Grim... wrote:
Lonewolves wrote:
Cheap to buy, cheap on fuel, tax and insurance and cheap to fix. Mondeo-sized. What are my options?
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A Mondeo?
Yeah, I expected that.
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| Author: | Zardoz [ Mon Apr 16, 2018 12:03 ] |
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You'd be spending that much to buy another car though wouldn't you? |
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| Author: | myp [ Mon Apr 16, 2018 12:05 ] |
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Zardoz wrote: You'd be spending that much to buy another car though wouldn't you? Nope. If I am then I'll be walking everywhere. |
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| Author: | Zardoz [ Mon Apr 16, 2018 12:09 ] |
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Does it have to be Mondeo size? Would you be better with a little van? Are you still doing the delivery jobs mate? |
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| Author: | myp [ Mon Apr 16, 2018 12:33 ] |
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Zardoz wrote: Does it have to be Mondeo size? Would you be better with a little van? Are you still doing the delivery jobs mate? Vans are too expensive to run. £2-4k a year for insurance. |
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| Author: | Hearthly [ Mon Apr 16, 2018 12:43 ] |
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Try and find an old Honda Accord maybe? The VTECs are unpoppable and on the whole the cars are incredibly reliable. |
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| Author: | myp [ Mon Apr 16, 2018 12:56 ] |
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Friend of a friend is buying it for £460, so that's something at least. |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Mon Apr 16, 2018 13:04 ] |
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Lonewolves wrote: Cheap to buy, cheap on fuel, tax and insurance and cheap to fix. Mondeo-sized. What are my options? ... A Mondeo? |
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| Author: | myp [ Mon Apr 16, 2018 13:06 ] |
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Grim... wrote: Lonewolves wrote: Cheap to buy, cheap on fuel, tax and insurance and cheap to fix. Mondeo-sized. What are my options? ... A Mondeo? Yeah, I expected that.
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| Author: | Hearthly [ Mon Apr 16, 2018 13:07 ] |
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Grim... wrote: Lonewolves wrote: Cheap to buy, cheap on fuel, tax and insurance and cheap to fix. Mondeo-sized. What are my options? ... A Mondeo? They can get really tatty though. I see quite a few 6th generation Accords (98-02) driving around here that are still in really good nick, and they must well cheap as onions now. |
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| Author: | Zardoz [ Mon Apr 16, 2018 13:17 ] |
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Don't get a tatty one 
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| Author: | Zardoz [ Mon Apr 16, 2018 13:18 ] |
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Cheap as onions?! |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Mon Apr 16, 2018 13:18 ] |
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Lonewolves wrote: Grim... wrote: Lonewolves wrote: Cheap to buy, cheap on fuel, tax and insurance and cheap to fix. Mondeo-sized. What are my options? ... A Mondeo? Yeah, I expected that. I mean, do. They're excellent cars. |
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| Author: | Hearthly [ Mon Apr 16, 2018 13:20 ] |
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Zardoz wrote: Cheap as onions?! Onions are cheap. Whenever I buy onions I think to myself, 'You get loads of onions for not much cash'. Honda Accord is the way to go and I say that as an authority on cars because I've owned them all. (FACT - I owned a 6th gen Accord back in the early 2000s. It was a good car.) |
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| Author: | Zardoz [ Mon Apr 16, 2018 13:27 ] |
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Yeah onions are cheap. Humans on the mainland say cheap as chips, not heard your expression before. Like accords, like most Hondas really. We had a civic for years. |
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| Author: | myp [ Mon Apr 16, 2018 13:30 ] |
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It looks like I will be carless for the foreseeable. There is nothing decent for under a grand except other luxury barges. |
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| Author: | Dr Zoidberg [ Mon Apr 16, 2018 13:48 ] |
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There’s a silver Octavia 14 miles from you on autotrader for £1k. They will happily do 200k miles. |
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| Author: | Hearthly [ Mon Apr 16, 2018 13:55 ] |
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It doesn't have the cachet of the iconic 'H' on the front though, does it? |
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| Author: | Zardoz [ Mon Apr 16, 2018 13:57 ] |
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You brand every car you’ve owned? Sicko! |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Mon Apr 16, 2018 14:06 ] |
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Hearthly wrote: It doesn't have the cachet of the iconic 'H' on the front though, does it? Next up - Hearthly buys Arnold Rimmer. |
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| Author: | Cras [ Mon Apr 16, 2018 14:11 ] |
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Zardoz wrote: Yeah onions are cheap. Humans on the mainland say cheap as chips, not heard your expression before. Maths suggests you should also be able to say "chips as onions" |
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| Author: | markg [ Mon Apr 16, 2018 14:23 ] |
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Or Honda Accords. |
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| Author: | myp [ Mon Apr 16, 2018 14:40 ] |
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Hearthly wrote: It doesn't have the cachet of the iconic 'H' on the front though, does it? I had a Civic Type R, I honestly couldn't give a shit about the badge on the front. |
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| Author: | Zardoz [ Mon Apr 16, 2018 14:41 ] |
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Get a Bedford Rascal. |
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| Author: | myp [ Mon Apr 16, 2018 14:41 ] |
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Dr Zoidberg wrote: There’s a silver Octavia 14 miles from you on autotrader for £1k. They will happily do 200k miles. I don't have a grand. Was looking for something closer to £500 but it appears from my research that is unrealistic. I may have to live without for a while. |
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| Author: | Zardoz [ Mon Apr 16, 2018 14:42 ] |
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Lonewolves wrote: Hearthly wrote: It doesn't have the cachet of the iconic 'H' on the front though, does it? I had a Civic Type R, I honestly couldn't give a shit about the badge on the front. "Honk if you're horny" |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Mon Apr 16, 2018 14:44 ] |
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Lonewolves wrote: Dr Zoidberg wrote: There’s a silver Octavia 14 miles from you on autotrader for £1k. They will happily do 200k miles. I don't have a grand. Was looking for something closer to £500 but it appears from my research that is unrealistic. I may have to live without for a while. https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified ... 000&page=1 |
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| Author: | myp [ Mon Apr 16, 2018 15:11 ] |
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Grim... wrote: Lonewolves wrote: Dr Zoidberg wrote: There’s a silver Octavia 14 miles from you on autotrader for £1k. They will happily do 200k miles. I don't have a grand. Was looking for something closer to £500 but it appears from my research that is unrealistic. I may have to live without for a while. https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified ... 000&page=1 Better! I guess an estate would be useful too. I thought I could put off getting one for a few years yet. 
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| Author: | MaliA [ Mon Apr 16, 2018 15:13 ] |
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Lonewolves wrote: Hearthly wrote: It doesn't have the cachet of the iconic 'H' on the front though, does it? I had a Civic Type R, I honestly couldn't give a shit about the badge on the front. Yeah you know you want it |
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| Author: | Zardoz [ Mon Apr 16, 2018 15:27 ] |
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Mucky arms! Fitting your fuel filter? |
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| Author: | Mr Russell [ Mon Apr 16, 2018 15:29 ] |
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| Author: | Zardoz [ Mon Apr 16, 2018 15:33 ] |
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| Author: | MaliA [ Mon Apr 16, 2018 15:34 ] |
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Zardoz wrote: Mucky arms! Fitting your fuel filter? Just finished rodding drains. It probably is actual shit. Or fence paint |
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| Author: | MaliA [ Mon Apr 16, 2018 15:34 ] |
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Mr Russell wrote: Attachment: rover.png 
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| Author: | krazywookie [ Mon Apr 16, 2018 19:50 ] |
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Latest mod to my slammed dub. Who designs a 4 door hatch with no cup holders? VAG, that's who. Bastards. |
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| Author: | Trooper [ Mon Apr 16, 2018 20:18 ] |
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To be fair, your car was built in the early 90s I assume? That was before cups were invented. |
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| Author: | krazywookie [ Mon Apr 16, 2018 20:36 ] |
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'88 baby. I was 2 |
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| Author: | flis [ Mon Apr 16, 2018 20:51 ] |
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The floor/carpet looks like it might be alive. Sorry to hear about your car/cash troubles, Myp. Plenty of people manage without cars though, hopefully it isn't too much of a burden. Myps car issues aside, the last two pages have made me proper lol |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Mon Apr 16, 2018 22:43 ] |
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Myp you better get your cupholders back. |
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| Author: | Mimi [ Mon Apr 16, 2018 22:58 ] |
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Grim... wrote: Myp you better get your cupholders back. Wookie’s got a sideline in them now. |
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| Author: | Mimi [ Mon Apr 16, 2018 22:59 ] |
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Which is in this same thread about three posts up. Duh. :headdesk: |
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| Author: | krazywookie [ Mon Apr 16, 2018 23:34 ] |
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flis wrote: The floor/carpet looks like it might be alive. Sorry to hear about your car/cash troubles, Myp. Plenty of people manage without cars though, hopefully it isn't too much of a burden. Myps car issues aside, the last two pages have made me proper lol It's ok, there's no carpet, what you're seeing is mostly rusty metal which is, of course, completely sterile. @myp get yourself some rolling scrap, late 80s early 90s non luxury Jap or German. They go on forever and parts are cheap. They look like shit but you get to be inflamed with incandescent rage and indignation when some petty arse hole complains that it's parked too near their flat and "looks like it's been stolen and abandoned". The fucker sees me driving around in it and it's a public Street with no parking restrictions. Prick. Plus at that age they've accrued enough "driving this so I don't buy a new car" to off set the carbon foot print of a chain smoking dinosaur and enough misdirected anthropomorphic love to actually have a soul. Cars that go to scrap too early don't get into heaven. |
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| Author: | myp [ Tue Apr 17, 2018 0:01 ] |
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Aye, I'm actually looking at c2000 VW Bora TDI 1.9. a bit better looking than the Mondeo estate, but I've still not ruled that out. |
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| Author: | BikNorton [ Sat Apr 21, 2018 16:53 ] |
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Factory ordering cars is ridiculous. It took skoda a full 5 weeks to assign a build week, and even now that's happened they can't give me better than "delivery probably in June". I'm sure there wouldn't be a problem if everyone else in Europe hadn't also decided to get out of diesel at the same time. Meanwhile the cut off date for altering the disco spec was brought forward 10 days. Hopefully that's the Jag sales slump working in our favour and the build/delivery have also been brought forward! I realise this is problems scaling new heights of first-worldness, but who has to wait this long for anything anymore!? |
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| Author: | Zardoz [ Mon Apr 23, 2018 14:48 ] |
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Did anything come of that Bora? |
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| Author: | myp [ Mon Apr 23, 2018 15:06 ] |
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Zardoz wrote: Did anything come of that Bora? Haven't got rid of the Merc yet. Need to wait for the V5 to come back as I stupidly didn't change my address on it. Then I need to take my private plate off. So might be a while yet. |
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| Author: | Zardoz [ Mon Apr 23, 2018 15:09 ] |
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Is your plate worth much? Could it bag you a runabout? |
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| Author: | myp [ Mon Apr 23, 2018 15:18 ] |
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Zardoz wrote: Is your plate worth much? Could it bag you a runabout? Nah, won't mean much to anyone but me. |
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| Author: | Cras [ Mon Apr 23, 2018 15:33 ] |
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Oh, Vienna. |
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| Author: | Zardoz [ Mon Apr 23, 2018 15:36 ] |
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YOU FAILURE! 0 V13NNA |
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| Author: | Trooper [ Mon Apr 23, 2018 16:15 ] |
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It doesn't look like anything to me. |
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