Show us your snotter..............

[Parisien]

I've only stumbled on the "snotter" thread by chance from another thread....must catch up on previous 77 pages....brilliant!!!!!!!!


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[bmthnick1981]

Used to be a much busier thread! Shame it has slowed down a bit.

[Parisien]

It might just cross over from bangernomics/barges and so forth, just depends which is on the first few pages when people find something interesting etc


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[V12biTurbo]

Anyone got a nice snotter for sale? I'm struggling, dealing with constant idiots trying to buy in shed budget

[silverback mike]

I will have soon, I bought it from the local garage as they are selling my Range Rover for me. Nissan Almera in green, V Reg 79k, local owner always had it services at the garage I bought it from. All good, drives brilliantly, even aircon works. No beauty but I've done over 1000 miles in 9 days and it's faultless. 11 months mot, £400. Available as soon as Range Rover goes

[CX53]

silverback mike said:

I will have soon, I bought it from the local garage as they are selling my Range Rover for me. Nissan Almera in green, V Reg 79k, local owner always had it services at the garage I bought it from. All good, drives brilliantly, even aircon works. No beauty but I've done over 1000 miles in 9 days and it's faultless. 11 months mot, £400. Available as soon as Range Rover goes

Fond memories of my almera 1.5 S first car. Stop me from enquiring about this one, I don't even need it.... Lol

[silverback mike]

I've been absolutely amazed by it, I literally bought it as I needed wheels there and then, and The proprietor had a chuckle and said "tell you what, this Almera is a little cracker" I looked at it, it's green, an 'invitation' model which I believe was a bit of a runt of the litter, albeit marvellous grey velour sports seats.....after I picked myself up off the floor took his word for it and drove away to the hilarity of those that know me, including my daughter who gave me 'that' look, I'm not but she's a bit of a car snob....(13) and I can honestly say I absolutely love it, the thing just does everything without fail. I wish some of my far more expensive purchases over the years had been this reliable. And for a rip snorting 1.4 it pops along too. Genuinely will be sad to let it go. I did suggest to Mrs we keep it as a pool car, and had 'that' look again

It is a bit green though

[CX53]

They're brilliant little things! My mates and my mrs used to make jokes about it being a takeaway delivery drivers car, but it took us everywhere and never missed a beat! The monkeys at longleat gave it a hard time and ripped off a load of the trim and the rear washer jet, which added character...

[silverback mike]

Come to think of it.....it is missing its roof aerial

[SystemParanoia]

Mrs reversing onto the dive last night... managed to kill the snotter
we've had it exactly 1 year, and im shocked that its failed in this way doing such a mundane thing as revering round a corner!

looks like the subframe rotted through and allowed the wishbone to pull itself free tearing the driveshaft out of the gearbox in the process.

RIP little snotter









But good News!!

Its replacement was already on the subs bench...

Identical to this


>£400 full ticket and folder full of reciepts and documents - the snotter is dead, long live the snotter!

110hp 2.0 HDI, Hydrodynamique 3 ( not 3+ ) and > 120k miles

Edited by SystemParanoia on Friday 23 September 09:31

[bmthnick1981]

bmthnick1981 said:

My new snotter, Audi a6 1.8t se manual (non-quattro), owned by my dad for 11 years when he was offered £100 for it in part ex against a 2014 Audi A4 I snapped it up. It's been well maintained mechanically serviced etc but Dad never really cleaned it inside or out! It's on 135,000 miles.

I think part of the reason for the very low part ex offer was it had a very short MOT and permanently lit ABS light. A mate of mine stuck a second hand ABS controller on it (£126) and a few other minor bits and it now has a full 12 month ticket.

Issues; front elec windows dodgy, overdue a cambelt change, biting point on clutch high but no slipping.

Plan is to tidy it right up and keep it as a spare for tip runs, popping round town etc.

Quick update on mine, had it 3 months and done around 1,000 miles in it. Running well, AC is ice cold, reasonably economical around town. Done a few tip runs in it. Only issue is the electric windows which have a mind of there own - if I can find time to sort those it'll be a good car!

[PD9]

SystemParanoia said:

Mrs reversing onto the dive last night... managed to kill the snotter
we've had it exactly 1 year, and im shocked that its failed in this way doing such a mundane thing as revering round a corner!

looks like the subframe rotted through and allowed the wishbone to pull itself free tearing the driveshaft out of the gearbox in the process.

RIP little snotter

Thank goodness that happened whilst on the drive and not on the motorway!!

[V88Dicky]

£900 with a good service history and 65k miles.

Pretty easy to work on and it's little 1100cc three pot returns over 55mpg. Tons of room inside thanks to its versatile folding and sliding rear seats.

[SystemParanoia]

PD9 said:

SystemParanoia said:

Mrs reversing onto the dive last night... managed to kill the snotter
we've had it exactly 1 year, and im shocked that its failed in this way doing such a mundane thing as revering round a corner!

looks like the subframe rotted through and allowed the wishbone to pull itself free tearing the driveshaft out of the gearbox in the process.

RIP little snotter

Thank goodness that happened whilst on the drive and not on the motorway!!

My thoughts exactly!!! Tried to explain just how lucky she was but don't think she 'gets' it. Probbably for the best really

[hora]

Awesome topic

[smn159]

Here's my new winter shed. 145k, one owner, stamped up Volvo and indy service history. MOT advisory on the control arm bushes, so I'm in the process of changing the control arms on both sides. Headlights are cloudy as well but I have a 3M kit to try and polish them up a bit... Oh, and the radio doesn't seem to receive any FM stations - otherwise it's great!

£1900

[stevensdrs]

Re The radio. Ensure radio is off. Disconnect the cars battery for 2 minutes and then re-connect. Turn on radio and check if FM stations are back.
I had a car that would lose the FM stations if the battery was disconnected with the radio on. The above fixed it. Worth a try.

[hora]

I'll try that. I recently replaced the battery and the signal is abismmal at best. It can't even get (horrid) radio1

[Tasmin200]

This has been a good one for me. I've had it 3 and a 1/2 years, done 50k miles, cost £900 and hasn't had much done to it. Just replaced the lower wishbones and rear discs for this year's MOT. It's getting the dreaded rusty Saab arches now though :-(

[Limpet]

Picked mine up Sunday. 2 owner, 2002 Focus 2.0 Zetec with climate pack (bring on the frosts), 114k, near complete service history and 10 months MOT for the princely sum of £550. Drives faultlessly and everything works.







Bought it to use until my M140i turns up, but already like it enough that I'm thinking about hanging on to it if it's reliable.