General Poss bad news for me and the Turbo :(

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General Poss bad news for me and the Turbo :(

Bushboy said:
Looks like she MAY be going after just 3 weeks of ownership :(

Chris, there's only one thing I can think of saying, and that is...


:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:


Bushboy said:
We shall see what happens. I may go back to work tomorrow and change my mind lol but I know getting the qualification I want is the best thing to do... ide rather get college out of the way whilst im young rather than going back when im older.:(

Nothing wrong with going back to college when you're older! I went back to college last year at the age of 36 (last day of my course tomorrow - woohoo!) and am going on to a 3 year degree course in January. But yes, you are wise to get it done and out of the way when you're younger, something I do wish I had done myself.

As for not being able to afford the turbo, well, here's a deal. You need a cool Italian beasty that does loads of miles to the gallon and costs pennies to run? OK, swap your turbo for my 'classic' mk1 45S :p

Oh, and I renewed my insurance at the beginning of June. £156 fully comp., protected no claims, legal cover, windscreen cover etc... Pottleflump is right that getting older has its benefits :)

But I do wonder if you'll ever be able to keep a car for more than a month, whatever the reason! ;)

Chas
 
Bushboy said:
well i can change the car on the policy no probs.. ive done it plenty of times and every time ive had the cheapest quote ive found from them.

The mk1 was 1300.. cinq was 800 with uad tunned head etc... this is 1600 but i cant get any better quotes from other companies for it!

Wouldnt want anything as slow as a cinq SX.. i could afford around £1100 a year. could push it a tad bit higher but I cant really be paying more than £100 a month.
trade you a non mot'd,sorn'd cinq turbo ;)
 
but your getting the wrong idea :p I dont want to sell it.. i might not! might put off college again for another year etc lol. might sell and still not go college.. who knows.. but still. I dont wanna sell it.. but whether college is on the cards or not anyway, this is gonna be a hard summer on my budget with this car!

I owe my mum over £300 because of bits ive had to buy for this because I couldnt afford because of insurance :) and I owe her another £250 because she has paid my part of my holiday because again, i couldnt afford it because of insurance :eek: and I cant afford to pay her back because I have to pay insurance and live, and pay petrol. And by live, I dont mean go out, I mean buy my lunch at work :p
 
Bushboy said:
but your getting the wrong idea :p I dont want to sell it.. i might not! might put off college again for another year etc lol. might sell and still not go college.. who knows.. but still. I dont wanna sell it.. but whether college is on the cards or not anyway, this is gonna be a hard summer on my budget with this car!

I owe my mum over £300 because of bits ive had to buy for this because I couldnt afford because of insurance :) and I owe her another £250 because she has paid my part of my holiday because again, i couldnt afford it because of insurance :eek: and I cant afford to pay her back because I have to pay insurance and live, and pay petrol. And by live, I dont mean go out, I mean buy my lunch at work :p
dont put of your education.its harder once you grow up and stop hiding behind mummys apron :p
 
I know it is not much help but do what your happy doing :D as far as college is concerned I done my degree when is was in my 40's time is no matter being happy is(y)

Steve

PS my degress has never got me a job anyway :rolleyes:
 
Bushboy said:
the insurance is £1600!

I used to spend around £70 a week on petrol in the cinq when I worked at thorpe park but I could afford it then! they paid well suprisingly! it was 100 miles a day round trip though :) clocked up nearly 5000 miles working there for 2 months :p

I dont dare take the turbo on long runs.. mainly due to not wanting to damage it etc but usualy because I cant afford to fill it up because im skint from paying the insurance/repairing the niggly little faults that an 16 year old car usualy has :p

I know exactly how you feel mate, my old one did about the same,

You want better MPG yeah?

Either get it on a engine analiyzer to see what it fueling is like but the one thing you can do it take any air filter and dump valve off!
any mods to the air intake will provoke over fuelling (Airfilters are all ********! trust me ive used the Uno BOSCH injection system in my college assignments and i know it inside out!)

And how far is work from you house?
The auxillary air valve will hold the engine at 1000rpm+ for 8 mins during warm up, so alot of fuel is being injected during warm-up!

Short journeys are just bad for engines in general!

as for insurance, look about i have got (im 21 now with NO NCD tho) qouted £1300 on Punto GT

But one thing is for certain, itll be a bad move to get rid of such a good example because you cant afford it!
If you got a driveway for garage then store it
 
Bushboy,

wow, quite a thread for such a recent post. You obviously have other's thoughts with you ;)

Thinking back to when I was at Uni, yes I was broke too. I had an Austin Princess that I'd spent the equivalent of £1800 on. Something suggests to me that you've spent EVEN MORE on your Turbo :) Sold my Princess for £400. I then got a white '86 Uno 60 for £4 and fixed it up for a total of £220. It got me everywhere I needed to go. Sold it a year or two later for £350. Bought an '89 Tipo when I got my first job in 2001, then ran out of money again and sold that for the price I paid (£1200). Bought an '88 Croma (£200) and fixed that up, sold it for £750. Bought an '87 Thema (£800...)

Only when I got my second job did I really have the spare money to buy the current fleet of ridiculously-expensive old Italian cars :D

The point of all this is that flexibility is no bad thing. Some of my most memorable cars have been the cheapest ones. There is always the feeling of 'if I sell this, I'll never have the money to get it again'. When I sold the Tipo, it was certainly like that. Currently my X1/9 is for sale, and it feels like that again (my income is a third what it was when I bought the X1/9).

But reality is that you will be back, bigger and badder than ever... and there will always be more cars to buy. So don't feel too hard on yourself if you do decide to sell up (with insurance, running costs etc. I think that would be a financially-wise move as you are at the moment).

Otherwise stick it out until you get your next 'proper' job - you won't believe what a difference double-the-income makes.

Cheers,
-Alex
 
well im currently on £11500 which gets my by hapily most of the time heh.

Not a great deal but I work for a family run photographic lab. the industry is dieing and so we dont get as much work as we used to. Im not really in the job for the money, Im there because I like the people and mostly enjoy the work. I just hate dealing with the public and a few recent runnins with people have made me reconsider college plans :p Im very unproffesional in confrontations and just argue back and make the whole situation worse :p :mad:

Ah well.. not important. I could easily leave my job and get something higher paid no probs. just a job in sainsburys would get me more! same when I worked at thorpe park.. I would come home after just working a weekend with £300 in the bank! :worship: thats alot of money to me :p specialy for 2 days work

Im very reluctant to sell it anyway. If I do decide to go back to college (still thinking) then ill probs sell it in a few months. If I dont then ill keep it obviously :rolleyes:

as for the 16v cinq. I doubt Ill be buying it. Just sent a question about it.
 
Ha - £11500 - that's much more than I earn ;)

£300 for two day's work - hard for me to comprehend, £50 for two day's work would be normal for me!

Even allowing for your insurance cost being four times mine, I really wonder if you are actually that short of money. I suggest you put running the car on hold for a while ;) I understand you can actually get a 'road tax refund' in the UK.

Seriously, I think you've over-reacted and your finances CAN sort themselves out with a little help from you.

Anyway, it's been an interesting thread.

-Alex
 
alexGS said:
Ha - £11500 - that's much more than I earn ;)

£300 for two day's work - hard for me to comprehend, £50 for two day's work would be normal for me!

Even allowing for your insurance cost being four times mine, I really wonder if you are actually that short of money. I suggest you put running the car on hold for a while ;) I understand you can actually get a 'road tax refund' in the UK.

Seriously, I think you've over-reacted and your finances CAN sort themselves out with a little help from you.

Anyway, it's been an interesting thread.

-Alex
cant speak for kiwi's but in oz the cost of living was much,much lower than in the UK.
so whilst looking at UK money you think its loads.11.5k isnt a high wage.
of course some of us have bills to pay as well ;)
 
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