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Originally Posted by ILLaViTaR
What are you fellas driving these days?
I'm still stuck in the past driving a BF egas. Basically rebuilt the whole car and while I love the car it's honestly a cheap pos (everything but the engine falls apart), and the boot channel rust will eventually need a whole rear quarter welded in, then something else will break anyway and Im not sure how long the wiring/circuits will last without bringing up trouble. I've basically rebuilt 90% of the car, but when the gearbox or diff centre eventually go I'm not sure I cbf with it anymore. I've already had the IRS out once and the box out twice. Still it's probably ideal as it doesn't depreciate and cost stuff all to run, can tow, drives great etc.
I'm not a fan of newer models or EV's. Everything seems overpriced and shit (besides Toyota that imo are too overpriced). I'll probably go a 90's Camry, 80 series or ideally an early 00's TD Patrol. Something I can rebuild that will last without it needing full time care.
I also have a WH statesman as a second car, besides the donkey cart IRS design and the ecotec it's honestly not bad. Ecotec is rough but it's reliable, does the job and has enough power, uses only 8-10l per 100k also. Interior is 1000x better in terms of build quality. The whole car might be tbh. Ultimately looking back I wish I bought an AU instead of the BF. I think after 2002 both Ford/Holden started using some cheap bits. The ball joints on my BF compared to my old EB are absolutely awful. Everything in the suspension on the BF is hyundai cheap. Including the front end. I know they're 20 year old cars but I believe newer cars aren't much better. Pick of them all in terms of quality/reliability seems to be the 80's/90's Japanese stuff. Drove a 1999 Corolla for a year and when I pulled it apart to do the clutch the quality of every part I removed looked like it would've lasted for another 100 years. |
Paint faded AU Falcon on a 300km daily commute. I’m the second owner coming up to 440,000km.
Returns 8.5-8.6l/100km although the last fill I did I tried 95 and got 8.2 litres. Might run it on 95 for a week to see if that fuel figure is consistent.
Paid $2k and spend another $1500 as preventative maintenance.
Not worth ‘upgrading’ to something nicer and more unreliable/higher maintenance. Plus, there’s not many aged cars out there I’d trust to do that many km a week with no dramas.
Took a bird out on a date in it last weekend and I heard no complaints. To my face anyway.
Only issue is the size of fuel tank - have to fill up every second day.
A 100 litre tank would be good.
Plenty of AUs and B series still around for cheap to offer years of relative trouble free motoring.
Unless I’m looking in the wrong places, there doesn’t seem to be that many VX - VY Commodores. A VX or VY V6 Berlina wagon would also be a good daily.
