Lol at buying a stupid grandad wagon.
Lol at buying a stupid grandad wagon.
What comfy 4 door barge should I get then?
Buy an old Porsche instead. Every now and again I look on gumtree and see some of these old range rovers, Porsche and golfs and really think about just spunking the 4 or 5 grand on a toy as a second car.
Probably also need to buy a cushion though to satisfy the comfort aspect.
You haven't been paying attention, have you?
You used to have a Porsche didn't you? Or have you still got that too?
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Golf Estate 1.0 TSI.Originally Posted by Alan Shearer The 2nd
I just sold it. I couldn't run the Boxster for much longer without dipping in to savings I don't want to touch (my shifts at work stopped in the last few months and I'm about £450 worse off a month). Now I'm commuting on the main roads (boring) at peak times in the pitch black so it's a complete waste of a sports car, hence going the bargain barge route and using the difference between the new car and the £7.5k from the Boxster to fund any issues.
Jesus wept.
Ah, that's upsetting.
That hideous Jag might well be a solid move then. Are jags reliable with age?
Of all those sorts of cars (7 series, A8, Phaeton, S-class) they're probably the cheapest to run from what I can gather. To be honest, pick any one of them at 14 years old and they're not going to be without some issues.
The diesel seems to be the one to avoid due to its comparative complexity, the petrol engines are pretty sound. My old man has the diesel and does about 1000 miles a year, I'm just waiting for something to shit itself after clogging up with repeated 2 minute runs to the nearest co-op.
Update on viewing the XJ-
Firstly, the car looks great in the metal and the interior feels very special (fuck the lot of you, minus Giggles). I'd see it giving a massive feel good factor.
Now that the good is out the way...
Niggles. You expect a few but maybe not on a car at top money. Battery appears on the way out. They'd said they had to put a booster on the battery to to get it started and because of this a gearbox fault and handbrake fault was showing.
Even if I conceded that, the whole fucking car shouldn't jolt massively when stationary and switching between park/drive/reverse. I mean a proper thud. Of course this was only noticed after I'd gone over the car and found-
*Headlamp washer still missing
*A/C useless (just a regas they say)
*Windows only had a one touch function on the way down
*Brakes covered in rust- unclear if a good session of hard stops would clean them up although given it wasn't just surface rust I doubt it
*Heated seats didn't get very warm
*Passenger door handle was a bit flimsy and the mechanism didn't feel great for opening
*A little corrosion at the bottom corner of the o/s/f and n/s/r doors, nothing terrible
*Rear tyres were properly budget crap from the looks of it- 'Three A P606' Never heard of them and I'm a bit of a tyre anorak.
*EML on as noted before (just an O2 sensor they say)
The main chap took the day off and so the folk that were there didn't want me to take it out very far from the lot in case the battery packed in or some other shite. Didn't even bother looking at any paperwork, you'd have to be a genuine ape to not notice this gearbox issue. Unless of course a dodgy battery can somehow make the gearbox operate in such a way, which I doubt.
Absolute shambles and it's a shame because it'd be an utterly fantastic barge in good condition. All that at a £5500 asking.
I'm not as annoyed as I otherwise would be though as before this I went to see a 7 series in Glasgow belonging to a chap on pistonheads that's well known to the forum. With looks only a mother could love, avoiding disaster, this will be the next steed for £3800-
https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=1608792
Is Pistonheads as full of weirdos as its reputation claims, or is it just that its size means more of them (in absolute terms) than here?
Times like that don’t you wish you were mates with Edd China? He’d get that Jag running fine and fix everything else.
Although the new series of Wheeler Dealers doesn’t have him in because the network wanted “less focus on the workshop” so he quit. Shambles.
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Weirdos in what way? There are some nutters but there are so many users.
Then there's sad act anoraks like me who could talk about tyres all day.
Would be handy. I just don't know what a trader would be thinking, that car would be way overpriced if it had none of the things I'd listed. It's not had an MOT since August ffs, maybe he just likes it as furniture.Times like that don’t you wish you were mates with Edd China? He’d get that Jag running fine and fix everything else.
Although the new series of Wheeler Dealers doesn’t have him in because the network wanted “less focus on the workshop” so he quit. Shambles.
Ant is better.Times like that don’t you wish you were mates with Edd China? He’d get that Jag running fine and fix everything else.
Although the new series of Wheeler Dealers doesn’t have him in because the network wanted “less focus on the workshop” so he quit. Shambles.
blasphemy!
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There's not been a big cut back on the workshop bits after anyway. There's more to it than the story that Edd is telling.
That beemer is way better anyway. Assuming it doesn't fall apart.
Wow are you surprised a fucking ancient 70 grand car valued at 5k is a hunk of shit?
Doesn't feel as nice to sit in but I could be waiting a while to find something as well maintained.
I'll be honest, I can't say I'm surprised your life has turned to shit.
Have you considered a W221 S-Class? A lot of people don't like Mercs but they're a lovely drive.
Last time I looked he wasn't a middle-class corner shop owner.
Yeah it's probably better you don't talk about cars.
Wasn't the E-Class always the corner shop/takeaway owners' car of choice?
Probably more than I'd want to spend at the minute, certainly to get a V8 one. These cars are so complex that knowing who has owned the car beforehand and how well they looked after it counts for a lot too.
How many mpgs do you get on that badboy?
I think it's gallons per mile.
Wikipedia sez its 'road range' equates to 1.7 mpg, so probably not even half that on what you're actually allowed to use it on.
So I’ve been driving round with what I assumed were my fog lights on today. But then I noticed a second button which also appeared to be fog lights.
It can’t be a case of one does the left (near side) and one does the right (off side) surely, so what are the two buttons and corresponding lights?
Here’s some photos taken while parked up:
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Front and back.
Of course!
The green light is front, I assume?
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It is indeed.
I’ll stick with the back ones in daylight and both when it gets dark, if the fogs as bad tomorrow. (Pff as if I won’t be home by 3:30)
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I'm now wondering whether to buy a tank for a fiver and just parking it on someone's lawn.
Mind and only use them when it's properly bad. I never understand folk using them in the slightest mist when you can comfortably see regular lights from hundreds of yards away.
I’ll stick with the back ones in daylight and both when it gets dark, if the fogs as bad tomorrow. (Pff as if I won’t be home by 3:30)
A work mate of mine is in his 60's and ever since he got his Toyota Avensis he's convinced it has 'driving lights', these are of course the front fog lights. This might make a touch more sense (relatively) if he didn't also drive a Clio just like mine now and again and have the front fog lights on while driving that too.
How someone can get to that age and not recognise the fog light symbol on the dash is beyond me.
The best bit is he was moaning to me the other month about other drivers going about with their fog lights on. Keeping a straight face is quite difficult but fucking honestly, what the juddering fuck.
The back is far worse than the front to have on in good conditions. They're blinding.
I’ll smash em both in in the morning.
Nah the fog was shocking today. Was lucky I was working local and knew the roads cos you could easily have a give way creep up on you, could only see about five meters ahead at times.
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My Da was saying that to me this morning too, took him 4 hours to get home from work last night when it normally would have taken 2.
People that use them round town should be shot
Fucking bus has just taken my wing mirror off. We were both at the front waiting for the traffic lights to change, he was turning right, I was going straight on. It’s one of those roads where right turning traffic has too wait in the middle of a cross road until there’s a chance, but he was too far to the left, there was no room for traffic to go up the side of him so I stopped.
Predictably when making the turn his arse swang out and took my mirror out. Good job I hadn’t gone further on or the whole side of the car would have copped it. Got to wait for them to call in the morning now.
Got a proper spin out of the new van today, it's surprisingly decent to drive for a diesel.
Is it actually a van or are you being a weirdo and just calling it that?
It was converted into a van in the week between buying it and me getting it. On commercial tax and all.
A V60 van. I just can't visualise it. Pic?
It just looks the exact same from the outside but it has the seats taken out and a new flat floor put in the back. Saved the company €8,000 on import and saves me €10,000 tax a year.
I only have a photo of the outside but I'll take a snap looking into the boot tomorrow.
Giggles taking a pic of his specialised rapist boot is peak sinister.
I'll hide the stirrups and gimp mask first.
10 grand in tax, a year?
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