Guest Mikey Posted April 9, 2008 Posted April 9, 2008 My beautiful beloved Xantia Activa is comming to the end of its life and it is breaking my heart as i had an 8 year love affair with this car and looked after it really well, i also spent a small fortune on it but it had given me great pleasure. It's a P reg 1997, and its 2 litre Petrol turbo engine has done only 142000 miles. Apart from a single scratch on the N/S front passenger door, it is in tip top condition, yet its market value is only £280 max. The Mot, Road Tax and Service were all due at the end of March just gone, but had to SORN it while i think whether it is worth spending anymore on it. These new costs will add up to more than it's worth, especially if you add up fixing the back hydrolic suspensions which require a good seeing to. Apart from this it is in good running order. The local scrap yard have offered me £60 for it and it feels like an insult. Any suggestions of what else i can do with my 3rd love. Don't ask me to mention the first two. I would welcome your comments or any good offers. Thanks. Quote
Johndouglas Posted April 9, 2008 Posted April 9, 2008 The Mot, Road Tax and Service were all due at the end of March just gone, Are you giving up motoring altogether? If not, when you buy another car you'll still have to get it MOT'ed and pay road tax. Then you've got the job of finding out all that's wrong with the new buy. At least you know what need doing on your Xantia. Since you're so much in love with it, I don't see your problem. Keep it and get cracking on the jobs. Quote
lulu_bella Posted May 6, 2008 Posted May 6, 2008 take it down matchams and have a laugh with it, its been good to you and you might aswell have some fun as the scrap yard will still pay £60 for it! have some fun i know that i will when my car starts to die as it loves beeing ragged weird since it over 12yrs old! have fun you know that it would want you to!!lol Quote
Ronin Posted May 13, 2008 Posted May 13, 2008 Turn it into a track day car m8. No road tax needed. strip out the interior and install a fire extinguisher, roll cage, bucket seat etc. Remove any cat and replace it with a straight pipe. You could re-coup most of the cost by selling your interior bits on ebay/ autotrader etc. Trailers to transport it to the tracks are cheap to make with some guys converting old caravan chassis for as little as £50! A stripped out activa xantia should fly round a track and put one hell of a smile on your face, it will probably embarass a lot of bmw , scoobie track cars too..... go on, give her a new lease of life.... it's what she deserves...... why go out with a whimper when you can go out with a bang, pulling 6000 rpm at 120mph and ending in a cloud of smoke while mr. BMW "get out of my way" M3 hits the oil you just dumped and ends up hitting a tyre wall at 100mph wrecking the front end of his car that he uses for work!!!!!... Now that quality and comedy in the same moment ;) :D Quote
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