Cars are bad for your health

[gaijintendo]

I swapped my working car for my brother's older junker in the summer to help him out at a difficult time, and I never really drove it.

It massively missed the mark at the MOT and has sat completely unused since then, perhaps September? Either way, it has started to bloom into life:

The glasses case from the glove compartment was similarly mouldy. Also, scraping the thing seems to be an absolute nightmare in Scotland...

 

[Drago]

A mysterious fire...?

 

[Beebo]

you have discovered penicillin.

 

[gaijintendo]

you have discovered penicillin.

I don't think this car is going to save lives.

 

[I like Skol]

Far too good to scrap.

 

[gaijintendo]

Far too good to scrap.

Two new front wheels.

I'm paying £25 for a new v5c so I can SORN the thing. The suspension has issues, the battery has a parasitic leak - meaning it needs constantly driven, or routinely charged. Two new front "Good ride" tyres though, if anyone is looking for a Good ride.

 

[screenman]

What model is it?

 

[gaijintendo]

What model is it?

Its an automatic Golf 1.6, probably from something like '98

 

[pawl]

Definitely bad for your health especially if one smashes you from behind

 

[Nigel-YZ1]

Our youngest left his shitty old Golf at the back of our house because it has 'sentimental' value.
It's slowly dissolving into the earth. Good luck to the damn thing.

 

[tyred]

One of the downsides of modern cars is that they don't rust away. Leave an old Cortina sitting unused in the garden for a year in this damp climate and it would have disintegrated and almost disappeared but that doesn't happen any more.

 

[Deleted member 26715]

Its an automatic Golf 1.6, probably from something like '98

It'll be worth something to somebody, Golf's have a good name

 

[Tin Pot]

I swapped my working car for my brother's older junker in the summer to help him out at a difficult time, and I never really drove it.

It massively missed the mark at the MOT and has sat completely unused since then, perhaps September? Either way, it has started to bloom into life:
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The glasses case from the glove compartment was similarly mouldy. Also, scraping the thing seems to be an absolute nightmare in Scotland...

Cars, like bikes, need to be used not sat idle.

I wouldn’t be surprised if a simple interior wash would sort this out. Obvs the MOT and perhaps a source for the damp would still be needed.