So, I think I need to rationalise the fleet a bit...

[Bear]

Think I missed the automatic Rav4 that was offered a while back, but I am thinking I don't actually need 8 cars. What I need is a reliable load-lugger with an autobox.

 

Sensibly, what I should do is try to convert the Honda Accord (as I now have the 406 Coupé as WBOD) and E320 estate into something 4x4, estate/box shaped, with an auto box.

 

The E-class will need the gearbox sorting. I'm 90% sure a filter and fluid change will sort it, the extra 10% being "maybe a conductor plate".

 

If anyone's got anything appropriate, do let me know!

[Six-cylinder]

Think I missed the automatic Rav4 that was offered a while back, but I am thinking I don't actually need 8 cars!

You should try harder to buy all cars offered and 8 just a good starting point!

[Sigmund Fraud]

Don't do it, Richard... Every time an Autoshitter tries to "rationalise" their fleet, they end up buying an additional 2-3 cars !

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[FakeConcern]

What about my XM? OK it's not an estate, but pretty huge in the back and you can raise the suspension if you need to negotiate rough tracks. It's also auto & a V6.

[anonymous user]

Think I missed the automatic Rav4 that was offered a while back, but I am thinking I don't actually need 8 cars. What I need is a reliable load-lugger with an autobox.

 

Sensibly, what I should do is try to convert the Honda Accord (as I now have the 406 Coupé as WBOD) and E320 estate into something 4x4, estate/box shaped, with an auto box.

 

The E-class will need the gearbox sorting. I'm 90% sure a filter and fluid change will sort it, the extra 10% being "maybe a conductor plate".

 

If anyone's got anything appropriate, do let me know!

Isn't the hearse an auto?

[ruffgeezer]

There is a CRV 2.0i Auto behind the garage I work at, it needs a little work for an mot, but for the right deal I reckon I could be persuaded to do the necessary.

[Bear]

Isn't the hearse an auto?

 

it is. And it will be deployed for IKEA runs, but not to Coventry because I really don't want to do that carpark in it. But, in deference to its age, it will be allowed to rest in peace over the salted-road months from mid-November.

[Bear]

What about my XM? OK it's not an estate, but pretty huge in the back and you can raise the suspension if you need to negotiate rough tracks. It's also auto & a V6.

 

Don't tempt me. I've never owned a V6 XM, I've had enough of them to know the capacity is astonishing, they're comfortable, I know my way around one with a spanner & multimeter... but I also have broken my "no PSA" rule already for the 406. XMs have a special issue for me - I like them to be perfect, and I have no issue making them perfect, but parts availability is atrocious.

 

I would much prefer to be driving an XM over the E320 any day, otherwise.

 

Tell me it's not black, and it doesn't have the alcantara/half leather interior, and I shall be able to resist.

[Bear]

Don't do it, Richard... Every time an Autoshitter tries to "rationalise" their fleet, they end up buying an additional 2-3 cars !

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What do you think I was trying to do at the beginning of the month when I got the Accord...

[John F]

RichardK, on 26 Oct 2015 - 5:58 PM, said:RichardK, on 26 Oct 2015 - 5:58 PM, said:

Think I missed the automatic Rav4 that was offered a while back, but I am thinking I don't actually need 8 cars. What I need is a reliable load-lugger with an autobox.

 

Sensibly, what I should do is try to convert the Honda Accord (as I now have the 406 Coupé as WBOD) and E320 estate into something 4x4, estate/box shaped, with an auto box.

 

The E-class will need the gearbox sorting. I'm 90% sure a filter and fluid change will sort it, the extra 10% being "maybe a conductor plate".

 

If anyone's got anything appropriate, do let me know!

 

Enough of the pretence! You know, and we all know, you'll end up buying a manual MGF.

 

And not selling any of your other cars.

 

[FakeConcern]

Don't tempt me. I've never owned a V6 XM, I've had enough of them to know the capacity is astonishing, they're comfortable, I know my way around one with a spanner & multimeter... but I also have broken my "no PSA" rule already for the 406. XMs have a special issue for me - I like them to be perfect, and I have no issue making them perfect, but parts availability is atrocious.

 

I would much prefer to be driving an XM over the E320 any day, otherwise.

 

Tell me it's not black, and it doesn't have the alcantara/half leather interior, and I shall be able to resist.

Here

[Bear]

Enough of the pretence! You know, and we all know, you'll end up buying a manual MGF.

 

And not selling any of your other cars.

 

 

I've already got 85% of a manual MGF! The other 15% is in a dustpan.

[Bear]

Here

 

 

NNnnnnng. Stoppit. Unless you want a Honda Accord with a sticking piston in the front offside caliper and a Mercedes E320 CDI estate with an auto gearbox that at the moment likes staying in 2nd as soon as it has warmed up.

[Bear]

Is that a 12V or early 24V XM, anyway? I forget when they swapped over. Past ones for me are 2.0 carb (loved it), Onyx (I think) special edition that caught fire, 2.0 TcT Exclusive manual that had a blown manifold gasket and rotten subframes, a 2.0i 16V estate, and sortof two more 2.0 TcTs via Keith (one was mine - green one, was far too gone for me to save at the time due to injury, and the other lived here for a while but I was not tempted due to many, many bodges from previous owners).

[FakeConcern]

Is that a 12V or early 24V XM, anyway? I forget when they swapped over. Past ones for me are 2.0 carb (loved it), Onyx (I think) special edition that caught fire, 2.0 TcT Exclusive manual that had a blown manifold gasket and rotten subframes, a 2.0i 16V estate, and sortof two more 2.0 TcTs via Keith (one was mine - green one, was far too gone for me to save at the time due to injury, and the other lived here for a while but I was not tempted due to many, many bodges from previous owners).

It's a late (ish) 12V

Don't want an Accord or a Merc or anything really. In fact I don't really want rid of the XM but it's just sitting outside not being used, which is a shame.

[Bear]

Oh, see, now I know it's 12V I'm more interested. I really didn't find the idea of two ES9J4s waiting to explode on me appealing. PRV has timing chain, can be kept in good health fairly cheaply, running costs don't bother me.

 

It could be sitting inside not being used here. Under cover. With someone obsessive enough to clean their SLK's wheelarches with an electric toothbrush.

 

(In my defence, it's prior to rustproofing it and the stonechip undercoating is very textured. It's like cleaning dried crap off artex. Which, frankly, only someone who has dealt with a derelict care home from the 1970s would have experienced...)

[hairnet]

makea wid da volvo (obv) or omega estate

[Bear]

Yellow 850 AWD Estate - yes.

 

Omegas just don't interest me at all. Something about the styling, much prefer Carlton/Senator. Which, of course, I will soon have a version of...

[Captain Slow]

XMs have a special issue for me - I like them to be perfect, and I have no issue making them perfect

 

I may have to bring mine over one weekend...

 

[Bear]

Generally, they take more than a weekend, but you should anyway Just need a vaguely clear weekend!

[Tamworthbay]

I have a banana yellow impreza, not an estate buts it's four wheel drive.........

[Bear]

I think I have a problem. Don't like saloons or Imprezas. Still tempted because yellow.

[Tamworthbay]

I think I have a problem. Don't like saloons or Imprezas. Still tempted because yellow.

may be interested in a px as well........