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Chat & Social => The Bar - General Chat => Topic started by: carbore on September 19, 2007, 21:49:01
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I was reflecting the other day on cars I one owned....
I used to have a Mk1 Toyota MR2 (the wedgey one). The car was 4 years old with 70k miles on it. I was only 22 and couldn't really afford to run it, diddnt know much about mechanicals and had no space to work on it (excuses)
Despite only ever servicing it about 4 times in 7 years that I owned it (yep not even an extra oil change!) it NEVER broke down, started every time and nearly always passed the MOT except for minor ware such as brakes. I regally thrashed it to the 7500 RPM read line and generally diddnt take enough care, but it still went on....and on....and on...
Nothing before or after can even compare for reliability. So what cars have you ever had that you couldnt kill (or all you all perfect car care cosseters)
PS I am now a reformed character and all my cars get regular TLC!
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We had a 1983 Toyota Celica (the one with the large bumpers and pop up lights)
We had it for 7 years and only ever topped up the oil - never did change it
We paid £1050 for it and 7 years later sold it for £500 on the first advert.
It passed every MOT requiring no work at all. We had to sell it because it was slowly rotting away and she started a new job that required her to carry computers (so the boot needed to be dry).
She still really misses that car - even though her current one is an E class Merc.
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a 1986 ford sierra 2.3 n/a diesel that we had for over ten years and still sold! We bought it on it's 3rd birthday and a year later I rode it under the back of a volvo 340 which meant johnty had to rebuild the front end then we had a few other prangs that weren't our fault and when we sold it it was hand painted :shock:
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1989 Ford Escort diesel estate. Did millions of miles to the gallon and was as reliable as something very reliable indeed.
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mk2 escort 1300 saloon, binned the 1300 and put a 2 litre ohc engine in and absolutly thrashed it to death evertime i drove it :D and it never let me down once and in them days i never changed oil or anything and only did the brakes when they squealed :twisted:
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me rover vitesse i think, loved it but the body fell apart, used go like mad sound fantastic but drink fuell for a hoby. alan....
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Old T reg fiesta 1.1...damn thing wouldn't die.
Waded as well as my 110.
Never serviced.
Drove for miles & miles.
Cost me £50 to buy :lol: ...sold it for £250 :roll:
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I had a Renault 18 estate car that just seem to run and run. Tin worm got it in the end but it still gave 45 mpg on long runs
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any1 noticed the trend ??
no land rovers being mentioned :P :P
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any1 noticed the trend ??
no land rovers being mentioned :P :P
Or any other 4x4 :D
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It would have to be my old D plate Capri 1.6 lasser I used to drive that stupidly hard, put RS2000 stage 2 head on with twin 40's, 2X 4" exhaust (V6 style) 2.8 axle, lowered it 3&1/2" with uprated springs & shocks & austin prinsess ap 4 pot calipers on the front :lol: It never went straight always seamed to be looking at the rear bumper :lol: :lol: Got clocked by a off duty copper doing 153mph (we were the only ones on the road at 3 am)At 280,000 miles the bottom end gave up when doing 65mph in 2nd :roll: I have now grown up & bought a 4x4 snail :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Proton 1.5mpi, had it 4 years was my first car, had 1 fuel filter and 1 wheel bearing in that time. Oh aye and 3 front end rebuilds I kept ramming stuff in it....... :lol:
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Piglet :)
had him nearly 10 years ;-) Still here, still running - despite my best efforts lol! Just like one of those awesome brushes that last for ever, only changed the handle and head X times ;-)
Which reminds me ... let me start another thread : http://forums.mud-club.com/viewtopic.php?p=443992#443992
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I was reflecting the other day on cars I one owned....
I used to have a Mk1 Toyota MR2 (the wedgey one). The car was 4 years old with 70k miles on it. I was only 22 and couldn't really afford to run it, diddnt know much about mechanicals and had no space to work on it (excuses)
Despite only ever servicing it about 4 times in 7 years that I owned it (yep not even an extra oil change!) it NEVER broke down, started every time and nearly always passed the MOT except for minor ware such as brakes. I regally thrashed it to the 7500 RPM read line and generally diddnt take enough care, but it still went on....and on....and on...
Nothing before or after can even compare for reliability. So what cars have you ever had that you couldnt kill (or all you all perfect car care cosseters)
PS I am now a reformed character and all my cars get regular TLC!
You must have been lucky and sold it before the rot set in, my brothers mk1 mr2 is rustier than a dicovery :shock: and from what hes herd they all suffer after a while, but then you would expect it when the standard sun roof drains empty into the sills :smack: . However the mechanicals seem good so far.
We had a mk2 golf diesel for a few years, ended up with over 280 thousnd miles of engine neglect and still going strong before we sold it, not sure the body would have got another MOT mind.
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Perhaps Jimwilly you should have replaced the brake pads!!!!
Had a Bedford Midi van had it a year and thought i ought to check the oil,
found it didnt have any!!!!
only filled it the once, engine just kept going didnt complain about anything, brilliant engine thirsty but brill.had that 3 yrs
Same thing with a 83 hi lux pickup had it 6 yrs just kept going, sold it and the guy who bought it took it to a meet in a quarry, i was there to, didnt realise he had snapped the chassis and it was the body holding it together and it still kept going!!!
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I'd have to plumb for my 110, Flower.
she's taken some stick in her time and still keeps giving. Not outrageous, challange type, off road, but competition tracks and forests. She's flown more times than an air-steward!
No broken drive train, shattered CVs, or bent axles. 8)
Sweeeet!
Cheers
8)
Eeyore
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Believe it or not, it was an Italian car :shock: :shock:
A 'L' plated Fiat Uno diesel that we bought new, not a moments trouble!!
Then it went in PX for a (new) Punto TD, that was a great little car as well
Unlike the Tempra estate that replaced the Punto (worst car we've ever had)
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My Fieste Diesel< did 60 mpg, you could bang it, knock it, get it wet and I even accidently set the engin bay on fire but it just kept going with out fault.
Sadly it was destroyed by a lorry on a roundabout.
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No laughing, but it's true!
98 Rover 420 Tdi :shock:
Did about 80,000 miles in just under 3 years.
Only fault was the front calipers stuck when I went to trade it in.
Was fixed with a lump hammer, driven on to the forcourt and used the engine and handbrake to stop the car! :twisted:
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my old iveco turbo daily, had it from 12months old i did just over 200,000 miles in it, ran on neat veg oil the whole time never had an oil change service anything, until about a month before i soldit, the clutch cable snapped, so changed that for about 50 quid, and thought id do an oil change, had to use the gas to melt the sludge out the sump.
bearing in mind this was a 3.5 ton van abused every day, overloaded driven flat out, and never a hitch in 4 years, and now lives in the south of france as a mobile workshop for a caravan repairer.
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Got clocked by a off duty copper doing 153mph (we were the only ones on the road at 3 am)
I take it the gearing was raised a fair amount as well??, otherwise I dread to think of the revs it must have been pulling in 4th
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I'd have to go the Italian way as well, although it did get killed, it was by thieving gits, not me :evil:
It was a Fiat Mirafiorri (think thats how to spell it?) 4 door saloon. I used to potter around Glasgow in it and it ran like a bag of nails, then I'd get it out on the open roads and hammer it, and it jumped up and went like brown stuff off a shiney digging implement!!
It LOVED to be thrashed, and hated normal speeds!!
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my mk 1 fiesta - often drove across muddy fields and waded flooded roads and even when i fell asleep and drove into some one and totaled it, it still got me the 200 miles home.
i also had a renault 9 diesel, i did over 200,000 miles on that recon engine and its still going now according to the guy that bought it - i had it all through my student days and a couple of years of work and i really did abuse it more than my 90 and yet it broke down way less !!
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Got clocked by a off duty copper doing 153mph (we were the only ones on the road at 3 am)
I take it the gearing was raised a fair amount as well??, otherwise I dread to think of the revs it must have been pulling in 4th
I can't remember what the gearing was :roll: It had standard 2.8 brooklands rear axle, but it was a 5 speed box so dropped the revs a bit :lol: but it was in the red screaming like a goodun :lol: :lol: :lol:
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8) How about this volvo 760 turbo paid £50 for it had it 3 years just kept going 350,000 when i sold it on 8)
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a D reg 1.3 mk2 golf (4speed, no pas or anything else) bought for £250, drove for 20,000 hard miles in 6 months and sold for £250 without a penny spent on anything other than oil / filter change. My mates bro bought it, kept it almost a year and sold it for £250. Then, some scum bag pinched it from its newest owner. Sadly, golfie was never recovered... :-({|=
I reckon I would buy that car back tomorrow! Would have to be no more than £250 quid though!!
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Mid 1980's VW polo... the automotive equivilent of a cockroach... i drove it like a car thief, never serviced it, and it never broke down...
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Another shout out for Fiat Unos!
I had a 1.4ieS on an M plate and it was mega- I wish I had never sold it!
We got it 4 years ago on 62000 miles, i had it til' a couple of months ago on 108,000, it let me down once only when the alternator melted on the M6.
It had a small engine bay fire involving injector cleaner
It rescued some mates from a greenlane a series 2 got stuck on
It waded about a foot and a half to get me home one night
It used to carry, 4 kayaks, 4 people and gear to and from north wales on a regular basis
It towed a citroen C15 van a rover 214 and an argocat in its time
Used to go all over the country with me, Scotland (twice) wales all the time, devon, cornwall, liverpool etc etc.
Best of all it had a power to weigh ratio of 104 horsepower per ton and revved like a goodun, embarrased many a chavved up saxo! You could spin the wheels in first second and third in the dry, was hilarious to drive fast to because any fast cornering used to cock a wheel!
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nother shout for VW's!
our VW passat, done 145,000 miles and still going. she has had everything from hand brake turns to driving across feilds, everything... brilliant car.
R
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... the automotive equivilent of a cockroach....
:lol:
Now, that is a class description! Like it! 8)
Cheers
8)
Eeyore
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nother shout for VW's!
our VW passat, done 145,000 miles and still going. she has had everything from hand brake turns to driving across feilds, everything... brilliant car.
R
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Gotta plug my old citroen xantia again :shock:
300000 miles in 6 years of hard driving (country-vet) and never got stuck!
Found the raising suspension very usefull.
In all that time all she needed was brakepads and discs. Clutch, wheel bearings ,suspension all original. Didn't even use any oil.
parked it up in august 2006 and treated myself to a citroen C5 which was a huge DISASTER :(
anyway, sold the xantia in march 07 unseen, pumped up tyres, charged the battery and turned the key: started instantly, suspension raised itself and she drove all the way from Doncaster to buckinghamshire, top car that. miss it at times. The scooby forester has been nowhere near as reliable..........
Oh well, happy days
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Austin metro .Yes i here the sniggers.
This car was given to me and had 4 months mot on it and a bit of tax.
Used it for work then we tried to kill it and it would'nt die ,even after rolling it over a few times
Still managed to drive it to the scappie
And a yogo 55a fully loaded ,Paid 150 for it used it for 2 years and in that time it passed it's mots and the only thing that broke was the rear pipe.
I then sold it for 200, i made a profit on the old girl
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1.3 nissan sunny van :shock:
Thrashed to within an inch of it's life all day every day and still went and went.
Sold it in the end to a pub builder (you know the bloke in the bar who can do anything builderish but is always in the pub but still signs on :wink: )
still see it around bangor even though I sold it 8 years ago :shock: :shock:
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the longest I have ever owned a car - a 1996 Saab 9000 Aero, it had 150,000 when I sold it and never missed a beat, had a starter motor on it in 4 1/2 years and it hadn't stopped working just made a dodgy noise so I replaced it (pre-empted a breakdown) It was as quick as thhe day I got it but PX'd it for a Disco!!
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Sorry to dig up an old (ish) thread but I came across it while searching :wink:
We have just sold r lasses Peugeot 106. This has been driven to the limit EVERYTIME I took it out and the only things replaced are the radiator and battery in 5 years (and the oil of course every 7k ish :wink: ) and we had a drive shaft go at one point :shock:
It just keeps going and going but due to a change in 'wanting' we have let it go which brings a tear to our eyes :cry:
While the Pug was getting the drive shaft repaired we bought a XR2i from the motor auctions for £80 :shock: I ended up thrashing this for about 12 months (and when I say thrashing I mean THRASHING :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: ) but the thing kept on running like a dream and NEVEr let us down. I remember it well haha. The paint work was pink and VERY faded. The laquer was non existent to about 80% of the thing and the interior looked like it had been met by Freddy Kruger but hell was it one hell of a fun car to drive :twisted:
We sold it on fleabay after 12 months as drive space was getting limited but we managed to pull £300 for it somehow :shock:
I wish we had kept the little thing :P
We had a call from the police 6 weeks after selling it :shock:
Looks like the chavvy git who bought it didn't send the log book off like he was supposed to and it had been involved in a chase :lol:
Luckily we had a reciept for the sale signed my both the buyer and I and the prat had used genuine details on it :(biglaugh):
Now I will also point out here that I 'can' be a forum whore at times and I LOVE emoticons :(biglove):
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nother shout for VW's!
our VW passat, done 145,000 miles and still going. she has had everything from hand brake turns to driving across feilds, everything... brilliant car.
R
Only its not is it?
*runs for cover*
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Had a Triumph Acclaim, the one with the Honda engine. My Mum & Dad bought it new in 1983 and gave it to me in 1994 with 75k on the clock, after only buying one set of tyres and a battery. I had it for 3 years, putting another 40k on it and never spending a penny, never changed the oil, never topped up the water, never had to. Only got rid when it failed the MoT, and then sold it to the milkman for £75.
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Old Ford Sierra Estate.
I think it was a 'C' reg, got nailed, I mean really thrashed to Wales & back every weekend to feed mine a few mates beer habits! (we were only late teens, early twenties).
I think it was a 1.6, & very reguarly I got people saying "its gonna blow" as the revs screamed.... Even took it off road :shock: Yep,were driving down a lane & for a laugh took it across a grass field, heads banging off the roof lining, sides splitting with laughter, car 'see sawing' over the bumps.
Bought for £200 & sold for £50 about a year later.
Also a 'D' reg Capri Laser, only problem was a sticking auto choke. Quick bang with a hammer each morning sorted that.
The good old days.
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95 Mondeo TD estate. ran it for 4 years used it as a builders van all the time I had it. towed a trailer with 3 tonnes of slate chippings in it. never changed oil once did 70k miles in it and was still running fine when I got rid. Needed 2 new headlamps front wishbone, brakelines, etc etc. got rid at xmas.
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Erm, every MkII Escort I've owned.
I could run one on a shoestring (or as we called it, a student grant), part were easy to get and cheap, 3 spaaners fit nealry the whole car and every time I've blown on up it kept going and got me home/where I was going.
I exploded my 1600 on the M1 and it got me to work in Hull, 60 miles away and only 10 minutes late. One pipston burned through, onother one full of oil as a result and it kept going 'till I hit the first traffic light.
Fingers crossed I don't blow up my latest one.
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1.5 lada niva, my mum gave it to me.
drove all the way from Sheffield to Aviemore for a snowboarding holiday fully laden with me and 3 mates. kept running out of water cos i was young and didnt know how to fill her properly. Followed the snowplough in the last 20 or so miles(10 inch of snow in aviemore and we were camping!!).
never blew the head gasket, filled it properly the following day after reading the manual. never failed to start and had 2 settings on the heater, hot and volcano!!lol
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Plenty of Fords on here...
I.d go for an old Mk2 astra I did a part x on a Manta GTE 16v redtop.
Had the Astra (well the ex did) for 4 years, never missed a beat..
I marshalled at the Lancs and Cheshire Easter Interclub event at Trentham in it, and went accross the top of the quarry in it !!!!
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I have never owned a vehicle for long enough to destroy it
had a
Series 2a - 2003 - 2.5 years - that was always on a tow rope
Metro - 2004 - 6 months - cambelt snapped, engine rebuild
Punto - 2004 - 1 month - Smashed in the rear wrote it off
Disco 200TDi - 2005 - 1.5 years - Diffs, Clutch, Axles, Props, Turbo Engine and ROT
Polo - 2007 - 7 months - no problems at all
Disco 200 V8 - 2007 - 6 months - still got it - alsorts of Running problems