A VW Up was the last car I had. Solid small car.
I got mine used and had no problem with it the whole time I had it which was about 3 or 4 years.
Golf’s gone.
I actually cried when she went. Fucking gutted
Did it get stolen?
Nah sold it
Headlights out in the car, so I assumed fuse but both bulbs had blown!
Went to car place - ‘Chinese or original bulbs?’
Chinese: 6EUR
Original: 30EUR EACH
Had to bite my knuckle and fork out for the OEMs. Would’ve got some jazzy/upgraded ones but it’s against the law not to drive with headlights on here, especially when it’s so dark up here so couldn’t wait.
tl;dr: I changed headlights on my car
Evenin’ all.
Filtering off from the Christmas thread…
G&S had a place in my life but the last one didn’t hold me so, now the family have gone to bed, I popped this on.
Anyone had a focus st estate? Are the mechanicals made of chocolate?
Desperately searching for something practical and interesting to replace the Renegade with something that isn’t another shit crossover SUV.
My wifes going to look at a 1999 Citroen c15 tomorrow, I’ll let you know how they are.
My wife bought a shit/great little van this morning. Continuing our routine of never owning a car younger than 20 years old
First job: upgrade stereo to one with CD player?!
Cd? Alright grandad. It’s actually got an aux input.
Was just trying to restore it period correct!
Mentioned elsewhere in the ‘not stoked’ thread that my car got written off just before Christmas. Insurance have classified it as a no fault crash, so it’s all on the other driver.
The garage acting for my insurance company finally got back to me today and offered what I think is a piss-take amount (just less than half what I’d been advised to expect by mates and the garage who’ve serviced and MOT’d the car for years).
Anyone got experience of this happening and what the sensible next steps are if you’ve told them you’re not accepting their offer?
This happened when I used to have a garage, to a customer who bought a car from us. We knew it was a good one and wrote a letter to insurance company saying it was exceptional condition etc with an estimate to replace it, like for like. Depends if you can get your existing garage to do the same.
Insist you just want what you had before, like for like, as that cost to get the same quality/condition car will be reflected as market value and can’t really be argued with.
Thanks for the advice 
Find as many like for like models for sale at a price that you’re happy with & present screenshots as evidence of its worth.
Paperwork power!
Yeah I’ll start looking about and pdf’ing some listings. Part of the challenge is that it’s a Mazda Bongo. Not super rare, but scarce enough that finding numerous examples of ones in a similar spec might be difficult.
People at the owners club (there must be one?!) will fall over themselves to help you out there
Need a new car in June to replace Tesla.
Have a petrol Volvo XC40 which is fantastic as the main family car.
Not sure what to get but don’t want to spend too much.
Doesn’t need to be electric.
