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i feel like i want to kill myself and the car!! #345548
28/04/2007 16:49
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does anyone else get like this

damn thing drives me nuts!!!

yet i still cant bring myself to sell!

arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

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Oh yes, lots of times I feel like giving up the project.

Strange thing is that the feeling usually occurs just immediately after a visit to Fiat parts desks cry


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Re: i feel like i want to kill myself and the car!! [Re: stan] #345553
28/04/2007 16:58
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Whats wrong with it now goose?

Sell it, and buy a nice reliable standard one. laugh laugh laugh

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Get it into a specialist to diagnose the problems then decide, could be simple things.

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The last person who said this, made it his last post ever, I wonder what ever happened to him confused

Did anyone ever hear from him again confused

Re: i feel like i want to kill myself and the car!! [Re: JimO] #345624
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Yeah that was him. Weird eh crazy frown

Re: i feel like i want to kill myself and the car!! [Re: JimO] #345823
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problem is, is that there not worth buttons at th moment! im gonna try and keep mine for another year based on the resale value. turn 25 this year so insurance should drop a bit. very frustating when you put so much time effort and love into a car that others just dont get? you end up having to really sell it imho. just too many myths surounding the coop, in terms of buyers anyway.

craig

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well im waiting to hear from the ebay seller about my greddy as its under 30 days old im entitled to my money back or a new one!

i being tempted by a reliable teg type r tho, the more i think the more i want

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Re: i feel like i want to kill myself and the car!! [Re: Sedicivalvole] #346175
29/04/2007 21:57
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my coop does my head in the bonnet is up nearly every weekend (niggle thing burst pipe etc) and it was doing my nut in

so i was on my way to pick up a supra yesterday and i was going to sell the coop. a little blast on the back roads.
Ended turning around and managed to talk the lady into spending 3k on the engine insted laugh

long live the coop love

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Nah still love my coop but one snapped bolt that holds the rear ARB is going to cost me aprox 500quid in parts and labour some twat in the past had bodged the bolt in, my mechanic saw it during service and had a look and it was bent and snapped off, 2 carbide drill bits later and some easy out tool plus god knows how much labour he hasn't charged me for and I need new rear trailing arms plus bolts etc, as they have updated them and changed the camber. Oh and to add insult to injury bird crap has eaten through and lifted the lacquer in 3 places on the bonnet whilst i was away grr in 5 days, really wish i could shoot the bloody seagulls, well that feels better laugh good rant

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and now my new pads have decided to squeel again and they are touching on soft right turns! they were fine yesterday and for the 2 weeks they have been fitted!!

can of petrol and a match anyone??

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Same with all cars. Unlikely to make a profit or break even unless you buy dirt cheap or its basically a classic...

My insurance is about £300 a year these days and the car is a garaged weekend toy so its practical to keep. Could never use it as a daily driver with the cost of petrol these days~!

Prob just jixed the MOT tomorrow now rolleyes

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God!You lot are worrying me now! Iv owned mine since October 06 and (touch wood) not a squeek,peek,rumble,grind, in fact its been totally reliable (cheers Joel),everyday driver that replaced my 2.8 Capri (i still miss it ,is that sad?). £230 fully comp. protected with Admiral,then again Im an old fud ! 42 by the way! laugh cool

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I have put 50,000 miles on my coop using it for work every day, and I just about to do tyres and breaks for the MOT this month. It has never missed a beat, and big thanks to Keigh at Auto Integrale for obviously servicing it so well love

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Originally Posted by Steamer
God!You lot are worrying me now! Iv owned mine since October 06 and (touch wood) not a squeek,peek,rumble,grind, in fact its been totally reliable (cheers Joel),everyday driver that replaced my 2.8 Capri (i still miss it ,is that sad?). £230 fully comp. protected with Admiral,then again Im an old fud ! 42 by the way! laugh cool



You need to take a trip up to Kelburn and hug as many of the trees as you possibly can after a statement like that.


Ah, wait a minute, you have the vastly superior model without the hair dryer bolted onto the engine, that's why it's reliable laugh


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Originally Posted by stan
Originally Posted by Steamer
God!You lot are worrying me now! Iv owned mine since October 06 and (touch wood) not a squeek,peek,rumble,grind,



the vastly superior model without the hair dryer bolted onto the engine, that's why it's reliable laugh


Oh yeah Stan, I hadn't noticed that either, he has the slooooooow coupe

Re: i feel like i want to kill myself and the car! [Re: ] #349962
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Tortoise and the hare springs to mind, the tortoise always gets there in the end, without bits falling off.

Unless you use hare restorer? laugh


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Nothing has ever gone wrong with my 20vt, although I have just bought a daily drive now, as I have to cut some cloth, and already saving £40 per week in fuel, but very boring dive in and out of work

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Originally Posted by stan


Ah, wait a minute, you have the vastly superior model without the hair dryer bolted onto the engine, that's why it's reliable laugh


Seconded laugh

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Oh dear,it would appear that there are still little boys out there that think he who comes quickest is a winner! laugh I may be slower to reach the finish line but I can enjoy the journey and give myself a bit of self gratification that my bits wont fall off as im getting there! cool
Lifes a journey not a destination!!!!
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Sorry Vickster didnt mean to be un pc with the little boys quote!! wink

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I'll only start feeling smug when the coupé is rebuilt and even then I'll still be paranoid laugh


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Stan,just because you are paranoid doesnt mean there not out to get you!! shocked

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You should come out on patrol with me, then you know they are all out to get me laugh


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