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

Well thats two different scenarios. If you want a more long term, specialist project, go with the Prisma. If you want a cheap winter runaround, there are tonnes of cheap, low maintenance options.

Yeah they are. 18" Ford 'Snowflake' Alloy wheels.

As brand new ones silly expensive I hope a refurb will solve the pressure problem and make the other 3 look better.

Except the car battery is now taking a while to start the car so a new one was purchased today.

The wheel stuff may have to take a back seat until I save up again.

Cars = money pits...

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I only bought it because it had a Bluetooth stereo...

I ruined my driver side door yesterday, got into a bit of a pickle in the world's smallest parking space then got into an argument with a bollard... Ugh...

Annoying because the driver's side of the car looked immaculate, passenger side is bogan to the max...

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Agh, goth mode ruined!

Squeezed the old gal into the garage for some tinkering

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Time for an f100

In 6th form my best mate's mum had a gold Prisma, he used to give me a lift in then we'd drive to the pub at lunchtime. That thing was epic

Anyone here got any experience with driving rwd BMWs on snow/Ice? There seems to be a lot of opinion about it on the internet but little consensus.

Context: I'm going skiing at Christmas and considering driving my 118 to the Alps. I'll have chains and maybe snow socks obviously.

No. But I've driven shit rental cars in the snow with normal tyres without chains and I'm still alive to post irrelevant opinions online.

They do snow and ice much better there than in the UK. I wouldn't worry.

Just find a big car park to have fun in.

Looking at a seemingly clean 325i manual msport touring and a seemingly rough but honest 330i manual se touring tomorrow.

The ocd car owner inside me wants the newer, lower mileage, cleaner car, but the petrolhead wants the more powerful car.

Is a clean 325i msport worth twice the asking price of a 330i se? I could do a lot of tidying up to the 330i se with 3k in my back pocket.

Yes but only SE UK levels of snow... Put it in snow mode (which allows some slip before TC kicks in) and take it easy. Unless you’re trying to slide around obvs!

Couldn't sleep much last night and was thinking about things. Have had a prisma before, a nice white 1300. Body wise was immaculate and had run out of oil. Bought a very cheap very rusty HF turbo and that was fun. Think I am trying to relive the fun bits of the past.

Think I need a cheap load lugger and tow car. Have lost the place where I was going to be doing the work on the few projects I have going.

Depending where you are going or driving through (Switzerland)as you might have to have winter tyres.

BMW can have issues as the cars are rear wheel drive and low weight over the rear wheels. Why not book a skid pan course and get a little practice.

You’ll need winter tyres as well I believe- they’re mandatory for certain times of year.

Three flakes and panic buying then shit driving.

Edit: looks like they changed the rules. Annoying

Depends if you care about how it sounds or how it looks ;)

See them both in the metal and drive them. 3k seems a big difference and a decent chunk of money to put at a car but that could soon go putting the rough one right mechanically and it would still look like the rougher example.

Or needed on top of the extra cash for the good one...

Last snow storm here - hard shoulder leading out of Belfast (M2 ) on the hill section was strewn with BMWs. Other cars seemed to manage much better but that does not take into account driving skill - or lack of it in poor conditions.

@dan Winter tyres all day long. we had a 1 series on winter tyres that could get up the car park slope that left an X3 & X5 stranded at the bottom on summer tyres. Biggest difference you can make for winter driving.

A lada niva is a stupid idea yeah?