Burlesque Babe bid to stay debt free in 2010

Burlesque_Babe

god, getting the FTO would be a very brave and possibly stupid decision.........I really want to just own a car once that is a bit sporty and sexy and a bit of a mad choice.......I'd call it a mid life crisis car but I think I did that bit of my life when I was about 31.......

jinky67

Rather the FTO than the Cougar

ZTD

Burlesque_Babe wrote: »

The Cougar

Ford Cougar.... :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Burlesque_Babe

went to look at them after they'd closed. Ford Cougar is a lovely car but huge, has 105k and I know that parts etc are now getting hard to get so that's out of the choices. Think I might be too fat for the FTO and the golf looked ok but didn't seem to have the wow factor of the photos.....very odd.

OH is going on his last 2 ski-ing lessons in a bit so it will be just me going. Terrified about trying them out, you all know what I'm like

Got loads of other stuff happening this weekend. Need to get ingredients for class on Tuesday and have loads of teacher training work to do including a 20 minute presentation and finishing off the assignment and then finding all the research material! Still got 1 week for the presentation and 3 for the assignment but need to do a bit every so often because of having work during the day and then teaching. I really want to do some AQA to get a few quid together slowly but it just isn't happening. I feel pulled in so many directions at the moment.

ZTD

Burlesque_Babe wrote: »

went to look at them after they'd closed. Ford Cougar is a lovely car but huge, has 105k and I know that parts etc are now getting hard to get so that's out of the choices.

And it's not a real "sporty car" - it's a mondeo in drag.

Burlesque_Babe wrote: »

Think I might be too fat for the FTO

Does it have a big transmission tunnel down the middle? That's the reason I can't buy an MR2 - I like to drive with (*ahem*) my legs open...

Burlesque_Babe wrote: »

and the golf looked ok but didn't seem to have the wow factor of the photos.....very odd.

Was it dark?

Burlesque_Babe wrote: »

OH is going on his last 2 ski-ing lessons in a bit so it will be just me going. Terrified about trying them out, you all know what I'm like

Leaden right foot?

Burlesque_Babe wrote: »

Got loads of other stuff happening this weekend. Need to get ingredients for class on Tuesday and have loads of teacher training work to do including a 20 minute presentation and finishing off the assignment and then finding all the research material! Still got 1 week for the presentation and 3 for the assignment but need to do a bit every so often because of having work during the day and then teaching. I really want to do some AQA to get a few quid together slowly but it just isn't happening. I feel pulled in so many directions at the moment.

Well you are going to be simplifying things soon - so that should help...

Burlesque_Babe

ZTD wrote: »

And it's not a real "sporty car" - it's a mondeo in drag.

true. It's built on a Mondeo chassis.

ZTD wrote:

Does it have a big transmission tunnel down the middle? That's the reason I can't buy an MR2 - I like to drive with (*ahem*) my legs open...

googles transmission tunnel.....ermmmmm.........don't know. It's more whether the steering wheel has an up/down bit. It was a very small gap between the bottom of the steering wheel and the seat when I looked inside last night :eek:

ZTD wrote:

Was it dark?

yes.

ZTD wrote:

Leaden right foot?

more just the fear of getting in a car I don't know and then having a drive in it - more than likely with a stranger sat next to me. The garage is on a road I have drive along hundreds of times - as are the roads around it, but it still makes me feel a bit sick

ZTD wrote:

Well you are going to be simplifying things soon - so that should help...

well, 4 more teaching sessions and then none until early June. Around 6 sessions of my teaching qual. to go and then that's finished. I've decided not to do the next year which will make me fully qualified, there's no point unless I want to teach full time in an FE college and I've definitely decided full time teaching isn't for me!! I'll be able to apply for Associate teacher status - probably of little use other than what I'm already teaching but I don't want to go any further.

Haven't been out yet. It's been raining (chucking it down at the moment).

Also have to keep cost at the front of my mind. Whatever happens, this is going to incur debt of some level but once my teaching is finished next month and my teaching qual in early March, AQA will become my weekend job and I'll be going hell for leather to clear whatever is outstanding on the car purchase after whatever I get from the insurer is paid off it. I'm hoping it won't be more than £500 - £700 to clear.

ZTD

Burlesque_Babe wrote: »

googles transmission tunnel.....ermmmmm.........don't know.

It's that big thing between the seats, large enough to take escapees from StalagLuft 13, walking side by side, singing happy songs...

Burlesque_Babe wrote: »

It's more whether the steering wheel has an up/down bit. It was a very small gap between the bottom of the steering wheel and the seat when I looked inside last night :eek:

It will do. Virtually all cars do these days, and those that don't leave *loads* of room. Must admit I have mine as high as possible, and it is still too low because it blocks the view of the dials at times.

Burlesque_Babe wrote: »

more just the fear of getting in a car I don't know and then having a drive in it - more than likely with a stranger sat next to me. The garage is on a road I have drive along hundreds of times - as are the roads around it, but it still makes me feel a bit sick

You can always cover it up by driving really quickly and making *him* feel sick...

Burlesque_Babe

Back to the drawing board

Turns out I wasn't too fat to get in the FTO however it was a tiny cabin and you literally sit with your legs out straight as if you are sitting on the floor. Reminded me of when my ex had a Spitfire - they are a booger to get out of as you have to kind of slide sideways and then stand otherwise you bang your thigh on the steering wheel ( as I did yesterday).

The Golf convertible....sigh...generally a tidy car with a couple of possible niggles. There was a gap next to the driver side window and it looked as if the door hadn't been shut properly so there was water on the seat as it had been raining (we'd seen this the previous night when we went to shine a torch at a few of the cars). It also felt as if something was digging in the right hand side of my bum but I initially put that down to my bum being too big for the seat perhaps Started fine, everything works, soft top electrics were great. It just felt a bit.......old.......inside, sparse and a bit basic. Perhaps because I've been spoilt with the hire car and I need to get back to the reality of looking at old cars.

So, I asked OH to go and have a look at the mechanics. We went today and he got a wet bum too :rotfl:so we couldn't decide if the door hadn't been shut right just the once and it would dry out in a day or so, or there was maybe a longer term problem with it. He also felt something digging in, so I at least felt relieved it wasn't my bum being too big for the seat, looks like a spring has gone :rotfl:He could hear a possible rattle from around the water pump. Now, I had to have that replaced in my Vento and it was a similar sound but he wasn't 100% sure.

All in all, I have decided to walk away from it. A P reg 'normal' Golf is around £1k and it is priced at £2k because of the roof. The reality is - how often would I have it down for the miles I do?

Mild feeling of panic though because the Honda we went to Weymouth to see has sold It was a bit of a security blanket really but someone else has bought it.

Not much else on the radar really. Couple of possibles if I had to just go out and buy 'something' but after that it's cars at £2k+ .

ZTD

Burlesque_Babe wrote: »

Back to the drawing board

Turns out I wasn't too fat to get in the FTO however it was a tiny cabin and you literally sit with your legs out straight as if you are sitting on the floor.

That's exactly the problem I had with the MR2 - so you like to drive with your legs open too...

Have a look at an MX5/Eunos Roadster - they're a lot better in that department.

Burlesque_Babe

for me it was just too low - I certainly don't drive with my legs open - very unladylike!! :eek::rotfl:

MX5 also a bit small...........bit of a hairdresser's car......:p