Car to sit on the drive for occasional long haul use.

Car to sit on the drive for occasional long haul use.

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sebhaque

6,402 posts

180 months

Sunday 20th April 2014
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This is pretty much the job of my SOTW Rover 623. It's done 700 miles in a week, which have consisted of four separate ~150 mile motorway trips, and a small bit of driving around town. I spent £290 on it and it's happy to sit there patiently waiting until I beckon it to take me across the country or something. Such a car is well recommended.

ETA: I lie, it's been eight days. Same principle though, the temperature gauge is actually more stable on the Rover than my 370Z! It'll get to a point and sit there happily no matter if I'm cruising at 60mph, or at 0.9 leptons (hypothetically) with four in the car + luggage + air con.

Edited by sebhaque on Sunday 20th April 23:45

Boobonman

5,645 posts

191 months

Monday 21st April 2014
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I bought a volvo 940 turbo which used to sit gathering dust on the streets of London for 2 months at a time, then would be fired up and pressed into fast, night time motorway work straight off the bat, and this was when the overdrive was broken so 4k revs at 70moh! Never failed to start, would recommend a Swedish barge for long periods of inactivity followed by the beatdown.

BorkFactor

7,258 posts

157 months

Monday 21st April 2014
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I see no problem with this at all, my E46 sat in my garage for over 6 months and fired straight up once I had charged the battery and has been in daily use since its MOT, no problems at all.

Keep an eye on the levels and make sure there is a good battery in it smile

Herman Toothrot

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6,702 posts

197 months

Monday 21st April 2014
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BorkFactor said:
I see no problem with this at all, my E46 sat in my garage for over 6 months and fired straight up once I had charged the battery and has been in daily use since its MOT, no problems at all.

Keep an eye on the levels and make sure there is a good battery in it smile
Good, the way I see it going to a hire company for a "premium" car it'll always be small engines and paying a price ~£500-£600 a week so 6 weeks use in a year would pay for something like this :-

http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/b...

Can always sell it a year later to get some money back, only think that'd ruin the plan is finding the foot wells full of water (ok more of a risk on a cab) or other standing maladies, reason I'm not considering a £3K Boxster for example is the rads would probably rot themselves out and the pistons attach them selves to the bores in no time at all (ok thats possibly an exageration ;-) ).

Reason I don't trade the Audi in is its a shed for carting filthy dogs about, mates covered in mud from mountain biking - bought because its huge and good for that sort of thing. Its also good at munching motorway miles but when you want to drive the mountain roads in Northern Spain or Austria its a bit too much of a barge, its only the Mrs and I no dogs on holiday so don't need the space (do need comfort though or the Mrs will never agree that's the next years holidays).

Bill

52,472 posts

254 months

Monday 21st April 2014
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Doesn't she like the MR2? biggrin

Herman Toothrot

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6,702 posts

197 months

Monday 21st April 2014
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Bill said:
Doesn't she like the MR2? biggrin
Not at all, to be fair it's horrid on motorways about 4500rpm @ 70mph and in recent months has gone buckets harnesses, half cage etc :-)