Afternoon guys. I need help 
Found a car I desperately want, but it has potentially expensive issues and I'm supposed to be saving for a garage build. It's a rare car (69 currently taxed from 2000ish produced) and while most on here will consider it to be fairly modern, it's at least 15 years old (not sure on exact year as it's on Guernsey plates currently).
It's a Bora V6 4Motion, in a very tasty colour with a manual box and fairly good spec (rare optional wheels etc) In my mind there must be 10% or so of these in this colour, whenever you see a Bora they're silver or black, but this is a really nice Raven blue. I currently have a TDI in silver as my daily but I've always fancied a V6 to go with it.
The other night I ended up down a Youtube rabbit hole and came across a channel owned by a US scrapyard. They had a few VR6 Boras in and were just abusing them until they blew up, including a 41k mile minter. This made me sad, so I started looking for ones for sale, and this one popped up, in the right colour....
Pros:
- It's a car I very much like, in the only colour I'd really want one in, and the opportunity probably won't come up again due to the rarity
- Nostalgia - Dad's first brand new car was a Bora in the same colour that he had as a company car when I was a child
- VR6 noise (I'm aware they're not fast - they're just a nice thing)
Cons:
- It runs but roughly, seller suspects timing chains and guides need doing. Quite a labour intensive job. Paying someone to fix it will take a month or two of my 'disposable' income that I'm supposed to be putting towards saving for a new garage at home
- I've got other projects which this will push back
- Fixing it myself isn't really an option until I've got the new garage built, which will be Spring at best
- I don't really have anywhere for it. My current Bora is on my parents drive with a seized caliper, I could bring that home and leave the V6 there but I don't think they'll be too keen on a slightly broken car sitting there for a few months while I wait to either pay someone to fix it, or build my garage and fix it myself. I could put it on my drive but it'll be a squeeze.
I can read through the Cons list and think "yeah, but at the end of the day I'll have a V6 Bora in Raven blue" and that excites me, so I think I've kinda talked myself into it...
If it was 6 months later and I had my garage built, I'd not even have to question it, I'd just buy it and at worst case, buy a secondhand engine to drop in. The trouble is, in 6 months time I probably won't have the chance again.
I guess I should post some penance:
Found a car I desperately want, but it has potentially expensive issues and I'm supposed to be saving for a garage build. It's a rare car (69 currently taxed from 2000ish produced) and while most on here will consider it to be fairly modern, it's at least 15 years old (not sure on exact year as it's on Guernsey plates currently).
It's a Bora V6 4Motion, in a very tasty colour with a manual box and fairly good spec (rare optional wheels etc) In my mind there must be 10% or so of these in this colour, whenever you see a Bora they're silver or black, but this is a really nice Raven blue. I currently have a TDI in silver as my daily but I've always fancied a V6 to go with it.
The other night I ended up down a Youtube rabbit hole and came across a channel owned by a US scrapyard. They had a few VR6 Boras in and were just abusing them until they blew up, including a 41k mile minter. This made me sad, so I started looking for ones for sale, and this one popped up, in the right colour....
Pros:
- It's a car I very much like, in the only colour I'd really want one in, and the opportunity probably won't come up again due to the rarity
- Nostalgia - Dad's first brand new car was a Bora in the same colour that he had as a company car when I was a child
- VR6 noise (I'm aware they're not fast - they're just a nice thing)
Cons:
- It runs but roughly, seller suspects timing chains and guides need doing. Quite a labour intensive job. Paying someone to fix it will take a month or two of my 'disposable' income that I'm supposed to be putting towards saving for a new garage at home
- I've got other projects which this will push back
- Fixing it myself isn't really an option until I've got the new garage built, which will be Spring at best
- I don't really have anywhere for it. My current Bora is on my parents drive with a seized caliper, I could bring that home and leave the V6 there but I don't think they'll be too keen on a slightly broken car sitting there for a few months while I wait to either pay someone to fix it, or build my garage and fix it myself. I could put it on my drive but it'll be a squeeze.
I can read through the Cons list and think "yeah, but at the end of the day I'll have a V6 Bora in Raven blue" and that excites me, so I think I've kinda talked myself into it...
If it was 6 months later and I had my garage built, I'd not even have to question it, I'd just buy it and at worst case, buy a secondhand engine to drop in. The trouble is, in 6 months time I probably won't have the chance again.
I guess I should post some penance:
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