Motivation needed

[Daveymaclad]

After having spending a good five hours sizing, cutting and attaching soundproofing/underlay to my MB then fitting a replacement carpet I've hit a low ebb regarding the car.

It started when I realised that I only had the rear section of the carpet as the guy I'd bought the set from has supplied the wrong front section. To top it off the centre console now doesn't sit back correctly (after having removed it to get the carpet in) after I heard an unpleasant crack.

Looking up from the console as I sighed 'that' sigh I noticed that all the doorcards have come away from the seals at the top near the windows, all four of them? I can only assume its occurred due to the abnormally cold weather? Course this means refitting them again!

I've now bought the shocks, bushes, springs, calipers, brake lines and so on to be fitted next week but that still leaves the hot start problem, so even when the rest is sorted I still can't drive the chuffing thing owing to not being able to turn the car off!

I've had the car for nearly 9 months now and I've spent a LOT of time and money on it but have only managed to have one properly enjoyable drive.

So.....

Do I get on with it and hope that one day in the months before our first child is due I get to drive the car and enjoy it or should I get it MOT'd and sell up and put the money towards a car that I can enjoy more often, like a 911 or a TVR (though I know with the latter I'd just be changing problems for problems!)

[rich.r]

stop whinging and get on with it man

seriously it will all come together and bobs your uncle get your misses involved even if its only moral support mine helps (sort of) and it just keeps your chin up

your a brave man taking on a tvr me thinks

or ill give you 100 shillings and a fluffy sweet for the car and take a chance on it

h t h rich

[Baggee]

Bet you wished you'd let me buy her originally now Dave. Have a break for a few weeks then carry on the work. Do you have a timescale to finish her off, or are you generally peed off.

[darreno'd']

Send it to someone who knows them to be set up and serviced properly, then at least you will have something thats useable. When that makes you happy you will find the motivation to sort the interior bits and bobs. You can forgive a lot of sins when they go well.

[Acidburn]

If the actual cars sound underneath etc stick with it, I know of a few people struggling to find decent urq's.

[Daveymaclad]

Originally Posted by Baggee

Bet you wished you'd let me buy her originally now Dave. Have a break for a few weeks then carry on the work. Do you have a timescale to finish her off, or are you generally peed off.

Ahh so you're the one with an even more cheeky offer than the one I put in! Sometimes I think I shouldn't have bought one needing so much love but if I hadn't bought this one I'd have never bought one and that to me would have been unforgiveable.

Consider yourself lucky. He'd right royally f*^ked up that car. I mean, who in their right mind cuts out the wiring for the heated seats, hides the ABS button in the centre console and cuts off the plug to the door mirrors meaning they're in that position til I source a new one :S Bloody idiot!

A lot of stuffs taken it's toll on me lately, got married, changed jobs, moved house and found out wife is pregnant all within 5 weeks. My safe place was the Quattro, head out there to clear my head whilst I worked on bits n bobs but now even the bits I figured were easy fairly stress free things are, well, not stress free or that easy!

Originally Posted by darreno'd'

Send it to someone who knows them to be set up and serviced properly, then at least you will have something thats useable. When that makes you happy you will find the motivation to sort the interior bits and bobs. You can forgive a lot of sins when they go well.

You're absolutely right, the few times I have let the beast loose the drive's been immense. So that's why I've got the parts needed to get it MOT'd and then just need to find someone to diagnose and cure the hot start problem.

I only got to thinking of selling and getting a pot for a 911 as a friend went out in my Quattro with me and then swapped and took out his 2005 911 GT2 and that was an even more immense drive, though with a pricetag of £45k as a six year old car it bloodywell should be!

I guess I've just got lots on in my mind at the mo and figured losing one problem (i.e. the Quattro) would help things, though I'd probably soon regret it!

[4v6]

So youve actually driven yours? Flipping heck, thatd be a novelty for me....

Get it done man!

[Acidburn]

what style dash is yours think I have a heated seat loom somewhere.

[Dogbreath]

Noooooo dont sell up.
it was the worst decision i ever made in my car life, and im now back for more... my car went onto bigger and better things and is kinda hard to swallow....likes been said, have a week off, forget about it and come back refreshed...i know its easy for us all to say that but its true
good luck
lee

[Emjay]

last year I spent god knows how much to use her 4 times, it goes with the territory I'm afraid.

Stick with it chap