"Douglas Payne" wrote in message
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DanB wrote:
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Not that you will.

They're as strong as an ox these cars.

What are they like for space in the cockpit?


My neighbour had a light blue one, and he's a big guy. He has a rangey
now, a white one, and he put a RV8 in his Defender looking thing in his
front garden. He is awesome to borrow tools from, and has an airgun and
stuff! His compresser seems to be self charging or something, as every
now and then it just makes a noise like a generator.

I think thats what workshop compressors generally do.

They have a pump that charges the big air tank stuck to the bottom. When
the pressure drops below a certain point from spraying/using the whirly
tools, the pump kicks in and charges the tank up again.

Magic.

Eh? That's what all compressors do. But the ****e little Aldi / Wolf /
Clarke ones can't keep up with most tools so just run constantly.

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Let me stop you there.

Look no further.
One of my worst ever decisions was getting rid of the Audi 80.
Drove it from Le Ranolien in Brittany to Cumbernauld, then to Hamilton
the following day.
On 27 quid worth of French diesel.
Buy an Audi 80.
All the bits are available directly from German ebay for two bob if you
need them.

Not that you will.

They're as strong as an ox these cars.

For some reason that reminded me of the If you wanna buy a car buy a jag
song:

If you wanna buy a car, buy a jag.
There's room in the back for a shag.
There's a biscuit tin to keep your condoms in,
If you wanna buy a car, buy a jag.

Ha ha I saw an old XJS near Northolt aerodrome last year that someone had
removed the badge and replaced it with a badly made "Shaguar" one.

Mike P

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"Douglas Payne" wrote in message
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Elder wrote:
If the details are right and it has full history?
http://smallr.com/3d5

Just get an MX-5 and be done with it.


No no, if you want _that_ sort of car, get a Ka...


Dervy - what's the Ka like for mpg so long as it's not caned? My missus
tested one yesterday and fell in love with it.

I'm going to buy an older MX-5 that I can play with and mod, and a Ka for
the missus as she likes them. Should have them both by the middle of next
week.

I would struggle to get 38mpg on a long run, being careful. I thought that
was wank. The same sort of run at the same speeds in my MK2 brings up
45mpg or so.


It sounds very much like yours was broken.

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On 17 Jul, 20:24, Timo Geusch
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Incidentally, the temperature gauge decided it didn't want to work on
the Passat last night - definitely enough coolant in it, the heater
was running hot and it was driving as well as ever, so yet again it's
going to have to go back to the dealers this week with suspected body
computer issues.

I didn't touch it...

Seriously, it was working fine on the way over and completely dead on
the way back.

Yesterday morning it was working as per normal and that nice man at
the dealers seems to think a temperature sensor supplied and fitted by
them will sort it out when it goes in for its six month service next
week.

but it's probably telling you that you really want a
nice A8.

LOL... we shall see. I still think you're better off binning all the
Jap tat you never use and keep that and the MX5 until it's time to
head off the sunnier climes.

BTW, the deal with that M3 fell through as the bloke had someone turn up
with the cash. Probably better that way.

Smelt really funny to me from what you said... as you say, better that
way.

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I'm not surprised, didn't it only have like, 115bhp? Mine get's that and I
have a full 82 more bhp and probably not much more weight, and hugely
shorter gearing.

Yeah, something like that.
And at the time, I was made redundant, got a job locally, then got made
redundant again, so it didn't get taken on runs much.
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But. Why did you chop the Octavia? Will the same thing happen again?

As it was the base spec 2.0 8valve it was boring to drive, grunty enough
to spin the wheels, but thrashy and gutless at higher speeds, and felt
vaguer/wallowier at speeds than the aero does now, and it had done 70k
less miles.

It was reliable, and sort of comfy, but at the time my driving was very
stop start congested and it was giving my knee a lot of gyp so I wanted
an auto. I have a different route now, while it is still busy, a heavy
clutch would give me grief, so an auto might be in order, or something
with a nice light pedal.

The Octavia probably gave only a little better on fuel and that was when
fuel was nearly 30p a litre cheaper, so I really have to admit defeat
and get something diesel.
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But. Why did you chop the Octavia? Will the same thing happen again?

As it was the base spec 2.0 8valve it was boring to drive, grunty enough
to spin the wheels, but thrashy and gutless at higher speeds, and felt
vaguer/wallowier at speeds than the aero does now, and it had done 70k
less miles.

But you knew these when you bought it, though - as I remember, it was that
boring, vague sensation that was kinda a selling point.

It was reliable, and sort of comfy, but at the time my driving was very
stop start congested and it was giving my knee a lot of gyp so I wanted
an auto.

Understood. I'm lucky not to have that issue, instead, my back is
occasionally sore. Some days I'd rather have an automatic, but most of the
time, "either / or" is my transmission preference.

I have a different route now, while it is still busy, a heavy
clutch would give me grief, so an auto might be in order, or something
with a nice light pedal.

The Octavia probably gave only a little better on fuel and that was when
fuel was nearly 30p a litre cheaper, so I really have to admit defeat
and get something diesel.

Maybe... for fuel, yes. For overall running costs, it's even more clouded
than it was a couple of years ago.

The main reason why I went for a petrol engine this time wasn't because of
the trend in diesel prices (this trend isn't going to reverse any time soon;
we can blame fleet managers for this, heh). It was more to do with the
service and repair costs of 50K to 150K cars that I was looking at. The
service costs between petrols and diesels shows that petrol engines tend to
be marginally cheaper, but we're talking a few quid here. For some models,
it looked like it was down to the diesel version having beefier brakes and
fleet managers reckoning on replacing the brakes in this mileage window.
But the expected service and repair costs showed a bigger difference, a
chunky difference. That was because one in a given number of common rail
diesels will have a fuel system problem. Injectors at £300 a pop, fuel
pumps at £400, or whatever; starts to get expensive.

Then throw in the chances of a company car driver putting non-diesel into
the tank (petrol, parrafin, vegetable oil or whatever) and harming
something...

Then throw in the depreciation model showing petrol cars to be thirsty and
diesel cars to be thrifty, or, reduce petrol car prices and increase diesel
car prices. Repeat for VED.

Also...

If you want big engine performance with small engine economy, then
turbocharging is one way to go. Think: Saab, VW, Audi, Volvo as
mainstreams. Or Citroën Xantia Active, 406 2.0t, Octavia 1.8t, Leon 1.8T,
that sort of thing.

Or of course, similar to what you already have, but an automatic...

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Or of course, similar to what you already have, but an automatic...

And a bit newer and maybe slightly more reliable.

Nipped out at dinner, and the blower fan control packed up.
Now it runs full on all the time.

You can control the temp and the direction but not the speed.

Switch off the ACC and the fan keeps blowing.
Only goes off with the ignition.
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Carl Robson
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"Adrian" wrote in message
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they were saying:

Wouldn't it just be easier, quicker and cheaper to rip the ****ing
thing out and put something else in?

See Elder's reply to my other post, it appears it's not a knackered
old alarm that someone else fitted, it's a new alarm he's just shelled
out £140 to have fitted.

Yes... and...?

So if you'd just spent £140 on an alarm, and it didn't work right, you'd
just bin it right?

Gotcha.

If I'd spent £140 on an alarm, and it didn't work right, I'd throw the
bloody thing back at the fitters if they couldn't fix it and demand my
money back. Then I'd take it elsewhere for a different brand to be
fitted, yes.

S'what I said :-)

If I'd bought a car with a recently fitted alarm on it and it didn't work
right, then if the people who fitted it couldn't fix it, I'd take it
elsewhere for a different brand to be fitted, yes.

But that's not the case.

It's only £140. It's not exactly THAT much - especially viewed against
this amount of hassle.

But Carl's made no secret of the fact funds aren't exactly growing out of
his pockets at the moment, so it seems stupid to waste £140.

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Clio R27 F1 #65

"Elder" wrote in message
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Or of course, similar to what you already have, but an automatic...

And a bit newer and maybe slightly more reliable.

Nipped out at dinner, and the blower fan control packed up.
Now it runs full on all the time.

You can control the temp and the direction but not the speed.

Switch off the ACC and the fan keeps blowing.
Only goes off with the ignition.


Y'know, I suspect that might get really annoying really fast. It's the
kinda thing you have to fix to sell it too, because it's so very obvious and
annoying.

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Clio R27 F1 #65