Traveling To Buy A Car
Discussion
Slow said:
loskie said:
north/south make no difference to corrosion. It's the proximity to the sea that does.
Bulls
t.Everything from the north of Scotland is rotten. Dont care if its inland or next to the sea, its rotten. We salt the roads for what feels like 4 months of the year and it just eats everything.
You will find that on the coast the gritting is far less than inland.
Where I live on the north Aberdeenshire coast you see a gritter out in mid October a couple of times at 8c and then nothing till the next October.........
I’ve walked away from plenty of cars in the midlands/London area that were full of rust and lived inland all their life- the worst being a Mitsubishi shogun pinin warrior in north London
Where I live it’s not the rotten cars that are a issue- it’s the rotten dealers who add £2-3k on the price of a car forcing me to travel down south
Mdm83 said:
Slow said:
loskie said:
north/south make no difference to corrosion. It's the proximity to the sea that does.
Bullst.Everything from the north of Scotland is rotten. Dont care if its inland or next to the sea, its rotten. We salt the roads for what feels like 4 months of the year and it just eats everything.
You will find that on the coast the gritting is far less than inland.
Where I live on the north Aberdeenshire coast you see a gritter out in mid October a couple of times at 8c and then nothing till the next October.........
I’ve walked away from plenty of cars in the midlands/London area that were full of rust and lived inland all their life- the worst being a Mitsubishi shogun pinin warrior in north London
Where I live it’s not the rotten cars that are a issue- it’s the rotten dealers who add £2-3k on the price of a car forcing me to travel down south
Everything that lives around here is rotten, used to work at a dealer and everything over 10 years which was traded in had rust. I love when I buy cars down south, bring them home and work on them and the bolts just undo without stripping and falling to bits like the stuff up here.
Slow said:
Aberdeen is not the north im afraid. Inverness is the southern point for the North really and our gritters feel like they never stop and it is on the coast.
Everything that lives around here is rotten, used to work at a dealer and everything over 10 years which was traded in had rust. I love when I buy cars down south, bring them home and work on them and the bolts just undo without stripping and falling to bits like the stuff up here.
I didn’t say Aberdeen- I said north Aberdeenshire. I have to travel south west to get to Inverness as we are further north than Inverness. Inverness/highlands will be gritted far more due to the hilly/mountainous nature of the land- here on the Coast is flat farming land. So yes where you are will Find rotten cars but that’s because of the higher need to grit and salt the roads. Everything that lives around here is rotten, used to work at a dealer and everything over 10 years which was traded in had rust. I love when I buy cars down south, bring them home and work on them and the bolts just undo without stripping and falling to bits like the stuff up here.
I've had to travel to buy a few of my cars but the problem with having to travel and being lazy is that once im there i don't want to walk away empty handed so I have always ended up driving away with the car!
The first was our Vx220, Travelling from Brighton to Cornwall, getting up at 5am and home at 10pm was a pretty exhausting day.
The next being my Subaru again from Brighton to Wales, very easy and good fun.
The last and possibly most interesting (Especially being sight un-seen) was hiring a flat bed truck and once again driving up to Lincoln to view a Cat N Gt86 which I figured "Looks buggered!... but not *too* buggered, i'll take it!" loaded it up and drove all the way back home with the 86 on the back of a flatbed. Good fun
The first was our Vx220, Travelling from Brighton to Cornwall, getting up at 5am and home at 10pm was a pretty exhausting day.
The next being my Subaru again from Brighton to Wales, very easy and good fun.
The last and possibly most interesting (Especially being sight un-seen) was hiring a flat bed truck and once again driving up to Lincoln to view a Cat N Gt86 which I figured "Looks buggered!... but not *too* buggered, i'll take it!" loaded it up and drove all the way back home with the 86 on the back of a flatbed. Good fun
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