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22nd January 2017, 07:19 | #21 |
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26th January 2017, 02:11 | #22 | |
This is my second home
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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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26th January 2017, 15:03 | #23 |
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MG ZT 135+ Rover 75 CDTi Tourer, 75 2.5 V6 Saloon Join Date: Oct 2014
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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 |
26th January 2017, 18:32 | #24 |
This is my second home
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My current diesel 75.
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Wanted - Indian bride. Cash waiting. (All sorted - bargain) First name and forum name: Ravinder Rover 75 2.0 CDT Connoisseur SE 116 (160 remap) Royal Blue (JFM) This vehicle was the 50,481st 75 to run off the production line, out of 112,381 This vehicle was the 2,238th 75 CDT Connoisseur SE to be made out of 3,775 This vehicle was the 5,002nd 75 in Royal Blue (code: JFM) to be made out of 14,420 Royal Blue 75s |
26th January 2017, 20:05 | #25 |
Gets stuck in
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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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26th January 2017, 21:18 | #26 |
Loves to post
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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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26th January 2017, 21:35 | #27 |
This is my second home
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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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27th January 2017, 08:35 | #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. |
28th January 2017, 13:26 | #29 |
Posted a thing or two
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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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25th May 2018, 22:17 | #30 |
This is my second home
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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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