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[alf892]

I reckon a 3k car is absolutely the wrong place to be.......it will be middle aged shit with potential for expensive repairs. Your old man is suffering from oldness.........in his perception a 3k car is good and nearly new but he doesn't realise these cars are probably now probably 8k cars........like in his mind a loaf still costs 20p.

 

Like others say get a good 80s or 90s one a pay good money for a well preserved one and it will serve you well and allow you to keep the others.

[Honey Badger]

Stuck at the parent's place with a car which needs push starting and lacks a functioning clutch.

 

They are dead set against the whole "shite" thing, in Dad's words "You need £3k to buy a good car. Cheap cars are cheap for a reason". Words have been said, Scotland is crap for cheap cars that aren't rotten and at this rate I'm going to end up back on finance...

 

It's grim times for sure.

 

£600.

 

Honda electrics, L series Diesel, easy to fix, will probably never go wrong

 

https://www.gumtree.com/p/honda/98-r-honda-accord-tdi-2.0-turbo-diesel-9-months-mot-tow-bar-i-cdti-avensis-d4d-px-delivery-poss/1136787540

 

To echo what everyone else has said, loads of good 90s cars out there for pennies, buy Toyota, Honda, Kia, Hyundai or Rover 600/R8 and you will have a car that will run with minimum hassle allowing you to fix your dollies at your leisure.

 

£3k is the pain point IMO your getting a modern car with all the electrics just coming into the time when stuff will be wearing out and becasue you have spaffed 3 grand on it you will have to pay to have it fixed.

[anonymous user]

The important thing being, are they offering to fund this £3k purchase? If so then thank them and as suggested pick up a bomb-proof Starlet, or similar, for £1k or less and either give them the rest back, or hang on to some for the inevitable running repairs.

 

If not then they may as well have said spend £330k

[Richard]

The important thing being, are they offering to fund this £3k purchase?

 

If they are simply buy that Maestro from the garage in Fogwatt.

[skattrd]

 A2s ..... pantograph wiper

 

Now moved up my list of newer cars I might buy

[vulgalour]

Today is ups and downs.  Down because this morning next door started the screaming at a moderately acceptable 10:30am.  After a solid hour of that  I decided I had to get out the house, but it took another hour before I did because reasons.  Got to the garage to fit my new inlet manifold gasket on the Rover only to find that even though Chompy and I spoke to them on the phone to tell them which car and engine it is they've sent the wrong gasket.  Made a start fitting the new lights to the back of the Princess and then came home.  Next door are still screaming at each other.  I imagine they've been going continually at it since 10:30am so that's 5 and a half hours of terrible parenting and obnoxious children for all the street and neighbours to hear.

 

Still, at least it's not raining.

[purplebargeken]

I need 2 AS stickers! My cars are nothing without AS stickers

[skattrd]

I need 2 AS stickers! My cars are nothing without AS stickers

 

PM Ruffgeezer, I'm sure he's still got some left

[Lacquer Peel]

If they are simply buy that Maestro from the garage in Fogwatt.

 

I think the Maestro's gone but the £2995 Montego is still there.

[richardmorris]

Spoke to Dan the merc mechanic this morning as he was back for the neighbour's clk this morning. Apparently the gears turning the timing chains wear out and then the chain simply skips a tooth. 140ish 000 miles- long gone from the Berlin taxis racking up a million km!

 

He's fixed it but the neighbour isn't happy and wants rid. Actually on Wednesday night up he was here for six hours and finished at nearly 1am to get it working for them. This morning he did say it feels like he's moving in- I replied that I should be on commission as now has three of my neighbour's as clients following him first doing my head gasket last year

[Tetleysmooth]

Two scares today. Mrs Tet phoned me from work and asked me to pick her up and take her to the hospital. Just lately she's had high blood pressure and palpitations. Just spent a few hours at the hospital and everything checked out ok. Bloods, ecg, blood pressure. Turns out the meds the GP prescribed for blood pressure is having an adverse effect on her, it's actually giving her the palpitations. So, not a bad result there.

 

2nd scare was the Volvo. While on the way to pick Mrs Tet up, my heater started blowing luke warm/cold. Oh bollocks. Checked the water - fine, checked the oil - fine, checked the inside of the oil cap - clean as a whistle. On the way back home, the heater was toasty again. How very strange.

[fordperv]

I've spent the afternoon replacing the rear bushes on mrs fp's car with polybushes, the original wishbone bushes were stuck solid and resisted the vice and socket method, the upside i have finally found a job to use the new blowtorch she bought me, that made short work of them.

[Mr Lobster]

So today has been a pretty good day...

 

[Timewaster]

A spot or a purchase?

[Ghosty]

It's in a petrol station...

[Bear]

So, how many cars here? I can't even remember. How many working and road legal?

 

1. And it's the one I don't like to use except for fun drives in good weather.

 

Winning at cars, clearly. More work on Mugwump essentially = "Pretty sure it's not torque convertor, could be sensor plate, anything is meaningless guessing until I've changed the fluid properly", Dischord is "wow, those calipers came off easily, I guess I misjudged the surface rust by MGF standards. But that disc is STUCK. Need heat, I think. Probably how it got stuck." Saab needs MOT, A-class I really CBA given everything else.

[auldford]

Finally fitted a rear wiper motor/arm to the Escort today as it mysteriously didn't have one when I bought it. And it wasn't raining, for October in Scotland was something of a miracle.

 

 

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[RobT]

I'm off to Brooklands motorsport day tomorrow. It's the last chance to see my Lancia nut mate before he moves back to Scotlandshire from Surrey, so as a treat* for him I'll be taking the Daimler. It's a tad dirty and running like a bag of shit despite some carb tweaks today, but woe betide any marshall who doesn't let me in via the classics only gate....My mate is bringing his Delta HF Turbo so I'll try and get some pics of the two together.

[dollywobbler]

A spot or a purchase?

 

That's one's available for classic hires I think...

[fred]

Going down to Pendine Sands today - Passing an Artic on the M4 and its rear tyre Blew out just as I was passing it - FUCK ME!!!! Thought my Engine gearbox Diff and everything else suddenly Assploded!

Talk a bout a fooking BOOM! Jesus H Christ on a bike. Trailer weaved a tad too close for comfort so I had no alternative than to cut up a Beemer in the ''Beemer lane'' He was quite annoyed - But most new owners of Beemers I fear are angry anyway so I waved with my hand but I had cramp so only one finger I could straighten unfortunately - I at the time was more concerned with the on coming staining of my Tighty Whiteys

[Craig the Princess]

Just spent the last week on this on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal around Skipton

 

 

Reliable Izusu power!

 

Came home today in the Allegro estate, 350 mile round trip, one slight ftp

 

 

Caused by one of the low tension wires on the coil breaking and losing it's spade connecter on the M62. Lurker on here Beige1100 got his toolbox out from under the boot floor, which is why all our stuff is on the verge and fixed the wire directly onto the coil. All sorted in about 3 minutes.

[captain_70s]

The important thing being, are they offering to fund this 3k purchase

No, although as Dad pointed out I don't have £700 to spend on a car anyway. Pretty much all I can do is put down a deposit on a £80 a month car.

I had to borrow £3.5k from them to pay off the Corsa's finance under the assurance I could use the Triumphs as reliable daily transport but I fucked it up and now have a maxed out overdraft, no working car and owe my parents a third of my yearly income...

 

To be honest the 1300 has been costing £300 a month in vital repairs with a lot of DIY and bodgery and is all set to fail it's MOT on the 17th. The rear if one of the sills has developed a hole and the rear shocks and springs are knackered, most of the engine compression is in the crankcase and it spits oil everywhere.

 

The 1850 is in worse shape as my attempts at fixing it have lowered it's value and rendered it immobile and it's now been sitting by the sea for months.

 

I've really cunted this up...

[RobT]

That's one's available for classic hires I think...

Might also be from the same bunch of shitehawks I tried to hire a Jensen from a few months back. Sounds like Mr Lobster had a good day though so glad he got a good experience!

[Craig the Princess]

No, although as Dad pointed out I don't have £700 to spend on a car anyway. Pretty much all I can do is put down a deposit on a £80 a month car.

I had to borrow £3.5k from them to pay off the Corsa's finance under the assurance I could use the Triumphs as reliable daily transport but I fucked it up and now have a maxed out overdraft, no working car and owe my parents a third of my yearly income...

 

To be honest the 1300 has been costing £300 a month in vital repairs with a lot of DIY and bodgery and is all set to fail it's MOT on the 17th. The rear if one of the sills has developed a hole and the rear shocks and springs are knackered, most of the engine compression is in the crankcase and it spits oil everywhere.

 

The 1850 is in worse shape as my attempts at fixing it have lowered it's value and rendered it immobile and it's now been sitting by the sea for months.

 

I've really cunted this up...

 

Only you know what your situation really is but you don't sound happy with the way things are.

 

Personally I'd whack the 1850 on eBay and spend £200 on something on here or locally. As others have suggested 90s cars are the way to go for cheap motoring. I'd go R8, my one has cost me about £300 in repairs this year for 20k miles (£150 for MoT, £100 service, £50 tyre). Others like the Rover 600, Nissan Primera, Renalt Megane (mk1), any 90s Vauxhall, Ford Focus Mk1 etc.

 

If the one you buy goes wrong sack it off and buy another.

 

Edit : Or a VW Polo http://autoshite.com/topic/22043-for-sale-1999-volkswagen-polo-14-cl-not-tdi/

[derskine]

First time I've had to call the AA, alternator that's only done 3000 miles shat itself.

 

 

Luckily Nisfan was on hand to offer some velour clad comfort whilst we waited, and a lift home.

[fred]

No, although as Dad pointed out I don't have £700 to spend on a car anyway. Pretty much all I can do is put down a deposit on a £80 a month car.

I had to borrow £3.5k from them to pay off the Corsa's finance under the assurance I could use the Triumphs as reliable daily transport but I fucked it up and now have a maxed out overdraft, no working car and owe my parents a third of my yearly income...

 

To be honest the 1300 has been costing £300 a month in vital repairs with a lot of DIY and bodgery and is all set to fail it's MOT on the 17th. The rear if one of the sills has developed a hole and the rear shocks and springs are knackered, most of the engine compression is in the crankcase and it spits oil everywhere.

 

The 1850 is in worse shape as my attempts at fixing it have lowered it's value and rendered it immobile and it's now been sitting by the sea for months.

 

I've really cunted this up...

No one can ever say ''they never cunted up'' Everyone on here has done it at least twice - I have done it more times than mentionable sire - I know this will not help your situation but at least take solace in - you are in the ''cunted up'' club

[catsinthewelder]

My attempt at running a 70's daily is sat on the drive with no real hope for the future and the 80's jap is running a bit rough.  The Disco is really showing them both that the 90's were a sweet spot.

 

Another voice here still smarting from £3k motors,  I was given a 5 year old Megane after my dad was offered naff all for it as a part ex.  In 2 years and 17k it cost me more than the 5 dailies that followed it and that included buying them (two were free).

[derskine]

Just buy an old Volvo as a backup Captain_70s.

[Noel Tidybeard]

I like A2s, BUT the decision to put style ahead of rear visibility is rather annoying (see also Honda Civic). However, pantograph wiper is ALL OF TEH WINS.

i dont find it a problem more of an advantage esp at night to block out aldi/bmwwankermobile head searchlights

[fred]

My attempt at running a 70's daily is sat on the drive with no real hope for the future and the 80's jap is running a bit rough.  The Disco is really showing them both that the 90's were a sweet spot.

 

Another voice here still smarting from £3k motors,  I was given a 5 year old Megane after my dad was offered naff all for it as a part ex.  In 2 years and 17k it cost me more than the 5 dailies that followed it and that included buying them (two were free).

Never in my driving career have I bought a car more than 1900 quid - and that one was a dog  - 30 years O driving shite and proud - My Olld Forester had it 4 years and still  can throw her skirt up and gallop at 90 odd all day long bless the old gal