puggy wrote:had a 1.6 Maestro once, a month after i bought it i went all around france
and germany in it in 100 degree heat and it never missed a beat . Cost me
£250 had it 3 years and only thing i put on it was tyres and a £10 alternator
from the breakers.. when i sold it the engine was still going strong but the
body was just rotting away
Are you typing all that in your sleep?
Clearly the writings of a dellusioned misguided soul. There is no way on this earth you could have run that £250.00 1980's sh*t box for 3 years for nothing. Is there?
no welly i am not writing this in my sleep it really was that reliable,
slow reasonably comfy a continual battle to keep the rust at bay
but never let me down and cost fook all to run
I remember when the Montego's were being pushed as an alternative for the Sierra's around 1989 ish.
The Advertising bill boards used to say "...the Sierra will be along in a couple of seconds"
To give them some credit, they were pretty quick.
The 2.0 one's were a bit mental
Stupid isn't it, to knowingly make a car with such poor rustproofing that it would only reasonably last 6 years at best.
I once had an 1982 X reg Cavalier (the first of the FWD's) it was my uncles and he had the whole car 'Ziebart' rust proofed straight out of the showroom. The sills were pumped with wax, everthing. I had it when it was 7 years old and it was perfect and I even saw the car in 2000 (18 year old cav) and it was still in reasonable shape (although some spacktard had 'done' the bottom half with black underseal )
I'm glad Peugeout bodywork is protected so well. You never see a rusty pug do you?
Cars in my care:
2021 Kia Spottage 1.6 Pez Turbo Dual Clutch Gearbox Trickery
2013 Renner Twingo - donkey work
Agree with you there, my mates got an R reg 406 and cannot
find a spot of rust anywhere on the body in fact i would have to say
never seen a rusty 406 . I might add i owned a 1.3 maestro first had it
given to me and that was a fooking nail one of the best cars i owned
was a 2.3 granada with the german built v6 in it, used it as a taxi and for personnal
use and had done 475000 when i sold it and had only one clutch in it , guy i sold it to
towed a caravan with it over the next 12 months before it went bang
you can get a solid car for £250 if you buy the right car.
My mates dad bought a 2.3D sierra F plater £250. My mates used for work for a year got 60p a mile from the company, cost about 9p in fuel. The boss wasn't so happy about this. Then used the car to start Taxi company, it ran for over 3 years with hardly any work or maintenance until in finally got replaced, it only ever need little welding or something to get through its test.
The ratio of cost to earnings on it must have been insane! Probably did 500K in its life and still ran fine. The 2.3 was a modified pug diesel thou!
Makes you wonder though. You can't really get simple cars anymore, today they all have fancy air bag operated gismo's that go wrong all the time
The other thing I've noticed is how (seemingly shyte) cars still fetch good money today due to the abscence of rust and a few 'goodies' built in etc. anything sub £500.00 is vertualy a non-runner now
Cars in my care:
2021 Kia Spottage 1.6 Pez Turbo Dual Clutch Gearbox Trickery
2013 Renner Twingo - donkey work
Welton wrote:I remember that 2.3, sounded like an old transit
Drove like it too, you've never driven a car with such heavy controls! Get in a "normal" car after and you would be denting the floor with the clutch pedal because you where use to the 2.3.
Wasn't that slow once it got moving. Mate raced a cav SRI down a "private" road at high speed at 120+ mph he was still sat on the cav's bumper, who had to pull over and let him past!
Welton wrote:Stupid isn't it, to knowingly make a car with such poor rustproofing that it would only reasonably last 6 years at best.
because the rust proofing technology was not available at the time off manufacture
The Germans managed it
That's because the germans always manage to find a way in from round the back...... and when they are in, they like to pump and fill it in with their protien protector
Niz406
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jameslxdt wrote:
because the rust proofing technology was not available at the time off manufacture
The Germans managed it
That's because the germans always manage to find a way in from round the back...... and when they are in, they like to pump and fill it in with their protien protector
Had first hand experience of germans pumping it in from round the back have you niz
oh dear very sorry 
