omg !! really starting to loose faith
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markwashington
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I've got to be honest mate and say that I'd "retire" the car for a while. Keep it, but take it off the road and buy something else to use as a run around for say 12 months. Get yourself one of those group 1 insurance cars and drive that for a year. Otherwise you'll never be on top of the Pulsar as if you're using it daily other things will inevitably go wrong. I had mine for two years (only sold because I got made redundant) and during that time it was hard for me to afford to run it sometimes even being paid decent money with cheaper insurance. I took mine off the road from Oct 2010 till March 2011 and saved money. With this I was able to get the car sorted properly so that it was reliable, and ticked all the boxes I wanted.
Forget about your mates, if you keep the car off the road, you can sort everything out once you've got a bit saved up. Do it all in one go and you'll be laughing (at least until something else breaks!). If you don't do this, I'd recommend selling. If you keep on driving it without sorting everything, then stuff will go wrong as quickly or quicker than you can fix it.
Forget about your mates, if you keep the car off the road, you can sort everything out once you've got a bit saved up. Do it all in one go and you'll be laughing (at least until something else breaks!). If you don't do this, I'd recommend selling. If you keep on driving it without sorting everything, then stuff will go wrong as quickly or quicker than you can fix it.
lakeview
Active Member
id take the car to someone near you who can check it over for you.if the car is fixed properly the car will run very reliably.ive used a gtir(not the same one)as a daily driver since 1999 ive maintained them though and not cut corners modifiying them.most of the reliability issues you hear about are a load of bollocks in my opinion.all modified cars can have problems regardless of who makes them from ford's to porsche's not just the gtir
rob
rob
Jesssusss ! - £3200 for insurance, I love these cars but there's no way I could stomach such a cost. I've been into performance cars for 25 years and if someone gave me a cheque now representing how much I'd spent over the years, I could comfortably retire. Throughout that period, my financial circumstances have changed on a number of occasions (up and down) and at times I've had to lose the fast car and run something cheap / slow. Do yourself a favour mate, ditch the car for a year or two, save some money and come back and buy the best you can....
If I wasnt an insurance broker, I'd also be saying something about robbing b*stards etc...
Good luck with whatever you decide.
If I wasnt an insurance broker, I'd also be saying something about robbing b*stards etc...
Good luck with whatever you decide.
If that's the case, you gotta do what you gotta do!As i literaly can not afford it
geoff pine
Well-Known Member
If you took your car to some one who you where paying to fix it?? and they then damaged the engine to the point where it had to be replaced . Why is it a cost to you they must be totally liable in law I'm with Danny on this point !! then suddenly the cost are not so bad
£300 quid a month on insurance is a still a BIG cost no matter what way you slice it, but i don't really know what the history/deal is with the OP's engine and it blown up by someone as I'm only new here.
think i'd go with marks advice(if you have space that is), if you do want to keep the car "retire" it and put the cash you had on the insurance into doing a mini resto-mod over a year, then you can enjoy it
ollydj
Member
just read this thread and i am totally shocked at how much money your throwing at this car, fair enough these cars can cost you loads of money and you've got to be prepared to dig deep!
When i bought mine i flew over to ireland on the understanding it was a minter only to find it was a nail,i had no choice but to buy it but hey there we go lol. i got it back and have spent a bomb on it just to get it to a reasonable 320bhp after fixing all the faults with it. I've now owned the car for 4 years, the car has only seen the road for 2 summers of the four years as the rest of the time its been parked up wanting money to be spent on it or waiting to be fixed.
Its at the stage now where it needs a new turbo and i just cant be bothered to spend the money on it, im only going to ever fit a new unit as ive already gone down the road of putting a second hand stage 1 hybrid on it and its now burning oil.
What im trying to say here is take your time with it, if you can take it off the road to sort it then do so and dont fit a second hand turbo because you'll end up in the same boat agin! As for paying all that insurance forget it put your money towards a cheep run around and your project.
And as for your mates take no notice because i can promise you that when your car is fixed and running to it full potential they will take all them words back!
When i bought mine i flew over to ireland on the understanding it was a minter only to find it was a nail,i had no choice but to buy it but hey there we go lol. i got it back and have spent a bomb on it just to get it to a reasonable 320bhp after fixing all the faults with it. I've now owned the car for 4 years, the car has only seen the road for 2 summers of the four years as the rest of the time its been parked up wanting money to be spent on it or waiting to be fixed.
Its at the stage now where it needs a new turbo and i just cant be bothered to spend the money on it, im only going to ever fit a new unit as ive already gone down the road of putting a second hand stage 1 hybrid on it and its now burning oil.
What im trying to say here is take your time with it, if you can take it off the road to sort it then do so and dont fit a second hand turbo because you'll end up in the same boat agin! As for paying all that insurance forget it put your money towards a cheep run around and your project.
And as for your mates take no notice because i can promise you that when your car is fixed and running to it full potential they will take all them words back!
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I bought mine off ebay - ragged like a tuesday everytime i drove it for 3/4 years and never had a problem, launched it countless times.......until i was flat out in 5th and dropped to 2nd not 4th....ooopsie........they aint all that bad - some are just rotten.
They aren't cheap though you have to rememeber they are in limited numbers and they are classics pretty much! you can buy an evo at 400bhp for what a pulsar will cost you - its a love thing!
Keep the faith
They aren't cheap though you have to rememeber they are in limited numbers and they are classics pretty much! you can buy an evo at 400bhp for what a pulsar will cost you - its a love thing!
Keep the faith
