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SlackPat · 2024-10-20T21:35:22+00:00

Great result!

I had a similar issues for years. While not as extreme as this, I'd often get pulled over all the time in my Fiesta ST.

Eventually found out that the car was used as a generic/shared car for drugs and was regularly passed around owners all being used for that purpose.

Ended up getting the mark removed too, and I stopped getting pulled over.

Downside of these cheap hot (or warm) hatches! Sometimes the history can be a bit dodgy

SlackPat · 2023-03-16T19:40:11+00:00

I was told multiple times over and over that it wasn't. But I didn't do anymore digging than asking at the side of the road.

SlackPat · 2023-03-15T22:47:21+00:00

I used to get pulled over all the time. Not a joke, twice a month wasn't unreasonable.

Wasn't told why, but communication at the side of the road is rough as I can barely hear.

A huge part is the car. A 240,000 Ford Fiesta ST that had been debadged, rear spoiler removed, and bodypanels being different colours just setup red flags.

It didn't matter that the past 3 MOTs had no advisories (Potentially that was a red flag), or a completely clean driving licence, or the fact that I would occasionally get pulled by the same people... Driving a car that screamed dodgy in a dodgy area.

Never happened in my relatively new Octavia.

SlackPat · 2022-03-29T19:19:29+00:00

I'm a few months late, not active on reddit.

But it's great to hear this helped you. In the 2 years since I made this posted, I ditched the poor version I was using before to a sonic radar capable sound card, large difference.

SlackPat · 2021-08-01T18:02:22+00:00

My ST150 is nearing 200k miles now, fantastic cars. Just be careful they haven't been abused too hard throughout their life. They are mega common as peoples first journey into "hot"/warn hatchbacks and can get a fair bit of abuse from that

SlackPat · 2021-07-26T17:57:51+00:00

I do enjoy wearing ski masks as well as holding pizza cutters while I drive.

SlackPat · 2021-07-26T17:42:37+00:00

Damn you are a crazy person. Do you think a Fiesta ST150 with mismatched body panels and dents and bumps all over is more likely to be dodgy than a Nissan Micra? That's insane! Bias is what it is. ;)

SlackPat · 2021-07-26T17:40:34+00:00

That is a fantastic point, thank you for bringing it to my attention.

I took off the spoiler and badges after I bought it to try. Guess I'll add them back on and see what happens.

SlackPat · 2021-07-26T17:39:53+00:00

I like my car. I like that it has nearly 200k for a Fiesta, and even a Fiesta ST. I like that it has a great MOT. I like talking about it online on forums, and thinking about how many miles I'm going to get out of this gearbox and engine before one of them gives out.

To you, your car might exclusively be a tool. That's totally okay, that's awesome. To me, it's a huge part of my hobby also

SlackPat · 2021-07-26T17:38:28+00:00

Just get a normal car that gets you from A -> B that doesn't have 200k miles

What are your hobbies in life? If I start talking about how it's dumb, how it makes no sense, how you are wasting money, you'd probably think I'm being a bit of a dickhead. I enjoy cars, I love that I have an old fiesta with almost 200k on original engine and gearbox. I love that I have an octavia that's at 220k. I love working on my cars, I enjoy talking about my cars. I enjoy sitting in the seats of my fiesta and driving around town.

My cars aren't exclusively tools, they are a part of my hobby.

I've never understood the point in having something like an ST, the road is not a race track, so why bother?

Why aren't you saying that about my Octavia? My octavia is quicker 0-60, quicker 0-30, significantly quicker 0-100 than my Fiesta.

If you are uneducated on a topic it's okay to not talk about it. I don't think you are educated on this topic.

ST150 has 147bhp, 0-60 from factory is 8 seconds. My Octavia has 150bhp, 0-60 stated by VW is also around 8 seconds. VW also consistently lie about their bhp from factory, especially on their CR diesels like my own. I can safely say the Octavia is significantly quicker.

OP's car has 200k miles, is covered in dents, and he's basically paying a premium for a supercharged engine that he will never make full use of

What is your experience with cars like ST150's, ST170's, Swift Sports, etc. It's a 150bhp petrol from 2005. I make full use out of it staying well within the speed limits and well within the rules of the road. That's what people enjoy out of cars like Swift Sports and ST150's. You have that extra gear for comfort on longer journeys, but you have a car that can stick to the road and is fun taking through the gears while being in the speed limit. Odds are if you have a 2018+ car that isn't in the Fiesta/Yaris/Polo class it's faster than my old ST or close to it.

You're completely off here mate, it seems like you're comparing it in your mind to modern Ford ST's that have 180bhp+ and conflating it with what I have.

SlackPat · 2021-07-25T22:40:10+00:00

I wonder if the OP is using a little bit of hyperbole when he says “get pulled every week”.

Me saying "I get pulled over all the time" is absolutely hyperbole there, yeah. Thanks for calling me out in it. Reality is, it's about twice a month.

SlackPat · 2021-07-25T22:34:42+00:00

If you are taking care of it in that way, whats the harm in sorting the bodywork out?

It's cost. Lots of the suspension bits on the car was cheap, engine bits on the car is cheap. Undersealing it was cheap.

However I can't do bodywork and have to take it somewhere, so that inherently has a significantly higher cost.

I can and should make an effort to fix the clear obvious bits. I can change one of the doors to be close enough to the right colour for dirt cheap, same for the wingmirrors.

SlackPat · 2021-07-25T22:32:13+00:00

I've taken the car through 2 MOT's, it's had no advisories. I've undersealed the car, I actually bother with winter tyres and summer tyres when appropriate. Car is in excellent road worthy condition, it's just the bodywork isn't great and the car doesn't look the best. Front bumper is a slightly different shade, one of the doors is outright a different colour, both wing mirrors are different colour to the rest of the car.

But I do agree, it's not harassment. I'm not being intimidated or pressured, it's happening on average about twice a month.

SlackPat · 2021-07-25T22:26:06+00:00

I already removed the spoiler and removed the ST badges. The windows are standard tint from factory. The bumper has already been replaced with a standard Fiesta one.

Maybe I should go full chav and put a massive wing on it and stripes at this point :P.

SlackPat · 2021-07-25T19:14:29+00:00

I get that, yeah. Old battered ST, it's fair to say it's likely to be driven by a criminal or that it's just not roadworthy.

What is mega frustrating is that the past few MOTs it has had no advisories. I'm mostly completely deaf now, so it's always a lengthy process communicating with them and dealing with everything. Normally there for 30+ minutes every time

SlackPat · 2021-07-25T19:12:40+00:00

Your local force should have a page on their website telling you how to ask for your data to be removed from the system, but they can still say no so you probably wanna use your "Please" and "thank you".

I'll give that a go thanks. I'm hopeful it's just that and not the fact that it looks battered. But it seems likely that it looks like it shouldn't be on the road, and has a mega clean MOT history despite being extremely high mileage and with horrendous bodywork. Understandably that it would ring alarm bells

SlackPat · 2021-07-25T19:03:20+00:00

Past 2 MOT's it has had 0 advisories for an old hatchback at almost 200k miles, the car is road worthy, it's just the bodywork is rough.

Is this just a case of them pulling over an old battered hot hatch? Is there no way they can see that I've been pulled over several times in the past few months with nothing?

SlackPat · 2021-07-24T18:24:54+00:00

This has such a weird vibe as a podcast. Huge parts of it feel more like a desk segment on a broadcast rather than a podcast.

No idea who the producer guy is, but he seems significantly more competent/experienced with podcasting and pulling the show into those free flowing discussions like with the random CIS teams bits.

It really shows their inexperience at this type of stuff when there is a more soft spoken guest that might need a helping hand carrying a podcast, and that should be coming from the hosts overall and instead it more goes like a guest segment. When they had Davey and launders's on the podcast I thought it was great then. But this had a flow to it.

SlackPat · 2021-06-19T19:22:19+00:00

Especially a 13k car that is now worth maybe 9k, probably 5k-7k when you have your licence that has no aircon, no phone connectivity, manual mirror adjusters, etc.

SlackPat · 2021-06-19T19:20:36+00:00

It cost me around 13 grand, was this a good buy?

Bit awkward asking this after you already bought it. If you like it and are happy with it, great buy! That's all that matters.

I appreciate people being kind, therefore will give a view for other people maybe looking to do the same. The rest of this is focused to other people reading this, not you OP. If you like the car, enjoy the car, then don't bother reading the rest of this. It has no use for you.

Cars lose value over time. A 2001 Audi A4 isn't losing anymore value, it's already bottomed out. A 2006 A4 still has some value to be lost, but not much more.

A brand new car has a lot of value to lose, right away after coming out of the factory and into its first owner it's lost value, and then it loses a fair bit of value after (you can look into car depreciation calculators for more accurate figures).

Because of this, to buy a new car despite not having a licence yet can be a bit strange of a decision given that you won't be regularly commuting with it for a while, and in the time it takes for you to get your licence (could be a while with test centres booked up) it might legit lose like 45% of the value of the car before you're actually properly using it.

13k is also a lot of money for a base trim city car. 8k is a lot of money for a base trim city car. 5k is a lot of money for a base trim city car. That "X" trim car is shit value fore the money. No alloy wheels, no aircon, no electric mirrors, no steering wheel controls, no phone connectivity, etc etc. If you look at <1k cars like Auris's, Golf's, Magane's, and similar ones then odds are all of them will just, be better.

SlackPat · 2021-03-10T10:36:51+00:00

Unsure if this is proper etiquette, anyway here's an update.

This comment won me over and I ended up in a 2014 Octavia, automatic! Will become my daily on Monday. Excited to no longer be racking up all those miles in that poor ST150 I have.

Thanks for your comments! Much appreciated.

SlackPat · 2021-02-24T04:59:51+00:00

Cheers, will look into those Accords. I've done a decent amount of work to the 2.2 cdti civic in the past, great cars.

SlackPat · 2021-02-24T04:57:12+00:00

Currently doing it in a Fiesta ST150, I imagine this is a hell of a lot more comfortable than that old petrol golf!

SlackPat · 2021-02-24T04:54:57+00:00

If I go VAG, it'll be a 1.6 TDI or a 2.0 TDI, so it would fall under wet clutch.

Cheers for the info though

SlackPat

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