Car you have owned...

[jp79er]

1982 Alfa Romeo gtv6 3.0

1998 BMW 328 cabriolet

1995 Alfa Romeo 155 2.5 v6

1992 Fiat uno Turbo

2002 Toyota Hilux

2003 Mercedes C32 AMG

2005 Subaru WRX Still

1998 Mitsubishi Evo 5

No car at the moment

Two alfas, you must like walking places...lol...uno turbo a hot hatch outsider classic love it.

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[Saabmania2]

Whoa saabmania, the first part is awesome. Gordini, 6r4, mexico, rs2000, martini a proper set of drivers cars...just need a lancia delta integral and quattro turbo to go with it for the classic group b set.

4 alfas....how electrical faults have you had to endure...lol

Not one of the Alfas let me down infact my mate now has both Alfa 164's and they are still going strong

[Noj]

I'll bet the same can't be said for the Rover 800s...

What possessed you??!!?? Surely one was bad enough

[jp79er]

Nothing wrong with the T series engines...

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[AdamR]

Pug 106 key largo, 1.0 4 speed beast

1998 fiat punto 1.1, bought with 55k, sold it with 155000 miles 2 years later. Other than service items I never spent a penny on it.

1990 ST185 Toyota Celica GT4.

1998 Vauxhall vectra DTi, crap, enough said.

1994 MK3 1.4 astra. The only car I have ever known to wear out a crank pulley! How does that happen?lol

EF 1.6 twin cam civic. Went like a scalded cat!

1994 Fiesta XR2i 16v. My favourite car I have owned. Cam belt broke so rebuilt a 2.0 zetec with some mods and stuck that in. Around 160bhp and would make mince meat of evo's and wiped the smiles off many subaru owners faces. I miss that car!

1.4 306

Toyota carina e, that car just wouldnt die! Trust me, I tried!

Alfa romeo 156 1.8 t spark

2.0 single cam honda prelude

1.4 EG honda civic. Handled like a go kart!

1998 2.5 V6 mitsubishi galant. Silky smooth luxury car!

2001 Pug 206 GTi. The car that convinced me I will never own another french car!

1995 Subaru impreza WRX. Just awesome. Had an hks filter, decat, full stainless, dump valve and polar performance piggyback ecu. Christ it was quick. The fastest car point to point I have ever owned.

Rev 3 MR2 turbo coupe. Christ it was quick in a straight line. Dangerous in the wet! Ended up wrapped around a sign post.

2002 Golf GTi. The most boring car I have ever owned.

1996 Ford mondeo estate.

Lexus is200 sport

1998 mazda mx5. I loved that car. Would sit at 7000rpm all day long and laugh it off! Massive fun with the roof down. Definitely not a hairdressers car!

Now driving a Focus ST170. Hugely under rated. Not that quick on paper. Very quick in the real world! Its reliable, comfortable, easy to work on, good enough on fuel and a hoot to drive! 7400rpm never gets boring!! Possibly the best handling car I have ever owned.

Its either going to be a blob eye sti impreza or a focus ST3 next for me!

[teddyt]

heres my list

cortina mk1

cortina mk3 gt

escort van

2x escort mk4

cavalier sri

2ltr sierra

sierra saphire

2x lada riva

maestro

capri 1600

mini van

1800 vectra

2.2 vectra

rover 820 si

astra mk3

renault laguna diesel

morris 1800

metro

rover 45

renualt 18

2.5 v6 calibra ( my favourite)

now got a 2ltr auto mondeo

plus my bikes

puch maxi

 yamaha fs1e

yamaha rd 250

yamaha rd 400

yamaha xt 500

mz 150

suzuki ts 100

suzuki gt 250

suzuki gp 100

suzuki gt380

suzuki ts 250

hona cb 250

honda cd 175

kawazaki es 500 (last bike) flattend by an artic!!!!

[Rover Man]

Mine

 

MK1 Escort RS 2000

MK4 Cortina 2000 GL

Triumph Dolamite Sprint

MG Metro Turbo

Cavalier SRI

Cavalier SRI 130

Lada Niva Cossack

Range Rover Classic 3.5 Vouge

Land Rover Discovery 200tdi

Range Rover P38a 4.6 HSE

Land Rover Discovery 2 TD5

 

Not many seeing as ive been driving for 29 years lol

[smackers]

I've been driving 26 years or so and changed cars alot when i was young keeping cars for longer as i got older. I'll have a go at listing what i've owned with number owned of certain types listed afterwards to simplify things -

 

Austin Allegro - x2

Austin Maestro

Austin Metro

Austin Mini - x2

Austin Montego

Citroen BX - x2

Citroen Visa - x2

Citroen Saxo

Ford Capri Mk III - x5

Ford Cortina Mk IV - x3

Ford Cortina Mk V - x3

Ford Escort Mk 2

Ford Escort Mk 3

Ford Escort Mk 4

Ford Fiesta Mk 1 - x2

Ford Fiesta Mk 2 - x2

Ford Ka

Ford Sierra Mk 1 - x2

Ford Sierra Mk 2

FSO Polonez

Morris Ital

Nissan Micra K11

Nissan Primera P10

Opel Ascona B

Peugeot 309 - x2

Renault 5 Mk 1

Renault 12

Renault 20

Rover 216 SD3

Rover 214 R8 - x2

Rover SD1

Toyota Carina E - x2

Toyota Starlet Mk 2

Toyota Starlet Mk 5

Vauxhall Astra Mk 3 - x3

Vauxhall Cavalier Mk 1 - x4

Vauxhall Cavalier Mk 2

Vauxhall Chevette

Volkswagen Polo

Volvo 240

Volvo 340

Edited October 9, 2014 by smackers

[jp79er]

Rover man, glad some else managed to join me in the eastern block marques ...lol...

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[smackers]

I did too, note the FSO Polonez lol

[Saabmania2]

I'll bet the same can't be said for the Rover 800s...

What possessed you??!!?? Surely one was bad enough

All of the Rover 800's I had (with the exception of the Auto one) where all used as Taxi's by me bought as one owner direct from Auction and every single one did over 250k without any engine issues, infact they was so good that the only thing I replaced was an alternator on the 827 otherwise they where very good.

Most problems on the rover 800 where caused by the CCU unit under the dashboard as it suffered from dry solder joints 15 mins getting it out and half an hour soldering and no problems ever again.

 

Nothing wrong with the T series engines...

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:hahadance: Someone else that thinks the same the M & T series where very good, even the K series is a good engine just the waterways are slightly too narrow ans the radiators are too small but otherwise nice lively engine, best thing to happen with Rover was Honda the worst thing was BMW damn Germans

[jp79er]

I don't think people give Rover the credit they deserve for their engines and general engineering, I also have two secret loves the A series (I grew up with David Vizard as my of A series tuning...LOL) and the K series, both massively versatile engines was greatly tuneable (no thanks to the Mems system) and configurations to their names...I used to be a Rover Mechanic...and I am in two minds about Honda's intervention providing engines was a shame showing Rover failing of being great engineers but rubbish at accounting not being able to afford to fully develop the K series first.

 

Selling the Mini at a loss......and using Honda to bail them out as the R&D on the K-Series was running out of cash. Thankfully they got the K-Series fully engineered, not with out fault admittedly the biggest IMO was the coking on the valve seats, but that's only because stigma caused people steer clear unless you wore a flat cap, smoked a pipe and wore slippers because despite being a long stroke engine it needed to rev to get the valves to turn correctly.

 

Nice to see the MG badge back on the road...But sad to see its heratige sold off out side the UK, much like the Mini brand..

[pockets snakes]

In my eyes I got one word for them

Head gasket enuf said

Nice cars but the suffer bad with them

[jp79er]

The issue was not across all units, only a selected years around 95-98 I believe when the block went under revision most units out side this are a lot better. The MLS gaskets that came over from Landrover was a big improvement also stemming the issue. The undersized water cooling as saabmania2 describes didn't help in warping and the water jacket and combustion chamber breach was all to easy..

 

but the K series in the world of aluminium based engines was a marvel of engineering, including the VVC engine...although with pioneering efforts issues are likely to arise...Shame they went in to administration before they started on the Camless version (Would have probably turned in to another pioneering success eternally haunted by disastrous execution in the traditional Rover manner)...TBH if it wasn't for MG going under the K series would still be running now...LOL

[AdamR]

The issue was not across all units, only a selected years around 95-98 I believe when the block went under revision most units out side this are a lot better.

Not strictly true. All ages of the k series suffer the head gasket nightmares. I have been involved with many late model MG's, TF's, ZT's, ZR's, ZS's etc with head gssket woes. I do notice though that the 1.4 is the worst of them. The steel gasket did help but not solve the issue. In my eyes the biggest fault was with the head bolts themselves which are way too long. Constant heating, cooling, heating, cooling caused the bolts to stretch and gaskets to fail.

The only modification that I have seen to actually work is to throw away the head bolts and change them for ARP studs and nuts. Along with the steel head gasket completely erased the head gasket problem.

The K series doesnt deserve the bad reputation though. Apart from the gasket issues they are a very very good engine. Every engine has its faults, Some toyota engines have big end bearing failure issues, t spark engines the same. BMW engines are renowned for oil leaks and coil pack failures. Its not just rover with issues!

[saviown]

list of mine

1 austin morris

2 ford capri 1600 gtxlr

3 ford capri 3.0s

4 ford escort van new

5 ford capri 2.8i

6 ford escort van

7 Toyota supra 2.8i

8 Nissan bluebird estate

9 Toyota celica

10 Toyota celica gt4

11 citroen van

12 Peugeot 206

13 Subaru impreza sti prodrive  2003 black weekend toy

14 Subaru impreza sti   2004  blue weekend toy

15 Subaru impreza sti 2005 black new weekend toy and still is

16 Peugeot partner van 2004 new

17 citroen berlingo van 1014 new

[revo madnesss]

past:

2007 mini cooper s

2006 bmw 120d

 

current:

2013 bmw 125i

[TMaxxDave]

Astra F 5dr diesel 1.7 K Reg

Corsa B 1.2 L Reg

Saxo 1.1 53 Plate, bought it brand spanking new. Quite Modified.

Vectra 1.6 8v R Reg. The slowest car known to man.... Quite Modified.

Astra Coupe 1.8 02 Plate. Highly Modified.

Astra SRi Turbo 53 Plate 312ish BHP. Highly Modified.

Subaru Impreza UK 2000 Turbo. Quite Modified 270BHP

Astra Coupe - Sold the one above and bought it back.

Seat Alhambra P Reg.

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[mini-z-awd]

2x lada riva

 

 

nothing wrong with a lada riva it was my first car was built like a tank and fun on wet roundabouts i kinda miss mine now though it was nearly twenty ago it got written off by a volvo oh and the volvo died aswell yyyeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh (i kinda guess people will guess i hate volvo`s) 

[Pistonhead]

1987 1.3 Astra four speed, bought for

[capri-boy]

Not many considering my age, tend to keep them awhile.  Only listing what I owned, but ran various others that belonged to family etc over the years as well as company rubbish.

 

1982 1.6 Capri - came from a scrapper,

[toddfg]

1998 peugeot 306 1.9 diesel wrote off got given back then sold

1993 vw golf mk3 driver - scrapped

1995 vw golf mk3 gti 8v

Then changed the engine for 2.8 vr6 -sold

1998 peugeot 106 bought to sell

1994 Peugeot 306 1.9d bought to sell

2002 ford ka bought to sell

2003 vauxhall corsa drove for a year while I saved some money

1998 nissan 200sx 2.0 turbo was black now white - weekend toy

2000 rover 220td free company car

[Feedtheinferno]

Age 17, first car MK1 1996 1.6 LX Mondeo - Sold on

 

Age 18, Hyundai Couple F2 2.0 1998 - Kept for quite some time and was heavily modified (engine wise) - Sold on

 

Age 18,  1998 Ford Ka 1.3, little runabout for then the F2 was in the garage - Scrapped as the engine died just over 100,000 miles

 

Age 22, Audi A6 2006 S-line 2.0 tdci. My currently daily driver.

 

Age 25 Ford Fiesta 2004 Finesse 1.4 tdci, bought to replace the A6 as the daily driver, but after driving 100 miles I couldn't bring myself to drive it to save money so it was sold in a week

 

Age 25, My newest baby 1995 R33 GTR 2.6 twin turbo. Not getting rid of this one!

[howie87]

at 18 w reg 1.2 punto in baby blue. sold

at 19 54 c2 vts. got hit by an idiot in a taxi and written off.

21  53 reg astra 1.8 sri. only bought it to keep for a few weeks till i found a car i wanted but kept it for a year and a half

23 55 reg fiesta st in blue. great little car. still got it 

i would love to get a focus st but i cant stomach low 20 mpg haha

[Carpmart]

I think this is most of mine. I've had quite a lot. I usually have a few cars at any one time. . Quite a number of these were company cars. The sort of job I had and the deal we had, meant some cars I got new, kept for literally 3 months, then they were passed on to new reps, hence the sheer volume of cars. Others like the 530 e39 sport, I kept for six years and did 150k in it.

Granada 2.8i Ghia X

Mini 850

Mini Cooper S supercharged

Range Rover Sport 3.0 TDV6

Jeep Cherokee 4.0 HO

Fiesta XR2

fiesta XR2i

Metro 1.3 vandem plas

Marina 1.8 TC

Chevette 1.3

Magnum 2.3

Vauxhall Carlton 3000

MK1 Astra GTE

MK2 Astra diesel estate

MK2 Astra GTE 16v

Mk1 Golf GTI

MK2 Golf GTI 16v

MK4 Golf GTI 16v

MK4 Golf VR6

Maestro 1.6

Maestro turbo

Montego turbo

Citroen saxo 1.0

E30 BMW 320

E30 BMW 325

6 x Sierra sapphire all 2.0, from LX, to GLE trim

Sierra 2.0 LX hatch

Rover 220 coupe

Rover 220 turbo

Citroen ZX Volcanne 1.9

Mondeo 1.8 auto

Escort 1.3 MK1

MK2 escort RS2000

Escort MK3 1.3

RS1600i

XR3i

Orion 1.6 Ghia

Orion 1.6i Ghia

escort RS Turbo

Mercedes Sprinter 311 CDi Luton van

Merc 500SL

Mercedes 2.3 16v cosworth

Jaguar XJS v12 Tickford converted

Capri 2.0

Capri 3.0

Capri 2.8i

BMW E39 528

BMW E39 530 Sport

BMW M3 Evo

BMW e60 M5

Porche 911 930 3.2

Porsche 911 930 3.2 Super Sport

Fisher Fury pinto turbo engine

Striker with ZX12 motor

Some bike engine grass track buggies

Drakart fireblade powered

Warner R4 - like an ariel atom

Radical Clubsport