Goin ta Scotland!

Hello mateys, with summer coming up, me and a few mates (well, four of them to be accurate!) are wanting to plan a road trip to Scotland in a few months time. We want to drive up in a Landy, probably an old Series, and go wild camping for a couple of weeks up near Inverness. The largest expense is obviously going to be the landy and the insurance as we will be having 2 drivers, both of us will be 18 by that point. Any recommendations for insurance companies? We will only want to be insured for a matter of weeks, so if we purchase the insurance, could we cancel it again and get a refund after a month or so? Any thoughts or recommendations welcome

Hmmmmm you aint been trawling old posts have you??

Sirus said:

Hmmmmm you aint been trawling old posts have you??

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Surely he could borrow a landy off someone on here?:doh:

I would use my 110 but it's too juicy, I can only just afford to put fuel in it as it is, doing 100 miles a week. We want to buy a real old and battered series (budget of £800) and do it up a bit before we get going, may making a few quid from the sale in the process. The only loose end that we need to tie up is insurance, I just want a few recommendations, ideas and thoughts about it

Langers said:

I would use my 110 but it's too juicy, I can only just afford to put fuel in it as it is, doing 100 miles a week. We want to buy a real old and battered series (budget of £800) and do it up a bit before we get going, may making a few quid from the sale in the process. The only loose end that we need to tie up is insurance, I just want a few recommendations, ideas and thoughts about it

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A Seires would use more fuel......

you sure you aint been reading this

http://www.landyzone.co.uk/lz/f7/my-30th-birthday-71964.html

Really? A diesel series would use more fuel than my 10mpg V8? I think not... we've have this plan for going to Scotland since we were about 11... always wanted to go there, and now we can so we are

Edit: Also, I'd never want to borrow someone elses car, I would be too worried about it the whole time. And anyway, as I said we want the vehicle as a little mini-project before we go as part of the fun. We want to prepare our own vehicle.

19mpg outta a deisel series and a 50mph top speed. You have gas dont you?

by the time you've found a series, made it reliable enough to get to Scotland and back, fueled it, insured it, got it towed to a garage when it breaks down, then paid the insurance cancellation fee i'd bet they'll be bugger all saving

anyway Scotland is horrible

Sirus said:

19mpg outta a deisel series and a 50mph top speed. You have gas dont you?

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Yeah I've got gas on my V8. It would still only work out to about 22-23 mpg equivalent on a long run. 50mph is fine by me, it'll be a laff!

Sean said:

by the time you've found a series, made it reliable enough to get to Scotland and back, fueled it, insured it, got it towed to a garage when it breaks down, then paid the insurance cancellation fee i'd bet they'll be bugger all saving

anyway Scotland is horrible

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I've found a fairly decent one locally for £800, 12 months MoT and loads of new parts. Looks tatty, but it would probably need a service but that's it. Fuel is gonna be around £150-200 I think, depending on how much running around we do in Scotland. Insurance is the big one though, if we can scrounge up enough cash between us we could afford to pay for it and then cancel it at the end. After all there are 5 of us, the costs will get split up evenly. The plan would be to sell the car afterwards with a few improvements and make a profit which would pay for some of our costs. I think it would work, I can usually turn a profit on cars that I sell on eBay.

Scotland looks lovely to me, we'd be going up to the Great Glen and doing some kayaking, biking, hiking etc. I think SCOTSMAN would have something to say about it, anyway

5 adults in a series with all your stuff.....its gonna be a bit cramped. Unless you have a trailer. Then your mpg will drop like a stone.

i dont quite get this - how is it you can't quite afford to pay for 100 miles worth of fuel a week yet you are aiming to spend 800 (which will turn into 1200 at least) on a series plus fuel on top of that for the trip ?

Savings? And as I keep saying, ALL the costs are going to be split between the 5 of us, equally.

maths and logical thought must be taught differently these days

What are you on about?

along with reading and comprehension apparently

its going to cost way more in a series than your v8

brainboy81 said:

its going to cost way more in a series than your v8

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yep - and he's got to buy a series !

the boys gone mad i mean maths i know its bad at school these days but if he can not afford to run his v8 normaly how is he going to find a 5th for a series and a 5th for fuel on a diesel series fully loaded at 50 is going to do what 15mpg if your lucky and break down about 25 times there and back.

Seems to be he would be better off in the v8 his mates paying there share of fuel and he would get there and back on less money.

Sean said:

yep - and he's got to buy a series !

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and make it fit and safe for the journey

would love to see you get a series that will go to scotland and back for £800 try £1500