coldel

My wife bought a flat above a dry cleaners many years ago, it had bodged work done on the kitchen. She went on holiday and came home a few days later to find the front door smashed in (it was a ground floor entrance) with police tape over it. Turned out whilst away for a few days the kitchen pipework blew open, flooded her flat, leaked down into the dry cleaners below overnight, wrecked all the clothes that were stored in there and all the machinery, police had to smash the door in to get entry and allow fire brigade to switch it all off! Thank goodness for insurance...

Sold all my cars through eBay adverts. I also include videos in my online ads generally, starting up, walk arounds, exhaust sound/smoke check etc.

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How many times do we see accidents when cars accelerate too hard on poor tyres, bad conditions etc. and simply over do it lose grip, lose control. Also people crossing the road but the car is up the road and puts its foot down much quicker than a normal car, cars pulling out of side turnings, people having accidents doing the grand prix off the lights trying to beat someone else. All acceleration issues. Just make all cars accelerate the same slower conservative speed, have the same top speed to abide by the rules using GPS location tracking restricting the engines, and just keep going - I mean why would you not want this? It will save lives after all...

People are too lazy to concentrate already, yoy just have to look at the numbers of people glued to their phones whilst driving. You surely cannot really believe the roads would be safer if cars didn't have ABS, EPS, powet steering, etc??? Most people drive to get from A to B not to have fun. I've never had the preemptive braking come on in our Lexus or even the TC system on public roads, but am not stupid enough to assume I have the skills needed to avoid every possible accident. Every single one of us have been distracted whilst driving, if you haven't been than your lying to your self. Most of the time you get away with it but if all the dots are lined up all it takes is one glance away from the road ahead and you could end up changing your life forever or even worse someone elses. Maybe its because I've seen too many people in ITU due to RTAs, and since becoming a dad the thought of anything like a RTA involving my daughter really is unthinkable. Personally I don't understand why legislation isn't already in place to mandate this kind of preemptive safety equipment, the ability to avoid or reduce the impact of a crash will save just as many lives as seat belts and air bags. That kind of summarises all my points though. People just want to get from A to B, if cars get to the point they are automated why have a car? Why spend a huge amount of money on an automated car that depreciates when you could invest the money and just Uber or public transport your way around? Clearly anyone wanting automated driving really doesn't want to drive so why own a car when there are other ways of getting around. I never said it makes no sense not having this device, however it only solves one issue, it doesnt solve 90% of other accidents, I guess other devices will come out which do start to solve other types of accidents. So if its all about safety, why are cars allowed to go over 70mph? Why are they allowed to accelerate to 60 in under 5 seconds which is clearly dangerous? Surely all this should be restricted by law to save lives?

I remember you taking a punt and heading over there for it, must admit I probably wouldn't have, but hey doffs cap to braver guy who looks like he got a great deal Just seems like I got to get over to East Anglia sooner rather than later though....see if your old Nissan can keep up with the Toyota

As above (and discussed at length on quite a few threads previously) copper are fine for 10k miles so if you do low mileage and service regularly its well worth saving 80% of cost for copper. Otherwise go for the others. It really is that simple (also noting about cold grades also)

Depends if the car behind has noticed at all I guess! I get the safety aspect of this, but also see many posts on here now about how intelligent solutions are taking over the control of the car. My view really is that of course it will work for the reason it has been created but some people become lazier and less focused on the road due to a false sense of security thus allowing other mistakes to happen that otherwise wouldn't have - you only have to look at the amount of incidents where people blindly trust sat navs and drive off cliffs or into canals and the like. Its all too easily done. There are a majority out there that just drive to get to places, there are some like most of us on here who drive for the sheer pleasure. In terms of automation (as inferred on the title) if it becomes self driving then I would not bother owning a car and use Uber/hire when necessary. I cannot see the point of paying potentially huge sums and upwards for a car that does everything for you if you just want to get point to point.

Flex also says he cant justify keeping 4 cars because of this, hence the desire to get something that is worth a 4th car. So not a requirement at all, just that the car makes money or at least breaks even to make it worth while. Personally I would be surprised if the 33s do climb in value as the 32s are becoming more desirable so I think its a fair shout by him to question whether its worth holding onto it and just sticking with the 3 cars. Although he does owe me a spin in it before he does sell!

Stated objective was to not lose money, not minimise loss (ref post number 25). Which is why I mentioned up top that you have to take any ownership costs into account, especially as other cars are owned and could be used in its place.

At 80mph faster than you are going it will be over the horizon within a couple of lamp-posts

If its sat on the drive it has to be insured at a minimum. If you want it to be worth something you have to maintain it (battery charging, suspension will seize if left idle, on older Jap cars the various internals will fail such as seals drying out if not used etc.) So you are paying out a minimum £500 a year if SORN'd. If you are looking at a £10k car then you have to hope that the car appreciates at least 5% per year to cover the cost. Plus the 2-3% average inflation rate the appreciation needs to cover. I think Flex is driving the car though even if sporadically (doesn't strike me as the kind of guy to stick it in a glass case) so it will need taxing, fuel, servicing plus adding miles will depreciate the value of the car - this will count against what you 'make' on the car.

I think best bet if on a motorway is that the speed they pass at you have to estimate what it looks like imagining you are stationary. Not sure on a motorway when someone passes you possibly 80mph faster than you are traveling you would be able to do the point to point distance calculation!

You trying to say someone set up an account, then went in and bid on the car, then outbid themselves by just over three grand to make sure... Surely not!

But if you have 4 cars and you are not doing much mileage in it, it will certainly be a consideration surely?

Or put straight back up for sale by a dealer for £12k and sits there for the next 6 months!

I think if past prices were a guide to future rises then we would all be millionaires pretty soon Ultimately it will cost you £xxxx to insure, tax, fuel, maintain and run each year so its so hard to make money unless it appreciates at that same cost + inflation each year. I sold my 350z, VX220, Skyline for more than I paid for them, but paid out more than the appreciation in insurance/tax/servicing.

Doesn't protect you if they go into the back of you, and if you go into the back of someone else you were either too close or not paying attention. Accepted there are instances where its neither, but a lot of accidents are because of lack of concentration. But as I posted above, happy to have safety devices, but it shouldnt mean people then think they can be more lax in their attention to the road or how they drive.

I watched Star Wars Force Awakens in 3d, it really didnt add much to it, the odd scene where it was like WOW but otherwise wasn't worth having some lumps of card balanced on my face for 100 mins or so!

There is a brace under the car called the W brace (it looks like one!) which is very prone to rusting, make sure you are not put off by that rusting as they are easily replaced (and can be driven without one if you just unbolt it).

At least it prevents straight line crashes, probably. Clearly driver error will cause t-boning and the like when pulling out of junctions etc. If drivers become lazy and think they are safer, then these sort of accidents are more likely to occur.

Interestingly if you bought the Escort and owned it from new you would be making almost nothing. A historical reverse calculation of inflation shows the £25k paid in 1992 would be the equivalent of spending around £49k now.

To be quite honest with the car taking so much control I do not understand why people want to spend £70k+ on a car? Just stick the money in an account and use the interest you earn to Uber yourself a taxi. You don't have to drive (as clearly some of these cars with dozens of assists barely let you do anything so its not really about enjoying getting behind the wheel anymore) and you can have a glass of sherry, have a nap, read your phone etc. and no problem. It would be cheaper to taxi everywhere than the cost of a new car, the insurance, running/servicing costs, depreciation etc.

How many false positives does it report? Handy device if it isnt putting brakes on when an accident doesn't occur. Do fear that there is too much 'assist' to drivers nowadays, that driving as a skill is being lost and accidents will happen because drivers become lazy and think they do not have to concentrate.

I think its almost impossible to find anything that tracks cars values over time especially for older Jap cars as price varies on condition/modifications massively - anything more modern you need Parkers or something similar to have stored their Bad/Average/Excellent prices per car over the years (maybe email them) even then you will see huge variations. Also tracking over much longer periods of time is a false reading unless the prices are backwards adjusted for inflation (the £30k for a Celica GT4 new would be the equivalent of £55k now). R34 GTRs were the ones to buy, 3 years ago they were £30k now they are up at £50k. The VX220 I sold for £7.5k a couple of years ago I could have sold for closer to £9.5k now.