How reliable is your car???

[Vista]

It was ultra reliable until yesterday.

 

...and if your wondering, yes this thread is that old and yes, I've got nothing better to do at the moment.

 

Ditto, I'd had two and half fault free years until Friday night!

[johnno11]

Capri with 2ltr Pinto.

On original 32/36 Weber ran great, tried a 38Dgas and it always started but was rough as a builders whatever. Now it's on 40mm bike carbs and as smooth as 'me birds' 2ltr Focus.....but faster, ha!

[lee_capri]

v8i 100% leaf it standing 6months chucked battery on it struck straight up

[Supercharged Nat]

supercharged 2.0L pinto used pretty much everyday. sometimes needs the odd fiddle with the mixture screws/ speed screw. the only thing thats gone wrong for ages is the bloody exhaust, its hanging on by a thread, happen yesterday on the way to COCC.

 

cept for that, its all good.

[escort21]

Been using both my mk2 tinas for over 4 years and are very reliable

[old skool freestyler]

mines well relable i know its not gona drive

[Deano1351]

When i first got mine it used to break down once a week and i only use it at weekends but now i think iv changed or rebuilt every moving part and fingers crossed, SHES GOOD!!!!

[Copey]

the carb needs a decent re-build and the exhaust need replacing, but she still runs and hasn't let me down, even when i went to work and left the lights on for 6 hrs, ok she took a bit of time but still started!

[Jarrodm]

My 100e with a fully tuned sidevalve is SOOOO reliable, With a little bit of knowledge on how and when it will run it's easily maintainable and fast enough for what i want it for. Fair enough my dad uses the car but i'm the one that keeps it running

 

Jarrod

[caprixpack]

every day use for me

 

very reliable

[over_head_cam]

Get in, turn key, drive off, up motorway, rag it up the strip, wring the tits of it on the way home. No problem

 

Next time - turn key. drive off....

 

You get the idea. Go-on the crossflow

[Andy504]

mine starts every time, its a 1760 xflow an never missed a beat, have had two different batterys on though, but used for ever other day sort of use, and playin at the weekend, preferbly in slippy wet conditions

[bomber1]

1300 x-flow mk2 1000miles in a week tho its started to smoke on start up

[mossy]

diesel mondeo....never failed! done 4k miles since feb!

 

escort...erm...well the engines not in it to find out!

[mk1super]

Generally very reliable.

 

I caned my uprated 2 litre Pinto all the way to Ford Fair and back last year and was just bragging to my G/F about how reliable OSF's are; when as we approached home 2 things happened simultaneously, I went over a speed hump a tad too fast and: -

 

1) One of the seat back securing bolts dropped out on her seat

 

2) The lead dropped off the coil

 

Fortunately she was so busy floundering around on the back floor with her legs in the air that she didn't notice that the engine had cut out and we'd coasted into the drive I was therefore able to stand by my non - breakdown claim as I dismissed her seat failure and subsequent embarrasing skirt around the waist moment as a minor failure of a non essential component

 

Havent laughed so much in ages brilliant!

[1600e_princess]

Mine is extremely reliable all the time unless the lights get left on... (don't tell me off again - pleeeease!)

[john_3.0s]

did 10k in a year in my old mk2 esc 1300 only prob i ever had was the carb iced up one night driving up the A1 in freezing fog - nothing a bit of de-icer wouldnt fix - oh and the exhaust dropped off too but i fixed it with a coat hanger (i was a student at the time!)

 

Granny (3.0 essex) starts every time although the battery died over the winter, only other prob was that the pipe to the trans fluid cooler chafed through on the x-member but it got me home OK.

 

the capri (3.0 essex) never let me down - not once

[caprixpack]

have dont 14000 miles in 10 months in my 2.8i never let me down

 

although i snapped the leaf spings going sideways round one of them painty coblley small roundabouts lol

[james p]

both of mine arnt bad they only have silly little problems wich is expeted with an old car

[MK5]

i have driven an OSF as my daily for at least the last 3 years.

 

my current Corty has been my main car for the last 2 years

[yorkester]

went to tescos in mine on Sat morning, then 130 mile to the pod and then blasted it up the strip, then 130 mile home. didnt miss a beat ! not even to the chinese on the way home. new cars 1 Id rather shove wasps up my @#se

[S2 Dee]

2.8i Capri, other than one knackered battery has never let me down, the old girl does it all, collects engines, OSFDC, ragged around B roads, takes me to work from time to time. 125000 miles and counting.

 

2.0 pinto, (MKI Escort) was a pig when I bought her, once rebuilt the carb and sorted master cylinder, has not missed a beat.

[Gareth]

The old 4i (cologne) and the capri (2l pinto) were both great cars,

couldn't fault 'em :D

 

My first mk1 Escy (1.3 x/f) started no matter the weather

or how long it was stood

 

The Cortina's been absolutely spot on, starts every single time,

didn't even need to jump it when it hadn't been used for a month

(weldin and other jobs for MoT )

 

The GT Escy (2.1 pinto) is the only OSF I've owned with leccy ignition

so it starts first time but keepin it goin cold is a bit of a pain,.

as the carb has no chokes

 

supercharged 2.0L pinto used pretty much everyday. sometimes needs the odd fiddle with the mixture screws/ speed screw. the only thing thats gone wrong for ages is the bloody exhaust, its hanging on by a thread, happen yesterday on the way to COCC.

 

cept for that, its all good.

 

Hey dude,

Was good speaking to you on Sunday, No doubt I'll fill up

your P.M inbox soon

[richie_stix]

mostly reliable, but theres always something that needs fixin...

never been really stuck tho... touch wood, which is nice

[Mk 1 Mark]

Drove my cortina last year to germany last year.....All i had to put in the car was petrol...Oh and a bit of gearbox oil...

But the car never missed a beat london to nurburgring all around Germany and back home....

Through wind and heavy rain and a screaming straight cut gearbox!!!