I need a shed / (Toyota Carina E 1.8)

Stigy

Kilty wrote: »

:eek::D

Picking up this 106 today

I really should learn to read the whole thread before comenting!

Well, with fuel prices as they are, you could do alot worse than a 106!

Kilty_2

Yeah as long as it keeps going I'm happy. Only a 4 speed though :eek:

bigjl

Scooby_Doo. wrote: »

Wouldn't the last car you bout be your current car?

Is this the MSE forum or the petulant society discussion board.

For your information the wife bought her current car on the dribble, I merely checked it out and paid a large chunk of the deposit, now go away and waste some of your life checking that I actually said that before, yawn

I have not got the time to waste in my life to go sifting through posters previous posts.

If you want to argue semantics then please feel free to start a new Forum, somewhere far away from here, where you can discuss such trivialities to your hearts content.

Comments like that coming for mikey and then later on scooby are of no value to the forum, and infact could be deemed to be detrimental to the forum.

If somebody posts up decent advice and every time it is disected by those who very rarely if ever give out useful advise then the forum no longers fullfills its reason for being here in the first place.

I am sure the internet keyboard warriers will soon find another fourm to ruin though.

mikey72

Stigy wrote: »

Not necessarily, he might have stolen his current car....Or, more realistically, might be a company car or a lease car...Suppose you could say it's not the car you own, either in that case...Maybe the car you have sitting outside your house, with which you commute to and from work in and fill with fuel every few hundred miles, is your current car?

On-topic though, Carina's are great little cars, if a little bland. I once serviced one with 450,000-miles on the clock which I presume was an ex-minicab. Bullet proof old smokers that's go forever!

Maybe Cargiant gave it him?

bigjl

Kilty wrote: »

Yeah as long as it keeps going I'm happy. Only a 4 speed though :eek:

These old Pugs where decent enough wheels for urban running about.

Not sure how i would enjoy slugging one up and down the motorwya though.

I take it you were unable to locate a Pug 405 in diesel form, they were a good old bus, with the advantage that you could run them on veg oil.

mikey72

Kilty wrote: »

:eek::D

Picking up this 106 today

Had a diesel 106 that's gone from 95,000 tp 145,000 in just over 3 years.
It's cost next to nothing apart from service items, and a cam belt.

bigjl

He got a petrol one mikey.

I don't think anybody that has a 106 diesel would ever sell it, they do nigh on 70mpg, especially in the earlier, more squarish style, which I personally prefer.

Kilty_2

It's running fine so far, taking a bit of getting used to the brakes/steering etc given it has none of the power assistance my Picanto has too much of :rotfl:

Manual choke too :eek:

I really need to replace the gear linkage but the cheapest I've found the kit for so far is £60 so I might not bother

mikey72

Kilty wrote: »

It's running fine so far, taking a bit of getting used to the brakes/steering etc given it has none of the power assistance my Picanto has too much of :rotfl:

Manual choke too :eek:

I really need to replace the gear linkage but the cheapest I've found the kit for so far is £60 so I might not bother

Actually I did have to replace one of the linkages, it cost about £12 from a main dealer.

Kilty_2

Is that £12 for just one arm?

So I'll need to find out which one is broken first ? :rotfl: