Fortunately I have a nice cosy garage for Red19 at the Surrey Labs and have Sorned the MGF every year for the last 5 yrs or so.
it's always a sad day when the car goes into hibernation and yeah I miss many events like the Artic Circle Run etc which is a shame. Maybe this year I will go for it and keep the car on the road afterall I waxoyled the thing again this summer.

 

With only one car I have no option but if I had two cars I would still use the TF throughout the winter, some of my most pleasurable drives have been at times when snow is on the ground.

 

For the sake of £100 or so quid I think I may keep mine out this year. At least then the brakes won't seize up!

 

I do have a garage and a second car which I expect will be used more but I still hope to get some winter use out of Lady Jane. I have just SORNed my Honda 750 but that's because I can't really ride it safely with a broken wrist.

 

We have a few cars here but no space left to garage stuff over winter. (My garage doubles up as a workshop). We have typically 5 - 10 days in the year here where ice and snow make our lane just too difficult for anything but the 4x4, other than that there isnt any reason not to use the F. Mine came off the road last year mainly to give me chance to do some work on it, and sadly due to work load that took longer than expected. I really missed the winter top down drives.

Due to lack of garage space my F spent winter under a "supposedly fitted and breathable" car cover. That wont be happening again either! I ended up filling the car with moisture absorbers to solve the condensation problems and spent days polishing out the zillions of tiny scuffs in the paint where the cover had moved in the wind and rubbed.

As commented for the sake of just over a ton (£118 so the reminder that dropped on the mat today tells me) it seems hardly worth SORNing.

I wonder how many people only insure their cars for six months of the year? Not many I guess, especially since the change in rules demands a car be insured if not SORNed.

 

Was going to Sorn mine. then I realised that it does not fit in the garage (as my old mini just about went it!) so I might as well use it, or at least get a decent car cover for it

 

Gotta use mine for the trip from burton to loughborough as i did last year, the little car did me proud, going underneath to prep soon.

 

Mine will be sorn only for November, December and January.
Mot due 31st Jan.
We have 3 other cars.

 

Mine will be sleeping in a garage the winter months. We have a Colt, a S40 and a Corolla as winter cars. The fact that the winter tyres does not fit over the AP brakes, is also a factor. Proxes are NOT wintertyres. That and the amount of salt. One winter I did not have a garage, and this is how she looked :

 

Mines a daily driver, I used it last year and managed to get to work every day bar 1

 

Mungo is garaged and some of our best drives were last winter. I think we got our moneys worth out of the car, so no SORN for us. Having said that, we could barely get out of our street for a couple of months, and we almost got stuck once and threw a couple of doughnuts trying to pull out of junctions (although I was mainly surprised by how well he handled the snow).

Now that the novelty of winter driving in the TF has gone, I will certainly be using it less and abusing the Vectra workhorse more this year, but he will still see some action on the nicer days. With the roads either soaking wet, salty or icy for months, part of the whole fun of driving the TF goes out the window.

 

My F is my only car and hence gets used daily. I had no problems driving it last year when the heavier (use that term loosely) snow arrived and the council ran out of grit. Come to think of it both my mums Audi A4 and my sisters Peugeot 206cc broke down in the winter but the little F did not miss a beat. It also got many claps and cheers from 4x4 drivers when they saw me driving it along icey and snowy roads.

 

It also got many slaps and jeers from 4x4 drivers when they saw me driving it along icey and snowy roads.

Amended to reflect what would likely happen if I tried that here

 

I always used to use mine year round.

Although the ZT will be staying in the garage come snow time, the FWD version was a 2 tonne sledge at the best of times, the RWD one is just going to be suicidal :lol:

 

its my only car, had some good top down drives last winter.

 

And miss out on this kind of fun?

Hell No!!

Although - if the Midget is in a driveable state by this winter - I may consider giving Wriggly a holiday!

 

It's my only car and has been for the last 3 years so had plenty of fun in the snow and expecting plenty more this year :wooman:

 

you forgot to put a 4th option up


im selling my f /tf


IM SELLING MY F


I AM SELLING MY F

 

He isn't selling his F though!

 

Only car (bar the Red Baron of course) so it will be staying on the road this winter.

Now that summer's gone I just want the snow to fall, I can't wait! :lol:

 

Get out and under with the Waxoyl this autumn all of you who want to drive about in all that salt in winter.

 

Are you selling your F Neil?

 

Mine has been promoted from 2nd car to only car, and also made very loud , and insurance is now unlimted mileage and have moved NCB to the MG.

It's great - at the moment. If it breaks down, I will have to see - can use the wife's Focus most of the time in Winter, unless she needs it. Plus should be getting my Mazda Bongo next week. Mind you at 25mpg - I am not sure I want to use this as a daily driver - it's more for days out and camping etc.

I took my trusty escort van to the scrappy yesterday, so that's the end of my escort van era - I have had one as my daily driver since 2007.

Not had an MGF as my only car since I sold my VVC in 2004, and I did have a hardtop then for the winter. Not going to bother this time.

I think SORN is a waste of time (for me anyway), unless you have enough land to drive it about a bit. I kept one off the road for a while (just because I was using the train and working at weekends as well) and it kept seizing up and that's why I had to sell the previous MGF as it cost me money just to not drive it, and then to get it all going again. I left the handbrake off, but the starter motor seized and everything sort of rots (if you keep it outside). Better to keep it roadworhty and drive it every 2-3 weeks and you will find it less of a problem to get roadworhty again come tthe spring. Perhaps if you have a nice garage it would work though ...

 

yep she has to go
1.2k and its yours

 

£1200 - with the issues you mentioned in a different thread? You're joking right?

 

Mine will get SORNED around October/November time and I will use my Freelander instead.

 

Mine isn't being SORN'd

 

Mine will be on the road this winter.

Unless I buy another ZS

Unless its snowing every day and I have to use the L200 :lol:

 

is this an April the 1st thread?? SORNED???? whats that all about :lol: