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[dollywobbler]

Did I dream it or did Audi actually toy with CVT transmissions at some point in the 1990s?

[320touring]

^ The voice of experience!!

Indeed. And I still choose to freely associate with others who buy them too

[stuboy]

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F173021981170

 

Anybody win it?

[twosmoke300]

Did I dream it or did Audi actually toy with CVT transmissions at some point in the 1990s?

Yup .

[Eddie Honda]

Did I dream it or did Audi actually toy with CVT transmissions at some point in the 1990s?

Multitronic

 

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[SiC]

Did I dream it or did Audi actually toy with CVT transmissions at some point in the 1990s?

In the 2000s and 2010s too.

 

Plot spoiler, they're pretty shit and break.

[dollywobbler]

Yes, they seem generally best avoided whatever they were fitted to. Nissan Cube owners seem to advise running for the hills. Oddly, you could specify the Cube with a proper automatic as well. Odd.

[bramz7]

[dollywobbler]

"Papa!"

[Guest Hooli]

Woke up late today, sat on the sofa with a cuppa & just woke up again.

 

So much for sunday AND my cuppa is cold.

[bub2006]

"Papa!"

Nicole!

[Asimo]

Yes, they seem generally best avoided whatever they were fitted to. Nissan Cube owners seem to advise running for the hills. Oddly, you could specify the Cube with a proper automatic as well. Odd.

 

Could you really? Sudden increase in interest in the most interesting Nissan since Datsun.

 

How can I tell? I mean in adverts etc, it would be obvious if I was driving one.

[dollywobbler]

Gear selector apparently. PRND on CVT, PRND21 on Autos. It seems to be a three-speed with overdrive. On the one I drove, it was hard to tell to be honest. It was about sixty times smoother than the Honda.

[Eddie Honda]

Nicole!

Bob!

[vulgalour]

My friend and I both own Hondas*, though his is the newer model.

 

 

 

Edited to add:

On my way back home I passed someone A-framing a Morris Minor with a Mk4 Vauxhall Astra estate.  Passed them twice, in fact, because I had to stop and buy screenwash, annoyingly.  There was also a Renault Scenic that had caught fire on the A1.  I didn't have an opportunity to photograph the silver XM estate parked outside a hotel near my friend's house, which was disappointing, nor the Jaguar XJS out in traffic, nor the Mk2 Seat Ibiza that looked brand new that overtook me somewhere on the A1 near Newark.

[richardthestag]

Trusty windee gun has died, long live it's successor

 

 

[320touring]

Hello,

 

Any tame shiters near Bristol way? Got summert I would like checked out..

 

Cheers

[chodweaver]

 

 

Hello,

 

tame shiters

 

 

Oxymoron?

 

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[320touring]

Oxymoron?

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That's as may be, but I could do with some assistance..

[DodgeRover]

 

Oxymoron?

 

 

Isn't he banned?

[Bren]

Knight rider is on forces Tv. With a nice us spec renault fuego in it.

[bramz7]

"Papa!"

 

You know I never did see that advert.

 

So yeah, I somehow now own a Renault Clio Baccara 1.8 MANUAL?!?!?! Professionally done when it was 6 years old, never sold here with a manual box. It shifts! I lit the wheels up twice coming back.

 

Full leather interior and suit carrying parcel shelf intact. Typically everything broken in my RT-D works in this one.

[Lord Sterling]

You know I never did see that advert.

 

So yeah, I somehow now own a Renault Clio Baccara 1.8 MANUAL?!?!?! Professionally done when it was 6 years old, never sold here with a manual box. It shifts! I lit the wheels up twice coming back.

 

Full leather interior and suit carrying parcel shelf intact. Typically everything broken in my RT-D works in this one.

really? Wow.

 

We need more pics of this.

[loserone]

Holy crap.

 

I have absolutely no need for this, and your house is the furthest I've ever collected a car from, but..  Dibs?

[bramz7]

Holy crap.

 

I have absolutely no need for this, and your house is the furthest I've ever collected a car from, but..  Dibs?

 

Yeah sure! I dunno when that will be but i will remember that.

[xtriple]

Just watched the channel 4 thing about Bentleys. I am now sad... it seems to prove that Bentley (VW - spit!) really do know their buyers as it was just tasteless shite with a Bentayga badge on it.

[cms206]

That was an expensive morning.

 

cms206: homeowner.

 

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[They_all_do_that_sir]

So the focus.......I changed the discs and pads but the passenger side wheel bearing is away....the starter motor is on the blink, it's using oil and the EML is on. Code says lambda sensor and it's using a good bit of pez. Coupled with lots of knocks from the rear suspension and a monster dent in one of the doors it's not really worth throwing more money at. A clean MOTd one is around £300

 

Last weekend wifey closed the passenger door and the wing mirror fell off which was pure comedy....in my eyes.

 

I'll hand my autoshite card in at the door because we went out and replaced it with a cash cow which I'm ashamed to say is quite a nice car.

 

 

But before I do hand the autoshite card in I'll argue that having a decent daily means instead of spending all my time fixing the daily, I can devote more time to the XM.....So expect me to watch TV instead....

 

Incidentally I'm breaking the focus so if anyone wants anything PM me. It's a mk1.5 1.6 pez in a silver colour

 

 

 

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[DVee8]

I made part of that cashcow.. haha

[hairnet]

Decentn daily??

 

Nope don't speak Belfast sorry