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I followed a Puegeuot for a few miles the other day. Didn't want to risk a photo whilst driving, but I couldn't work the Plate out, maybe there was nothing to work out, but we see many " TTIOMEE Tommy " style plates, I'm always trying to figure out what they might be trying to say M17CUN all I could read was MI CUNT
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C4MRY on and old Toyota Camry, I didn't 'pap it' as the guy was sitting in the car, I was in a rucking fush and didn't want to strike up any sort on conversation with an old car nerd, I did that a few days earlier, couldn't shut the fekker up as he rattled on about all the cars he'd owned
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Cracking job
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Where do you find is the best place to sell them?
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Isaac Hunt reacted to a post in a topic: Number plate wanker - show us yours?
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Looks clean. I had to throw away our 03 2-Door late last year, it needed a sparkly stick, nsf strut, Rad, 4 tyres and the paint down one side was proper Hobo. it was a fun spare car but wasn’t really being used. Scrappy gave me £400 for it so I drove it down there, felt quite sad, but I had a lot of other stuff on and too many cars. fun cars
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My bad then, I always understood Bangernomics was the economics of running and older car. 10 years in considered 'end of life' and judging by the number of 10 year old cars in my local yard and thus anything over 10 years is banger territory. What is the pedantic definition these days then?
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Our MGZR came to us in 2013 for £650. 60k Miles, 6 Former keepers. It had some good MOT and was pushed straight into service. First MOT required a couple of Tyres and. Track Rod End. Then the clutch release bearing failed, so we threw a new three part clutch at it. A cambelt and waterpump was also undertaken. A headgasket at 82k and other than a few sets of brake pads and a set of four tyres, it needed nothing more than a couple of CV Gaiters and a set of spark plugs, a clutch cable, that is all it has needed. it was laid up for a year during the pandemic and pressed back into service 12 months ago. Reluctantly, I've just scrapped it today. It needed a section of still splashing with a welder. It also needed a nsf strut assembly after a uhnfortunate altercation with a kerb. Add onto that a set of four tyres as they were all on the limit. MOT is up the end of next week and the local Scrapyard offered £400. I hated driving it over to the scrapyard, but it's really surplus to requirements. The lacquer and paint was hanging off one side where it had been painted at some time, so it looked a real mess down the one side. Heart still said fix it up and keep it going, but head said at £250 depreciation plus running costs, we've had our value out of it. It was just about to turn 140k
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Good show, I nearly shouted out loud "There's the Dacia" but the other occupants would not have known the significance of the 'spot' @dollywobbler
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A443 near Tenbury, there it was @catsinthewelder @hub but
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Cars, Lasses and Lads - A Photo Sharing Thread
Isaac Hunt replied to Dick Longbridge's topic in AutoShite
She's gone up in the world, it's on a Astin Marton now, silver of course, shaken not stirred -
BeEP's motors - Pride MOT'd, Cinq starts, C1 for sale.
Isaac Hunt replied to BeEP's topic in AutoShite
Good job you didn't go to Liverpool, you'd have list all four hubcaps -
Good tyres are those Falkens. I've worn out three sets of four on three different cars. Although they were 914's or 514's (or something similar). They did strike me to have crept up in price over the years, so our last car that wore out its Falkens got a set of Avons.
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Highway Code changes 29/01/22 - what do you think about it?
Isaac Hunt replied to High Jetter's topic in AutoShite
I’m aware of both the slowing down hand signal and the left turn hand signal. As for a left turn whilst slowing down, the only person I’ve seen do that is the Queen, although ironically she was been driven at the time -
Highway Code changes 29/01/22 - what do you think about it?
Isaac Hunt replied to High Jetter's topic in AutoShite
I often wonder how long it takes updates to the Highway Code to reach community immunity. I was following a van the other day, not too close, and it seemed to slow down, no brake lights shown. Then it was clear it was slowing significantly, easily measured by the diminishing gap in front of me. I then noticed the drivers hand out of the drivers window, the arm and hand being rotated in a circular motion. I thought, ahah, brake lights an indicators are out, it's not often you see hand signals these days, well not a left turn hand signal anyway, plenty of others. I relayed the story to a variety of age folk, and demonstrated the hand signal. not one knew what the hand signal was. Many offered more modern examples of hand signals that they had seen. -
In relative terms, the increase is huge. I can remember paying £650 in 2013 for an up and together 2003 MGZR, which was 10yr old at the time, 67000 miles Then in 2014, paid £2500 for a 2005 Fester ST150, which was 9 year old. Better paintwork examples were £3500. Miles were 90,000 The guys at Salavage Rebuids have just rebuild a 2013 Fester ST which was an unrecorded total loss, but they have priced accordingly to its history, at £7500 ish it is almost that everything has doubled in the last 10 years, what was a £750 10 year old is now £1500 and so on. Low end stuff is flying off the forecourts if you listen to the likes of Chops Garage on YouTube. Tyre Kickers on YouTube has just rattled out a 62 Insignia, which admittedly is a top spec, low mileage, well presented (after issues were sorted) for what I consider to be an obscene amount of money for the age and model, £7500 ish. 12 Months advisory free MOt and one of those ''covers everything but normal wear and tear warranties where unfortunately the item that has failed is normal wear and tear' but as long as people are paying it then the market price level is set. The thing is, there to be thousands of cars for sale, so is it really supply and demand. There must be a rake of 2018's dropping of a 4 year pcp, 2019's dropping of 3 year pcps. Sure, not so many 2020's dropping off 2 year deals. Wait for interest rates to rise and then we might see some market correction. My daughter has just purchased a replacement car, five years old and it was a jaw dropping amount of money. She has been running an old car for 6 years and felt she wanted something newer. She's put if off several times but didn't want to wait for market correction, which might be a long time happening, or might not.