Hello, I'm new to this forum having moved to Malta around 9 months ago!
As always settling in to a new country has been challenging at times but so far we've managed to work everything out ourselves. However, we're now faced with a broken car and I don't really know where to turn for help.
It's an old (18 years) Peugeot 106 Diesel which we bought for 1000 EUR around 4 months back because I was sick of paying hire car fee's. Last week whilst driving it suddenly cut out and we had to get it on a recovery truck back to our house in Marsascala. The battery is fine and the starter motor works turns over, but it just won't start (fuel pump maybe?). Also, around a week prior, the brakes stopped working properly (I think maybe a brake servo pipe problem) and so it cannot be towed safely.
So my question is are there any freelance/hobby mechanics out there who would potentially come and take a look, and then consider fixing it for cash-in-hand provided it's a simple enough fix? What I am worried about it taking it to a garage and being told that it needs hundreds of Euros worth of repairs. Quite frankly if it's going to cost more than a couple of hundred Euros to fix then I would rather scrap it and revert to long term hire! I cannot afford to run a car which is going to continuously fail on me.
Any suggestions would be much appreciated.