My 200 has been / is up for sale. The reason for sale was that I start uni in September and most of my cash is tied up in the car. I was going to sell, and then look for a cheap 172/182 as a replacement to do trackdays, but this would only sit on the driveway at home and take up space, and we have enough cars already!
My sister has given me a slight lifeline if I wanted. She has offered to go halves in on the 200, she would sell her current Corsa, and then use the 200 as a daily and then the I can use it when I am around, or for trackdays, after she came with me to Bedford she enjoys them too! She is fine with me looking to modify certain bits as well.
The thing I am mulling - is the 200 worth it? The 'numbers' as it were are about the same, by the time I have sold the 200 and purchased a decentish replacement I would be 4K up as it were. My sisters Corsa is worth about 4K.
I suppose what I am trying to see, is investing in the 200 worthwhile? I know modifications to any car are almost worthless, but in terms of parts, and things going wrong. I want to do more trackdays as they are great fun, but then this stresses parts etc. Where they are easily available on the 172's/182's, most parts for a 200 will probably have to come from Renault.
I would have similar long term plans for the cars, getting a decent track set-up - suspension etc, and the possibility of turboing either car (Meg conversion for the 200), yes there is a large cost associated with these, but then it will be doing things properly in a car to keep. For either cars, the future would probably result in solely a track car, with some form of eco car / company car doing the daily work (but that is years and years of yet! haha)
I suppose most of the answers here will be biased
but Keep it? or let it go?
I cant decide, and this post probably hasn't made any sense, but its the sort of thing I can figure out in my head, and need to put on paper as it were.
My sister has given me a slight lifeline if I wanted. She has offered to go halves in on the 200, she would sell her current Corsa, and then use the 200 as a daily and then the I can use it when I am around, or for trackdays, after she came with me to Bedford she enjoys them too! She is fine with me looking to modify certain bits as well.
The thing I am mulling - is the 200 worth it? The 'numbers' as it were are about the same, by the time I have sold the 200 and purchased a decentish replacement I would be 4K up as it were. My sisters Corsa is worth about 4K.
I suppose what I am trying to see, is investing in the 200 worthwhile? I know modifications to any car are almost worthless, but in terms of parts, and things going wrong. I want to do more trackdays as they are great fun, but then this stresses parts etc. Where they are easily available on the 172's/182's, most parts for a 200 will probably have to come from Renault.
I would have similar long term plans for the cars, getting a decent track set-up - suspension etc, and the possibility of turboing either car (Meg conversion for the 200), yes there is a large cost associated with these, but then it will be doing things properly in a car to keep. For either cars, the future would probably result in solely a track car, with some form of eco car / company car doing the daily work (but that is years and years of yet! haha)
I suppose most of the answers here will be biased
but Keep it? or let it go?
I cant decide, and this post probably hasn't made any sense, but its the sort of thing I can figure out in my head, and need to put on paper as it were.
