DozeyDustman's Fleet update.
Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2021 7:46 pm
Since this forum started, Family Dustman has changed his fleet in its entirety.
The doom blue Saab diesel estate failed its MoT quite spectacularly in mid 2019, mainly bunged up emissions gear & broken swirl flaps. A new exhaust manifold, an exhaust section, CV boot and an ABS ring were required and the car then sailed through.
This was then sold on a bonus ball tombola as I had then acquire this from someone who probably isn't liked on here, but was not wee-wee.
Which was a reliable but rather dull 'an car' - my mileage had decreased significantly and I was only pottering about in town.
The fleet stayed constant until early June this year, when the wife's Toyota decided it no longer needed neither oil nor coolant, and pissed both out. A toss up whether I should pull the engine out and replace or repair it was assessed, but money made more sense that we replaced the car; I would have been looking at £400+ in additional parts to those I had already ordered as I'd have done a full rebuild, but space and time did not allow for this, so sadly after 18 years of ownership and 195k miles my wife scrapped her car.
£250 was a good scrap price. But the wife and stepdaughter both needed wheels, and wifey pants struggled with the Ignis, so I had agreed with another beige forum fella to collect a little diesel Citroen C2.
The day before the collection was due, stepdaughter had booked up to view a Mini R50 diesel. It was cheap, medium length MoT and just needed a good rag down the road and a service, so she bought that as her first own car.
It's got a few little foibles which no doubt I'll get sorted, and it needs a bloody good service so that's on the cards.
Green Ignis was sold today at a meet up just outside of Arundel, and is now heading its way to Hertfordshire.
That's the current state of play at my end, a totally diesel powered fleet, and will update the thread as and when I have news.
The doom blue Saab diesel estate failed its MoT quite spectacularly in mid 2019, mainly bunged up emissions gear & broken swirl flaps. A new exhaust manifold, an exhaust section, CV boot and an ABS ring were required and the car then sailed through.
This was then sold on a bonus ball tombola as I had then acquire this from someone who probably isn't liked on here, but was not wee-wee.
Which was a reliable but rather dull 'an car' - my mileage had decreased significantly and I was only pottering about in town.
The fleet stayed constant until early June this year, when the wife's Toyota decided it no longer needed neither oil nor coolant, and pissed both out. A toss up whether I should pull the engine out and replace or repair it was assessed, but money made more sense that we replaced the car; I would have been looking at £400+ in additional parts to those I had already ordered as I'd have done a full rebuild, but space and time did not allow for this, so sadly after 18 years of ownership and 195k miles my wife scrapped her car.
£250 was a good scrap price. But the wife and stepdaughter both needed wheels, and wifey pants struggled with the Ignis, so I had agreed with another beige forum fella to collect a little diesel Citroen C2.
The day before the collection was due, stepdaughter had booked up to view a Mini R50 diesel. It was cheap, medium length MoT and just needed a good rag down the road and a service, so she bought that as her first own car.
It's got a few little foibles which no doubt I'll get sorted, and it needs a bloody good service so that's on the cards.
Green Ignis was sold today at a meet up just outside of Arundel, and is now heading its way to Hertfordshire.
That's the current state of play at my end, a totally diesel powered fleet, and will update the thread as and when I have news.