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[Chaos]

hehe
would you believe I have been stopped over 5 times since I got it about 6 months ago?
bloody police think Im some kind of criminal

[Magathery]

Buy a flat cap and a pipe! Then you'll look like a tipical Jag driver, or at least the perseption of the right age / era

[DeadlyAvenger]

Rippy....completely agree mate.

Having *just* paid Chaos for computer bits - my damned brakes stop working, costing me £30 short of what I paid for the PC bits!

Same thing happened last term too - exhaust dropped off.

I treated my car to a vacuum and a car wash at the weekend though - so maybe it'll be nice to me for a while!

[Millicent Bystander]

I love these car history things, v jealous of the Jag, never had the nerve to buy one.  Just sit in them stroking the leather till I'm moved on.

I bought my first car the day I passed my driving test at 18 (in 1991) it was a
Citroen GS Estate for £300, possibly the wierdest family car ever made, a car the size of a Sierra with an 1100cc air cooled engine (actually not as bad as it sounds) a dashboard out of a spaceship and air suspension.  More space in it than the bedsit I lived in at the time.  I drove it for 2 weeks before I discovered the indicators worked the opposite way from what I was used to.  It passed it's first MOT and I swapped it for a

Talbot Horizon, a more conventional car with a (little) bit of power and a nice stereo, suffered from serious body rot which I bodged and sold it with a sigh of relief for £400.  I then brought a

Mk1 Vauxhall Cavalier 2.0GLS, one of the very early RWD saloon ones, the equivalent of a Vectra SRi today.  It was to me very, very fast (it had about 110bhp)  and I used go sideways round most roundabouts.  The insurance cost me £200 a year, I blew the head gasket, broke the clutch, got it repaired and swapped it for a

Austin Allegro which despite the bad press I actually quite liked despite it's leaky fuel tank and inability to go over 70mph.  Sold it and got one of the last

Austin Maxis ever made which would only go into 3rd gear, got badly ripped off by a garage who kept the car when I refused to pay them.  That was the end of my car history for a year or so until I saw a

Yugo 311 outside of a scrap yard for £50 with 6 months MOT, got it, drove it, lost the brakes coming down a very steep hill into Folkestone, got brakes fixed, sold it to some poor idiot who wanted to drive it to Wales.  I never saw it again.
Inherited a little bit of money a couple of months later and spent £1000 on a

Fiat Panda, I drove it flat out everywhere and did about 12,000 miles in a year in it, I got my first speeding ticket (65 in a 30 zone, lucky to keep my licence).  It was written off once when I pulled into the side of a Peugeot 309 and then again when I was overtaken when turning right.  The insurance company just left it with me and I sort of repaired it and kept on driving.  Eventually I sold it for £50 and  I bought a

Volvo 343 Auto for £50, an awful car in every way the only good thing about it was the number plate which spelt out SLOW, I spent £700 getting it fixed and eventually gave up, got a mortgage and bought a

Citroen BX 1.4 (and a house).  It had the Citroen air suspension, power steering and rear sun blinds but not much else as it was the cheapo budget model.  I liked it though it was extremely underpowered.  Sold it after a year and a half and got an

Audi 80 1.6CL, This was one of the square ones before Audi discovered aerodynamics, again the poverty spec model but it looked nice in metallic blue and was built like a brick shithouse.  It did leak though and the interior stunk of stale cigarettes.  Gave it to my mate.  Also, around the same time I bought an immaculate

MG Metro from my boss for £50 without an MOT, got it MOTed and sold it for £400, only time I’ve ever made a profit on a car.

Citroen (yes another one) Xantia 1.8SX for I’d liked the style of them since they came out and it was a brilliant car, again it had the air suspension, this time it had lots of toys too.  I lost my job at Eurotunnel and to save money I pxed it for a

Rover 200, 1.4SLi (the later jellymould one), biggest car mistake of my life, while I had it the head gasket went twice, each time I had to replace the engine, it was also more expensive to run, not as nice to drive and slower than the Citroen.  I was also at that point leasing a

Mercedes Sprinter 311 Freezer Van for a franchise I had, that was, if anything more unreliable than the Rover, but I didn’t have to pay for the repairs on that.

I met my wife, sold my house got rid of my franchise, got a proper job and with the profits I bought a
VW Passat 20v Turbo, best car I’ve ever owned by a large margin, comfortable, fast, very well equipped, returned 35mpg.  Only problems were a group 15 insurance, it’s huge size and my wife wouldn’t drive it so I bought her a

Peugeot 306 1.4, for £2500 not a good choice, it was slow, the brakes were awful and I sold it to a mate at work for £1500 a year later who called it The Poorly Peugeot.  He spent a fortune on it but fortunately never held it’s lack of reliability against me.  My wife, however sulked until I agreed to sell the Passat and get something more family friendly.  I got a

SAAB 900S Coupe for me, (I very nearly got a VW Corrado but couldn’t raise the money in time) a bit of a bargain at £1500 and very well built but lacked a turbo so wasn’t that fast and had awful fuel economy, I got more respect in this car than  any other I have owned.  We also got a

Citroen Picasso SX Diesel, not the most exiting car in the world but it’s transport.  We still have it 3 years later (and I wish we didn’t)
I sold the SAAB on ebay and got given a

Fiat Cinquecento, brilliant fun, I did however look ridiculous in it and I could reach the back window from the driver’s seat. They called it The Chicken Chaser at work.  Sold it and got my

Renault Megane 1.6, a surprisingly good car, despite it looking like an abandoned wreck it’s fast smooth and economical.  Boring though, I’ve been waiting for it to die for the last 2 years but it keeps on going.

[Magathery]

Now that is one impressive and varied car history fella

Nice one

[DeadlyAvenger]

Well, I guess I should post my car history, as for a 21 year old it is probably worryingly long!

I started to learn to drive right when I turned 17 and learnt to drive in a new mini cooper.

My first car was a P-reg 1.4l Rover Metro 114Sli (i think) which cost £700 (absolute rip-off) which I bought whilst still on my provisional license with money my dad gave me. It was naff...it had central locking, but it drained the battery to the extend that sometimes I had to start the car by driving it like a skateboard (2nd gear, left foot on clutch, right foot pulling the car along the ground, once got enough speed - drop the clutch). Even replacing the battery didn't work but eventually it gave up as the head gasket went (a common fault). On the plus side, it lasted until I had passed my test! The little antique wood bits on the dash were a nice touch, and british racing green is awesome - despite what anybody says! Took me 3 attempts to pass my test though - 1 major and 3-6 minors each time.

Well after that broke down, I was in a spot of bother as it made the 25 minute drive to work a bit difficult so I had to get a car ASAP. Went down to the local garage and bought a 954cc Peugeot 105 for £150, 1 lady owner - the only catch was that the heating didn't work. Not a big deal I thought...as we embarked on one of the coldest winters, I was bloody freezing and I had to scrape the condensation and ice off the inside of the windscreen! Well this one lasted me for quite a while, then I went to go see my friends band play in coventry (a 40 minute drive from me) and got a bit silly driving home and mis-judged a roundabout and ended up sliding sideways into a lamppost. I was completely sober. Anyway - police turned up, told me I might be contacted about the lamppost (which was still shining and DEFINITELY came off better). I was fine (if not a bit shook up), popped a tyre so changed that and then drove home with a massive dent in drivers side door & the glass smashed. Took it to a garage and they said the chassis was dented and not possible to repair it.

So, the next one...got myself an ex-chav's vauxhall corsa, purple in colour, with purple neon's underneath the  windscreen sun visor. It still had a dump valve attached (but disabled), which is one of those things that makes cars go TTTSSSSSSSSHH when you change gear. It had all sorts of stuff on it when I saw it in the garage but it was all removed due to MOT failure. The guy who owned it  had even tried to paint bits of the interior in blue to make it look "stylish". Cost me £500! Well, it was ok, a bit of comedy value! Got it just before I started Uni and then a couple of weekends later I went home to bring more stuff up and it was raining (and I was listening to song 2 by blur) and I went into the back of someone as he braked suddenly like 3 minutes drive away from my halls (of a 2 hour journey). It is worth pointing out that I had only had this car for a month or so when the accident happened. Anyway - it was a write-off. The police came and did their usual stuff - turns out it wasn't my fault because the guy in front had braked harshly because he didn't see the red light. (this was also 3 days after having my bike nicked - not a great start to my 1st year!) But I had to take my documents to the police station as is pretty standard.

Next day, went to the police station and the policeman said my insurance certificate wasn't valid...I was like "WHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATT" but yeah, essentially at the time i wasn't insured to drive the car. This resulted in 6 points and a £135 fine in march time (5 months after the accident). 6 points means you lose your license if you've had it for less than 2 years - so I ended up having to re-take my test! The error was because I thought I was insured to drive any car, I even rang them up and checked - but it turns out that clause only covers you if you don't own the car! So I honestly thought I was insured.

Anyway, in the meantime I still had my license so I bought a Nissan Primera for £400 from an Asian chap in a tescos car park! I loved this car so much, had it for 7 months or so. I really enjoyed having a big car - made motorway journeys so much more comfortable and having the space was cool too! Anyway, I bought myself a nice car-amplifier for the 105 and hadn't got any speakers to connect it to so, as I was working for comet, I asked if I could have the massive tall speaker (about 1.2m tall-ish) and connect my amp to it - it just fit into my boot lengthways so it was perfect. So I had a pretty decent stereo set up in that (not in your traditional sense though).

Ok - you might think it's a bit chavvy to have a car amp and some phatty speakers - but I love listening to music in the car, and it's one of the best places to do it I think. So it's the only thing in a car I'll happily invest money in (and usually the first thing)

Moving swiftly on - the Nissan was awesome. But then I decided to take it on the Student Brakeaway Rally (a charity drive around europe getting drunk & partying every night - the year we went to valencia and took part in the tomatina (youtube it)) and we were a "pub-golf" themed team - so we covered the roof of the car in fake grass, made up some golf-ball vinyls and generally abused the outside of the car to make it look like a golf course! (i'll find a picture if you ask for one, it was awesome) but anyway - started at brighton and got to dover where we got pulled over by the security for a security check. (we were dressed in polo shirts with golfing visors in a green car covered in grass!) she basically said "do you know your exhaust has fallen off?" and I was like..."hmmm! no!". the exhaust had split in the middle and was hanging loose. so while we were in the queue to get on the ferry I was underneath the car trying to use metal hose clips to stick it back together! the car was also overheating on the way to dover.

ok, so we travelled through france to the south of spain - with the car overheating. then one of the other teams suggested putting the heating on full to draw the heat away from the engine. so we were driving in spain, in 40 degree heat with the heating on full blast! it was hot!

anyway, we were driving from granada to valencia on the last day of the rally and in the morning we went to get petrol - started filling up and i noticed on the front passenger side that there was petrol underneath me. i was like "guys, dont mean to alarm you - but we're leaking petrol" anyway...to cut a *VERY* long story short - we spent the whole day (and night) in a garage in spain who said the car would cost €600 to fix - and what had happened was the hot exhaust gases had melted the seals on the fuel tank - causing it to leak. (and this was all in my best spanish - the guys couldn't speak any english - and I was VERY stressed by this point).

(deadly would like to point at that he is now writing this at 3:33am after a night out of school disco (obviously he didn't pull or he wouldn't be continuing his story))

well we ended up getting a taxi from granada valencia at well past midnight - arriving at 6:45am, which, considering the bus for the tomatina left at 7:30am meant I got about 20 minutes sleep and the taxi ride had cost €450 (if anyone can say they have spent that much on a taxi i implore them to tell me now!)

got to the tomatina - spent the morning throwing tomatoes at people and the like and then got a lift home (via paris and some cool bridge) with one of the other teams! this involved spending a night, camped out with my huage tent (10 man tent for 3 people) at a service station just outside paris!

i have absolutely no idea where that car is now...I wish I knew because I would love to reclaim it now - and I definitely wish I still had it - so many memories in that car!

ok, so onto the next one! well i got back from the rally and I ended up driving a red, 18l £900 renault laguna. the bastard thing wouldn't ever stay in 5th gear (which you dont realise driving around the town) but apart from that it was pretty awesome... then... LITERALLY 4/5 days after I got it, I was driving to go and meet my friends and a vintage bentley pulls out in front of me, I slam on the brakes but still hit him. He writes off my car that i'd had for 4/5 days yet his bentley is untouched :O This resulted in an insurance claim that took forever and I only got £700, even though the car had cost me £900 4/5 days earlier...good job I didn't have it for much longer or I would have got nothing back

So after some tool wrote that off, I ended up buying a citroen AX for £300 from some garage somewhere I don't remember! It was some horrible green colour, shook hurrendously above 60mph and was pretty awful. Anyway - had it for a little while and on my way home from uni one time it was shaking more than usual so ended up taking a-roads all the way home to get to the garage to say it was gonna cost a lot to get it fixed due to something about the wishbone (something to do with steering/suspension/drive).

So they gave me £150 as a part exchange towards my current car...a £1150 1.1l 1998 peugeot 106 with 50k miles on the clock. Had it for 15 months or so now and I actually quite like it - because unlike all my other cars I actually feel like it might last me for a while! Oh, how wrong I was! Last semester the exhaust ruptured which cost £160 to get fixed. And then 3/4 weeks ago the brakes stopped working due to a faulty rear brake cylinder (and I then found out the CV joint had come apart causing grease to spin everywhere) which cost about £140 to fix! It's pretty uncomfortable to drive for a long time and the pedals are really close together, and it doesn't go very fast but hey....

I can't wait to finish uni and get a decent job to be able to buy a decent car!

(also, have driven my mum's renault clio (not the newest, but the one before the newest) which I really like - trying to persuade her to sell it to me! - i miss power steering)

Anyway, that is pretty much my luck as it goes with cars...pretty unlucky! Like I said - can't wait to be able to afford a reliable, decent car!

Any questions - then ask

[Magathery]

Applauded for epic car ownership!

Strewth! Fella. How much bad luck do you have? And stop getting french cars!!!


Yesterday I had a day off. I spent a happy 2 and a bit hours under the bonet of my second cousins VW Golf GTI. Nice shiny black, leather interior and he only drives it in summer [mumble mumble mumble]. Anyway, one of the metal water pipes in the engine bay has developed a hole. So him being the "non-wielding tools" type basicaly left me to play with it. I did my best not to swear, but I've got to ask you...

What the hell do VW have against jubalie clips? Oh no, its got to be these sprung steel clips. And you can't get a normal pair of pliers over them. So you have to use needle nose ones. But there is no room in the engine bay. ARGH! And after I got the old part off, I found that he had the wrong replacment part!!!

As a result my car got jelious and lost it's lense cover to it's front passenger side indicator cluster. Obviously spending £180 on 3 tyres isn't enough for it. I bloody well hope I don't have to go to the main dealer for this.



Don't you just love cars?

[Millicent Bystander]

[Nineblade]

I spent a happy 2 and a bit hours under on the bonnet of my second cousins VW Golf GTI with my second cousin.

phixed

[Zarf]

Jesus christ Deadly, that's some bad luck there.

My first car was a 1989 Fiesta 1.1, took my test in it at 17. It only cost me £300 and was brilliant, It even had a cd-player! Nothing mechanically or aesthetically wrong with it and it lasted me until I had a head on with a Nissan Patrol (Some fool in a people carrier had parked on the road in a blind spot part way around a corner so that they could look at view over the countryside. I was going to fast to stop (the breaks wern't amazing on the Fiesta) so I had to chance going round him - unfortunately the road dips and I couldn't see the nissan coming until it was too late and my fiesta was mangled against the bull bars.
The people carrier fucked off without even seeing if i was allright.

Had my second car, a brand new 206 since 2004, after my crash i really wanted something with modern breaks and safety stuff. Had no problems at all with it really, apart from getting a hole in the exhaust last year, which my dad showed me how to replace.
Really regretted buying new since then though, Car repayments and having fully comp insurance has eaten about half my earnings since. I'm pretty sure the dealer fleeced me too and i could have saved at least a grand (I paid over 9000)
It's also only another 1.1 (wanted to minimise insurance costs, fully comp for an 18yr old male after an accident is horribly high) I also really wish i'd gotten at least a 1.4 now, my 1.1 is fine for most stuff, and can easily go fast enough to get me into trouble, but I'm pretty stuffed when it comes to overtaking.

[Gasman]

My new toy is back with the guy who built it. Hopefully it will come back in working order. Pissed off doesn't come close.

[Hzza]

Something wrong with the uberchargers?

[Gasman]

I think that mostly it's down to the ECU - so it's screwing all the electronics. There are a number of secondary issues but the fact that the car had a seriously and fundamental (dangerous, even) problem made me very angry.

But they've got off their arses fast to sort it so here's hoping.

[Junta]

Deadly - I hope you and the local coppers are on 1st name terms now then...

Wow.. lots of accidents, but I have to say that the accident with the "sudden" red light (where you hit the guy in front) - sorry mate, its your fault. You were clearly driving too close!

[Zarf]

Unlucky Gas, you'd think that for a >£100K hand built limited edition racing car, they'd actually do some test drives first, hell, i'm surprised they diddn't track test it for a good few hours as well to make sure it's tuned and balanced right before handing it over.