944 withdrawal symptoms

[TTM]

For various reasons it's been a good month since I last drove either of my cars and I'm beginning to feel like something essential to my overall well-being is lacking, as if I hadn't driven a 944 for a year.

Does it sound like "arrogance" from someone who is already lucky enough to own and run two of these magnificent cars or is this common symptom to 944 ownership? I just can't get over with it... [8|]

Please bear with me []

 

[Golden944]

i felt the same after my vasectomy, both were working fine too...

 

[robwright]

I didn't drive mine for about two months when I did the clutch and it nearly killed me []

 

[scam75]

Yip, perfectly normal!

Stuart

 

[peanut]

its like the best drug in the world isn't it.

I usually get to give the old girl a blast every 4 weeks or so and the feel-good grin factor is huge ..[]
Its very satisfying to leave all the BMW, Mercs and Audi's standing too[] they are always surprised at the acceleration the old gal can muster.

I often consider selling the S2 but she'd fetch so little now that I've decided I might as well SORN her every winter and tax her for 6 months through the summer.

 

[colin944]

I haven't driven mine for over 2 years while I am rebuilding it. I got to sit in it the other day (on the new floor) and made brrrm brrrm noises.Not the same though!![&o]

 

[simdel1]

Sounds perefectly normal when you're deprived of something you love. My Rover has been off the road for the last month (and will be for the next month at least) and I'm really starting to miss it. I miss the smoothness, the comfort and the quietness. I'm driving the Porsche every day now, and I love it, but I really do miss my beloved Rover []

 

[JamesBall]

ORIGINAL: peanut

I might as well SORN her every winter and tax her for 6 months through the summer.

How do they deal with being unused for 6 months of the year? I have always felt these old cars benefit from regular (weekly?) use, or is that just me persuading myself that going for a blast is actually for the benefit of the car rather than me getting a "fix"?

 

[Lowtimer]

Mine's been unused for five months in the body shop and will most likely be another month before I get it back, so I'll let you know...

 

[barks944]

I've been rebuilding mine for nearly a year now

 

[tref]

ORIGINAL: James Ball

How do they deal with being unused for 6 months of the year? I have always felt these old cars benefit from regular (weekly?) use, or is that just me persuading myself that going for a blast is actually for the benefit of the car rather than me getting a "fix"?

I've had some experience of both use through-out the year, and storing over winter...

Driving all through the winter, every day, no problems, so long as they are kept clean and stone chips etc attended to. I know my daily driver looks a shed, but it is basically sound. Including the sills.
The Turbo, laid up for the winter in a good, dry garage, cling-flim over the exhaust, tank full of fuel, handbrake off, under a dust sheet, and run up once a month to keep the air-con working, again, good - surprised that the brakes hadn't seized up etc, it kept very well.

Driven during the winter, stood for a week or two, NIGHTMARE!!! brakes and handbrake seized, nasty vibrations under braking, engine ran rough, it felt stiff and 'orrid. I had no choice due to a headgasket problem that had to be fixed last winter, but I would think very carefully about how I would lay it up in teh event of any similar time consuming repairs being required. That was under a carport, sheltered on three sides - I hate to think of what it would be like stood out.

 

[peanut]

ORIGINAL: James Ball

ORIGINAL: peanut

I might as well SORN her every winter and tax her for 6 months through the summer.

How do they deal with being unused for 6 months of the year? I have always felt these old cars benefit from regular (weekly?) use, or is that just me persuading myself that going for a blast is actually for the benefit of the car rather than me getting a "fix"?

you're dead right James . My car plays up after as little as 3x weeks disuse. You really need to drive them up to operating temperature once or twice a month minium I should have thought.

The reason I have the dilemma is that I have bought a Transit Camperavn and now have 4x vehicles and only 2x car spaces. I have to pay my neighbour a bottle of scotch every fortnight for parking one on his driveway and Mrs P's Focus is parked up on the public road but its a right bunfight for a space every night .grrr
Something has got to give .

 

[peanut]

ORIGINAL: barks944

I've been rebuilding mine for nearly a year now

well its about time you got your finger out Barks ..[][][] you can't sit in her playing with the gearstick and making engine noises forever you know ![]

 

[peanut]

ORIGINAL: tref
I've had some experience of both use through-out the year, and storing over winter...
Driven during the winter, stood for a week or two, NIGHTMARE!!! brakes and handbrake seized, nasty vibrations under braking, engine ran rough, it felt stiff and 'orrid.

its a real dilemma isn't it. Because I'm a full time carer now I don't use my S2 from one week to the next sometimes only 20 miles a fortnight.

Yesterday I was flying through Taunton when I went to brake sharply and the pedal went completly to the carpet.!....

To say I shat myself would be an understatement.

Luckily it was in second and pulling the handbrake up through the sunroof I managed to stop without hitting anything .phew...

Minutes earlier I had been steaming up the M5 at 90mph ........

I drove 15 miles through heavy traffic in Taunton on a diversion to Ilminster before the brakes started working again.

I guess it must be the brake master cylinder seals gone but there was a lot of rumbling and vibration at the front ns wheel just before the brakes failed.