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My previous car, a 1994 Fiesta Si 1.6 16v
The dent in the passenger side door was there when I got it.
First belonged to my mum, then my Grandad.
Sold him my 1998 Civic 1.4SE 5-door as I was going to uni and needed the cash and got the Fiesta as part of the deal.
It was an absolute pup.
First time I drove it the engine developed a nasty misfire and wouldn't go above 3,000rpm.
Replacing the sparkplugs solved the problem, only for it to come back again a few thousand miles later.
Didn't seem worth working out what was wrong as I'd got it for free and it had negligible value so just changed the plugs every time it happened.
The suspension felt like it was made out of granite, surfaces changes in the M27 would send such a smash through the cabin that the CD player would skip for about 10 seconds, or sometimes the actual headunit facia would detatch and bounce around the footwell instead.
Don't think hard suspension meant it handled well however, the front end felt like it was having a nasty arguement with the tarmac as it bounced from bump to bump which led to some rather unpredictable understeer at times.
I took it down to University (Portsmouth) and someone kicked the passenger side wing mirror off. I clipped it back in (as it was designed to do) and it redetatched itself at 70mph on the motorway and while swinging around on the safety cable cut a nice arc into the paintwork.
Someone else then drove into the drivers door when it was parked and put a nice big dent in it.
End of the second year of uni I came into some money and replaced it with a Mk2 Mazda MX-5 1.8i.
I say replaced, I mean supplimented as it took 9 months to sell the thing, got £650 for it in the end and spent about £300 getting it sorted out before that
Still look back on it fondly though, not entirely sure why....
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but the boost!!!
Originally Posted by Flibb
- we managed to get to the hard shoulder after I convinced her the car wasn't going to explode - and then the only thing we had to fill up the radiator was orange juice!!! we got to the wedding about half way through the service after stopping every half hour to fill the radiator with fresh water...
white with a lurvly brown interior, did my first ICE install a Tandy Graphic and Amp and a set of 'house' speakers jammed in the back!! Ended up selling it one after somehow 
managing to make the box and engine sit at a funny 'humped back' angle!!
) and spending a week with a Haynes as bed time reading the starter motor connector was found to be (stupidly located and) corroded. At the time I thought it was worth doing the well documented earth straps and assumed i'd 'fixed' them all ... appart from the one I didn't notice that led to it conking out on the 27th of December at 6am as I flogged it from Wakefield to Gateshead... Merry xmas! Thankfully the AA fixed it and it was back down in aformentioned mechanics care the same day. I asked 'why is the coolant that orange/brown colour ?' - yes I was that naive! Only to be told that it probably just needed changing/flushing. A little reading revealed that 96k on the clock and 8 years with brown coolant and loss of water were probably not cheap/good. Oh and who put's a main fuse box below a water run off ? FRENCH PPL FFS!
