snow scene & 944
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Fat Albert
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Scotty, sorry to disappoint you, I took mine down to Tescos for a group of Poles to scrub it clean for £6....ready for the onslaught of the M25 tomorrow
(The guys were very pelased to do a Porsche and were very complimentary!)
(The guys were very pelased to do a Porsche and were very complimentary!)
Fiend,
I SORN my cars every winter, but i do fire them up let them warm through and give them a quick blat up and down to use the brakes, as said hats of to the people who use them as daily drivers yourself included.
Luckily i have another everday car so can avoid getting salt all over my 944's .
At the end of the day it's your car paid for with your hard earned and if you want to drive it all year round then good on you.
I SORN my cars every winter, but i do fire them up let them warm through and give them a quick blat up and down to use the brakes, as said hats of to the people who use them as daily drivers yourself included.
Luckily i have another everday car so can avoid getting salt all over my 944's .
At the end of the day it's your car paid for with your hard earned and if you want to drive it all year round then good on you.
DivineE
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Boy is this thread reminding me how much I love the 944. Mine is hundreds of miles away and I haven't seen her for months[
] Lovely to see the cars out in the snow, they look beautiful[]
p.s. Something mean and nasty about the look of the car when its dirty like that red one at Halfords. I love it
] Lovely to see the cars out in the snow, they look beautiful[] p.s. Something mean and nasty about the look of the car when its dirty like that red one at Halfords. I love it
pauljmcnulty
Active member
Oh no....[&o]
My better half thinks it's good value to have the Subaru scoured by the A-Team at our Tescos. A, as in Albanian. Subaru, as in it has enough swirls in the paint to get attention from the photograhers trying to spot camoflaged new models out on test. [&:]
Do you really think they use plenty of water and clean sponges? I've seen them drop the cloths on the floor and they don't throw them away and pay for a new one. [
]I guess you could treat it as a very serious version of t-cut, but I won't even let them near my van.
Fat Albert
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The paintwork is not brilliant on mine anyway, so I felt that cleaning it was better than leaving it covered incrud and salt...better than the kids 'helping' with their dropped sponges covered in grit anyway!
Thanks for your insight on my personal finances Scotty, I trust you have been lucky enough to have managed to maintain solid employment throughout the credit crunch?
Yes, mine is high mileage but if I didn't buy it, it was due to be shipped to Australia, stripped and used on track.
Enjoy your world
Thanks for your insight on my personal finances Scotty, I trust you have been lucky enough to have managed to maintain solid employment throughout the credit crunch?
Yes, mine is high mileage but if I didn't buy it, it was due to be shipped to Australia, stripped and used on track.
Enjoy your world
TheFiend
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ORIGINAL: sc0tty
You muppet, those poles havent got a clue how to clean a car, they use the same sponge to take the crud off your car as they to 'clean it' good luck, your car will now have swirl marks and scratches all over it, still "they were meant to be driven" as you daily drivers keep peddling. Next you non members who are too tight to even join the PCGB will be saying that astronomical mileage and no service history are desireable and what porsche intended.
Get a reality check !! what planet are you lot on? No wonder the values are so poor and there are no good 944s around. I am proud of my minter, stuff the rest of you !![
Yet again you persist in knocking other 944 owners!!! [
]So 141K is astronomical for a 23 year car? Don't think so. It has most of it's service history... and I keep all the receipts for stuff I do myself.
I proud of my shed, and I love driving it..... Just because it is a daily driver, it doesn't mean it is unloved and doesn't get cared for!
The ones I use are Iraqi, they'll hoover it out for a tenner too. I don't usually take the Porsche there because the stuff they use on the wheels is a bit too harsh for hot calipers but they do a great job otherwise, they get regular businness with the Beamer & the wife's Merc.
My car has been resprayed at some point in it's history & until recently was my only car so while I like to keep it presentable I don't worry about minor scratches or dings as long as they don't become a rust trap. It's done 185,000 miles too so it'll never be worth a mint.
I used to have a 2.7 lux that my wife & I preened over but I got frustrated that I couldn't just use it whenever I wanted. It felt like I was just looking after it for the next owner so I just sold it (to a collector) & bought my current car to enjoy. I don't plan to sell it & I don't do show & shines, it lives outside but I keep it in good order & it's maintained regardless of cost so I can enjoy it for what I want to enjoy it for.
My car has been resprayed at some point in it's history & until recently was my only car so while I like to keep it presentable I don't worry about minor scratches or dings as long as they don't become a rust trap. It's done 185,000 miles too so it'll never be worth a mint.
I used to have a 2.7 lux that my wife & I preened over but I got frustrated that I couldn't just use it whenever I wanted. It felt like I was just looking after it for the next owner so I just sold it (to a collector) & bought my current car to enjoy. I don't plan to sell it & I don't do show & shines, it lives outside but I keep it in good order & it's maintained regardless of cost so I can enjoy it for what I want to enjoy it for.
MRGT
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ORIGINAL: DivineE
ORIGINAL: MRGT
Feeling a bit left out now, so here is mine from Feb 2009, it's to the left of the Octy [
Win!
Sat under the snow for 5 days, and then started first time [
]Howard (944 daily driver in all weathers and refusing to be drawn into the 944 ownership debate [
] 2 years of ownership and 35000 miles- priceless)
DivineE
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Just took the 996 out for a drive and discovered two problems, firstly the wonderful feature that the car goes into power saving mode and wont remote unlock after 5 days is not useful when the handles are under a sheet of ice and the locks are frozen. Two the electric locking mechanism for the petrol cap freezes meaning you have to stand in the cold wiggling it whilst unlocking/locking the car to refuel!
Once on the road though it is quite a good every day car for the winter. It heats up quickly and doesn't steam up the windows, has lovely heated seats and the AWD is stunningly good. Got playing about in a carpark on a sheet of solid ice. When on the ice the car would slide down the hill regardless of the ABS if given even the slightest bit of momentum, but you can drive back up the slope no problem. Impressive.
Oh and I got it washed by the Poles the other day too! Too cold to pick up a sponge! [] (sorry couldn't resist a tease)
Once on the road though it is quite a good every day car for the winter. It heats up quickly and doesn't steam up the windows, has lovely heated seats and the AWD is stunningly good. Got playing about in a carpark on a sheet of solid ice. When on the ice the car would slide down the hill regardless of the ABS if given even the slightest bit of momentum, but you can drive back up the slope no problem. Impressive.
Oh and I got it washed by the Poles the other day too! Too cold to pick up a sponge! [
] (sorry couldn't resist a tease)
peanut
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'ORIGINAL: sc0tty
'You muppet,'
'Get a reality check !! what planet are you lot on? No wonder the values are so poor and there are no good 944s around. I am proud of my minter, stuff the rest of you !![
I think you are misguided if you have chosen to use your 944 as a financial investment.
I would suggest that it is you who needs a reality check. Our cars are only worth 1x months salary at most . Hardly a worthwhile investment !
You're acting like a bit of a snob which is very tiring ..As has been said before ,if all the non PCGB forum members left this forum you would end up on your own with no community left .
I think your parting comment says it all really [
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I discovered a feature in the Audi on a sheet ice hill. If you move off and brake almost immediately the wheels lock and the ABS does nothing - makes sense as the car would think it was stationary. I realised and released the brake, and did a controlled descent in first gear. It would have been easy to panic and just pick up speed with all 4 wheels locked.
lookingfora944
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ORIGINAL: sc0tty
Jesus, and you wonder why there are so many crappy rust bucket 944s out there!. Doesn't anyone look after their cars properly?? [
On the plus side, all the rusty sheds will soon be in the scrapheap leaving the very few mint 944s left. Its very sad that the 944 is so badly looked after and not regarded as a classic. You are dragging down the values for the few of us who bother to keep our cars mint. [
Garages are very expensive in London. If I could afford to have a house with a garage I would keep the car in there. Even renting one would cost £300 a month where I live, so not everyone has the option of wrapping their car in cotton wool
Having a 70k car and a 190k car certain things feel better on the lower mileage car - seat cushion, inidicator stalks but the lower mileage car did 500 miles the year before I owned it and 2k in the first 2 months of me owning it, it was getting better and better with every mile, tickover was smoother, handling was more fluid, brakes felt better, wheel wobble was decreasing, gear change losing its lumpiness, was starting to have the good traits of the high mileage one, so much more pleasant to travel in.
Tony
Tony
peanut
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yes thats a good point. Garages are in very short supply in some areas . I'd hate to own a car that I was apprehensive about leaving it out or driving it in bad weather .
I've never considered buying a classic car or bike and keeping it as an investment. Life is too short to spend it polishing my dashboard [
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simkin911
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ORIGINAL: sc0tty
ORIGINAL: Fat Albert
Scotty, sorry to disappoint you, I took mine down to Tescos for a group of Poles to scrub it clean for £6....ready for the onslaught of the M25 tomorrow
(The guys were very pelased to do a Porsche and were very complimentary!)
You muppet, those poles havent got a clue how to clean a car, they use the same sponge to take the crud off your car as they to 'clean it' good luck, your car will now have swirl marks and scratches all over it, still "they were meant to be driven" as you daily drivers keep peddling. Next you non members who are too tight to even join the PCGB will be saying that astronomical mileage and no service history are desireable and what porsche intended.
Get a reality check !! what planet are you lot on? No wonder the values are so poor and there are no good 944s around. I am proud of my minter, stuff the rest of you !
sawood12
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There are two types of people on this planet. Those who live life and those who watch others live it. No point in denying yourself the enjoyment of driving to try to preserve the condition of the car and then only to get market rate when you do come to sell it. You're kidding yourself if you think you'll somehow get silly money for it just because you've not driven it. You'll put it up for sale at a silly price and wait and wait and wait, fending off tyre kickers who just want to come and have a gander and offer you a rock bottom price. As much as I love 944's the will never fetch 911 money. Best to take advantage of a great car at a bargain price, save your money for repairs and fixes and drive the socks off it. Money spent on polishing kit is just diverting funds that could be used for driving it.
This isn't entirely fair, different people enjoy their hobbies in different ways. There is a great deal of satisfaction to be gained from owning a really nice example of something old, whether it's a car or anything else, particularly something fairly rare & a bit special like an old Porsche.
Scotty has a point, in another 20 years the only 944s still around will be the ones that were conserved or preserved rather than used regularly.
However when the Scottys of this forum want to know how to fix something, the ones who know the answers are the ones who use (and break, and then fix) them.
There is room for both, try to get along please because both types need each other.
Scotty has a point, in another 20 years the only 944s still around will be the ones that were conserved or preserved rather than used regularly.
However when the Scottys of this forum want to know how to fix something, the ones who know the answers are the ones who use (and break, and then fix) them.
There is room for both, try to get along please because both types need each other.
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