sierraman

This is the mentality you are dealing with that they think by putting up the tax a hundred quid a year will have you all running out and buying a £40,000 electric car. Life is very straightforward in the minds of a lot of the middle/upper class that are in Government. Simply put your hand in your pocket and spend your way out of the issue, I can honestly see a situation coming about where the average working person is put back to a position they’d be in the fifties where access to a car was unlikely unless you had a fair bit of wedge in your pocket.

This is the thing, the government and the eco morons have nothing but contempt for working class people.

Pop up camper I think that is?

Been to car boot. Nothing much to report apart from a Laser Wheels and a 70’s Boss Mustang for my nephew. Opening bonnet so a novelty in this day and age!

They just stick the name on any old shit. Used to be good but not now.

The Orange with lourves in the back window was actually a special edition. First one of many on a Capri

Ex @danthecapriman Mercedes having some windscreen surgery. Made a new pillar from a hair grip.

Borg and Beck… good luck with that!

Anyone else thinking that Daewoo looks pretty good on those minilites?

About 18 years since I did one, I can’t offhand remember.

Those Astra H handle quite well but they just seem to be the choice for being run into the ground. It’s never a car you’d fondly remember or mourn over if you hit a gatepost and bent the wing in. Disposable motoring though the 1.6 and 1.8 aren’t bad, would avoid the diesels, mostly very unpleasant or unreliable in the case of the 1.9 150.

Sounds ok to be to be honest but that’s how they are. You get used to it.

It’s not just about speed it’s about comfort, a 1.0 AX could theoretically do 80mph all day but you’d be deaf and crippled at the end?

It needs to be able to have enough steam left in it at 80mph that it’s not being flogged.

If one can survive 10 years of my sister in laws treatment it can’t be bad. It’s looking rough now, it’s been driven into things multiple times, ran low on oil more times than I care to recall, once lost all its coolant when the head gasket leaked which we duly K Sealed up, the chain has been rattling since Methuselah was still in work but it still keeps going. They’ve tried killing it but it just won’t go.

Can you imagine doing a million km in a Matiz, what must someone have done in a previous life to deserve that!

A guy I know has some sort of sporty Yaris, the down pipe to flex has gone, he’s managed to patch it up because a new one was stupid money, can’t off hand recall the figure but it was fucking expensive when he told us.

Self adjusting at the pedal end, not sure about the quadrants, but at this age it might be fragile so I’d err on caution and replace the cable, if it continues or it’s not smooth then at some point it’s probably the clutch starting to go. Could just be dried up from being stored. It will bite relatively high but that’s Fords for you, sometimes with old Ford’s it’s usually the crank end seal leaking that bollockses the clutch before it wearing out.

If it’s just the biting point then that’s pretty normal to be honest.

The clutch cable starts to go when the clutch is on its way out, the bite will be quite high anyway. Unless it’s juddering or slipping it’s probably ok.

Chevy Malibu?

I did an EGR on one a few weeks ago, prior to seeing it I assumed it was going to be the Corsa D. Wasn’t in that bad condition really for it’s 114k either, it’s general apathy that sees things like that off. It’s not a car people really tend to give a shit about, I suppose a TT will always attract a following.

According to the SMMT the average age of a vehicle in the U.K. was 8.4 years as of 2021 so it would suggest on figures alone that vehicles are lasting longer. The certainly look presentable for longer, my car is 15 years old, the equivalent 1985 Granada in 2000 would be hanging.

Never knew they did a Dinky CF minibus?

Cars though seem to last longer than ever? Although they’re much more complex they don’t rot out or wear out really quickly like they used to.