Looking to the past

[campervanannie]

do you ever check up on vehicles you have previously owned to seebif they are still on the road My old Snoopy Peugeot Boxer is but not doing well.

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• Rear Brakes imbalanced requirements only just met. It would appear that the braking system requires adjustment or repair. (1.2.1 (b) (i))
• Offside Front Brake pipe corroded, covered in grease or other material (1.1.11 (c))
• front subframe corroded
• offside and nearside chassis corroded
• offside and nearside inner sills corroded
• Nearside Front Suspension arm corroded but not seriously weakened (5.3.3 (b) (i))
• Offside Front Suspension arm corroded but not seriously weakened (5.3.3 (b) (i))
• Nearside Front Coil spring corroded (5.3.1 (b) (i))
• Offside Front Coil spring corroded (5.3.1 (b) (i))
• sum pan corroded
• Nearside Front Suspension component mounting prescribed area is corroded but not considered excessive (5.3.6 (a) (i))
• Nearside Rear Suspension component mounting prescribed area is corroded but not considered excessive (5.3.6 (a) (i))
• Offside Front Suspension component mounting prescribed area is corroded but not considered excessive (5.3.6 (a) (i))
• Offside Rear Suspension component mounting prescribed area is corroded but not considered excessive (5.3.6 (a) (i))

 

[GreggBear]

Mine are usually dead when I finish with em....

 

[n brown]

yes i'm also a lifelong member of the ''Last Owner's Club ''

 

[trevskoda]

Mine always get a good send of, viking style

 

[campervanannie]

Mine in the past have usually gone to the scrappy but it seams Snoopy still lives but only just looking at his mot.

 

[caledonia]

Seen my old van last week

 

[HurricaneSmith]

Yes, I occasionally remember to look them up. Many of mine were long before the electronic register was created.

My previous van was traded in and immediately sold by the dealer. That buyer kept it for three years. It was sold again at the end of last year, and is now taxed and probably on the road again.

We always hope to see it out and about , but haven't yet.

 

[st3v3]

Our old sprinter is doing well. All passes since we sold, only a few advisories.

 

[harrow]

This is an interesting one to me,

Brake pipe corroded, covered in grease or other material

how can they tell its corroded, if its covered in grease or other material ?

 

[Tezza33]

This is an interesting one to me,

Brake pipe corroded, covered in grease or other material

how can they tell its corroded, if its covered in grease or other material ?

It will feel pitted under the grease, but they cannot fail it they just give an advisory, common practice to rub with wire wool and grease

 

[Drover]

Could be in here somewhere

 

[colinm]

I did look up our old VW t'other year, I sold it with a few known faults and needing some welding near suspension mounts, it had a few MOT passes and then the same problem came up which needed welding, I guess the buyer patched it up with a bit of filler which eventually got found.

 

[jagmanx]

Cars eh ...
My first a Mini.
My favourite an MG B Roadster.
A nice Alpha Romeo.
A Jag XJ6 very comfortable but only 16 mpg.
An almost new Jag X-type had to sell when we went "motorhome only" although 9 years old only 40K miles so a bargain @ £1300
Full leather cruise control etc !

 

[n brown]

i did sell my Dodge 1 1/2 decker to my daughter ,who needed it more than me , i heard she'd passed it on when the diff went in Spain . about a year later i was on my Suzuki trail bike in the middle of nowhere in the south of the country and came across it on a dirt track with a family living in it , smoke coming out the flue . i was well pleased !
i sold my Bedford single decker to a Swedish woman as a non-runner ,and she shipped it to Sweden and moved into it with husband and 2 kids
i sold a Merc 308 i'd converted and run in to the ground in Portugal for 8 years ,to a mate for 300 euros. it was a real rusty wreck from many scratchy encounters with prickly pears . he took great delight in sending regular updates - just back from Maroc ,2000 k, - just leaving Germany 1500k - back in Maroc after a spin in Spain 1200 k etc .don't know what he was doing ,but i 'm glad i did the change of ownership properly !

 

[oppy]

Y'know if we still had the cars and bike we had in our youth we would probably be millionaires by now (if we sold them)
1st 1938 Morris 8, 2nd Jowet Bradford van (bought for £8 and sold for £15) 3rd a coach built convertible Reliant, alloy body on wooden frame and a rag top, 4th went modern with a Armstrong Sidley, 5th a Hilman something followed by 6th an Isseta bubble car. It seems that in the early 60s you could have a different car every week for just a few quid and I had quite a few that I've not listed, but who had a licence or insurance or even tax? And bikes, anything from 10/- up or a fight. Oh those halcyon days of our misspent youth

 

[Deleted member 86180]

MOT, what’s that? No such thing here

 

[jagmanx]

I checked my last car. X-type Jag.
Bought it almost new in 2002
Sold in 2013 a bargain @ £1250!
Now off the road failed mot in summer of 2018 !

 

[trevskoda]

Most things I finish with are in fact finished, I always see scrap men in my mirror following me around.

 

[2cv]

I tend to keep vehicles a long time. I’ll sadly be selling my 400/4 soon as I realise my mobility will never be up to riding it again. I got it new in 1975. I‘m keeping my 2cv that I’ve had for over 30 years and passed another mot last week, as did the Xantia I’ve had for 20 years. I sold my 10 year old Mondeo to my brother 10 years ago and it’s still going strong with a recent mot.

 

[trevskoda]

I tend to keep vehicles a long time. I’ll sadly be selling my 400/4 soon as I realise my mobility will never be up to riding it again. I got it new in 1975. I‘m keeping my 2cv that I’ve had for over 30 years and passed another mot last week, as did the Xantia I’ve had for 20 years. I sold my 10 year old Mondeo to my brother 10 years ago and it’s still going strong with a recent mot.

I remeber buying two 4004 hondas years back from a dealer, one had the reg 4004 and i got a bomb for the reg, they other taty bike i swapped for my enfield 350 to a chap who inhertied it from his uncle but could not start it and wanted a button start bike, I was in like a shot,still got the oilfield.