Mine is that mint Corsa I owned. At the time the head gasket had gone, MOT about to expire, tax about to expire so selling was my only option. Since then I have aquired a rather large rented shed with room for a pony and a swimming pool. So I now wished I had sorned it and shuffed it in my shed while I hoped for a mirricle with radweld stuff.
That car is still on the road now with a fresh MOT and tax, I bet the new owner paid a lot more than the £250 I sold it for.
My dads car went for its quick pre MOT inspection today and they reckon it will fail on welding (passanger floor pan). I knew this had a bit of rust on it, but they reckon when the MOT man prods it bits of the floor could fall off rendering it a fail. The rear anti roll bar has a bit of play in it as does the wishbones but that might be an advisory.
All of the sudden a mint Corsa with a head gasket problems seems a much better bet than a 12 year old Fiesta made out of rust. I have made clear that the Panda is to go no where near my dad (he will have it looking like a MK1 Panda in a years time) but I wish I had kept that Corsa in case I found a cheap engine and a bloke called Gaz to fit it that had just escaped from Strangeways.
I think mostly likely the Fiesta will get to see one last final MOT but it really has sunk into a bangermatics now. So yes in a funny way I am missing the Corsa I iwsh I had kept it as a project car.
So any cars you wish you had not sold or sold too cheaply? I also regret not selling my red Fiesta a week sooner. I had just written a draft add for ebay wanting £250 for it, an hour later the engine finally died. Although if I did sell it I suspect I may have got a brick thrown through my window.
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>> Mine is that mint Corsa I owned. At the time the head gasket had gone,
>> MOT about to expire, tax about to expire so selling was my only option.
No it wasn't, you had plenty of advice about what to do.
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>> Mine is that mint Corsa I owned. At the time the head gasket had gone,
It wasnt mint if the head gasket had gone.
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All the repair quotes were just silly. A it was parked on a public road and the tax/MOT to run out there was no choice. If I had the lockup I have now I would have SORNed it.
It was mint apart from the engine which did need work. New head gasket, new chain, etc.
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>> mint apart from the engine which did need work. New head gasket, new chain, etc
= not mint.
And how many ordinary cars end up in lock-ups/driveways for just this reason only to end up being dragged off to the scrappies 8 years later under an inch of dust?
Pretty much all of them.
It's a Corsa - no need for sentimentality.
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>>Since then I have aquired a rather large rented shed with room for a pony and
>> a swimming pool.
Blimey, you're being a bit harsh with your description of the Panda Active!
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ive still to see a 1.2 with h/g problems
1.0 yes with the 3 pot
i agree i think rattle is a figment of someones bored imagination im afraid
im out
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Cars you regret selling?
Only one: an original 1971/72 AVO Ford Escort Mexico. I sold it in around 1982 for maybe £1500 - I can't remember precisely. The good news - The one I sold is still around and lovingly cared for. The bad news - A true original, not messed about one might fetch 10 times that now.
C'est la vie.
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have you done a dvla check Dulwich Estate?
its most likely pushing up the daisies now
those fords were proper rotboxes
i once spent 3 days solid welding one up.the only thing holding the front end on was a slither of the chassis rails
anyone who owned an old ford will remember as the front end was jacked up on the quick fit ramp the whole front end of your ford stayed firmly on the ground
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My original Scenic.
It was the first model, a turbo diesel, old fashioned not common rail.
Traded it for a newer Scenic with the new super-duper common rail engine. Which was crap.
Traded it for the new shape with big bum-boot and then traded it for my current Altea XL.
All changed at or before 3 years and looking back, the money I have paid out to have a car now thats has air con, alloys, front fogs and ipod connection over that T Reg Scenic. All stuff I could have lived without, but that original Scenic was the fastest out of them all, and the more fuel efficient! Thats progress eh...
if I though that original Scenic was still going I might be raging...,
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Bellboy, it's still alive - I can assure you. A mate of mine worked for AVO and so got it at a discount. He treasured it. When he bought a droop snoot RS2000 I had first offer on the Mexico. I followed on with Waxoyl and all the usual care and then it went on to an AVO club member.
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go view it
look for that ding you got in that early supermarket carpark
bet its a ringer
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Nice to see you're in a positive mood tonight Bellboy.
Surely all MK2 Escorts are rotton so therefore ringers won't exist either as they have also rotton away? I must admit in the past three years I have seen one MK1 and no MK2s too at all. They must the britians rarest car in terms of how popular they once were.
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friend of mine has a mint mint mk1
its the bizz
it owes him £15,000
im out
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Daytona Yellow it is and MID has it showing as insured.
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V Reg Mk11 RS2000 Custom in diamond white. Almost concourse by the time I had fettled it.
Sold in the early 90s after a couple of years ownership to fund my rallying hobby.
Heard that it met its demise after it somehow caught fire. :-((
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I traded-in an 18-month old Rover 220D in 1998 for a better-equipped flasher-looking 214i ex-demonstrator. Lost far more money on the 214 than I ever would have on the diesel, all for a sunroof and alloys! And the dashboard on the 214 used to buzz horribly around 50mph in 4th....
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Oh yes. A few years ago I traded in my much-loved A4 Avant 2.5 TDI for a Mercedes B200 CDI - becauee it was £100 less per month on the PCP, and a new Audi was going to be even more expensive.
Anyone who's driven a diesel B-class will know why that was a regret.
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Still regret selling my Reliant, wish id kept it. I spent alot of time fitting in seats from a Mini Mayfair into it which improved comfort alot. Never let me down and when I opened the bonnet, I knew what everything was - I love that - even my Toyota has so many widgets whose function escapes me.
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Mk I and II Escorts fetch silly money in classic circles. Not sure why.
For me, it's my 91H Mercedes 190E. The first decent car I owned. Traded it in against a 6 month old 01Y Mondeo 3 which turned out to be a right lemon. Still regret that deal.
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I can't get sentimental about old cars. When I'vs sold a car it's always been for a good reason and I don't want to see it again. New cars are continually being improved, and I'd rather have the most up-to-date car I can afford.
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I am personally glad to see the back of it as the Panda is far better in every way. In fact I love the way my Panda drives I will be very sad to see it go. I just regret selling the Corsa so cheaply. If I had the space I would have kept it, even if it ended up being used as nothing more than a storage cupboard.
I am certainly glad I got shot of the Fiestas they were all awful, its only now I am driving a brand new and fairly modern car I realise just how bad they were.
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D'ya know, I can't think of one car out of the 40 + I've owned, that I regret selling,
Could be why I hangs on to the ole Almera though - 3.5 years now, an awfully long time (for moi)
1.8 DOHC VVT Duplex timing chain, propa auto gearbox, I might regret it if I sells it, like.
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Non, all the cars that i have owned, where not a patch on my current car.
e.g Mk1 Astra many good memories, but there was no point in keeping that car on it had its life.
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In hindsight, my Mini Cooper 970S waqs a rare car......under a thousand made.
Went on honetmoon in it. Probably it would have made an enthusiast get his wallet out but it was just a fast Mini to me.
Over 40 yrs ago...no point in regrets now.
Ted
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My first car: 1989 Escort 1.3. By 1993 it was paid for, had done 42,000 trouble-free miles and owed me nothing. It had only three doors - not a problem for a singleton - and only four gears, which made it a tad noisy at speed, but that's all. Lots of glass and straight edges made it a doddle to park or drive in traffic. And since no-one else drove it, it didn't matter that I had to lean across to adjust the nearside mirror.
A maturing savings policy meant I was tempted by shiny new machinery, and I was impressed by power steering and airbags, which induced me to sell the Escort to my future sister-in-law and buy an Astra instead. Bad move - the car had an excellent engine but I never got on with the rest of it and couldn't get comfortable below the sunroof.
I eventually cut my losses and got rid when I was offered a company car in 1996, but I'd have done far better to keep the Escort - or at least to buy a 306, which was the car I really liked, instead of being impressed by the Astra's spec sheet.
It's taken me another 15 years to appreciate the value of an ageing but well cared for car with plenty of life left in it - and that's why I'm keeping my old Volvo for a while yet.
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When I upgraded to a Fiat Coupe, my previous Alfa 145 Cloverleaf got sold and the money used to part fund a Corsa for the wife's first car.
When I think that we paid nearly £2k for the privilege of having a much, much worse car it's quite depressing. Especially when she kept that Corsa for 5 years, during which every occasion I had to drive it was a penance.
Still, as said, it was her first car - and she was a bit afraid of having 150bhp under her foot at that stage. Wanted something small, slow, and easy. I know that you don't have to drive a quick car quickly, but nonetheless, I can quite see where her point of view came from as a nervous first timer.
That Cloverleaf was a cracking car though. Its example has kept me in Italian cars ever since.
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1991 Mk2 Golf GTI 16V, big bumper model. I thought I could sell it and find something better. I was wrong. Certainly the Toyota MR2 T-Bar that eventually replaced it was not in the same league in terms of handling.
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Honda Legend Coupe, didn't think it would be practical to bring it to France.
Rover Three Thousand Five, ditto.
Daimler V8 2.5 litre, ditto.
Lancia HPE, offered what I paid for it by a bloke who phoned out of the blue after tracing me.
Honda Civic Shuttle, bought with 100k on it as a go-between. Cracking little motor which I let my friend in the UK have for £200 after he sold me something nice and I didn't want the bother of bringing both cars back.
There's more - I think I've had more regretful partings with cars than I have with women...
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I regret selling my Panda 4x4 Climbing painted in Dry Turquoise which I sold early last year.
I had bought the diesel version of the Panda 4x4 as it was a much more relaxing car to drive, having more power and torque available. The petrol engined Panda had to go since nobody else in the family wanted it. I sold it privately for £500 more than I was offered as a trade-in but it was still ridiculously cheap as the credit crunch had hammered car values down at that time. I suspect that, had I kept it for another year, I might have sold it for an extra £1000 as prices for small used cars shot up and 4x4s became sought after due to the harsh winter.
I still miss thrashing that little, underpowered car on country lanes.
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I had to pass on an £800 '81W XR3 carb in a hurry about 15 years ago. I'd bought it just before my insurance was due for renewal and could justify the additional £70 premium to add it for the final three weeks of the policy - but the £1000+ quote for the next year killed it. Shame as it was great fun, although I would almost certainly have killed myself in it.
Apart from that I'm with Dog, get rid when they become untenable. Had my current Escort for 2 years now, still not deeply attached to it although I do keep it in good order.
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I have only sold one car - an MOT failure Cortina about 30 years ago.
My early cars all went to the dump when they rusted through, one was stolen, and there are three hidden away in garages awaiting a decision.
Those I regret not selling.
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I traded in an unmodified 8v Mk2 big bumper model for £500 in March 2003 for a Seat Ibiza TDI . The Seat's a decent enough car but my wife had finally got fed up of driving a power steering free vehicle. For the sake of £500 I'd have kept for high days and holidays but with no off street parking that wasn't an pption. Six months later we moved to a house with more than enough drive space for several cars.
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>> New cars are
>> continually being improved,
In terms of day to day, bread and butter criteria, absolutely. Cars have never been safer, better kitted out, more reliable, more refined, and so forth. But am I alone in finding most new cars, even capable ones, rather dull to drive compared to, say a Pug 306 from the 90's which had a balance to its chassis, suppleness to its ride, and feel to its steering that I don't think anyone has matched in an equivalent car since, let alone improved on? Modern cars just don't have any feel with their electronic power steering and greater isolation from the road. Better to do a long journey in, or crash in, without a shadow of a doubt, but to thread along your favourite B-road? Not in my book.
It's not nostalgia talking either. I drove a friend's well cared for, 60,000 mile 306 XSi about 18 months ago, and didn't want to give it back. Felt impossibly twitchy at first, but a few miles later I was grinning from ear to ear.
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think ive said it before but i hate electric power steering because you get zilch feedback
however go on a test drive with 98% of the population and they would know hydraulic power steering from electric so manufacturers are always going to take the electric cheaper option even though they often fail once out or sometimes while still in warranty claim time
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I think BB, that's actually my primary reason for my preference in driving my 2002 Mondeo over my new Qashqai. The former has a good positive steering feel while the latter feels like a computer game. I'm guessing the older car has hydraulic steering and the new one electric ? My not especially missed Signum was horrible in that respect too.
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>> But am I alone in finding most new cars, even capable ones, rather dull to drive?
No, you're not alone, DP, this is a bit of an extreme example, but Lewis Hamilton said the same about Senna's turbocharged McLaren beast (1200bhp) when he drove it. 'It's nothing like the car I drive nowadays'.
I regret selling my '86 Audi 90 Quattro. I loved the 5 cylinder beat of the engine, the incredibly stable and secure chassis, the instrument design and interior(including cold air from the centre vents at the same time as warm air from the footwells, rare nowadays), the looks of the car. It wasn't especially fast, but it felt special to drive. It took ages for me to sell it because no-one knew what it was. And what did I buy to replace it? A rusty, thirsty, money pit Opel Monza. Mad.
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Had you swopped it for an Opel Manta tho......
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I don't regret selling any cars but I do regret buying my first two cars ~ both in 1956 ~ when I was young, inexperienced, and naive. Firstly I had a 1936 Wolseley 14 which had a hole in the top of one of the pistons. The seller had jammed rag in the breather and around the oil filler cap to try to keep the smoke from escaping. Secondly I had a 1936 Citroen 12 which had worn-out drive joints, completely bald re-treaded tyres, and numerous places where imperial nuts had been bodged onto metric threads.
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We have all been there and done it :). However I think all leaners need to learn using a MK3 Fiesta with no piston rings. Its great experience not being able to see out the back (due to all the blue smoke) and it took 30 seconds to reach 30 (so it seemed).
Young kids have it too easy these days. I'll fetch my walking stick.
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My old Audi A4. It was a 1.8 SE that I bought at Auction for 4K when it was 4 years old - had 120 odd K on it and a few battle scars, but full history and the previous driver had loads done to it at the lease companies expense in the 3 weeks before it went to Auction.
Kept it 3 years and ran it to 160K and all it cost me was a couple of services and some tyres - never let me down and was very solid - no rattles, and felt so well put together. Wish I had kept it just to see how long it would have kept running for.
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>> I think all leaners need to learn using a MK3 Fiesta with no piston rings
Try an Allegro 3 with no piston rings, no valve stem oil seals, no power steering, no passenger door mirror, no intermittent wipe and no airbags or impact bars! The blue/white smoke used to go away after the first half mile, once all the oil pooled on top of the pistons overnight had burned off.
Now there's one car I don't regret selling.
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I miss our mk1 N-reg V6 Mondeo. Basic spec - no alloys or air con - but it remains the only car I've owned with more than 4 cylinders. Lovely.
Replaced by an L reg Cav (+ £2k, which is why we sold it) :(
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I really regret selling my near-immaculate 1984 Peugeot 505 GLD. I bought it in 2005 (IIRC) with only 58k miles on it and sold it a year later as I couldn't give it the attention it deserved. It was a wonderful piece of 80s nostalgia and I loved tootling round in it. Quite sprightly too, for a big, wallowy French diesel. It carried four large blokes and their luggage from the North West to Newcastle without missing a single beat.
I also regret getting rid of my beloved Saab 9000 CDE 2.3 auto which I part-exed last year for my current Megane.
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"1984 Peugeot 505 GLD"
My first car was a 1979 505SR and I always remember it with great affection. It's probably in Africa now. What a fantastic car. I wish I had more photos of it.
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My BMW 5-series. Some may recall that I sold it on thinking that after nearly 190,000 miles an expensive repair couldn't be far away, and I eventually sold it to a friend for £600.
Had I known how difficult the Hyundai Coupe would be to shift, I'd have kept the Beemer, as it's still going strong. Nowt wrong with the Hyundai and I enjoyed owning it, but a combination of high running costs (it creeps into the continuously-rising tax band by 16 days) and peoples' preference for cheaper cars has made it almost impossible to sell.
Bikewise.... my first WLA Harley, 1942 side-valve. Again, still going strong with a friend down in Kent, I sold it on, not directly to him, because I fancied a bigger Harley. Thankfully I mnanged to find a decent example of the same model two years ago, but it's not as good as the first one.
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Having owned around 30 cars there are only two I regret selling - a Landie 109 which was sold to fund an expanding family, and a Peugeot 205 which was bought as a stop gap until a larger car became available. It was a n/a diesel - without pas - but it was quick enough and terrific to drive. Replaced with a 306 which was good, but just not the same. I sold the 205 locally and saw it running round town for a couple of years after I sold it.
I regretted scrapping our first Renault 19 TD - with an injector blown out of the head and an MoT looming common sense prevailed for once - and having the replacement written off.
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Two Land Rovers are the only vehicles that have given me a slight twinge a while after selling them. The other 64 cars I've moved on have been replaced by something that suited the immediate need better than they did so it was always a positive *upgrade*.
The two LRs were a Series 2A SWB Petrol which was mint after a light restoration and one of the first Discovery Tdi models which was over 10yrs old at the time but again an absolute minter.
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Since tha average lifespan of a car in the UK is 13.5 years, I think it's fair to assume that most of the cars I've sold have long since been scrapped. I'd sooner a car was scrapped during someone else's ownership than during mine.
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Cars you regret selling? - FotheringtonTomas
