Pretty pee'd off at the moment, been running an ATR for the past year and half since selling the s2000. Paid 2k for it, sound mechanically, good history but paintwork needed some TLC and wheels needed a refurb. Got the wheels done not long after i got it however soon after during a tyre change some wheel monkey manage to chip and scrape the front two alloys, got nowhere arguing with them so just drive off in a huff. Not long after some lovely chap decided to key down the entire driver side and another incident someone caused damage to the rear bumper causing it to crack, of course they left no note or anything. That kind of scuppered my plans for the paintwork as it just kept adding up.
Last week during the bad snow i was clearing my windscreen and as moved the wiper blade the plastic part sheared off the metal arm causing the metal arm to whack into the screen cracking it.
To top it all off just the other day some dozy female almost missed her junction coming off the motorway and came to a complete stop on the carriageway, I of course hit into the back of her, my fault I guess for not reacting quick enough blah blah. Lucky there was hardly any damage to her car so she was quite happy just to forget about it and apologised. Front end of my car is pretty mangled, side lights don't work, bonnet bent and front bumper/splitter cracked and scraped.
MOT is due end of Feb and will probably need a decent amount of spending to get it through and just don't know if its worth it. Considering just scrapping it and buying something else to tide me over for a while. If i had the time/storage I would break it for parts but it's just not an option at the moment. Been looking at FN2's and EP3's
My aim was to buy a Fiesta ST later in the year once the price hits around 10k.
Long and short I cant make up my mind what to do. Fix up the ATR? Scrap it buy another Type R of some sorts? Buy a banger for 1k?
I've looked at and test driven various cars over the years, GTI's previous gen focus ST's, MPS's etc but they don't really hold my interest. Sold the S2000 due to needing more space, previous to that had a 350z and prior to that a DC2. Help me OCUK.