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In all fairness, the price doesn't seem bad at all, I'd say more sport territory but plenty of interest in these older beemers now and I wouldn't blame you for shoving the £1500 odd profit on top as you never know with older cars if that could bite you on the arse during the 3 month warranty.

So, what did you actually pay for it as its the "cheapest one in Britain at the time"? Bit of a pointless claim otherwise 🤣🤣🤣.

As for that engine I think it's excellent, I loved it in my 2001 Ibiza Cupra. I was going to mention it to you a few months back when I first saw you looking for something to avoid the CAZ but also a bit interesting. Sadly it wasn't in a ready to go state, it would have made a good project for you and been reasonably ......plus I'd already had two total and utter time wasters from this forum enquire so sold it elsewhere. I'd say with VAG as well that I always type the actual part number I need into the interweb as they cross match on so many cars that often an identical part is half or quarter of the price from one make to another. In the Ibiza the elec window switches fail and on ebay was showing about £30 a switch as they're unique* to that model, even £25 second hand and not guaranteed however a part number search revealed they were actually fitted to a facelift Polo of that era and I got them for £6 each delivered 😂😂😂. Same with the rear wheel bearings as they came complete with the hub they were about £50 a piece for the SEAT or £75 a piece for the polo 🙄🙄🙄. Enginewise I never put a lot into mine, IIRC the model I had was about 156bhp out of the factory and I recall it being the smallest car they put that engine in so went really well, the 180bhp one should be great in a TT. As for value they've hit rock bottom I think. I remember about 5 years ago looking for a car to buy complete to put the 1.8t into my mk1 gti cab and the golf or A3 were the only ones I could find for about the 6-700 mark, tt's were still £1800-2k cars at entry level. Now, on the rare occasion you see a golf variant for sale they seem to hold their money well, even the A3's seem to fetch good coin if you can even find one. My suspicion is that when they went below a grand they started falling into the wrong hands and, like the early Imprezas, have now all but disappeared after being in abundance only about 10 years ago. I think the TT is now at an odd age where its not cool enough for young kids to lust after when they can just buy a fiesta st for "£250 a month", still seen as a bit of a hairdressers car to a lot of folk in their 30's and in my age group, 40's, I think they're just seen as a bit old hat leaving the market as quite limited. Mint ones will attract those who lusted after them in their teens /20's and now have a good bit of disposal income at their hands or over 50's who are just divorced but got no money and think they can impress a 25yr old hottie to piss off the ex wife in a semi midlife crisis stylee🤣🤣. Me I still think they look great, go well and have some great features, I'd love one but I would genuinely look like the 50yr old midlife crisis man above despite being in a happy relationship 😂😂

My only surprise is you didn't say "BMW" or "Mercedes" drivers as well, yawn yawn. I got run off the road yesterday on a major roundabout near Frome in my Partner causing some damage to my wheel and despite flashing the driver for 5 miles gesturing to them to pull over, they just ignored me until I was able to pass and stop them. Denied all knowledge of course despite the fact I saw the look of horror in her and the 2 passengers eyes, watched her swerve back into the correct lane using no indicators, driving right round a roundabout without indicating in the outside lane and then try and put their foot down despite spending the first part of the journey at below 40mph in a 60. And what was she driving? A Rav 4. Not exclusive to any car make.

Hmmmm not so sure on that one. I had a 10v coupe which was a lovely car to drive but nothing special performance wise. I'd bet that was basic cossie money back then as well which would have blitzed one of those. Rare old thing though.

They were surprisingly popular usually in that light blue colour they did. My mate had a really early mk4 escort diesel 3dr estate, awesome car he drove literally all over Europe and nowt went wrong. Twas a 1.6d which really were unbreakable.

Totally agree @DoctorRetro has come on leaps and bounds now. Welding to mot standard isn't that hard with decent kit, mostly if you find good steel and prep surfaces well you get a good finish. The aftercare is the one, plenty of seam sealer and of course.... Cold galvanic spray 🤣🤣🤣

I'd also say prices are getting a tad more sensible now. I picked up a Partner 2.0 HDi for under a grand this month whereas I still saw loads at 2k or more but they've been on sale since the last time I fancied one back in March. l Some sellers are royally taking the piss as well expecting you to pay £1500 for something thats "ready for mot". So take it for an mot then? Or was "running fine until yesterday, just a flat battery". Sure. To be fair the people I bought it off were textbook decent sellers, took no deposit as he was happy with a handshake, took it off the website as soon as I said I'd insured it, got it ready, all cleaned or and smelling nice, found a few bits of paperwork for me etc etc. They lived in a nice area and it was clear the car had been with them a while from the logbook and mot history, just with mileage diminishing every year commensurate with WFH and a new company car which was evident upon arrival. I don't usually worry about things like that when I'm buying but it is nice to see there's still decent folk out there.

The first part of your quote was exactly what a guy I used to work with would do all the time, kept rolling his finance on to the next car until he had a diesel lQ3 that nobody wanted and had to literally use "option 3,throw in the keys and walk away". What he'd owed vs the value of the car meant all his deposit, including his mrs newish-at-the-time Jazz and "equity" in it at that point were worthless, they didn't even want it in px against a new Audi. Bear in mind he'd been putting £350-400 pm into it along with the Jazz but they'd given him £1500 "cashback" a.k.a, a £1500 loan you're now paying 7% APR on. Still, he's been bankrupt and despite everyone who knew in work and the interweb telling him that he couldn't put all his redundancy into his pension and then take it out the next day tax free, he still insisted he could and was going to use it to pay off his rather large mortgage for a 60yr old on a crap flat. Spoke to one of the other boys a few weeks back who said he'd confessed he was nowhere near able to pay it off and had in fact gone out and bought yet another car on finance. I firmly believe you're either in the save or spend camp and those of us inbetween sort of dip our toes into one another. I'm not that good at saving so I've tended to invest into my property as I feel its a safe bet which does now seem to be paying itself back if the current valuations are to be believed. Either way with houses, unless they suddenly put a youth drug and alcohol rehabilitation centre next door, generally if yours goes down by 20% so do all the others in the area. I also find newer houses have an odd effect on old ones as folk come and look, love the area, but hate the postage stamp garden and poor quality of most new builds hence start looking what else is out there to purchase. Cars are different, a new model comes out with electric vanity mirrors or 6 billon watt lights and everyone has to buy one. Nowt as queer as folk.

Love Adam Curtis stuff, fucking incredible.

Must be a decent motor in these, I usually see them motoring along around 65/70mph on the motorway. The old ducatos seem to be hiding behind lorries a lot as I'm guessing N/A thrills abound🤣🤣

Awesome 👍👍👍

Oswestry is in fact in England but about as close to God's country as you could possibly get. In fact if you drive South to North (the pain, the pain) you go through Oswestry without even turning a corner but you're in England. Some fat bitch blocked the LPG pump once for about 2 hours (probably 10 minutes) while she bought a carrier bag full of crap in the services by Oswestry when I was delivering a Suzuki SJ too some poor soul.

This happened to a mate of mine years ago, thinking about it around 22 years ago 😱😱😱. Bit of a trickster he put up a for sale ad (ironically for £700) for a fiesta turbo, chopped, lowered, tsw alloys, failed mot on tyres and no money to repair. They were about a £3k car then. The guy he "punked" had 180 odd answerphone messages when he got home that night 🤣🤣🤣🤣.

As for older cars being more reliable I don't know but I think it's more down to modern car PCP rental types thinking servicing is something classic car owners do because their car is "brand new" as they sit 34 months into a 36 month contract on the original tyres and oil 33000 miles later. I've had a few roadgoing repairs over the years and maybe one or two recoveries but overall I see no issues with using an older car at all, especially something thats been well looked after. I do lots of miles as well, if you had a 20 or 30 mile commute each day I can't see the point of paying £200/£250 a month for a new C1 when a ten to 12 Yrs old one will easily do the same job and cost pennies to run. The amount of people I knew who bought their kids a brand new car the second they passed their test was unreal because they wanted something "reliable". My boy got a 10yr old ka and never had a minutes trouble with it.

The truest statement ever 🤣🤣🤣🤣. Why, oh fucking why, do people take them on the motorway? Use a fucking A or even a B road, cruise along, enjoy the view and admiring glances, stop when it starts getting warm or uncomfortable /needs some sort of repair rather than taking it on the M4, in peak summer traffic and breaking down right where the 3 lane goes into 2 causing 20 mile tailbacks as everyone slows down the view the incident. Every fucking Friday

And taking on for decent money. My mate has just gone there contracting on a really good rate, reckons it's flat out. I think it's just because the average JLR owner only needs it to work for 3 years then bins it off for a new one. The only exception I can see being the new style Landy Defender as utilitarian type vehicles seem to be kept a lot longer. Seems mechanically very different to the rangey/disco.

And for sale in the nicest part of Britain as well 😉😉😉

Ideal for a 205 td conversion. Why people buy a second hand engine for £150 and try and bodge the rest in I'll never understand. Every engine conversion I've ever done has come from a running car and each one has worked first time pretty much everytime. See so many unfinished projects for sale as they've tried to penny pinch buying stuff piecemeal. Direct swaps are of course different.

That Lancia is super cool 😎😎😎

Oh yes!!!!

There's a r reg mk4 tdi near me in red with a Swansea reg plate as well, still regularly used. Looks OK but the front wings are starting to go. I hope they keep it though, it'll be 25 next year.

Dan's a lovely guy and how cheap was that car? Well bought 👌👌👌

I agree, didn't look that bad to me really but it obviously got someone on here upset about it 😂😂😂. Just saying that I do know someone that exact thing happened to. The mrs even used to work for him in the office, in fact that's how we met, he was a lovely chap but fucked it all up due to the fast living lifestyle of coke, cossies and chicks. Sadly after a few years of that he was driving a fucked £100 micra k11 and living back with his mum in his old bedroom. He got royally fucked over by a copper as well, her son bought a car off one of the boys "blind moted" by my mate, a saxo vtr from memory when they were £5-600 things. The boy took it out uninsured and hit a tree at silly speeds injuring a passenger as he ran from the scene. Mummy sorted out the no insurance by claiming it was an "admin error" on her behalf, something to do with banking, which quickly got corrected, and then tried to say that he only crashed because the car had a split cv boot which caused the gearbox to lock up and send the car into a spin 🤔🤔🤔🤔. My mate pretty much got bummed from plod for that as he'd given it a clean pass not checking his computer when it had failed a few days earlier on a number of minor items including said cv boot. Luckily for him the car was assessed and local cctv footage proved the loon had been nailing it everywhere just before the crash so they "didn't continue with any further investigations" but he was fucked after that, got raided a few months later and they found old bike frames that were stolen, cars out the front full of red, drugs (although later proven they were so cut that they didn't bother charging him 😂😂😂), mots not tying up with correct times and so on. Not good and he's never recovered from it. In fact he got in touch with me a few years ago asking if he could work on my cossie for free as he "really missed" them and that he'd just had a new garage built where I could store it "not far from his house". Yeah OK, you're not going to sell that to settle a debt the day I drop it off are you? I knew he was still into it but he didn't have his cashcow of free bent mots anymore. Never spoke or heard from him again.

MOT tester with a coke habit? And not the drinking kind either. Or maybe a drink habit? Mate of mine lost it all to the evil white powder, by the end he was passing cars that weren't even in his garage to start with just to clear debts. Had his comeuppance and he won't be testing cars ever again. We've all got our problems, tester could be in debt, it could be a mate who he owes a favour too etc etc. Not condoning it for one minute but it happens in all walks of life, whether we want to see it or not but it does, everyone has a price or can crack.