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

Pretty sure i'm shopping in the Velar for a Tesla Model 3 LR AWD next month.

Looking at PCP & PCH. PCH (lease) comes out much cheaper when it comes to overall cost of ownership (nearly 25% cheaper!).

Why wouldn't I do it? I'm not at any point considering buying the car at the end of the lease, considering Tesla's build quality and the rapid development of electric cars...

Looking at a 24 month deal (36 at most).

I leased the Skoda for 24 months.

My main concern is what the wear and tear will translate to at the point where I hand it back.

Put a nice scratch in to the internal trim yesterday with the pram. go me.

That Shuttle sold this morning, looking at something a bit older, what's wrong with this?

149k miles & 15 years, & LWB so harder to park. But does look OK

~10,000 miles per year feels ok, no?

That a lot of miles and time for problems to be developing though.

True. I'm basically betting that van parts are cheap. There's no part of this that could go wrong.

I mean, you seem to like rebuilding engines.

And automatic gearboxes.

And German marques.

New car day today, potentially. Still waiting for them to MOT it/the MOT register to be updated. Bit of a pain in the arse tbh.

Which brings me to my next question: what’s the best way to sell a banger? I’m going to MOT it, and it has always been reliable, but it’s a 15 year old Astra with 135k on it. Am I best scrapping it? How much do you even get these days? Kinda annoys me as it has 4 good tyres, and I recently did front pads and rotors and rear shock absorbers.

Assuming I can get a fresh MOT, is getting £300 even realistic? It’s never broken down, always starts first time.

Edit: I love this car like a bastard.

Arguably any car with legit MOT is worth £300.

Try motorway.com anyway to see what the pay to take it away vendors will give you for it. Check autotrader for similar ones, list it for slightly less and get a quick sale.

I would try and get a decent length test drive in with a Transporter, if you're tall. I found the driving position pretty uncomfortable after an hour or two, mostly the way the pedals sit and how your ankle has to flex

Probably get 150-200 scrap so 300 with an mot will be easy

Nothing from DynoTorque, hopefully that's good news.

Just to put in perspective your £4k, that CX GTI owner spent more than 40000€ on his.

Good to know, how tall are you?

196, I guess I can't expect to be perfectly comfortable but thought it worth mentioning

You’re 9cm taller than I am, but I do recall the last time I drove a transporter it was a shit driving position. I’m just counting on being able to fix that if it’s a problem.

Arguably any car with legit MOT is worth £300.

That’s kinda what I figured. I’ll try and get £400 and settle for £300

Fuck yeah, MOT is finally through so will collect the 320d today!

Another six months to wait in order to get those BBS LM's. The humanity.

Should've just got some halfords specials.