How was you car year last year? Any problems or big bills? Did you have a new car or crash one?

For me it was pretty good for the most part. I had my 1.4 Polo with its stiff windows, intermittent Engine Management Light, heavy clutch and very knotchy gearbox up until July where I managed to get my Fabia vRS which apart from the common leaky door seal problem which was fixed under warranty it has been fault free.

All in all it's been a good year for me.

Edited 5 January, 200917 yr by kai_mitsurugi
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Well, for me it was my first as I turned 18 in February and got my licence My car year was really satisfying. I had lot of new experiences and fun with my Skodillac. So, yeah, was good. Had to tinker with the car a bit though but that was not bad, only good.

2008 was a great year for me also (mostly). Bought the Fabia in the first week due to ECU problems with my Clio :(

Only bad points were leaky rear doors (soon to be sorted), having to replace the rear bumper , slight damage occurring to front of car when going to get rear bumper replaced and generally spending a small fortune on it, which has carried on into this year already ...

Well.... a tale of 2 cars really but more on that later. Following damaging my alloy at the tail end of '07 i was hoping for an incident free '08 with the red Comfort Combi and more or less it was.... So at the start of '08 i didnt think id be replacing my car until spring '09 but after finding out how much my old fabia was worth i did some figures and decided to change in august before the 80k service so started to look for a replacement and after trying a couple of other cars i decided to go for more of the same and found good deal on a Silver 57 plate Fabia Bohemia Combi.... and so far only a couple of minor issues have had to be resolved.... CD stuck in the Stereo, Flaky pain on an alloy both under warrenty and a washer fuse.... Heres to '09....

Brilliant....it included a remap.

Best thing I ever did by far.

I bought my 2003 Bora diesel, still had my Audi S2 from '07 which I stripped out and modified quite a lot, I then bought a 1985 Audi 90 quattro 2.2 KV (as old as me, quality) and then the Octavia vRS.

Really could do with selling some of them

Said goodbye to the old trusty Passat and got myself another MK2 Golf, this time I didnt take it apart and am loving driving it, brings out the hooligan in me.

Got the cage in the other MK2 and the engine bay is coming along nicely. Once current project work is done its full steam ahead and get the 20vt back in with a nice GT28 turbo bolted on.

Sold my much loved Superb in january and bought a 1.9tdi Octy ambiente hatch ......OK but it never felt right or had enough toys....so in December managed to find a very nice 1.9tdi Octy elegance combi with lots of toys .....a lot happier now

Interesting.

Jan to June with a re-mapped Seat Leon Cupra.

Promotion at work including a new Diesel every 6 months meant the beloved Seat was sold, into a TDI Passat and then, as the economy dwindled along with our company car providers, a Kia Proceed.

Job now ditched along with the car (actually the Kia goes back tomorrow funnily enough) and into a Tuna'd VRS TFSI - happy

Well 2008 was a bit rubbish for cars for me. I wanted to upgrade my aging Felicia to an Octavia - sure enough the garage found a car for me - which then had engine management problems, a coolant hose went whilst away for a weekend, and it ended up with engine running problems by the end of my ownership! Luckily I managed to get it swapped over with another one. I hope this one is a bit better!

Had a good year even though i had to reluctantly let my beloved Leon FR tdi go, and replaced it with my current vRS Fab.

Both cars cost me nothing in terms of any repairs, just wear and tear items and alot of cash spent improving the fabia to my personal tastes.

If 09 is as good for me as 08 was, then i'll be a happy boy this time next year, although i am considering leaving the Skoda experiance should my finances pick up a bit..

Pretty good - a few more mods to my beloved Octavia to cement its official status as the bestest Skoda in New Zealand (as voted by me).

Big bills were for the cambelt and water pump and my new wheels and tyres

The mongrel never batted an eyelid in the reliability stakes. I should add it never batted an eyelid at anything I HADN'T DONE TO IT ALREADY! Few issues that I kind of caused, but nothing broke I had not fiddled with.

I got rid of this in a petulant strop at the governments war on motorists:

which was replaced by this::D:D:D:D

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Then I had to get rid of my underused little workhorse :

to make way for the 4.0 gangstermobile!:

I had a good year. The trusty 1969 Morris Traveller never missed a beat. In November I got rid of the very reliable but completely boring 2005 VW Polo 1.4, and bought the VRs SE which I love to bits. Still grinning 10 weeks later.

I have always hated diesels, but not any more.

2008 was good for me too.Got rid of the MK1 Octy TDi in June for a MK2 Octy TDi which iam very pleased with and had no faults at all with so far......

Hope 2009 will be the same with reliability etc.

had a resonably good year this year, had a few things fail but thats only to be expected on a higher than average milage car.

I started off the year at JKMs rolling road day in my trusty old Passat Estate making better power than all the stock Fabia vRS's.

Then in a moment of madness I sold it (needing just a brake pipe to get through the MOT - not bad for 135k miles) and bought a Mk2 Octy vRS TFSI - which nearly bankrupt me.

Sold that for a huge loss, bought a Mondeo V6 which whilst nice had a couple of expensive problems, so I p/xd it for the 328i, which I love.

Only really had the thermostat fail on the 328, everything else I've spent on it has been to make it tidier etc rather than due to having faults.

In hindsight though, I really regret selling the Passat, I chuffing loved that car. :(

Right at the end of the year - rubbish! Rest of the year - on the whole, very good indeed

Steve

Hmmm,

I sold a lovely Fabia vRS, due to being skint :(

I bought a great MX5, due to not being as skint as I thought I was,

Then in a moment of insanity, I bought a skip, and I am now more skinterer than I have been for years....

The SE has proven to be fault free, and has only needed new tyres, and a tiny bit of paintwork, although it could do with an alloy refurb ( but that's down to the wifes abysmal parking skills )

My car year in 2008 proved to be quite expensive, with a £700 service bill to get all my pads and discs replaced, £72 on a new clutch pedal boot, £94 on a new alarm sensor, and then there was that thing called modifications must have spent a packet on the car on springs, powdercoated wheels, pd160 and green cotton filter, then if you add fuel to the equation I must have spent a bomb attending meets mostly down in the lakes, up north, but apart from that the car has been faultless and I can't wait to stick another 15000 miles on it this year!!

Bought a Fabia VRS on January 2nd. By August (just out of June warranty) the DMF gave up. At the start of November the leaky rear doors showed their ugly mug.

Other than that, it was quite a good car year.

Interesting year for me. 4 cars in one year all Audis and I've still got 2 and 2/3rds of them.

Started the year with Baker21's misses old A4 V6 Avant (both the vRS and 2.0TFSI Sline A4 were sold due to divorce). This had a few little mechanical niggles which were sorted (ISV, thermostat, track rod ends) but in the whole a very sturdy and reliable car. Came to MOT time and it was a choice between sticking with it for another year or going quattro.

Decide to go quattro but the old girl was worth nothing in trade in so decided to break the avant and got an 2.8Q A4 on a W plate. That turned out to be a money pit. I bought it dirt cheap.... but to get it to my standards needed more money than I was willing to invest.

On a wim I called into York Audi for some parts and stumbled upon my current motor. Biggest impulse buy ever (well kind off .... the divorce was finally complete so I could now afford a new motor). I had every intension of keeping the new A4 Std..... that didn't last.

Then came along Charlie and i relaised that no way would a dirty, muddy, wet, smelly labrador was going in the back of my A4 Saloon after gundog training. So an ebay special later I now have a 93 Audi 80 avant as well.

The A4 Avant is in the slow process of being stripped for parts, and bits are trickling onto ebay. I've already made what I spent buying the car old A4.... shame cars are worth so much more in bits nowadays.

My Slx tdi turns 10 years old next week and has just passed 150000miles. last year(2008) has been pretty cheap to run it with only routine servicing and a new set of tyres although it sounds as if I need to replace a front wheel bearing again. Went for vredestein Quatrac 3 £220 for supply and fit of four at my local independant. These tyres seem pretty good after having them for a month (3000m).

Biggest event in my car year was purchasing an ex demo MX5 2.0 Sport in June. Have only done about 3000m in it since then so is not really used enough but it is a nice wee car to go about in. We are planning a European trip in it in 2009. One nice thing is to have the top off and drive it in the dark, the smell of wood smoke etc really gets your senses going.

I dread to think what depreciation there has been on this car but that is why I usually drive a 10 yr old Octavia and claim mileage expenses for that.

happy New Year To You All.

Edited 6 January, 200917 yr by loskie

Sounds like you have a sensible approach to motoring loskie - Sounds like a pair of cars I'd enjoy owning simultaneously