Old cars that keep on going

1.4 8v MK3 Astras.

There are LOADS of them round my part of the country. All wheezing, clattering and vibrating about all over B roads and town centers nearby.

MINE JUST WON'T DIE :eek: :eek: :mad:

It never gets any maintenance from me. At all. I check the tyres, but that is it. It never complains. It just struggles along, doing it's thing and being neglected. I think one day I will be nicer to it, but as soon as I do, something terminal will go wrong. I think I've checked the oil level twice in about 3 years (granted it does get serviced etc, and at no expense spared). It's been washed twice in the last 12 months, and one of those times was in a bodyshop after some accident damage was repaired.

I used the poor thing to cart about 3 tons of garden waste consisting of bits of tree, earth, rocks, paving slabs, wood etc over the summer, and it still chugged merily along. I don't even bother putting sheets down in the thing. The seats go down, and it all goes in. The downside is that during the summer, a colony of about 200 Woodlice made their home in the boot and around the spare wheel.

I love my car.
 
I miss my cavalier. It was awesome. Although being a stupid 16v Ecotec one, it had stupid electrics and went wrong.

Might buy another one if I need a run around at any point, but it'll be a 2.0 8v. Dad had 3 of them, awesome cars :)
 
we had two nissan micras at 100000 miles on clock before one got nicked.... got one left with 115000 on it now.... lol.
 
Plenty of 205s about. Mine, though its had a LOT of annoying electrical type issues that have been easily bodged, just wont die.


130,000 miles, i don't bother serving it any more, shoe it from cold and flying Dukes of Hazzard style over speedbumps, it just wont do the decent thing and give me a reason to upgrade :D
 
We have an old B Reg Volvo 360 GLS we bought for £50, that despite being way way past its cam belt change keeps trundling along without any problems and sailing through the MOTs.
 
You have to call up the sales figures from the time to make this kind of judgement I reckon. How many mk3 fiestas were made, probably millions of those things. Get a diesel one and they'd probably have to bury you in it, how depressing
 
silversurfer said:
You have to call up the sales figures from the time to make this kind of judgement I reckon. How many mk3 fiestas were made, probably millions of those things. Get a diesel one and they'd probably have to bury you in it, how depressing
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Not quite, they are killable!

A mate had one, and managed to hammer it over so many speedbumps and humpback bridges that he broke the chassis. Took a bit of effort, but he broke it!
 
karoshi said:
it's not so much that they're totally reliable, more that they made eleventy billion of the ugly things so when something oily does drop off, you're never more than a couple of miles away from a scrapyard with 10 of them in it :)
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Quoted for truth
 
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