What to buy?

Daft question - how?

David

Depends on what you've had on the policy and been paying for so far, basically.

My insurance went down from £60ish to £1.74 a month when I went down to the

I'd had a second car on there for a lot of the year though, which is what jacked it right up previously.

-- JackH

He is getting his Mareas mixed up with his Monsters again.

Aye - I suppose it's basically the case of a massive reduction in premium, and you'd have paid off a much larger proportion of the now much smaller premium, already, hence massively lower monthly payments.

God, yeah. I've seen some really crap Wwhatever "E-class" models from '97ish. Christ. They make the Scorpio look solid.

Eh, now there's a suggestion, maybe the OP wants a Scorpio :D

Richard

And clearly being thoroughly incompetent, too ;)

(Christ, I had to wait years until I crashed a car, and even then it was on black ice).

Richard

Most of the 4s when a coilpack decided to go to sleep?

Richard

What, on the 4Cam? I don't recall, IIRC they could suffer a cracked inlet port/water section on the sleeve, but mine was impeccable - for a

Servicing was liable to be a killer, but in hindsight I think the grins might have been worth me chucking £1,500 on a cambelt change, new discs and pads, suspension, aftermarket pipe and a bit of bodywork (my estimate at the time on what I had to spend on it).

It's the 2.5s I don't like, the SOHC engine suffers headgasket issues.

Richard

Broken engine/crank? 602cc sounds more like a French beast ;)

(Weren't LNA/Visa clubs 652cc, anyway?).

Richard

Every time I'm tempted by a Disco, I take one for a drive. That usually cures me for a year or two.

Richard

Heh, "Classic" Range Rovers are bullbuggeringly cheap to insure, like £300 FC when the Alfa 155 was £600 and the Safrane an astoundingly expensive £940...

On a classic policy the Rangey drops to less than £200.

I suspect this thing had been cobbled together by someone. It had all the hallmarks of being built by a lunatic. Was an aircooled twin in it, top speed was somewhere around 45 mph and it was noisy as hell.

Sorry, no. For two reasons:

1. I don't like driving anything that resembles a frog surprised from behind.
2. I've seen the pics of your Scorpio.

David

Yes, but for £350, it's a tad cheaper than most decent R-plated luxury cars, and I bet they need front tyres at some point in their lives too ;)

Richard

True. But you'd probably get more than the £350 as spares.

I'm surprised it hasn't sold yet.

Bung it on eBay.

David

I've had an Impreza wagon. You can fit a shitload into it.

Fraser

No s*it. After driving the Land Cruiser and the Patrol the Disco really feels like a slow truck.

Fraser

I'm not. I mean, I am in a "This isn't a bad car for the money" way, but it's a 2.3 Auto, and a big car at that. Once upon a time, it would have been worth someone putting the effort in to touch up the bodywork, and it would look pretty damn good then. These days, it's a component-failure away from the scrapyard.

Anyone see the snippet of video where a solid-but-failed-clutch Rover

All the scrap was sent to China, where demand for cars is massive - I can't help thinking it would be greener, overall, to send them the old car intact.

Richard

You see it all the time though. Not just cars. People swap furniture because it's old fashioned looking now, not because it's knackered. People put UPVC windows in to replace perfectly good wooden ones, and then have to replace them every 10 years or so. Bearing in mind it takes a hundred years for a double glazed window to repay you in energy savings what it cost you and the manufacture and disposal of plastics is a nasty business, you'd think people would pay the extra for hardwood windows. Like the ones that last a hundred years easily and can be seen before you take them out and replace them with plastic. But they don't. Bottom line is people are fecking stupid.