Tino the shed
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anonymous-user

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70 months

Tuesday 4th October 2022
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Monster Mash

175 posts

159 months

Tuesday 4th October 2022
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I do love stories like this, keep them coming OP. It may inspire me to start a thread on our 2004 Polo

RDMcG

20,042 posts

223 months

Tuesday 4th October 2022
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Will be interesting how long you can keep it going, but it could be a long time by the look of it!. I have had cars up to the 180-200k miles and of course the hope is that there is not some kind of failure that is worth more than the car. Always like to see practical people dealing with challenges of older cars.

Quhet

2,680 posts

162 months

Tuesday 4th October 2022
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Brilliant, love this! I know nothing about these other than they (I think) had a really posh looking screen in the dash which stood out a bit for a fairly hum drum family motor in the early 2000s. I recall that most seemed to come in a dark browny green colour too


Cambs_Stuart

3,309 posts

100 months

Tuesday 4th October 2022
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It's always good to see an old faithful workhorse get some attention.
Those cars that cost nothing and never let you down can really get under your skin.

757

3,891 posts

127 months

Tuesday 4th October 2022
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Cambs_Stuart said:
It's always good to see an old faithful workhorse get some attention.
Those cars that cost nothing and never let you down can really get under your skin.
Completely agree!

JohnWest

418 posts

179 months

Tuesday 4th October 2022
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Please keep the tales coming OP, I love reading about older cars.

Cambs_Stuart

3,309 posts

100 months

Tuesday 4th October 2022
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757 said:
Completely agree!
Often find their worth to you is far greater than the actual value of the car.

Om

2,068 posts

94 months

Tuesday 4th October 2022
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Love it. My only experience of one of these was driving up to the North of Scotland from Manchester in high winds and driving rain. It was awful, like comedy steering a car in a 40s movie, I struggled to keep it in lane. Memorable though! Does yours wallow in the wind? Other than that, typical long lived Nissan. Perfect for mini-cabbing.

Regardless of the above, brilliant shed. Keep up the updates!

757

3,891 posts

127 months

Tuesday 4th October 2022
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(+100 shed points) due to the fact its on steelies too, and missing some trims smile

Tractor Driver

173 posts

46 months

Tuesday 4th October 2022
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What engine have you got in the Tino? I’d far rather read about this than a Porsche/Ferrari/Lambo etc.

Mr Tidy

27,137 posts

143 months

Tuesday 4th October 2022
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Proper shedding. thumbup

Threads like this are every bit as interesting as ones about exotica - I love the photos of both cars on steel wheels with trims missing!

ChattingWham

156 posts

100 months

Wednesday 5th October 2022
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Excellent shed, five stars. I also love reading about cars like this as much as exotica or space-age EVs.

Those MPVs are incredibly useful and versatile. My brother did something similar with a mid-00s Seat Toledo (one of the MPV-shape ones, like a giant Altea). Bought it for a house reno and ended up keeping it for garden and dog duties. They call it La Duquesa (Spanish for duchess). They liked the concept so much they now run a Golf Plus (FatGolf) too.

sjabrown

2,007 posts

176 months

Wednesday 5th October 2022
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Top shed there. There's something to be said for searching out otherwise forgotten models of car... I'm currently driving a clio shed but when looking was considering things like Hyundai Sonatas as some were for sale for almost disposable money. In the end the clio appeared only 4 miles from home.

RDMcG

20,042 posts

223 months

Sunday 12th March 2023
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Great thread!

Quhet

2,680 posts

162 months

Sunday 12th March 2023
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Good to see the Tino still going (relatively) strong. I saw a fairly well kept one yesterday for the first time in ages and it made me wonder how yours was getting on.

cavebloke

649 posts

243 months

Sunday 12th March 2023
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Really nice to hear the story and the connection to your Dad. I’m glad someone has received wisdom 3 cars up in a scrappy. The only things that ever come to me up there are potentially life-threatening ideas about how to do something more quickly…

HalfManHalfJaffaCake

80 posts

66 months

Sunday 12th March 2023
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I’d completely forgotten about these, despite running one for three years as our family car.
For some reason this is the only photo we’ve got of it:



The only thing that broke was the CD player. The screen was basic but effective, especially as ours had the reversing camera.

The main thing we didn’t like was the fuel consumption- 35mpg was typical, it had an economy graphic that helped me to achieve the heady heights of 40mpg on a motorway run.

It lasted a few more years after had it with mot failures being the usual tyres and wipers, no idea what killed it in the end though!

Bobupndown

2,563 posts

59 months

Sunday 2nd April 2023
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Can't beat a big V8 when holidaying is the US!

My SIL has a Tino, real piece of st, paid £400 for it 3 years ago. Never serviced it, needed a set of brake pads for its mot and a clean pass otherwise. Not a straight panel on it and looks like a skip inside. She just doesn't care about cars and they all thrive on total neglect. Says a lot for the inherent reliability of these.

Bobupndown

2,563 posts

59 months

Thursday 4th May 2023
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Thought you were planning to dig a hole and bury it there biglaugh