I have 2 options! Shed or not
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S100HP said:
7.5k is a huge amount of money for the Leggy. You can pay half that for a good one....
Didn't see this at first. I thought that was the going rate for one :| Just seen yours cost you just over 3 grand, which is remarkably good value considering you are one of the people who are at fault of me wanting one!
Shermanator said:
S100HP said:
7.5k is a huge amount of money for the Leggy. You can pay half that for a good one....
Didn't see this at first. I thought that was the going rate for one :| Just seen yours cost you just over 3 grand, which is remarkably good value considering you are one of the people who are at fault of me wanting one!
If you’ve got a 16 mile motorway/dual carriageway commute then you need comfortable & reliable not aggressive. Saabs and Volvos sound like the better option to me - especially if you can find a sensibly priced hatchback so no-one can see the tools in the boot, probably a turbo-diesel which is at home pulling from 40 to 80 at a pace which surprises some of the hot hatch owners.
Hi.
I have a TVR that I keep a mile from my hone in an improvisef garage.
I work on it a lot and have to ferry tools and parts to and fro.
My other car is a Saab 9-5 HOT estate with 150k on the clock. It cost me £1200k and while a shed by definition it is a great car.
I can put kayaks on the roof, mountain bikes in the back, fill it full of caving gear etc.
It has about 280bhp (mapped) and goes like a rocket propelled sofa.
I have a TVR that I keep a mile from my hone in an improvisef garage.
I work on it a lot and have to ferry tools and parts to and fro.
My other car is a Saab 9-5 HOT estate with 150k on the clock. It cost me £1200k and while a shed by definition it is a great car.
I can put kayaks on the roof, mountain bikes in the back, fill it full of caving gear etc.
It has about 280bhp (mapped) and goes like a rocket propelled sofa.
S100HP said:
It won't help to tell you that I got to give it a bit of a pasting on the way home from a friends via the back roads in the Meon Valley, and it's just made me love it a little bit more. Wow wow wow. What a car.
Stop it! I shouldn't get any car really with the oncoming financial crash. Stop trying to talk me into spending money!oldcynic said:
If you’ve got a 16 mile motorway/dual carriageway commute then you need comfortable & reliable not aggressive. Saabs and Volvos sound like the better option to me - especially if you can find a sensibly priced hatchback so no-one can see the tools in the boot, probably a turbo-diesel which is at home pulling from 40 to 80 at a pace which surprises some of the hot hatch owners.
I'll point out that because I'm in Central Scotland going between a couple of towns between Glasgow and Edinburgh the traffic is free flowing the vast majority of the time. Just yesterday (called back into work, started on Thursday) I managed to go the entire motorway journey at a steady 60mph,not fluctuating at all. A larger car is going to be more comfortable sure but I don't think I need a full on cruiser. Especially don't want a diesel! I like Volvos, would love one. Most of the ones I like are out of budget or older to realistically be used a daily with no problems.
I also like Saabs, but not enough to love one I owned. Would see it as a tool not a pride and joy. Some people might be okay with that, but I want to be very proud of every car I own and I don't think I would be of the Saabs in my price range.
2gins said:
Hi.
I have a TVR that I keep a mile from my hone in an improvisef garage.
I work on it a lot and have to ferry tools and parts to and fro.
My other car is a Saab 9-5 HOT estate with 150k on the clock. It cost me £1200k and while a shed by definition it is a great car.
I can put kayaks on the roof, mountain bikes in the back, fill it full of caving gear etc.
It has about 280bhp (mapped) and goes like a rocket propelled sofa.
Yeah, but it is just a tool. I want my daily to also be a pride and joy, not an immaculate one but something to be properly proud of. That wouldn't be a Saab estate tool.I have a TVR that I keep a mile from my hone in an improvisef garage.
I work on it a lot and have to ferry tools and parts to and fro.
My other car is a Saab 9-5 HOT estate with 150k on the clock. It cost me £1200k and while a shed by definition it is a great car.
I can put kayaks on the roof, mountain bikes in the back, fill it full of caving gear etc.
It has about 280bhp (mapped) and goes like a rocket propelled sofa.
ZX10R NIN said:
If you can fit all your tools in a C1 then maybe you don't need a Legacy although moving chunky parts could be a problem.
To be perfectly honest I think that is the way I'm going to go. The C1 needs the central locking fixed (it just doesn't work) and the timing belt done. While getting the belt done I'll just have every single possible fluid changed. Probabaly cost between £1000-1500 to get everything finished but should mean the car is perfectly fine for years to come. Any chunky parts, I'll do as much as I can to wrap them up and then have my dad come round with his Astra. Only a hatchback but an Astra with the seats down is still a fair bit larger than a C1 with the seats down.
Also has the benefit of keeping thousands in the bank, which is always good considering we're likely heading into a massive financial crisis.
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