Diesel Runarounds - insurance?!

[silverspeed]

Never had a problem with surrender monkey machines, other than keyless timing sprockets :S

Silverspeed - stick a decimal point in there and I'll buy it

£11400.99

[Coyoteboy]

 

Now carefully nudge it left one digit. It'll thank you, and you'll shift your car faster

[Coyoteboy]

This is so f**king depressing. The celica will sit and rot on the drive for 4 years or I use it as a daily still, but thats gonna cost me approx £10K more after 4 years, not including servicing, than buying and running a nice modernish diesel. I can barely justify keeping her but I know I'd get jack all for her if I sold her

[silverspeed]

5 years and the audi would have paid for itself.

[Coyoteboy]

£11K = 54K miles extra in fuel. But then that assumes I never drive or insure the celica and that the loan required to buy it was at 0% From a few fast calcs, it would only cost me 4K more over 4 years to keep the celica as a daily driver at 15K miles a year than it would to bin it and buy a 2.5K TD estate to do the same. Hardly seems worth it lol.

[silverspeed]

thats a no then?   

[Coyoteboy]

lovely motor but I need a house too

[bazza2541]

thats a no then?   

My sawzall option is still on the table.

[Coyoteboy]

Been to see a couple of the 306 estates - as agricultural inside as my 205 even 10 years later! but nice enough and currently top of my list.

[bazza2541]

Buy it then screw out the pump for big power (and 007 style smoke clouds to confuse the speed cameras)   

[Coyoteboy]

lol I'd need serious clouds to hide from the bloody cameras on the way up the M74!

[bazza2541]

Can't you just change lanes? Or is that only the new cameras?

[Coyoteboy]

Two types of camera in thought here - SPECs (two a fixed distance apart) are rather more complex than being beaten by changing lanes. The other kind, Laser/cameras on the bridges/in vans are one-shot only and catch you there and then. The M74 has the laser cameras on all 3 lanes in about 3 spots on my route lol.

[bazza2541]

Come the revolution, you can shoot the *BLEEP*ers.

[Coyoteboy]

Sunroof mounted missiles - what a great idea!