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Most reliable/abused car you ever owned/couldnt kill!
carbore:
I was reflecting the other day on cars I one owned....
I used to have a Mk1 Toyota MR2 (the wedgey one). The car was 4 years old with 70k miles on it. I was only 22 and couldn't really afford to run it, diddnt know much about mechanicals and had no space to work on it (excuses)
Despite only ever servicing it about 4 times in 7 years that I owned it (yep not even an extra oil change!) it NEVER broke down, started every time and nearly always passed the MOT except for minor ware such as brakes. I regally thrashed it to the 7500 RPM read line and generally diddnt take enough care, but it still went on....and on....and on...
Nothing before or after can even compare for reliability. So what cars have you ever had that you couldnt kill (or all you all perfect car care cosseters)
PS I am now a reformed character and all my cars get regular TLC!
The Smiths:
We had a 1983 Toyota Celica (the one with the large bumpers and pop up lights)
We had it for 7 years and only ever topped up the oil - never did change it
We paid £1050 for it and 7 years later sold it for £500 on the first advert.
It passed every MOT requiring no work at all. We had to sell it because it was slowly rotting away and she started a new job that required her to carry computers (so the boot needed to be dry).
She still really misses that car - even though her current one is an E class Merc.
sleeplessparadise:
a 1986 ford sierra 2.3 n/a diesel that we had for over ten years and still sold! We bought it on it's 3rd birthday and a year later I rode it under the back of a volvo 340 which meant johnty had to rebuild the front end then we had a few other prangs that weren't our fault and when we sold it it was hand painted :shock:
thermidorthelobster:
1989 Ford Escort diesel estate. Did millions of miles to the gallon and was as reliable as something very reliable indeed.
beast5680:
mk2 escort 1300 saloon, binned the 1300 and put a 2 litre ohc engine in and absolutly thrashed it to death evertime i drove it :D and it never let me down once and in them days i never changed oil or anything and only did the brakes when they squealed :twisted:
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