Old Cars

Jamiel

I agree with all the posts so far. My 1.2 litre Subaru Justy is a relative youngster at 18 years old!! Its virtues are 40 mpg ,4 wheel drive and is a small 5 door hatchback. Most modern cars will fail over time due to corrosion in the spot welds holding the structure together and unfortunately my Justy is showing signs of this around the inside of the windscreen area which is not exposed to rain and road salt. However a bit of clean up, some welding and an overhaul of the mechanicals should see another 5 years out of my car - not bad for £100 car!!

emmell

mikey72 wrote: »

Just done that as well. Fails on some of the ball joints, track rod ends, steering gaiters driveshaft gaiters, and front discs.
I replaced all of them for less than £60 and it took me a day on the drive.
Cheap motoring for another year.

My 20 year old Mini sailed through it's MOT today, the garage was so impressed with the condition they wanted to buy it off me.
ML.

mikey72

emmell wrote: »

My 20 year old Mini sailed through it's MOT today, the garage was so impressed with the condition they wanted to buy it off me.
ML.

Great cars aren't they, should go on forever.

(In my defence as well, my daughter has only just started driving, so we put it in for the MOTwithout doing any work on it, to see what it was like)

fatbelly

jaydeeuk1 wrote: »

Probably in the minority, but I find the fact that there are very few 80's "classics" such as austin maestros/monetgos, renault 11's, ford sierra's/granadas/scorpios,fiat unos left on the road a good thing. Terrible decade for cars imo, bar one or two.

That's very true. I was thinking today that I still see a few VWs from that era but no Montegos

patman99

never had a car newer than 1997 vintage.

Don't forget, for the bigger-engined cars, the tax on pre-2002 cars is flat-rate, whilst newer ones are taxed on a sliding scale according to emmissions..

forgotmyname

March 2001 is the cutoff date for the old tax system. My old petrol mondeo was only just inside the new system, If it was a few days older
it would have been cheaper tax.

But a diesel car would have been cheaper on the new system.

angeltreats

My car is 11 years old and has 110,000 miles on the clock but runs perfectly and is still in great nick. I'll keep it till it dies. And it will probably be rust that kills it eventually as that engine will go on forever.

My dad's car is 15 now and is absolutely pristine and will also be kept (and looked after) till it's on its last legs.

So many perfectly good cars were taken off the road during the scrappage scheme, it makes me sad to see so much waste.

Inactive

angeltreats wrote: »

So many perfectly good cars were taken off the road during the scrappage scheme, it makes me sad to see so much waste.

Indeed, and most of them were actually owned by them, unlike the new replacements that are mainly owned by banks and finance companies.

iltisman

There are a couple of pics here of the scrapage mountain, what a stupid policy that was.

http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=51126

mikey72

fatbelly wrote: »

That's very true. I was thinking today that I still see a few VWs from that era but no Montegos

Still minis though.