Ever regretted selling a car?

For me it's the other way round

e30 red touring great car sad to see it go wish I had never bought it as it was not clean enough but I wonted a BM sooo much had good engine all the same.

And my e23 {still got it and love it to bits} but I should never have bought it tow much work and expense for a old car, I even looked at it and saw the rotten doors and arches and non starting, damp foot wells, and no MOT and still bought it. just had to have it and care for it. Just one of the cars and felt sorry for it will never sell ether,....I am penyless

I very Neely did the same again for a e30 323 4 door SE with all the kit, good old style m-teck kit clean in side, and lots spent on it, but engine not in car rotten doors. and had been standing, but was a nice car, well I could see it.

My beloved Vauxhall 3.0i 24v Senator CD H650HSD

Bought privately at 10 years old for �2900 with a genuine 52,000 miles, FSH with every receipt and MOT from the 4th September 1990.

204bhp 270Nm torque, max speed 146 mph, 0-60 in 7.9 seconds,  huge boot, CD player, cassette player, elec sunroof, elec windows, elec mirrors, heated leather seats, speed sensitive power steering, 3 mode electronic automatic transmission, tow bar, air con, cruise control.  I could eat Golf GTIs and most BMWs from the lights.  Flick her into sports mode and kick down.  She would drop from 6th to 3rd engine would make the most amazing noises as it climbed the rev range, 4000 rpm would come up very quickly and the dual ram valve opens and you got even more power (accompanied by another push back into the leather seats, it was like a turbo kicking in) and 6500 rpm and an illegal speed would be reached and the poor Sunday driver would be left far behind wondering what car it was that flew past them.

Part exchanged for �300 last August against my E39.  Patted it on the bonnet when I locked it for the last time at the garage.  Couldn't bear to look at as I drove past it in the E39. 

The Sennie was 14 years old with a smudge under 99,000 miles on the clock, it had a hesitation problem that I couldn't fix after �300 and 3 months trying.

Cried my eyes out the first night without my Sennie, if you don't believe me ask the Mrs.

Tried consoling myself that it would have needed a grand spent on it for a new head gasket and a new set of timing chains for no increase in the cars value.

But if I hadn't got rid of it I would never have had my E39.

Andrew

I sold both my E23s in 2001 because they seemed too old hat to bother with, and I couldn�t find any sellers of used parts and also couldn�t find a mechanic to work on them.

My 1982 728i Opal Green was a very straight car that I had owned for 9 years. It had only around 100k miles on it. It had been badly nibbled by the tinworms and I had already replaced the f/wings and rear arches, and had it repainted at huge cost. Then the rear screen frame rusted and I got really fed up with it. The brake booster unit needed replacing and the BMW garage advised that the underneath was very rusty. I wish I had checked this for myself before selling it for peanuts in the Classic Car Weekly. BMW advised that it drove exceptionally well. Super smooth 2.8 engine with ZF 3 speed box.

My 1984 735 Executive in Bronze-Beige was a bit dog eared to look at, but was very solid underneath and had good mechanics/electrics. The only driving fault was that it was nigh on impossible to start with a warm or hot engine. Cold starting was perfect. BMW adjusted the engine settings a few times but it always went back to its non-starting ways. I often wonder if a new AFM would have fixed the problem. The buffalo leather trim was in super condition. That buffalo hide is so durable.

1995 Civic Coupe - bought it in '99 with 94K and a 12 month warranty, traded it in '02 with 134K for a '95 Accord Coupe.  The Civic was quick, cheap to run, comfortable, quick, quick.........It also never gave me any trouble worth mentioning and cost me nothing on replacement parts.

The Accord - a few reliability problems at the start, but when the warranty finished I handed it to my own garage and never had another problem.  However, the early problems with the garage left a bad taste in my mouth, and then a hit at the back turned it into an Accord-ian!  Kept that for another while, all the time wishing I was back in the Civic.  Then bought the BMW.

The guy who had the Civic after me blew the engine 2 days after he got it!  Test drove a '99 one last week; my g/f reckoned it was the first time she ever felt scared in a car with me!!!  Nothing like my old one, though

I still regret selling the 528 even though it was going to cost as much to get it through the MOT as buying my 530i which I still love to bits

Paul