"DervMan" wrote in message
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A friend of mine recently traded in her old Endura-E engined Ka for a
newer Duratec one. She says it's loads faster and doesn't use as much
fuel. Obviously, her version of loads faster, may not match ours :-)

Could be. The Duratec-8v is quieter, but whines a lot, whereas the
Endura-E is gutteral. They're barely quicker, standard against standard,
over Elvington's quarter mile strip. Chip the Endura-E, fit the lightest
wheels you can, and they were effectively the same (times were +/- 0.2s).


She says it feels loader faster, do not discount that possibly that the old
one was just knackered (it was a bit of a smokey, rattly little thing).


Ford fitted the non-air conditioned machine with tall gearing and the
Duratec-8v needs 500 rpm on the tacho for the same performance, so it
didn't feel anywhere near as immediate as the Endura-E. But the Luxury
model (with a/c) has the same gearing as the Endura-E and is very close in
fuel consumption.

Of course, the new engine wasn't her reason for changing, she's just
earning more now, and wanted a new one, so she bought a pretty new (think
56 plate or something), shiny black Luxury Ka. I think it's Luxury, the
model, it has leather, aircon, quite nice alloys, leccy windows and
stuff, and had done something like 5k miles. She's over the moon with
it.

It's a lovely specification; Kermy was a Luxury. It'll also have
QuickClear and may have the in-dash multichanger as I recall.


Aye she seems happy with it, not sure about the changer but it has the
screen thing I beleive.

--
Dan
Clio R27 F1 #65

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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.

Thinking this way.
I'm not scraping the barrel, but I would be if I threw away £140
everytime something I just paid for didn't work as expected.

That is almost but not quite 4 weeks petrol, or just a bit less than I
spend on nights out for most of the year (probably spend no more than
£200 a year on average in the pub in a year, don't go out very often),
or a weeks mortgage. Could you throw away a weeks mortgage?

I've bought cars that passed the next MOT without an advisory for less.
--
Carl Robson
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"DanB" gurgled happily, sounding much like
they were saying:

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.

It seems a damn sight more stupid to **** all the neighbours off with a
car alarm that goes off every ten minutes.

Either don't bother with an alarm, or have one that works. One that cries
wolf constantly is just pointless. If you're in an area where you need an
alarm, then it's probably also the kind of area somebody will express
their dissatisfaction with a brick.

"Elder" wrote in message
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Could you throw away a weeks mortgage?

I could :-)

Elder gurgled happily, sounding much
like they were saying:

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.

Thinking this way.
I'm not scraping the barrel, but I would be if I threw away £140
everytime something I just paid for didn't work as expected.

You're not just throwing it away, though, are you?

How much time, effort, energy and petrol have you wasted on taking it
back and forth to the useless muppets who can't fix it? How much more
will you waste on it?

"Adrian" wrote in message
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"DanB" gurgled happily, sounding much like
they were saying:

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.

It seems a damn sight more stupid to **** all the neighbours off with a
car alarm that goes off every ten minutes.

Either don't bother with an alarm, or have one that works. One that cries
wolf constantly is just pointless. If you're in an area where you need an
alarm, then it's probably also the kind of area somebody will express
their dissatisfaction with a brick.

Just say "Move somewhere less pikey". Come on MiniSteve, you know you want
to ;-)

--
Dan
Clio R27 F1 #65

writes:

On 17 Jul, 20:24, Timo Geusch
wrote:
writes:
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.

They all do that, sir

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.

That'll be modern electronics for you.

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.

Well, there are plans afoot to get rid of the "Jap tat" but I'd probably
end up with a slightly improved "VW Beetle"...

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.

I wasn't too offended that the guy had sold it. Actually I wasn't too
surprised that he clammed up after I had sent him a copy of the HPI
report...

Oh, and one of the fans is a tad noisy as you said but I don't think
it's too bad. Now that I've managed to liberate a second SATA cable from
PC Woe I've started the installation...

--
'89 Mazda RX-7 Convertible Mazda MX-5 trackday shed
'92 Mazda RX-7 Audi A8

"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.


I seem to recall that this is a fairly common fault and easy to fix.

--
The DervMan
www.dervman.com

"DanB" wrote in message
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"DervMan" wrote in message
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A friend of mine recently traded in her old Endura-E engined Ka for a
newer Duratec one. She says it's loads faster and doesn't use as much
fuel. Obviously, her version of loads faster, may not match ours :-)

Could be. The Duratec-8v is quieter, but whines a lot, whereas the
Endura-E is gutteral. They're barely quicker, standard against standard,
over Elvington's quarter mile strip. Chip the Endura-E, fit the lightest
wheels you can, and they were effectively the same (times were +/- 0.2s).


She says it feels loader faster, do not discount that possibly that the
old one was just knackered (it was a bit of a smokey, rattly little
thing).


Ford fitted the non-air conditioned machine with tall gearing and the
Duratec-8v needs 500 rpm on the tacho for the same performance, so it
didn't feel anywhere near as immediate as the Endura-E. But the Luxury
model (with a/c) has the same gearing as the Endura-E and is very close
in fuel consumption.

Of course, the new engine wasn't her reason for changing, she's just
earning more now, and wanted a new one, so she bought a pretty new
(think 56 plate or something), shiny black Luxury Ka. I think it's
Luxury, the model, it has leather, aircon, quite nice alloys, leccy
windows and stuff, and had done something like 5k miles. She's over the
moon with it.

It's a lovely specification; Kermy was a Luxury. It'll also have
QuickClear and may have the in-dash multichanger as I recall.


Aye she seems happy with it, not sure about the changer but it has the
screen thing I beleive.


Ultimately, that's what counts, innit. And the LuxuryKa has that lovely
leather interior too...

--
The DervMan
www.dervman.com

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says...
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.


It does get annoying, and loud when the aircon switches to recirc
automatically.

I'm probably going to chop it in for something for about £3k with a
minimum trade in price, or see if the garage I get to fix things wants
to make me a non silly offer for it. He was going to buy it back from
the last owner. The missus got £2k off her Yaris for a very battered
Fabia with a door that didn't open. And when she bought the Fabia for
£4k they gave her £2k off for her Corsa. Not expecting anything like
that much, but better than a right off.
--
Carl Robson
Audio stream: http://www.bouncing-czechs.com:8000/samtest
Homepage: http://www.bouncing-czechs.com