CL1_EuroR
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To set the tone, I live in Ireland, and Ireland and cars in general don't get on, be it physically with the shit roads, the extortionate Insurance prices or the sheer ignorance of cars that are not marketed at the general public etc...
To add to the this, I have previously owned: a minter of an AE101 GT FX with only twenty odd thousand miles:
Followed by a genuine Irish registered DC2 ( an absolute rocket of a ca/ I really miss this car!!):
Followed by a beautiful minter of a CL1 EuroR, which my mate still drives now:
From her I had two kids, and settled down for over 4 years with a very boring 1.4 D4D corolla!, I was driven mad, excuse the pun... absolutely soul destroying from my perspective.. car was fantastic mechanically and economically, absolutely zero issues.
(No pictures required haha)
Now I have a decent DC5, owned it now for 12 months and just put in over 1k into her for preventative maintenance to keep her right but I am feeling the restrictions of it on my fishing like I did with my past Honda's the car is too good for me to bring it off down country lanes and leave it there while I head of for 10 hours on the water. I tried that once with my DC2 and the badges were stolen off of it damaging the paint work!
Anyway, Irish insurance makes it near on impossible to insure two cars if you don't have a business, which I don't. Which leaves me with the possible dilemma of selling the car (which I don't want to do as I have it near to where I want it). But I am big into my fishing and I am not getting any younger!
Any advice out there from anyone who has been in a similar situation?
Word of wisdom would be most welcome!! (PS there is not a hope of me giving up fishing )
To add to the this, I have previously owned: a minter of an AE101 GT FX with only twenty odd thousand miles:
Followed by a genuine Irish registered DC2 ( an absolute rocket of a ca/ I really miss this car!!):
Followed by a beautiful minter of a CL1 EuroR, which my mate still drives now:
From her I had two kids, and settled down for over 4 years with a very boring 1.4 D4D corolla!, I was driven mad, excuse the pun... absolutely soul destroying from my perspective.. car was fantastic mechanically and economically, absolutely zero issues.
(No pictures required haha)
Now I have a decent DC5, owned it now for 12 months and just put in over 1k into her for preventative maintenance to keep her right but I am feeling the restrictions of it on my fishing like I did with my past Honda's the car is too good for me to bring it off down country lanes and leave it there while I head of for 10 hours on the water. I tried that once with my DC2 and the badges were stolen off of it damaging the paint work!
Anyway, Irish insurance makes it near on impossible to insure two cars if you don't have a business, which I don't. Which leaves me with the possible dilemma of selling the car (which I don't want to do as I have it near to where I want it). But I am big into my fishing and I am not getting any younger!
Any advice out there from anyone who has been in a similar situation?
Word of wisdom would be most welcome!! (PS there is not a hope of me giving up fishing )