Any VR owners felt the need to get a 2nd car?

[Veearrhsix 0]

Just thinking about getting another car for main driving, and keeping the VR for "weekends". Anyone else done this, as I'm predicting maintenance costs on the poor devil, will be rocketing soon. I'd like to keep it on the driveway for the foreseeable future, and work on it without the hassle of getting it road worthy every time I need to drive somewhere. Which brings me to another conundrum - what car I should get as a daily runabout?

 

Want something cheap and cheerful, reliable with a little bit of zip under the £2k range. :shrug: P.S. no FIAT's. :scratch:

[stevef182 0]

i was thinking the same thing only yesterday as they really do cost a lot to run and furthermore frequently need things fixing and would be nice to be able to leave it standing for a while if things go wrong rather than having to drive it faulty..although, having a second car is not going to be that cheap, firstly buying it, and then insuring it, plus i really wouldnt know what to buy!!

[Adz The Rat 0]

If I could afford to run a 2nd car I would leave the C for weekend, purely to try to keep mileage down on it and so it doesnt start to look sorry for itself.

But I dont think I could bring myself to drive something crap all week, would need a V8 M5 for my daily haha

[CrazyDave 0]

Funny old game this.... have a car but don't drive it. Went right against the grain for me, but I did it. The choice of second motor wasn't exactly what I had in mind but it just happened that way. Nice, fairly tidy and totally original 1.8 16v Corrado 1990, MOT had run out, no tax, bargain at £500. Just needed engine mounts and the handbrake cables stuck a bit.

 

Put it in for a test to find out what needed doing.... and it passed!!!

 

Love driving the old gal, fully standard and most things still work. The speedo shows 142k but it sticks every now and again (old analog type) so I suspect its got a lot more miles than it lets on. Starts great, K-jet is smooth as silk. Must check the gearbox oil and cables, cos thats a bit sticky now and again.

 

The VR comes out to play at weekends etc, and the valver gets all the dents, dings and knocks that are a part of daily driving and also gets left for weeks on end at my work while I'm out in pool cars (was never very happy about leaving the VR overnight at work, far too quiet and open for anybody to turn up and have a go). The piece of mind is priceless.

[stevef182 0]

If I could afford to run a 2nd car I would leave the C for weekend, purely to try to keep mileage down on it and so it doesnt start to look sorry for itself.

But I dont think I could bring myself to drive something crap all week, would need a V8 M5 for my daily haha

 

yeah, that too...cant help but feel every time i got into whatever else i bought i would rather be in the rado!

[Toad 0]

I bought a VR as a second car. Similar setup to CrazyDaves, the car was too cheap to turn down, and I couldn't bring myself to break it. I covered 6000 fairly trouble free miles in it last autum/winter and now I've got to rebuild the engine and do a few bits and peices to it, but I ought to be able to put a few less miles on the valver by the autumn. :)

[diggerbucket 0]

I couldn't drive the VR every day, it would do my head in. I had to for 2 weeks when my Polo was broken, and in typical Corrado fashion it lasted 2 days before breaking down in the most awkward place possible.

 

So it's a 55mpg oil burner for work, makes me appreciate the VR more when I use it 8)

[Mark_Storm 0]

I am fortunate enough to get a car from work now but if I had to give it up I would get another daily driver to keep the C for the weekends. Driving something slow and boring during the week means its still a treat every weekend when it comes out of the garage, as clean as when i tucked it up last week :D

[til2143 0]

I drive a caddy tdi van for work while the vr sleeps, love the spins at wk ends though, looking for a nice 8v corrado for daily driving, it has the same looks and more economy and its a corrado :D :D

[wazza 0]

I was using my VR for my daily 17 mile commute into Birmingham city centre every day, which was taking at best about an hour, and rarely averaging over 25mpg. I figured the best thing for me to do was to take a direct access bike test and get myself a tasty motorbike. Since January i've put about 3000 miles on the bike that would have otherwise been on the car, saved a small fortune in petrol and best of all i've been able to spend an extra half an hour in bed as my commute now only takes half an hour, regardless of the traffic!

 

Highly recommended as the grin factor is equal to the 'rado posting.php?mode=reply&f=17&t=68761#

:norty:

 

Waz

[Adz The Rat 0]

I take the VR to work but then most of the time if I need to nip anywhere during the day I take my Escort Van cos work pay for the diesel.

But now and then think, balls to it, will go in the C.

Like last week, had to go over to Preston to pick a part up from the VW main dealer. No way was I going there in the van!

So went in the C and loved the people in the dealers looking at it :clap:

[Jim Bowen 1]

i have a little 306 that i use, but hardly drive it unless corrado is broken, i just can't stand the wobbleness, the slowness and the frenchness of it, really gets me angry on drive home, so use the corrado more

[Veearrhsix 0]

Hmmm... thinking best resort would be in getting a Ford sh*tbox... Anyone recommend their Focus in any way?

[mariojoshi 1]

just can't stand the wobbleness, the slowness and the frenchness of it,

 

Hahahah! Nice!

 

I use my VR as a daily, often doing my 13mile commute in it when I'm working. I feel sorry for the old gal really as I'd also like to do the same to keep the miles off her. A company car for that would suit me right down to the ground at the moment, that way I can concentrate on getting her charged!

[nemesis360 0]

Ive had to get a second car (MK2 gti) as my C is completely dismantled at the minute :lol:

[wazza 0]

Hmmm... thinking best resort would be in getting a Ford sh*tbox... Anyone recommend their Focus in any way?

 

Yep I can, I brought a 1.6 '51 plate zetec brand new and it was quite nice, only after 18 months i got bored, sold it to my mum and bought a porsche 911 :D She's still got it now and although my parents are rubbish at looking after their cars and it's never been serviced since she's had it, it's still going strong and apart from a severe lack of power, it's still a great handling, economical car.

[KipVR 1]

I bought a Seat Arosa 1.0 for peanuts (no one wants them!!) when my VR engine started making loud tapping noises and has been off the road since for an engine swap. It's really slow, but my commute is heavy traffic so it makes absolutely no difference at all apart from when the car is filled up, £20-30 a week on petrol as opposed to the tired VR doing £60-70 a week...Saves me loads and has never gone wrong in 20K....Definately keeping it when the R32 beast comes back :D

[Kevin Bacon 5]

My daily commute is a mixture of country roads and dual carriageway, so I've used the VR6 daily for the past 5 years - in all stages of modification.

 

Still not bored of it :D If I bought a second, slower car, I can guarantee it would be in that car I get goaded by road captains. Not having the Rado to brush them into the weeds would frustrate the hell out of me!

 

Yep, it burns a tonne of fuel, but it's fast as feck and I'm going to enjoy every minute of it whilst I still can.

 

I just don't get this "saving the Rado for best" thing. Something crap and slow is a compromise I'm not prepared to make. I didn't pour £1000s into the C to drive it once a week, that's pointless imo!

[g60karmann 0]

Best thing to do is get drunk go on the computer when you get back in at 3am and go on ebay - cars - ending in an hour - and buy the first car that makes your drunken self say cool and also has 12 months mot and tax :D

[Philuk 0]

if i had to use my car as a daily then probably, altho it gets much better MPG than my old car did and that was a 1.8 and i used that as a daily for ages! lol

[jazzdevil 0]

bought my VR to replace my old '97 Ibiza Cupra - but ended up keeping both! the Bitsa is the daily hack, damned easy to sling into tiny parking spaces in town, it's much nippier in the traffic and lighter on the fuel too (not heaps mind you, but don't tell my other half as it's the only reason i've been allowed to keep both!) :lol: :lol:

[Veearrhsix 0]

Silver Focus 1.8 5dr 2000 plate. Going for £2,295 - cash will drop it to £2,145. Mileage = 80K

 

Might buy it - will include new MOT etc. Looks ok tho will test drive later in week. Is this price region an average deal or could I knock another 100 off it?

[Veearrhsix 0]

By-the-way, yeah it is sacrilege to even think of using another car while I have this one, tho - I care about this one more than the weekly substitute I'll be getting. Besides, I've done the Rado-whispering to it, so it understands. It's for her own damn good. :luvlove:

[paul20v 0]

yeah ive got a 2.6v6 a80 quattro ,but not for any other reason than i dont like parking the vr in car parks to go shopping and the missus does not have to drive the c bonus me thinks :D

[speedtwelve 0]

Despite my VR's Starship Enterprise mileage the previous owner basically had the engine and suspension completely rebuilt before I got it, and as such it handles and goes like new. As a result, I'll be buggered if I'm driving it 70 miles a day to work and back!

 

The Corrado comes out to play at weekends, and for the last couple of years I've had a Golf VR as my drive to work car. If anything it made me look forward to getting the Corrado out to play, as the Mk3 Golf's steering wheel is 'somewhat loosely connected to the front wheels' (Performance Car mag 2008...). In short, I liked outdragging most other commuters in the Golf VR, didn't like the rather ponderous handling (Koni T/As and sport springs notwithstanding; Christ knows what a standard one handles like...). Bought a Mk1 S-Spec Eunos Roadster with Bilstein suspension & Mazda factory chassis braces instead, and have been driving that every day for the last 5 months. It's as quick as my 8v Rocco and Mk2 Golf GTIs of days past, and has fabulous Prokart-like handling for a road car. The only problem is it has 1/2 the power & torque of my Corrado but is only 200 kgs lighter.

 

A chap I know used to run a TVR Chimaera 500 & an F355, but had a Mk2 Driver 1.8 as his 'drive to work' car. After a few months of nearly dying as he pulled out of junctions with a momentary lapse as to whether he was in the 90 bhp VW or the Ferrari he settled on a Corrado VR as a slightly pokier commutermobile!

 

Incidentally, FWIW he didn't reckon his F355 was any faster in a straight line than the TVR.