Future proof Cars

[Rhubarb]

What with the cost of living and the prices and complex requirements of more modern vehicles I keep getting drawn to things that are older and less complex to run for years and years.

Now some of you may laugh, but I came across this and I was so tempted to bid.
Two things put me off, lack of power steering and the distance/cost of fetching it.

But 50 to 60mpg dead easy to maintain. I'm getting old and sensible

www.mathewsons.co.uk/auction/lot/lot-428---1992-peugeot-205-grd/?lot=14967&so=0&st=peugeot&sto=0&au=42&ef=&et=&ic=False&sd=1&pp=48&pn=1&g=1

Many years ago I bought a short mot'd Peugeot 309grd which was 11 years old for 200 quid. Changed the oil, fitted a set of front pads, freed off a sticky caliper and re-mot'd it.

I did 140 (trouble free) miles a day commuting from Eastbourne to Portsmouth daily for work, and then sold it for 700quid. But boy the steering was heavy.

[Joepublic]

I’ve just bought yet another mk4 golf estate, £700 with no reverse / auto box.

Very solid but minging inside and out 😆

So far repaired intercooler leak (used cooler from my stock), diesel leak from tandem pump, bought the last 2 seals in the uk, servo vac pipe split - cut heat gun the end and reattached.

Still has an engine oil leak and a gearbox oil leak to investigate.

[valhalla]

I'm a 100% with you on this one!

I have a lot of respect for that age of PSA, especially in diesel-form. At the time, they were the benchmark for "simple, no-frills" diesels. Very well engineered, very reliable, very economical. It is what put PSA on the map for mechanical-calibration of injection systems, and nobody has really bettered them since. Their only problem was the advent of electronic calibration, which was just around the corner, and that is where they started to fall-down. But that is another story.

As you now, I smoke-around in pretty old tinware, but it saves me a lot of money in the long-run. I have never had to buy expensive exhaust hardware for any of my cars.....in-fact, I've never had to buy an exhaust for the Volvo's - I don't even know what a new exhaust looks like on one of those. I still have all the luxuries of 90's engineering, without the subsequent compromises of 2000's emissions.

[Noberator]

Jun 10, 2023 21:03:32 GMT 1 Joepublic said:

I’ve just bought yet another mk4 golf estate, £700

with no reverse / auto box.

Very solid but minging inside and out 😆

So far repaired intercooler leak (used cooler from my stock), diesel leak from tandem pump, bought the last 2 seals in the uk, servo vac pipe split - cut heat gun the end and reattached.

Still has an engine oil leak and a gearbox oil leak to investigate.

A lot of men play Golf you seem to have a fetish for them.

[Joepublic]

Jun 11, 2023 10:48:29 GMT 1 Noberator said:

Jun 10, 2023 21:03:32 GMT 1 Joepublic said:

with no reverse / auto box.

Very solid but minging inside and out 😆

So far repaired intercooler leak (used cooler from my stock), diesel leak from tandem pump, bought the last 2 seals in the uk, servo vac pipe split - cut heat gun the end and reattached.

Still has an engine oil leak and a gearbox oil leak to investigate.

A lot of men play Golf you seem to have a fetish for them.

22 years and counting

[remmington]

I get what you lot are getting at...

But "the reason they sell new cars is old ones wear out"

Are new cars being sold - "fit for purpose"?

Maybe... But the cost of running them has gone up for sure!

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We are getting to the "transport poverty" that has been predicted...

That is a social/government question - that needs to be answered!