As per the old board. All driving related postage in here.
(Inspired by Alan Shearer the 2nd and Pepe)
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As per the old board. All driving related postage in here.
(Inspired by Alan Shearer the 2nd and Pepe)
My test is booked for the end of October, but I haven't driven since my previous failure in July. Need to get back on it.
I've got to drive to Leeds on Tuesday morning, which means I get to experience the joys of the M1 again. Wonderful.
My car has been making some weird noised and the check engine light turned on. Had trouble starting it the other day too. Last time I used it, however, the check engine light was gone and the noises, while still there, seemed less loud (or maybe I'm getting used to them). I think I'll keep driving it like that until it explodes.
I think my M5 is about to rape me with a 10" dildo.
Some basic math has made me realize that my bicycle is worth more than my car now.
I still haven't gotten round to doing my licence, it looks like unless I can find a solution next summer I'll have to do it in Danish.
I've 750km to do tomorrow in my 1.4 diesel behemoth.
750km? Bloody hell.
That's rough no matter the car.
500 odd miles is the most I've done. Thankfully it was mostly if not all motorway.
The furthest I've driven is about 500km (350 miles) and while I generally enjoy driving that journey reached the stage where I was fucking sick of it.
On a single day the most I've done is around 1200kms. That turned to over 2300kms in two days.
Well it's 375 there and back with around 2 hours work in between. Should be around 4 hours each way if I leave at the right time.
Checking my odometer I put up 1037km Thursday and Friday past.
My company car is coming up for its second service in four months.
I've 30,000km or 18 months marked on mine, whichever is sooner, for the first service. I've racked up nearly 14,000 in 2 months :drool:
Bloody hell mine is only 12,500m.
That is fucking nuts Giggles. What is it you do that requires that much driving?
I don't think I do that in a year.
Why are you talking in kilometres and not miles?
Driving in Poland has helped me but not by much.
I still have to struggle to convert to miles.
When I used to visit from the UK I had the car with both miles and km on the dial, but I still had the 50>31, 60>48, 80>50, 100>62, 120>75 conversions in my head when I passed speed limit signs here.
Now I'm so used to km that I have to really think about the mph speed limits when I go over the border.
Buying your first car is daunting shit.
Where the fuck to begin?
Gumtree. :drool:
Am I asking for trouble looking at used cars for under a grand, or is it possible to get something in that price range that isn't going to fall apart as soon as I touch it?
I don't see why not.
My Toyota cost exactly £1000 a few years ago and I've not had a single problem with it.
Oh and my cousin bought a car which had been written off twice (fucking moron) for £660 and he used it for a couple of years, don't think anything went wrong when he was using it.
I just saw the MOT certificate for that car :D
Fucking hell.
Stop postboosting you cunt.
Yeah
I did 2,755 miles (4,434 km) driving around Europe for 10 days. The last leg from Vichy to Birmingham was 671 miles. To say I'd had enough by then (boring drive with flat roads and little scenery, too) would be an understatement.
Turned out to only be 722km in the end, but the last hunderd or so back towards Dublin were in some of the worst rain I have ever driven in. Maybe the worst. The whole motorway was doing no more than 80km/h, couldn't even see the lines separating the lanes.
Some epic fork lightning caught on the dash camera though.
What are dash cameras for? Is it for insurance purposes or is it just to try and catch funny stuff and put it on the internet?
I'm tempted to mention it to work as they'd be right up for that sort of thing. Worried it'll catch me speeding and driving aggressively though.
I had bought mine and then mentioned it to work and they paid me for it.
Does it capture your speed? I guess the fuckers would check my tracker anyway. It's if they ask for footage randomly or footage of an accident and see some terrible driving beforehand is giving me the shits.
It only captures the speed if you buy one with the built in GPS unit. It will then show it on the screen during playback (if you choose) or in graph for for the selected journey. My work never ask to look randomly (car isn't tracked either), but one of the guys had someone cut out into him from a slip road and he was able to use his personal one to prove it as their fault for insurance.
I did load up a journey one day after the boss questioned how I got somewhere and back to quickly. But it turned out he didn't know they had opened a new motorway.
I got a notification today that my VW Golf GTE has arrived in the UK and I should have it in about 10 days time. Can't wait!
Sold my old car last Monday so have been driving my girlfriends old mk 2 golf for a week and cannot wait to get my new one. I miss power steering.
Josh who were you on TD?
What's a GTE? Is that electric?
Yeah it's the hybrid version of the gti/gtd. Looks exactly the same but with blue trim. Commute should be on electric only and can charge at work and have solar panels on the house I've just bought so basically a free commute. Add in the government grant and a bit of negotiation and I'm paying around the same a month to run this than I was to run my kia ceed I sold.
Hull to Portsmouth in four and a half hours (including stop at Leicester Forest), with the dog asleep in the back and my mother wittering all the fucking way. I am the Colossus of Roads.
Portsmouth to Hull in seven and a half hours. I was absolutely seething.
That's enough to induce a murderous rampage.
I did 670km yesterday but had to do it in a truck which, as painful as it was, was kind of fun too.
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-34365794
The Swiss ban sales of effected VW emission scandal cars.
Surely before we spend however much an enquiry costs we could say to VW that if we find they've done the same here there'll be far harsher conditions than if they just admit it now. It's not like they're going to get away with it at this point so they could really save everybody's time and just admit they've done it everywhere.
All those gimps that currently have massively devalued cars. :harold:
Went to leave my brother's last night and I've parked in front of him on the pavement. For some reason as I jump in and start it I press down the gearstick and whack it into reverse instead of 1st, then went to pull away fairly quickly.
So yeah. Both cars not damaged but there was a guy walking his dog past at that exact point who absolutely shit himself.
VW admitting that 1.2 million cars in UK are affected, including Audis, Skodas and Seats.
Quote:
Almost 1.2m Volkswagen vehicles in the UK are involved in the diesel emissions scandal that has rocked the German carmaker, underlining the scale of the crisis.
VW said the diesel vehicles include 508,276 Volkswagen cars, 393,450 Audis, 76,773 Seats, 131,569 Skodas and 79,838 Volkswagen commercial vehicles. The total number of cars affected is 1,189,906.
This is the first time that VW has revealed how many of the 11m cars that were fitted with a defeat device to cheat emissions tests were in the UK.
The scale of the number means the UK is likely to be one of the worst affected countries by the scandal.
VW said it will contact customers within the next few days about visiting a mechanic to have their car refitted. The cars affected are fitted with EA 189 EU5 engines.
Ohhhhh shhhhhh for those that have VAG company cars and their tax. :drool:
I think this VW/Audi stuff is brilliant. The only way it can get better is if their defence becomes 'Look, we've been involved with worse'.
The saving grace will be the rest of the manufacturers being found out too and behold, the emissions scandal truly begins. This would be a good time to nuke the middle east while the bourgeois are up in arms about their eco-wank cars and tax allowances.
Some dick at work that I don't like bums his Skoda Yeti. Hope this scandal has at least caused him some mild annoyance.
I got randomly waved over into a 'census point' by a copper on my way home, which I went along with because you can't really run plod over, only for some pleb to knock on my window and ask if I wanted to help the council with a census by telling him about my journey. I said 'IT'S NONE OF THEIR BUSINESS WHAT I DO MATE', but still had to wait there whilst the twat in front of me spent five minutes answering the questions. Who do these bastards think they are?
I need a family car for about £3000-£4000. My Peugeot 306 exploded yesterday. Looking at Seat Leon, VW Passat, VW Jetta. Any others?
You'll be able to get one of those for a few quid once the eco lies fully bed in.
People who refuse to move over when they're crawling along in the right hand lane on a dual carriageway really should be banned from driving.
Flash like fuck then undertake.
It's also annoying when somebody roars up behind you, so you move, and then they just sit there alongside you like a bastard.
There'll be someone like me haring up behind them soon so don't worry.
Alternatively what fucks me off especially on motorways is having to slow down until a car moves over, then that car speeds up and goes faster than you are so you have to pull in. Rinse and repeat. Arseholes.
Vastly inconsistent speed drivers are the worst. I can't go above 90mph so I'm limited in my abilities to dispose of these arseholes.
:(
Damn you, sir.
It's quite fun now that most dickheads have the black box.
King of the road in my 1999 Toyota Avensis :drool:
I didn't realise you were Asian.
Me and Benny are brothers.
Oh and I think I might have finally got my first points on Monday. Doing 66 in one of those dual carrigeways with a ludicrous 50 mile an hour speed limit (sorry, wut?) I don't think I broke in time to avoide being snapped by one of those blacked out windowed bastard police vans that was hiding behind a lorry on the hard shoulder.
It's the inconsistency of these limits that's the real joke. 50mph crammed in like sardines on one of those ridiculous stretches of roadworks on the M1 is fine, but any faster than that on a bypass is a no no?
I don't wish to come over all Clarkson, but our road laws and improvements are designed and administered, by and large, by fucking morons.
Our city bypass is 40MPH which is even more lol. Then you've got the M77, a three lane motorway that has a 60MPH speed limit. :sick:
This is the sort of thing I'm getting at, I mean fucking honestly - what massive fucking tool decided that those reductions from the norm were necessary?
The bypass I was on used to be 70MPH, but there was a bad accident a few years back at the hands of a complete idiot who (having stuffed 7 kids into her four door, including two in the boot) drove into oncoming traffic on the other side of the road. I would have thought the massive fucking steel girder they installed afterwards would have been sufficient, but no, the emotive calls from the unfortunate's bereaved relatives also got the speed limit reduced.
I would sooner pay double than have some 'black box' looming over me.
Those blacked out vans are a nightmare, Yev. Sort of shit which should kick off a revolution.
Yes, I've been snapped by one.
Been looking for a car for the last week or so. i think I've narrowed my search down to either a peugeot 308 1.6 HDI (£30 road tax and nice to drive apparently, even if they do look a bit weird), and the Toyota Auris 1.4 D-4D. Has anybody driven one of these?
Call me a cynical bastard but I'm pretty sure I shouldn't find this in my sump-
http://s14.postimg.org/a8rokdp7l/120...02397083_n.jpg
That circlip is 3" diameter.
:uhoh:
Ouch.
I'm hoping it's from a previous issue just before I bought the car, which is perfectly possible as the car is running fine. Best case scenario though so can't leave it to chance.
Www.wonga.com
:thbup:
I have no idea what any of those things are. Does 'cynical' imply somebody has put that in there (wherever there is)?
Warning light came on for tyre pressure today. Checked them and they seemed alright so I've blown them all up a bit and reset it. Hopefully it doesn't come back on again.
'Twas in jest.
Here's where it's located, well, meant to be-
http://s16.postimg.org/jvxur4ho5/T3k_Bn.jpg
http://s28.postimg.org/4jnpe2zxp/1111.jpg
:D
I appreciate the effort.
That engine :drool:
http://m.liveleak.com/view?i=a19_1444852745
oh my Christ.
Just bought a Kia Cee'd diesel.
Winning life...
How's that BMW treating you? :henn0rz:
I'll be getting it next year.
About to buy my first car, looked at it today and it was glorious. It felt like driving a whale but what a glorious beast of a whale.
Blacked out Chrysler 300. Let the hate commence. :drool:
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Note* this is not the actual car, just a google image of something pretty similar.
Why would you want that as your first car? See you on Liveleak.
Because it's fucking gorgeous? I don't know what Liveleak is, so jokes on you.
It means lol when you run over that small child/old lady.
Gorgeous? Its all right angles you mook. Its hideous.
Upgraded my Fiesta this week to a Zetec S TDCi. Only picked it up yesterday but it feels pretty smart.
http://www.crg-usedcarsselby.co.uk/m...-hatchback.jpg
http://www.beaconhillusedcarcentre.c...?itok=ES3Hh3Fh
Insurance wasn't that much more than my old one, which was nice, and tax only £20.
I came out of the cinema last night to the worst fog I've ever experienced. I could barely see anything driving home to the point that I considering parking up and getting the bus home.
I persisted and got home but it was far from safe.
I used my fog lights for the first ever time and they made absolutely no difference.
That Chrysler :drool:
My dad has it in estate form, just make sure you don't have black alloys or a black grill on it or you'll look like a twat.
The QE2 has a tighter turning circle.
The estate is weird looking in that they really did just seem to cut an extra bit out and weld it to the saloon.
I quite like it but it does look like a hearse in black.
Are those rare over there?
Yes, that's what I thought. They are hard to miss, that is for sure.
More importantly Obama drove one and this: http://www.complex.com/sports/2011/0.../chrysler-300c
The fog in and about London is obscene. Both the flights I was supposed to get were cancelled so after 7 hours mooching about Heathrow we're now driving the 530 miles through the fog in a rental (2.0 insignia).
Chaos.
I expect they're typically American in being under-powered (even that six litre V8 version seems weak) and reliant on seventies engineering, but I've always liked those Chryslers. Multi will look like a right geezer bowling around in it. Especially if the tinted windows make him look like he's got hair.
Most of the ones around here are Merc diesel engined ones I think. Fairly sluggish but they're like a boat anyway.
I didn't know that. What's the point of having an American car if you can't have the dickhead engine in it?
Mercedes Benz V6 diesel engine. That's all I know. Supposedly reliable and will last for ages (miles).
I'll post up a picture of the actual car when I get it.
Edit: I'm also rocking the proper baldy now, shaving my head against the grain and all. Looking more and more like my avatar by the day.
My Focus sounds completely fucked. It's making a rattling noise at really low revs in gear, and when I'm accelerating it sounds like a dodgem or an electric bus.
No power loss or anything or warning lights and seeing as how it's a company car I really couldn't give a shit, it's due a service in 2k miles so if it breaks down before then oh well.
It's less than 2 years old and only on 51k miles. BUILD QUALITY.
So in other news the NOTE's rear windscreen demister is now fucked. The fuse is fine so one has to assume it's the wiring. Awesome. Looking forward to at least 2 hours labour and parts on that. :(
Just don't bother fixing that shit.
It's a pretty important function in winter time especially in a car with no air con.
No air con? What sort of poverty car are you on?
It's not crucial in a country where the average temperature for June is 13C...
Mine hasn't worked in about 2 years.
It's no biggie.
I wouldn't give a shit if it was my car, but it isn't my car it's the wife's car.
Someone crashed very lightly into the back of someone I work with. After some to and fro with the guilty bloke's insurance, they sent him £980 to get his bumper replaced, He hasn't bothered because you can't even tell unless shown the scratch, so has got a free G. :drool:
Don't you have to sent back an invoice or something?
Air con is handy for demisting the windscreen even if it's not warm.
:D
So it broke down on the A96 halfway between Huntly and Keith. It was the thrust bearing. New clutch as well. It took 3.5 hours to get the recovery driver and get me to Inverness. He was a nutter, ex-Bouncer from the Midlands, was showing me his stab wounds etc.
There was no hire car arranged or fuck all so I had to take someone else's car home. Office/Ford/Arval were less than useful. I still have it anyway, my car and all my kit/car seat/work shoes etc is still up north. :(
My power steering broke. Time to work those biceps.
We got a letter in through our door from Volkswagen today. Apparently our Altea has one of those sneaky VW engines. They say "they deeply regret breaking our trust", which I feel should more accurately read "we deeply regret being found out". No word of what's going to happen yet, but they cover all costs apparently.
Demand a full refund.
Thieving German bastards. Such hard workers. So efficient . . .
http://s1.postimg.org/7slya6tbj/cpc.jpg
http://thumbsnap.com/s/wbrfnt0D.gif
Everybody's getting a handshake for Christmas.
Lmao. My rear windscreen was 45 quid just for labour to repair two broken wires.
How much for a flat in the Ferry, MJ, babes?
Rent or buy?
Rent, ofc. I can afford it off £1300, I imagine, but i'm just trying to work out how much money after bills I'ma get.
We were £400pcm for a maisonette but that was 5 years ago. Its tough as you've got insurance, tax and all the bills, plus living as well. Good luck.
Its not ideal, but it looks like it may have to be done, you know? Carnoustie is far too limited and expensive it seems. Monifieth, Ferry or somewhere decent in Dundee is where I'm looking at.
We bought in the Glens though they're expensive to rent. Fuck Chuntnoustie.
King street?
Yes next t'Gunners.
I was having a look at one there - £450pcm. Looks aite.
What car've you got though.
nissan skyline
Car is fixed. It was the input shaft bearing, whatever the fuck that is. Also got a service. Pick it up Tuesday, thank fuck. Can't wait to have my bae back.
Your cars seem to always break, you must drive like a troglodyte.
If in doubt, flat out.
I bet it's all harsh acceleration, aggressive gear changes, and braking in a seethe.
Yeah for my company car, I treat it like a hire car, basically. When I got lost in the fog and ended up in Cowdenbeath by mistake I did a handbrake turn at a dead end and absolutely reamed the clutch.
When it's my own car I treat it like a high-class whore.
I have a set of winter tyres on my old Punto that my girlfriend's brother says should be fine for the Fabia I'm driving now.
I trust his judgement on this sort of thing but I don't really understand how you'd work out a suitable match. Those are 185/55/14 and the Fabia's current tyres are 165/75/14.
Passed the MOT this morning without even a single advisory, which has never happened before. If it wasn't for the fact I had to take it in at 6.30 and the inevitability of my car being totalled by a lorry later today, this would be the best car-related day IN THE WORLD.
Finally getting those winter tyres on today, which is very handy, as it's just started snowing.
Forgot to answer that one but yes, they should work just fine.
Shit I've just had an e-mail through asking if I've informed HMRC about my company car...LOL.
What do I do? Say yes and just not tell them or will I get crucified for that?
I've not paid tax on it ever so I'm probably due thousands of pounds.
Because they are fucking idiots. I could plead ignorance here and just say I thought it was taken care of but they'll probably backdate it.
I've read the onus isn't on the company but on you so I'm fucked either way.
In the most stereotypical islander thing to happen to me in a while, I obliterated a couple sheep on the way home tonight. Roads had been gritted for possible snow tonight and about seven of the stupid fuckers were across the whole road eating the salt. Would have struggled to avoid it in daylight as they were at the peak of a blind summit, so had no chance in darkness. Car seems to be fine thankfully but Jesus it stinks.
I've never hit anything living. Was it scary?
Didn't get time for much thought beyond, "oh fuck". The impact was surprisingly soft. Feared there would be more damage to the car but there's just a bit of the grill gone and a very slight dent in one side. I then discovered I was out of screen wash though so had to drive another couple miles in darkness with a screen covered in fat and blood.
:D
What a chilling image that would have been had anyone seen you driving after the incident.
Fucking hell.
:D
How fast were you going when you hit them or do animals tend to explode on impact?
Fantastic post that, @Toby. Did you not think it was worth checking whether they were dead, or was it obvious?
:D
Lamb for dinner then?
I went back and hauled them off the road, they were very definitely very dead.
Probably still going about 40-50 on impact Niko but I think exploding organs is normal.
I jokingly asked a guy I know who drives an arctic truck if he'd been on that road today. Turns out he killed two as well...
Sheep are rubbish. Cows are, unsurprisingly, solid though.
Should you not tell someone that you've ram-raided half their flock?
It's land known as a "scattald" managed by multiple crofters, so there's no real way to know who actually owns them. It's a nightmare stretch of road because they're basically free to graze without a fence in sight.
So much for no damage... The brake warning light came on yesterday but I couldn't see anything wrong with them. Fluid level was fine and it went off after driving (very slowly) for a bit. I assumed it was just an electrical fault or a problem with the gauge, until this morning when I got to the end of my road and my foot went right to the floor when I tried to stop... Luckily I was going slow enough I could just slow it using the gears, and there was no other traffic around so I didn't need to stop completely anyway.
In the garage now getting checked over. I'm really hoping it's a quick fix as I've got plans tonight I'll have to cancel if I don't have a car. :moop:
The brake warning light came on and you didn't immediately stop and call breakdown? You risked your own life and the lives of others by driving on.
Nicely done.
I did immediately stop, and checked under the bonnet. There was no sign of anything actually wrong, so - as suggested in the car's handbook - I continued to drive slowly and carefully. It then went off again, so I drove normally and didn't put it to a garage. It's since come back on and I've put it to a garage to be looked at. Take your melodrama elsewhere.
Also lol at the idea of there being a breakdown service here.
Would you even know what to look for? Can you show me any car handbook that says continue to drive on carefully if the brake light comes on? The fact is you aren't facing up to your potentially huge, ignorant mistake as is shown by your flagrant dismissal of my previous post. Maybe when you murder a young family you will realise.
Well, if you have a handbook for a 2000-2007 Skoda Fabia handy you can look it up. It specifically says if the brake light flashes and it beeps three times, stop and check the fluid level, and that if fluid level is okay you should continue driving and "adjust your driving style accordingly". I did that, and then the warning went away again. It's come back on, so the car has gone to a mechanic to get properly looked at.
Piss off with your talk of murder you fucking housewife.
I'm literally on an island where people drive - legally - without MOTs, btw.
I bet there are over a million cars out there without an MOT or tax or anything, look at the gyppos too.
Half of them break down on the Forth Road Bridge. :moop:
You utter swell. :D
I once drove just over 8 miles with no brakes in my Peugeot 106.
I'm not sure why my brakes stopped working though because they were fine the next day.
I love how magic can go from a sewer dwelling rat who takes the utmost pleasure in people getting manfled, yet can still get his scanties in a bunch about this. Melodrama doesn't even touch it, if there was an accident he'd be the one lolling at the injured and photographing the corpses.
If I had a brake warning light come on I'd be too paranoid to do anything, I had the general diagnostic light come on which made me shit myself until someone confirmed it was a bad connection with the still-working rear indicator.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england...yside-34986092
Holy fuck. Looks like the first car realised and tried to move out the way but not fast enough.
The guy I sometimes work with drives while I eat my dinner, and he's absolutely reckless. I hate it.
He has 12 points - 9 for speeding and 3 for being on his phone, and yet he still does both.
I just stare into my lunchbox and hope we don't die in the fifteen minutes a day that he's driving. :uhoh:
It's hard to take heed of motorway warnings signs when the majority of the time it's information that would have been handy 6 hours prior.
In light of my recent wallet raping, I feel I should post this to make everyone feel better when they get a surprise £100 bill for the car-
http://s29.postimg.org/8c1zgy26v/kill_me.jpg
But still, every one of those miles is :drool:
What a sad cunt you are. You should be driving a Dacia Logan MCV or whatever it is if you're the type of wet weekend that has a spreadsheet like that.
I like to remind myself how much I've thrown into a pit.
Why? That's the whole point of owning something you can't afford.
Yes, being able to afford bills doesn't make them any more pleasant when they come round. :D
Moaning about it = not being able to afford it.
Where was he moaning about it you spiky fuck?
It was implied. No need for the racism.
Fuck sake the FRB is closed indefinitely.
Fucking hell it's shut until after New Year...
Just when I think I have some respite from car bills for a while, the Clio goes and shits its power steering fluid all over the engine bay.
I thought this was compounded by the M5's windscreen washers packing it in today but it turned out to be a loose connector. Every cloud and all that.
Can we see the updated spreadsheet though?
Not spent any more on it since then, not to try and jinx myself...
Just looking at MOT status's and vehicle details on the DVLA, and one car for the vehicle status says 'SORN and due past date of liability'. Can anyone explain what this means? I've googled it and got sort of answers, but nothing concrete. The car's currently in a showroom and only arrived a couple of days ago.
Could be that the website is out of date and still thinks a SORN has to be renewed each year?
It's the DVLA website.
Could be that the website is out of date and still thinks a SORN has to be renewed each year.
How much does it cost to get scratches out of alloys? Or more accurately, how much am I likely to be charged.
I had a hire car last week and the place I got it from (Europcar) are claiming there's a scratch on both front alloys (made up bollocks by the sounds of it). The company who provided the hire car have written to me saying they've been informed of the scratches and I could potentially be billed for it.
I've had wheels fully refurbished (powder coated, sprayed, and polished) for £30 a wheel.
They better not start trying to charge me extortionate prices for it. Cunts.
With a car rental company you can pretty much guarantee it.
I had something similar once, only they were saying scratches on the car. I hadn't actually signed for the car because I was out when it arrived and they'd just posted the keys through my letterbox, so I got away with saying it was scratched when it arrived.
I say "got away" but I'm 99% sure I didn't scratch it, and that there weren't even any on the car anyway.
I didn't scratch it either, but since when has that mattered?
They dropped it off at 8pm so it was obviusly pitch black, and told me to check the car over once it was light. Even then I couldn't see the scratches that were already meant to be on it, let alone a couple on the alloy. They picked it up when I was out so didn't get to speak to anyone/survey the scratches.
Think I'm probably going to look at buying another car some time in the next few months. I love my Fabia but I think it's going to start showing its age pretty soon and now that I have a less temporary job I'm thinking to get something a bit newer on hire purchase.
Would be looking for something good value, both in cost of the car itself and in running costs. What would people recommend for 2010-12 sort of age hatchbacks? Having looked at HonestJohn reviews and compared to average prices, a Fiesta is looking a good choice at the moment.
Ew at a second hander on HP. :sick:
Just get a new one you freak.
Seems a bit pointless when they're about half the price after only a couple of years.
The mechanical outlays on a car that's already 6-4 years old isn't worth it, mate. It's a lose lose. Imagine paying finance AND road tax, MOTs, big services etc. 5 years is a big one for cars as that's normally when a lot of shit needs done.
Basically you can't win, but if I had the choice I'd take £150-£250 per month + petrol + tyres eventually rather than the same plus all the other shite that comes with owning a car. Remember that one will be de-valuing as well.
True, I guess I'm overlooking resale value and not really considering all costs. Still, to look at the Fiesta example, I could get a 12 or even 13 plate for around £6k whereas a brand new one is closer to £14k. Seems like a massive difference even once everything is factored in.
Remember you'll still be able to return it. Basically it's almost like a lease. Lease a depreciating asset, buy an appreciating asset.
Only think about the monthly cost, it's too hard otherwise.
£150 * 36 = £5,400. Depending on deposits, excess mileage etc. Try to go for something that will keep it's value better.
Now another loan would be similar, except you'd have the value of the car after three years, so say £3,000 if you're lucky. Now, a timing belt bill can set you back almost £800 on some small hatchbacks. That and other things would shat all over any 'savings' you'd made by not buying new. And if you can't afford the repairs then tough shit.
I buy my cars in cash. I was just hit with a £266 for MOT and Service (and a couple of repairs), plus road tax, plus 2 tyres. That was over £500 in total this month. :(
So the thought of having a loan payment as well gives me the boak.
All fair points. So what would be your recommendation(s) for a new hatchback? Preferably with good fuel economy for primarily longer (50+ mile) journeys.
Why not save some money and buy something in cash? What's wrong with your current car?
I have no idea buddy. Have you thought about a new Fabia? You get the 1.2TSI or whatever it is for a good price. My wife's uncle who is a divorced warehouseman with two kids manages to fund his ok. Plus it's a smart little car.
I suppose it's largely based on what Magic has been saying - my previous cars have been what I could afford in cash and it's just a lot of hassle and unpredictable cost. I don't really have cash available to buy a good car up front, so I'd be skimping and hoping I didn't encounter any problems.
Current car is actually doing okay for the age (14 years) but it's only going to need more and more work done if I keep using it.
I was looking at them yeah. I'd prefer a 1.4 but the price jumps massively to get that with the Fabia. I'll maybe just try a few test drives and see what I like.
This is all working off the assumption that a new car is guaranteed not to be a dog. Though the chances are more in your favour I suppose.
If you are going 2nd hand then take a look at the Mazda 2 as well. They're a Fiesta up until 2014 but don't normally cost as much. A Yaris is hard to beat too, and the new ones don't look as much like they're for someone disabled.
I requested quotes for various cars on CarWow and it's come back with a brand new Fiesta for £8,300. :serious:
It's quite amusing seeing what competing dealers undercut each other by but not sure if the deals I'm being offered are any good.
I'm a giant man looking for a car that's going to be doing a potential 600 miles a week, it's going to be on finance and no more than £300 a month. Decent MPG and reliability a must, decent interior wouldn't go a miss but can be sacrificed if needed. Advise me people.
Reliability being a must equals a Japanese petrol.
I thought big miles = diesel though?
First driving lesson tomorrow.
Good luck. Driving's probably the best thing you can learn as an adult. And it's easy so long as you have common sense.
Alas it's more winding A road and dual carriageway bypass than motorway, that's Cumbria for you!
Think I'm going to get a used Skoda Superb, seen a few decent low mileage models under three years old about, hire purchase will allow me to thrash the mileage without worrying.
In terms of MPG, yeah.
Modern diesels aren't that reliable compared to old school diesels though when you have the likes of diesel particulate filters, EGR valves etc. adding to the complexity. That's more for later in a car's life (for the most part) though so you should be ok given you're looking at fairly new.
Skoda Superb would be ideal for 600 miles a week.
If you'd ever wondered where this road in Skyfall leads to-
http://s10.postimg.org/842tm41mx/bond.jpg
It's here-
http://s21.postimg.org/fmgwrnnk7/127...66862633_o.jpg
http://s27.postimg.org/830gobrer/127...66244082_n.jpg
That looks class.
I can see why they stopped to take the shot there with the DB5. After that the engine undertray was scraping the road half the time.
Alan is one of those freaks that likes to drive aimlessly, somehow justifying in his mind that 'it's all worth it'.
The spreadsheet says otherwise, MATE.
The spreadsheet does but this was actually a day out to take advantage of the scenery with the weather.
Staying in Torridon over a weekend in April and I've got this bad boy planned-
https://goo.gl/maps/P39qB6bp64n
She'll be downing the travel sickness pills.
http://static.panoramio.com/photos/large/78040908.jpg
Do you look after the garden yourself? The pink roses look lovely.
That's the neighbour I'm afraid. Nothing but monoblock now for me.
MOT, 2 tyres, windscreen washer pump fixed and collection/delivery of car for only £40 :eyemouth:
My car needs a service. Fitting it in round work is a pain in the arse, plus last time the courtesy car had 4 miles worth of fuel in it, which was only just enough to get it to the petrol station. Might lie to work and say there was no courtesy car available, and have the morning off.
The walk home after dropping it off, and then back to pick it up, is long as hell but half of it is through a nice park. :) Beats driving round in a shitty Fiesta doing work.
It's the service that's the thorough one, right? Or is that MOT?
That reminds me I'd just had it serviced and put two new tyres on it :moop:
Got a 2015 Vauxhall Mokka 1.7 CDTI SE in the end chaps, picked it up from Glasgow and drove the near 250 miles trip back to Barrow on quarter of a tank :D
My car was booked in for it's service at 8:30 morning but they rang yesterday to say they've no courtesy cars. They said if I go at 8:20 they'll rush it through and have it done in an hour. Knowing there's a McDonalds over the road, I agreed and said I'd go for some breakfast and get some computer work done there while I wait.
So here I am in McDonalds waiting for a phonecall - he rang about 10 minutes ago to say he's having a disaster; it needs new brakes and the front tyres are illegally bare. Great. They won't do the tyres either so I've gotta wait another hour for the brakes to be changed, then I've got to take it to Kwik Fit to have the tyres changed. How long's that likely to take?
Annoying because I've still gotta do work after all this, because a few people have been "promised" I'd get to them today. One person has been told before 12 but I can't see that happening. :cab:
A disaster? I bet you've worn the pads down to the bloody metal you nonce.
If kwik-fit can get started on your car straight away then it'd take around half an hour for a couple of tyres. I'd give them a phone though unless you know they're already expecting you/not busy.
Maybe. I didn't get any paperwork this time, and they haven't signed the service log book - just stamped and dated it. Probably don't trust me to actually get the tyres sorted. Went to Kwik Fit and told them what happened and he had a fancy keyring to see how bare the tyres are. He knelt down next to my car, and just started laughing; didn't even need his keyring. Definitely illegal! Kwik Fit is better than Trust Ford cos I'm sat in a comfy chair with a free cup of tea while I wait.
Oh my biggest gripe of today is Ford didn't wash my car. They ALWAYS wash it after a service/MOT. Was counting on it too cos it's dirty as anything. :thbdn:
I've had a look this is all I can come up with that's roundabout £18-£22,000:
Mondeo Hatch - 94co2
Civic Estate - 99co2
Megane Sport Tourer - 93co2
Qashqai - 99co2
308SW Blue - 85-88co2
Leon TDI Tourer - 94c02
Octavia Estate - 90co2
Auris Touring - 81co2
Astra Tourer - 92co2
Golf Estate Bluemotion - 92co2
:(
Problem is it really needs to be 94 or under, though I appreciate that could change at anytime.
Don't think I'll get the Mondeo because my boss has one.
Quite liking the Octavia 1.6 TDI CR SE Business GreenLine III 5dr. Very well spec'd and economical. Huge as well.
Here's a few from my long weekend in the Highlands. On the way back over the Bealach na Bá (Pass of the Cattle) we were driving through the clouds, so no amazing views from there unfortunately.
Loch Maree from Glen Docherty-
http://s16.postimg.org/7omcxlkvp/IMG_4246.jpg
Bealach na Gaoithe (Pass of the Winds)-
http://s16.postimg.org/keqlaostx/IMG_4380.jpg
http://s16.postimg.org/pspdi8ik5/IMG_4382.jpg
Early enough in the year for hardly any dawdlers too. That'll change in the next couple of months.
Looks good, shame about the aging rustbucket spoiling the view.
I didn't see your wife in the pics?
The highlands :drool:
My radiator fan is broken. :(
What's our thoughts on indicating?
Why do some people indicate going onto a roundabout but not when they're going off? If they continue their original indication then it makes it look like they're not exiting and I can't just sail onto what should be a clear roundabout. Really annoys me. :moop:
Not to mention the people who indicate seconds before they turn off a road. The whole point is that you're indicating to everyone what your intentions are in advance, it's not something you do just because you're turning.
People that indicate right to take the second exit on roundabouts are the worst kind.
While not a fan of the death penalty in principle I quite often think it should be introduced for people who don't indicate at roundabouts.
There must be a large of number of people who think you don't need to indicate if you're turning left.
Or that mini roundabouts don't really count.
There's a special place in hell reserved for those utter idiots who come to a complete stop at a roundabout that has plenty of visibility. It's like they don't even consider checking traffic flow or anything until they have halted. Cunts.
Nothing like 4 cars stopping at a mini roundabout. Chaos.
:drool:
I've quit indicating left on roundabouts because no other cunt does it.
That is literally worse than Hitler.
I concur.
I think my most irritating roundabout scenario is the cunt in the right hand lane who goes straight on with either no indication or indicating right while doing so.
I have my driving test tomorrow. Should go well but you never know.
Saw a big HGV stall on a small roundabout the other day. It occurred to me I'd never seen that before. It caused momentary chaos.
Ive been seeing some decent looking vauxhall cars lately. Turns out, they are not even vauxhall's. They are skoda's. They have changed their badge and it looks similar to vauxhall when you drive passed them
I had my car INSPECTED by our new Nazi operations manager who is a clown. He's been pissing everyone off by forcing them to get every tiny dent/scratch repaired (everyone is just ignoring him).
He inspected mine and asked me to top up the coolant (LOL) and also to wash my front bumper as it had too many flies on it. :D
What a fucking clown.
Hot weather and motorway miles have turned my front bumper into a fly mass grave.
Car wont start \0/.
I hear a couple of clicks and then nothing.
Battery?
If its a diesel, it might be a glow plug issue as ive just had mine changed after difficult starts.
Aye sounds like battery click click nothing. Could be flat because of a duff alternator or age, if it's the former £££ lol.
Yeah it's most likely the battery.
Petrol, I hate diesels.
Probably age and corrosion.
It's a 99.
Has it corroded due to your acidic, seeping personality?
Push start it.
:harold:
Finally got round to getting the AA to come and look at it.
The battery is fine but the ignition barrel is fucked. He did a temporary fix though by pulling all the ignition switches out and I can at least use it with a screwdriver (proper redneck style) so that's not too bad.
I've been starting my car with a screwdriver since someone tried to steal it. That's how we dons roll.
LoL @ having a car shit enough to let you do that.
Lol at having to put your pants down in the dealership for any minor malfunction.
Lol at the leasing company paying for it.
Lol at not being able to afford your own car.
Lol at our developed v developing world banter.
Don't worry, Scotlol will get there one day.
Pepe's donned this but then a screwdriver starter would.
His workaround has left me with no electrics at all.
The only things that work are the hazard lights, brake lights and the light above my head in the car.
Was fucking dying in there.
Finally took it to a garage and the ignition switch was faulty not the whole barrel, should be ready tomorrow or the day after.
Of all the things to take from that video. Gimp m
Safety first. :dc:
Clearly a top priority for Mexicans.
There was a seven car pileup an a fatality on the M62 today. Thankfully I never go any further than Urmston (it happened in Rochdale) so it didn't affect me. Apparently a woman was involved in a minor incident and got out of her car to inspect the damage and was wiped out by a lorry. I don't know how the other cars got involved but what a moron.
Also got road rage at a mini roundabout today (I try not to cos my company car is branded) when a dickhead in a van just pulled across in front of me when I was doing 30 across it. I slammed on and called him a muppet behind my windscreen, but he stopped at his exit and shouted 'you what mate?' thinking he was ten hard, so I shouted at him again (we both had both front windows down, air con uses petrol yo!) that he was a fucking muppet and he just drove off. I was only so annoyed as I had loads of work stuff in the back that had all slid on the floor and under the front seats, despite being belted in. Goddamn idiot drivers! :mad:
I got my She Hulk back today :drool:
£143 though :(
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f5b_1468821312
Jesus FUCK.
That's pretty good. :D
Following on from that bit of Indian genius...
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=6c8_1470129555
:D
:D
The kind of stuff you would expect from Mr. Bean.
It's fucking amazing.
Has anyone here used http://www.newregcars.co.uk/ before?
Cars gonna be fully paid off in December :drool:
M5 sold and I've decided to go full hairdresser...
https://s21.postimg.org/nyu13ytd3/IMG_0471.jpg[url=https://postimage.org/]
Jesus Christ. :sick:
Do you lot bother with GAP Insurance?
Ford quoted us £399 for three years which seems ridiculously expensive.
Cheers, should be cheaper to run than the M5 at least. Absolutely loves to be caned too.
I know someone who is selling a good condition Boxter (about the same vintage as that one above I think) but you'd have to come to Guernsey to collect it. I think you'd get it pretty cheap.
And then maybe pay VAT to re-register it in the UK (even though it was originally from there and has had the VAT paid once).
Yeah they're not too bad to buy now - this one was £10.5k , although they do keep their value for ages. I wasn't going to go for one but this had £7k spent on it a while back on an engine rebuild that addresses a main weakness of the engine (caused it to fail in the first place).
That and the seller (trader) just spent over a grand sorting a few things found in the pre-purchase inspection. Not sure what sort of profit he made in the end...
Got a 66 plate Fiesta on its way at the end of the month. Not quite Porsche territory but for £169 a month what can you expect. :stamford:
Suppose that's the main risk. If something goes wrong it's £££. I'm just over a year into my 3 series contract so have another two years of it and will then probably buy it in the end. It's just a general interest of "hmm... I could afford this and it might be fun" rather than a good idea.
Company are finalising quotes for my new car. Can't wait to see the final list. :rolleyes:
I had my van upgraded the other day. More doors is so much better.
Seriously considering ditching my car. More cost/trouble than it's worth.
Car broke and I don't intend to fix it. This is how I currently roll:
http://i.imgur.com/dFBTfhm.jpg
Honestly thought you were pantless in the top pic.
You wish you massive pervert.
lol nice skid lid nerd.
You're a disgrace.
Explain the kittens you slut. Stop teasing me like a bitch.
:wub:
Just come to Utah and bike with me ffs.
I wish. :drool:
That is if you can handle more than 20 feet of elevation.
No gloves? Obviously average less than 7mph. Queer.
Company car ordered. VW Golf mk7 1.0 Match Bluemotion TSI in metallic Limestone Grey with Shetland interior. This, basically:
http://imagecom.volkswagen.co.uk/api...ontext=publish
http://imagecom.volkswagen.co.uk/api...ontext=publish
That interior. :sick:
Has anything you'd want in an interior in fairness. Youl never see a VW that isn't zzzzz inside anyway.
Looks ok to me.
They didn't have the moonlight blue which is a shame because that was by far the best colour. I was going to go for red but it wasn't metallic.
I wasn't going :sick: because it was boring. It's the inside of a car, it doesn't need to be exciting. That colour is just horrible. Black is fine, you can't go wrong with black.
Also, your kid will have that stained to fuck.
And the amount of stains magic would have left on black...
:D
Good point.
Black is safe and boring, far rather mix it up.
No she won't she's four and she doesn't get to eat in the cars. Also I've come from the dreadful Focus interior so fancied mixing it up.
Got stopped by the police tonight (me doing 90 on a motorway, them in an unmarked car) and having spent 15 minutes in the back of their car while they checked my license, breathalised and told me off they then let me go, citing it was my lucky day due to the thing that clocked me doing 90 not being calibrated.
What the hell's all that about?
Took my 46 minutes to get to a meeting this morning. 5.7 miles.
7 odd miles per hour in 30 degree, hot, stuffy, exhaust fumed misery.
I don't really know how it works, as it's the first time it's happened to me, but they did mention something about still being able to prosecute if they wanted to (without the machine), but it wasn't overly clear to me why they weren't going to. Not that I was going to argue the toss at that point.
It probably wasn't my lucky day anyway as there's a fair chance the average speed cameras on the M1 will have got me anyway. In fact that might have been why they didn't bother if they already knew that. No idea how that works either mind.
Just booked my first driving lesson for almost 9 years, after failing four tests in 2007-8. Let the fun commence.
Someody tell me this because the DVLA makes no sense. Is your driving licence and the physical photo card one and the same thing? Because currently my online status claims I have a licence valid from 2016 to 2026, but the photo card thing has yet to materialise, can I legally drive in an instructor's car this week before it appears?
New car isn't being delivered until Feb. :moop:
Great thanks. I did check with the instructor and he seemed to think it would be OK.
Those average speed cameras must be a myth (or the roadworks sections balance it out) because I drive like a twat on the M1.
Got my first lesson tonight, first time I'll have sat in the driver's seat for almost 10 years. Raoul, give me an ETA on driverless cars, this stuff is a nightmare.
RIP pedestrians.
I drove around some council estate and found that cars are much better than they were ten years ago. I remembered most things, just need to stop mollycoddling the clutch and I'll be out on the proper roads.
Here's some absolute porn for you guys:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8By2AEsGAhU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1_u3-eyXmU
White socks. :cool:
I know. Is there anything greater than Ayrton Senna donning the shit out of an NSX whilst wearing leather loafers and white socks?
Top videos. :thbup:
My father would don it when it came to left foot braking. Nowadays I wouldn't even bother trying.
Indeed. I was reading comments about how Jonny Rea in the last race for WSBK (dunno if you saw it) but some sensor broke so he had to manually blip the throttle on the downshifts to match the clutch otherwise he'd be thrown off, also he was using just brakes and no engine braking, and he still managed to nail lap times. What a hero.
There's also a technique Vale uses, it's something like rolling the throttle with one of his fingers whilst he's braking, in fact I can't even remember. Colin Edwards was on about it, and when he got a whiff of it he tried it himself. Almost highsided. :D
Think I got caught speeding today on the M6. Fucking mustard yellow van turned out to be a mobile speed camera on an overpass. Sneaky cunts. Trust me to get done on a road where the average speed is over a hundred. I was doing 85mph.
Just done my theory for the second time, the first time being in 2006. Back in the day, the hazard perception was just old fuzzy clips from the 90s taken from the front of a car going around various market towns, so all you had to look out for was Mr Bean pulling out in his Robin Reliant. Now, it's all fucking CGI so I had such unlikely events as a CGI dog chasing an entire herd of CGI deer across a three lane carriageway, and a CGI middle-aged man in a CGI tweed suit kicking a brown, 1950s style CGI football into the road and running after it like a child.
Passed, though, because I'm a vaguely sentient being.
So one of my dipped headlamps went out a week or so ago. I couldn't give a toss because the car is going back next week. Anyway it came back to me a couple of days ago, and then last night they both just fucked up. So I have no headlights. Great! Side lights + fogs for a week then!
Not too much of a problem except for Wednesday where I've got a 3 hour night drive and then Thursday I've got a 2 hour night drive on deathly dark roads through the Cairngorms until Friday when I get my new car.
Put the fucking bulbs in the car.
Bollocks, how could it be the bulbs if one of the failed ones magically came back to life? It's the same electrical issue that's causing the improper central locking issues as well. Bottom line: Ford are shite.
Nah. Also I've replaced the fuses. The actual bulbs themselves look spot on.
I remember shit like that used to happen in older VW's when you got the passenger floor wet as the unit for all that stuff was under there. And a design fault under the bonnet meant it nearly always did get wet. I wonder if there's some similar problem with the Fords.
Just wear a head torch you fucking pussy.
You must have one from all that time you've spent creeping in the night trying to find your wife's smelt.
Tracker removed this afternoon, got to 110mph on the way home. :drool:
Well I've had it a month now and done 3.5k miles. I can't believe it's only 2 grand more than the Focus I had (though that was 3 years ago so it's probably equal in price now). It's fucking 10 times the car that was. Everything about it oozes class. It's so comfy, had loads of great features, pretty nippy too for the 1.0l engine and it's more economical.
I wouldn't hesitate to own a Volkswagen for my own personal car, having only really owned French before I total lol back to the days of that. Fukk me. To be fair the Nissan is alright but man the class is amazing.
Class? It's a VW :D
Should be reliable enough at least being a TSI though. But that interior. Has hardly changed since the MK5.
Hi mate are you fucking blind can you not see I've only ever owned shite cars?
:D
Passed my test this afternoon, at the 5th attempt, 10 years and a month after the 4th attempt.
How do you buy a car? Rock up to a dealer and say 'excuse me, good sir, have you any motor cars for sale?'
:clap:
There's only 1 rule for buying a car: knock 'em down for anything and everything.
Car dealers. :sick:
Rather buy a used one even if it can go wrong in many ways. Better than having to deal with the dealership cunts.
Get in touch with your working class man and get yourself a copy of auto trader to read on the bus.
It really depends on how you want to do it: do you really want to research a particular type of model? Go on the car forums, there will be shit on there from long term owners you'd never even dream about.
Or do you just want a runaround? Could be ok, could be expensive.
Owning a car is shit, generally. The best way to do it is to get a company car and pay for it through tax, then you can get a brand new one and rag the fuck out of it and everything is covered (unless you reverse it in to a skip lololo)
Buy something petrol and Japanese.
On the way back from the test centre, my instructor said 'Don't buy a Fiat'. Maybe he thinks I'm simple.
That one should be taught in P1 in fairness.
Japanese or a VW would be my advice, I've not been burnt yet by either. I'm sure I don't need to tell you to steer clear of anything French or Italian but ex-fleet cars are also best avoided.
If VW, buy absolutely nothing they have on offer with a timing chain instead of a belt. Whether it's diesel or petrol, 1.2, 1.6, or even 3.0 litre, they're all a dead engine waiting to happen. Same goes for Audi, SEAT, and Skoda naturally.
I have a Mazda and it's a weird car. Makes all kinds of weird off sounds. But it's ten years old, never broke down or even had an advisory on an MOT.
Fair point, I've had two Toyotas that went forever without a hint of much going wrong so they're a decent bet.
The Mrs has had one as long as I've know her too and apart from blowing bulbs a lot, it's been spot on. She's just upgraded from an 08 one to a 16 one and they're a lot nicer inside than they used to be too.
As mentioned Mazda's are worth a look too. Just not a diesel.
Cheers all.
There must be something off with the voltage regulation in them as I see loads of Auris' and Yaris' with bulbs blown on the road. The rear lights on the late 00's are down to a faulty seal letting water in, but the fronts are always dry. Some Nissans could likely be using the same parts too.
My 206 is coming up to 14 years old at the end of this year and it's been absolutely no bother at all, which seems to put me in the tiny minority of Peugeot owners. Once we're making babies I'll have to get something with five doors, the idea of going back into the world of car buying scares me.
Decided it was finally time to get around to learning, so booked an intensive course not long ago. 13 hours in now, it's starting to click into place. I'm fucking awful at maneuvering through tight spaces though.
I was absolutely fine this time round except for the actual manoeuvres (reverse parking etc). I hate the set piece element of it in the test, it's like you're defending a corner or something and if the oppo head in you're fucked. In real driving you just do it when you need to do it.
I'd also say the whole thing is a completely different experience as an adult to what it was as a teenager, I was a bag of nerves then as it was more or less the biggest thing I'd ever faced. Now you know what life is about and so you can adapt better. At one point today I tried to move away whilst it was still in neutral, got this big revving, but lolled and said 'would help if I put it in gear'. If I'd done that at 18 I would have shat myself and gone to pieces.
Parallel parking is the only useful one (emergency stop doesn't count), the others you either don't need or can do by default once you get your eye in.
We don't do parallel parking here (or at least didn't in my day), so I've never attempted it in my life.
I think consistency will be my issue when sitting my test. I think I'll be fine at most things, but once every so often I'll do something thick at a junction or a roundabout or something.
I'm not stressed about it, I have no intention of getting a car any time soon, I just feel like I should get it over and done with.
If you want reliable and aren't fussed about much else then a Japanese, naturally aspirated petrol is indeed a likely safe bet. Not 100% on Japanese parts as a whole but I know Honda can be quite expensive. Do you have a preference for the size of car or the type of driving you'll be doing most?
Took advantage of the brilliant weather yesterday and headed for Braemar. Always a stunning road and almost completely uninterrupted but on the odd occasion you come across someone, you can just tell they're thinking 'wanker'. :nod:
https://s7.postimg.org/foic34lu3/IMG_0744.jpg
Had that lady broken down?
You can do better than that Betts.
He can't you know.
I've got a Dacia Sandero diesel which is pretty good. Traded in my Peugeot 20-don't care.
Same payments of £180 a month, same PCP package. Pretty ideal.
I've got 1999 Toyota Avensis and it's fucking brilliant.
Toyota are brilliant, Jim.
I was taught it but I was always scared that I'd scrape the car badly so always exaggerated my angles.
Haven't even attempted it since I passed.
It was pretty bad when I took my car to the garage last year as the ignition barrel needed to be changed.
Just park your car over there, I'll see to it later.
I don't know how to parallel park, sorry...
Having to hand your keys over to a mechanic to park your car is a really shit.
I never found a need for it anyway.
There is no excuse for fucking parallel parking up in the age of adjustable mirrors.
There's no need for parallel parking in the age of car parks.
That's when a tiny little hatchback comes into its own. Same with supermarket parking, can make a total arse of it in what would usually be a tight space and still have loads of room.
In the US most car spots are marked with lines, and they are made for massive pickup trucks, so there is tons of space even if you drive a fucking SUV. Some still manage to fuck it up.
Well done, Jim.
I'm still absolutely terrible at parking after eleven years of driving now, I think. I parallel park the odd time but I never ever reverse into a bay. Always drive in.
That reminds me, I really need to get my licence renewed.
Fucking hell. They are about to do another massive stretch of road with average fucking speed cameras. The A90 from Dundee to Aberdeen basically.
So that's Perth to Inverness, Perth to Stirling, and now Dundee to Aberdeen. Dundee to Perth next I bet and then Aberdeen to Peterhead/Fraserburgh.
I know that means little to Englandshires, but basically it's one step before putting chips in people's cars to limit the speed to 70. Proper communism.
EDIT: It's bad because I could make at least 10 minutes speeding up to Aberdeen, maybe more if traffic allows. SHITE.
Yes. 81MPH (GPS) as opposed to 70MPH over 1hour = 11 miles = $$$$
You'll be moving soon anyway.
I'll no be movin' anywhere pal.
Unless it's to Edinburgh. My pretentious dream.
Though it'd be quite far out of the centre for 100k lololo
:D
In fairness, I misread and thought you said 80. If it's 81 miles it would take you 69.4 minutes. Still, you're a mong.
Now Google tells me that Dundee and Aberdeen are 66.2 miles apart. Your whole life is a sham.
He's finally agreed to buy me a Connect :cool:
Eyeing up this one http://m.carzone.ie/used-cars/Ford/T...67400377636991
What's a connect?
Why not a Caddy?
Because VW's are dull as fuck and they don't have one that size. Caddy is smaller and Transporter is bigger. The connect has 3 seats in the front but still commercial for tax purposes, plus I can cut and drill in the back without ruining carpets like I'm doing now in the Kuga.
Lol you're a dick.
VW are dicks for making timing chain tensioners out of brass.
And anyway, I don't pay for repairs. 3 seats.
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I'd bloody love a van. :drool:
Another classic.
Post #1690 bro :cool:
Zing.
It's a load of bollocks. The road layout is utter bilge itself with bloody terrible junctions and short slip roads.
Pulled over by the Police earlier.
It's 70 here not 95, mate.
He said he's giving me a verbal warning for the speed but it turns out that the MOT ran out on the 9th so I'll be done for that.
Lol I also thought I was going to get pulled over, 2 fucking coppers on bikes with a gun, never even noticed them until literally right on them as they looked more like workies? They had a good fucking nosey and I saw them leaning and noting stuff down as I passed. Fuck knows if they can issue a NIP but I was in a total trance so I have no idea what speed I was going. It was a 30mph zone as well.
I overtook them at 70 and cruised for a while.
I then sped up thinking they were long gone.
They clearly weren't, I slowed down and moved over and thought I had gotten away with it then 30 seconds later the lights came on.
He's not an engineer Foe.
Mahow if you overtake something doing 1MPH less than you, you'd have to wait approximately 1 mile before they were out of sight. Then you can high tail it. Noob.
Ahem
http://www.livescience.com/33895-human-eye.htmlQuote:
Human-scale objects are resolvable as extended objects from a distance of just under 2 miles (3 km). For example, at that distance, we would just be able to make out two distinct headlights on a car.
If only cars were fitted with some method of looking behind.
Halfords (ugh, only one who had spots for tomorrow) are doing the MOT tomorrow morning so I should get it back for Friday hopefully.
FUCK.
Apparently there is something wrong with the suspension so it's going to cost like £400.
Going to pick it up and take it to another garage which is run by a family friend in the hopes that he can do it for cheaper.
I thought you were buying a new car a while ago?
He was buying a BMW with his inheritance money. :harold:
What is wrong with the suspension that takes that much to repair?
He's a fat fuck.
Oh wow.
£400 would be mental money if it's one thing. Either they're screwing you or there's a shit load wrong. Back when I used to work on my own cars I changed the entire front suspension once, apart from the shocks, and the parts came to £170.
Halfords are definitely crooks, so it must be that.
They charge £8 just to change a headlight bulb.
What kind of car is it? Prices vary massively with suspension parts across cars.
A 1999 Toyota Avensis.
I highly doubt that the price of the actual part(s) are expensive.
Throw the keys at it and tell them to crush it into a cube. You'd buy one with over 6 months ticket for the same money.
I'm going to pick it up to take elsewhere.
I can't scrap it.
I bet if you took it anywhere else it would be half that price. Serves you right I guess. Halfrauds for any car work. :harold:
No its because you're an idiot and let it run out.
Take same responsibility.
MOT.
Lol Leeds thread m8
Testify.
Find out what they're saying needs replaced.
http://i.imgur.com/aYLTEKw.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/zuNINHg.jpg
:harold:
It's so blatantly thievery which makes it actually funny.
'Suspension dust cover failed? Let's replace the whole suspension'.
Oh and Windscreem made me smile.
Took it to a Polish garage and they also gave me a shit Ford Fiesta 1.4. The door panels on the driver side are all ripped out and the window on the driver side is purely cosmetic, it's being held in place by a bit of wood. At least I don't have to use public transport tomorrow though.
72 quid for wipers or am I misreading.
I believe it is these:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/For-Toyota...UAAOSwvzRX0VcD
The guy I took it to last year said it was the windscreen washer pumps.
Jesus what a shitbox.
To be fair it depends on the availability of parts. Some suspension arms can be the whole part only although you'd be able to get arms for cheaper than that.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Ball-Joint...EAAOSwA3dYLd~Y
Well that's a ball joint for £7.49 each.
Edit: Actually, is that even for the suspension?
It isn't really the parts mate it's the labour. Front springs for my car are only £35. However it's 2 hours to fix so that's £80 if you're lucky.
I know, really no excuse not to be doing that yourself though mate.
Also I've been looking at cars because I'm a mong, determined my next one will be a black man's willy for around 7k. Probably ex-company car with meticulous FSH or a single owner jobbee.
I won't be getting another car that's any good whilst I have company cars though. Amazing what 7k can buy you.
Why are you buying a car if you've a company car?
Are you thick?
My company car is branded. :moop:
Then you ought to take some English lessons with your local college.
I shoud realy.
Why is Magic buying a car again?
Watch out as you can get some cheap shite on ebay if you're not careful, which that most definitely appears to be.
Assuming that is the ball joint that's fucked, here are some- http://www.carparts4less.co.uk/cp4l/...1cea432&000019
At the top left of the arm-
https://s14.postimg.org/lrf6rlw01/615820118.jpg
You can get cheaper but 'buy cheap, buy twice' is a good rule with stuff like this and it's still a load cheaper than what Halfords are quoting- £53 for both with discount code applied. But I'd be checking they are the knackered ones before ordering anything.
Got my car back (although I need to take it back to the crooks for the free retest) and it only cost £80 for the repairs.
I am now the proud owner of a Skoda Octavia. Taking it for a test drive with the salesman as my first ever drive with a full licence was a bit lol though. 'Erm... looks like it goes. Must be a great car.'
Insurance though :sick:
My early driving career suggests that everyone drives 20mph too fast at all times (vans and silly 4x4s 40mph too fast).
What's the point of even having speed limits?
How are you finding the car?
I don't know how people can stick to the limits, they're so damn slow and it's boring.
Decent. Drives very smoothly, clutch very forgiving and to be honest I was sold when I got the dealer to look up the records and this model was in the first month's worth of production to have a timing chain as opposed to the stupid belt :drool:
This is the boat in question:
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Only 6 days into the new car before one of the local thugs smashes one of the wing mirrors in.
One of those crimes that the police couldn't give less of a shit about and there is no way of either preventing it or catching the perpetrators.
That sucks. My mate had his car jimmied open and the CD player taken from it twice in the space of a year in Belfast.
People still steal CD players?
Jimmys no claims being fucked over in 6 days is quite impressive.
Why would you claim for a wing mirror? Just get another one and replace it yourself.
So you get it for free?
Yes.
As if Jimmy would know how to replace a wing mirror.
His butler will.
Excess might be high. Plus electric/heated mirrors ramps up costs.
Claim for a wing mirror? Might as well claim for bird shit on the bonnet.
You'll pay more in the long term by claiming.
Yeah it'd have to be a fair prang to be worth claiming.
Aussie cred has gone through the roof. :cool:
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Just booked my driving test. Mid-July was the earliest I could get, what a load of shit.
Had the car completely smashed up over Saturday night. Two windows through, two more attempted, few dents, both wingmirrors done. Probably borks my insurance for the next 20 years.
Police couldn't give less of a shit either about the specific crime, or about the wider issue of drugged up children in the area. Three local shops/restaurants and plenty more cars got done the same night.
The fuck? Is it a bad area or is some cunt just taking offence to the new car?
It's a nice area but there is a known posse of 15 year olds (I even know some of the names) who do drugs every night and smash things up. I think I've just been hideously unlucky.
Can we get some hate for those fuckers that slow down when overtaking in the fast lane, then go back in and speed up? Cunts.
I know it's not correct for highway code wankers but I love the outside lane. Fuck having to switch between the two or move over when someone comes on a slip road, I just want to put cruise control on and stay where I am.
I love just sitting in that lane and if someone comes behind me wanting past I just move in and then back out again, Added seethe this creates makes it even more worth it.
Doesn't really do anyone any harm, if people want to overtake then I move over for them.
It does, because there will be quite a few occasions where you aren't paying attention and hold someone up. Also really bad practice. There's absolutely no requirement to use that outside lane unless you're overtaking or letting someone in from a slip. Outrageous behaviour.
Nobody should ever have to move over to allow merging if people know how to drive anyway.
Currently going through CCTV footage myself because apparently crime investigation is self service now. Thanks, Theresa May.
Vote Labour.
As solutions go that's like tripping on a banana skin and responding by nuking the southern hemisphere.
You must be a woeful driver if you aren't alert enough to move over before you get stuck. Stick to the bus.
Stick to drink driving, prisoner.
Would you have a problem with a woman earning more than you?
No, it's a good thing you don't either.
And everyone here knows you get bullied by kids and have a women's job.
We're all fighting our own battles buddy.
Failed. :moop:
Going up a road that's all parked cars on the left, get asked to turn right. There was room right at the end to join the left lane but I tried to just turn right straight away, and there was a car in the road I was turning into turning left.
That was five minutes in and I knew I'd fucked it. Got four minors for the rest of the drive. Raging.
Hard luck. The test is the fucking weirdest thing ever. Christ knows why it's so nerve racking.
I've got driving pretty much sorted now, but parking, nah. Literally can't do it. I just fundamentally don't have the spatial awareness to understand how reverse gear works. Any tips for mongs like me?
So pulling in to a petrol station this morning my oil light came on. Sure enough, dry as a bone. Talk about good timing (we're supposed to do these stupid weekly checks which nobody does to avoid this stuff).
15,000 miles and it's used all it's oil. Great, apparently it's 20,000 for a service. Had to spend a tenner on oil which I'll be claiming back. Fucking piece of German shit.
A tenner? That's the family not eating tonight.
I'm even in the bank but £700 down on the credit card. :(
Weren't you 200 down last week? I spend my money on alcohol and hard drugs and have better control of my finances.
Car engine in burning oil shocker.
The 20k mile service interval should be amended. I'm not a fucking lackey having to top up my own oil. Disgrace.
You shouldn't be allowed a car if you can't dip oil.
If your oil is burning out 5000 miles faster than it should that's from your own style of driving. If you're on high revs the whole time, you'll burn more oil.
Yeah then you can't complain about having to pay for your own oil.
'Drive like a knob, cost you a few bob.'
When you top up oil do you essentially just pour it into the engine block?
I passed my test on Wednesday of last week. I completely went to bits and racked up 6 minors in the first 10 minutes. I then had reversing around a corner as my manoeuvre, which I have always found a piece of piss, but I went out far to wide, had to drive back round to correct it, then came in to quickly, nearly curbed it and had to put the handbrake on before I went full retard. I sorted it out in the end but I thought I had failed. I then drove more or less perfectly for the rest of the test - pressure off as thought I had failed anyway - and was passed with 7 minors.
So we went and got a car on Canvey Island (:drool:) on Saturday. 2003 Ford Fiesta Ghia, 1 owner, 83000 miles. I then shat the bed completely on the drive home. I don't know Canvey at all, and it has a shit double roundabout after getting off of it. Then, I got stuck at lights on a hill and sat stalling it for the entirety of a green light. Turns out the car I learnt in had hill start assist, mine does not. I eventually got it moving and jumped a red light in the process rather than stopping again. I got home a shaking, sweaty mess. Horrible.
I've got it sorted now, worked out the revs for hill starts etc, but that was an absolute ordeal.
My car is in for MOT (new car due in Sept) and the courtesy car is a minute Fiesta with an engine fit for nothing. Motorways haven't been fun so far. :sick:
I bumped a parked car this morning while trying to park. It was only slight bumper to bumper contact and there is no damage but I am now shitting bricks. Fuck this driving shit.
That's how you work out how much room there is.
It's why bumpers are there.
My proven technique to avoid little bumps like that is to not have attempted a parallel park since my driving test.
Indeed. It always freaked me out.
I live on a ridiculously busy road and have no drive way. There was a space so I had to grab it. Seriously considering moving house / never driving again so that I never have to do it again.
Parallel parking was the easiest thing for me. Once you learn the technique of aligning yourself with other cars you can practically do it on feel alone. However, I couldn't merge with a 2 lane roundabout so we all have our weaknesses.
If I didn't have either a drive or an assigned space I honestly think the anxiety I'd feel every time I drove home would eventually send me into a nervous breakdown. Whenever I have to parallel I actually do alright but I really don't trust it even though I know the technique is sound.
No point in learning now as pretty soon most cars will park themselves.
But yeah, like Wullie I'd have severe parking anxiety. Couldn't live somewhere I didn't have my own space. Now that I've taught the neighbour it's all going swimmingly too.
Not parallel parking is a sure fire way to destroy your alloys.
Bunch of queers.
Also congrats on passing your test @spikey
Also RIP.
It's all a matter of habit surely. I've had to parallel park almost every day for the best part of a decade and it's just second nature.
Don't you take months worth of classes? How the fuck can you not park?
I can park. In lessons they just don't use packed inner-city streets to teach you.
I used to live in a pretty steep downslope, so I had to learn proper parallel parking using the handbrake and whatnot, it was quite the ordeal. Not to mention my first car was an Opel Agila, which has one of the shittiest transmissions I've encountered in a car (some of it was due to wear and tear, but a lot of it was by "construction").
You would rather the alternative?
To start, no.
But one you've got the technique down they should teach you how to park in a town centre.
Is parking really a problem for you lot? Weirdos.
Yeah but we can go into a kebab shop.
We don't all live in highland villages.
Parking is like the easiest bit of driving ffs.
Motorways are the easiest bit.
Parking tight is the hardest bit of driving. Anything that involves going in a straight line for ages is the easiest bit.
That Spikey story is proper lol. Getting stuck stalling on a hill? After you've passed? :cab:
Congrats on passing anyway. And on surviving so far.
Surely on the hill starts, if worst comes to worst you just floor the right foot.
I was insecure on stuff for about a month after passing, but now it all comes pretty easily. The main danger on the roads - around here anyway - is mothers driving 4x4s. I got one hooting at me and angrily gesticulating this morning because I wouldn't try and ping past a huge construction vehicle which was driving across two lanes, and I'm sure this delayed her hugely important journey.
Oh yeah Spike what kind of car have you got?
Petrol/diesel?
Petrol. 1.4
What the fuck is 'hill assist'? :D
Petrol clutches are always more difficult to grasp, diesel's you can normally pull away without even using the accelerator.
"The hill-start assist is a variant of hill-holder used by some semi-automatic, clutchless transmissions as well as newer manual transmissions. The system prevents the car from rolling away when trying to pull away on an up or down gradient, simulating a "handbrake hill start" manual drivers will be familiar with. The system engages automatically when a gradient of 3% or more is detected; it then acts to hold the car stationary for two seconds after the brake is released giving the driver time to apply the throttle."
It did also pull away with just the clutch.
Why you would have that when the vast majority of new drivers won't be able to buy a car with that in it is beyond me.
I'm not sure if the one I learnt in had that. I never had a problem with hill starts.
The hardest part of driving is being at a small roundabout with someone coming from the right, their turning left without indicating, and you resisting the urge to follow them home and smash their windows.
I remember rolling backwards down the main street of a big town and going straight through a junction so I wouldn't have to stop on a hill in my first week of driving, but once you get it it's a piece of piss.
All sorted now anyway, pretty simple to put the throttle down, just throws you when you haven't had to previously. Especially when the cunt starts rolling backwards.
I was always able to sit still on a hill using the clutch.
I've never used my handbrake on a hill outside of driving lessons too.
Using the clutch to maintain position on a hill? Fuck me. :face:
Handbrake > bite > handbrake off > accelerate.
Simple! If you're really good you can pop the handbrake and move away without rolling back like a true pro.
You could hold it on the clutch for a couple of seconds in crawling traffic, but if you're doing it at red lights that's just bad driving.
My current method is: clutch to bite > revs to 2000 > handbreak off > clutch up whilst flooring it and terrifying any pedestrians.
I hate 'auto' things but I've been using my auto-hold recently, which is pretty funky.
You can always spot a learner:
1. Car tilts back because clutch is wanting to pull but handbrake still on
2. Loud engine revving noise as revs exceed 4k RPM
3. Launch control F&F 7 activated and pull off like a GTR
4. Bogs down because misses gear or takes ages to engage
5. Hedge
Dropped the courtesy back off with '3 miles to 0' amount of petrol in it. :cool:
I've never even looked at my rev counter. I must just be a natural talent. A natural talent who passed his test at 28.
I think one of the oddest things I've seen are drivers riding back and forward on the clutch at a red light that's not going to change for an age. Just take it out of gear and put the handbrake on you utter twat.
Shouldn't be allowed near a car.
The first car I drove only had one wing mirror.
I once drove a rental car, which they basically never gave out but we needed a car, they were fully booked and one of us knew the owner so we struck sort of a deal with him about this one. It was an Opel Corsa, where the clock was stuck on 1992 so it must have been older than that or around that age. The clutch was definitely not the original one as it extended up to very close to the wheel (like a truck clutch or something), the driver mirror was shattered in 7-8 pieces and was held together with some sort of tape. Steering the wheel needed proper strength (but ok most old cars are like that), one of the windows needed you to punch the door for it to start going up and down (manually ofc, nothing electrical). Was quite the experience, especially coupled with the fact it was in Crete and a big part of the highway has no lighting or any sort of reflectors. Thankfully the car had the one important thing, strong lights.
I drove my dads 3 wheeler around a field when I was about 8. Checkmate, Atheitits.
Was tailgaiting some dumb student bitch because she wasn't moving over to the inside lane despite there being miles before the next car she would be overtaking going a measly 73MPH.
I could see her little limp wrist waving aimlessly as if to shoo me away, like a middle-class white male, and true to form, I drove so far up her bumper I could basically smell her cunt. She finally did move over, and a fantastic, slow shake of the head sent her in to hyperseethe. Fucking anti-fox hunting dyke.
Far more effective than any Vs, or shouting or swearing.
I love seeing little melts like you in my rear mirror waving your Highway Code.
No fucks given :cool:
You see it lots here but I always thought you had competent traffic police to cut out that sort of fuckwittery.
I love the little head shake after overtaking a pleb.
The best way to deal with tailgating cunts is to slow down even more.
Unless you've got your P plates on you'll be getting it hard as well you learner cunt.
Got flashed doing 48 in a 40. They'd changed the speed limit just last month from 60. Bastards. Unfamiliar area.
:harold:
Anyone tailgating me will be rewarded with a terrific and swift reduction in speed.
You knew it was 40 though as you'd never have been doing by 48 in a 60.
Tbf I did see 40 signs but it was through roadworks so I sped up to 60 and slowly started to slow down even though the national sign was straight after the camera so I think 48 was the speed I went through at.
Didn't realise they'd clocked the GATSO down to 40 as well.
Where was that?
Tyrebagger.
Car behind me on the way home from work decided she didn't fancy stopping at the roundabout which means she smashed into the back of my car. Back bumper is fucked, parking sensors didn't seem to be working and boot has a big old dent. :moop:
Also got a sore back and neck now. :(
That's the spirit. If you lived here that would be worth at least 25 grand.
Funding your boiler repair with a dodgy Whiplash claim. :nono:
For the London heads: What are Go Bus like? They're taking over 23 routes from Dublin Bus later this year. I'd be hoping the service can't get any shitter than it is but you never know.
Someone smashed the fuck out of our minibus this weekend and had no idea who as it was parked at home and no note was left.
One of our neighbours has security cameras though and we found out it was an old Indian delivery guy who reversed the fuck into it. He's denying it was him (he doesn't know about the cameras) even though his car is smashed to shit too.
Mum doesn't want to report him but if he doesn't pay up (or get the insurance involved) I've talked her into phoning them up.
Winter driving noob question: today it's a bit colder than it has been, and when I set off for work the windscreen wouldn't stop steaming up. First of all I had to have the wipers on to see through it (clear blue day) and then eventually after I had whacked all the heating/aircon settings in turn, it slightly improved. What would cause that to happen?
Probably no insurance dodgy Polaks.
High heat with air con on is what you want. People forget the air con also dries the air. Make sure the air re-circulation button isn't on though as that will make things worse.
If you get a lot of bother with moisture one of these will help-
http://www.halfords.com/motoring/car...e-dehumidifier
You might need a new cabin (pollen) filter too if it's steaming up badly @Jimmy Floyd.
Drove in to the back of some stupid old cunt who needs driving lessons clearly.
The order of the collision seems to imply the opposite Maggie.
I thought my reflexes were boss as well but I was caught so off guard by how shocking her driving was I simply didn't react in time.
You were on the phone, weren't you?
So after my lolworthy flash by a non-working camera http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-41869134
I'm pretty sure, unless by some miracle the OPERATING OFFICER was picking his beak or something, that I've been caught doing 90 (85GPS) going up the A9 today, at a place where I've never seen a camera before.
RIP.
Had a major service done on the 206 and they phoned up to ask if the cambelt was new. They advised that they should be replaced every 10 years so it would need doing just because and combined with the other advisory things it would be a quote of £800. That's hit the point where the cost of repairs is more than the value of the car so RIP my old friend, you're going to a big car park in the sky. We had joy, we had fun, we had seasons in the sun
Any motorcycle riders in here? My friend has just bought a bike with all the flashy leather clothes and safety equipment. Ive never seen anyone where one before, but why dont motorcycle people ride around wearing a cape?
There's a pretty obvious drawback.
Drove my sister and her husband to the furthest reaches of inner London at the weekend, after they came back from their honeymoon (we live near Heathrow). I don't think there is anything worse than London driving. Total ambiguity about what lane you're meant to be in, a lot of drug dealers/red light jumpers everywhere, knobhead cyclists, and massive aggression from all your fellow road users.
The low point was getting hooted at by a double decker bus because I wasn't diving into a gap that simply wasn't there. I started explaining to the gentleman bus driver that perhaps were he to return to the land of his forefathers he might find road etiquette there more to his taste.
Poland was the worst I've found for speeding and aggression when I was commuting for a few weeks from Krakow to Gliwice, though I've never had the joys of central London.
The driving here is just a mixture of idiocy and pig ignorance.
The taxi I took in Tunisia about 10 years ago was the most terrifying experience of my life.
Oh I'm talking Britain rather than forrin lands. One YouTube search for Russian dashcam compilations should be enough for anyone to avoid visiting that country on wheels.
Have to say though, that bit of the M3 they spent a thousand years working on is rather nice now.
Check engine light came on again so I took the car in to have the spark plugs changed. £35. Fiesta life, yo. :drool:
:drool:
€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.
:cool: Lessons
http://www.stickybottle.com/latest-n...t-taxi-dublin/
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.
:D
Happy days is my thing. Though everyone says it here.
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.
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. :drool:
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-
https://s8.postimg.org/f64c96q11/running_costs.jpg
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.
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.
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.
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.
:cool: quality.
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.
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?
(I zone in and out)
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. :(
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.
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.
Have you considered a W221 S-Class? A lot of people don't like Mercs but they're a lovely drive.
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?
How many mpgs do you get on that badboy? :drool:
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. :scratch:
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?
:thbup:
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)
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.
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. :uhoh:
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.
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.
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?
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.
10 grand in tax, a year?
Yeah, BIK on a company car is 30% of the value of the car new per year. On a commercial vehicle it's 5%.
Jesus mine is only 2k, though the BIK is rising by 2% each year. :@
I think I'll need to buy a car in the next few months. Will probably go for something cheap, boring, and used. Like a Yaris of Honda Fit or something.
You want AMERICAN MUSCLE, you tart.
Nah, if I was to splurge it would be on something like an Abarth or a Fiesta ST. Golf GTI at most.
Hemmings > classifieds > search: 'suspension lift': > yes mate
:D
Not too far, will have to go check it out.
Can't go wrong with a Golf imo.
I've read that those things wear through their parts at an incredible rate, so bear that in mind on your pitiful academic salary.
Yeah, I don't want some shite that will break all the time. I already have one (currently broken) for those purposes.
As for pitiful, first offer was $91k. :eyemouth:
Sorry. I forgot you did a worthwhile subject.
Not really sure it is worthwhile, but I am not going to complain.
Fuck me, such a thing as a $40,000 Focus exists. :harold:
The Focus RS. :cool:
Focus RS 0-62: 4.7 seconds
Mustang GT 0-62: 4.8 seconds
Donned and donned. Decision made.
I thought you'd be all over electric like a rash.
91k? Get to the jobs thread m8 we want to hear what you've got to say.
Can't wait until robots can do engineering tbqfh.
Good that I will be teaching and teachers will never be replaced because soft skills and stuff.
I missed the post. Bare with.
I just didn't care.
Cheers Phonics.
No need for that.
I think people with Bachelors start on average at $80k or so, with some fields being better than other of course. The two persons that graduated recently from my lab with PhDs both went to Intel and I think they are on $120k.
Well that's fucking demoralising. :mad:
Although, having $200K of debt probably evens the field a little.
Definitely. Luckily, I managed to keep my debt down to a reasonable $0. :cool:
Oh yes. The cartel look after their future cooks. Wicked.
In all seriousness though, that's great. Mortgage free in 5 years.
Back to cars, my car needs handed back/bought in a few months time. Think I'll just buy it and keep it for a year or two before I panic and buy a Porsche.
Picking up this beast in the next few days:
https://i.imgur.com/mE8oZbL.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/pgFjawN.jpg
:drool:
Gift for your girlfriend?
She'll love it.
:D
The American bumpers. :harold:
Atleast you won’t have to worry about locking it.
She'll pay half of it and she does love it.
Lol isn't that the thing that's just a souped up Fiat Punto? I recognise the badge.
Looks more like a Fiat 500.
Souped up 500, yes. Thing sounds like a lawnmower on steroids. :drool:
Considering how little I know about cars, I'm quite proud of being that close.
It's an Arbarth.
Abarth. My friend has a standard Fiat 500 and it's really good, so that should be fun provided the windows let enough light in to actually drive it.
Is that legal there?
Doubt it.
I'll carry a camera with me at all times so Magic can wank to the video of my assassination.
Haven't had an accident in 10+ years. A+ driver.
When did you last have a car?
11.
He's racked up lawnmower accidents in that time though.
Spent seven hours in the car yesterday (had to go renew my passport.) Surprisingly comfortable for such a small car. I am sure someone in the back seat wouldn't agree, but fuck him, he should get his own car. The engine drone is a bit annoying when on the highway for hours, but eventually you get used to it.
Never drove a car that was droning, but I can imagine it being really annoying when the rest of the car is properly quiet.
As if Peps didn’t have Despacito cranked up for his mamacita.
I have never heard that song. :uhoh:
I do know of its existence.
We had the 80s playlist at full blast. :cool:
Already had to take it to the dealership to replace a steering shaft. Dat reliability. :drool:
Pretty spot on. Some plastic covers for the usb/aux plugs also broke but I didn't bother asking for them to replace them since they will just break again. The exhaust noise makes up for all of it though.
Just drove home from Bolton and saw a pretty hefty smash on the M62. About ten minutes before it all the cards were queued and moving about 10mph and some dickhead came pelting down the hard shoulder with his hazards on. Then later on I passed him, still going slowly, as he had pulled over on the hard shoulder, still with hazards on. For some reason the driver was now out of the car and round the other side speaking to his passenger through a half open window. I thought nothing of it and carried on.
Next thing that happens is while we’re still all queued, and now more traffic is filtering on from a junction (either 10 or 11, I’d guess), his car appears, undertaking me, then swerving around and pulling in front of a car in the slow lane, then tried to swerve into the middle lane (about four cars in front) but smashes into the back of s car, which then spins around and hits a pickup truck and another car. The guy who caused it was driving like an absolute loon and it made a hell of a noise.
Was weird how clear the motorway suddenly looked, despite all the debris. All four cars involved managed to pull over in the hard shoulder and as I drove off the driver from the main smashed car and from the pickup were running back down the hard shoulder, presumably to go mad at the idiot driver who could’ve easily killed someone.
I just drove off though. What are you supposed to do in that situation? Presumably I had a better view than the three victims because I was behind them all, but I’d never consider stopping and giving a witness statement or anything. Are you supposed to?
Keep going and don't get involved.
Yes.
Yep.
Say you couldn't stick around but are willing to give a statement now.
Bloke concerned will be a general criminal/drug dealer or something.
Undertaking is a proper hazard, it seems to be almost commonplace these days for cunts to just ping down the left when the middle lane is doing less than 80. Should be an instant driving ban.
I remember Alan Shearer the 2nd kicking off on here for someone being 2mph below the speed limit.
Probably more annoying on Scottish roads where sheep are more common than cars.
My favourite day on the motorway had to be driving back down from the Midlands and noticing that while we were bombing down it, the other side was like the Walking Dead. No traffic updates had popped up previously so we figured it must have been a pretty horrendous crash as it went on for miles. Only for us to arrive at the sight of he other lane, full of about 50 sheep just running down the middle of the M4(?) flanked by 10 police cars with their lights going and travelling at like 5 miles an hour and this farmer shouting blue murder at them.
Must have been infuriating to be just behind it.
Seems my dreadful french wreck of a car has some sort of ridiculous electro osmosis problem which causes the windscreen washer pump to direct water through the 'marron' electrical cable and into the fuse box. Washer jets and sidelights disabled.
:face:
How easy is it to replace this type of thing? I can get into it, and all the wiring loom connectors look alright (the connector pins on the fuse board have had it though). A new fuse box/board is about £70 so I don't much fancy having a dealer, or mechanic, charge me thousands to fix it really. Think I'd need to replace the water pump thing as well.
I feel like if you have to ask how easy it is you should just get someone who knows what they're doing to do it, like a mechanic. Might void the warranty if you do anything with it as well.
Warranty?
:lol:
I can get a mechanic to do it, but he's a bit of an investigator and will want to waste loads of time 'finding' the problem (he's done it before, nice as he is he's a bit of an autist) which will cost me - that's probably a £500 route depending on whether he accepts my parts or not.
I know if I take it to the dealer they'll quote me £1000+ for a new fuse board, wiring loom and washer pump (combined ebay parts cost about £130) which is just galling seeing as it's a manufacturing/design defect that seems to have been getting moaned about a lot in recent years. Useless french twats.
First things first though I'm going to try and clean the marron plug to see if that makes any difference, the corrosion doesn't look nearly as bad as some examples I've seen online.
Any of you hardwired a dashcam before?
I’ve bought one (won’t link it cos you’re all sarcastic cunts) and hoping I can keep the cigarette lighter free for USB ports.
I've done it a few times yes.
Find a fuse that comes on with the ignotion.
Plug in one of these:
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I used a double one so I could have a phone charger permanently too. Cut the plug part off and just wire straight.
Find somewhere to tie the socket behind the dash. Mine is under the steering wheel in behind.
Run the cable up the A-pillar (take it off, it'll be much handier) and across the front of the roof lining. I used sticky pad cable tie holders to keep them in.
Result.
.
Or you could just put one of these into your fag lighter socket so there's one free, but I cannot abide cables strewn around a car.
https://ae01.alicdn.com/kf/HTB1v4MHR...pg_640x640.jpg
Cheers.
What’s that second thing in the first post? I understand the top one is a piggyback fuse.
Just take it in steps. Once you have a fuse picked, then get the connections done and find a place you can cable tie in the 12V socket. That's the worst of it. Just a matter of running the cables up to the camera then.
When you get to that stage, connect the lead int camera and work backwards down to your socket, so you can hide any excess wire too.
If you're really not happy though, send the camera back and buy one at Halfords. Their installation prices aren't bad at all if you're buying the kit off them too.
Lol Volkswagen just sent me a fucking video of their mechanic doing a health check on my car.
I have in interview for a job that has a bit of a commute lined up, and a possible interview for another one that’s closer but still a bit of a trip. I don’t trust my car with either of these long term, and both of the jobs have an increase in wage that mean I’ve no need to risk it.
With that, I need some advice:
I need a family car, nothing too big but 5 doors, reasonable leg room and boot space. Best? Worst? Bonus points for Eco. Cars. Not because I’m green, because of that cash money.
I will also be relying on getting one on lease / credit, as we don’t have £5-10k outright. What’s the best way to go about this? What should I avoid? Best companies to use?
C3 Picasso is mega (well the 2011 style model) if you can overlook the shoddy French engineering and tendency for it to channel water into the electrical parts of the engine bay.
I fixed that by the way. £100 spent on something a dealer would have been charging in the 1000s for. Win. :cool:
Get a company car so they pay for your commute.
Stunt pegs.
VW Tiguan.
Cuurent version or the older one.
Especially the diesel ones. :harold:
Diesel is the future.
Mine's a diesel VTR job and does about 500-600 miles on a tank (which seems good to me). No idea on road tax as we don't have that.
They have good visibility, the seating position is a bit elevated which is nice and good internal size (given the overall size of the car).
Which is still the future in parts of Ireland. :baz:
Someone buy me this one:
https://s13252.pcdn.co/wp-content/up...8-940x705.jpeg
https://bringatrailer.com/listing/19...erra-cosworth/
:drool:
The APPALLING bumper modifications. :sick:
It’s like a 90’s nightmare.
Exactly. :drool:
Love those.
The spoiler's a bit understated.
Would have never guessed. :D
We used to have one of these when I was a kid:
https://s17-us2.startpage.com/cgi-bi...d66edb8b44efeb
Shit car, but those wheels looked great.
Taking the Fiat to the racetrack on Tuesday. :cool:
Why?
Got shunted in the rear the other day, felt like a massive hit but in reality it must have been about 3mph as the only sign of damage was some scratches which it turned out was dirt that rubbed off. The Fiesta's a strong beast compared to my beautiful 206 (RIP) developed a dent if I stared at it sternly enough.
Almost certainly got the 3 points and £100 fine I've deserved for the past 11 years today.
Where?
Portlethen (A90 Aberdeen). Didn't think the GATSO cams had been recalibrated to 50 for the roadworks, got flashed at 70-odd. That could end quite badly...
When it comes to roadworks and there's no work being done at night (but the speed signs at 50 or whatever are still there) are you still obliged to stick to the restricted speed?
Changed in feb apparently. Cunts. That's 2 years after the roadworks started.
Well, that was a blast.
Some fast cars out there. Shared the novice session with a Z06, one of those beastly Camaro ZL1s (or whatever they're called,) a Camaro SS, a Lotus Exige, an M3, and an S5. Needless to say the little Fiat got smoked. Zero fucks given though. :cool:
Alternator on the 7 series seems to have royally shat itself.
Think I'll be getting shot of it soon, after getting a couple of gaskets and the lower oil pan replaced recently (hairline crack in it) it still leaks oil, albeit much, much slower than it did.
Not quite sure how BMW can fuck up the design of an engine quite so badly, makes a better sieve.
First VW lying about MPG and emissions, now this. Arise British Motors and BRITISH MANUFACTURING. #Brexit
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Maybe not.
Where’s your sense of national pride?
The Germans are responsible for that (and all of these SUV things).
They should stick to half-tracks.
I bloody hate trucks.
Which reminds me: Lol at Ford not selling cars (apart from the Mustang) in the US anymore.
Please don't use 'bloody' when you're not from these shores, bro.
I will use whatever term I want mate.
Calm down Ese.
Is that a helmet? :D
Yes it is. Serious business mate.
It's an Abarth. Totally different beast. Mini Ferrari.
I would've taken my Neon if it didn't leak oil and didn't have bare tires.
Bald = better for drifting.
Watching the ladies drifting by that is.
Reached a new low on the way home today, got parped at for stopping at a green light to let an ambulance (with full lights and sirens) cross a junction ahead of me.
I got pulled over doing 96 mph on the M62 today, which is three points and a hundred quid. I'm obviously annoyed, but I'm not SEETHING because:
1) My speedometer said I was doing over a hundred, so I shitted myself when he flashed me because I believed that thirty over the limit was instant ban territory.
2) He said 96 mph is the upper limit for a ticket (twenty-six over the limit), and anything over is a court appearance which I could do without.
HOWEVER, he claimed to have been 'tracking' (following, mate) me for six miles. If my speed was so dangerous, why let me do it for five miles? Was he waiting for me to stray into court and/or ban territory? Doing me a favour alright fella.
Can you get a lawyer and fight tickets over there as you can here? Parking ticket lawyer sounds like the biggest chancer job.
If he was tracking you for that long how come you didn't see him and slow down?
I was once caught doing 90 (my speedo was just under 100 though) and I just got a warning. He probably felt sorry for me, pity vote ftw.
He has footage of me doing ninety-odd, so unless I could prove I was having a heart attack I would (not unfairly) got lolled out of court.
Yeah, unmarked BMW, which I figured was just some dickhead getting up my arse.
Parking tickets that aren't issued by the police/local council you can just ignore. They'll threaten you with legal action but nothing will actually happen.
If it's by the Police/Council it's not all that easy to fight it.
I once ignored a red light offence (it turned at the last second) and they took me to court but after multiple delays they decided they couldn't be arsed anymore so threw it out.
I still have a couple of unpaid speeding tickets, one from Florida and one from New York. I wonder if they'll ever come bite me in the ass.
I'd take the 3 points and £100 for that, would have expected worse.
I don't tend to speed excessively on main routes for fear of unmarked cars and the like.
In other news, while the BMW's alternator shat itself last week (and also needs a water pump I'm told) it seems the differential on the Clio is making a nasty clicking/knocking sound now.
Anyone want to buy a 7 series that only leaks some oil?
Yeah, I'm not too put out by it. It's a wonder I've never been done before (not least on that road), and it could have been worse, so I'll take one for the team.
Such a rookie mistake, that.
Why didn't you slow down and pull over? If it's unmarked it will probably follow you if not let it fly past.
In other news, still no ticket for me. I did a bit of reading and asking and anyone that had a ticket from speeding had to wait a few months for it to go through the leasing company > my company which is annoying.
I drove round the Nurburgring yesterday. Fuck. Me.
Who had that down as most unexpected post ever?
This might be the second most.
I did it in a convertible Mercedes that me and a mate bought for £400 two weeks ago.
That's mega. What brought this [mid-life crisis] on?
What is going on?
There's a guy I've worked with for years who's talked about doing a top gear style banger rally challenge and finally he organised it.
So on Friday afternoon an assortment of work people and their friends left in 4 cars (an Audi 80, MX5, MR2 and the Merc - all bought for under £500) for Dover. Overnight stay and then on the Ferry at 7, through France, Belgium and Luxembourg (which was fucking amazing) before arriving at Nurburg in the evening. Piss up and meal that evening then we hit the track the following morning. Well, I say morning, we didn't get on until 1 as it was closed three times (with 1 fatality I think).
Finished at the track before driving over to Amsterdam, with one of the cars perishing on the A2 7 miles out. After we'd shuttled everyone to the hotel another night out ensued before we drove to the Hook of Holland for a lunchtime ferry back over to the UK today. Just got back home now and exhausted, but so so worth it.
The ring was simultaneously the most exhilarating and terrifying experience I've ever had. Words (or Top Gear even) can't really do it justice. One of the guys was in the stand when I was driving so I think I'll have a photo to share later in the week.
That sounds fucking quality. What was so good about Luxembourg?
There's a hill/mountainside series of roads that have fantastic scenery and views, with sheer drops off the side at times and you can drive right through it.
I think it's more of a biker's route than traditionally a car one, but the convertible Merc did the trick.
That sounds really great and a bit tragic at the same time.
Yevrah. :cool:
We definitely need some pictures.
Sounds better than an episode of Grand Tour.
Work organised too? That's even more impressive. That's like Rust2Rome.
That's one of the last people I'd have expected to post that. What was the Merc, SLK that was more rust than steel?
That's one bad run of form there.
Buy shit ancient cars that's what you get sucker.
I’ve got my MOT tomorrow, my first one. In the event that it’s an unroadworthy pile of shit, and I scrap it, what happens with my car insurance? I paid up front, rather than paying monthly. Would I be entitled to some back (minus an admin fee or something)? Or is it tough shit?
You should be able to claim back whatever part of your remaining insurance applies, I did the same in October and it was way less hassle than I was expecting it to be.
Yeah, put it in for a service and the guy called me to say that I was about four years past the time you should probably change the cambelt, so that was the point I had to wave goodbye. No suggestion that the belt was actually likely to fail, but I knew the end was nigh.
My shit ancient car has somehow passed its MOT, proving that Magic knows as much about cars as he does WiFi solutions.
Had an airbag problem with my car. Various garages quoted me over £600 to fix over the past month. The interwebs suggested a website called crashdata.co.uk. They fixed the issue for £50 :D
Ban the bot.
First job this morning is 33km away. Google Maps is showing 1 hour and 56 minutes :moop:
Anyone ever used halfords or kwik-fit for serving your car or are they that shit?
Halfords fitted our car seat, but that’s it as far as they’re concerned.
Kwik-fit changed my spark plugs for £40 but wanted over £100 to do a wing mirror. Best off going to a little local garage.
I've used Halfords for piddly things I couldn't be arsed/didn't know how to do myself, but they're a ripoff otherwise. For MOT go to the council, then word of mouth for a local garage with anything else.
After a dick head driver managed to roll his lorry on the A130 yesterday, causing my 33 minute drive to take 3 hours, I’ve made my work book me a train for today. No idea how people do this every day. I’m currently sat on the floor next to the doors, and it would cost about £4K for the pleasure if I worked in London.
Why are you sat on the floor? :cab:
Because the chairs are taken and I don’t want to stand up.
In London, people wake up in the morning to tramps sleeping in the doorway to their house.
Have the provincials amongst us not been on rush hour London trains? It's like being in the very centre of a sardine net.