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[Essex V6]

Just been listening to the wireless whilst browsing on The Shite and there has just been an advert on for new LDV vans!

[drum]

That pineapple scene is so yesterday

[ruffgeezer]

The Berlingo has responded to this week's fettling by breaking a front spring. The stinking rotten garlic munching bastard.

[HMC]

VAG shit(e) alert

SWMBO pressured me into getting something less than 30 years old to be our family wagon. Somehow ive ended up with this A6.....

 

Im unaccustomed to having something that can manage over 50mpg. Sadly its also new enough and audi enough to have an overly firm ride, which is annoying me more as time goes on.

 

Its also done over 240k yet still manages to drive pretty tightly, It probably helps that the previous over was a 'maintained regardless of cost' type who sent it in to the dealer at the slightest hint of a clonk or untoward rattle by the looks of the service records. it has the PD 130TDI engine which is a bit gruff but quite torquey. I suspect the engine will stay in top fettle whilst the rest of the car slowly disintegrates around it. I just hope that with a recent cambelt and recently booted with a fresh set of winter tyres it doesnt go wrong expensively or bore me too much.....

 

 

[The Moog]

Pug has got a new rear axle fitted. Total cost was £300 and £300 well spent. Took them 6 hours to replace with two people doing it. Normally it is 2 hours and 1 person.

 

Apparently they have now vowed not to do another 405 as everything seized or was rusted to buggery. One bolt started at 16mm and by time they got it out it was down to 13mm.

 

Very very happy not to have done thay job.

 

Took the civic to local garage to get the timing check as I wondered if that was responsible for the plugs being white and skanky and lack of power. Timing was bob on and they stuck it on the emissions test to check and that all passed. They had a look and suggested new ht leads and distributor cap as they were a bit manky.

[Skizzer]

VAG shit(e) alert

 

Ye gods man, it's a black Audi TDI.  I clicked 'like' anyway because you're innocent until proven guilty.

[cort16]

Those A6's a pretty good all thing considered given you can pick them up reasonably cheap.

[brickwall]

VAG shit(e) alert

SWMBO pressured me into getting something less than 30 years old to be our family wagon. Somehow ive ended up with this A6.....

 

Im unaccustomed to having something that can manage over 50mpg. Sadly its also new enough and audi enough to have an overly firm ride, which is annoying me more as time goes on.

 

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Its also done over 240k yet still manages to drive pretty tightly, It probably helps that the previous over was a 'maintained regardless of cost' type who sent it in to the dealer at the slightest hint of a clonk or untoward rattle by the looks of the service records. it has the PD 130TDI engine which is a bit gruff but quite torquey. I suspect the engine will stay in top fettle whilst the rest of the car slowly disintegrates around it. I just hope that with a recent cambelt and recently booted with a fresh set of winter tyres it doesnt go wrong expensively or bore me too much.....

 

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I can vouch for these though. Good boot-space and I prefer the estate anyway with no real loss of road holding and the diesel still has poke.

[Skizzer]

Aye, joking apart, a friend of mine has one of these, similar age but in 2.5TDI flavour.  It's done about 300k and apart from stinking horribly of fags it's a very pleasing barge and he loves it for long motorway cruises.  

 

Also, I like those wheels:  I had the same ones on an A4 1.8T and they not only look good but are 37 times easier to wash than any other alloys.  FACT. 

[twosmoke300]

Brookjm . Check the scuttle drains under the battery tray is clear and reseal the pollen filter housing . Pull the NSF carpet back and check for any water in the foot well. The convience control unit lives under there and can't swim.

[AnthonyG]

Pappa Sloth is thinking of chucking in the 2003 V70 for a newer model. Given that he needs it to:

Tow a caravan

Move a big model railway about

Last 10 years

Have diesel and manual

Budget £12,000

 

I am likely to recommend a Hyundi Santa Fe if I can't persuade him that keeping the Volvo isn't the best option.

He should get something still in the 5 year warranty so any proper issues can be fixed without too much pain.

 

Is this a bad move?

Is the Kia Sorento the same thing but cheaper secondhand? Might be worth a look. Otherwise the Hyundai will be as good as any other appliance, and a good deal more reliable than most.

[Sloth in a bowl]

Is the Kia Sorento the same thing but cheaper secondhand? Might be worth a look. Otherwise the Hyundai will be as good as any other appliance, and a good deal more reliable than most.

 

I think the Sorento is smaller than the Santa Fe that seems big enough to take it's name from these 

 

[Sloth in a bowl]

Saw the Jago on the A435 again despite a close to zero outside temp at 7:30am, the owner currently gets my best Winter better of distinction 2014/15 award.

[drum]

Brookjm . Check the scuttle drains under the battery tray is clear and reseal the pollen filter housing . Pull the NSF carpet back and check for any water in the foot well. The convience control unit lives under there and can't swim.

I think I need to do this in my A4. Either that or buy a goldfish.

[Cavcraft]

It looks increasingly like I've agreed to buy a modern pretend swag mobile. Obviously I haven't even sat inside it, let alone hear it run or examine it in any way, shape or form. 

Also obvious is my lack of can-be-arsedness to go and pick it up, that'll have to wait until Sat morning or something. 

[drum]

Soz. There was a rift in the time space continuum leading to a double post several minutes apart...

[HMC]

Brookjm . Check the scuttle drains under the battery tray is clear and reseal the pollen filter housing . Pull the NSF carpet back and check for any water in the foot well. The convience control unit lives under there and can't swim.

Had a look at all that not long after I'd got it. Unsure what they were thinking/ smoking in the design dept at the time as the layout seems to asking for trouble, luckily it was all still fairly dry under the carpet, and I resealed the housing and removed the grommets in the bulkhead drains.

 

If only they'd put as much effort into that as they did with how the damping works on the ashtrays etc

[RobT]

Ye gods man, it's a black Audi TDI.  I clicked 'like' anyway because you're innocent until proven guilty.

And I clicked like as it's good to have you back Matthew. I was a bit concerned you'd sold off everything and buggered off completely....!

[cms206]

740 exhaust status: GR13 SORTED M8

740 running status: GR3

740 starter status: GR4

740 heater status: GR-17

 

Major surgery acoming I fear.

[tooSavvy]

Crash..Bang..Wallop.... Kostya!!

 

..earlier tonight I was driving through Leeds, under the Railway Station actually, when this guy in a light bloo c1 was givvinn it beenz up the inside lane and, quite inexplicably, piled into the back of a queue....   .

 

OUCH!!

 

Not So Fast..... Gridlock actually, on the A1[M]N..... 3car in the outside lane, by Sedgefield, no injuries as I could see >> Bloobottles wingging down South lane to attend   

 

 

TS

[Cavcraft]

Just outside the missus's works and a lady in what I think (it's dark) was a VW side swiped me. She was really apologetic and very nice about it, even comforting my daughter who was upset. I'm in the Vectra which has more battle scars than a battle scarry thing on battle scar day, so I've given her my details on a bit of paper and stated it wasn't my fault which she agreed to and I've told her I'm not interested in claiming.

[garbaldy]

I've given her my details on a bit of paper and stated it wasn't my fault which she agreed to and I've told her I'm not interested in claiming.

 

 

wow that's what I like to see   it makes a refreshing change from the whiplash mentality you normally hear.

[r.welfare]

Deposit taken on the Toyota. Happy days. Collection Sunday evening. Onwards to MPV commuting on Monday.

[DS20]

While my wheels are in for some work, I have the use of this - a properly shite courtesy car:

 

 

11 years old, many battle scars, 86000 miles - LOW MILEIDGE 4 YEAR M8 - driver's seat collapsed, couldn't pull the lid off a yoghurt. I enjoyed driving it though - it's an engaging steer and great fun to punt around at ten-tenths.

 

This photie taken in Boston, where I was this afternoon. There are tons of Eastern Europeans there, along with old A6s, and E36 and E39 BMWs. The place should be twinned with Riga or something.

[ruffgeezer]

Had a puncture on the C5 today requiring a new tyre, so put a new pair on up front, nearly £140 for the them then and there, been a long time since I had a car long enough to buy new tyres for it!

 

More Berlingo fettling sees the passenger side rear door handle repaired. These have a habit of the pivot shaft breaking leaving the handle detached from the mechanism. To repair it using PSA parts would be £56+ vat for a complete unpainted handle kit. A quick blezz on ebay lands a pair of pivot shafts, brand new for £3 delivered. The difference in cost will pay for a pair of new front springs.

 

At this rate I might get to sit down sometime around Christmas.

[cobblers]

Got a bell off my mechanic at lunchtime, Seat Ibiza Eyeball Paul is ready. He's done an MOT, oil service, plugs, gearbox oil change, cabin filter and diagnosed an occasional knock of the front end as "I don't fuckin know but it's nothing I can see so it probably won't kill you, I took the empty pop bottle out from under the passenger seat and it hasn't done it since so I won't charge you for that"

 

He only wants to charge me £115 and I've been running round in his discourtesy car for three days. It would have cost me more than that in bits to do it myself, and I'd have been covered in gearbox oil and had to buy our lass a new washing up bowl, as well as get rid of the old one full of oil and definitely not just tip it all into the pile of weeds and gravel behind the shed and lob the bowl in the wheelie bin.

[stuboy]

Not much popped to work for interview with hr to try keep my job as redundencies planned for xmas

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Breaking news, emailed to me today;

http://blog.warrantydirect.co.uk/2014/11/07/used-mgs-could-blow-their-top/#.VF37v9ogGSN

Everyone with a Kettle should sign up to Warranty Direct straightaway , let's see if their profit projections end up like Tesco.

[Asimo]

Nice take on the Honda Legend / Rover 800 stories:

 

http://ateupwithmotor.com/model-histories/acura-legend-rover-800-sterling/

[Jim Bergerac]

Breaking news, emailed to me today;

http://blog.warrantydirect.co.uk/2014/11/07/used-mgs-could-blow-their-top/#.VF37v9ogGSN

Everyone with a Kettle should sign up to Warranty Direct straightaway , let's see if their profit projections end up like Tesco.

 

Reminds me of this: http://jalopnik.com/you-cant-get-a-cheap-carmax-range-rover-warranty-anymor-1655587419