Passat shite

[sierraman]

Avensis is a good shout. What about, if you can find one, Mondeo Mk4 2.0 Petrol?

[binbag]

Yes I think the 2.0 petrol Mondeo should be a good car, I had the 1.8 petrol and it never let me down , sold it to buy the diesel one.... big mistake apart from the Bring Money in Wheelbarrow I have now.

[taxi paul]

I think if you can afford it. An ideal world is to own one reliable and trustworthy car be it modern or not. Then one for weekends,days off and hiding from the missus doing jobs on it. Of course not everyone can. But after a 12 hour shit night shift you don't really want to be fixing to get home. I do understand not all of us are made of money and run on a tighter budget than some. My Celica battery went flat last week,due to me leaving the lights on.it sat for a week in the snow till I could be arsed to jump start it and then drive around for a couple of hours in it. It brought a huge smile to my face but the ABS light is on and come mot time ,depending on the repair cost could be sold for spears or repears. But due to having a reliable sort of late 90's nap bus.It will get parked up till I can afford to fix it. So I would get something reliable and play with your Granada BREN ,health and weather permitting..

[sierraman]

Or a late Vectra 1.8 if that’s your thing. Wouldn’t discount a Focus Mk2 1.8-2.0, usually in high spec. Fairly solid car.

 

Volvo V70 or S60 Petrol could be ok, bit heavy on the juice but in the grand scheme of things a nice solid safe car.

 

Avensis if you can find one that’s not been cabbed. 406 could be ok but most left now are bags of shit.

 

Could always chuck a curve ball and get something like a Kia Magentis, heard nothing but good news on them.

 

Needless to say I’d steer clear of Lagunas, diesels and clapped out old stuff that’s either been to the moon and back or what could be described as ‘end of life’

[MikeR]

I lost it with that dam Meriva , biggest load of utter shite going , cramped engine bay , in fact everything that could need work was cramped , eht electrics were shite as was the steering which was complete shite and half as useful , who puts a system on a car that requires the battery , alternator and any other system to be 100% all the time other wise it goes tits up !!!!  , and the rust ,,,,  best day of my life was putting it on a lorry to the scrap yard 

 

then the Focus 1.6 Mk1 was shown to me ....   no electrics , no ABS no nothing , loads of space around the engine , no rust , and it went round corners in a non barge like manner ........  and nothing playing up !  , its a win so far ...

[Junkman]

I mustard mitt I grew a bit tired of the P6 Russian Roulette.

Hence I replaced them with a 50 year old Renault, bought sight unseen 750 miles away, as you do.

 

This talk about these cars are reliable and those aren't is pure bollocks anyway.

From a certain age it really depends on the individual car. Unless it's a P6, that is.

Usually you can take it for granted that a 20 year old car is reliable, otherwise it would have been

scrapped ten years ago.

[D Spares & Tyres]

To be fair a Vectra would suck the mojo out of anyone

 

I drove a brand new one on a 53 plate and it still sticks in my mind as one of the worst cars I have ever driven, although I have driven plenty of the older ones and they are acceptable

[twosmoke300]

Mk1 focus with NO rust - thats a museum piece not a car

[Bren]

Mk1 focus was a very good car - much better than the escort - shame that they rot.

[sierraman]

Mk1 focus with NO rust - thats a museum piece not a car

Mine has no rot now. Inner arches repaired, sills sound as are the trailing arm mounts.

[Junkman]

I'd still be hard pressed to shed a tear when the last one has crumbled away.

[binbag]

I think a lot of people's car choices go back to when they were young.

I was brought up with Mk1 and 2 Cortinas so I am a Ford man ( mainly).

You were always told never to buy " one of them foreign jobs " as you would not be able to buy spare parts.

[Craig the Princess]

I've already suggested exactly this in Brens Vectra 1.8 thread but never got a response. The car that fitted the bill was this:

http://autoshite.com/topic/30291-honada-civic-22-ctdi/

 

 

Hasn't Captain 70s has a whole host of problems with his spaceship Civic?

 

I'd say the sweet spot was cars introduced 1989-1995. Rust resilient (not Ford obviously), good reliability if you throw oil and timing belts at them and can cruise at 70 in comfort for hours.

[SiC]

Hasn't Captain 70s has a whole host of problems with his spaceship Civic?

 

I'd say the sweet spot was cars introduced 1989-1995. Rust resilient (not Ford obviously), good reliability if you throw oil and timing belts at them and can cruise at 70 in comfort for hours.

He had the Civic before the spaceship. The trainer shaped one. Some of the problems he had seemed to be a cheap unknown car.

[Kiltox]

Panda broke my mojo - Maxus incinerated the remains

[Bren]

^^ cheap and unknown is how we roll on here.

[captain_70s]

Aye, mine is the pre-spaceship model. It's snapped a driveshaft and needed a whole new exhaust system and a timing belt shortly after I got it, now has fucked rear calipers, eats headlight bulbs at a ferocious rate and I suspect the PAS is on it's way out. I keep having to remind myself it isn't actually a modern car though, it's a late 1990s design that's 11 years old and has nearly 100k on the clock... I'm used to 1970s tech and parts/labour bills to match, the Honda is pricey in comparison.

 

I'm fairly sure the engine will go on forever with minimum effort and is happy to meet the rev limiter on a regular basis while still getting 40mpg, gearbox seems to be getting a bit notchy with first being more and more reluctant to engage as of late, the brakes are functional but the rear calipers seem to be naff when it comes to longevity from what I've read, wheel arches and bootlids go crusty although mine is alright. I find the steering to be surprisingly vague, although it may be unfair to compare a PAS car to a Dolomite on 155/80/13s!

 

Overall it's an alright car, but it's old now. I don't care about it enough to want to work on it and it's reached an age where that is required unless I want to be bummed by garage labour costs. All of my car mojo is consumed by the shagged Dolomite which requires colossal amounts of work and money to maintain. The Honda is out of luck unfortunately...

[HH-R]

I'd still be hard pressed to shed a tear when the last one has crumbled away.

Yeah, they're one car I didn't like when now and hate now.

[SiC]

I mustard mitt I grew a bit tired of the P6 Russian Roulette.

Hence I replaced them with a 50 year old Renault, bought sight unseen 750 miles away, as you do.

 

This talk about these cars are reliable and those aren't is pure bollocks anyway.

From a certain age it really depends on the individual car. Unless it's a P6, that is.

Usually you can take it for granted that a 20 year old car is reliable, otherwise it would have been

scrapped ten years ago.

So you don't even fancy another one?

 

One that, I believe, is even in your neck of the woods:

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F332482105230

 

Goooo on. You know you want to really.

[HH-R]

Extended dark nights and cold/miserable weather are GR8 for squashing mojo. You might get it back in the spring.

[Rusty_Rocket]

Extended dark nights and cold/miserable weather are GR8 for squashing mojo. You might get it back in the spring.

This, 100%. It's been utterly miserable here for weeks now. Ok, we've not had much snow but the rest of the time it's been horizontal rain and temperatures rarely above freezing. Winter innit. Combine that with only a few hours of light and it's easy to become fed up of it all. Even changing a headlamp bulb is a challenge at the moment!

 

The upshot of this however, is bargain cars ready and waiting out there! Everyone's in the same boat and sellers are keen to get rid of their cars before Christmas; you did well to shift the Vectra without too much penalty and I'm sure there's something decent out there with your name on it, for a lot less than you'd pay in the summer.

[D Spares & Tyres]

Extended dark nights and cold/miserable weather are GR8 for squashing mojo. You might get it back in the spring.

Happens to me every year

[Junkman]

So you don't even fancy another one?

 

One that, I believe, is even in your neck of the woods:

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F332482105230

 

Goooo on. You know you want to really.

 

With the hole in the roof reflected in the floorboards?

Nah, man.

[Junkman]

Are you guys having some lack of alcohol or something?

Yar not sober at this time of the year, are you?

[SiC]

Isn't this pretty much what you were looking for Bren?

http://autoshite.com/topic/30434-vw-passat-20-130-highline-pez-estate-2005-pppppiss-poor-pics-posted-but-on-a-new-post-below/

 

Another Autoshite bargain.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

Are you guys having some lack of alcohol or something?

Yar not sober at this time of the year, are you?

 

 

I'm putting rum in my Lemsip.

 

I detest winter and its cold wet slippery nastiness.

[eddyramrod]

Are you guys having some lack of alcohol or something?

Yar not sober at this time of the year, are you?

Always!

[Junkman]

Isn't this pretty much what you were looking for Bren?

http://autoshite.com/topic/30434-vw-passat-20-130-highline-pez-estate-2005-pppppiss-poor-pics-posted-but-on-a-new-post-below/

 

Another Autoshite bargain.

 

Am I the only one who finds this so depressing that I'd rather commit suicide than enduring its sight on my drive?

It has the ambience of an abbattoir (sp?).

Also, VW and reliabilty are mutually exclusive.

 

 

I'm putting rum in my Lemsip.

 

I detest winter and its cold wet slippery nastiness.

 

I moved to Britain because I was promised there are no winters.

Then again, I once spent two weeks in El Lay in a permadownpour.

 

Always!

 

I can't understand how you manage.

Only when plastered today's world is halfways bearable.

[Six-cylinder]

Am I the only one who finds this so depressing that I'd rather commit suicide than enduring its sight on my drive?

It has the ambience of an abbattoir (sp?).

Also, VW and reliabilty are mutually exclusive.

 

 

Yes, any new car is fun when you get it.

 

The only reason it is not on my drive is I promised Mrs6C I would not buy any more random cars just because they were there.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

05 Passat Estate with leather for 200 Sovs, I'd be cheerful thinking of the coin to be made from breaking it. The interior, unrusty wings, 'loys, oily bits.

 

 

 

Merry Xmas.