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This won't be the most exciting thread on this site but I thought I'd like to contribute something. There might be something of interest to someone. I could go back further but I'm going back to January 2016 when I bought this car, one of my favourites. Before that I didn't do any shiteing so not very interesting. This car introduced me to it and it's now my way of life. It's a reasonably rare Astra SRi Turbo 200. In January 2016 I got a tax refund of £2400 (I think) and went to see a mk5 Golf GTI that was advertised for that. It was utterly buggered so I wondered what I could get for my money that was similar but wouldn't be completely buggered for that price. I bought this Astra without knowing much about them and it was excellent. Quick, fun, reliable and I paid just over half my £2400 budget. It had a leaky rad and a broken wing mirror but otherwise was pretty good. Six speed gearbox (known for shitting itself but never put a foot wrong for me) and a 197bhp 2.0 turbo engine, coded Z20LER. Honestly, I loved this car. One of the best I've owned. In June 2018 it was T-boned by a Ford Kuga that simply drove off. Luckily I had witnesses and the insurance company of the third party settled. I was given more money than the car cost me in the first place. I continued to use it while I decided what to get next. In the end I sold it to a colleague for scrap value who assured me he would fix it up and he did. Then he got an insurance quote, decided it was far too much and broke it for parts. I wish I had done my original plan of keeping the engine for a future project (it was an absolute belter) but I thought I was doing him a favour