Tat collection plan - Bargain!!

[Cheggers]

I need to get from London to Colne, Lancs to collect a Renault Clio for #1 daughter. By train it would be £91.00 from Kings Cross , by Megabus (www.megabus.com) the same trip by coach costs a massive...£9.00

 

Coach all booked for Sunday, expect tales of great bravery and excitement to follow.

[George-Roper]

Dont forget your camera / report required. You are in the AA / RAC

[scooters]

No A frame from the Porker then?

[Jon]

Which way are you planning on returning? If it's via the M1 and you want to join it around Harrogate/Leeds, then there's myriad options to take, though the A59 is a nice road to take towards that direction. If you do take this route though, get the seller to point you towards Skipton Old Road in Colne, which funnily enough takes you to Skipton. It cuts a bit of time off the journey somethimes but more importantly there's little traffic on it and the road takes you over the hills rather than around them, so you get some stunning views and you'll have some fun in the process. Just look out for the two cattle grids and the resultant sheep!

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

Collecting a cheap shitter via pubic transport is the stuff of legend and a test of Manhood. The car you've bought unseen on Ebay - will it get you home? Will it be a total shitheap?

 

My best was winning a Y reg (1982 ) 7 Series on Ebay at 5pm on a Sunday. Taxi to the station and a train from Up North to Essex via one of London's many unpleasant large stations. Got there at about 11pm, handed over £160 and, after fitting a battery from some other shitheap in the dark, heading off into the night. A2, M25, M11, A1M, A14 and M1, arriving home at about 2.30am after ringing my Mate and waking him up to impart the good news from my velour trimmed cocoon.

 

Apart from the usual 55mph wheel wobble, it surged up North without a problem.

[Cheggers]

Which way are you planning on returning? If it's via the M1 and you want to join it around Harrogate/Leeds, then there's myriad options to take, though the A59 is a nice road to take towards that direction. If you do take this route though, get the seller to point you towards Skipton Old Road in Colne, which funnily enough takes you to Skipton. It cuts a bit of time off the journey somethimes but more importantly there's little traffic on it and the road takes you over the hills rather than around them, so you get some stunning views and you'll have some fun in the process. Just look out for the two cattle grids and the resultant sheep!

 

It looks like M6/ M40 is the way to go, but thanks for the advice

[254575]

bit of deja vu?

 

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=12209&p=309129#p309129

 

enjoy the trip

[Cheggers]

bit of deja vu?

 

http://www.autoshite.com/phpbb3/viewtop ... 29#p309129

 

enjoy the trip

 

No pressure then...

[dollywobbler]

I've only really done the 'public transport and hope' thing once. That was my Land Rover 90 V8. Even then, I wimped out and paid the extra £2 for a return ticket. £23 return from Aberystwyth to Birmingham. Bargain!

 

Land Rover turned out to be a bit of alright, so I handed over the cash and drove home. The exciting element came from choosing to do this last December! Lots of snow on the ground and here I was in something big and heavy and completely unknown. Did the brakes work? Well, probably but I wasn't going to try them too hard for fear I'd end up ski-ing all the way home. On the roof. I did discover that the thermostat was knackered, so the drive home was a bit chilly.

 

Everyone should try it at some point. I know some people do on here on a regular basis. Always makes for great reading!

[Pillock]

I got a lift with my GF's dad from Mansfield to Surrey to pick up my first car. He dropped me off at 5am outside the garage and then drove off so I waited in the pub (which opened to serve as a newsagent and corner shop in the morning) till 9am. Saw the car for the first time, took it on a test drive - the first time it had moved in 6 months.

Luckily it was good, as I had no way of getting home apart from paying through the nose for a train.....

[Pete-M]

The public transport way is fun.

 

I did it to get the XJR. Liverpool to Great Yarmouth. Bus to Liverpool city centre, train to London, tube across London, Train to Norwich, train to Gt Yarmouth where the geezer collected me at the station. Left the house at 9am, arrived Yarmouth 6pm, back in Liverpool for 9.30pm.

 

Great fun.

 

Bought an 850 T5 a few years ago off ebay, unseen again, got the train up at night after work. Arrived Glasgow 11pm where the seller collected me. Drove home in mega-foggy conditions.

 

 

Both times if the cars had been pups I'd have got a hotel for the night and the first train possible in the morning. Always buy the return ticket!