Got two, one (cdt) is mine which I got when I was doing over 250mls a week with commuting and incidental use. The the tourer is a slightly rarer beast being a 1.8turbo 75 tourer (there's not than many of them) is nominally the missus car and useful for loading up camping/tip runs and taking the dog out. We don't actually
need both cars now as new house and job mean I'm only two miles from work and it's no slower cycling. Still I am fond of the diesel at 190k mls I daresay its not worth a lot either. In the 90k I've had it, it's had loads of work on top of it's purchase price; barring tyres and servicing and other consumables it's also had - recondition injectors, reconditioned HP fuel pump, two new electric pumps (itp &n ubp), Brake disks all round, full clutch and flywheel and clutch master cylinder, rear n/s sill welded, 2 gold fan resistors. It's had added - rear sunblind, meteor wheels, projector lights, h/lamp washers and a new double din waiting to go in. It's still cost me (a lot) less to run (including fuel and servicing) than buying a crappy new supermini type car in the 10-15k price bracket and running for the same time and mileage.
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Originally Posted by murphyv310
Hi.
I hear so many say "it owes me this and that" I could never come to terms with how this comes about.
You buy a car for £1000, keep it for two years and spend another £1000 on servicing and parts, I'm sorry but its not worth £2000, it just doesn't work that way.
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A £1000 a year to run a nice sized saloon like a 75/ZT is pretty cheap. Cars never pay you back, they're just holes in the road that you throw money into. All we do is try and make the hole as small as possible while enjoying the best that we are prepared to pay for.