Re: Picking up cars

I would say "only" some old fords and vauxhall's arn't to be touched with a bargepole, as I still like S1 RS Turbos/ S1 and S2 Costworths / Escort Cosworths / Rs2000's. If you must get an Astra GTE at least get the 2.0 16v job,

Nah don't worry, they all do that

BOOK an MOT at the other end, giving your full name and the reg no of the car. Tell your insurance what you're doing. If they say they won't cover you, get it trailered (drive it onto the street, make it undriveable in some way an RAC mechanic won't be able to fix - be imaginitive but non permanent! and tell the RAC you broke down if you have good enough cover they'll trailer you all the way home for free)

By the way: It might be less hassle and less guilt factor to just get someone to trailer it though, but this way its free I guess.

I quite like the sound of that XSi, they seem to be still going for around £750-1k so that means i'll have to wait another month but thats not really a bad thing, on my own insurance the best confused.com could find was £1232.70 TPFT which, thinking about it, isnt that bad at all. And I bet if I were to pursuade my parents to get me on one of their policies it would cut that figure in half.

Food for thought, so I decided to let that GTE auction go mainly becuase it had been ruined with those weird mods and stupid stickers (HKS make parts for vaux o_0).

I'm still looking for a nice 205 1.6 GTi at the same time though. I don't think I can afford the S16 and GTi-6 though tbh to buy or insure!

The earlier XSi is the 2.0 8v 120bhp engine, and the revised XSi is the 2.0

It's not too bad, and they're reasonably sporty - excellent ride and handling.

Old Astras are shit. Period. Stop looking at them :)