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Most reliable/abused car you ever owned/couldnt kill!

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SWEETY:
It would have to be my old D plate Capri 1.6 lasser I used to drive that stupidly hard, put RS2000 stage 2 head on with twin 40's, 2X 4" exhaust (V6 style) 2.8 axle, lowered it 3&1/2" with uprated springs & shocks & austin prinsess ap 4 pot calipers on the front :lol: It never went straight always seamed to be looking at the rear bumper :lol:  :lol: Got clocked by a off duty copper doing 153mph (we were the only ones on the road at 3 am)At 280,000 miles the bottom end gave up when doing 65mph in 2nd :roll: I have now grown up & bought a 4x4 snail  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:

Jim-Willy:
Proton 1.5mpi, had it 4 years was my first car, had 1 fuel filter and 1 wheel bearing in that time.  Oh aye and 3 front end rebuilds I kept ramming stuff in it....... :lol:

Thrasher:
Piglet :)

had him nearly 10 years ;-) Still here, still running - despite my best efforts lol! Just like one of those awesome brushes that last for ever, only changed the handle and head X times ;-)

Which reminds me ... let me start another thread : http://forums.mud-club.com/viewtopic.php?p=443992#443992

clbarclay:

--- Quote from: "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!
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You must have been lucky and sold it before the rot set in, my brothers mk1 mr2 is rustier than a dicovery :shock:  and from what hes herd they all suffer after a while, but then you would expect it when the standard sun roof drains empty into the sills :smack: . However the mechanicals seem good so far.

We had a mk2 golf diesel for a few years, ended up with over 280 thousnd miles of engine neglect and still going strong before we sold it, not sure the body would have got another MOT mind.

Mutz:
Perhaps Jimwilly you should have replaced the brake pads!!!!

Had a Bedford Midi van had it a year and thought i ought to check the oil,
found it didnt have any!!!!
only filled it the once, engine just kept going didnt complain about anything, brilliant engine thirsty but brill.had that 3 yrs
Same thing with a 83 hi lux pickup had it 6 yrs just kept going, sold it and the guy who bought it took it to a meet in a quarry, i was there to, didnt realise he had snapped the chassis and it was the body holding it together and it still kept going!!!

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