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Post by Deleted on Dec 2, 2019 13:10:13 GMT
Presumably that doesn't include depreciation either? Just non-routine repairs? If so, over four years and 27,000 miles mine has cost £3,000. I shudder to think what the depreciation has been. No, it mostly is depreciation. I bought the car for £16,250 and sold it for £7,000. (May even have been £7,500.) The only non-routine items were some brake parts and a cooling thermostat, maybe £600 altogether. I think that is very good value for money, losing less than £2,000pa over that period. I reckon I have lost £3,000pa over my ownership in depreciation.
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Post by Alanović on Dec 2, 2019 13:16:42 GMT
....I suspect the tyres will be somewhat better on good surfaces (aka The Continent). I assume you've done the obvious and checked the pressures? Fitters don't always get them correct when changing, and I've known dealers over-inflate on cars that will stand around for a while, to avoid flat-spots. Yes. I had a TPMS light on shortly after collecting the car, I have checked pressures and recalibrated. And yes, good surfaces make a big difference, I have noticed that. I am dreading the M25 Slurry section.
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Post by WDB on Dec 2, 2019 14:21:31 GMT
Can’t be worse there than my 325 coupé. That had Bridgestones too — run-flats to compound the felony — and the first time I drove it to Epsom, I thought something had gone seriously wrong. The whole car howled, enough to drown out the radio and make conversation, even with myself, impossible.
Neither the old E (Michelin) nor the CLS (Continental) has had any trouble with that section.
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Post by Alanović on Dec 3, 2019 11:10:39 GMT
Oh yeah. Quite enjoying having DAB in a car for the first time. Yes, I know, sound quality etc. But I'm half deaf from too many thrash metal concerts. Having R4 and R5 not going queer every 5 minutes is rather gratifying.
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Post by WDB on Dec 3, 2019 16:37:37 GMT
DAB is OK in the car — because you are, after all, in a car.
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Post by Alanović on Dec 4, 2019 8:28:05 GMT
It's OK everywhere for me with my cloth ears. And dreadful taste in music.
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Post by Alanović on Dec 4, 2019 9:34:34 GMT
Oh yeah, got the blue teeth in both cars now as well, for the first time in forever. Which is nice. I am gradually joining the 21st Century, just as I'm realising my children probably have a fair chance of seeing the 22nd...
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Post by Alanović on Dec 4, 2019 13:38:07 GMT
Mrs A has taken it out today, and managed to complete a return journey without calling me for some kind of operational guidance. This is a good measure of the car's simplicity of design and ease of use. She's quite proud that she managed to get the key out of the ignition - yes, it's a proper car with a proper key, but one which needs to be pushed in and twisted a bit after switching the car off to get the key out. Also, no collisions or damage of any kind, a measure of the car's excellent compact dimensions, although I might have to disable the parking aids before she decides to start ignoring them and thinking she knows best.
Happily she has not yet worked out how to switch the Radio from R4 to Heart FM, and guidance will not be forthcoming on that matter. Although I expect one of the children will let me down and explain it in due course.
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Post by tyrednexited on Dec 4, 2019 14:41:22 GMT
Mrs TnE won't be going anywhere without a chauffeur for some time. Fell off a stile in the forest last week, and broke her upper arm badly (took the "ball" off that goes into the shoulder socket). Painful and very awkward (mind you, she always has been). A month or two before it "knits" (if we're lucky), and maybe 12 before it is as right as it ever will be again. Guess who is now designated driver for the whole of the Christmas season and beyond?
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Post by Alanović on Dec 4, 2019 14:46:04 GMT
Daughter?
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Post by tyrednexited on Dec 4, 2019 14:48:05 GMT
...only if I drive down to Reading every time we need her.....
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Post by Humph on Dec 4, 2019 14:49:45 GMT
Think laterally T&E, park the dormobile in the pub car park for the duration ! Back in HK after a few days in China where GOF is clearly too subversive to be accessed.
Sorry to hear about Mrs T&E by the way, it must be really inconvenient for you...😉
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Post by WDB on Dec 4, 2019 22:30:36 GMT
Is it her drinking arm?
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Post by tyrednexited on Dec 4, 2019 22:31:40 GMT
....worse than that.....
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Post by Alanović on Dec 5, 2019 8:30:59 GMT
Oh God, no. Not the darts arm.
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