GR86 What did you do with your GR86 today

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Actually drove it. Took a good 60 miles to tune back in but amazing once I had again. Too many cyclists about up Rhigos and Bwlch though. Started on the button even though I've not driven it since April. Tyre pressures spot on. I do need to just drive it more as it really doesn't help having long spells a ay from it. Thoughts of selling creep in then when I drive it, I think I never would. Paint being crap aside. Brakes and some form of oil cooler are still on the list. Even on the roads temps for quite high yesterday
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Christ. I wish I had such easy access to great roads. I, too, am feeling a pang of regret for not driving mine enough.

It doesn't help that I've recently "inherited" a free car that's been knocking around in my family for years - a 2002 1.0l Toyota Yaris that my sister bought years ago, and which refuses to die.

Spoiler: Non-GR related rambling

I learned to drive in it back in 2006, it then went to my dad to use as a runabout when sis upgraded to an Auris...and now she's upgraded again (after about 16 years with the Auris!) and has given that to dad, he was going to scrap the Yaris...but seeing as there's not really much wrong with it, and it has some sentimental value, I've taken it on as a cheap runabout.

It's battered and bruised - but it has an MOT and does about 58MPG, and it's pretty liberating driving a car which you don't care about cosmetically - especially when a lot of the time, my commute home from the office takes me down tiny country lanes at rush hour which would have me wincing when I'm in the GR.

So at the moment, my GR can exist purely as the fun toy again, which is good especially as it just came back with a freshly painted bumper that I don't want to get stone chipped....but I'm finding it hard to find the time to dedicate to actually just going for a drive in it

 

[KobayashiMaru86]

Christ. I wish I had such easy access to great roads. I, too, am feeling a pang of regret for not driving mine enough.

It doesn't help that I've recently "inherited" a free car that's been knocking around in my family for years - a 2002 1.0l Toyota Yaris that my sister bought years ago, and which refuses to die.

Spoiler: Non-GR related rambling

I learned to drive in it back in 2006, it then went to my dad to use as a runabout when sis upgraded to an Auris...and now she's upgraded again (after about 16 years with the Auris!) and has given that to dad, he was going to scrap the Yaris...but seeing as there's not really much wrong with it, and it has some sentimental value, I've taken it on as a cheap runabout.

It's battered and bruised - but it has an MOT and does about 58MPG, and it's pretty liberating driving a car which you don't care about cosmetically - especially when a lot of the time, my commute home from the office takes me down tiny country lanes at rush hour which would have me wincing when I'm in the GR.

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So at the moment, my GR can exist purely as the fun toy again, which is good especially as it just came back with a freshly painted bumper that I don't want to get stone chipped....but I'm finding it hard to find the time to dedicate to actually just going for a drive in it

This is my issue. I inherited a Suzuki Swift from my parents. It's 18yrs old. Body work is a mess thanks to others hitting it in car parks. Only done 65k and I've done 30k of that. I tend to daily that instead and take it anywhere I doubt the 86 will be safe like some of the hikes we do. Parking is always in a fairly rural, remote area with bad lanes to them. Sunny work commutes I take the Triumph. Work car park is a no go for the 86 now thanks to work deciding to get some beehives. Bee is a nightmare to get off bodywork.

But I will drive it more as I don't like how crap I felt with it for at least 1/4 of a tank. Need to stay in tune. It's a lot like the bike in that sense.