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Surely if it’s their responsibility to do the recall, it’s their responsibility to fix anything they break while doing it? They are the ones who made the bloody car wrong in the first place!

I assume they started selling LHD cars a good few years before so people weren’t screwed after the switch? Stunning car!

I hope you manage to get one of them back on the road, I also had a 309 as my first car (red 1.3 Style post facelift) and loved it - good capable first car.

10” wheels so something small, I was going to say mini but the arches don’t look right. I’m going Innocenti based upon previous Italian purchases.

Ford Fusion. Loads of space, good handling, decent off road for a FWD granny car. We had one at work, and it survived over 180k of utter abuse with minimal issues. It was dog slow with the 1.4 TDCI but would sit at 90 all day and sipped fuel. We also had a fiesta van of the same age and engine but I would take the fusion every time. Chevrolet Lacetti Estate. Another work hack. Raggedy 1.6 pez went well, handled well even with the +10 profile M+S tyres we fitted - which also helped it be half decent off road. It rotted, had wet footwells and the ABS would randomly kick in a low speeds, but it never had FTP. Our lashitty was better than the 2l derv MK2 Megane estate it replaced in every aspect aside from power and heated seats.

If that was a tenth of the price it would be worth buying just to replace all the Ferrari badging with original Peugeot ones. Swap the engine for an old XUD for extra confusion.

‘86 200tdi on a ‘52 plate? My first assumption was ringing, but that’s not entirely making sense to me given the DVLA record and I’d assume you’d typically see ringed cars on an older plate, not a newer one.

Now? Volvo EX30 Twin Motor comes in at a smidge over 40k. Same with the Golf Alltrack if I want a bit more space and less electricity. In 1995 I’d be after a e36 325 TDS SE Touring. 35 quid over over 25k I think. I’d be wanting to option cruise and air con, which would probably blow the budget by at least a grand. In that case I might go for a 300 TDI Disco.

Not an album cover but one of the those new fangled moving pictures, the video for DJ Medhi’s Signatune by Romain Gavras is a lovely short film about a guy going to an SPL contest in an automatic third gen Prelude. Lots of max power era “tastefully” modified shite. https://youtu.be/bOyU_OzRXnM?si=PSSShp5V29F5-W_t

Just got absolutely reamed for my insurance, as a 40 year old driving a Volvo estate. Kinda money I’ve not spent since I was in my really 20’s. Quotes starting at 450 and that’s before I declared the crash.

Found out my wife’s pug 208 was a driving school car at some point in its previous life. About a week after we bought it I noticed some rough paint on the roof from the sign magnet, then later found the dual control system hidden in the passenger foot well, sans pedal. Its got 80k on it now, so I wonder if it’s still on the original clutch. Based up its history I think it did a year or two as a learners car down south before making its way up north. Not that bothered by it to be honest, it doesn’t seem to have been abused much.

An avant advent calendar would be great, will need to look into that for Christmas 2024. Oh look, I got a A4 1.9 TDI with 200,000 miles today. That’s good but I’m hoping for a RS2 tomorrow.

E46 main beam being at the top of the dash. In my ideal seating and steering position I couldn’t see it! p3 Volvo XC70 - needs the seatbelt on to release the handbrake automatically, and is fiddly to do manually. From what I can tell, you can’t disable the seatbelt buzzer. I don’t drive on the road without a seatbelt, but I often have bag on the passenger seat which sets it off, and I’m not going to bother wearing one when I’m doing 15mph along a gravel track and I’ve got a million gates to open and shut. Tempted to see if I can unplug the belt sensor and bridge it.

That’s absolutely crazy! It was a nice house, views out the back were fantastic!

I had a Citroen ZX Volcane TD for 6 months that paid me a pound for owning it. Bought on eBay in Leeds for £150 with 6 months t&t and 215k on the clock, I had a very memorable first collection caper in it, as it had a in incredibly loose passenger side wishbone and would lurch violently to the left upon reaching about 35 mph. That was a long drive back to Scotland. The rear axle was gubbed as well, giving it some interesting camber. My green ZX had blown its second head gasket, so that donated the front wishbone bits, and rear axle, and bonnet (the old one was chipped to hell). Ran it for till the MOT ran out, stuck it back on eBay and it sold for £151. Only costs were insurance, fuel and a can of black spray paint. That’s my first Toledo in the background, back when it was my my Dad owned it.