(05-03-2013, 09:08 AM)puglove Wrote: Please dont take this the wrong way tom because your a nice lad i like you and have nothing agenst you but.....
This thread is much like other threads you post about cars in the way that its totaly pointless. No matter what anyome says you have to fight it, its wrong, not true your personal opinion is different etc which is fine your choice. But why adk for advise when your just going to fight . You want a car that. Does 150mpg, dosnt break down, doesnt wear parts out, cost 1p a year to insure, has every toy that works perfect and never breaks and works exactly how you want it to. And you want it all for sub £1000. Its just never going to happen. You could spend £30,000 on a brand new car and its still going to have some of the issues that rattle you. Im afraid you have to learn that all is not perfect and you have to make compramises. And learn to love the car. Im mean look at 99% of this forum we all own 10-18 year old pugs that all have a felair few issues time to time but we love the cars so just get on with it. Because if we owned somthing eles it would only be the same with a different a set of issues.
So you just gotta suck it up and accept there us a hand full off common problems with every car. And IMO better the devil you know i.e golf/306 you know cheapest easiest way to go about it. Buy somthing different and you back to square 1 where its costing £££££ to find the issue and fix it because you dont know the cars.
And as for being out of poket i will happen with every car you ever own. It will always happen. My DT prob left me £2500 out of poket over the 2years and its worth what £400-450? But in reality its kept me motoring and only cost £100 here and there. And some of that money spent making it drive like i want it too because you cant buy a car off the shelf that drives like i want it too.
Anyway thats enough of a rant just IMO
Thats fair enough Jamie, but the point here is that I didn't ask about whether I should keep it, or what car I should get next. Yet thats what seems to been discussed the most throught the thread, I deliberately didn't start a 'what car' thread as I know the answers I'll get here.
Incidentally, I didn't lose any money on the Golf, as I broke it for more than I paid now lol. Also the 106, didn't lose anything on that iirc. But yes I know most cars I will lose money on, but its the scale of the loss that I'm interested in.
(05-03-2013, 09:17 AM)puglove Wrote:(05-03-2013, 08:34 AM)Toms306 Wrote: Poodle I ignored your post as you said scrap it, which fitted into 3 of the categories.
As for the 'local' scrap metal merchant, nothing is local here. But is there a difference anyway? The closest scrap yards are listed as scrap metal merchants anyway.
And with the golf/mpg thing, I'm not sure if people here just read what they want to read, as for a few months I've made a point of NOT filling the forum with either of those. Ofcourse if people provoke me I'm not just gonna let it go, but see how many times I mention the golf first, its not often at all now.
This is 100% true iv been keeping a close eye on waiting to pounce on him for talkingabout golfs and MPG as a 5% warning was discused for every mention of the two and i havent managed to catch him out yet
Oh and most cost effective way is to stripp everthing and ask top end prices for the parts
Glad someones noticed haha!
And I'm not so sure about that, asking top prices puts people off lol, so not really cost effective then.