Toilet/Money INTERFACE

[Partridge]

I've been pretty quiet on here of late (not than anyone probably noticed) and that was because I was pretty cheesed off with cars in general.

 

ANYWAY

 

My Sterling failed it's MoT on a leaky exhaust frontpipe, a CV gaiter that was glued together and a borked steering rack, that was leaking and cracked. This was probably caused by it getting over friendly with a large piece of flint on a grass verge when I swerved out of the of a mad, blind MINI driver. Oh well.

 

I'd order the bits and fix it. Turns out this wasn't an option, as I'd stupidly arranged to be working seven days a week. So I'd have to prime my anus for Ultimate Bum Raping and take it to a garage. Turns out the place that did the MoT didn't want to take the work on, and nowhere else did for that matter.

 

 

 

The only garage I could find willing to take on my Rover (why FFS, it's not an Owen Sedanca, it's a bloody Rover) was Seward's, an ex Rover franchise which now sell Izhuzuz John Denver Rodeo Big Horny 4x4 Sport Extreme Mysterious Wizards or whatever, for Ultimate Bum Raping 2: Special Edition. Fleecing daft old sods in slip on shoes who are attached to their dressed up Hondas - must have been like old times for them.

 

 

To be fair, they fitted me in sharpish and did a good job. They even provided a very graphic, item by item bill detailing just how they dry bummed me. Bless.

 

All in, factoring the MoT test, re-test and petrol getting there and back, my 800 has stung me for about £1,000.

 

So, the moral of the story? Don't be a dick splash and MoT your cars ASAP!

 

Happily I have a working Sterling which I will now have full the long haul.

[Cavcraft]

I doff my hat to you for lobbing one large at a Rover Sterling. Fair play, that's dedication to the shite cause if ever there was.

[Split_Pin]

At forst I thought WTAF you got charged a LARGE ONE to change a steering rack, cv gaiter, exhauust and MOT, but I suppose if theres a subframe to be dropped, rusty and broken pipes to repair and other rounded/rusted bolts then even if labour is £40 per hour it soon mounts up.

 

Is the above including parts?

 

I do nothing on my cars at the moment except oil and coolant changes. I used to do quite involved jobs myself but with a young family it all just seems like a faff right now. I'll get back to it one day. So don't feel bad about it!

[EssDeeWon]

Nice one Partridge, sometimes its just worth it.

 

Money well spent IMHO

[plasticvandan]

£1000 getting a £300 Rover through an mot does not compute on my autoshite Commodore 64.ERROR re load tape

 

Worth it for the ainsley pic though.

[Lord Sterling]

Shit me man! I baulk at spending £200 on my Sterling and all it needs really is a radiator, some sills and a service.

 

Instead, I got an e46 and parked up the Sterling. But kudos to you for dedicating yourself to the Sterling and keeping it on the road, it is worth it. Old cars aren't as cheap as often like to think but keeping that smile on your face and having something everyone else doesn't have is well worth it. Your certainly more if a shiter than me.

 

If I actually regularly earned money my Sterlings would be on the road and the KV6 would have a nice overhaul.

 

Well done lad, cap duly doffed in your general direction.

[Partridge]

I doff my hat to you for lobbing one large at a Rover Sterling. Fair play, that's dedication to the shite cause if ever there was.

It may seem like madness now, but I know that I'd cry if one was to drive past me in 25 years time and I'm driving a Hyundai i10 MK7, in the same way people 20 years older than who scrapped really nice SD1s kick themselves now.

 

It was a grand all in, Iain. And I did mention that nothing should be seized or rusted as I'm pretty keen on WD40 - they took my word for it and knocked some money of off labour.

[Lacquer Peel]

£1k isn't a lot of money for another year of CLASS.

[Partridge]

Shit me man! I baulk at spending £200 on my Sterling and all it needs really is a radiator, some sills and a service.

 

Instead, I got an e46 and parked up the Sterling. But kudos to you for dedicating yourself to the Sterling and keeping it on the road, it is worth it. Old cars aren't as cheap as often like to think but keeping that smile on your face and having something everyone else doesn't have is well worth it. Your certainly more if a shiter than me.

 

If I actually regularly earned money my Sterlings would be on the road and the KV6 would have a nice overhaul.

 

Well done lad, cap duly doffed in your general direction.

Don't. Mine needs those things as well.

 

To be honest the real Autoshite way out of this would have been to store it in a barn in Chechnya (just until payday) and then get Captain Slow to drive me from Chechnya to Newport to buy a £200 Vectra which would gozz its coolant out allover the M62, then go home and laugh about lucky we are to not drive modern cars.

[Partridge]

£1k isn't a lot of money for another year of CLASS.

It's not, mind.

[dugong]

I'm baffled (sorry) as to why you didn't get it sorted up near Captain Slow's.

 

There's no way in Christ that car needed a grand's worth of work; sounds like you got an incredibly anal MoT tester who didn't like older vehicles.

[egg]

When you are old and sitting in the nursing home watching 'homes under the hammer', will you regret it? Probably not (if you can still remember it)

[Partridge]

I'm baffled (sorry) as to why you didn't get it sorted up near Captain Slow's.

 

There's no way in Christ that car needed a grand's worth of work; sounds like you got an incredibly anal MoT tester who didn't like older vehicles.

Welcome to The South of England, where everything is extortionate and older things are evil. 

[EssDeeWon]

I have spent well over a grand keeping my early R75 on the road since buying it last year, and if it needs another grand at some point then so be it.

 

If it keeps me behind the wheel of a Rover instead of some horrible crappy modern thing which loses over a grand a year in depreciation then surely im up? And owning a nice car which I love driving.

[Lord Sterling]

Don't. Mine needs those things as well.

 

To be honest the real Autoshite way out of this would have been to store it in a barn in Chechnya (just until payday) and then get Captain Slow to drive me from Chechnya to Newport to buy a £200 Vectra which would gozz its coolant out allover the M62, then go home and laugh about lucky we are to not drive modern cars.

It depends which you look at things. Personally I would spend that money getting my car sorted, and frankly, all of my Rovers (except 820E) need about £1k spending on them to get them mechanically tight and passable of MOT. However I've never really been a great earner of moolah (except when I was a bit younger and actually saved) plus I have a new car and with Lady_Sterling/chez_Mo commitments my cars have taken a back seat so to speak.

[drum]

Eye watering! Did they warn you before doing the work?

 

Let's hope it doesn't keep costing you a grand every mot from here.

[Partridge]

Oh they warned me. No way I'd submit a car to a garage without getting a quote first.

 

Saving isn't really an option when you have a big, fuck off, leaky British barge on the drive way. Or so I've discovered.

[Lord Sterling]

Oh they warned me. No way I'd submit a car to a garage without getting a quote first.

 

Saving isn't really an option when you have a big, fuck off, leaky British barge on the drive way. Or so I've discovered.

Try having 5 like me then

[Partridge]

There's something about 800s which encourages you to buy more. There's something a bit collect them all! about them.

[For Fiats Sake]

I've spent a similar amount on one or two of the pandas, the cost may be recoverable if it's sold or a large loss.  

he fact was at the time I was willing too and it was worth it to me, and that's all the matters really.

It's easy to buy something else to replace it but sooner or later things will need fixing,  taking care of what you already own seems to me to be the sensible way to go!

 

Good on yer.

[UmBongo]

You're a bloody loony, Partridge.

 

Well done, Sir.

[chaseracer]

Shite is as shite does. Or something.

 

Every time one of my French turds needs money throwing at it, I point out to Domestic Management that it's less than a month's payment on her C3. How she smiles...

[rovamota]

You thought it was worth it, so that's all that matters. And still a reasonably cheap years motoring all told.

[Justin Case]

Look at it this way. For the cost of borrowing a 4 cylinder diesel German repmobile with suspension made of concrete for a couple of months, you have ensured yourself a year of wafting around in style and luxury. I raise my Panama (nothing less would do) to you.

[dugong]

Welcome to The South of England, where everything is extortionate and older things are evil.

Which is why I'd have pre-booked it for an MoT in the Fens, crossed my legs and driven there in one hit.

[vulgalour]

The South is hilarious for spannering costs.  By hilarious I obviously mean U WOT M8?!!??!!!??111

[RoadworkUK]

I'm afraid to say, if mine required involved me signing up for the same kind of non-lubed rectal tunneling....

 

...I'd have done exactly the same thing as you. An 800 is for life.

[Angrydicky]

There's still plenty of older independent garages in South Essex who love working on old cars, and charge reasonable rates.

[Roverageous]

It's worth it though, innit. I've just collected my 75 from £552s worth of spannering at a local Rover nut asylum. That makes the total I've spent on the car this year near enough £1000. Or perhaps just over. I'm not looking. I've been driving a Vauxhall Meriva for the past three days while the Rover was being fettled and I can't tell you how GOOD getting back in my 75 was! Plus it's driving lovely now!

 

(Autobox fluid change, lower wishbone bushes, rear brakes overhaul).

 

My best mate pays £400 or something a month on leasing a Zafira - just to put things in perspective.

[Bren]

It could be worse - you could fork out £1k on repairs on a modern that is on finance and losing money like a professional rugby league club.