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Post by Humph on Nov 15, 2019 13:48:12 GMT
My old one (2002 TDCi ) that I finally sold in 2010 after passing it on to my wife, was sold at 186,000 and hadn't given me a moment's bother. I checked recently out of curiousity and it's still taxed and MOTd and was showing nearly 300,000 at its last test.
Solid old bus that.
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Post by tyrednexited on Nov 15, 2019 14:30:01 GMT
I think that one you posted has got un-original, Barry Boy wheels on it. And, bizarrely, they look too small. Spidey senses tingle... ....winter wheels and tyres on Al. They need them from around the end of September on the North Circular. (I suspect someone has knocked the wheel size down an inch, and put higher profile tyres on, to try to soften the ride a bit). |
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Post by WDB on Nov 15, 2019 17:00:00 GMT
One with three feet. Crikey, just realising it’s been two years since I last pressed a clutch pedal or pulled a handbrake. I wonder if it would come back to me now. |
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Post by Humph on Nov 15, 2019 17:08:26 GMT
Some things really are like riding a bike. I only drive our manuals fairly rarely but it just never occurs to me to have to remember how to. Much the same with driving in a country that has right side driving, never think about it, it just seems natural when you're there.
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Post by dixinormus on Nov 15, 2019 20:09:46 GMT
I agree with Al’s broad rule a couple of pages back that newer, generally, = better. Less likely to go wrong or have worn out components that need expensive replacement, as he has discovered with the E. So better to have a 3-5 year old mainstream brand than a 7-10 year old Merc or similar. IMHO.
Here’s a curveball Al: if the car will be doing a lowish mileage, mainly on longer runs, why not compromise on your choice of transmission?
You don’t have to change gears much on the autoroute...
Back to Octavia TSi’s in manual flavour and see what you turn up? Or Golf estates?
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Post by WDB on Nov 15, 2019 20:11:46 GMT
On that point I don’t think Vić is what sales training types like to call the Decision Maker.
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Post by Avant on Nov 15, 2019 21:59:43 GMT
I think, when it comes to choosing cars and particularly transmissions in the Alanovic family, there's a touch of the Dean Liddell (19th C, Christ Church, father of Alice in Wonderland): some Oxford wag wrote this about him:
'I am the Dean, and this is Mrs Liddell.
She is the first, and I the second fiddle.'
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Post by tyrednexited on Nov 16, 2019 9:26:48 GMT
I need 1.0m between the wheel arches and a load length in excess of 1.6m as a by the way. ......and 30m between kerbs...... |
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Post by Humph on Nov 16, 2019 10:37:37 GMT
Oh very good.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 16, 2019 16:04:56 GMT
Ok, stand by your beds. I've put a holding deposit on something, pending test drive on Monday.
Usual virtual pint to the correct guesser.
Off you go.
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Post by tyrednexited on Nov 16, 2019 16:46:45 GMT
 ....only jokin' Toyota Avensis Tourer. |
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Post by Avant on Nov 16, 2019 16:49:45 GMT
If your head is still attached, either an Astra or an Avensis.
If your heart is on its own, a SAAB.
If you've completely lost it, an equally ausgeklappt Mercedes.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 16, 2019 17:04:50 GMT
My Dad had one of those Cortinas, a silver one. JJO 446F.
Keep the guesses coming.
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Post by WDB on Nov 16, 2019 17:10:27 GMT
What’s the point? It could be absolutely anything!
I was in Reading this afternoon. If I’d known this was on, I could have looked out for something belching smoke, leaning to one side or just not moving — or all three.
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Post by tyrednexited on Nov 16, 2019 17:20:41 GMT
I was in Reading this afternoon. If I’d known this was on, I could have looked out for something belching smoke, leaning to one side or just not moving — or all three. ......found outside most Town-Centre pubs in Reading.... |
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