Avoid all dealers at the £1500 price point. They're all fucking liars and chancers. Up your budget to £2 - £2500, buy private and you should get something decent.
My daughter is smitten with her Twingo GT.
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- Tue Jul 19, 2022 10:33 pm
- Forum: Cars
- Topic: Car for Mini Mike
- Replies: 47
- Views: 1816
- Fri Jul 08, 2022 11:44 pm
- Forum: Moaning
- Topic: Drugs, (and absurd job updates)
- Replies: 464
- Views: 21502
Re: Drugs, (and absurd job updates)
how? In the same way that you have nothing to show for it at the end. You walk away with nothing. why an EV specifically in your analogy though? You could be walking away with an overall cost of ownership that’s less than an ICE. Err, it was a pun based on our tag line. You've read too much into it...
- Fri Jul 08, 2022 6:12 pm
- Forum: Moaning
- Topic: Drugs, (and absurd job updates)
- Replies: 464
- Views: 21502
- Fri Jul 08, 2022 5:54 pm
- Forum: Moaning
- Topic: Drugs, (and absurd job updates)
- Replies: 464
- Views: 21502
- Sat Jul 02, 2022 12:24 pm
- Forum: Cars
- Topic: Your fleet running reports
- Replies: 20156
- Views: 2392687
Re: Your fleet running reports
If there’s no way to tell visually which way up the spring goes before it’s fitted, how does it make any difference? I guess the coils are wound with different tension, as when compressed, the 'softer' spring is at the top, the firmer at the bottom. Fitted upside-down, the softer coils were compres...
- Sat Jul 02, 2022 5:35 am
- Forum: Cars
- Topic: Your fleet running reports
- Replies: 20156
- Views: 2392687
Re: Your fleet running reports
The Alhambra (yes, we've still got it edition) failed its MOT for the first time in ages. Split CV boot (annoying as I'd replaced the other side about a month ago and it was fine when I eyeballed it) Perished dust covers on both lower ball joints ( expected, as this had been an advisory for the last...
Re: Ukraine
£1bn in aid today. The gammons must be fucking raging!
- Thu Jun 30, 2022 8:00 am
- Forum: Cars
- Topic: Your fleet running reports
- Replies: 20156
- Views: 2392687
Re: Your fleet running reports
I can't think of anything that looks so much fun, but turns out to be terrible than a quad bike
- Mon Jun 20, 2022 2:16 pm
- Forum: Cars
- Topic: Your fleet running reports
- Replies: 20156
- Views: 2392687
Re: Your fleet running reports
Transit: Since the weldathon during the first lockdown, the first 2 MOTs have shown no advisories whatsoever. Which was nice. What wasn't so nice was the fact they picked up on the timing chain rattle that has plaugued this van for the last 15 years. It would only rattle on startup for the first 10 ...
- Sat Jun 11, 2022 2:40 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: (Kinda silly) IOM TT Poll
- Replies: 16
- Views: 594
Re: (Kinda silly) IOM TT Poll
But your average 21 year old with a vendetta can't rock up to the TT with a bike and race team in tow. I'm always surprised there are no regular spectator deaths, as they stand on the edge or apex of corners :shock: At the end of the day, no-one is being forced to race or spectate. As soon as either...
- Fri Jun 03, 2022 9:29 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Ferry or Tunnel to France?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 1080
Re: Ferry or Tunnel to France?
We do (or did) this journey quite a bit. The best option depends on your visit. For a short weekend or midweek break, I always use the tunnel as time is of the essence. For family holidays, I always catch an early ferry. That way I can have a little snooze before the big drive the other side. I love...
- Wed May 18, 2022 2:31 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Should I be getting paid for appearing on a TV documentary?
- Replies: 35
- Views: 1658
Re: Should I be getting paid for appearing on a TV documentary?
There's an awful lot of money sloshing around all TV stuff. And an awful lot of pisstakers. Unfortunately, like most trades, a disproportionate amount goes to the wrong people, leaving the dregs left for the hard workers, so people are leaned on to get freebies. There is money. You just have to act ...
- Wed May 18, 2022 8:59 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Should I be getting paid for appearing on a TV documentary?
- Replies: 35
- Views: 1658
Re: Should I be getting paid for appearing on a TV documentary?
You should at least be offered payment for anything you do for anyone. Even a mate (although we never accept, unless it's a beer or Chinese)
If you're not, they're taking the piss.
Request payment, taking comfort in the knowledge they're making money from your services.
If you're not, they're taking the piss.
Request payment, taking comfort in the knowledge they're making money from your services.
- Fri May 13, 2022 7:25 pm
- Forum: Cars
- Topic: Your fleet running reports
- Replies: 20156
- Views: 2392687
Re: Your fleet running reports
My Customer paid £46k for his Hi-Lux 3 years ago. 22k miles later, the dealer has just given him £39,900 for it. Unbelievable Jeff!
- Wed May 11, 2022 5:58 pm
- Forum: Cars
- Topic: What would you buy again and why?
- Replies: 35
- Views: 1503
Re: What would you buy again and why?
I would say my 306 Gti-6 too Jon. I loved it back along, but as a young driver, I was intoxicated by its straight line performance over the handling, it almost clouded everything else for me, so I'd really love to re-visit one again now I have a better understanding of suspension and what to look ou...
- Wed Apr 27, 2022 8:12 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Designs that were spot-on right from the start and haven’t changed
- Replies: 42
- Views: 1799
- Thu Apr 14, 2022 3:44 pm
- Forum: Cars
- Topic: Your fleet running reports
- Replies: 20156
- Views: 2392687
Re: Your fleet running reports
The old Alhambra has delivered us safely in Holland at 58mpg :!: How'd you manage that? That's good going for an unladen Ibiza or Leon. It has always been weirdly good on a run. I set the cruise to 110 (65mph) most of the way and let it do its thing. On the way home, we were running a bit late for ...
- Mon Apr 11, 2022 7:05 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Petrol the new toilet roll
- Replies: 355
- Views: 19528
Re: Petrol the new toilet roll
Filled up in Belgium today @ £1.52/litre for diesel. We are being shafted by our government.
Re: P&O
I'm sat in Calais right now, and there are no queues at all. In fact, my 6.00pm just got pushed back an hour as there's only about 60 cars here, so they loaded it with trucks instead.
The M20 shitshow is purely down to customs thanks to Brexit. Fuck all to do with P&O.
The M20 shitshow is purely down to customs thanks to Brexit. Fuck all to do with P&O.
- Sun Apr 10, 2022 8:44 am
- Forum: Cars
- Topic: Your fleet running reports
- Replies: 20156
- Views: 2392687
Re: Your fleet running reports
The old Alhambra has delivered us safely in Holland at 58mpg, although I have noticed the idle was getting lumpy the longer the journey went on. It was fine the next morning when cold, so it's temperature related. I'm wondering if it's a tired injector? Won't know until I get home and put the code r...