€130k of fines dished out for thieving cunts.
https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2017...544-m50-fines/
€130k of fines dished out for thieving cunts.
https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2017...544-m50-fines/
I drove to Norwich today. It was excellent apart from the last 120 miles. Fuck the A17 and A47.
Got the new Fiesta yesterday. I'm used to a dash with little more than temp, hazards, lights and wipers and now I've got something out of Minority Report in front of me.
I love the inside of new Fords. The Mondeo and big Kuga (can't recall the name) are class.
The carshares here are either Fusions or Priuses. The Fusion's interior is really good looking, but not very intuitive. The Prius has a much simpler system but it is way easier to use. The exterior is ugly as fuck though.
That poor Balti in his backpack
Right so my car is rattling rather than starting (won't fire up basically). Reckon it's a flat battery but then stuff like the headlights still works. Is it a flat battery?
Probably. Push-start it.
Hard to do in a supermarket car park (or as if I'd know how to do it anyway), so the recovery men are coming out in 3 hours. Happy days.
Do the headlights get dimmer when you turn the ignition? If yes, then the battery should be the culprit.
It was the battery. Got a new one. Happy days. Thought it would be a part I've never heard of, which is most of them.
Is ‘Happy Days’ your new thing?
I've been saying it irl for decades. No idea how much it seeps onto here. lol, just noticed it's in two straight posts, only one of them sarcastic.
Happy days is my thing. Though everyone says it here.
Ever had one though?Originally Posted by Giggles
I'm a twit
One what?
EDIT: Ah I get you now. Most days when I'm not in traffic or on here
You're here at all times and drive for your job, so that's a big no.
I'm not here when I'm driving/working/sleeping. And 'in traffic' doesn't mean driving you twonk. 90% of my driving is free and clear. I like that driving.
Boxster sold this morning, great time of year for it too.
After a proper old man barge next. Since my shifts changed I'm commuting in the dark all the time on the main road now, absolutely dull as fuck and a big mobile sofa is called for.
Third generation 7 Series.
XJ is the only answer.
XJ is actually my first choice. My old man has one and I'd driven it to work for a week earlier this year, so relaxing, most of the things that can wind you up on the road just don't seem to in a car like that.
The e38 (third generation) 7 series is quite difficult to find good examples of these days, lovely looking thing though. The e65 (fourth generation) are nowhere near as handsome but if I could find one that was well maintained I'd consider it. Think I just missed out on this from a fellow pistonheads member-
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BMW-750i-...vip=true&rt=nc
Outrageous value for money.
535D.
My old man had a 1998 740i and it was pretty great at the time. Then the ex-boyfriend of the woman he left my mother for set it on fire. Oh well.
I was looking at these things the other day for no particular reason, and everything they did during the 2000s - when they had that phase of making weird-looking, hit 'n' miss shit - seems rather undervalued. I know people never liked the look of them, but the E60 M5 still has a naturally-aspirated five litre V10 in it (which you won't see in a 'normal' car ever again), and yet they fetch less than otherwise comparable E39 M5 models (didn't you have one of those?).
Yeah, best car I've had by far. If I own anything else that can touch it as an all round proposition I'll be doing well.
They're steadily going up although I think a lot of advertised prices are inflated as cars seem to sit for sale for a long time. I bought mine in 2013 at 122k miles for £7400 and sold it to a trader last year for £6850 at 160k miles. The chap that bought it from the trader got in touch with me and said he had spent a further £3k on some preventative engine work (timing chain + guides and the con rod bearings). That's even before sorting out the odd rusty patch though. I didn't want to let it go but it's death by a thousand cuts, they cost a lot to keep in good nick, especially if you're doing ~10k miles a year in one.
Granted I was pretty fussy but to give you an idea of keeping one mechanically on the money, here's a sobering table of mine. Does include an aftermarket exhaust and a set of winter tyres but that doesn't take too much off the final tally-
The e60 generation and on seem to have no rust issues at all. I've certainly never seen rust on one and they came out in 2003 (2005 for the M5). That's one less worry and as much as I think I'll have to own a V10 at some point, be it M5 or M6, the bills on one of these can make the e39 look comparatively cheap.
http://www.thecarwarehouse.co.uk/vehicle/87/toyota-bb
Millions of yen spent? So about £40?
Yeah, dealers seem to be pre-empting any expected price rises, but you have to wonder whether it actually trickles down to things like these big turn of the century BMWs (and their Audi and Mercedes equivalents) the way they eat through tyres and suck up everything else that used to see them depreciate like shit in the first place. I think that 740i cost the old man about eighteen grand in 2001, when it would have been about seventy-odd three years previous. On a similar note, my brother bought a Range Rover in 2010 (one of the early 4.4 turbo diesels), and when he got rid of it about five years later he worked out that - through servicing and depreciation - it had cost him over a thousand quid a month. The only way it makes sense to buy these things new is if you fully intend to run them into the ground over ten years. Otherwise you're just burning money.
How much inheritance have you got left?
Range Rover, now there's a tempting one if I'm feeling particularly unhinged and one happens to pop up nearby. Auntie has the 3.6 TDV8 and it's bloody marvellous inside.
My budget would be around the early 4.4 V8, a cracking 17mpg.
I'd rather the dog one and then pretend that it's the new TTH van.
My uncle recently got himself a Discovery 4 and he can't get over how good it is. The new one looking like a swollen Freelander only makes them look even better too.
That's a fantastic idea. Let's put that server money down as a deposit.
Lofty could drive it round the country (he'd prefer the train one I suppose but fuck it) taking current members to TTH meets and also putting on recruitment drives.
Absolutely nothing with a D. He's not a farmer.535D.
They pretty much all are up there.
I'd take that Audi minivanesque thing. RS4 was it?
Just realized that all my car knowledge is ten years old.
They have just brought a new one out, so you're bang up to date.
Going to have a look at this XJ tomorrow-
https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classif...at_cars&page=1
You need to be at least 55 to drive that.
Fuck sake Rossi. Shambles.
Yep. The interior is knocking me sick.
I'm a twit
quality.
It's vile.
Giggles the only one with taste evidently. I bet you're all the sort of schmucks that would have black leather in every single car they've had.
Those four post steering wheels are usually awful, but apart from that I can't see anything wrong with the interior.
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