wuvvum Posted August 1, 2010 Share Posted August 1, 2010 I bought this yesterday. It's a 130 HLX with the 2.4 5-pot JTD engine. It's T&T'd, drives well, sounds good for a diesel, does lots of MPG despite the big engine due to very high gearing (100mph = under 3000rpm) The only issues it had were a broken headlight glass on the passenger side and it occasionally felt like it was holding back - the seller had diagnosed this as a blockage in the diesel filter due to his missus running it out. When it was giving full power it went like hell, and sounded great for a diesel - a bit like the old Merc 312D ambulances we used to get round here. I'd fully intended to keep it for a while as a daily. About an hour and a half after buying it, however, I had swapped it for my old 900 T16S (as advertised further down the page). And I'm glad I did. I'd been Saabless for four months or so, and 900-less for longer than that, and I was starting to forget how much I love driving these things. I originally sold this one because it had run out of T&T and needed some work which I didn't have time to sort. Said work was subsequently done, and it's now T&T'd, and I'm rolling around Norfolk on a wave of turbocharged torque. It got me to thinking, though, and I worked out that out of the 350-odd cars I've owned over the years, this has to be the shortest time I've ever owned one for. My mate owned the Saab for an even shorter period - he'd bought it off the chap who was advertising it on here about half an hour before I turned up at his. Both of us had been intending to keep our respective purchases for some time - we hadn't bought them to sell on. So has anyone else bought a car "for keeps" and ended up moving it on within minutes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Lobster Posted August 1, 2010 Share Posted August 1, 2010 Not quite minutes. Years and years ago I bought a Mk1 R5 Le Car2 that had been sat in a bodyshop for 18 months after the headgasket went and the owner gave up on it. Dragged it home and thought I might well hang onto it but instead rang some Renner pervs and had it gone within the day at a satisfactory profit , Why doesn't that happen any more? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warren t claim Posted August 1, 2010 Share Posted August 1, 2010 I once bought a mk2 Astra sight unseen and rang a mate to give me a lift to get it. When I called him he said he was after an Astra and gave me £50 profit before either of us had even set eyes on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dukestar25 Posted August 1, 2010 Share Posted August 1, 2010 My shortest ownership was one week with my Montego estate. It only had that long left in T&T and due to the extensive rot, was due to be weighed in but was repreaved in the 11th hour by a man who could weld,who also paid above scrap for it and put it back on the road... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pogweasel Posted August 1, 2010 Share Posted August 1, 2010 Bought a VW LT35 in Huntingdon, my mate drove it back by the time we got home he'd decided he wanted it and swapped me his Alfa 155 for it. Alfa stayed another 3 or 4 days... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Negative Creep Posted August 1, 2010 Share Posted August 1, 2010 Had my Cortina just under 4 weeks. Didn't dislike it (carb flooding aside) just knew I needed a van and it was only ever a short term measure Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rod/b Posted August 1, 2010 Share Posted August 1, 2010 I had a Citroën BX for about 2 hours. It lasted 12 miles and blew up in a major fashion so I phoned a man with a hiab who came and took it away. This was, however, in Aberystwyth and I lived in Essex at the time so my 75 quid eBay bargain ended up costing me close to 500 quid after taking into account getting the scrap man out of the pub on a Saturday afternoon, hotels and train fares for my brother and I. BALLHAIR. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete-M Posted August 1, 2010 Share Posted August 1, 2010 Seven minutes. YRK 646R. Metallic Blue Escort Mk2 1600 Ghia Auto more door with factory alloys. Bought it with a knackered gearbox, towed it to a mate who was looking for one to drop a 2.0 in, sold it to him. Was a good day that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Sterling Posted August 1, 2010 Share Posted August 1, 2010 One week. Mk3 3-door Astra Cesaro (L367KSH). Young and stupid me and an equally stupid mate went halves on it, neither of us had a full driving licence, so it was unclear what we bought it for. Had 17" Alloys and a smoothed off boot. Bought for £70, had a burnt out clutch, bald tyres, no tax or MOT, but we did find a new set of brake pads for it in the back. Back then I didnt really know the value of these things. Dumped it on said mates drive who sold it to the scrapman a week later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pillock Posted August 1, 2010 Share Posted August 1, 2010 I swapped my project GTE Cabrio for a running 306, bloke down the road knocked on my door just out of interest and we did a deal. I went to the pub to celebrate getting rid of the piece of crap, he phoned while I was there having looked over the Astra properly and decided it was, well, a piece of crap. As he was about fourteen feet tall with arm muscles the size of my legs, I swapped back. It was about 45 minutes. As an aside, that Fiat looks lovely. I bet those engines are quite enjoyable to drive too, 130bhp's not bad really. Shame they appear to be quite rare. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete-M Posted August 1, 2010 Share Posted August 1, 2010 Owned the same car three times once. That was strange. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pogweasel Posted August 1, 2010 Share Posted August 1, 2010 Oh and the oft-referred to 'Cavalier Incident'... Bought an X-reg Cavalier 1.6 (banana yellow, underseal tide-mark) off a bloke I worked with for £50 on a friday afternoon. Proceeded to country pub after work with friends, driving home binned big style it into a field. Walked the rest of the way home with sore head. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexg Posted August 1, 2010 Share Posted August 1, 2010 About an hour, I took a Nova GSI in px at work with no mot and 190k. I bought if off work for £50. Half hour later one of the valeters saw it and said how much he wanted one, gave me a ton for it... Two weeks later some little chav came into the showroom asking about it and offering £400 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milford Cubicle Posted August 1, 2010 Share Posted August 1, 2010 I really like the idea of those 5-pot Marea diesels, it'd have to be a 125 TD to avoid the common fail gubbins though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Ross Posted August 1, 2010 Share Posted August 1, 2010 About 25 minutes. I trolled up to the house in a beautiful (rotten) 1967 Pre-Arrow Humber Sceptre. It was towed away just as my best mate turned up to buy it.... My Mother had called the scrapyard while I was attempting to keep it running long enough to sell it. He bought it off the scrapyard the next day !! Not a total loss. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 1, 2010 Share Posted August 1, 2010 About 30 minutes - bought a mk1 cortina estate fitted with a tuned 1600cc escort engine. Took a mate with me when I viewed and he drove it back. I never got to drive it as he made a silly offer I could not refuse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cms206 Posted August 1, 2010 Share Posted August 1, 2010 Shortest times for me were my sadly departed Rover 414Si (M497 KVP) destroyed by fire after about 3 weeks swiftly followed by a Hyundai Accident 1.3Si 'Coupe' (P842 RGG) which lasted about 6 days, but the shortest time so far has to be about 6 minutes... the time it took a mate of mine to test drive a Peugeot 205 Zest (K457 FKW) I was getting as a runaround... ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seth Posted August 1, 2010 Share Posted August 1, 2010 Hey! I win! The shortest time I've had a car is way longer than all of you! Last winter's MGB for about 6 months. (and £1k profit...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Father Ted Posted August 2, 2010 Share Posted August 2, 2010 14 weeks for the Rover 216 GSi Auto which spent 11 weeks off the road in the garage having the gearbox repeatedly rebuilt. 30 minutes for a BX estate that I bought and then took back because it was abg of shite and not at all as described. Its a long story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnthonyG Posted August 2, 2010 Share Posted August 2, 2010 A week, after buying a Visa GTi at Leominster Car Auctions and then finding out I couldn't insure it! It stayed there and went back through the ring the next week. Shame really - £350 was a bit of a bargain back in 1993. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VWPowered Posted August 2, 2010 Share Posted August 2, 2010 got my escort mk2 drove it the hour home, stuck sign in and sold with 5 mins of the sign being in it for double what i paid for it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CIH Posted August 2, 2010 Share Posted August 2, 2010 MY 924. Had it about 2 weeks but only used it once before failz. Y'know I'm still waiting for insurance payout, btw ? Before that my first Manta Hatch GTE. Had it sat outside untaxed for 3 weeks (I was supa skint waiting for my punto to sell). Got it legal and had a week out of it before it was stolen and crashed. Me avoids white german coupes from now on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angrydicky Posted August 2, 2010 Share Posted August 2, 2010 2CV lasted about 4 months before someone crashed into it and I sold it, I had a blue A35 as well that I only had for 6 months. Despite looking smart, it had very sloppy steering as the steering box had been run without oil by the last owner, and it needed a new clutch..and gearbox...and it had some awkward and annoying rot that would have been difficult to repair, so I flogged it. Did look tidy though, and made it to Sussex on holiday (on the back of a transporter) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocket88 Posted August 2, 2010 Share Posted August 2, 2010 Aboput 2 hrs. Swapped a Buick Riveira for a De Tomaso Deauville, which I swapped 2 hours later for a Trans Am.................those were the days........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Moog Posted August 2, 2010 Share Posted August 2, 2010 R Reg Punto. Bought cheaply on ebay, stuck it through MOT (which near me are free if it fails ) it failed massively. Stuck it back on ebay and sold it for £50 more than bought it for. Total time 4 days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rusty Pelican Posted August 2, 2010 Share Posted August 2, 2010 Bought an Imp for £75 , sold it 12 hours later for £150 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexg Posted August 2, 2010 Share Posted August 2, 2010 - (minus) 1 hour. Ive just realised I sold a car before I even bought it. I picked up a KA px from work and drove it up to a trader I know who took it and gave me 2k cash. I then got a lift back to work and told the boss I wanted to buy it 'for the girlfriend'. Got it for £1500, I even used the cash I had already sold it for... job done Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lancashireclamper Posted August 2, 2010 Share Posted August 2, 2010 Had an A reg nova 3 door saloon (remember those) for 3 days in 1999, The montego dizzler I used for cabbing was seriously ill with a crack in the cylinder head and the garage I used had this nova just in as a px on an astra, a weeks mot, 2 weeks tax, mine for £25, sourced a new head for the monty, picked it up in the nova, took head round to garage to fit, went back to scrapyard and got £40 for the nova, it even had just under half a tank of juice in it so never had to put any fuel in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Station Posted August 2, 2010 Share Posted August 2, 2010 A week on a 1984 Corolla, sold to Billy on here (who probably had it less). God knows why I sold it, I should have sold all the rest of my gas guzzling crap (sold to fund a completely wrecked MR2) and kept that forever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r.welfare Posted August 2, 2010 Share Posted August 2, 2010 2 days in a Volvo 440. Sold to my brother. He still talks to me, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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