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

Porsche gon' gravel

Gotta love the 959 rebake...

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Call that budget motoring?

We’ve had our Honda Odyssey skip run car 4 years and 25,000 miles and I’ve never even serviced it. I’ve topped the oil up once and the washer fluid a few times and spent €17 on an ABS wire and £20 on a puncture repair. That’s it as far as I can remember.

The idea is to throw it away when it breaks. I don’t think it ever will.

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I don’t think I could bring myself to do that.

Have you at least repainted it?

I know where you're coming from but to not even change oil and filters in that time just seems neglectful. Mind you, fresh oil might reveal a while host of worn out valve gear and bearings. Possibly better to leave it alone!

We had an escort l92 RWR that I thought when my wife took it to the garage for a Mot it would have a service as well. Thought wrong.

Only when it went several years later and I was looking for the service stuff I realised that absolutely nothing had been done.....

I rattle canned one of the wheels after Mrs Hefty kerbed it.

I hope that was in a colour that didn't quite match. My superior officer's Jazz is (ab)used in the same way and refuses to die. Kerbs are simply a parking sensor alternative.

It’s a fun experiment.

I did the same on a 2002 petrol Sharan. Paid £1000, ran it for four years, sold it for £800. It never got serviced. The only running cost was that it gummed up the plug on one cylinder and dropped onto 3 a few times, so I had to change that plug. Just that one, the other three worked fine.

Never buy a car from me.

Heroic motor. Love a 405 too and see them a bit more frequently as much later model.

Matt black baby. It’s bad man spec.

my daily is a Suzuki Swift.. 30k from new consumables only. Wouldn't dare not do oil changes.

Quality work, needs tinted window film with bubbles. The Jazz is in more colours than Joseph's coat and will never see wax as it's impossible to make masonry paint shine.

At work we run Cummins diesel Nt855. We change oil at 15K, we change or set injectors at 30k. We get warranty to to 400k .

Getting rarer, but there's still plenty of good 504 and 405's roaming around down here. If my search gets serious I might have to go interstate for the right one but have always fancied the fly to buy sight unseen and long drive home thing...

Never driven the A3 version, but did have a 2010 A3 sportback in red (classic) with the 1.4t petrol, was a great thing when it wasn't at Audi.
Remember the A3 3.2 on GT4 or GT5 was a very capable car in the lower spec races ;)

Sounds like the worst Mk5 ever, usually they are great to drive. Most of the Mk5 golf have rusted away now, the mk4's have outlasted their younger siblings which is kind of hilarious. Mk6 I don't think are much of a difference to a mk5 except they don't rust out in a dozen places

would have offered to take that even with a knackered gear box

I really liked the Mk5 Gti. The R32 I drove felt slow and wooden in comparison. But yes, maybe mine was a duffer.

Perhaps Dammit does bangernomics would be an interesting psychological experiment. A snotter Micra for a year where you aren't allowed to spend a penny.

Still think the MkIV R32 I had was the best car I ever owned

Question for the masses in this thread, although perhaps one for the camper thread also.

How likely would you be to buy a half done project with bodywork issues, assuming the listing was transparent?

I’ve been saving up to have my camper van conversion bodywork sorted but it’s coincided with buying a house and I’d now rather put the money into that, sell the van and buy a cheaper runaround.

I don’t really want to sink money into the bodywork on the hope that I’ll make it back on the sale, but not sure if it’s an appealing prospect with the rust the way it is

If the price for the work isn't extortionate I would do it. Campers fetch good money and way more people are likely to want to buy a car with no issues, than buy one knowing it's going to need loads of extras doing on it as stuff like rust can get a lot deeper than you expect.

Watched Drive My Car last night. I defy anyone to watch the film and not want a Saab 900 Turbo. It was like a three hour long advert for the car