End of year Tat Accounts.

[AndyW201]

My cars.

Out;

Was a nice car, well equipped and went well, with the sports suspension pack but had just a bit too much modern 'complication', and a few niggling faults were starting to loom, not least a gearbag oil cooler that was starting to shit itself.

In:;

More like it! It was nice to go back to dailying an older car, it always gets looks and had quite a few people in car parks and petrol stations giving admiring comments. Having owned 6 190Es back in the day, this has that old school Merc feel with the reliability and indestructability of a 'peak '90s' car. Being a rare manual gearbag example helps. And being low mileage, it hasnt even got the horrendous bodywork woes that a lot of these have. Much.

Wife's.

Out;

Bought as a repaired Cat S write off nearly 6 years ago, it gave me, then the Mrs great service only ever needing routine servicing and a clutch slave cylinder. However we always feared that the previous damage would come back and bite us, and over a few weeks this year, it played up, to a point we had to cut our losses and get rid. A screwed wiring loom turned out to be the cause, but the good news for the car was being bought by a shiter on here who repaired it and it lives again. The £30 a year tax will be much missed...

In;

Soz as its a modern, but it is f'ing brilliant. Big enough to carry out family car duties but small enough to not be a pain in car parks. Gutsy little 1.0 turbo lump that goes well and is good on fuel and has all the toys that she wanted in a car. Could have done without the electric handbrake but otherwise its the perfect "an car".

[Skcat]

Out! 

Had my time with it (over two years). Now with someone who is really looking after it!

I Never thought this would happen! But the volvo is gone. I have a couple vans that get great economy so the volvo was never getting used for what it was meant too anymore plus it normaly just sat around most the time between cars that intrested me. Hopefully the next owner looks after it! 

In and out:

The vr6 passat was so much fun, it felt amazing but it was someone else's build, and I don't get on with the styling and how fragile they are, I see why there are not many left. If it was a B4 saloon it would have probably stuck around longer! But it did Inspire me to get my next car!

A 2000 GS300 I floated about untill the v5 came through (takes around 5 weeks if you apply for one as a new owner) then pulled the engine and scrapped. The paint was so bad and the rear end was rotten. You could spend thousands having it all fixed but this outcome is inevitable eventually. The engine is currently sat in my garage awaiting a complete stripdown and rebuild with some new bits and awaiting a donor car to fit it in. Hopefully somthing cool with a bad engine comes up for sale! Which is why I bought the next car. 

In:

For one day I had no cars, that was not going to last so I bought this 1992 250D with the hopes of useing it as a donor for the 2jz. The feeling of the steering box has made me reconsider this. However the merc might stick around as, although slow. It's a extremely comfortable and efficient cruiser!