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Post by bpg on May 3, 2021 11:19:44 GMT
tbh I have no idea how some people have managed to trip up DPF functionality. I've got a 10 year old EuroV diesel it gets used for short, medium and long distance journeys. I can tell when it is regenerating, the fuel consumption goes up but other than that it just works.
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Post by Humph on May 3, 2021 11:37:27 GMT
Interesting, I mean, I've heard of it being a problem, mostly on car forums I suppose. But, I've never experienced it, and I'm not sure if I know anyone who has. A friend has a newish Discovery diesel. He uses it to drive three miles to work and back home again at night in 30mph limits mostly. Never heard him complain of it misbehaving in the three years or so he's had it. Only times it goes much further are few and far between.
But, I suppose there must be something in it. No smoke without fire and all that.
Come to think, another friend has a diesel Tiguan. Lives in Edinburgh, and that gets used mostly around the city. Again, no issues with that one as far as I'm aware. He's the sort of guy that wouldn't have a clue that there was any possibility of it being a problem anyway. A car is just a car type. 20 mph limits in lots of Auld Reekie now.
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Post by WDB on May 3, 2021 12:42:12 GMT
The Aygo idea is getting a surprisingly positive reception at home. Whether 3.5m of ten-year-old Toyota is a better thing to crash than 4.5m of 30-year-old Saab, I’m not sure. But it will certainly be easier to fit on the drive.
There’s a similar one at a dealer in Iver. I should probably pop over to see how it fits. “We have another one to look at but I’ll let you know.”
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Post by Humph on May 3, 2021 12:52:15 GMT
Might be worth asking for a test drive of the one at the garage to be sure it's ok. One thing that might be an issue on the 2010 "Blue" model you mentioned earlier is that if it's the same as ours, the driver's seat has no height adjustment. Not really a problem for us as my son and I are 6' 0" and my wife is 5'2" so we can all manage with it in its standard position, but it might be high for you.
Is the one you're pondering on a 5 door or 3 door? My son's is a five door which can be a lot handier if giving lifts.
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Post by Humph on May 3, 2021 12:55:05 GMT
I suppose the other thing you could do is get a WBAC quote on the car so that you can be fair to the seller and yourselves.
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Post by WDB on May 3, 2021 12:59:27 GMT
Yes, I expect we’ll do something like that to get to a price. This one is also a five-door, not that it’ll be giving many lifts. There’ll be no legroom at all behind the driver, and even on the other side, I wouldn’t want anyone sitting that close to the rear window. We were nervous about using the third row in the Verso and that had a lot more to its hind quarters than this. The back seat will be for coats and shopping.
It does mean the front doors are shorter, which makes them easier to open when you come back to find someone parked too close to you. (My two-door BMW seemed to attract that. Brought out the contortionist in me!)
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Post by Humph on May 3, 2021 13:09:01 GMT
Yes, I had a 2 door BMW 3 series a lifetime ago and I remember that element of it.
Actually, most of the time, the Aygo parcel shelf is in the garage and the back seats are folded down. The boot is otherwise tiny and he has all manner of biking gear and or musical instruments etc in there on a regular basis.
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Post by Humph on May 3, 2021 13:12:46 GMT
It's a pity we don't live a bit nearer to each other, you would have been welcome to borrow ours for a day or two to try it. You would have had to provide your own hazmat suits though...
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Post by WDB on May 3, 2021 13:28:17 GMT
Well, to be honest, if I'm just popping into town for something I can't easily carry on my bike, or the weather is rubbish, more often than not I'll just nick the Aygo. Well, we have the i3 which is pretty much unbeatable at that kind of thing. But MrsB1 volunteered in our discussion that there are parts of Reading she visits for work where she feels uncomfortably conspicuous in either of our cars, and where she might be glad of a subfusc alternative. Strange but true. (Although with a 0-62 time twice the i3’s, she won’t be making any quick getaways 🤠) |
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Post by Humph on May 3, 2021 15:16:52 GMT
Good Lord, really? How wonderfully English!
Respectfully suggest that Mrs B may have fallen into the trap of believing that anyone gives the slightest hoot what car anyone else drives about in. It's a bit like people who have "private" number plates or de-badge their cars in the misguided belief that someone else might actually care.
Anyway, the Merc is getting old enough to "blend in" with the hoiest of hoi polloi if that's the objective.
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Post by EspadaIII on May 3, 2021 15:37:04 GMT
What swayed Espadrille away from large family cars (Hyundai Trajet after a Mitsubishi Spacewagon) was when we misfuelled the Trajet and borrowed a Citroen C1. It did 99% of what the Trajet did and was way better at doing it.
Since then she has had smaller cars and we have driven C1s and similar since always with a smile on our faces...
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Post by Rob on May 3, 2021 17:09:40 GMT
Talking about a car for a 17 year old (the topic) and changing plates to private ones.... a neighbour has just got a 69 plate FIAT 500 for their daughter. It appeared on their drive on the 69 plate and was on the private plate the next day. I don't think she's even had a single lesson but I assume the car is also to teach her in. With the backlog for tests maybe she'll get her full licence before 2022 :-)
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Post by Deleted on May 4, 2021 8:22:12 GMT
Funnily enough a similar thing might happen here. I was chatting to a neighbour yesterday who has a 13-reg 3-door Ford Fiesta (DCR in colour, natch), not sure which model precisely but he's taught 2 boys to drive in it, and they're about to replace it with a...........Nissan Leaf. The chap has recently started a business installing car charging points so he needs to get in on the leccy car action himself. He wants a Leaf because it's the only car compatible with being used as a battery storage system for your home at the moment. I think he's going to get some solar panels and all that schemozzle. His missus already drives a plug-in hybrid Range Rover.
Anyway, I told him to give me a shout if he sells it privately. Might be a bit more than I want to spend though, similar ones on autotrader look like £3.5k at least.
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Post by Humph on May 4, 2021 8:33:58 GMT
DCR?
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Post by WDB on May 4, 2021 8:37:10 GMT
Vić’s favourite colour, although he pretends not to like it. 😈
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