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by PaulJ
Sat Mar 23, 2024 11:24 am
Forum: Cars
Topic: EV Thread
Replies: 1192
Views: 220526

Re: EV Thread

Saloons and estates, I’ve a mental barrier of 2 tons. SUVs shouldn’t be over 2.3 tons. Hatches under 1.5 tons. Super minis 1.2 tons. When cars are above those figures I just think badly designed lard boxes. Dave! I always describe my car as a sensible 3-door hatchback. Just checked and its DIN weig...
by PaulJ
Fri Mar 22, 2024 3:22 pm
Forum: Cars
Topic: Cayman/Boxter RIP.
Replies: 39
Views: 700

Re: Cayman/Boxter RIP.

Sundayjumper wrote: Fri Mar 22, 2024 12:07 pm So unless the EV boxster/cayman replacement is a roaring success that will become even more true in the future.
Roaring will be the least successful aspect unfortunately. :?
by PaulJ
Thu Mar 21, 2024 5:33 pm
Forum: Cars
Topic: Cayman/Boxter RIP.
Replies: 39
Views: 700

Re: Cayman/Boxter RIP.

Wow! Really? Are the UK rules stricter than EU, or are they just giving up everywhere? Blimey that's a shame! :( Seems to be EU-wide according to this article . Don't worry @PaulJ - they promise an EV successor as soon as 2025 :( Afraid I still consider all electric vehicles to be appliances, and n...
by PaulJ
Thu Mar 21, 2024 2:09 pm
Forum: Cars
Topic: Cayman/Boxter RIP.
Replies: 39
Views: 700

Cayman/Boxter RIP.

I just heard that the Porsche Cayman and Boxster models have been withdrawn from sale in the UK due to them not meeting the latest standards of cyber security. :roll: Apparently it would cost to much to upgrade them for the two years before the electric replacement appears. Having had 3 Boxsters and...
by PaulJ
Mon Mar 11, 2024 7:13 pm
Forum: Cars
Topic: Your fleet running reports
Replies: 20053
Views: 2289836

Re: Up GTi door seal leak.

As feared our door seal leak has been fixed using the expensive method, and we pick up an orange new/pre-registered Abarth 595 Turismo on Friday. We got £9300 trade-in which I suppose is good for a 5 and a half year old car that cost about £16k new. Sad times, but still a reasonable price....didn't...
by PaulJ
Fri Mar 08, 2024 4:30 pm
Forum: General
Topic: OV9 Political Party
Replies: 41
Views: 634

Re: OV9 Political Party

Road tax based on height and weight of vehicle. Using my car as an example, I would pay none, all SUV/crossover's tax would double and Caterham owners would receive a £200 grant towards costs for cheering up the road-scape.

All speed humps to be recycled and used to fill potholes.
by PaulJ
Mon Mar 04, 2024 6:13 pm
Forum: Cars
Topic: Your fleet running reports
Replies: 20053
Views: 2289836

Re: Up GTi door seal leak.

we pick up an orange new/pre-registered Abarth 595 Turismo on Friday. How are you finding the Abarth? 404 - Marty McFly errorz :? This is kind of the 2024 version of replacing a car 'cos the ashtrays are full. Hope she enjoys it 8-) You've just made me think Mik. I don't recall if the Up even has a...
by PaulJ
Mon Mar 04, 2024 6:11 pm
Forum: Cars
Topic: Your fleet running reports
Replies: 20053
Views: 2289836

Re: Up GTi door seal leak.

As feared our door seal leak has been fixed using the expensive method, and we pick up an orange new/pre-registered Abarth 595 Turismo on Friday. We got £9300 trade-in which I suppose is good for a 5 and a half year old car that cost about £16k new. Sad times, but still a reasonable price....didn't...
by PaulJ
Mon Mar 04, 2024 10:49 am
Forum: Cars
Topic: Your fleet running reports
Replies: 20053
Views: 2289836

Re: Your fleet running reports

p.s. Bit of a nostalgic moment here, as it's the last of the old air-cooled pages...
by PaulJ
Mon Mar 04, 2024 10:47 am
Forum: Cars
Topic: Your fleet running reports
Replies: 20053
Views: 2289836

Re: Up GTi door seal leak.

As feared our door seal leak has been fixed using the expensive method, and we pick up an orange new/pre-registered Abarth 595 Turismo on Friday. We got £9300 trade-in which I suppose is good for a 5 and a half year old car that cost about £16k new.
by PaulJ
Sat Mar 02, 2024 3:54 pm
Forum: Cars
Topic: Your fleet running reports
Replies: 20053
Views: 2289836

Re: Your fleet running reports

Thanks for the info regarding Up leaks. She may have found another (more expensive) way around the problem - we're going to look at a new Abarth tomorrow. Will see you posted...
by PaulJ
Fri Mar 01, 2024 3:18 pm
Forum: Cars
Topic: Your fleet running reports
Replies: 20053
Views: 2289836

Re: Your fleet running reports

My partner Alison's Up GTi, (five and a half years old, owned from new and never bent or abused) has started to leak rain water in around the door seal onto the drivers seat. Bit disappointing for a VW. Anyone else had a similar problem?
by PaulJ
Thu Jan 25, 2024 4:51 pm
Forum: Cars
Topic: EV Thread
Replies: 1192
Views: 220526

Re: EV Thread

It's a Shamen you didn't already know Es are good. 8-)
by PaulJ
Wed Jan 17, 2024 4:29 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Jack envy
Replies: 41
Views: 3121

Re: Jack envy

No jacks/spare wheels have come with Porsches for years, and our UP GTI doesn't have one either. :(
It's a bit surprising that Porsche don't offer one as an optional extra, and a more expensive lightweight one in titanium for Euro-millions winners. ;)
by PaulJ
Tue Jan 16, 2024 4:14 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Trump
Replies: 916
Views: 93376

Re: Trump

I can't work out if Americans are unaware that the rest of the world sees Trump as a clear self-serving swivel-eyed maniac, or that they are just so yoo-ess-ay, yoo-ess-ay insular that they simply don't care? :? That probably reads as far more derogatory to John Q American than I intended it to, bu...
by PaulJ
Tue Jan 16, 2024 4:03 pm
Forum: Cars
Topic: Weird car wants.
Replies: 34
Views: 18473

Re: Weird car wants.

If a Cayman could return sensible mpg I'd be getting one believe me! I often carry 4 passengers but they are always the other half's friends so u can use her car for that! I don't do track days, but my 'heavy' usage gets 24mpg, normal is around 27 and on long steady runs 31mpg. Not bad for a 4 litr...
by PaulJ
Mon Jan 15, 2024 5:32 pm
Forum: Cars
Topic: Weird car wants.
Replies: 34
Views: 18473

Re: Weird car wants.

Sundayjumper wrote: Mon Jan 15, 2024 4:32 pm
Zonda_ wrote: Mon Jan 15, 2024 3:28 pm
Sundayjumper wrote: Mon Jan 15, 2024 3:24 pm Do it ! I would. I probably will one day when I'm old enough for a Merc ;)
I am tempted, it can be a nod to turning 50...
I'll be fifty later this year but I'm still not convinced I'm old enough.
I'm 70 and still consider my Cayman to be a sensible 2 door hatchback. :)
by PaulJ
Sun Dec 31, 2023 6:16 pm
Forum: Cars
Topic: Lotus Emira
Replies: 419
Views: 42153

Re: Lotus Emira

Anyone here know the Emira's with over the door mirrors? Assuming you meant width? https://www.carsized.com/en/cars/compare/lotus-emira-2022-coupe-vs-porsche-cayman-2016-coupe/front/ Oops! :oops: Thanks for the excellent info. I still kid myself that there is another Lotus in me, but the width of n...
by PaulJ
Sun Dec 31, 2023 3:41 pm
Forum: Cars
Topic: Lotus Emira
Replies: 419
Views: 42153

Re: Lotus Emira

Anyone here know the Emira's with over the door mirrors?
by PaulJ
Sun Dec 31, 2023 3:39 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Would you UK honours?
Replies: 10
Views: 4069

Re: Would you UK honours?

I quite fancy a Knighthood. (And a suit of armour if I'm honest).