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Post by Alanović on Mar 8, 2021 8:56:49 GMT
Honda, eh? Isn't that some form of admission that you're past it? Same colour as mine, too. Hmm.
Why no Duster investigations?
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Post by Humph on Mar 8, 2021 9:08:58 GMT
Dusters on our list too. Think we'll maybe wait until after the lockdown and have a proper look then. It's just too hard right now.
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Post by Alanović on Mar 8, 2021 9:11:17 GMT
Yes, quite so. I wouldn't be arsed myself at the moment.
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Post by Humph on Mar 8, 2021 9:27:58 GMT
Also, there's a small, possibly Scottish part of me, that is reminded that we have a car that might fetch £1600 but that works just fine for now. No distress reason to change in a hurry. It was paid for more than a decade ago, and owes us nothing, but still provides daily service. My inner Calvinist quite likes that. 😉
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Post by Alanović on Mar 8, 2021 9:52:54 GMT
I get that. But shiny. Cheshire folk like shiny.
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Post by Humph on Mar 8, 2021 10:15:26 GMT
Oh yes, they certainly do.
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Post by EspadaIII on Mar 8, 2021 11:03:10 GMT
Without professing to be Calvinist (I could hardly do that could I?) I feel the same way about The Punto and my Merc. Thankfully I don't live in Cheshire, although Espadrille acts as if she does at times....
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Post by Humph on Mar 8, 2021 11:35:39 GMT
What do others think about EPBs?
I've never had one, and didn't like it on the Renegade. But maybe I'm just being a dinosaur?
I know my Merc has a silly handbrake, but being an automatic it doesn't really matter. I just like a lever to pull.
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Post by Alanović on Mar 8, 2021 11:52:32 GMT
Same. I'm glad the Leaf has a Merc-style parking brake operated by a pedal, rather than an EPB. Would prefer a lever still though. Civic is a proper lever too. I'm still yet to own an EPB eqipped car.
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Post by WDB on Mar 8, 2021 12:02:06 GMT
The i3 has an EPB and it’s just fine. It helps that there’s no transmission to disengage, so I can just flick the switch when I stop at a red light and spare the driver behind the sight of the brake lights. No need to disengage it manually; just drive away.
Almost as good was the automatic 220i Gran-something I had as a courtesy car. Worked very easily with stop-start, meaning I could wait with engine off, brake lights off and EPB on.
Quite intolerable was the EPB in the manual Volvo S60 I borrowed years ago. It took away the essential synergy between clutch and handbrake on a hill start — especially when trying to spot and take a gap joining a busy roundabout uphill. Right-hand operated too, so I couldn’t even keep just drop my left hand on it when the gap disappeared.
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Post by Avant on Mar 8, 2021 12:02:35 GMT
I used not to like EPBs, and to some extent still think it's the answer to a problem that never existed.
I didn't like it on the Volvo V60: it didn't come on automatically and some tortured Swedish genius had elected to place the switch down by the driver's right knee.
But on both Audis it works fine, and SWNBO and I are both quite used to it. If Autohold is switched on (and it stays on), the EPB comes on and off automatically without jerking. If you brake the car to a halt, it comes on when the car stops, but not if you coast to a halt. Even though the A3 is a manual, hill starts aren't a problem.
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Post by EspadaIII on Mar 8, 2021 12:10:32 GMT
My old S-Max (auto) and the Mini (manual) have EPBs. As long as your seatbelt is on, they have worked seamlessly for me. Knowing how they work when the belt is off is the trick to avoid swearing...
Pull = on; push = off. Simples.
I would have another today.
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Post by Humph on Mar 8, 2021 12:19:00 GMT
Oh ok, maybe I'm just being picky. I remembered this morning that a guy I know has had a Renegade since they first came out. His is a diesel manual 4x4 version that he does use for towing a trailer into and out of muddy fields. He makes and sells off road buggies and quad bikes and the like.
Anyway, I rang him this morning to ask how it has been for him, and he has had 80 odd thousand trouble free miles out of his. Says he'll most probably buy another.
Confusing isn't it, this car buying malarkey.
"She" really fancies a Renegade. So it might be a foregone conclusion.
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Post by Alanović on Mar 8, 2021 12:23:53 GMT
Well I'm sure you will anyway, but if the change comes later in the year and after lockdown, give me a shout as I might want to think about the nice little bargain QQ you have there...
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Post by Humph on Mar 8, 2021 12:26:32 GMT
Of course, no problem. Naturally it would almost certainly immediately decide to disintegrate if we did that. 😬
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