Locked car and house key in boot

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Wig wrote: »

There's lots of reliable crud on the roads, as long as it's maintained well it will last a long time. IMHO people put too much importance on how a car looks. A car is a tool, to get from A to B. It doesn't matter if there is a scratch or a dent on it. Or if you put a blue wing/door from a scrap yard onto a red car.

People with old cars generally keep them until the car dies (as you said you intend to) so there is no point worrying about dents or wrong colour doors etc.

I used to own a taxi and I remember having just bought my latest replacement I was talking to friend on the rank, and I must have said something about how I wanted it to stay pristine. and he replied 'Yeah but at the end of the day it's just a taxi' and he was right. It's not right to put too much weight on how it looks. Taxi's are maintained in tip top mechanical condition, but bodywork repairs are done cheaply and effectively, to do more is a waste of money. I apply the same logic to a family car, I have no intention on selling them so who cares what they look like.


I have some foreign neighbours (overseas students) and they buy £300 cars and when they get a bashed wing or door, they must be bad drivers because they always end up with a bash after a few weeks , They ask me about getting it repaired. I am forever telling them it's a waste of money, you'll pay over £150 to repair this on a car worth £300 and then you'll bash it again. I show them the scrap yards where they can pick up spare headlamps etc for a tenner. And I bash out the dents with a hammer for them, splash of paint, and it's good to pass an MOT and will last another ten years.

An old car is just a workhorse at the end of the day.

I like the sentiment of your approach to cars wig. When I was much younger I would have mirrored your thoughts on cars. Now I'm of a certain age I can't see myself mowing around in a three-tone colour car with dings and scrapes and seen better days. Reminds me of me.:) Street cred 50's style you might say:rotfl:

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Alternatively - ask one of the local yobs to do it for a bottle of vodka.