Show us your snotter..............
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juliethotel said:
Been snottering around in this for a couple of years, although I'd say its more of a sniveller than a snotter. ![](http://thumbsnap.com/sc/ztlaP9kV.jpg)
Should be sold very soon, and replacing it is...
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520i auto touring £405 fleabay whim. Mot march, need to tax it. Seems in pretty good nick really.
Interesting change. Bet you miss the Alfa.![](http://thumbsnap.com/sc/ztlaP9kV.jpg)
Should be sold very soon, and replacing it is...
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520i auto touring £405 fleabay whim. Mot march, need to tax it. Seems in pretty good nick really.
A lex said:
If anyone is looking for a barge sized snotter this has appeared on the Volvo boards (no affiliation except an un natural desire to own it!!) ![hehe](/inc/images/hehe.gif)
Its probably the best looking sub £1k (its £800) S80 I have seen, and I look a lot!
http://www.volvoforums.org.uk/showthread.php?t=165...
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Wow! That does look a bargin for the price... And one of the requirement for my next car is leather. If only my Megane was ready to sell, id snap that one up. ![hehe](/inc/images/hehe.gif)
Its probably the best looking sub £1k (its £800) S80 I have seen, and I look a lot!
http://www.volvoforums.org.uk/showthread.php?t=165...
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Ordinary_Chap said:
Rollcage said:
Ordinary_Chap said:
KM666 said:
Rollcage said:
My line of snottering success has come to an end. ![frown](/inc/images/frown.gif)
I bought a cheapy Impreza Turbo off ebay with no tax or test, and when taking it for retest on Thursday (having fitted new rear discs/pads) I gave it some welly for the first time to warm it up properly for the emissions test and the engine now seems to be comprehensively buggered.
http://s687.photobucket.com/albums/vv233/jakethegs...
Dont click on the link if you have any mechanical sympathy!
Thats life I suppose!
Is it smoking? ![frown](/inc/images/frown.gif)
I bought a cheapy Impreza Turbo off ebay with no tax or test, and when taking it for retest on Thursday (having fitted new rear discs/pads) I gave it some welly for the first time to warm it up properly for the emissions test and the engine now seems to be comprehensively buggered.
http://s687.photobucket.com/albums/vv233/jakethegs...
Dont click on the link if you have any mechanical sympathy!
Thats life I suppose!
Could be lucky and something is just very very loose (engine mount, gearbox mount, manifolds etc) I suppose at least with a scooby its parts are in demand and will sell quickly. Speaking of which what wheels does it have? If they're 6 spoke standard gold ones I know somebody who will buy at least one.
I'd PM JollyGreenMonster on here (link to his profile) and ask him to have a listen http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/profile.asp?h=0...
JGM is one of the most respected Impreza tuners out there and is a top chap from all of his postings and what the community always says about him.
Lee
In summary, it's f
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I hope you didn't pay too much for it.
If you're willing breaking Impreza's will usually lead to a very healthy profit. Lots of good, working Impreza's are getting bought to be broken right now.
Lee
A lex said:
If anyone is looking for a barge sized snotter this has appeared on the Volvo boards (no affiliation except an un natural desire to own it!!) ![hehe](/inc/images/hehe.gif)
Its probably the best looking sub £1k (its £800) S80 I have seen, and I look a lot!
http://www.volvoforums.org.uk/showthread.php?t=165...
![](http://thumbsnap.com/sc/FdrRQSY2.jpg)
![](http://thumbsnap.com/sc/7hhKThdd.jpg)
If I thought I could sell my Picanto for the settlement figure + £800 I'd buy that right now! ![hehe](/inc/images/hehe.gif)
Its probably the best looking sub £1k (its £800) S80 I have seen, and I look a lot!
http://www.volvoforums.org.uk/showthread.php?t=165...
![](http://thumbsnap.com/sc/FdrRQSY2.jpg)
![](http://thumbsnap.com/sc/7hhKThdd.jpg)
NotDave said:
V8mate said:
Interesting change. Bet you miss the Alfa.
Was thinking exactly the same. I went:3series tourer
To
1800 tspark 145
To
Mondeo
The Alfa was s
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juliethotel said:
I probably will, but I've had my fun with the Alfa and its just getting boring. Plus its about time I transposed to RWD. It's just a stopgap until I get an XJR really ![smile](/inc/images/smile.gif)
Fair play. Chalk & cheese eh?![smile](/inc/images/smile.gif)
I loved my Alfa but couldn't justify throwing £1,000 - £1200 at a £450 car to keep it on for another 12 months.. Plus THAT seating position... What were they thinking??
Reckon my next snotter needs to be either:
328 coupe OR GTV or st170
Annual 'ohoh' day today for the Dog Van - will it or won't it pass the MOT!?
Handed over the keys having done NOTHING to prepare it - in fact, when I went to dig-out last year's cert. (I had this feeling you needed it to post-date the next one) I realised I'd done nothing about LAST years advisory of "front brakes at limit of balance"...
One hour of banter in the workshop later and I have a new MOT - 2 advisories on rust starting around the drivers seatbelt mount and the passenger rear suspension mount but I'm told they;re easily fixed (which I'll probably do the day before the NEXT MOT!)![smile](/inc/images/smile.gif)
Oddly, the brakes weren't mentioned this time - so they're either getting better with age (and they were never great) or it's an intermittent fault - certainly the car doesn't pull to one side when braking (it does rattle the n/s front suspension to bits tho - another job there then)
and the power steering cooler leak (glad that stuff is cheapish) - diesel pump leak (not so cheap but tiny so just gives the car that 'Old Transit' smell) and so on...
But it's a shed and it's now MOT'd past it's 18th Birthday - dogs transported for another few months at least![smile](/inc/images/smile.gif)
Next stop, moon mileage - only 2K to go (perigee) or 32K (apogee)![smile](/inc/images/smile.gif)
Handed over the keys having done NOTHING to prepare it - in fact, when I went to dig-out last year's cert. (I had this feeling you needed it to post-date the next one) I realised I'd done nothing about LAST years advisory of "front brakes at limit of balance"...
One hour of banter in the workshop later and I have a new MOT - 2 advisories on rust starting around the drivers seatbelt mount and the passenger rear suspension mount but I'm told they;re easily fixed (which I'll probably do the day before the NEXT MOT!)
![smile](/inc/images/smile.gif)
Oddly, the brakes weren't mentioned this time - so they're either getting better with age (and they were never great) or it's an intermittent fault - certainly the car doesn't pull to one side when braking (it does rattle the n/s front suspension to bits tho - another job there then)
and the power steering cooler leak (glad that stuff is cheapish) - diesel pump leak (not so cheap but tiny so just gives the car that 'Old Transit' smell) and so on...
But it's a shed and it's now MOT'd past it's 18th Birthday - dogs transported for another few months at least
![smile](/inc/images/smile.gif)
Next stop, moon mileage - only 2K to go (perigee) or 32K (apogee)
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I Have a Citroen Xsara 2.0 Hdi 110bhp estate...lovely car, absolute minter. Bought for just over the £500 bangernomics budget.
Minter apart from the knackered rear beam and the dead clutch.
After 3700 long and hard and mean miles....its off to the scrapheap she goes...![frown](/inc/images/frown.gif)
got a choice of a £325 renault laguna 1.6 sport with 90k miles, tax and mot until april but no service history and a knackered ball joint,a ford ka for £275 with only a few days MOT left, or another KA for £450 with no tax but MOT until march.....whichever one I buy I'm sure it'll be a laugh until it explodes.
Minter apart from the knackered rear beam and the dead clutch.
After 3700 long and hard and mean miles....its off to the scrapheap she goes...
![frown](/inc/images/frown.gif)
got a choice of a £325 renault laguna 1.6 sport with 90k miles, tax and mot until april but no service history and a knackered ball joint,a ford ka for £275 with only a few days MOT left, or another KA for £450 with no tax but MOT until march.....whichever one I buy I'm sure it'll be a laugh until it explodes.
chris123321 said:
I Have a Citroen Xsara 2.0 Hdi 110bhp estate...lovely car, absolute minter. Bought for just over the £500 bangernomics budget.
Minter apart from the knackered rear beam and the dead clutch.
After 3700 long and hard and mean miles....its off to the scrapheap she goes...![frown](/inc/images/frown.gif)
got a choice of a £325 renault laguna 1.6 sport with 90k miles, tax and mot until april but no service history and a knackered ball joint,a ford ka for £275 with only a few days MOT left, or another KA for £450 with no tax but MOT until march.....whichever one I buy I'm sure it'll be a laugh until it explodes.
if its a laguna mk1 then its a good motor, but if its a mk2 don't touch it with a bargepole.Minter apart from the knackered rear beam and the dead clutch.
After 3700 long and hard and mean miles....its off to the scrapheap she goes...
![frown](/inc/images/frown.gif)
got a choice of a £325 renault laguna 1.6 sport with 90k miles, tax and mot until april but no service history and a knackered ball joint,a ford ka for £275 with only a few days MOT left, or another KA for £450 with no tax but MOT until march.....whichever one I buy I'm sure it'll be a laugh until it explodes.
Vince70 said:
chris123321 said:
I Have a Citroen Xsara 2.0 Hdi 110bhp estate...lovely car, absolute minter. Bought for just over the £500 bangernomics budget.
Minter apart from the knackered rear beam and the dead clutch.
After 3700 long and hard and mean miles....its off to the scrapheap she goes...![frown](/inc/images/frown.gif)
got a choice of a £325 renault laguna 1.6 sport with 90k miles, tax and mot until april but no service history and a knackered ball joint,a ford ka for £275 with only a few days MOT left, or another KA for £450 with no tax but MOT until march.....whichever one I buy I'm sure it'll be a laugh until it explodes.
if its a laguna mk1 then its a good motor, but if its a mk2 don't touch it with a bargepole.Minter apart from the knackered rear beam and the dead clutch.
After 3700 long and hard and mean miles....its off to the scrapheap she goes...
![frown](/inc/images/frown.gif)
got a choice of a £325 renault laguna 1.6 sport with 90k miles, tax and mot until april but no service history and a knackered ball joint,a ford ka for £275 with only a few days MOT left, or another KA for £450 with no tax but MOT until march.....whichever one I buy I'm sure it'll be a laugh until it explodes.
On the later mk1 check out the headlamps as they have plastic covers rather than glass which go cloudy.
But all in all I thought it was a good reliable motor and quite well screwed together.
I won't go into the problems I had with the mk2 as I don't have a spare day to write about the problems, but put it this way I don't think there was a single component which didn't go wrong, it put me off Renault for life, and the car was only 4 years old when I finally swapped it for a 300 fiesta in desperation.
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