How perfect is your car?

[iamwithnail]

2003 Focus Cmax with well-documented issues in the bangers thread. A few minor scrapes, but I can't say i'd be bothered if it got more, really. It's a carshaped box that does car type things, I don't really care about it. We briefly mooted that we should replace it with a lease car or something more reliable, but then I realised i'd need to give a shit about it.

 

[souljacker]

Being in my car so much means I often eat breakfast and lunch in it, stop for coffees etc

I can relate to that. I often go on road trips where I go and see two or three customers in a week and it means spending a lot of time eating on the road. The amount of pastry debris, empty coffee cups and crisp packets can get out of hand. Mrs S gets annoyed about how long I spend cleaning the interior but that's not to make it nice, that's to get it back to some basic normality.

 

[Spymaster]

I reckon an R35 GTR is the fastest A-B road car you can get due to massive grip, relatively good visibility and it's heavy so it's good over real world surfaces.

Mine's far less of a wanker's car though, tbf.

 

[hash tag]

Perfect car. BMW.

 

[StoneRoad]

It starts OK, reasonable fuel economy, will carry around most of the crap that I need to move about. I find it easy to drive and park.
The poor thing gets washed and cleaned out at intervals, not quite to valeted standards.
The paint shows a few marks here and there, but nothing too bad, no significant dents. I've touched up / over a couple of stone chips on the bonnet.

 

[tommers]

Couldn't bear to drive a car that I gave a fuck about. Must be so nerve-wracking.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Yeah fucking nice one. Re-spraying cars is a definite boon to the environment, you moronic berk.

If only there was some way to not bother respraying a whole car because of one scratch.

 

[Spymaster]

Yeah fucking nice one. Re-spraying cars is a definite boon to the environment, you moronic berk.

Pah. If chookers dreamed about scratching someone’s car he’d wake up in a cold sweat.

 

[Dr. Furface]

Couldn't bear to drive a car that I gave a fuck about. Must be so nerve-wracking.

You bet. I had a VW Mk.4 Golf for about 10 years that I got for free when a woman my partner knew died and left it to her in her will, except she didn't drive and couldn't be arsed to learn, so it became mine (was only about 2 yrs old and hardly used). I looked after it ok but in time it got a few scratches and dings in it, but it never bothered me in the slightest.

After that gave up the ghost I leased a new Audi A3 and of course after a few months some cunt keyed it all along one side, and after that I became paranoid about where I was parking it and even when kids were playing football near it, I fucking hated it!

Don't have one at all now, so much happier - and better off.

 

[weltweit]

weltweit Not sure what german town this was but I've spent a lot of time in Munich over the years and there are a LOT of very beaten up cars on the road. Yeah, you get a lot of brand new sparkling mercs/beemers/audis but you also get a lot of very tired looking golfs and polos. One of the german lads I used to knock about with drove a golf that was only about 3 years old but it was absolutely covered in dents and scratches.

Good to hear about Munich. I have only spent a tiny amount of time there. I have one German friend who after visiting UK decided he had to take a Triumph herald back to Germany with him. So they aren't all into the latest and the newest.

It would have been a town near Dortmund in the north.

 

[teuchter]

Cars vandalised on parking row estate

Cars parked in a community in the middle of a parking row have been targeted by vandals.

www.kentonline.co.uk

Good to see.

 

[polly]

Couldn't bear to drive a car that I gave a fuck about. Must be so nerve-wracking.

About a month after I passed my test, someone went into me on a roundabout (she didn't give way and I was too inexperienced to realise this was about to happen) and wrote off my car. Her insurance company gave me a brand new Volvo V40. I shat myself (not literally, though the heated seats did not help). I hardly drove the bastard but when I did would get out bathed in sweat and shaking. I took it to the car wash on its last day with me but at the last second couldn't figure out how to make the wing mirrors fold in and had to back out, screaming. I wiped it down with Asda floor wipes in the end, whispering 'I'm so sorry'. Bangers every time.

 

[iamwithnail]

...why did you need to fold the wing mirrors in for a car wash though?

 

[Spymaster]

I wiped it down with Asda floor wipes in the end, whispering 'I'm so sorry'.

 

[polly]

...why did you need to fold the wing mirrors in for a car wash though?

Because otherwise they get ripped off by the machine, which would have been very expensive!

 

[souljacker]

Because otherwise they get ripped off by the machine, which would have been very expensive!

Nah, they wouldn't. And ironically, Asda floor wipes would not have done wonders for the paint job. But rental cars are for destroying anyway. The whole point is you are supposed to see how badly you can trash it without getting in trouble when you take it back.

 

[Spymaster]

Because otherwise they get ripped off by the machine, which would have been very expensive!

They don't harm wing mirrors. I did lose a couple of electric aerials to them back in the day though.

 

[polly]

Oh, well, the instructions say to tuck them in, and I wasn't about to take any chances. I did think the floor wipes might not be the one tbh but it was just about not incurring charges at that point. Anyway overall point was that I don't deserve/want a nice car

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

Nah, they wouldn't. And ironically, Asda floor wipes would not have done wonders for the paint job. But rental cars are for destroying anyway. The whole point is you are supposed to see how badly you can trash it without getting in trouble when you take it back.

The only car I've ever written off was a hire

 

[ElizabethofYork]

I'm very fond of my car but recognise it's a bit of an old banger. It's only the rust currently holding the bodywork together.

 

[moochedit]

Depends how big the dent is and how easily it can be seen from a distance. I had a dent fixed last year (crap reversing ) but there are other minor stratches on the doors i haven't bothered with.

Also reminds me a few months back when i accidentally touched someone's door with my door when getting out my car. No visable damage to either car whatsoever and i said sorry straight away but the other driver was a right dick about it. Some people are REALLY proud of their cars!

 

[SpookyFrank]

You bet. I had a VW Mk.4 Golf for about 10 years that I got for free when a woman my partner knew died and left it to her in her will, except she didn't drive and couldn't be arsed to learn, so it became mine (was only about 2 yrs old and hardly used). I looked after it ok but in time it got a few scratches and dings in it, but it never bothered me in the slightest.

After that gave up the ghost I leased a new Audi A3 and of course after a few months some cunt keyed it all along one side, and after that I became paranoid about where I was parking it and even when kids were playing football near it, I fucking hated it!

Don't have one at all now, so much happier - and better off.

The lesson here is don't leave your stuff lying around in the street.

 

[teuchter]

The lesson is that keying cars discourages car use, and helps the environment during a climate emergency.

 

[Saul Goodman]

The lesson here is don't leave your stuff lying around in the street.

The lesson is that keying cars discourages car use, and helps the environment during a climate emergency.

The lesson here is people should hire a nice car, don a balaclava and a 'key man' t shirt.

... And sit in wait for the pathetic car keyers to arrive, then set about them with a baseball bat, before urinating on them and disappearing back into the night.

 

[teuchter]

I reckon Spymaster's boy racer teenage neighbour would be up for that.



*edit: and his mates

 

[T & P]

The lesson is that keying cars discourages car use, and helps the environment during a climate emergency.

Hate to admit it but teuchter is right. I used to own a car and I loved it but one morning I woke up to an ugly scratch on its side, and I decided to sell it and get a bicycle. Haven’t looked back since.

 

[hash tag]

About a month after I passed my test, someone went into me on a roundabout (she didn't give way and I was too inexperienced to realise this was about to happen) and wrote off my car. Her insurance company gave me a brand new Volvo V40. I shat myself (not literally, though the heated seats did not help). I hardly drove the bastard but when I did would get out bathed in sweat and shaking. I took it to the car wash on its last day with me but at the last second couldn't figure out how to make the wing mirrors fold in and had to back out, screaming. I wiped it down with Asda floor wipes in the end, whispering 'I'm so sorry'. Bangers every time.

Oh polly. The last place I would take my pride and joy is to a car wash.
In fact, when the in laws were over once and put a blemish on the tailgate of a hire car, we used a bit of dirt to disguise the mark before returning it.

 

[Spymaster]

Hate to admit it but teuchter is right.

Don't be ridiculous.

 

[Bwark]

My car works and takes me where I need to be, I'd say that makes it a very good car!

 

[moochedit]

Because otherwise they get ripped off by the machine, which would have been very expensive!

Wing mirrors are fine in automatic car washes. Gone through my local car wash loads of times with them folded out and never had a problem. They are designed to fold in on impact anyway. Definately retract or remove the ariel though.