Everyday cars which are already starting to disappear
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sleepera6 said:
31mph said:
sleepera6 said:
All my cars are disappearing, they are all old sheds or barges..
Like to see what you have to offer??
Like to see what you have to offer??
Really? e46s? mk4 golfs?
I could probably see both from my window
How Many Left has 15 pages of Golfs
There's an old Passat like the one posted earlier on a driveway down the road from me. Doesn't appear to have moved for some time
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.3896875,-0.33557...
Hope that works!
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.3896875,-0.33557...
Hope that works!
Trabi601 said:
dme123 said:
The 1991 - 1998 Astra F seemed to go from totally ubiquitous to extinct overnight. The youngest ones are 19 years old this year I suppose, but I actually cannot remember the last time I saw one and I don't think they have much of an enthusiast following either. Now they aren't so common as to be ignored there is actually a lot to admire about the design! Several family members had them and aside from eletric shocks on exit and a propensity to steam up really badly they all gave sterling service.
A few on eBay - including a very expensive GSI.http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/mk3-astra-gsi-2-0-16v-st...
Stickyfinger said:
sleepera6 said:
31mph said:
sleepera6 said:
All my cars are disappearing, they are all old sheds or barges..
Like to see what you have to offer??
Like to see what you have to offer??
Really? e46s? mk4 golfs?
I could probably see both from my window
How Many Left has 15 pages of Golfs
My other cars:
330i
Astras
Boosted LS1 said:
I've seen a few. I think they're supposed to be quite reliable or easy to look after.
Both of the above. The early 90s Cav, Astra, Nova, Calibra, were all very easy to maintain and didn't break. Loads of them were run up to 150k, 200k, without drama. There was no more than average corrosion and they were plentiful in breakers so there was no reason for any of them to die until the cost of repairs was such that the thing was no longer worth it. A Cav I sold to a mate was used and abused until way beyond 200k miles, at which point it died for want of a clutch, a petrol tank, a leaky rad, a few bits of suspension and some brake pipes for the MoT. None of them deal-breakers but cumulatively a stopper. Even at this point it ran like a train and burned no oil but the ancillaries were falling off it. If it had been worth £1500+, as such things are in, say, France, it would have had the repairs, but in the UK where everyone wants a new car it was worthless and not worth fixing.Boosted LS1 said:
Trabi601 said:
dme123 said:
The 1991 - 1998 Astra F seemed to go from totally ubiquitous to extinct overnight. The youngest ones are 19 years old this year I suppose, but I actually cannot remember the last time I saw one and I don't think they have much of an enthusiast following either. Now they aren't so common as to be ignored there is actually a lot to admire about the design! Several family members had them and aside from eletric shocks on exit and a propensity to steam up really badly they all gave sterling service.
A few on eBay - including a very expensive GSI.http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/mk3-astra-gsi-2-0-16v-st...
torqueofthedevil said:
Also it's not necessarily - which cars now are basically completely gone (because they are 25 years old etc) but just where you have noticed a distinct reduction of them on the road - I was thinking that about e46's before I even saw this thread.
E46's aren't exactly rare but they're really starting to look ragged in places. I've noticed over the past couple of years that they've really hit rock bottom, regularly appearing on insalubrious estates and often showing rust on the panel gaps at the rear. Hub said:
While they have inevitably been scrapped in large numbers due to age, there definitely seems to be more of them about than the Escort of the same era.
I still see a few mk3 Astras about - more than almost any other car in its class, I'd say. I think I probably see a similar number of mk3 Golfs day to dayI think a lot of noticing cars is down to thinking about them. Most cars tend to pass you by but if you are interested in a particular model you will sniff it out a mile off. It normally happens when you buy a new car, all of a sudden it seems like every tom, dick and harry has one too.
sparks_E39 said:
I don't see many E39's about now, even the 530i I sold in July ended up with another car up it's backside, sadly. Still running though. I can understand why there's so few, they are becoming quite tiresome to run daily.
My wife runs an E39 tourer and I notice quite a few about. I don't think they were ever a really common car like the mk1 Mondeos and E46's mentioned in here. That said I also notice a lot of E46's about still.
battered said:
Jazzy Jag said:
Thanoj said:
This shape K11. Barely see any on the road now.
Picked it up for my son a few years back, one previous owner and my mane in the Service book as the Service Manager of the original selling dealer.
Lester H said:
Matt-il77s said:
Not an old one but I've only seen one 66 plate Punto compared to the thousands of Corsas and Fiestas
Although the design has been out 10 years now so that might explain it
Objectively it's not actually bad looking, is it.? All a question of price with econoboxes.Although the design has been out 10 years now so that might explain it
t" because it's "rude", probably to the piece of st. Jimmy Recard said:
Trabi601 said:
Good call. I always wanted a Santana saloon version, just because it had the name of a slighty st band on the boot 
B3 Passats have disappeared. Still really want a GTI.
Really hard to even find a photo of a standard car... however, this looks amazing.
I went in one in Minsk a few months ago that was a taxi. I saw quite a few of them theret band on the boot B3 Passats have disappeared. Still really want a GTI.
Really hard to even find a photo of a standard car... however, this looks amazing.
Can't remember the last time I saw another one though. You see the odd B4 but they're few and far between too.
wheels have since been swapped back to a set of OEM BBS Solitudes.
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