt, don't be that guy with heat gun, it's a temporary solution but it actually weakens the structure of bumper, just use plastic spray...

[asdfghjkljhgfdsaable]

I love the brutal honesty and absolute transparency of these videos - thanks for continuing on with this great content.

One thing I have been wondering is how the videos themselves impact on your margin for cars like this. This has been live for 1 hour and already has 10, 000 views - with ad revenue plus the sponsorships, and traffic to the merchandise site, do you get a bit more wiggle room?

[markwarner]

Matt, don’t use a heat gun on the black plastics, use Autoglym Bumper & Trim Gel. It’s amazing and really easy to use. I’ve used it on many a Freelander with fantastic results 😊

[trevdavis]

Owned this car on the same reg so looking forward to watching this one. Had a really annoying tick sound from the Peugeot engine, a new exhaust cost more than gold and so did the brake pads compared to a standard mini

[thisiszaphod]

My late wife's daily 2009 Mini Cooper 1.6 Convertible - never to be sold - was promoted to this one's daily driver last year, for reasons. I was treating her as a second, day-off car. Bought in 2015 - and 100% reliable. Basically, you reap what you sow. Our example has never needed anything but comestibles.

Regularly serviced, respected, maintained, cared for and loved. The rule was, and is, roof down, no matter the season.

Maybe we were lucky.

I never use a heat gun to rejuvenate black plastics. Yes, they look superb, but drawing the oils out makes them more brittle.