Your biggest automotive regret?

[Jukie]

Around seven or eight years ago I had the opportunity to buy a C43 saloon.

It was in great nick and well specc'd - sunroof, parktronic, Bose, xenons, two-tone leather. £4k.

I fear I will regret not buying it to my dying day.........

 

[clk320x]

Not buying a CLK55 I was offered for £4k

 

[MercedesDriver]

Selling my BMW 2002. If I only knew...

 

[Deleted member 6183]

Ford Escort twin cam mk1 Lotus.
About 1983, was cheap too.

 

[chrisk2010]

Buying a Ford Mondeo

 

[HB]

Selling my BMW 2002. If I only knew...

My dad had a red 2002tii , wish we still had it and him...

 

[togthecat]

1985, I was offered a Dino 246 for £6,000 and just about had the money to fund it. I went to Australia for a while instead.....

 

[HB]

My mk5 R32 Golf. Baby 3 meant it had to go but, replaced it with an A8 - what a car.

 

[MercedesDriver]

My dad had a red 2002tii , wish we still had it and him...

Mine was NA 2002 in black. Fantastic little car.

 

[E53AMG]

Offered a 1997 mint condition 1 owner Bentley Azure convertible in Metallic blue with only 17,000 miles on the clock (it had been stored in an aircon garage and only driven by a chauffeur) in 2008 for £37k.

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[KennyN]

Selling my accident damaged Mk1 Escort 1300E for £20

Not buying an RD350LC in favour of a Honda CM250 that was the same price.

Finally , thinking that in buying into the Mercedes marque I was buying something "special"

K

 

[Lennox]

Just a few..... [emoji2962]

993 Turbo, offered a mint low milage car for £38k back in 2001-02. Circa £140k now...
--Why not???? Didn't have the cash.

996 Turbo S, offered for £37k back in 2013 just before they went ballistic. Down a bit now but still more....
--Why not???? Had a kid instead.

Dad offered in 2007 a Ferrari Daytona, was a coupe but converted to a convertible. Circa £80k mint. Must be £3-400k now.
--Why not???? Bought a French farm house. Yeah Brexits shiiiting all over that decision.



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[fabes]

Regrets?
I've had a few......

Trading in my 2003 C220CDI C Class Coupe Evolution spec. (mouthful.....)
It was for a great Saab 93 Aero convertible which I then had for 5 years, remapped, and was a great 20 to 120 car, but that MB was pretty faultless for 3 years was the first car I regret selling (and still is the only one I think). Spec, colour, 'go' and mpg was great - it's on here somewhere in the really old pages.....

I regret not buying an MG ZTT estate prior to that (really fancied that at the time) and I also came close to buying a Top o' the range Pug 407 Coupe 3HDI. A guilty pleasure, yes, but what a mile muncher that would have been - I test drove one and was smitten, but head ruled heart....
And I do like the (sound of) those little Abarth 500 / 595's but they're too impractical now - but they still sound so naughty.....

Finally, I would have regretted buying the white C207 I looked at before I bought the one I did, have and am keeping
It had 19" wheels.....

 

[del320]

Swithering too long back in April 2008 to go for a VGC 280SL Pagoda.

The decision was made for me around three months later, when some of my shocks and stares dropped by about five times the value of the Pagoda...

Should have still gone for it as, by now, one would have cancelled out the other.

 

[KillerHERTZ]

Making a video for to remove/replace a Steering wheel. I managed to knock the position sensors on the column out of sync. I triggered around 400+ errors on the diagnostic (yes really) on my CLS55.

The car went into lifted mode and dash was a Christmas Tree. I rebuilt the unit and go everything working (for 2 mins) before I had to take it my garage to fix.

Cost me £400 in all, the video has so far made me £20

Bonus is, now I know how the steering units work, what part goes where and to make sure I mark everything at the 12'oclock position.

 

[Deleted member 151559]

selling this last month

 

[alabbasi]

3) I sold a 944 turbo which I regretted and more recently a BMW E23 745i (the one with the factory turbo) that I know I will regret. There are a few others
2) I recently bought 2003 Bentley Arnage T at auction which was misrepresented and will lose my shirt on - I kind of regret it now
1) My worse one is a 1970 280SL pagoda that I sent to a restoration place. I tried to do everything right by that car, but it turned out that the guy a real crook. I still have the ca but I can't stand to look at it

 

[Deleted member 151559]

Hitting the pothole that did for this:

Not having a good 2020 really

 

[Deleted member 113659]

Selling my Mondeo ST220 that we’d had from new.

Only 2 1/2 years old, 8k miles and looked after like a baby.
Sold it because my wife needed an auto but in hindsight should have kept it as a weekend runner.

We took delivery of it when our daughter was just a few days old. Great fun memories indeed.

 

[HB]

Selling my accident damaged Mk1 Escort 1300E for £20

Not buying an RD350LC in favour of a Honda CM250 that was the same price.

Finally , thinking that in buying into the Mercedes marque I was buying something "special"

K

Kenny, buying into Mercedes was special in the past to about I think maybe 2005.

That specialness died with leasing, poor dealers and quite frankly poor cars till the 204 came. It’s never regained it specialness across the range like before, just at the upper unaffordable echelons of the brand.