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Reliable cars - Under £500 for Charity Rally
« on: 10 January 2008, 15:58:13 »
Hello all!

This April I'm doing the Coyote Rally around Europe for charideeeeeee.

Calais - Paris - Munich - Prague - Amsterdam.
About 1,500 miles in total.

The car can't be worth more than £500 so I'm looking for ideas, and thought I'd ask my fellow Omega clansmen.

It needs to be pretty bulletproof, and comfortable - that's a LOT of driving in 4 days.

I'm toying with an older Omega, but not sure. There seems to be quite a few Mondeos & Vectras about the right price, age & condition out there, and I'm thinking these could be cheap to patch up and prepare.

If anyone fancies supporting us, take a look at

http://www.imagineeruk.com/2amigos
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Re: Reliable cars - Under £500 for Charity Rally
« Reply #1 on: 10 January 2008, 16:06:37 »
Tunnies old senator would have been spot on for this
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Re: Reliable cars - Under £500 for Charity Rally
« Reply #2 on: 10 January 2008, 16:08:04 »
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Hello all!

This April I'm doing the Coyote Rally around Europe for charideeeeeee.

Calais - Paris - Munich - Prague - Amsterdam.
About 1,500 miles in total.

The car can't be worth more than £500 so I'm looking for ideas, and thought I'd ask my fellow Omega clansmen.

It needs to be pretty bulletproof, and comfortable - that's a LOT of driving in 4 days.

I'm toying with an older Omega, but not sure. There seems to be quite a few Mondeos & Vectras about the right price, age & condition out there, and I'm thinking these could be cheap to patch up and prepare.

If anyone fancies supporting us, take a look at

http://www.imagineeruk.com/2amigos


Not much of a challenge that.....we did checkwrecks 18 months ago and the car cant cost more than 100 quid on that one.

We opted for a 24V Senator.....not pretty but did us proud.

My advice would be the bigger the better, some of the driving legs can be pretty long and try for a manual if your going near any of the mountain passes (I guess your not doing to many given the short trip mileage) although we managed on an auto but, you have to learn how to descend slopes with little brake useage.
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Re: Reliable cars - Under £500 for Charity Rally
« Reply #3 on: 10 January 2008, 16:09:56 »
Yep. Senator all the way. Much less boring than driving a Mundaneo all those miles.

Kevin
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Re: Reliable cars - Under £500 for Charity Rally
« Reply #4 on: 10 January 2008, 16:11:34 »
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Yep. Senator all the way. Much less boring than driving a Mundaneo all those miles.

Kevin

The Mundaneo that was on the same rally as us only made it thanks to our helping it along!
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Re: Reliable cars - Under £500 for Charity Rally
« Reply #5 on: 10 January 2008, 16:16:28 »
Not thought about the senator... Good idea!

You're right though, it needs to be comfortable.

This is a starter rally for us, we hope to do some more in the future, and organise our own as well sometime soon :y
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Re: Reliable cars - Under £500 for Charity Rally
« Reply #6 on: 10 January 2008, 16:18:20 »
94 95 96 V6 Omega
Late Carlton
Late Senator
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Re: Reliable cars - Under £500 for Charity Rally
« Reply #7 on: 10 January 2008, 16:20:34 »
would try and get the best possible calton, senator or possibly Omega that i could get for my money......

There are a few out there

Big Volvos might be worth a look at as well, but they really drink the juice though
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Re: Reliable cars - Under £500 for Charity Rally
« Reply #8 on: 10 January 2008, 16:22:10 »
Pains me to say it,  but I think reliable = Japanese, probably Toyota, Camry?  - boring certainly but should be comfy and reliable.

Ok bring it on... ::)
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Re: Reliable cars - Under £500 for Charity Rally
« Reply #9 on: 10 January 2008, 16:22:30 »
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would try and get the best possible calton, senator or possibly Omega that i could get for my money......

There are a few out there

Big Volvos might be worth a look at as well, but they really drink the juice though

940 or 960 would now be cheap but they don't handle too well
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« Reply #10 on: 10 January 2008, 16:23:33 »
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Pains me to say it,  but I think reliable = Japanese, probably Toyota, Camry?  - boring certainly but should be comfy and reliable.

Ok bring it on... ::)

£400 - £500 for  a 2.5 CD

Do the cam kit and crank sensor

Ready to go
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« Reply #11 on: 10 January 2008, 16:24:15 »
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Pains me to say it,  but I think reliable = Japanese, probably Toyota, Camry?  - boring certainly but should be comfy and reliable.

Ok bring it on... ::)


you're right, they are boring as hell, lots of toys in the top spec ones......but they willl go on and on and and on and...........

Bet a low miler could be found for peanuts, something an OAP has had as a sunday driver
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« Reply #12 on: 10 January 2008, 16:27:46 »
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Pains me to say it,  but I think reliable = Japanese, probably Toyota, Camry?  - boring certainly but should be comfy and reliable.

Ok bring it on... ::)


you're right, they are boring as hell, lots of toys in the top spec ones......but they willl go on and on and and on and...........

Bet a low miler could be found for peanuts, something an OAP has had as a sunday driver

As with ANY car....there only as good as the last owner.
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Re: Reliable cars - Under £500 for Charity Rally
« Reply #13 on: 10 January 2008, 17:27:12 »
i took a £300 senator over 2,300 miles around Europe. UK>France>Netherlands>Germany>Swizerland (including the alps)

Fully loaded with camping gear, 3 big guys.... it never missed a beat and sat at 100+ all day long!!!
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« Reply #14 on: 10 January 2008, 17:48:10 »
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i took a £300 senator over 2,300 miles around Europe. UK>France>Netherlands>Germany>Swizerland (including the alps)

Fully loaded with camping gear, 3 big guys.... it never missed a beat and sat at 100+ all day long!!!

me thinks you are exaggerating a little. ::)

100+ (even if km) all day long...... in the alps!
+ the Swiss would have thrown away the key (not the one for your car..) ;)
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