Every worry too much?
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Ah, that's rather unfortunate then. It does sound as if the car may be a bit more of a burden than it perhaps should be though if you're going to be paying £600 a year just to store it more safely but perhaps more importantly that you're so nervous about it getting scratched that it seems to be having an effect on how you drive and where you go.
Then again I've yet to own a car worth much so maybe that would change my outlook.
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Will you be bothered, or will you just get back from work and think 'nah, maybe next weekend'. Then two weeks later you go down there and the battery's flat, the weather's not so great, so you think 'nah, next weekend'.......?
Thats exactly what happens, and my stored ones are 5 minutes walk away never mind 6 miles.
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I know what the OP means, it's just unhealthy worrying about your car and it's quite sad.
I don't have a fancy car by any means but everytime I wash it I find a new scratch or more stone chips (I have zillions!) it makes me think I should just get a total wreck to potter around in worry free.
I guess with cars you tend to go uphill, so each car is nicer than your previous one so you're proud of it and want to keep it nice.
I don't have a fancy car by any means but everytime I wash it I find a new scratch or more stone chips (I have zillions!) it makes me think I should just get a total wreck to potter around in worry free.
I guess with cars you tend to go uphill, so each car is nicer than your previous one so you're proud of it and want to keep it nice.
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Isn't gonna happen though is it?
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You're going to store your car 6 miles away?? Is it really worth keeping?? My trip to work in the morning isn't much further than that! I may as well keep my car at work then
Trouble is though mate, is to keep a car immaculate like Fox and Robbie do, you need a house with a decent sized drive so it can be can be kept out of harms way.
People who store their car on the street don't have immaculate cars.
I spent a small fortune on trying to keep my vectra perfect, refurbing the wheels twice, obsessing over stone chips with touch up paint every weeknend, contemplating respraying the entire front end to get it all perfect.
But its just not worth it.
Don't worry about the condition of it. Its a car. its built to be driven, not to be looked at and cleaned obsessively. Just let it pick up the odd scratch, mark and chip like 98 % of the car owning public do.
At least 50 % of that car owning public don't even bother to look after it at all and will happily drive round in it rusting and dirty.
It seems not.
It's Part 2, from the director of 'I got loads of free oil oh wait no I didnt, I never did in the first place its a co-incidence I edited all my posts on 12 differnet forums'
I worry about my car a lot.. mainly because I need to keep replacing bits, fix stuff, troubleshoot new noises etc. It's a pain in the **** but it all comes together when I take it for a drive on a nice day and it reminds me why I own it.
As long as the car is mechanically ok stuff like paintwork blemishes aren't so big a deal to me
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As long as the car is mechanically ok stuff like paintwork blemishes aren't so big a deal to me
.I'm going to ignore the pointlessness of this as others have clearly highlighted already....
Was the storage container rental sold to you by a chap with a Nigerian accent? "Ah sir you vehicles will be absolutely 100% secures with my legitimate export shipping service, uh I mean storage facilities".
I thought this, if it's not and it really is a toy car why get something so compromised?!?