My Future Plan

[toseland]

Hi Guys,

Just thought I would share my plans and see if anyone had any advice or suggestions.

Current situation

My current situation is that I am doing about 400 miles a week and the 1.8 is too inefficient. It is very difficult to start in cold weather and needs essential work to the coilovers, exhaust. At the moment its all very much hanging on in there.

October - March

My plan is to fix up the hdi estate and get it back on the road. I can save money and have a near enough standard car that I dont need to worry about.

This allows the 1.8 to be stored and have the work done to it without having to worry about getting the job done by the next day. The plan for the 1.8 is to transfer all the mods to a 3 door 1.8xs shell. It can be a gti if it has to be but id rather it was the xs so i dont have to declare an engine swap. Once its a 3 door I can set out stripping it all out and fitting a cage and going proper race car.

March - October

Come late spring I will be able to get the 1.8 back on the road and put the estate into storage. Once in storage I can git a FMIC and stage 2 the estate whilst using the 1.8 as a daily.

Conclusion

Apart from having 2 MOTs and swapping the insurance and sorting out 6 months of tax for each car I think this should save me money or at least break even due to the cost cutting of the estate. If it breaks even thats fine as I will have been able to work on the 1.8 and get it to a state im happy with. This whole plan would also benefit if I can rent out one of the units across the road. Its a 7 bay garage that is rarely used far as I can tell so would be perfect if I can rent a space to work in. Has lighting, heating and electric etc and used to house a classic collection of landrovers!

Thoughts?

just pay the Excise duty monthly. it is the same price (overall)_ as paying 6months.