its called swapz .co.uk just search automotive for fiesta si and it should bring some up

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Understeer: when you hit the wall with the front of the car.
Oversteer: when you hit the wall with the back of the car.
Horsepower: how fast you hit the wall.
Torque: how far you take the wall with you.

Nope, diddly squit.

I have started going around used car shops asking if they know any way of finding more specific cars but so far I got nothing.

I really don't want to give up hope...

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Make two days of it. Go out to somewhere look at the car, book a hotel, have a fun day wherever the place is, then wake up with you new fiesta and drive home
or get a plane.. There actually pretty cheap Scotland to England and don't take long

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That might be a plan. I work in a hotel, I get cheap hotel rooms...... hmmm

There's one of my hotels in:

Newcastle
Leeds
Manchester
Nottingham
Norwich
Birmingham
Nottingham
London
Oxford
Cardiff
Plymouth.

Now, to find cities with worthy cars.




Oh god, drunk people in the bar... 2 asleep in the bar .... 3 asleep on the first floor corridors ... I put all of the drinks onto one guys room ... I start at 11 and it usually takes me all night to get all my work done, now I have 2 and a half hours.... Before they came I had written down (above) all of the cars in all of the cities, all of the flights and all of the prices ect. then the forum logged me out while I was dealing with them and I lost it all...


help...



someone.....




please.

Edit: Ok, I'm done, I give up. Me and an Si obviously aren't fated to be together... But it looks like I can't find any other cars that I like in my price bracket. Am I just picky?

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stop being too picky and stop crying you can do this and we can all help come on son dont throw the towel in yet

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Understeer: when you hit the wall with the front of the car.
Oversteer: when you hit the wall with the back of the car.
Horsepower: how fast you hit the wall.
Torque: how far you take the wall with you.

Come on I gave you the perfect solution. £40 Ryan air ticket, your discounted hotel, you buy the fiesta. And to spend 1-10 beautiful hours enjoying the best drive of your life.

You can't give up we need more Members

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Ok, I have decided. I am not going to buy the car as soon as previously planned because I am also going to Amsterdam in October, so along with booking flights ect. my money situation was sound, but a bit here and there. So I'm going to Amsterdam, then when I get back I will have all the money I was going to initially have, and more (around a grand)

Puts off buying the car for a bit but enables me to take more time to get one later. And I will definately be doing the flying down and staying the night plan.


By the way, a couple of garages have asked my college for students to have as apprentices, so far 2 in a toyota garage, 1 in a HGV garage and 1 in a Mercedes garage I figure I have made possibly the best impression on my lecturers so far (everyone else in my class are dyslexic chavs that dont really care) plus I sent a letter and C.V. to each one on the day that I found out. I think I stand a good chance of being picked. Find out within the next month.


To sum it up, I still have faith. (Though for a while I was considering a 1.8 mondeo )

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that's all good.

Remember, you have to drive this car everyday and you can own it for a long time.

Do you want to walk out and go, ah my mondeo.

Or do you want to spend that little bit more effort and wall out going "FUCK YEAH MY SI!"

The excitment factor is unreal seriously though. You don't want to regret it and you want I drive the car you want, rather than settling for second best.

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Exactly, that was deep man... like.... proper deep.

And I think that plan has gone to pot anyway coz I found this:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... K:MEWAX:IT

I sent the guy an email saying if it doesnt sell (which it doesnt look like it will) I will give him £500 cash on Friday for it. Then when I get there I will go "Ah, the mileage is more than it was in the pic, I will give you £400" and my folks have said they will pay the first big insurance payment. Only problem is, if I take the train there its £75 which is rediculous. Or I can get a megabus half way there for £6, then, even though its just a straight road mostly motorway, I cant seem to find any other way to get there. I'm completely stumped.

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no no no.
You should have said "will you take offers of it dosent sell" (which is how I got an £800 for £600) you should be able to get it for £400 though.

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This is my third atempt of posting this reply, the last two I got "internet cannot display this page, or obviously remember what you were talking about"

Aaanyway, The guy has already had people emailing him offers, and I figured because he is selling his van aswel, both in a profesional fashion, that he would be advertising in other places too. I phrased it like that to make him believe that he has a sale, even though I can't give him the money until next week, so that he doesn't go looking for more offers.

If I merely make him an offer he would just treat it like an offer, this way, I have it secure, it's mine.

I have a reply from him saying that if nobody bids then its mine, so far its looking good. 12 hours left and still no bids, its the last few minutes that I worry about though.


Edit: 5 hours left, still no bids

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hopefully you will get it mate doesnt look too bad

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Understeer: when you hit the wall with the front of the car.
Oversteer: when you hit the wall with the back of the car.
Horsepower: how fast you hit the wall.
Torque: how far you take the wall with you.

Most people won't just "bid" on a car. They view it make sure everythings good etc, you can't just buy it like say, a set of headlights, it's a very important thing and you have to know everything is as it should be, there won't be any bids unless someone is really stupid. Last minuite bids with cars don't really happen unless it's already broke, people know it and a few people start bidding as it's cheap.

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Well good thing this guy doesn't know that, he has promised it to me if it doesnt go on ebay, so going by what you said, it's mine. Fair enough I am a little bit sceptical buying it online without the opportunity to look at it, but I feel that whatever could be wrong with it can be fixed.

Now this is getting rediculous, I can find a single bus that goes to carlisle. Theres a train but it will cost me £75, whereas a bus (if one exists) would cost a max of £20. Carlisle is a major city with a motorway right next to it (or dual carraigeway, I can't remember) but not a single bloody bus stops there!! WTF?!

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Sceptical is exactly how everyone will feel, and that's generally why people don't just bid should be fine, fingers crossed!

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Cool, found a Megabus to Edinburgh for £7.50, then a Virgin train to Carlisle for £19.60

Good, thats reasonable.

I can't wait to be as cool as you guys

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Oh ha ha, quite the comedian arentcha.

Supercool, the car has been promised to me and he will pick me up in it from the train station on Friday. Now I just need to get the tickets for the bus and train and get insurance then on friday I have the car. Yay

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something like that. Your gonna love it. Make sure you sort out your camera, computer and photobuxket ready for Immediate pics. And expect to pay about £1-200 repairing it when it breaks down within the first two weeks RAC/AA cover recomended!

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Got AA cover already

I'll be very dissapointed if it does break down in the first two weeks, my dad is dead against me getting such an old car and having so much faith in it so I would hate to prove him right.

I just got a quote from Endsliegh through Confused for £1130 with a max excess of £100 and no voluntary excess. So I put the voluntary up to £150 on the site, expecting my quote to go down, but it went up by about £200. Im confused and dissapointed.

I forgot to factor in that I have to prebook my travel arrangements and ran out of money So I'm trying to bring my initial payment down by £30 to afford the bus and train. I have just put my dad on it, see what it is now...

£1273.52...?


Whah? Maybe I will just stick to just me on the insurance with no excess....

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