Your biggest automotive regret?

[Deleted member 150136]

Selling/scrapping all my old VW campervans for peanuts.
Selling my old HS chevette for about £1200.

Not buying a Ferrari or Lamborghini instead of the SL63(head over heart)......I've had my one super special car now.....unless things change.

 

[Quetzalcoatl]

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.

It's gone a bit intermittently iffy again. I took the punt on a new clock spring, having seen your woes.......

Having done these a few times on Renaults, I learned some of the same valuable lessons......

Biggest regret for me? Renault ownership.

 

[KillerHERTZ]

It's gone a bit intermittently iffy again. I took the punt on a new clock spring, having seen your woes.......

Having done these a few times on Renaults, I learned some of the same valuable lessons......

Biggest regret for me? Renault ownership.

Oh no! We had a brand new Clock spring installed - special order from MB. Not sure on warranty, but I can call up my garage to see if they still have the purchase order.?

 

[Deleted member 126969]

why? Tell us more.

I've done it to death on the C350e thread TBH, but for clarity and simplicity, overall bad experience with MB & the car itself, due in no small part to my personal foibles!

 

[Scooby_Doo]

Having a passion for cars, shudder to think how much money I've blown on them over the past 50 years.

 

[Deleted member 37751]

Before I really got into cars, I was a bit naive when buying them and I bought a man Audi A6 Avant from a bloke Chesterfield way who sold me the biggest piece of shit in the world that had 5 times more faults than any car I’ve ever owned since (I’m including my C32 in that as well) he did this after I even told him I was buying it as we’d just had our first child and I’d taken out a loan to buy it.

Never trusted a car seller since!

 

[Quetzalcoatl]

Oh no! We had a brand new Clock spring installed - special order from MB. Not sure on warranty, but I can call up my garage to see if they still have the purchase order.?

Kind offer but not to worry, it's just one of those things. Noticed loss of steering controls after a full lock carpark manoeuvre. Wiggled back and forth a few times and it fixed itself. Then reappears after another full lock. Guessing something is loose or pinched. New spring was only £100, so on the list to sort for whoever the new owner will be.

I have a biturbo itch to scratch.....

Sadly the minister of finances has decreed that 2 AMG's on the drive, or one in storage, is not in my future.

 

[Deleted member 113659]

Having a passion for cars, shudder to think how much money I've blown on them over the past 50 years.

now THERE’s an interesting thread.

 

[Deleted member 113659]

.....who sold me the biggest piece of shit in the world that had 5 times more faults than any car I’ve ever owned....

More than the X5?

 

[Bobby Dazzler]

I don’t do regrets but these are things I may do differently if the opportunity presented itself today:

In 1994 I should have bought the registration number XLR 8. I forget how much it was now but it wasn’t much. I was 18 years old and thought it was perhaps an unnecessary extravagance - I only had one car at the time, and so would have to pay retention fees (annually back then).

In 2012 I should have bought an SLS AMG when they were rock bottom. When I bought our first ML63 AMG the first owner traded the ML and an SLS AMG at the same time (for another ML63 and an SL63). He and his wife were apparently embarrassed about the drama of using the gullwing doors and so it had little more than delivery mileage after a year of ownership. It was stickered at £95k and the dealer was keen.

In 2015 I was looking for a Ferrari 456 to take on a special road trip to Italy as part of our special birthday celebrations. At the time, a rough example could be had for £20k and £32k bought a minter from a Ferrari specialist which I was very keen on. Mrs D suggested that we waited as it was 10 months before the roadtrip. Prices almost doubled in that time, and I was concerned that I might struggle to sell it without taking a big hit given the prices moved up so quickly.

 

[Deleted member 151559]

which would be worth considerably more now.

And if you'd bet it all on lindsell train you'd have a lot more than that, but none of us have a crystal ball.

 

[Monkeylegend]

Not quite the biggest regret but one I would never repeat, trying to teach my ex wife to drive

 

[Jukie]

Not quite the biggest regret but one I would never repeat, trying to teach my ex wife to drive

Is that when she was your wife or your ex-wife?

 

[Alex225]

And if you'd bet it all on lindsell train you'd have a lot more than that, but none of us have a crystal ball.

Well exactly! It's not a massive regret but one of those, 'What if' type thoughts. Having said that, I wouldn't have guessed I still had the RS Megane 14 years later. Not exactly valuable but probably the lowest mileage example in the country so like I say, it's a bit interesting to the right person.

 

[Headhurts]

Austin Maxi the most awful heap of poo I have ever owned.

I can feel bile in my throat thinking about it.

The gear change was random at best with me going into roundabouts trying to find a gear.

Robin.


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[Monkeylegend]

Is that when she was your wife or your ex-wife?

Wife at the time.

Just to clarify, is not the reason she is now my ex wife of 22 years, but it could so easily have been

 

[E53AMG]

Selling/scrapping all my old VW campervans for peanuts.
Selling my old HS chevette for about £1200.

Not buying a Ferrari or Lamborghini instead of the SL63(head over heart)......I've had my one super special car now.....unless things change.

Your still young, make it next swap!

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[Eddy77]

Around the early noughties I had a good job, no kids and the cash to buy a 1980s whale tail 911. I deliberated endlessly. They were going for around £15k at the time. I then looked at 993s which were around the £20k mark. I bought neither, electing to invest in a nearly new BMW 320d!!!! Coz diesel was the future, remember?

If only I’d known that 911 prices would jump as they did. You live and learn!

 

[Deleted member 126251]

1) Selling my Renault R10 which had an Alconi engine (that I'd installed) - circumstances at the time prevented me keeping it.

2) Owning an ex UK MGB GT ('67) - unreliable rust bucket.

3) Never owning a Mini Cooper S (1960s) - I had a couple of Mini's but always lusted for a Cooper S.

 

[MrGreedy]

Buying my current (and only) Vauxhall Insignia. Spent £4k maintaining it over the past 2 years! It would have probably been about £8k if I hadn't done a good chunk of the work myself and sourced genuine parts at rock bottom prices via dealers selling off unused old stock on eBay. I got a brand new Hella air con compressor for £200 instead of the £1200-1300 they apparently are (cheaper ones are usually recon). Totally sick of its 'surprises' so it will soon be gone as I have the recently purchased E350 CDI now back from the body shop.