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Re: Your fleet running reports
Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2026 2:57 pm
by Gavster
Nothing
I don’t use it, literally once or twice a month and often journeys where I could easily use the train. Combined with work being a bit rubbish recently, there’s simply no point having it sat their on the street depreciating.
Re: Your fleet running reports
Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2026 3:00 pm
by mik
Gavster wrote: Fri Jun 19, 2026 2:57 pm
I don’t use it, literally once or twice a month and often journeys where I could easily use the train. Combined with work being a bit rubbish recently, there’s simply no point having it sat their on the street depreciating.
What I read is that you only need a car for occasional, fun use? Something like an Elise, or a Caterham......
Re: Your fleet running reports
Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2026 3:30 pm
by GG.
mik wrote: Fri Jun 19, 2026 3:00 pm
Gavster wrote: Fri Jun 19, 2026 2:57 pm
I don’t use it, literally once or twice a month and often journeys where I could easily use the train. Combined with work being a bit rubbish recently, there’s simply no point having it sat their on the street depreciating.
What I read is that you only need a car for occasional, fun use? Something like an Elise, or a Caterham......
or a stolen 360
Re: Your fleet running reports
Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2026 3:34 pm
by IanF
GG. wrote: Fri Jun 19, 2026 3:30 pm
mik wrote: Fri Jun 19, 2026 3:00 pm
Gavster wrote: Fri Jun 19, 2026 2:57 pm
I don’t use it, literally once or twice a month and often journeys where I could easily use the train. Combined with work being a bit rubbish recently, there’s simply no point having it sat their on the street depreciating.
What I read is that you only need a car for occasional, fun use? Something like an Elise, or a Caterham......
or a stolen 360
I was about to suggest he converts his former tenants home into a garage for SJ’s overflow
Re: Your fleet running reports
Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2026 3:41 pm
by GG.
IanF wrote: Fri Jun 19, 2026 3:34 pm
GG. wrote: Fri Jun 19, 2026 3:30 pm
mik wrote: Fri Jun 19, 2026 3:00 pm
What I read is that you only need a car for occasional, fun use? Something like an Elise, or a Caterham......
or a stolen 360
I was about to suggest he converts his former tenants home into a garage for SJ’s overflow
May need a lift as I believe its on the first floor. Nothings impossible though!
Re: Your fleet running reports
Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2026 4:16 pm
by Sundayjumper
Nice M5 in the background there
Re: Your fleet running reports
Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2026 4:17 pm
by Sundayjumper
IanF wrote: Fri Jun 19, 2026 3:34 pm
...SJ’s overflow
That sounds disgusting
Re: Your fleet running reports
Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2026 4:18 pm
by Sundayjumper
GG. wrote: Fri Jun 19, 2026 3:30 pm
or a stolen 360
That's just the way he drives it. So I've heard.
Re: Your fleet running reports
Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2026 4:22 pm
by Sundayjumper
mik wrote: Fri Jun 19, 2026 3:00 pm
What I read is that you only need a car for occasional, fun use? Something like an Elise, or a Caterham......
I quite shudder to think of the insurance premium for a Caterham parked on the street in East London.
Re: Your fleet running reports
Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2026 5:00 pm
by Beany
It'd pay for itself with the aura-farming he could do in his videos. Just an elise parked on an east london street, cos he's got skibidi rizz, yo.
(or whatever it is the kids are saying these days)
Sounds like he wants one of those new Honda N thingies actually
Re: Your fleet running reports
Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2026 5:15 pm
by Matty
I've got a mate this would be perfect for, he's just scrapped his Evoque due to snapped chain, so he was asking about similar cars with a £10k budget. Will email him and ask....he's based in Leeds though and he's a lazy bastard so I'll try and convince him it's worth it.
Re: Your fleet running reports
Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2026 5:29 pm
by Sundayjumper
I'll vouch for the condition - it's very nice.
Re: Your fleet running reports
Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2026 3:39 pm
by GG.
Sundayjumper wrote: Fri Jun 19, 2026 4:22 pm
mik wrote: Fri Jun 19, 2026 3:00 pm
What I read is that you only need a car for occasional, fun use? Something like an Elise, or a Caterham......
I quite shudder to think of the insurance premium for a Caterham parked on the street in East London.
I imagine there is basically no reference data - whether that makes it cheap or expensive I don't know. Hopefully the former!
Re: Your fleet running reports
Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2026 4:43 pm
by Gavster
There’s actually a huge amount of really nice cars in my neighbourhood, Rolls, Ferraris, Lambos, etc. Must be costing a fortune to insure because mine doubled when I moved here.
Re: Your fleet running reports
Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2026 4:51 pm
by Jobbo
Sad day - I kerbed two of the wheels on the M5 in a multi-storey car park in Salisbury. I was even using the surround view cameras but the exit was simply too tight - it was an S shape between kerbs and I couldn’t avoid gently catching the right rear and left front. I hoped it’d just be the tyres which kissed but no, BMW make the rims very prominent.
Since I was basically forced to take out alloy wheel insurance when I bought it to get the deal I did, I can try that out. I don’t hold out much hope that it’ll do a good job on such complicated bicolour alloys but we’ll see.
Re: Your fleet running reports
Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2026 4:54 pm
by Explosive Newt
Replacement tesla charger dispatched Thursday, arrived Friday, installed today (by me!). 7kwh added to the car. Even though I had connected it to wifi and updated its firmware I was a bit suprised when the car also pushed a firmware update to the charger.
Re: Your fleet running reports
Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2026 6:00 pm
by John
Jobbo wrote: Sat Jun 20, 2026 4:51 pm
Sad day - I kerbed two of the wheels on the M5 in a multi-storey car park in Salisbury. I was even using the surround view cameras but the exit was simply too tight - it was an S shape between kerbs and I couldn’t avoid gently catching the right rear and left front. I hoped it’d just be the tyres which kissed but no, BMW make the rims very prominent.
Since I was basically forced to take out alloy wheel insurance when I bought it to get the deal I did, I can try that out. I don’t hold out much hope that it’ll do a good job on such complicated bicolour alloys but we’ll see.
I did the front N/S on my Volvo last week, diamand cut too
All caused by someone not knowing how wide their car was as they passed a parked car and came waaaay over onto my side of the road
Re: Your fleet running reports
Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2026 9:44 am
by Jobbo
The auto-retracting load area cover in my BMW isn’t working properly. One of the lugs which is supposed to move to allow it to open has gone floppy so it won’t stay fully closed. Irritating. Also chucked my mtb in the boot for the first time this weekend and passed 5000 miles. What with getting a muddy tyre mark on the leather and kerbing the wheels, it’s finally become just a car. I’ve wiped the upholstery and will get the kerbing repaired but I won’t avoid tip runs now.
Re: Your fleet running reports
Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2026 12:35 pm
by Explosive Newt
I know what you mean, there is that moment when the car crosses the rubicon into being just a car and will never be perfect again. Sadly the perfection can't last but inevitably it makes it more useful and you will use it more.
Jobbo wrote: Sun Jun 21, 2026 9:44 am
One of the lugs which is supposed to move to allow it to open has gone floppy
Nothing to be ashamed of, happens to 20% of men over a certain age
Re: Your fleet running reports
Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2026 3:21 pm
by jamcg
My Puma had a few small knocks in the bodywork when I got it, I don’t mind, it’s alleviated a massive amount of anxiety over it and stopped me being paranoid leaving it in car parks. The wheels were refurbed prior to purchase so still got to watch those kerbs
