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[Kiltox]

Worlds worst hangover and the Golf has just shat itself 2 miles from home. Fuck.

[beko1987]

Vag reliability, best in the world!

[Kiltox]

If only everything in life was as reliable as a Volkswagen...

[tooSavvy]

If only everything in life was as reliable as a Volkswagen...

Special Brew... who'd have known?

 

 

TS

[plasticvandan]

Has anyone else mentioned the Radio 4 series about Will Self driving a Trabant to East Germany?  He's not everyone's cup of tea, I know, but the car should be interensting enough.  Podcast page here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b084xxm1/episodes/downloads

 

There's also a driving series with Victoria Coren-Mitchell, called "Women Talking About Cars":

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b084yrjf/episodes/downloads

 

Don't blame me if they're awful, I've not had the chance ot listen to them yet.

the poor woman who owned the Trabant has had a massive repair bill and is currently trying to claim back off the bbc,after they ran it with no oil,siezed the engine,and trashed the gearbox

[Supernaut]

A colleague of mine, who's more senior than me (and on a higher pay grade) is a fucking hero.

 

He's just showed us his new car. He plans to tow his off-road prepped Suzuki Jimny to events with it. It's a 2004 Range Rover Vogue 4.4. It's brilliant.

 

He definitely did NOT pay shite money for it. It's the cleanest example of that generation of Range Rover I've ever seen.

[Kiltox]

If only everyone in life was as incompetent as the idiot that didn't put petrol in his VW Golf when he should've

 

You know when you want the ground to swallow you up?

 

Never going to hear the end of this!

[M'coli]

the poor woman who owned the Trabant has had a massive repair bill and is currently trying to claim back off the bbc,after they ran it with no oil,siezed the engine,and trashed the gearbox

Another reason to despise Mr Self, then...  He wasn't particularily mechanically-sympathetic when he was on this journey about James Clerk Maxwell in a Volt, if I remember.

[Kiltox]

I've never ran a car out of fuel before - no warning light on the MK3 Golf.

 

Didn't expect it to just die. Thought there would be some rough running beforehand.

[egg]

Ford Fusion he no start. Battery reads 12.18v, will get the jump leads out tomorrow.

Got a jump, and voltage went back up after a run but no joy again today. It is a motor craft one so god knows how old. Excide replacement on the way from ecp for £35.

[Guest Hooli]

I've never ran a car out of fuel before - no warning light on the MK3 Golf.

 

Didn't expect it to just die. Thought there would be some rough running beforehand.

 

Seems to depend on the car. I've had a few die like that & others that'd struggle on for miles.

[dollywobbler]

the poor woman who owned the Trabant has had a massive repair bill and is currently trying to claim back off the bbc,after they ran it with no oil,siezed the engine,and trashed the gearbox

 

This is the problem when you let clueless oiks drive old cars. Remember that programme where Richard Wilson drove around the countryside destroying gearboxes?

[Craig the Princess]

This is the problem when you let clueless oiks drive old cars. Remember that programme where Richard Wilson drove around the countryside destroying gearboxes?

That sounds like the sort of crazy idea a commissioning editor would select.

[cros]

Has anyone else mentioned the Radio 4 series about Will Self driving a Trabant to East Germany?  He's not everyone's cup of tea, I know, but the car should be interensting enough.  Podcast page here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b084xxm1/episodes/downloads

 

There's also a driving series with Victoria Coren-Mitchell, called "Women Talking About Cars":

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b084yrjf/episodes/downloads

 

Don't blame me if they're awful, I've not had the chance ot listen to them yet.

I'd have to take a leaf out of Self's book and go and shoot up in the bog before I could watch either of these smug wankers.

[Timewaster]

Has anyone else mentioned the Radio 4 series about Will Self driving a Trabant to East Germany? He's not everyone's cup of tea, I know, but the car should be interensting enough. Podcast page here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b084xxm1/episodes/downloads

 

There's also a driving series with Victoria Coren-Mitchell, called "Women Talking About Cars":

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b084yrjf/episodes/downloads

 

Don't blame me if they're awful, I've not had the chance ot listen to them yet.

I heard the first couple of instalments of the trabby one.

Every time Will Self's sidekick spoke I thought of the guy from Alan Partridge with the voice box.

"Get that cow off the boat"

 

Kinda spoilt it really.

 

Also Will Self is a bit of a prick.

[richardmorris]

Will self is the dictionary definition of a prick.

 

Anyway, driving home from work today spotted a very tiny number plate coming the other way. Y9 on a newish Volvo I think. Probably worth a fortune.

 

Edit. A v40 according to mot checker.

[DodgeRover]

Spotted 3 CNN reg on an '85 petrol merc estate, looked well and truly used. MOT history is a bit lengthy.....

[wuvvum]

Innocenti passed its MOT today.  Needed a new tyre fitting (which I bought last year but the existing tyre scraped through) and a few dodgy electrical connections playing with (I got everything working last weekend, but half of it had packed up again by test time because Italian).

 

It's still never needed any welding - quite extraordinary really for a 23-year-old Italian car that lives outside all year round.

[beko1987]

Im not nervous...

 

[bangernomics]

I'm now at 5 cars so have the Panda and P6 up for sale. So far they both seem to immensely unpopular although it's a crap time of year to sell. Also maybe it wasn't such a great idea to include the Knockhill pictures in my Panda ebay advert.

Panda 4x4 you say?

 

 

 

If at first you don't succeed, keep fixing it until it's dead.

[cros]

I saw an old red Mercedes on the M11 with CUM as part of its registration number- I didn't know they issued plates like this. I had a 60's pedestrian type vibrating roller with GAY on the plate but was under the impression back then that it would be non transferable. I should have held on to it but it made your hands go numb, and the Villiers engine suffered from being attached to a machine designed to shake itself to pieces.

[The Moog]

 

 

Im not nervous...

You should be fine. I think last year the smoke test was the only real challenge

[beko1987]

That's what I'm worried about this year too! It's just been driven in, I have a few nails to bite! I have 14 days for a free retest though, and drove most of the 8 miles here in 3rd at 50...

[bangernomics]

That's what I'm worried about this year too! It's just been driven in, I have a few nails to bite! I have 14 days for a free retest though, and drove most of the 8 miles here in 3rd at 50...

Good luck

[Richard]

I have never had a diesel car fail the smoke test. I used to take the air filter out and choose a cold damp day (not much of a challenge really) as a precaution but I've not bothered about the air filter in the past few years.

[beko1987]

I didn't bother with anything, it'll be what it'll be. It's up on the lift now, God I hate not being out there with it, why did my mate who used to do my tests selfishly move to Switzerland?

 

Next year should be better as I'll have put some work into it so will be a bit more confident about it

[Richard]

Isn't veg smoke supposed to be invisible to the machine anyway?

[beko1987]

100% diesel in the tank I'm afraid!

[cort16]

Panda 4x4 you say?

 

 

 

If at first you don't succeed, keep fixing it until it's dead.

 

 

100HP

[beko1987]

Ha just had to help them raise it back up as they jacked it up on normal... He called it 'air suspension' too, I'm hoping my beardage description of the system and its issues makes him think I know what I'm on about