🚨L1's♦️ shenanigans 🍷🚨 All Renault fleet, one in..

[Kiltox]

Ah I missed that. Hard to keep track of some of the activity on here

[Youngteam]

How about the 138bhp Clio 2.0 Dynamique? No experience whatsoever of one but quite fancy one anyway.

 

https://www.evo.co.uk/renault/clio/6502/renault-clio-138

[loserone]

Sounds about like the kind of thing I'm looking for.

 

Still winning this 206gti

[loserone]

Found the 206 I'm bidding on (reserve not met) on gumtree for £850.

 

Knowing how much I can spend without Mrs L1 kicking off - the auction ends on Saturday and it's her birthday on Friday - I won't win it.

 

More saving required.

[sporty-shite]

Just got a quote. £120 a year to insure a 206gti.

 

Is this for 136 or 180?

 

Also: would highly recommend a Leon Cupra. Really liked the one I had, went like stink and felt well put together. I'd definitely have another.

[loserone]

A 136, that should be perfectly adequate and I am not sure if the back seats of the 180 would take the child seats.

[loserone]

Slight domestic this evening, apparently a third car wouldn't be used enough, would cost millions of pounds over the year and that's not why she's taken up work. So it's been vetoed.

 

Never mind the fact I sold the GSR mostly due to her attitude that it was a tin box, and we needed something "safer".

 

I'm still winning the 206

[320touring]

If you need rid of the Scooby-Doo in a hurry.,

[loserone]

Saved by the reserve

[320touring]

Saved by the reserve

Booooooo

[loserone]

Just got a quote. £120 a year to insure a 206gti.

Oh, you mean actually insure it? We meant £300

 

Probably still not bad, but with the car and Xmas coming up that's more than I can justify to the Mrs.

[loserone]

This week I've twice done a double-commute; to work to pick up colleagues, then on past Newcastle to one of our suppliers' offices.  This has been about 80 miles round trip, which would be brave in the Leaf, so I've been using the Legacy, fresh from it's oil change courtesy of ScaryOldCortina.

 

The biggest shock was getting into a cold car, having to run the engine for 5 minutes whilst scraping the windscreen, then having a cold engine for the first 5 miles or so.

 

In the leaf, I literally get into a warm car and just go flat out straightaway.  It's the future..

[loserone]

Fleet update:

 

Legacy needed a bulb yesterday.  I bought it a towbar and haven't had it fitted yet.

 

Leaf needed a bulb when it got back from it's MOT.  Lucky.  It's currently being driven round the county by my wife's soon to be sister in law, who is bemused by the steering wheel being on the wrong side and the lack of priorite a droite. 

 

I apparently won a BMW which has broken itself before I've seen it.

 

My Peugeots haven't moved in.. a while.

 

The idea of an economical second commuter car has been embraced, as long as it's electric.  That's going to cost a bit then.  We were going to go and look at a big batteried i3 before the MiL went into hospital with suspected kidney cancer, which is obviously putting everything off a bit.

[Guest Hooli]

 

 

The idea of an economical second commuter car has been embraced, as long as it's electric.  That's going to cost a bit then. 

 

I do enjoy logic* like this

[loserone]

Today we decided to go to holy island, but with six of us that meant two cars and the leaf won't do that distance.

 

 

 

Cheers Jim!

[320touring]

he'll be wanting a convertible for his first car..

 

Top use of the Merc:)

[loserone]

Everyone thinks he's a girl, maybe one day they will be right.

 

Felt a bit odd to start with but I got the hang of it on the way home. Quite pokey but not exactly an MX5. In fact closer to the LS400 to drive.

[loserone]

Meanwhile at Bell Towers

[320touring]

Everyone thinks he's a girl, maybe one day they will be right.

 

Felt a bit odd to start with but I got the hang of it on the way home. Quite pokey but not exactly an MX5. In fact closer to the LS400 to drive.

Apologies! Shall amend!

[loserone]

Obviously there's been a light sprinkle of snow.

 

[Guest Hooli]

Slideways everywhere?

 

My old Legacy would go sideways forever on a trailing throttle, as soon as I booted it again it just straightened up & shot off down the road.

[loserone]

If you have it in a low heat and are pretty blunt with it, yeah

[txe4]

How are you getting on with the LEAF?

 

The bottom-end-of-the-market ones just keep going up and up in value. Quite unbelievable.

[loserone]

Yeah, it's still brilliant. Think we've done 14k in it now, plus 12k in the legacy and a bit in the GSR, the MGF and some other bits and bobs over the last year. Electric just works, and is suitable for nearly every day to day journey.

 

We were looking at getting a second one possibly, and I think it would cost more than we paid a year plus ago. Mental. Hence looking at i3s, 206GTIs and eventually buying an MGF which appears to be what I'm using for my commute on the days mrs_l1 is working. A RWD electric coupe would be best really, I don't need to be carting a family car with me to and fro work and would rather be able to rag around with the tail out.

[Tayne]

Yeah, it's still brilliant. A RWD electric coupe would be best really, I don't need to be carting a family car with me to and fro work and would rather be able to rag around with the tail out.

What a pity this never happened.

[loserone]

 

And the leaf.

 

Tells you something of how it think about it that I have no pictures of it.  It's just an appliance.

[FakeConcern]

I have to say I do really like the Legacy! Those wheels remind me of the ones on a Citroen DS3 and they really suit it, also love the sunroof.

[loserone]

Used the F to go to work and on to my exam today.

Lovely drive back with the roof down.

 

Back of a receipt suggests 39mpg.

[LessThanEqual]

I have to say I do really like the Legacy! Those wheels remind me of the ones on a Citroen DS3 and they really suit it, also love the sunroof.

Subaru XV wheels, which in itself is quite funky and you can get it in orange.

[loserone]

a little while ago we decided it would be useful to have a towbar.

I actually have one, it's just on the 405, which makes it useless. Anyway, I figured since the leaf can't tow, an H6 Subaru ought to do. Unfortunately every towbar I bought online had the order cancelled, apparently Witter had just moved warehouse and couldn't find anything.

 

Eventually a cheap German one turned up, and I got it delivered before Christmas. Christmas turned out to be a bit shit, and there was an MGF distraction, so last Friday afternoon the legacy went to Scaryoldcortina's yard for an afternoon of towbar fitting.

 

1200hrs: unpack the towbar. Looks good, all bits present.

 

Andy reads the instructions:

 

Remove the bumper? That should be no bother, right?

 

A number of no longer captive nuts later...

 

1600hrs:

What the fuck, Subaru?

 

Inside the bumper "is" an aluminium reinforcement

 

It's made of this:

 

You then need to remove the headshields:

That looks like it was easy. You won't need to remove the bolt that was supposed to hold it in though, right?

 

Oh, you do.

Still at least

I, er..

Oh.

 

Scary then set to work straightening the chassis rails using the towbar inserts, in order that I have a straight car and a fitting towbar. Soon it came time to look at the electrics, which are conveniently in the left hand side of the boot floor.

 

Or here.

 

Eventually it all came together, and Rico's safrane stopped FTPIng and jumping the queue.

 

Now I should at least be able to hitch something up. Cheers Scary!