If that's a word.

Decided to take the coop of the road again over winter - for the second year in a row

Have drove the coop regularly since May, almost every day but always on a mission love the coop and have seen it's full potential (nearly) almost every day but no real fun driving, as in driving just for the sake of it. So yesterday I took her out for an hour and a half just playing. It was luvverly but now she's parked up on the drive. Her battery will be coming off (once I can get the bonnet open) and she'll be hibernating for the winter.

I feel pretty bad as she's been really neglected this year. I serviced her myself at the beginning of the year and she had an MOT and new tyres and handbrake cables but her body work is a bit jaded. Her drivers seat well worn. Timing belt at least due! clutch slipping it's arse off

Hopefully i'll have more time and money next spring and all this can be rectified. I'll try and fix a few things myself over winter. New bonnet cable. New grill. Bit of tlc an the seats - NO NOT WITH Mrs C2D, with some gliptone and then get her to JBT early spring for all the other things sorting

Any other Sorned fccukers on here


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my 16v

Gotcha!

Just got my letter though to remind me to re-SORN, cars not been on the road for over a year!

thats because your lazy!!!

OI!!

Car is in Joes' capable hands now!

If anything can be done with it is a different matter

I think it is probably kinder to SORN them over the winter anyway. My coupe suffered badly last winter from all the road salt.

Already done

Garaged and Sorned this weekend hopefully once the winter car is purchased!

Rust = sorned

Dont disconnect the battery, connect it to a trickle charger instead.
Having the battery disconnected speeds up corrosion as my Mk2 Escort found out to its peril!

have to dissagree there, a car is meant to be driven, not stood up for long periods.

I think they're better driven too. If I wasn't driving round fingers crossed as the timing belt must be about due and if the clutch wasn't slipping I might have kept it on the road. But it's got over 120k miles on it now and simply driving to work and back in the rain isn't much fun so perhaps sorned is best

How can having the battery off speed up corrosion

Mine been SORN for 2 1/2 years now I've done loads of work on her but still so much to do. At least she's tucked up in the garage not getting any rustier.

I think my last coupé and this one have spent more time off the road than on it Okay this one's never been Sorn (touch my own wood) but the sprinty was the material for many gags about it being a shed/garden ornament until finally it was towed away by Taffy to be chopped up
I'm trying to drive this one as much as I can! It was fun having a Sorn car that you can sit in drunk and make "Warble warble Tssch" sounds as you relive the glory days.

Or is that just me