The Daily Sheds

[bmwaddict]

ECB168DE-F3C2-41E2-BB22-9E75A0FB252A.jpeg223621BF-CDEC-4FF9-A89A-E196136C362B.jpeg Of course the week of Christmas, my e46 shed decided to put up its Christmas tree on the dashboard and not move any faster than 25kmh.

contemplated just buying something newer and selling the 46 very cheaply, but thankfully after a new vanos motor and new gaskets we’re back in action.

I’d be lying if I said I didn’t enjoy the challenge, definitely worth a late night.

[Ketron]

Picked a Subaru Forester XT a few weeks ago as a winter hack while the M3 is off the road. I don't really need it, but its nice to have a shopping getter that I don't really care about. Its a surprising fun drive to boot as well, maintenance wise it needs a new transmission mount and a decent service. Other than that I wont be going mad on it......well I did buy a skid plate and I'm watching the long term forecast for snow like a hawk, its on Michelin all climates so will be interesting to see how the AWD fairs up.

[bmwaddict]

I joined the proper Shed realms 11 months ago, and yano what it was an incredible move.

Having got out of the i30N, I needed something cheap and reliable to do the daily spin in and out to work, as well as to munch miles heading up and down the country for various events and bits. I'd put 19,000km on the Hyundai in the year I had it, and the incredible machine felt wasted when 98% of that mileage was mundane stuff where I tipped around in Eco mode, and I'd already got to a point within a year that any excuse for a head-clearing blast saw the Peugeot keys grabbed before the Hyundai's. Then, aswell, there was the real world need to save for a house, so along came the A6 Avant.

Search criteria of basically 'Petrol-Manual-Cheap-Not Terrible' had conjured up notions of a pick of MK5 GTI's, but alas they had now gone well beyond my price range. The Audi was one I'd stumbled upon a few times. It was local, the ad was up 50-odd days, it had zero service history, 220k KM, the owner was emigrating. I was intrigued. Truthfully I struck lucky, the day I viewed and bought the Audi was the last day the guy was spending in Ireland, signing the log book on a stack of boxes containing his final possessions ready for shipping home to Hungary I knew I'd done well. He wanted €3k, we agreed on €1,700, and off I toddled into Shed life.

I know man Maths is a great thing, but actual Excel maths was frightening when the total price of the Audi equated exactly 53 days of financed ownership of the i30! Well in the past 11 months, this thing has been a revelation. Granted, I broke the radio within the 1st week by not listening to the owners warning about the rear screen washer being leaky and drowned the amp (if anyone has one btw, please do get in contact!), and it is so Irish specced that it has Zero optional extras (bar, thankfully, Cruise Control), but its simplicity and my lack of caring for it has been an automotive pallet cleanser. I've fallen back in love with Gravel rallying now that I can hoon up an access track an obscene speeds and the huge amounts of standing water around at the minute have me giggling like a child as I balst through at full speed, living that no care Daily Shed life. For a machine I took a punt on, its rewarded me well. Total receipts in a year have accounted for €210 (I serviced it, replaced tyres and got a tracking), and in return ut flew through the NCT and I've added 24,390 KM to the clock. Oh, and its so incredibly comfortable and wafty!

That’s a tasty 106! Totally agree with the cheap daily logic in comparison to a very valuable daily machine.


although it looks like you hit the sweet spot with having a super classic too.

[ciandon]

I joined the proper Shed realms 11 months ago, and yano what it was an incredible move.

Having got out of the i30N, I needed something cheap and reliable to do the daily spin in and out to work, as well as to munch miles heading up and down the country for various events and bits. I'd put 19,000km on the Hyundai in the year I had it, and the incredible machine felt wasted when 98% of that mileage was mundane stuff where I tipped around in Eco mode, and I'd already got to a point within a year that any excuse for a head-clearing blast saw the Peugeot keys grabbed before the Hyundai's. Then, aswell, there was the real world need to save for a house, so along came the A6 Avant.

Search criteria of basically 'Petrol-Manual-Cheap-Not Terrible' had conjured up notions of a pick of MK5 GTI's, but alas they had now gone well beyond my price range. The Audi was one I'd stumbled upon a few times. It was local, the ad was up 50-odd days, it had zero service history, 220k KM, the owner was emigrating. I was intrigued. Truthfully I struck lucky, the day I viewed and bought the Audi was the last day the guy was spending in Ireland, signing the log book on a stack of boxes containing his final possessions ready for shipping home to Hungary I knew I'd done well. He wanted €3k, we agreed on €1,700, and off I toddled into Shed life.

I know man Maths is a great thing, but actual Excel maths was frightening when the total price of the Audi equated exactly 53 days of financed ownership of the i30! Well in the past 11 months, this thing has been a revelation. Granted, I broke the radio within the 1st week by not listening to the owners warning about the rear screen washer being leaky and drowned the amp (if anyone has one btw, please do get in contact!), and it is so Irish specced that it has Zero optional extras (bar, thankfully, Cruise Control), but its simplicity and my lack of caring for it has been an automotive pallet cleanser. I've fallen back in love with Gravel rallying now that I can hoon up an access track an obscene speeds and the huge amounts of standing water around at the minute have me giggling like a child as I balst through at full speed, living that no care Daily Shed life. For a machine I took a punt on, its rewarded me well. Total receipts in a year have accounted for €210 (I serviced it, replaced tyres and got a tracking), and in return ut flew through the NCT and I've added 24,390 KM to the clock. Oh, and its so incredibly comfortable and wafty!

[Notch000]

cool, remind me of a thread on MX5nuts where a guy got a non starting non running from a garage who had gave up on it. He bump started it in gear on the starter motor and drove onto his transporter and off into the sunset.....

[x19dude]

cool, was there a reason why it was only 700e at the time ?

There was actually - it was traded into a garage and had been sitting under fir trees for 2 years with a gearbox fault and 4 flat tyres. I said to the garage I would take it if it started - to which they said OK!! It started on a jump start first time and drove down the road. The fault turned out to be a stuck solenoid for 4th gear. A good wash in the local petrol station got rid of about 2 inches of tree sap from the paintwork. I still have the solenoid that was stuck and have now fixed it to use as a replacement just in case!

[-MICK-]

My TT is still on Daily duties.... Done about 10K in it over the last 2 months while my F-Pace sits waiting for an engine.... Just booked a road trip via England to France Belgium etc in it in 2 weeks time... That'll be another few thousand klms...

[Notch000]

cool, was there a reason why it was only 700e at the time ?

[x19dude]

Another pic from a few years ago- A Rainy day in Mondello towing my old 106gti for a " trackdays" trackday. In fairness to it - it owes me nothing at this stage and I keep it going for a relatively small amount. It has towed cars all over the country as well and helped me move house ( filled up a horsebox with boxes and beds a few times over!)

The eagle eyed amongst you may notice in the first picture ( above) that it has lights under the front grill ( green / medical lights) because I also used it quite a bit as a CMO - first responder vehicle on rally stages all over the country - Basically - everything Motorsport wise I have been involved in has involved this yolk in some shape or form! It has been sideways on rally stages , had all 4 wheels off the ground on several occasions and towed several crashed cars out of ditches. It has lots of stonechips ( or battle scars from rally stages.

Long story short - this is one bargain basement 4 x 4 vehicle that has definitely lived a life outside of the Tesco carpark unlike most Lexus.

[Titan]

Agreed, that is some seriously pocket friendly motoring there x19dude.

I'm pretty useless at maths but that must be a great return on your money.

[bmwaddict]

Great thread! The 2002 RX300 above is my daily shed - some of you on here may have seen it over the years. I bought it 10 years ago for 700 euro and have since put up nearly 200,000km on it. I have been all over Europe in it - it spent all of last year in Switzerland so the Swiss winter was a bit hard on it and the underside is suffering a bit on it now. It has about 350,000km on it at this stage and keeps going strong! I love the comfort of it and the the 3.0 V6 petrol engine is fantastically reliable.

that’s some serious reliable/cost effective motoring! Any pictures?

[x19dude]

Great thread! The 2002 RX300 above is my daily shed - some of you on here may have seen it over the years. I bought it 10 years ago for 700 euro and have since put up nearly 200,000km on it. I have been all over Europe in it - it spent all of last year in Switzerland so the Swiss winter was a bit hard on it and the underside is suffering a bit on it now. It has about 350,000km on it at this stage and keeps going strong! I love the comfort of it and the the 3.0 V6 petrol engine is fantastically reliable.

[fester]

If there's one thing for certain it's that there's oceans 9f space in/on a Seicento dashboard and door bins for holy medals. 😉

They actually form part of the crash protection structure.

[Kaiser]

If there's one thing for certain it's that there's oceans 9f space in/on a Seicento dashboard and door bins for holy medals. 😉

They’re the Italian equivalent of a nun’s Starlet

[deltona]

If there's one thing for certain it's that there's oceans 9f space in/on a Seicento dashboard and door bins for holy medals. 😉