Most gutting moment during nova ownership?

[Mayoh69]

Wondering what calamitys people have had whilst owning their novas? I think the worse one for me is when I took my mint Sri seats out of my old loon and put them in my corsa whilst I was working on it. Sold the corsa to a friend and told him I wanted the seats back when he was free. Ended up getting the car impounded and crushed with the seats in it.

[millworm]

Buying it lol

[torquey]

Scrapping my sr after 16 years of owing it. Bastard tin worm.

[Andy]

Gotta be my diff blowing as I was leading my final after winning all my heats a couple of weeks back.Sickening.
Road-has to be blowing my 20xe nova up night before pvs one year lol

[H15 NVA]

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This..... about 2 months after a respray, delocked/handles, arches done, gsi bumpers etc, bay welded ready for the let, not even got a pic of it finished on coilovers etc


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[BRoadGhost]

Whoa; what caused that?

- For me a few; all involving offs due to oversteer (3 in total). Breaking 3rd gear sucked in the current xe. Back when I had a 1.4 8V; rocker followers breaking & driving home on 3 cylinders.

[Benn]

Having the guy behind be still doing 60mph when i had to stop quick. He used my Nova to stop.

[totalnova]

I hope this is an old story Benn and not something that's happened recently?

[carls nova sri]

The amount of money I've thrown into novas

[Phil_d]

A knock on the door at 2 in the morning from the old bill informing me the local chavs had ripped the door off and attempted to steal it :/ luckily a hidden kill switch fooled them

[totalnova]

A knock on the door at 2 in the morning from the old bill informing me the local chavs had ripped the door off and attempted to steal it :/ luckily a hidden kill switch fooled them

I wasn't so lucky with my first Nova, I woke up to find it was gone, luckily I did get it back after the police found it.

[marc69]

Doing slightly over 60 mph when a woman at a junction saw me coming and pulled out at the last second anyway, where I had a split decision choice of swing to avoid her or just go straight into the back of her car. I swerved and she took off, wrong decision. Another great moment about two years ago, turning right into a supermarket and a guy (off his face on weed) drives into me at over 40mph in a Volvo with a trailer load of lawnmowers, happy days. Oh, and at Knockhill, snapping the mainshaft in a redtop gearbox which took out the oil pump and several valves etc! No accident though so not that bad.

[Phil_d]

At least it didn't end up burnt out like most of the stolen ones.

[H15 NVA]

Whoa; what caused that?

- For me a few; all involving offs due to oversteer (3 in total). Breaking 3rd gear sucked in the current xe. Back when I had a 1.4 8V; rocker followers breaking & driving home on 3 cylinders.

An e34 BMW head on, swung onto my side of the road to turn into a drive


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[NovalutionGSi]

Think the worst one for me was the Grey SR I had, was wrote off after being hit by a Integra Type R which had been rear ended by a derv Nova.

Was the cheapest Nova I had as well!

[total_vauxhall]

Finding out my sri had rotted from the inside out beyond repair after only having the xe in it for 6 weeks . however this led to the drag car build 10 years ago so atleast somthing good came of it

[Iain]

Having my first XE engine's pistons fall apart and take out the engine

Valve guide disintegrates at Donington and drops a piece in the cylinder sending me home early

Not even lasting until lunchtime at Oulton Park before the clutch went

Managing 3 laps of Cadwell and my fifth gear shattering and ruining my Quaife final drive

A while ago, lowering it off the jack and leaving an axle stand under the car denting my fuel tank lol

[Al1exx]

Hitting a puddle about 6 inches deep waaaaaaaayyyy too fast, resulting in a wave over the bonnet, the roof, and the 1.0 sucking in a few litres and bending two conrods.... oops.

[toymex]

1990 having my first new car ,blue GTE ,hadn't even done 1000 miles in it before some scrote broke into it and completely snapped the steering column trying to get the lock off,then some years later watching my brother decide my sport would look better upside down at Lydden hill !

[PAULDRIVER]

Getting a phone call from a good mate on a saturday morning, telling me his friend had seen a nova getting ripped round all night on a local shit hole estate in wakefield ! (Lupset estate to be precise)

Upon opening my curtains and still on the phone, i said " it was mine mate, its fxcking gone !"

Never to be seen again 1.2 with 34k on the clock, that was the mrs 1st car !

On the upside, i found out a few hours later who nicked it !

He s locked up inside though as i type this, always on facebook flexing his muscles after taking his steroids, then taking a picture of himself ?

CANT WAIT FOR HIM TO GET OUT ! (if you know what i mean):thumb:

[BRoadGhost]

Quote of the year:-

"A guy (off his face on weed) drives into me at over 40mph in a Volvo with a trailer load of lawnmowers".

He should have stuck to mowing the weeds

[Mayoh69]

Jesus you men have had it rough ��