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Old 22nd January 2017, 08:19   #21
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A Rover 75 Cdti Conn SE fully loaded with rear folding shade. 104K mileage.
It maxed out the number of breakdown claims allowed in one year AA. Replaced fuel pumps, fuel rail and fuel rail pressure sensor. Advertised on here for 6 months, but no one showed any interest.

Sold privately for £3000
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Old 26th January 2017, 03:11   #22
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A Rover 75 Cdti Conn SE fully loaded with rear folding shade. 104K mileage.
It maxed out the number of breakdown claims allowed in one year AA. Replaced fuel pumps, fuel rail and fuel rail pressure sensor. Advertised on here for 6 months, but no one showed any interest.

Sold privately for £3000
Jesus Phil you had a quite a bit of trouble with her, I know the feeling Christine was the same as well, things going straight after each other, but still she keeps on going.

And soon she'll be going to her new owner on Friday, Offered it too Trikey Andy he's buying her off me, I'll be carless for a while.

Going too miss her when she goes.
But needs are must.

Glad you got a good sale on her tho.
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Old 26th January 2017, 16:03   #23
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This 1.8 tourer.

Miniscule miles, immaculate inside and out - mechanically awful.

Multiple HGF - this was the car that finally made me promise never to buy another 1.8 again.

It wasn't the first 1.8 to have HGF that I'd owned, but it just kept letting me down so in the end I gave it to my brother



Lovely car, would have been fantastic if it could be relied on to get you where you wanted to go without the help of the RAC's breakdown fleet
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Old 26th January 2017, 19:32   #24
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My current diesel 75.
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Old 26th January 2017, 21:05   #25
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Cadillac BLS 2006 plate 150BHP turbo diesel. What a load of guff. £8k cost, sold 10 months later for £5k. Had issues with EGR, DPF, clutch, DMF etc etc. Only place that could work on it was Cadillac in Manchester even though it had a Saab engine and running gear. Tech 2 wouldn't recognise it in a Saab or GM dealer. Total nightmare from start to finish. Lesson learnt!
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Old 26th January 2017, 22:18   #26
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When you have a number of old cars problems follow but what happened this week with a MGTF takes the biscuit. Looking for some leather seats see a X power stepspeed TF but no Mot. After checking list of fails, mainly rusty break pipes and handbreak I bought it. Cleaned and polished come up like new. My Repair man picked it up and drove to his garage but on the way a suspension bracket which was corroded broke away from the sub frame spun the car and hit a tree. You can't win them all.
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Old 26th January 2017, 22:35   #27
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VW Passat GL5 estate. It had the Audi 5-cylinder engine, which would just cut out when the engine was at full temperature. Long journeys were a nightmare, with stops every 30 odd miles. I was well rid of it
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Old 27th January 2017, 09:35   #28
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Austin Maxi. My first car and a kindly-meant gift from my dad. It was ten years old and a steaming crumbling pile of rusty poop. Even when it worked it was rubbish; slow (max speed was 65mph before your fillings started falling out), noisy, thirsty (never got near 30mpg), and horrible to drive: very heavy steering, gear lever like the proverbial knitting needle in a box of marbles, and for a big car not even comfortable - hard plastic sweaty seats in a car Like a greenhouse and with poor ventilation. Just BL at its worst. It broke down constantly for just about every reason. It was actually a relief when it burst into flames on Mousehold Heath (once I'd scrambled out of the thing and run a safe distance).

It's amazing how well most modern cars age compared to the everyday 70s rubbish we used to drive. I've just sold my ten year old Saab 9-3 and it was as good as new, faultless and spotless. My 16 year old 75 is as good as the day it left the factory.

Most reliable car I ever owned was, amazingly, a Rover SD1 2600, bought for £600 in 1986. Just shows you never can tell...although my 1988 Ford Focus was also utterly faultless for 100,000 kms and ten years (and it was already ten years old when I bought it) and still going strong when I drove it into the scrapyard.
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Old 28th January 2017, 14:26   #29
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An Austin Allegro. (Seems to a lot of BL stuff mentioned on this thread.)

I bought it on a foggy night and was later to realise that it was the car that caused the fog. Oily smoke billowing out of the exhaust which was connected to a NAUGHTY WORD-NAUGHTY WORD-NAUGHTY WORD-NAUGHTY WORD- engine. The rest of the car (estate) was minted but the engine was a knackered 1100 instead of a 1300.

I got it all sorted at some cost and enjoyed it for a while and then got rid.
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Thread rival once again and this times its the cars we had that's cost us a arm and a leg too too keep going.

May updated list has too be Christine.

Great car when she was 100% how ever it didn't last must have spent over £3000 easy with the amount of parts that needed changing.

Everything she needed she got, but I couldn't keep doing this forever and that's when I decided it was time too let go.

6 years of ownership great fun great memory's and meeting great mates on the forums and there cars.

Me and her we got our fair share of trouble but we had fun doing it.
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