PaulinhoT

Many years ago I took a Ford Escort estate in P/X against a Ford Sierra I was selling. I never even sat in the Escort, but then when I did it hit me that the guy was a fisherman, and I only lasted 20 mins in the car, and I gave it to my dad

mikers99

i brought a 1991 charade gtti back when i was 18 and i got stung big time on the insurance
which i obviously never checked first, just fell in love with it and brought it.
anyway i loved the car for the first 2 weeks until the cylinder head cracked.
took me nearly 2 months of searching all over to locate one and cost a load.
i sold it on not long after that as it was costing a lot to insure.
regret selling it as they are so rare now and go for good money.
it was about 130 bhp and the little 1 litre, 12 valve, twin cam engine could suprise a lot of cars off the lights.
i did a quote for a laugh now im 33 and the insurance would be 6 quid a week lol.

RichieST

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friend of mine had a very rare charade g11 turbo, it was so fast round town, not much could keep with it!

mikers99

i loved the charade it was purely i was too young in a bit of a shite area so the insurance was sky high.
i used to take on anything round town and smile knowing it was just a little 1 litre.

i got rid of it for 500 quid and an old grey xr2 which was so low i got pulled on the way back as the exhaust sparked scraping the floor lol.
did have two 15 stone mates in the back tho.

It's Czech Mate

Funniest thing I've ever read

In what way is a 100k plus 10 year old Citroen 'playing it safe'?!?!???!?

Eigdoog

^^

fatboy billy

Beat me to it read it and thought the same thing lol

Glenn_

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My mate had 2 of these. The first one he had started to leak oil badly. Then he got another one. They were a quick car. I remember him chasing Vauxhall Calibras. I remember the light on the dash when the turbo started to spool up.

RichieST

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The green turbo light lol. My mates had a knob you twisted on the dash to turn the boost up haha

Glenn_

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Yeh that was it. His didnt have to boost knobs though. He did say the first one was the quickest of the 2.

If i remember rightly im sure a small part of the head or block snapped off causing the leak. This was over 15 years ago.

Loomer

There's a LHD charade on eBay for Ł8995 they recon there's only 17 left in the uk

TrevCos

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Did a deal with a dealer who had a prime pitch in Lincoln some years ago. He was really dodgy, and I lost out big time. In the end he get what he deserved though, he claimed his business had been burnt down by a tramp sleeping in the basement, and got found guilty of setting the fire himself trying to defraud the insurance company and got put in the nick for 2 years. I think he thought he could chat his way out of anything, not that time mate!

Carlos-Titx

The jeep commander I bought last year.

Something goes wrong with it every fucking week!

Main issue at the moment is the front LSD is whining it's head off.
Can't be arsed with it any more and want fucking rid but I kind of don't want to.

I won't by anything Jeep/Mercedes ever again.

ptgladstone

There local to me too, please never take your car there. Wouldn't trust them to set up the coffee

Oranoco

Lass at work had 1 (C3) new in about 2002/3. That dropped to bits in 6 months so a 100k example would be akin to playing Russian Roulette with 6 full chambers

AJC

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Should of got a Land Rover

Carlos-Titx

At least I'd have all the mechanicals when then body fell apart then

Should see if I can chop it in for a Toyota Estima.

Carlos-Titx

Strangely I quite like this.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/ulk/itm/161948965326

cfoster

I used to have a Celica GT4 back in 1999, had a really annoying problem with the hazard lights intermittently going off when driving (I have no idea why!!), anyway after a heavy night out the next morning I drove down to Toyota in Slough (1hr drive!) to ask the service department if they had any ideas - they were closed being a Sunday! I was so hungover/annoyed I ended up trading it in there and then for a Ł18k 6 month old MR2!! What a mistake that was, I only kept it 4 months and lost about Ł6k when selling it! To this day I never go to car dealerships with a hangover!!

Rod-Tarry

My biggest blunder came in 1970. Put a deposit down on a 3 bed semi for sale at Ł3995 the relationship went sour a few days after that & like a fool I pulled out & bought a Sports car. In 1972 I decided I had better get on the housing ladder but could not afford the Semi ended up buying a Maisonette for Ł6400 the Semi by this time was Ł7400 that's how fast prices were rising back then. That blunder cost me Ł100k in todays money a very expensive Sports car.

Vacuman

Old fishermen never die, they just smell that way.

Escort estate - perfect fishing wagon

Vacuman

Surely the mistake was the relationship, not the car?

Oranoco

Then you'd not worry as you'd be in a courtesy car all the time. Think the 100k mile Citroen would be a better bet. LoL

arch

Bought an esc cos from a lad in London. Turned out it was a ringer!!

Sold it as such and lost a fair few quid in a matter of months. Oh well.

stevos

That's a stunning gti you have there mate it looks in good nick. Very rare old beast getting.

Glenn_

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Where you from matey.

Glenn_

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CarloS thats fooking awful. I thought you had better taste.

ptgladstone

In Stockton mate