King of the Rank!- 51 plate Skoda Octavia 1.9tdi purchased..
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This is quite amusing but I cannot for the life of me work out why you'd do this unless forced to through extreme poverty.
There is nothing interesting about the car, it's unlikely to be all that reliable in real terms because of it's age (unless you're going to replace every hose and plastic electrical connector and everything else that fails with time), if you're not doing big mileage you'll probably not even save enough to cover the RFL and to cap it all off you have to drive that filthy old heap.
I guess as someone who spent their early 20s having no choice but to drive s
theaps like that I do not understand why you'd go out of your way to do so. It has to be among the absolute worst cars on the road. I've had cars like that given to me and been grateful but to actively seek it out, travel to collect it and part with actual cash seems to be positively masochistic. Maybe it's a Scottish thing? ;-)
There is nothing interesting about the car, it's unlikely to be all that reliable in real terms because of it's age (unless you're going to replace every hose and plastic electrical connector and everything else that fails with time), if you're not doing big mileage you'll probably not even save enough to cover the RFL and to cap it all off you have to drive that filthy old heap.
I guess as someone who spent their early 20s having no choice but to drive s
theaps like that I do not understand why you'd go out of your way to do so. It has to be among the absolute worst cars on the road. I've had cars like that given to me and been grateful but to actively seek it out, travel to collect it and part with actual cash seems to be positively masochistic. Maybe it's a Scottish thing? ;-)Edited by dme123 on Tuesday 9th June 15:39
dme123 said:
This is quite amusing but I cannot for the life of me work out why you'd do this unless forced to through extreme poverty.
horses for courses chief- a big, cheap scabby hatchback with comfy ride is ideal as a crap hauler and motorway mile schlepper.For what I paid, i could see profit just by selling it on as is now it has been hoovered.
Also super cheap to fuel with veg and easy to get a bit more grunt out of.
Stops the 335i 320i or 172 getting mangled with crap
dme123 said:
There is nothing interesting about the car, it's unlikely to be all that reliable in real terms because of it's age (unless you're going to replace every hose and plastic electrical connector and everything else that fails with time), if you're not doing big mileage you'll probably not even save enough to cover the RFL and to cap it all off you have to drive that filthy old heap.
Have to disagree-my brother had a 200k estate tdi octavia-very reliable and fairly easy to maintain.As for replacing hoses etc-why bother unless they fail? Its the youngest car in the fleet.
The rfl is 130 for the year, less than 1/2 of anything else in the fleet-so even if I swap out my other snotter (a 1997 polo 1.9d) I'm up 180 a year
dme123 said:
I guess as someone who spent their early 20s having no choice but to drive stheaps like that I do not understand why you'd go out of your way to do so. It has to be among the absolute worst cars on the road. I've had cars like that given to me and been grateful but to actively seek it out, travel to collect it and part with actual cash seems to be positively masochistic. Maybe it's a Scottish thing? ;-)
Too right on the 'poor cars theough no choice' element when I were a pup.theaps like that I do not understand why you'd go out of your way to do so. It has to be among the absolute worst cars on the road. I've had cars like that given to me and been grateful but to actively seek it out, travel to collect it and part with actual cash seems to be positively masochistic. Maybe it's a Scottish thing? ;-)As is though, a tank in this will cost 40quid and last 1.5 months at my current mileage. Saving me about 100 a month over other cars.
Boom, some time later in the year its time for sommat tasty;)
Also it is pretty much disposable-so why not have some fun with it?
Edited by 320touring on Tuesday 9th June 16:07
dme123 said:
This is quite amusing but I cannot for the life of me work out why you'd do this unless forced to through extreme poverty.
There is nothing interesting about the car, it's unlikely to be all that reliable in real terms because of it's age (unless you're going to replace every hose and plastic electrical connector and everything else that fails with time), if you're not doing big mileage you'll probably not even save enough to cover the RFL and to cap it all off you have to drive that filthy old heap.
I guess as someone who spent their early 20s having no choice but to drive stheaps like that I do not understand why you'd go out of your way to do so. It has to be among the absolute worst cars on the road. I've had cars like that given to me and been grateful but to actively seek it out, travel to collect it and part with actual cash seems to be positively masochistic. Maybe it's a Scottish thing? ;-)
Blimey. Did someone put sour milk in your tea this morning, or something?There is nothing interesting about the car, it's unlikely to be all that reliable in real terms because of it's age (unless you're going to replace every hose and plastic electrical connector and everything else that fails with time), if you're not doing big mileage you'll probably not even save enough to cover the RFL and to cap it all off you have to drive that filthy old heap.
I guess as someone who spent their early 20s having no choice but to drive s
theaps like that I do not understand why you'd go out of your way to do so. It has to be among the absolute worst cars on the road. I've had cars like that given to me and been grateful but to actively seek it out, travel to collect it and part with actual cash seems to be positively masochistic. Maybe it's a Scottish thing? ;-)Edited by dme123 on Tuesday 9th June 15:39
T.K said:
A wonderful snotter.
Out of interest, where does one buy vegetable oil for these purposes? [quite keen to try this on my snotter too]
Cheers!Out of interest, where does one buy vegetable oil for these purposes? [quite keen to try this on my snotter too]
I got this load off a bloke on a forum I frequent, but a swift gumtree should turn up some local stuff.
I generally pay 40-50p a litre for used stuff. New stuff can be bought from 80p/litre at asda
You'll need to keep a fuel filter handy as it flushes the crud out the lines.
Do a search on line for your car to see if you can run it first
Been doing some tinkering on this tub today..
Got the interior cleaned, and the brakes sorted. Marevellous! (not to mention the MPG on the way hame)
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Got the interior cleaned, and the brakes sorted. Marevellous! (not to mention the MPG on the way hame)
Full account here
https://fuguttycars.wordpress.com/2015/06/13/back-...
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