Another stupid purchasing decision

Response 6:

"With a COC paper and a translated report, nothing stands in the way of registration!
Best regards"

Response 7:

"Unfortunately not, there is no agreement for this, you would have to inspect again in Austria and then come."

Best regards


So, a nice consistent set of responses there.

In other news, I have fixed the rear wiper - seized motor replaced.

Next week, insurance and Austrian number plates I hope.
 
Ran another few insurance quotes through.

This is the lowest I can get, and this is third party only.

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Rilot said:
Jesus! For that? Is that normal in Austria or do you have like loads of endoresements or something?
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Clean licence!

Here are some other fun quotes for cars in Austria, randomly selected by me :

2010 M3 - €3,392.07
2009 Civic Type R - €1,857.63
205 GTI - €1,397.01
2015 Focus ST - €2,669.25

I think you get the picture :D

A small car with 80bhp is seen as disgustingly excessive over here.

EDIT - there is no VED, it forms part of the insurance price. But even so....
 
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I was paying £280 to insure a Civic Type R fully comp over in the UK, so these prices are completely incomprehensible to me.

I mean, just getting a V5 in your name is 240 Euros. This is not a car loving nation.
 
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Diddums said:
Your commitment is admirable, I'll give you that :D
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TBH the import complication is the Type Approval and the NoVA.

The rest of the stuff is just general Austrian BS whether you buy something domestic or otherwise.

I can see why so many people just stick to public transport, driving isn't a cheap hobby here.
 
Lopéz said:
TBH the import complication is the Type Approval and the NoVA.

The rest of the stuff is just general Austrian BS whether you buy something domestic or otherwise.

I can see why so many people just stick to public transport, driving isn't a cheap hobby here.
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From what I remember, speed limits are very strictly enforced so can you even have fun in a performance car?
 
I went to an insurer this morning (very old school!) and eventually we managed to get to a figure of 800 Euros which is better than the online quote.
That included legal cover that I didn't want, but there we go.

I then literally walked 1 metre to the guy behind him who printed me out an Austrian logbook, gave me my shiny new Vienna number plates.
We have a windscreen sticker system here for MOT expiry - he gave me one of those too and despite my Polish MOT being valid until April 2024 he "cancelled" that validity because they consider 2024 a new "reporting period" and therefore my 2 month remaining MOT expired in December by Austrian standards :D

So after all this I still need to get the sodding thing MOTd anyway!
 
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Lopéz said:
Clean licence!

Here are some other fun quotes for cars in Austria, randomly selected by me :

2010 M3 - €3,392.07
2009 Civic Type R - €1,857.63
205 GTI - €1,397.01
2015 Focus ST - €2,669.25

I think you get the picture :D

A small car with 80bhp is seen as disgustingly excessive over here.

EDIT - there is no VED, it forms part of the insurance price. But even so....
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Ouch, at least here in Spain the insurance isn't too bad. Both my Jeep and Kia are around €300 each for TPFT (although i wish the Jeep was fully comp!)
 
Martynt74 said:
Ouch, at least here in Spain the insurance isn't too bad. Both my Jeep and Kia are around €300 each for TPFT (although i wish the Jeep was fully comp!)
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The previous owner was paying €74 a year in Poland and he was in his late 20s.

I'll never get used to it, I'll never get over it, but it's just a fact of motoring here - everything costs a bomb.

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Is salt used on the roads in Austria and if so, will this Lancia be able to survive 1 or 2 winters before the holes start to appear :D
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They do! But they do the same in Poland, and it's survived that so I have faith :D
 
Lopéz said:
The previous owner was paying €74 a year in Poland and he was in his late 20s.

I'll never get used to it, I'll never get over it, but it's just a fact of motoring here - everything costs a bomb.



They do! But they do the same in Poland, and it's survived that so I have faith :D
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Thoughts and prayers :D
 
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Ho hum.

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This entire area looked completely solid - underneath the factory underseal though, there is virtually no metal. A bit of "exploration" with a wire wheel soon exposed that :D

This left hand sill is the only place like this on the whole car, the rest of the car is completely solid, including the right hand sill, so I guess either corrosion due to water ingress from being jacked incorrectly at the front where that other hole is, and that rot has spread its way the length of the sill, or a low quality accident repair (though I cannot find any evidence of that)

I'm going to cut the whole sill off and stick a new one on because that will be a git to patch nicely.
 
Haha you are not wrong!

I pushed around and the whole area around there is significantly weakened.

Nobody makes a Y sill either - only repair panels which aren't enough.

I've ordered a Punto sill of the same generation - the shape of the top half is different, but the lower half looks the same, so I am hoping it will line up. Should arrive today and then I can check it against the car.
 
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