End of year Tat Accounts.

[RoverFolkUs]

This post will probably be worthless without pictures, but my computer setup is a complete clusterfuck so retrieving a few photos to post here would probably cause me excessive exasperation. 

Should I manage to find and post some up for the one-and-a-half interested persons, I will. Unfortunately I'm pretty boring so this will never top the impressive fleets above. 

Balance carried forward - 

- 2008 Ford Focus LX 1.6 

- 2006 Ford Focus GHIA 1.6 Ti (in an unroadworthy condition) 

January saw me awaken the '06 Focus from it's 6 month slumber and, expecting the worst, punted it through a test. To my shock/delight (delete as appropriate) it actually passed without a single advisory. Nice. It was then promptly parked up for a further 6 months... 

April/May saw some more extensive mechanical work to the '08 Focus involving repairing it's power steering that the previous owner had managed to fuck up. 

Literally after I ordered the parts for '08 Focus, a rather nice looking Citroen Xsara Picasso that had only done 40k miles came up for £600. I absolutely had to buy it. So I did it was in a bit of a state but it cleaned up pretty well. Could benefit from some bodywork repairs which I'm still yet to get around to, but it's otherwise ok. MOT has now lapsed but I'm going to deal with that in the new year. It doesn't see a lot of use, but it's a useful thing to keep around. 

July saw 2008 Focus pass it's MOT. At that point I decided it was at the top of its valuation peak and I didn't need 3 cars so off it went. For a small profit, if I don't consider all the work it had, so probably more like a break even. Calling that a win anyway 

In - 

2006 Citroen Xsara Picasso Desire

40k miles on the clock (I think from memory? Either that or less..) was only £600.

Bought in absolutely terrible condition, missing the rear seats. Seats sourced, cleaned up. Now a fantastic car bar some slight body damage. 

Out - 

2008 Ford Focus LX 1.6 

Passed its MOT, became surplus to requirements. Cashed in on the OMGSECONDHANDCARPRICES nonsense earlier in the summer!

Carried forward to 2023 -

2006 Ford Focus GHIA 1.6 Ti

2006 Citroen Xsara Picasso (in an unroadworthy condition....) 

 

I think 2006 Focus is most likely to get the chop. It's been with me since 2019 and hasn't really wanted for much but I think it's probably beginning to reach the end of its life, quite a few jobs mounting up. Nothing major but all stuff that should want doing. (Thermostat, alternator, cambelt/water pump, rear suspension fiddling, rear brake overhaul etc) MOT next month. So that will be the decider. I think the list above could be upto £4-500 in (decent) parts alone nevermind the amount of time to actually do it all. It cost me £750 3 + 1/2 years ago so the man maths aren't adding up...

Picasso should receive attention in early 2023 to get it road legal and actually used again. It's unlikely to be going anywhere next year, so expect it to be carried forward next year as well!

So started with 2 cars, bought 1, then sold another, ending with 2 cars. 

Various moderns(?) were offered to me including a Lexus IS200, Hyundai i30, MK5 Astra, and a Golf Plus to name a few but all were terminally fucked in their own ways so didn't bother and they went to bean cans instead. 

I'm not expecting any changes in the next fortnight, (never say never though) so I'll sign this post off for now! 

[meshking]

Boring cars changed this year:

 

Out :

2011 Nissan leaf

2008 ford smax

 

In :

2022 Nissan leaf

2019 VW transporter shuttle

Non-movers :

1996 Lotus Elan

1979 Citroen Acadiane (*will* be on the road 2023)

[brownnova]

I’m normally an advocate of waiting until the 31st to declare… but I have absolutely no plans to have any further changes this year…

Exiteers

First out was the Elgrand… or at least it should have been. It shat it’s alternator belt within 500 yards when Howe came to collect, it left a few weeks later. Believe he’s moved it on since

2nd out was the MX5, I’m now MX5-less for the first time in a good few years! I just never gelled with this one.

Then out went the winter beater Merc, which was faaar to nice to winter beat. When a friend needed a big auto at short notice this one went!

Always wanted to try a brick Volvo, and I did, Loved it, probably shouldn’t have sold it… but I fancied a change.

In-Migrants

Replacement for the MX5, it’s a good thing, but not being used enough due to being 2 seats to justify it. Has been for sale, but as it’s a special edition is stronger money than a standard one, and this is the wrong time to be selling.

Swapped my 940 for this! Perfect family wagon. Loving it so far. 

Remainers 

Longest standing member of the fleet, spent the first 7 months of the year standing due to a drive belt fault, but I decided to revive as a winter beater, before buying the XC90. Still love this car, one of the best I’ve ever owned!

2CV has just carried on going with no real attention at all.

Other 2CV is getting perilously close to the road. It was supposed to be done before my daughter turned 1. She’s now 2 1/2 and we’ve had another one… who is one month of being 1 herself. So that timescale has slipped.

Bonk the magic wagon had a good year, doing a few shows including RadWood, lots of family  outings… off the road for winter currently, but was retired with a misfire, and may need a patch of welding before the next MoT. Jobs for the spring. 

Yugo progress has stalled… totally. That’s having two very small children for you! I’ll claim that 2023 is it’s year!

Candidate in most likely to be revived in 2023 is  the Nova. Still here, still brown, but deteriorating due to being outside. Have had it running, going and stopping this year, conducted a few checks and made a slow start on it. Needs doing. 

This is still here too. But it’s very firmly the wife’s

The one that got away. 

An honourable mention to the one I most regret not buying- the Le Baron. I had first refusal, a very fair price and I turned it down and bought the MGTF… fool. 

[Spottedlaurel]

A pretty quiet year for me, after last year's fleet cull and house move just trying to concentrate on financial stuff and put myself in a position where I don't need to work full-time for too many more years.

LS400 was only in use for only a couple of months and has since been on SORN. Now at garage getting some welding done and attention to rear brakes, then I want to start going through a few improvements - I'll probably never have the chance to pick up a Mk1 for a decent price so I should work with what I've got.

Regrettably the days of picking up random extra cars for £not much seem to have gone, but I don't seem to be able to capitalise on the increased prices - witness the Sunny I sold last year doubling its price when sold at an ACA sale in Janauary, then doubling again at a Mathewsons auction in March.

RX is more mine now that it was, as I bought it outright at the end of the PCP.  At just under £10k with less than 60k on the clock and just one former owner I'd have been stupid to hand it back. Will keep it for a good few years yet, it's a fine and very capable daily driver.

The Laurel continues to do its thing, it's likely the mileage will roll over 100k next year. Why would I ever sell it?

That's it for my fleet. Within the family Mrs SL's Auris continues to be An Car but may get changed in a year or two, the Yaris passed onto Master SL and Miss SL became half-owner of the ex @BorniteIdentity Avensis SR. And her BF bought himself a mk2 MR2 - there seems to be a theme here.....

The Avensis returned home from uni last night and is sitting outside the front door as I type. I'm hoping to use it over Christmas, for now that's as close as I'll get to an addition.

[pervypaul]

A couple of outs.

The subaru really wasn't getting the use or attention it deserved. So finally bit the bullet and let her go.

Went for an electric corsa in Jan, did  5000 miles in it, then sold it for 2k more tha  I paid for it in September 

 

The t5 finally got a new engine at the start of the year, and hasn't missed a beat all year.  Slowly making it into a 6 seater day van. Just needs a decent matress and it'll be good to kip in

 

Bought a slk280 for her indoors to replace the corsa, as 1 she doesn't like driving the van and 2, I don't trust her parking it!

 

the mk1 gp is still in the black hole that is the garage, along with the much unloved and unused fireblade and gixxer6.  These may or may not survive another year in there in 23

 

Not sure what 23 will hold, but the slk will be out come mid late spring.

Sorry about the screen shots. Was the only way I could find all the photos easily 

[83C]

Start of year: 

BMW 525d, Range Rover L322, ZZR 1400, Honda Dullville and the two long term off road machines (Leyland Tiger & Land Rover 90).

Out: The Dullville went first, in April. It would have been ages until I could have gotten around to doing anything with it. 

In… and out: I went looking for some sort of naked bike, something like an SV or Bandit but big enough for me. What I ended up with was this: 

BMW R1100RT. Bought in April, sold in May. Competent bike that handled better than expected, but I just couldn’t gel with it. Too wide and devoid of feel.

And that was about it until late September when I got into a position where I could treat myself. Looked at all sorts, nearly bought a VXR8 but couldn’t get to the seller in time (sold the day before I could have collected), looked at a few other fun cars and then this came up local-ish:

In: Bentley Arnage Red Label. I’ve always wanted a Bentley, and promised I’d get one before I was 40. To be honest I never thought I’d get an Arnage, I thought it’d be a Turbo R - I nearly went to view a Turbo R in Derbyshire before I saw this. 

Out: I’d been considering it for a while but with the Range Rover doing most of the family long distance mileage and my commute to work reducing from 15 miles to 4 miles the trusty 525d was now a bit excessive for just going to work and back or down the shops. So it departed in October, after 4 years and 52,000 miles with me. Probably the best car I’ve ever owned.

Around this time another shiter got in contact about a car that I’d enquired about a few months previously, so a deal was agreed.

In… and out: 

Thought this would be an ideal WBOD, and it would have been. However, the day after it arrived a friend let it be known he was selling his car, so a decision was taken that the Subaru would have to go in favour of…

In: Fabia VRS.

It’s not as ‘winter practical’ as the Subaru, but it is cheaper to run and if things do get snowy I’ve got the Range Rover for anything that requires all wheel drive. 

That’s pretty much it for this year, I have got an enquiry ongoing for something else but I’m very short of spare time from now until New Year so chances are it’ll sell before then, no plans to buy anything else unless it’s very local and very good value.

[Datsuncog]

I'm not much of a one for chopping and changing just for the hell of it, so it's been another fairly quiet year compared to others...

OUT:

The Subaru Outback 2.5 of many shiters.

Felt pretty bad about this one, as it was a very nice steer - but expert advice reckoned the rust had too deep a hold on its arse end for viable repair.

Plus, it turns out that the weird grinding noise when cornering was probably the haldex announcing its imminent departure from this mortal coil, and not the back discs like I'd thought.

So maybe it was an inevitable ending.

But I'll tell you, I really missed those heated seats during last week's deep-freeze. They were ace.

OUT:

General mechanical ineptitude, plus an impending house move, meant that the l'il Honda Vision was returned to @They_all_do_that_sir, with thanks.

I bought a few bits for it, but never did get it running.

Also OUT:

With no towbar on any of the fleet, a rotten and rusty trailer owned since 2005 wasn't much use to me.

Taken by the same fella who cleared a load of other metal bits and pieces away from the garden.

I kept the plate, though - originally made up for the Poor Old Escort.

 

IN:

Something of a pig-in-a-poke, once the Outback became the Rotback then the Rockin' 'Rolla was the best thing I could find during the Great Used Car Drought for around £1k within a 50 mile radius.

It's been reliable enough, though its underside turned out to be rather more frilly than anticipated. Has now been welded up, but I have my concerns... still, it's been quite the load-lugger during the house move and subsequent renovations. So fair play.

 

NO CHANGE:

MrsDC's much-abused Mk1 Yaris remains the fleet bedrock - although is currently non-operational, due to a seized alternator.

I'll replace that once it stops being quite so frozen and awful outside.

No plans for any further purchases this year!

[Rust Collector]

On 12/18/2022 at 8:47 AM, brownnova said:

Yugo progress has stalled… totally. That’s having two very small children for you! I’ll claim that 2023 is it’s year!

I didn't know/remember that you had a Yugo stashed away, that's proper cool!

[AnnoyingPentium]

1 hour ago, Datsuncog said:

Also OUT:

With no towbar on any of the fleet, a rotten and rusty trailer owned since 2005 wasn't much use to me.

Taken by the same fella who cleared a load of other metal bits and pieces away from the garden.

I kept the plate, though - originally made up for the Poor Old Escort.

Looks similar to the one of my Grampa's.

[RoverFolkUs]

24 minutes ago, AnnoyingPentium said:

Looks similar to the one of my Grampa's.

I mean they're both small trailers so that's probably why they look alike m9 😉🤣

[brownnova]

2 hours ago, Rust Collector said:

I didn't know/remember that you had a Yugo stashed away, that's proper cool!

Aye had it a couple of years. Picked it up from the original owner in the next town over. It’s only ever left North Wales once!

 

[Macscrooge]

Modernz:  RX still here and likely staying a while yet. Management’s Shogun will probably be replaced next year - possibly with something more frugal. Which hardly narrows down the options 🤔.
Camping Shite:  MoHo was selt in the summer at a good time for once. In five and a half years we dropped only 16% on what we paid 🙂. The Estima camper I bought last year for our son & daughter in law is still going strong. DIL drives it most - she’s from the US and presumably is genetically inclined in favour of large autos. 
Shite: the increasingly broken Saab was trailered away in March. Ah well 😟. 

[Tickman]

First out this year was this, went to @gm on one of his many raids to Scotland.

Replaced by this

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[GMcD]

3 gone. 1 in. 

Bye:

BINI - Status: beancans

ABS module fubar, was drinking oil (roughly a litre every 500 miles) and then it bricked itself with a steering lock fault. 

1100 - Status: Sold

Sold to a recently retired guy to sit alongside his Moggy that he was restoring.

Toledo - Status: Sold

Sold to  @leakingstrut, it's gone to a good home.

In:

Cav

Remain:

Future Plans:

Will get rid of the Blue Mx-5 in spring. I hardly used it last summer. Cav might go in summer too to make way for something else. Mrs GMcD has dropped enough hints about getting her a modern, so that will probably happen as well.

[gm]

1 hour ago, GMcD said:

Will get rid of the Blue Mx-5 in spring. I

keep the blue one and sell the red one (to me  ) 

[alcyonecorporation]

CUNT!

(sorry, wrong thread).

[GMcD]

46 minutes ago, gm said:

keep the blue one and sell the red one (to me  ) 

It's a keeper.... although I keep saying that about the blue 😂. 

It's a classic red 1.8 NA base. No frills whatsoever. It's my perfect spec! 

[SiC]

Still feel regret I didn't buy the 1100 back. I have this rule in my head that there are enough different cars out there that I haven't experienced, that it makes no sense buying back something I sold. However due to lockdowns and stuff, I barely even drove the blue 1100 so I should have really bought it back. 

I definitely will do another ADO16 again - I'm still part of the club to keep an eye on the classifieds! Will have to be the 1300 though. Would be great to have a MG 1300 even. 

[Cavcraft]

Still here:

There are some more somewhere, obvs. like most of them are partially or fully not working.

[egg]

Not been keeping up, but who the bought your E reg Visa? @Six-cylinder

[alcyonecorporation]

UNCHANGED: 


Peugeot 305 (SORN),


Peugeot 605 (SORN),

Isuzu Piazza Turbo (SORN), 


Subaru Impreza WRX Sports Wagon (SORN).

It's been six years since I bought the 305 and the Leon continues plodding on as my daily. It rather shat all over my plans last year when the clutch release bearing failed at 60,000 miles and I opted to have the DMF and clutch done while everything else was out. I also told the local dealer to jog on after it accused me of trying to have one over on them with a service plan (great heist, lads, I'm sure all the masterminds live for the chance to be a player in Peterborough with a slightly fucked 5F Leon, aye) and had a nearside wheel bearing replaced after it began grinding . 

Everything else bar my Leon and Berlingo remain in storage. 

IN/OUT: 

Suzuki Baleno GSR (sold to a friend in the industry). 
The gormless tepid hatch express came and went in the space of six months. It did nothing wrong but nothing right, either. Pair ery worn dampers with moon shot gearing and you have a strange warm hatch that I never got round to fixing, though I bought the top mounts and shocks from Autodoc before throwing in the towel. I will miss its weird rucksack style seats, rorty induction note and farting Speedline wheels; I found a good second hand one in the end. 

REVIVED: 

Volvo 121 (fault finally traced)
Thank fuck! The Amazon finally revealed its secrets (a broken live connection) and was taken to Shitefest with @Pete-M on the spanners. The top image belongs to someone; please shout up and I'll hoy a credit in here. 
The Weber's going back on it because I preferred how it ran with that carb fitted. In chasing the fault it got an alternator and electronic ignition; my Ellemann-Jakobsen rocker cover finally went on. 
As it lives 250 miles from me I haven't driven it as much as I wanted and I'm still trying to find a strip of rear carpet to go over the floor pans to cover them up. Of course, the sunroof is still fucked. 

Subaru SVX 
The miserable beast finally decided to work for a bit over the summer after generating another bill at Carnetix to unfuck the rear brakes. I repaired the drivers' side window with a sleeve lock regulator @ruffgeezer found in a scrapyard; said yard also yielded a replacement seat for the ex @Jazoli Berlingo Carlisle. 
I had a right old merry piss around sourcing a new battery but I got there in the end, but the crank pulley bearing is now squeaking and the left rocker cover is pissing oil everywhere, so it'll be heading back to Melton on a low loader to have those issues put right; there's no way in hell I'm attempting the rocker cover gaskets as they're hard up against the inner wings and I lack the triple jointed hands needed to take everything apart. The jury's out on whether or not the starter motor is draining everything but I got £5 from the local yard weighing the absolutely ricked Lion in so I feel like I've won that little scuffle (SVX laughs in four figures). 

[ruffgeezer]

@alcyonecorporation I think k I've a set of SVX spark plugs if you want to get them changed whilst your man is wrestling with the rocker covers? 

[alcyonecorporation]

2 minutes ago, ruffgeezer said:

@alcyonecorporation I think k I've a set of SVX spark plugs if you want to get them changed whilst your man is wrestling with the rocker covers? 

Yes please

Also 

why do you have those fam 

[ruffgeezer]

9 hours ago, alcyonecorporation said:

Yes please

Also 

why do you have those fam 

I have all the spark plugs!

[Tommyboy12]

Been a very busy year for me! In chronological order:

The Mighty Montego - OUT

Subaru Impreza - IN

Fiesta ST - OUT

Volvo 240 - IN

Subaru Impreza - OUT

Mégane 225 - IN

MGF - IN

Volvo 240 - OUT

Vauxhall Cavalier - IN (As of tomorrow 😅)

Mini - NON-MOVER

Mini Turbo - NON-MOVER

Little Grey Fergie - NON-MOVER

[Ghosty]

CBA with pics as it'd take forever. 


I started '22 with my Civic sedan, a 2000 Civic 1.4iSE hatch, and an E34 520i.

 

The E34 got sold once it had an MOT, and the Civic SE hung around for a bit as a daily, before an acquaintance offered to buy it off me. It's now somewhere in Somerset awaiting an engine upgrade to a Jap spec D15B with 130bhp, having already received some lovely tasteful mods. I hope to see it at Mimms Honda Day in spring.

The Civic SE was replaced with a Civic Coupe for a short while, and in turn a green UK spec MX5 with a few tweaks - if anyone wants to buy that, let me know. 

 

The MX5 abided as a summer daily, however after it ran out of MOT, it was temporarily replaced with a Civic Type R. 

The Type R has since been sold, and the MX5 has been replaced with a higher spec Eunos Roadster with less than half the miles at 63k. 

These have been joined by an '89 Civic GL hatch taking on daily duties, that I bought off mother_ghost when she got a 50k miles white example, and my 62k W124 which is a keeper, which I bought purely because I had the money to do so, and at £2000 I was daft not to. I waft about in it at my leisure, and it is a wondrous escape. 

 

These last three and the sedan are the current fleet, and I'm pretty bloody happy with them tbh.

The Civic sedan abides as my forever car, and is currently on about 92k, having bought it on 85k. 

[loserone]

7 hours ago, Ghosty said:

CBA with pics as it'd take forever. 

That's half the point.  Plus, you'll already have pics of most hosted on the forum already, no?

[Six-cylinder]

On 12/20/2022 at 7:32 PM, egg said:

Not been keeping up, but who the bought your E reg Visa? @Six-cylinder

Dan's Action Cars, film car supply company wanted it for street furniture next year.

[catsinthewelder]

So I might have been a little hasty in posting early in the month 😬

[Motown]

Changes this year (Sadly the once great fleet has been massively downsized over the last two years)

Purchased:

1984 Rover SD1 3.9 V8 Vanden Plas

 

1983 Rover SD1 2600 Vanden Plas

 

 

Sold:

1991 Rover 827 Vitesse Fastback

 

1983 Rover SD1 2600 Vanden Plas

 

2000 Rover 45 Saloon

 

2002 Rover 25 iXL

 

 

Current daily drivers:

1986 Rover SD1 2600 Vanden Plas

 

1991 Rover 827  SLi Fastback