What car to use as a dustbin??
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I get increasingly frustrated by a member of the GT03ROB household turning any vehicle she drives into a dented/scratched dustbin that stinks of damp dogs.
She never knows where the scratches or dents come from. She currently has a headlamp hanging off that she knows nothing about.
The 2 cars she has destroyed are probably heading towards the end of their natural lives, but I'm damned if I'm going to spend much or buy anything decent to be treated the same way. So any good recommendations? I'm curently thinking Dacia duster as they are cheapish & practical
Something that could be hosed down inside would be great but guess those don't exist anymore. Space for shopping, 2 dogs & loads of crap is the main criteria.
Before anyone says it, its a waste of breath telling her to treat cars with respect. She is banned from driving anything parked in the garage, so thats the decent stuff.
She never knows where the scratches or dents come from. She currently has a headlamp hanging off that she knows nothing about.
The 2 cars she has destroyed are probably heading towards the end of their natural lives, but I'm damned if I'm going to spend much or buy anything decent to be treated the same way. So any good recommendations? I'm curently thinking Dacia duster as they are cheapish & practical
Something that could be hosed down inside would be great but guess those don't exist anymore. Space for shopping, 2 dogs & loads of crap is the main criteria.
Before anyone says it, its a waste of breath telling her to treat cars with respect. She is banned from driving anything parked in the garage, so thats the decent stuff.
GT03ROB said:
Something that could be hosed down inside would be great but guess those don't exist anymore. Space for shopping, 2 dogs & loads of crap is the main criteria.
Before anyone says it, its a waste of breath telling her to treat cars with respect.
Seems obvious to me - original LandRover Defender 90.Before anyone says it, its a waste of breath telling her to treat cars with respect.
Get a cheap sheddy Honda Jazz.
I got one for exactly your reason (in that I didn't want the other cars to be ruined inside) and because it has magic seats where the seat bases fold up to make a nice contained space for the dogs to travel in. It's used as a dog walking car and generally looks like this inside.
It has scratches on the rear bumper where it's been reversed into things but it's very much a 'meh' car. In that a new scratch just adds to the rest of them and it's very nice to have a car that, although is looked after mechanically you literally don't care much about.
I got one for exactly your reason (in that I didn't want the other cars to be ruined inside) and because it has magic seats where the seat bases fold up to make a nice contained space for the dogs to travel in. It's used as a dog walking car and generally looks like this inside.
It has scratches on the rear bumper where it's been reversed into things but it's very much a 'meh' car. In that a new scratch just adds to the rest of them and it's very nice to have a car that, although is looked after mechanically you literally don't care much about.
Edited by juice on Friday 19th January 06:56
juice said:
Get a cheap sheddy Honda Jazz.
I got one for exactly this reason and because it has magic seats where the seat bases fold up to make a nice contained space for the dogs to travel in. It's used as a dog walking car and generally looks like this inside.
It has scratches on the rear bumper where it's been reversed into things but it's very much a 'meh' car. In that a new scratch just adds to the rest of them and it's very nice to have a car that, although is looked after mechanically you literally don't care much about.
I can smell that from here! I got one for exactly this reason and because it has magic seats where the seat bases fold up to make a nice contained space for the dogs to travel in. It's used as a dog walking car and generally looks like this inside.
It has scratches on the rear bumper where it's been reversed into things but it's very much a 'meh' car. In that a new scratch just adds to the rest of them and it's very nice to have a car that, although is looked after mechanically you literally don't care much about.
Honda sold the Element claiming you could hose it down. Owners now disagree!
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juice said:
Get a cheap sheddy Honda Jazz.
I got one for exactly your reason (in that I didn't want the other cars to be ruined inside) and because it has magic seats where the seat bases fold up to make a nice contained space for the dogs to travel in. It's used as a dog walking car and generally looks like this inside.
It has scratches on the rear bumper where it's been reversed into things but it's very much a 'meh' car. In that a new scratch just adds to the rest of them and it's very nice to have a car that, although is looked after mechanically you literally don't care much about.
That's interesting; never knew that. I'm curious as to whether there are any other cars that have this feature. Space needs to be big enough for a German ShepherdI got one for exactly your reason (in that I didn't want the other cars to be ruined inside) and because it has magic seats where the seat bases fold up to make a nice contained space for the dogs to travel in. It's used as a dog walking car and generally looks like this inside.
It has scratches on the rear bumper where it's been reversed into things but it's very much a 'meh' car. In that a new scratch just adds to the rest of them and it's very nice to have a car that, although is looked after mechanically you literally don't care much about.
Edited by juice on Friday 19th January 06:56
We have a Dacia Duster (affectionately known as the Dustbin …) for precisely this purpose. It’s the tip car, station car and used for garden centre trips. Probably gets washed once or twice a year.
It’s quite good to have a car you don’t give a s
t about which do all the jobs you don’t to use your decent cars for.
It’s quite good to have a car you don’t give a s
t about which do all the jobs you don’t to use your decent cars for.juice said:
Get a cheap sheddy Honda Jazz.
I got one for exactly your reason (in that I didn't want the other cars to be ruined inside) and because it has magic seats where the seat bases fold up to make a nice contained space for the dogs to travel in. It's used as a dog walking car and generally looks like this inside.
Love the flat fold seats in the Jazz but you could have put down plastic sheeting (bin liners work well) in the back. Mine is used to carry stuff but the back doesn't look (and probably smell) as bad as that!I got one for exactly your reason (in that I didn't want the other cars to be ruined inside) and because it has magic seats where the seat bases fold up to make a nice contained space for the dogs to travel in. It's used as a dog walking car and generally looks like this inside.
We use a Cayenne E-hybrid for family duties-a very nice thing to ferry the troops around in. I mentally price in the odd alloy reburb and trip to the local coachworks courtesy of the mystery scrapes that Mrs fflump comes home with. It's often too dirty to show any of them anyway. Life's too short to buy a dustbin/dodgem car for her and would work out more expensive anyway.
fflump said:
We use a Cayenne E-hybrid for family duties-a very nice thing to ferry the troops around in. I mentally price in the odd alloy reburb and trip to the local coachworks courtesy of the mystery scrapes that Mrs fflump comes home with. It's often too dirty to show any of them anyway. Life's too short to buy a dustbin/dodgem car for her and would work out more expensive anyway.
I'm afraid you cannot possibly conceive the level of destruction that can be bought down on a car. I could never buy a Cayenne even an old one & have it trashed as it would be. Aside from which she would go mad having a 4th Porsche! Interestingly my 3 main considerations have already been listed:
- Duster
- Old Defender - quite like this one https://www.pistonheads.com/buy/listing/15045498 had to laugh at this one https://www.pistonheads.com/buy/listing/14899897
- Transit connect.
Martin315 said:
We have a Dacia Duster (affectionately known as the Dustbin …) for precisely this purpose. It’s the tip car, station car and used for garden centre trips. Probably gets washed once or twice a year.
It’s quite good to have a car you don’t give a st about which do all the jobs you don’t to use your decent cars for.
We had a Hilux Surf for this purpose too. Amazing thing. Go anywhere, do anything. Used to camp in it. Pulled cars out of ditches. Hauled huge logs round fields. Station car for my bi-weeklies to London. Tip runs. (That latter two are the same thing spiritually.) School runs when the roads are flooded or under a load of snow. And now, at the age of 30, it has died. But bits of it will live on as the builder wants the engine for his mostly-Landcruiser.It’s quite good to have a car you don’t give a s
t about which do all the jobs you don’t to use your decent cars for.I also have a family member very much like the one described by the OP who had just written off our runabout EV. So we're having a think about our "fleet". We're long a "project" (knackered) VW camper and a family estate, short a runabout and tip car. Need to sort it out pronto as they smell of dog in the estate is becoming unbearable.
Truckosaurus said:
Dingle Dell said:
... I'm curious as to whether there are any other cars that have this feature. Space needs to be big enough for a German Shepherd
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