These people clearly have the cash to drive more expensive modern cars as
daily drivers if they wanted to.
But they don't - that would just be daft.

With that in mind, maybe they'd make an ideal opting-out-of-company-cars
choice for someone on here :-)

--
"For want of the price of tea and a slice, the old man died."

Elder gurgled happily, sounding much
like they were saying:

Oh there was no charge for the fix, it has a 3 year warrenty. Its just
that it cost me £140 quid to have it fitted when the factory fit Cobra
packed up.

The factory wouldn't have fitted a Cobra alarm. The dealer might when the
car was new, but the factory wouldn't.

"DanB" gurgled happily, sounding much like
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...?

Bob Sherunckle wrote:
"Elder" wrote in message
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I'm 6'2" with my height biased towards my back rather than legs and it
was
fine for me.
I'm all legs, but I find if the steering wheel is sensibly placed or has
adjustment, the gut goes nowhere near it
I'm also of portly persuasion, although I seem to be loosing a little for
no
obvious reason.

Anyway, I fitted well into mine.

Mine happily towed a car trailer loaded with GTM Rossa K3 from here to
Bury
and back in a day.

They're not a car to love as such - like my Sylva, for reasons which
genuinely escape me - but if you got one you would know that it had been
a
great decision and would repect it for ever. It's a car to trust your
life
in and not cost you a fortune to run.
Only problem with an Audi is, they are all driven by Cocks.


Not old and immaculate ones.
Old and tidy 80s just look they're being driven by people with far more
sense than money.
New ones don't look like that - they are definitely driven by cocks.

An unmarked 80 or 100 / A6 looks seriously cool IMHO.

Here's a meanderingly boring illustration of this theory.

A friend of mine drives a 100 Avant quattro 2.8V6 as his daily car and it's
in very nice condition.
IIRC it's either a '93 or a 94. It's just a big, sturdy sensible car. Not
worth a fortune, but a great car.

For weekend fun, he has a 911SC, a 944S and a 944 turbo. They're all
immaculate.
He also has a frogeye sprite sporting a well tweaked xflow on webers.
His wife also has another frogeye sprite and an A6.
His old man has a car called a cooper MG - this one
http://www.carkeys.co.uk/features/cl...storic/989.asp
His mother has a Porsche 356 and an MG J2 - and an old Audi for daily use.

Doug knows exactly who I'm talking about.

I may have slightly inappropriately overtaken that nice old Audi towing
that lovely old Cooper MG on the way to Knockhill last week.

Anyway, the point Bob was making probably still stands. All of the
people in question seem to be utterly car bonkers. So far my experience
has been that they are anything but cocks.

'Audis are driven by cocks' is just something we're going to have to
weather I guess.

How about a new mantra: 'anyone whos car buying descisions are based on
anything Top Gear says is a cock guffaw'? (c:

--
Douglas

"Richard Kilpatrick" wrote in message
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john wrote:

But it's a late one, from when Merc's quality control budget was 17p and
their 'make stuff go forever' policy was replaced by their 'make stuff
cheaply' policy.

even a late W124 is pretty indestructable, I know them well. cheap
insurance too. up to 1995 is pretty safe, after that you're in the realms
of tatty rusty T and V reg cars....

W124s stopped in 1995, so a T or V-reg W124 would be pretty suspect.

They're not indestructible, either, in that they wear like any other car
and some of the parts are horrific when you get away from consumables.
What amazes me is how much people will put up with in their cars - £1800
E200 1994 Estate, one careful owner, and when I actually drove it the
heater was misting, the car pulled, a wheelbearing was howling, the
tailgate was rusty...

It's not that I'm expecting a W124 NOT to be like this, but that people
will describe such a car as "Drives well" or "smooth luxury" or whatever.
"It's pulling violently to one side, the brakes are grinding, and the rear
suspension is shagged" "Yes, but it drives well!".

IME, and I wanted a W124 again quite strongly a while back and had the
money to spend on one, the good ones are rare and the ones for sale in
trade ads or classifieds are usually not as good as people think they are.
Which could probably be said for any used car, but for some reason the
W124s reputation makes these faults somehow disappear.

Very much the vibe I got from the MB Club. Basically the closest thing to an
honest reply you got was: "Yes there are a thousand expensive, relatively
common faults, but it's a Mercedes Benz and barring the head gasket, leaks
into the cabin and delaminated screen it's been a paragon of reliability."

"Elder" wrote in message
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TBH there shouldn't be any need to borrow.

You don't have a mortgage do you?

I don't, but I wouldn't like to be taking finance out on a couple of K worth
of car. If it came to that point then I'd be running around in £200 worth of
Citroen ZX or some other unfashionable derv piece of tat.

In article ,
says...
Elder gurgled happily, sounding much
like they were saying:

Oh there was no charge for the fix, it has a 3 year warrenty. Its just
that it cost me £140 quid to have it fitted when the factory fit Cobra
packed up.

The factory wouldn't have fitted a Cobra alarm. The dealer might when the
car was new, but the factory wouldn't.

They were back then. BMW, Saab and Merc fitted Cobra alarms.
I even phoned Cobra UK about it.
"Sorry mate, they were a factory fit not a retail item, you would need
to take it to an old Saab dealer if you can still find one".

Made by Cobra, badged as Cobra on the horn and the box, but not the fob.
And under the bonnet there is even a specially formed channel to take
the wiring from the horn at the front of the inner wing into the
aquarium.
--
Carl Robson
Audio stream: http://www.bouncing-czechs.com:8000/samtest
Homepage: http://www.bouncing-czechs.com

"Adrian" wrote in message
...
"DanB" gurgled happily, sounding much like
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.

--
Dan
Clio R27 F1 #65

"Elder" wrote in message
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I was getting 30mpg minimum out of the Octavia mainly local driving with
38 on a good run, I want better.
********************************************

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.

Mind you, I've never got that out of it because I thrash it mercilessly,
like wot it was designed for :-p

--
Dan
Clio R27 F1 #65

"Timo Geusch" wrote in message
...
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, but it's probably telling you that you really want a
nice A8.

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


D'oh. Someone on Cliosport has recently got an immaculate, late, E36 Evo,
the one with different wheels and a bit more power. It looks to be an
absolute beauty in the pictures.

--
Dan
Clio R27 F1 #65