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[Split_Pin]

I did that before and ended up with the famous* Civic with the non opening boot 😂

But yes, this absolutely.

[SiC]

21 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

I did that before and ended up with the famous* Civic with the non opening boot 😂

But yes, this absolutely.

Scottish car though 😉

I know not everyone does on here but I really rate the spaceship Civics. However even the newest are coming up to 12 years old and the oldest are 18 years old now. 

They unfortunately have the problem that "its a Honda so it's reliable plus it's a cheap car" mentality (same with Toyota) often presides. So maintenance and repairs get skipped until it's fit for scrap. 

It's why we ended dishing out for a 2015 car 2 years ago as that age was more likely to have been looked after. The Civic Mk9 came out in 2012 and so is over 10yrs old already...

Just quite expensive still. There is also the Auris which can be had reasonably priced and a naturally aspirated engine is probably the one to go for if you don't want hassle.

Alternatively the Seat Ibiza can be had reasonably - much more so than the equivalent aged Fabia and Polo. The petrol 1.4 engine is certainly no power house but it's frugal (I got 45+ mpg easily out of the one in my Fabia MK1). The 1.6 petrol is also a solid unit and has a bit more power. You can pick a 2009 up for under £2k around here quite easily. Even 2012/13 cars are sub 3k.

Or of course a just as boring and solid Focus Mk2/Astra H are cheap as chips while being relatively sturdy.

Always good to have one simple reliable car on the fleet if owning other temperament ornaments imo

[Split_Pin]

Hmm, Ibiza sounds plausible!

[Talbot]

58 minutes ago, SiC said:

Sung to the tune of badger badger mushroom. (Scarily some on here will be too young to remember this first circulating the internet)

I now work with competent, qualified professional adults who have no experience or understanding of a world without broadband internet and smartphones.

I'm getting old.

[beko1987]

There's a girl at work who is younger than my car who is pregnant... Makes me feel very old

[Split_Pin]

Right , Mrs is home for lunch and I've checked the TT. Brake lines look fine but the rubber jacking point in front of the NSR wheel is soaked in what looks like oil?

Where the hell is that coming from?

 

 

[Split_Pin]

Google Fu has solved this. I though the oil looked fresh.  The breather pipe for the Haldex unit lives up there and it can leak a little oil if it has been slightly overfilled. It's weird that I had the unit serviced back in May or June and it's only just doing it now but hey ho, nothing to worry about!

[loserone]

41 minutes ago, beko1987 said:

There's a girl at work who is younger than my car who is pregnant... Makes me feel very old

That doesn't sound like a healthy relationship to be honest mate.  

[Talbot]

1 hour ago, beko1987 said:

 my car who is pregnant...

Is it expecting a C1?

[SiC]

1 hour ago, Split_Pin said:

Google Fu has solved this. I though the oil looked fresh.  The breather pipe for the Haldex unit lives up there and it can leak a little oil if it has been slightly overfilled. It's weird that I had the unit serviced back in May or June and it's only just doing it now but hey ho, nothing to worry about!

Colder weather making the Haldex do more work as the tyres loose traction? I find I don't notice it kicking in when I'm driving except the fact that I am pulling out of a junction/etc quickly without having any of the wheels spinning and loosing traction. 

At least it's a minor problem that isn't a safety issue if it's just the Haldex spitting out some excess oil. 

[beko1987]

2 hours ago, loserone said:

That doesn't sound like a healthy relationship to be honest mate.  

7/8 years ago I'd have said 'I wish', but now... She's only 11 years older than my daughter, it's just wierd! 

I'm amazed she hasn't been fired yet, she's constantly on her phone and being line 1 and 2 fuck-up support have fixed a few bits of her work... Maybe my standard are higher than the rest of the department nowadays 

[Asimo]

Sat for a boring half hour in the Renault/Suzuki/Dacia dealership waiting for my wife’s Duster to be (complementary) valeted after it’s MOT: overheard service rep on the phone:

“ it needs a new starter motor - engine has to be dropped which is a big job, 10 to 12 hours so we will need the car for two days”

What kind of madness is this?

[HMC]

Ive been pottering about this last week in a tatty b5.5 passat. Its got nice heated leather and the pd 130 engine. I havent bothered with many photos as you all know what they look like .

 

[SiC]

24 minutes ago, Asimo said:

What kind of madness is this?

Renault Mégane II 2.0t F4Rt?

Apparently the specialists can wrestle them out without needing to drop the engine. But the dealer presumably will do it by the book. 

[Supernaut]

6 hours ago, SiC said:

When stuff like this happens and I need to fall back to something solidly reliable, my frankly bizarrely crazy mind goes.

HONDA HONDA HONDA

Or TOOOOYOTA 

Sung to the tune of badger badger mushroom. (Scarily some on here will be too young to remember this first circulating the internet)

Just not one from the Scottish rust belt please.

It's been 20 years!

 Now I feel old too.

 

[SiC]

5 minutes ago, Supernaut said:

It's been 20 years!

 Now I feel old too.

 

Sush grandad!

B3ta newsletter back in business btw

https://b3ta.com/newsletter/issue883/

[reb]

4 minutes ago, Supernaut said:

 

Now I feel old too.

 

We're not the young team anymore.

[Supernaut]

1 minute ago, SiC said:

Sush grandad!

B3ta newsletter back in business btw

https://b3ta.com/newsletter/issue883/

I never got into b3ta...

I feel like I missed out.

[stuboy]

Nowt exciting, did a 3 day course, lots of writing and practical stuff and wait 2 weeks for work to be 'marked'.

[richardmorris]

8 hours ago, beko1987 said:

There's a girl at work who is younger than my car who is pregnant... Makes me feel very old

Your car is pregnant?

[Burnside]

Saw this rather nice looking land yacht today, a Plymouth Fury III. Never seen one up close before, but definitely would if I could!

 

 

[lesapandre]

Media absurdity: Subaru, Porsche and BMW drivers are more dangerous than Skoda or Hyundai...

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/nov/11/bmw-subaru-and-porsche-drivers-more-likely-to-cause-a-crash-study-finds

[Split_Pin]

20 minutes ago, lesapandre said:

Media absurdity: Subaru, Porsche and BMW drivers are more dangerous than Skoda or Hyundai...

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/nov/11/bmw-subaru-and-porsche-drivers-more-likely-to-cause-a-crash-study-finds

'Researchers hypothesised' 😂

'2011-2015 data examined' 😂

Fiction peppered with out-of-context anecdotes from through the years.

As you say, absurd.

[wuvvum]

Collection mission time.

It's going to be a long one.

[SiC]

Well my Mercedes E320 cost £87 more a year to insure than my Porsche Boxster. So presumably the insurance company though me, as a Porsche driver, was much less risk than me as a Mercedes E-class driver. 

[wuvvum]

Big-engined Mercs are surprisingly expensive to insure given the average age of their ownership. 

[Split_Pin]

Same for 75s, well for me anyway and compared to much faster cars.

[SiC]

For me estates always have been a lot more expensive cars to insure. Our A4 was expensive and so is my wife's current Civic Estate. 

[beko1987]

52 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

Collection mission time.

It's going to be a long one.

Hope that's not part of the poo count vocabulary later... 

[barefoot]

41 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

Same for 75s, well for me anyway and compared to much faster cars.

My 2.5l 75 estate costs just £360 on the same multivehicle policy as my 944S and Scirocco.