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chris1991

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See if you can spot a pattern here:

 

2004 VW Polo

 

1998 Golf diesel

 

1998 Passat diesel 

 

1992 Passat petrol estate

 

1984 Audi 80

 

1995 Audi 80TDi estate

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Err..you don't like anything built after 1983?    I still suffer my 1987 T25 but I actually like it even though I am nowhere near a VAG fan myself.   I just sold my Morris Oxford (Farina) which I did really like but it started pissing me off with chasing its terminal rust and endless unreliability (not a normal characteristic of these cars, I have to say...).   Too early to say if I miss it but I probably will before long.   The car I was most glad to see the back of was a Mk3 Granada twin cam - it was actually a bloody good car but for some reason it just depressed me with its plastic-ness.  Oh and boiling its own piss in the middle of the Loire Valley, cracking the head and making me suffer a Renault Seasick hire car for the whole bloody fortnight.

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lots of mk3 1.4 golf's  - many, many of them.....n lately a mk4 Golf tdi shell which was in terrible nicks - lots of dents, scratched paintwork n rusty front wings; it also had a slight puck on the passenger side front chassis leg... I had advertised the car for breaking; everything useful from the shell was picked off - doors, hatch n shell  n rusty wings was all that was left...

 

A young fella rang me up "is the shell still about?...is it a 2 door"...    "yes.. eh, yes...make me an offer" - €200 "YES!!...eh, yeah that'll do" - he came up with his mams galaxy towing a rickety transporter n we shoved the shell up onto it...  he explained he would be reshelling a 4 door - good luck with that!!  I thought id have to chop it up n weigh the ugly hulk in - I toasted its departure HEAVILY!!!

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This fucking thing!  Couldn't give the bastard away.  Ask anyone what their ideal Granada is and they'll say a mk1, preferably old enough for free tax, rust-free, with an Essex V6 and manual box.  Yep, every box ticked there.  Could I sell it?  Not in Cyprus, not here.  Well I did eventually (obviously) but for a tiny fraction of what it stood me.  I've still got some random spares in my lockup...

 

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And 25 years earlier, this one!  I should have learned the lesson.  Granadas are not for me.

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Mk4 4 door escort in that horrible blue, I hated this after my 3 door.

 

Renault 5 with its mega hard clutch. It nearly killed me when going into a right hand bend with a big drop, the twating thing dipped really badly on a knackered passenger shock throwing itself sideways.

 

Mk2 Corsa 1.2 SXI, 2 wiper motors, 2 gear linkages. Burned all its oil and other shit I can't remember all to be told by vauxhall "it's a known fault" fuck that, tbh I'm surprised we had it for nearly 5 years! DVLA says it's dead now

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'94 lada riva. Nothing wrong with it, it was just total shit in every way.

'94 mondeo 2.0 glx. Nothing wrong with that, I just hated how dull, clinical and uninspiring it was plus the fact that every other car on the road was a mondo at the time.

52 plate rover 45. I hated it for pretty much the same reasons as above. So boringly average in every way.

I'm now back at my default position which is with an old RWD Volvo. I've never owned a bad one.

 

Out of a running total of about 50 cars, that's not too bad

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C545 SGM - Granada 2.8 Ghia X. A woeful shitsack of a car.

Looked mint but had more holes than a hobo's undercrackers, hidden by an expertly* applied veneer of wob.

And the engine shat itself shortly (roughly 5 miles) after all the body repairs had been completed.

And when I sought my revenge by racing the bastard, I got leathered wholesale on the first lap.

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My mate had a 309 automatic that got sold to someone who's probably still trying to track him down and kill him seven years later. I just cannot like the 309s, bloody horrible things.

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D700RFC Peugeot 505 GTI Family. It had been a nice car and looked decent enough but I never quite managed to get on top of it. The water pump sprung a leak once and I had to wait a week for a replacement, which cost a fortune. I had to smash the old pump off every stud and it had to stay where it was overnight because the crank pulley had to be smashed off too. While it was parked up overnight somebody took exception to the RFC plate (which was original to the car) and put the windscreen in- every job on that car went a bit like that.

 

I replaced it with a £75 Sierra Sapphire. Its water pump also sprung a leak. My mate pointed me towards a Pinto engine at the back of his workshop and within half an hour its pump was on my engine at a cost of £0.00.

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I thought this thread was about divorce when I read the title.

 

Not sure about "glad I got rid", more like "wish I had'nt bought the bastard" which is where I am at the moment with my vectra as it does it's best to make me bankrupt.

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G346 CSX Metro City. Gearbox died at 6 months old. Garage wouldn't pay to fix it, dad paid by cheque, took the car and then bounced the cheque. Lex Broxburn, now Arnold Clark, cunts then and when I visited them in 2006 when my neighbour needed help buying a car, still cunts. Traded it in for a Fiesta after that, no problems since.

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