Practically Classics Forum

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Same goes for the whole family

What shocked me most recently is cars from the 2000s being featured in PC. My daily drivers are 2000/2005 and I don't even think of them as particularly old!

TerryG wrote:What shocked me most recently is cars from the 2000s being featured in PC. My daily drivers are 2000/2005 and I don't even think of them as particularly old!

Hmm, perhaps I would make a start on writing an article about my 2008 Golf - it will be eligible by the time I get the typos sorted!

I'd have thought 2000 ish cars were "bangers" and not classics; does that mean a BMW Mini can legitimately be in PC?

I suppose many pre-2000 cars would go with scrappage, so not so many will need spares and thus the scrappies will send them for recycling sooner than something that will have a quick turnover if it is broken for spares. OTOH, when I was a lad, there weren't many 14 year old cars on the road either - most had rotted away!

I suspect that I am getting old, I am hanging on to the older focus "because I like it". The newer one is just a way of getting to work cheaply.

TerryG wrote:What shocked me most recently is cars from the 2000s being featured in PC. My daily drivers are 2000/2005 and I don't even think of them as particularly old!

Yet another reason I don't bother reading it these days.

I'm the same as you - our newest car is 2001, the only one out of the 6 we have that has a new-style registration number, and I don't consider any of them old apart from the Morris and Midget of course - they're all in very good condition and look and perform at least as well as a new model in my view, seems very odd to feature them in PC, more Car Mechanics Mag territory I reckon.

Hey ho, the pleasures of getting older eh?

Cheers!

thing is with modern cars say from the late 90`s on is that they don`t rust nearly as well as older cars do. They retain their finish better and apart from the dints and dings of daily life generally don`t show their age.

What kills cars is that big bill. Generally if well maintained and driven reasonably that doesn't happen till cars are well over 100-120k and dweezels up there at 180 - 200k.

our 51 plate Picasso has 90k and apart from the odd electrical problem is good to go whereas my 78k Matrix (04) just goes and frankly theres no point in considering chopping either in even though they are 10 and 13 years old respectively and, when I started driving, would have been "bangers"

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vauxhall-astr ... 1045857570

Will tell you how to adjust the column, and how to adjust the seat so it goes down after you've put it all the way up.

megadethmaniac wrote:thing is with modern cars say from the late 90`s on is that they don`t rust nearly as well as older cars do. They retain their finish better and apart from the dints and dings of daily life generally don`t show their age.

What kills cars is that big bill. Generally if well maintained and driven reasonably that doesn't happen till cars are well over 100-120k and dweezels up there at 180 - 200k.

How true! I have always said that I don't buy a car to sell it (so residual values don't matter) and, if I spend more time under the bonnet than in the driving seat, it's time to sell the car (obviously the tractors and Landy are/will be the opposite way round until they are sorted). I have never sold a car that was worth buying - any runners have failed within a month or so of me selling them (and I do warn people about them!).

The current Golf has just had £3K + spent on a new engine (and fitting of the new engine). There's a cut off point that hadn't quite been reached: similar Golfs are on eBay for over £6K (though they are over priced) and trade price for mine is around the £4,500 - £5K mark. If I scrapped mine, I would get £100, so have to find £6K+ for a similar car (though certainly not a VW - they aren't terribly reliable). If I keep the car for five or six years, I should get some of my investment back (it's still a Golf and, as a Bluemotion, has a little bit of "added value") and I should have a reliable car - even if I use it a bit more than I have done so far! Ideally, this will be my last "daily" - but I would like to last another 20+ years before I have to give up driving! However, I said that about the last two cars.

My daughter insists on Mum parking the 1997 P reg Cinq away from her school so the other kids don't see it , in fact she'd rather (and does) walk .. whatever the weather . However, for some reason, the 82 Fiesta she sees as being cool
"Dad , can i learn to drive in it and have it?" (shes 11)
"No, you can have the Cinq though, only if you're good mind.. that'll be a cool car in 6 years"