New(er) motor!

SB118

SB118

SB118

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Well after 20 months of cheap motoring it was only sensible to get rid of the most reliable car i've ever owned.

I've had a love for the simplicity of the old french diesels, easy to fix, cheap to run & solidly built.

So long old friend, you've served me well, a final wash before you go to your new owner ....

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Off down to Penryn, where i picked up this beauty....


















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Nice upgrade huh? :D

Gone from a run of the mill 1.9td LX estate to a 2.1td Exec estate.

That last part is tricky. You can get a 2.1 exec, you can get a 2.1 estate, you can get a exec estate, but (until this car), i have never seen a 2.1 exec estate. And now it's mine. :D

I saw this car for sale in October for £1300 but is was in Hudersfield which was a bit out of my range. Then it showed up in Cornwall with a broken engine mount and snapped brake cable and a guy desparate to shift it to get another car as he was low on funds.

The day after we arrange things....

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Bugger! :mad:

But it was just a higher power (Zeus, or possible Pan) helping me out. The rear windows are bonded in, meaning unless the car is in the breakers yard when you ring, they won't have a window for it as they don't bother cutting them out.

I drive to the breakers yard (Newton Abbott!) and find that the car with the window is a 2.1, a 2.1 with a blown head gasket so i'm welcome to strip the mount off the side of the block! It's fate, i was supposed to have this car!

And seeing as this is Motors, obviously the costs are important. How much did the change of car cost me?

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£5

And that was the cost of the engine mount that had snapped on the 2.1 engine. Straight swap with the bloke.

I am an unbelievably happy bunny. Apart from the fact that i'm going in to get the carpel tunnel fixed in my left hand tomorrow and won't be able to drive the bugger for a while!
 
it does make me smile when people are interested enough in cars like this to know subtle things like that, when others would otherwise disregard as blunt tools at best...I used to get the "why does that make you happy" whenever i did anything to my my brown 2l lx mondeo, but it just did as it was mine.

congrats on the practically free upgrade though :)
 
To make the deal even sweeter, this car has had a Bosch pump conversion fitted (the 2.1 were all fly-by-wire Lucas Epic as standard), so i can carry on running it on veg.
 
Makes me wonder why I just spent god knows how much on a car when your £5 one will still get you from A to B like mine will!
 
Robbo said:
You can't be serious? :p
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Partially, looking at the whole situation from someone who has no interest in cars then mine and his do the same thing really.

I could easily have just gone and spend £6k on a nice Mondeo ST220 or something or Civic Type R and had 90% of the speed and power and had £15k~ to blow on holidays and other stuff.

I'm not saying I would have prefered that but it's one way to look at things, a way no one here normally would because we're all such big car nuts.
 
You can apply pretty much the same logic to anything nice though, if you want luxury, you have to pay for it.
 
Peerzy said:
Partially, looking at the whole situation from someone who has no interest in cars then mine and his do the same thing really.

I could easily have just gone and spend £6k on a nice Mondeo ST220 or something or Civic Type R and had 90% of the speed and power and had £15k~ to blow on holidays and other stuff.

I'm not saying I would have prefered that but it's one way to look at things, a way no one here normally would because we're all such big car nuts.
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SOMEONE'S HAVING REGRETS HAHAHA :D

I'd love to buy a car for a fiver! I've got 10 quid sat on my desk which means I could get a really nice one :)
 
yea man you got the leather and the alloys plus a decent colour not that nasty green, thats just all win.
 
sigma said:
Apart from the engine, what's the difference?
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InvaderGIR said:
Interior and probably toys/electric things too.
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Yup, mine originally came with steelies and foglight blanks, which i replaced with the bits from from an exec i found in the scrappy (hence the exterior differences being quite minimal). The interior has full leather, heated front seats (drivers side is nice and warm, dunno about the passenger side yet), climate control, rear electric windows, just a nicer place to be.

And my wheels and tyres were in better condition than his so i swapped them over :)
 
Had a nose on the MOT check site, think the car "might" have had a haircut...

2006 274,063 miles
2007 308,223 miles
2008 39,281 miles
2009 165,994 miles
2010 170,956 miles

By my maths the clocks seem to have lost 270,000 miles somewhere, wonder how much it would cost to get the dash clocks corrected, 450,000 has a nice ring to it, couple of years and i could click it over the half million! win \o/ :D :D

Bloke i got it from has offered to bring my old car back up to me, told him no deal :D
 
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