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[mrbenn]

Never convince anyone in your family to do anything. Especially in relation to cars. When it goes wrong in 18 months you'll be the one to blame.

 

This, x 1000.

[The Moog]

This, x 1000.

 

+infinity +1 

 

The man of many, many names speaks truth.  

[egg]

Mondy GLX is booked with the scrap man for 27th December. £150 agreed on by cheque, bit less that originally agreed because no battery on it.

 

I have taken off most of the new bits I added (including clear headlight reflectors, OEM heater resistor, ghia spec dome light, washer fluid connectors - £35 worth). Also taken boot carpet, rear ashtray - another £20). There's a few more things I need to nab without them getting stroppy (including a coolant overflow pipe - £20), but I'm really not bothered about a full strip down.

 

The Base can then go in the garage on SORN for Jan/Feb saving me £46 in VED.

 

So there's quarter of a bag toward the next heap of joy.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

I just had a stupidly brilliant idea.

 

My mum has a ten year old Bini Cooper S. Depreciating obvs, but still worth a bit, and full of electrickery.

My mum is absolutely in love with my T5. 

Volvo 850 T5Rs are worth similar money to Cooper Ss, maybe slightly more. 

 

Do I try and convince her to get a T5R (would have to be auto), on the grounds they have the same performance, same fuel economy, and will increase in value rather than decrease?

 

 

No, because a ten-year-old Bini Cooper S is clearly the car she wants!

 

Although personally I'd go for the ovloV every time.

[alcyonecorporation]

Invariably whenever I advise friends on what cars to buy, they end up buying a VW Scirocco for some fucking reason. 

It's happened three times so far. 
To non-car people, Sciroccos are the coolest, sleekest things evar for some reason. 

I think they're ugly as sin: they have a pointy nose and a fat arse. 

[loserone]

I was talking to a lass at work last week, she's a "proper petrol head" and spends all her money on nice cars because she loves driving. She's currently at rock bottom because she's held onto a car for two years longer than normal due to buying a house, and might need to get a cambelt and service etc., but she still loves her car.

 

She's got a five year old diesel Scirocco she's thinking of trading in for a TT instead.

[alcyonecorporation]

I was talking to a lass at work last week, she's a "proper petrol head" and spends all her money on nice cars because she loves driving. She's currently at rock bottom because she's held onto a car for two years longer than normal due to buying a house, and might need to get a cambelt and service etc., but she still loves her car.

 

She's got a five year old diesel Scirocco she's thinking of trading in for a TT instead.

 

Saying you love driving then spending all your money on a Scirocco is like being an audiophile and buying a BOSE stereo after being hoodwinked by their acoustically treated listening room. 

[alcyonecorporation]

Then again, each to their own. 

'You're into cars and you drive that (stares at 305 estate)?' 
'It's not even clean! Everyone knows if you're into cars you keep them spotlessly clean.'

Everyone, eh? 
 

[skattrd]

I like my Scirocco ... mk2 scala.

[alcyonecorporation]

I like my Scirocco ... mk2 scala.

 

 

poor man's piazza m8 

[Coprolalia]

I like my Scirocco... Mk2 td

[alcyonecorporation]

I like my Scirocco... Mk2 td

 

poor man's diesel 117 kid 

[alcyonecorporation]

Nothing wrong with Sciroccos, they're just a bit......vanilla if you're 'really into driving', soz. 

[loserone]

I told her to buy a Corsa and get an Elise with the change

[Guest Hooli]

I just had a stupidly brilliant idea.

 

My mum has a ten year old Bini Cooper S. Depreciating obvs, but still worth a bit, and full of electrickery.

My mum is absolutely in love with my T5. 

Volvo 850 T5Rs are worth similar money to Cooper Ss, maybe slightly more. 

 

Do I try and convince her to get a T5R (would have to be auto), on the grounds they have the same performance, same fuel economy, and will increase in value rather than decrease?

 

No as everyone else said.

 

But also cause auto T5Rs are horrid. The gaps in the ratios are too wide for the engine when booting it properly.

[plasticvandan]

Would I be foolish to get a 2cv/Acadiane as daily transport? with no garage am i just going to watch it dissolve?

[loserone]

No, it will be just fine.

[dollywobbler]

Would I be foolish to get a 2cv/Acadiane as daily transport? with no garage am i just going to watch it dissolve?

 

In my experience, they're fine, as long as you plan to rebuild the entire body every 12 years or 100,000 miles. It's pretty much a service item. Acadianes were built like C15s, so nowhere near enough rot-proofing. They are probably the best A-Series Citroen in many way though. Comfortable, relatively swift, spacious.

[somewhatfoolish]

If it's solid to start with as long as you keep it clean underneath and wazz plenty of waxy shizz at it once a year before the salt fairy appears it will be fine for a decade or more; even the shit Portugese ones managed to last 5-6 years before rotting to buggery and that's with fuck-all waxy shizz and pisspoor paint protection.

[The Moog]

No - you can pretty much replace all bits in them

[plasticvandan]

might start looking in the new year,though im not paying stupid money for one,its still a 2cv after all.Me and the 2cv have some unfinished business after my bamboo rotted in front of me 11 years ago!

[egg]

Nothing wrong with Sciroccos, they're just a bit......vanilla if you're 'really into driving', soz. 

 

God, I mostly hate driving. I just like cars.

 

*quote of the year late entry attempt*

[dozeydustman]

Who the fuck would throw away a perfectly good snake like that??

 

 

The wife would have had a real hissy fit if I'd brought a snake home! She belongs to my sister in law. I did rescue a cockatiel in a cage once that someone asked us to take. Very sad when people think they can put pets out with the rubbish. Still happens all too often.

[Guest Hooli]

Anyone who can treat an animal as rubbish has serious issues.

[dozeydustman]

Anyone who can treat an animal as rubbish has serious issues.

 

 

Yes. As much as dislike cats in general, I would not kick, punch, torture not feed one that happened to be part of the household. I might occasionally make some horrid remark occasionally about a mailbag, a brick and a walk to the local canal when it has really pissed me off but that's just what many people do to vent frustration/anger, and I'd certainly not carry the act out.

 

Shame the cockatiel died after 3 and a bit years with me, trying to pop an egg out. Took me 18 months to get her to sit on my hand, and about 2 and a half before I could stroke/tickle her.

 

[somewhatfoolish]

Someone with deep pockets and presumably a liking for things that travel very fast in a straight line has bought Bloodhound.

 

It was looking a bit doubtful whether the thing would continue but perhaps with a new patron Hakskeen will have a noisy firebreathing monster snorting back and forth before long.

 

[Mally]

This has appeared in my neighbours garage, it's not hers but may be for sale it seems.

 

[Guest Hooli]

Someone with deep pockets and presumably a liking for things that travel very fast in a straight line has bought Bloodhound.

 

It was looking a bit doubtful whether the thing would continue but perhaps with a new patron Hakskeen will have a noisy firebreathing monster snorting back and forth before long.

 

 

I saw that on the news at lunch, damn brilliant that's it's happened.

[The Moog]

Someone with deep pockets and presumably a liking for things that travel very fast in a straight line has bought Bloodhound.

 

It was looking a bit doubtful whether the thing would continue but perhaps with a new patron Hakskeen will have a noisy firebreathing monster snorting back and forth before long.

 

 

 

i look forward to the collection thread 

[3VOM]

i look forward to the collection thread 

I want to see the Shiply quotes. "Yeah mate, it's like a single seater race car, sort of."