The £73 Suzuki Alto... Now sold.

[trigger]

EFA

 

Whatever, the novelty soon wore off for me, hateful bastard cars.

[Lacquer Peel]

Hey trig, what were you expecting from a tiny city car?

They are so good they kept making them until 2012.

 

edit: you can still buy them! http://www.marutisuzuki.com/maruti800/

[trigger]

I just enjoy slagging the car off! It was best suited around town in stop/start traffic which to be frank was all it was designed for anyway, personally I found it a bit embarrassing to be seen in and i got the shit ripped out of my when i used it for work a few times.

 

Honestly the thought of something like this was fun for me on paper but in the real world it really was not me, those Indians love them though.

 

This was the best view i ever saw of it as the new owner drove it off my driveway, only a few weeks later it blew it's bottom end on the A14 after the oil pump broke.

 

[pandamonium]

Ah, there I see the issue - yours was an early one. Mine is a facelift - must've fixed whatever was wrong?

[Alexg]

What a truely dreadful looking deathtrap. Splendid work.

[dugong]

I don't think Trig's was used enough. The young lad who bought it started hammering it up and down the A14 and the shock killed it. 

[pandamonium]

This one has 91k on it and is very 'used'

[skattrd]

Glad it worked out for you panda.

What was the stuck valve or whatever the seller was going on about?

[pandamonium]

It has some weird sort of tickover vacuum control, which is odd as it has a manual choke. I'll probably just bypass it. It may be an anti-stall thing.

[tooSavvy]

Savvy has a 'pressure sensor', in the P/S, to increase revs [via ECU] if on full lock.... probably as you would be trying to park and engine speed might be low = stall.

 

they leak... blank off >>> not a jot of difference.

 

TS

[trigger]

I don't think Trig's was used enough. The young lad who bought it started hammering it up and down the A14 and the shock killed it. 

 

That's quite possible, it had only done 22000 miles and the lad who bought it of me done nearly 4000 in two months, cars don't like that.

[eddyramrod]

A tale of truly epic proportions, with a bonus happy ending too!  Excellent!

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Erm - no rev counter.

 

1st gear = pulling away and up to 10mph.

2nd gear 10 - 63mph (higher may be possible, didn't try it.)

 

For simplicity's sake they should have given it a slightly more powerful engine and forgone the gearbox altogether!

[Cavcraft]

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It's actually far more pleasing to go to work in some hideous (to other people) old banger and see how many snobs get indignant/incredulous/snotty. I honestly see it as my challenge to have the worst car at work. 

[trigger]

If i may, here's a quick video i made when i had mine, I had been flooring it for about 1 1/2 miles by this point to get to 60mph.

 

 

 

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It's actually far more pleasing to go to work in some hideous (to other people) old banger and see how many snobs get indignant/incredulous/snotty. I honestly see it as my challenge to have the worst car at work. 

 

I am achieving that with the Acclaim, in a car park full off black Audi's and Golf's mine really stands out and most people actually think it's cool!

[pandamonium]

I'm with you all there, my car park is full of various Lease / Company cars within 2 years old. I have resisted a company car for several years now.

 

Although, I may actually succumb to the pressure this year so I have more time and money for my tat!

[skattrd]

It's actually far more pleasing to go to work in some hideous (to other people) old banger and see how many snobs get indignant/incredulous/snotty. I honestly see it as my challenge to have the worst car at work. 

 

I agree with you on this one.I used to love driving a beat up VW, quirky Citroen, Lancia or whatever in to the office car park, which was full of newish Audi/BMW/whatever. I did get a few comments when I took a Maestro to work. What made it even better was that I did more mileage than pretty much anyone with a company car.

[pandamonium]

Trigger, mine doesn't sound as ... 'strained' as that one. Yours almost sounds like it can't rev.

[HillmanImp]

Back when the car park was visible from work I used to park there in all manner of weird nonsense

 

 

[trigger]

Trigger, mine doesn't sound as ... 'strained' as that one. Yours almost sounds like it can't rev.

 

I'm starting to wonder if mine was knackered from the start, as you saw in that video, it took nearly 2 miles to get to 65 mph from a standing start, that was the reason why i hated the car so much.

 

I enjoy taking my old stuff to work, other than a G reg Pug 205 all the other cars are normally W reg and newer, even today someone came up to me and asked me if the Acclaim was mine as they saw it in the car park and guessed nobody else would have a car like that, there's over 75 cars parked there everyday.

[pandamonium]

My 0-60, while extremely leisurely was acceptable. I sometimes think low-mileage cossetted cars are worse than high-milers.

[dugong]

I'm starting to wonder if mine was knackered from the start, as you saw in that video, it took nearly 2 miles to get to 65 mph from a standing start, that was the reason why i hated the car so much.

 

I enjoy taking my old stuff to work, other than a G reg Pug 205 all the other cars are normally W reg and newer, even today someone came up to me and asked me if the Acclaim was mine as they saw it in the car park and guessed nobody else would have a car like that, there's over 75 cars parked there everyday.

I think yours was miles out of tune, and probably needed the carburettor rejetting. 

[Cavcraft]

Given Cavcraft's usually stock are there ever occasions when you don't succeed?

 

No. I think the worse (worst?) one was the E46 BMW I had. I mean, what kind of twerp would ever own one of those? Uh-oh...

[Angrydicky]

I'm starting to wonder if mine was knackered from the start, as you saw in that video, it took nearly 2 miles to get to 65 mph from a standing start, that was the reason why i hated the car so much.

 

Not that it matters now, but there was definitely something wrong there, even my 55 year old 948cc A35 accelerates faster than that!

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Sterling work there panda. No one can question your shite credentials now that you've got a 2-speed auto!!! That's like signing up to Pistonheads and immediately putti gdown a deposit on a new Exige.

[PhilA]

Reminds me of driving everywhere in my 899cc Fiat Cinquecento. Hills required careful planning. At least it had 5 gears under command of a large rubber dildo coming out of the carpet.

 

Mildly amused by the video Trigger posted. At the end it suggested allsorts of old chod videos, a bunch of Honda related tat and one on "How to turbocharge your engine".

 

As much as I enjoyed the car, now I'm happier when the car begins to sound strained like that but there's a 1 in front of the number instead of just 60..

 

 

I'm losing my Autoshitery. There's a gold/rust Chevrolet Chevette for sale locally. Maybe I need it.

 

--Phil

[Joey spud]

I am sure i read that James Hunt had an A35 van in his later life and he would drive the wheels off it everywhere he went.

 

He claimed he enjoyed driving the little Austin far more than any super car.

[Sloth in a bowl]

I am sure i read that James Hunt had an A35 van in his later life and he would drive the wheels off it everywhere he went.

 

He claimed he enjoyed the little Austin far more than a super car.

 

This is why I'm pissed that classic insurance firms aren't yet insuring Fiat Cinqicento Sportings, I what some cheap fun you Barstards.

[pandamonium]

It is dark when I go to work and dark when I go home.

Took some quick snaps in the failing light.

[dugong]

SIR THERE IS NO REASON FOR YOU TO BE HAVING THE SHOUTING. I WOULD LIKE TO GO HOME IN MY MARUTI CAR.