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The S5 got traded in on Friday. Great car, but we are needing to do more miles, with ailing parents at both ends of the Country (Forres and Wantage) so I went back to my confort zone and bought Swedish.

It is a very nice colour, and a very comfy place to be, only driven it back from the dealer and ...

But it was a well known secret, like George Michael not, in fat, liking the lovely girls. Jonny Rotten or Sid Vicious brought it up and got cancelled decades ago. But I do take your point, I just theink a monarchy is effing ridiculous, particularly in it's current form, ditto House of Lords ...

Big Brother Charles was very good chums with Saville, perhaps this, or at least the sh1t show that follows will rid us of a constitutional monarchy, leave them a wee house each, take the rest back and just make them museums, or the world's most expensive hotels for idiot rich people to stay in.

Just got a letter saying I owe £154 to Fuel Guardian and FG have passed the debt to Advatis debt collection. Just googled FG to see WTF they are, so looks like someone has bought fuel and not paid. Sod's law the lines shut at 1pm on a Saturday and I am just in from a cycle so will chase up on Monday ...

Daughter's Ka wouldn't start, jump leads sorted it then off to the garage for a new battery. Really struggled on the way as my daughter said it wouldn't accelerate properly, left her stiuck at a roundabout. I was there and came round and blocked the roundabout in the Mini but by teh time we reached ...

I always wanted to do that with my Volvo 440i seats, THE most comfortable car seats ever.

But I’m a lazy fucker so hey, there you go


I had a 440 GLE as my first Volvo and loved the heated seats, but later S60 seats and Saab 95 Aero seats were better. Even though th S5 and E Class have lovely ...

THat was what wrote off my E class, pan roof jamming then blockages. The S5 is in to teh garage to try and work out why it keeps steammng up inside, looked at all drain holes, sill plugs etc, I am really hoping it is something simple, as otherwise I will probably cut my losses and change the car.

Been checking the weather cams over Carter Bar as I am off to Hull later as I have a family funeral tomorrow. Wish I had the all season tyres from the Superb on the Audi, I suspect with correct tyres it would tackle most no drift snow.

Looking back (no way am I attempting to quote" it saod look for promotion, don't buy a car, so one our of two!

We did get Emily's might Ka Edge, surley a contender behind Dan's car and that of ScottA. I swapped the Superb for the S5 and promptly put 10k on it in 6 months, perhaps I should have gone ...

Anyone had anything back? Last email we got said probably December we would hear.


I received this on December 17th:

“We’ve decided to end the complaint handling extension on 31 May 2026, rather than 31 July 2026 as consulted on. This will help ensure that consumers do not wait any longer ...

Anyone had anything back? Last email we got said probably December we would hear.

I can't see the pictures sadly, but I know what an AK47 looks like so I am imagining a big bore version. Have fun

Marry Christmas all.

Not a surprise of course. Be nice to think there might be some consuquence to that and the £10Bn that was apparently fraudulently claimed in business relief during covid...

Actually, check the price of an Audi service plan for your car. It’s a massive saving on my S6 over paying for each service if using a main dealer. And if you buy at the right time of year - I think it’s around October/November - they seem to do a 25% discount.


No main delaer near me, and my ...

So is it just servicing you’re worried about? Changing to an unknown new car doesn’t sound like a great plan!


Not really, just that with th emiles I am clocking it just seems a little like I chos ethe wrong car. It may be that the S5 laps up th emiles and servicing os probably no dearer than a ...

Thank you, did a quick and easy trade in valuation on a garage website and it reckond the car had dropped £6k over 7 months and adding 11k miles so not worth changing. I could no doubt sell it provately for more, but the hassle of that outweighs any benefit, will just keep the Audi another year or ...

I’d stick with what you have if you enjoy it, if it’s more economical than you expected and it’s been solid and not showing any signs of deteriorating.

If you swap you’re taking a leap into the unknown and if a diesel E-class isn’t any more economical what is the point? Just the bigger boot ...

M340d or Alpina D3? Should offer similar performance to S5 and available in Touring form.


I am not looking to sink too much into the change, so upper limit likely to be £20, maye £22k. Would love an Alpina.

Eldest is off to Uni, hopefully St Andrews, so not wanting any sort of monthly payments ...

Morning, As you may know, I got the S5 back around May time, and was very happy indeed. Sice then I have clocked up 11k miles which is far more than I expected.

My daughter does now have her own car, which will cut down on trips slightly, but with older realtives in Forres, Oxford and Aberdeen ...