OV9

Sparked by a conversation with Gavster.

This has happened a couple of times - a seller that won't give you their house number, just a postcode and wants you to phone them when you get to that road.

Beany wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 2:04 pm Bet they charge the thick end of £100/hr for that level of kwalitee service, too...

And the rest. My local non-specialist general purpose garage is £80+VAT.

They have very little headroom. I looked at one last year. My head didn’t just touch the headlining, it touched the glass of the sunroof.

Seemed nice otherwise.

I’ve quite enjoyed the regular ghost ship, I’ll have to give the N/A version a try.

Jobbo wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2024 8:36 am

Sundayjumper wrote: ↑Sun Apr 14, 2024 11:15 pm Nah, mine has the black trim, it’s either anodised or coated, not sure, but it’s certainly not an “edition”.

Probably a very expensive option

Also 20mpg vs. 24mpg. It doesn’t sound much, 4mpg, but it’s +20% !

Also, that might be the pettiest MOT advisory I’ve ever seen

I wouldn’t be surprised if ALL my cars have this.

Nah, mine has the black trim, it’s either anodised or coated, not sure, but it’s certainly not an “edition”.

What is causing the change? I bought the Bentley last year when I was 100% WFH and it was a nice novelty that did few miles. A new job started in January and having used the Bentley & the Cayenne more or less back to back for the slog to work (80 miles each way, mostly motorway, only once every...

That’s Cayenne Turbo has black trim round the windows - isn’t that quite rare? My S6 is a black edition. Until the 2023 models the black editions came with chrome Audi rings. They finally went for black rings for mine. I quite like them. Your Audi was sold as a”Black Edition” and is a thing - that’...

I didn’t mean no headlining at all & paint the metal black ! The card/board backing would remain and that probably does most (?) of the sound proofing. And I was talking about my compact here - it’s already pretty noisy with stiff engine mounts, lightweight solid flywheel and low gearing. I don’...

FAO @integrale_evo - reg "X5 GUT" for sale, where "gut" is of course the German for "good". As these things go, it's quite..... good ?

(Really awful wording to the ad - brace yourself )

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/116142874719

No, it’s not special, it’s not rare, it’s just black. Very common colour. There’s hundreds, maybe thousands of them out there. I’ve seen this used lots of times but for some reason this one drove me to comment. Maybe because they feel the need to mention it twice. http://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-det...

Very cheap Cayenne Turbo…. if you think a banana-shaped turd is suitable as a grab handle

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/276424316291

Hmm. I guess you’d still need to do the same thing, removing the sticky gunk, if you wanted paint to stick / not be all lumpy.

My headlining is exactly the same, not got around to doing anything about it. Seriously tempted to just strip the foam and paint it black.

dinny_g wrote: ↑Sat Apr 13, 2024 6:56 am But you’re right about the lines - shorter the lines the better.

I think Dave! meant that in some circumstances, by pure luck, the crap in the lines is complementary and improves the taste in a way that’s unique to that establishment.

240PP - 2012 Audi A5 3.0 TDI, 2005 Porsche Boxster 987 S 3.2 Andy - 1995 Mazda MX-5 V8, 2013 BMW M135i, 2006 Smart ForTwo, 1992 Honda NC30, 2004 Honda CRF450R Supermoto, 2005 Honda CR125R, 2011 Ford Transit T350 140 AWD 16vcento - 2012 Jaguar XFS Portfolio, 2022 A3 Sportback 30 TFSi, 2023 Kuga PHEV...

I had this one time with an MOT - got home and realised they’d put in the wrong mileage. Phoned them straight away and they were able to correct it. It was far easier than I expected, I was braced for a series of “computer says no” conversations.

392ci is 6.4 litres, Shirley.

Which just makes the bhp/litre even worse