Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

Clearly needs a rizlabox

Problem is that the E classes in the rough price range all have the engine of doom, and I’m not going near them.

WRT the 911 I could probably have just changed the oil and washed it - but it wouldn’t be the car it is today, and I enjoy the process.

Hello,

Porsche and other porsche owners disagree and in the end what was the problem? Still say the carbon brush contact would be the best bet.

So anymore for anymore? Shall we mention MX5 adjustable drop links? Or drop adjustable drop links? Twin turbo set ups with differing size turbos, volvo rear suspension issues due to bushes?

Nice to see you have been hoarding examples of when you are able to argue that you were not totally in the wrong (although on many of those you weren’t right, which makes this quite poignant).

Luckily pointing the above out has completely rehabilitated you in the eyes of everyone who reads this thread, who now see you as a god amongst car enthusiasts, and not some sort of drunken Golum who smells of putty.

Would be nice if everyone quit it with the finger pointing and picking on individuals.

We're just talking shit about cars.

But Internet.

You new here?

;)

Plus one. The group dynamics start to look like bullying, which is fairly unedifying.

From skim reading this thread over the months the only way to get forum general approval is to buy something old or fucked and post pictures of the painstaking lengths taken & £££'s spent trying to bring it back to a former glory.

Anything newish in good working order will be met with disdain.

I quite like the looks of that era Golf. I imagine you could replace / paint the silver grill on that fairly easily.

I didn't get too many harsh comments about my amazing Fiat Panda. Except from Lynx, who was wrong about the trip computer resetting issue...

only way to get forum general approval is to buy something old or fucked and post pictures of the painstaking lengths taken & £££'s spent trying to bring it back to a former glory

Yes. It applies equally both to bikes and cars around here.

I disagree, @Dammit has received mostly disdain and ridicule for the amount spent on both his Volvo and Porsche, nobody gives a fuck about my shit MX5 that I've hurled a frankly worrying amount of money at, whenever someone asks for a realistic, reliable car, I've often proffered useful advice (£1k Focus recently), as have many other users, and I can hand on heart say if I had @danstuff 's buying power then I too would be running a recent RS6 and a bike engined kit car.

Also, I'd like to think that nobody on here is doing this for forum approval, cars are a very personal thing, just like bikes, if you're buying based on what you think some mostly anonymous men and women (let's be honest, 99% men on this thread) think, then you're doing it wrong.

I think it comes across that way due to what peaks forum users' interests. If we use video content as an example, compare Project Binky vs Shmee, what I think separates them apart is that one is all about engineering, you're following a project and you're learning what it takes to be a high quality fabricator, it's interesting and inspiring. The other is about a rich guy who owns brand new supercars. The thing is, there's not much to document with brand new super cars, so you end up with content that comes across as "smug" and "rich", I know there is some content that is enjoyable, but I'm using Shmee as an extreme example.

I can start posting regular updates of me driving my BMW 525d estate to the shops if that's the sort of content you want to see? It's not is it? That doesn't mean you don't approve of my car, it means you don't give a fuck about that, that's not what you're interested in, which I'm assuming goes for 99% of the other frequenters of this thread.

For the record, if I had the money, I would love to own (all new or nearly new)

Porsche 918 or 781 Boxster (Pref a GT4)
Porsche 991 GT3 RS 4.0
RS6
Camaro ZL1
E9X M3
F8X M3

And more (ever so slightly) run of the mill:

BMW F81 340 (estate)
Mini Cooper S
Golf R Estate
Porsche 911 Carrera base car

Plus many more, but the fact is I can't afford them. Cars are fucking expensive, and if you want access to speed, you have to go older to be able to afford, but sometimes they're not reliable so you end up with a little bit of a money pit, or you want to take an old car and make a very good example of it, eg Neil's 996 Cab will still end up cheaper than a brand new 911 Cab but this way we all get to enjoy a good journey, at his expense, why wouldn't you want that? That's literally why I go on probably a hundred car forums and read project threads, I get to live out what I'd like to do through other people's documentation of their journey.

If anyone feels left out, then please post more, I personally am not going to judge you, or think you don't belong here, but just don't make it boring, make it something interesting, a trip somewhere nice, a story of a journey, an epic tale where you overcame adversity - even if it was in your 1.2 clio, because if it's a nice car that is reliable, and you never do anything with it, you'll end up only posting pics of it just after it's been washed and frankly the same pic of the same car, no matter how nice it is, get's tiring.

I drove to Edinburgh and back the other weekend in my 525i (E61 though). Absolutely nothing of note happened in 1000 miles 👌

I have a 525d, I'd like to hear about it...

I'd have had to visit a petrol station at least twice on that journey, so the lack of anything is actually of note.

I’ve driven mine to Devon a few times now and it’s totally bossed it. It has a rough cold start when it’s very cold (like it was last week) though. I think the fuel pre-heater doesn’t work.

I drove my old supercharged MX5 to Edinburgh. I overtook 10 cars in a row.

I don’t know why I sold that car. I miss it more and more.

Was that the red one?

I liked that one. Shouldn't have sold it.

IIRC we used about 2.5 tanks of fuel with some city driving included.
We had hoped for a blast along Snake Pass on the way back but the timing didn’t work out, so almost all the miles were cruise-controlled wafting.

Oh actually I did have to put oil in when we got back, it seems to get through 1L about every 1.5k miles at ‘motorway’ speeds.

I think I only refuelled once on the way back from Southern Borders in my E34 520, which was impressive I thought considering I sat at 140 for huge swathes of the M1.

Well it needed a lot of money spending on the suspension to get it to the same spec as I was at on the grey one, and the oil consumption was still a little worrying despite the top end rebuild, but in hindsight, if I’d known how much money I’d spend on the grey and white ones since then, and just spent it on that car, I could have had an absolutely epic car now.