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[JG]

Why is this thread not on the front page?!? Anyway, just a quick note to say that the shed is coming up to 20k miles in my company. As it has never gone wrong, that means it has cost 1p per mile to buy. You'd have to do 2,000,000 miles in a £20k car to get the same return! Who says shedding doesn't represent outstanding value for money? (esp when they run on veg oil) In the mean time the vx has done 1500miles. But we are taking it to france this year, not done that since le Mans 2006, so looking forward to it. Edit: Punctuation!

Edited by JG, 07 March 2008 - 02:08 PM.

[JG]

Vegging is good because it's cheap, there is no other reason to do it. Other than the fact it puts two fingers up at the tax man.

http://newsimg.bbc.c...pletereport.pdf

page 98 of the budget suggests its also a lot cleaner.

[JG]

James, having read that i don't even know where to begin......

whole heartedlly argreed

[auldyn]

I've been offered a Clio 1.9 diesel (1993) for £50 but it's over-heating so prob the head gasket. Anyone changed the head gasket on a Clio 1.9 diesel? Is it an ok job or bloody nightmare?

[auldyn]

there's a fair amount of room around the engine of a 1.9 diesel clio, once you've taken the rad, the bonnet and nearly everything else off.

renault clios are the pits to work on, i'd avoid it like the plague if i were you

Yes I've spoken to a few people and they all say the same, I think I'll pass on it.
Thanks for the input.

[qwertyvx]

This is my ex shed.

Kept her for a few months over winter. Bought for £350, spent £80 on repair and machine polish. Then I waxed the bodywork, touched up some chips, fixed some bits and bobs, hoovered it and cleaned the interior then stuck a years worth of tax on it for £120. I put it on Pistonheads and within an hour had 3 offers. One was from a motor trader who said he'd take it. That same night one of his employees came and took the car off me for £850, netting me a nice £300 profit to go towards my new exhaust for the VXT. Part of me still doesn't understand how the trader is going to sell this car on for profit because he said he was exporting the car to Ireland where he already had a buyer. The engine is very breathless with no torque and the car is very spongy around the corners.



http://www.pistonhea...ales/414952.htm

[p4cks]

... The engine is very breathless with no torque and the car is very spongy around the corners.

I can't find any reference to this is the PH advert

[qwertyvx]

... The engine is very breathless with no torque and the car is very spongy around the corners.

I can't find any reference to this is the PH advert

Just my personal oppinion

[Joss]

Update -- my shed lives! New big battery and started first time. Engine sounds good, but has just over 45k miles on it and I am advised on a citroen forum that the cambelt should be done, especially since the car hasn't left the garage since October 2005. Given it a wash but the paintwork has had sand all over it for so long that it still fees rough to touch, it seems to be embedded. Any advice for removing it? Had a good look underneath and rear suspension parts are clean with new stickers on and exhaust looks good. Some trim bits (a door mirror, light lenses, etc) have been lost but nothing expensive. Now the bad news - cheapest veg I can find here is 80p a litre. Bio is 99p.

[Victor Xray]

The price of Diesel is driving me mad! I Luckily one of the cheapest places for fuel always seems to be the Tesco garage in Kingston, MIK, near to where I work. But that is now 109.9p a litre!! I'm pleased to be getting 550-ish miles to a tank out of the Astra diesel, but vegging does seem to be more and more tempting given the price of fuel.

[Joss]

just got 15 litres of SVO at tesco for £11.50, best I have seen for a while. too heavy for me to lift tho so putting it in the tank will be interesting! got all the missing bits for the citroen from a scrappy for a few quid, looking better already. however citroen owners advise I do a cambelt change, which scares me a little...

[auldyn]

just got 15 litres of SVO at tesco for £11.50, best I have seen for a while. too heavy for me to lift tho so putting it in the tank will be interesting!

got all the missing bits for the citroen from a scrappy for a few quid, looking better already.

however citroen owners advise I do a cambelt change, which scares me a little...

Joss, try Agrimark (up by B&Q), was told that you can get 25 litres for about £12 but I have not confirmed it yet.
They are the wholesalers were all the Pubs etc buy from, so you may have to buy through your company.

[Victor Xray]

Perhaps we could arrange a big Group-buy of Veg oil from Harry Ramsden's.....

[Joss]

that'd cost you some proper money tho Ant, the diesels are hard to come by (speaking as a W124 petrol owner) we've also been given a 1.8 mondeo td with 55k on it, serviced, new tyres... so now I have a diesel shed in each country! never rains....

[LazyDonkey]

I know it's not a proper shed - but i'm loving my panda 8k trouble free miles since Oct at 49mpg .........and i drive like a tit