OV9

Foz wrote: Tue Sep 18, 2018 1:57 pm

hoyleyboyley wrote: Tue Sep 18, 2018 12:53 pm1

Ben and Holly!

JELLY FLOOD!

Someone explain...

hoyleyboyley wrote: Tue Sep 18, 2018 10:54 pm Someone explain...

Lol are you not familiar with Ben Elf and Princess Holly playing on the rear screens ?

Ben and Holly: a cartoon for preschoolers and middle-class parents.

Ah. Fair enough. No, we're not on that as kids tv yet.

Sundayjumper wrote: Tue Sep 18, 2018 9:58 am Is that an X5 I can see in the boot ?

Photo was actually taken inside the boot of my X5. It's where Hoyley keeps his garage etc.

Fresh MOT 4 weeks prior to the expiry date.

Here's to a years motoring in it!

Parked the RR idea, just can’t justify the cost of what’s rapidly becoming old tech IMO.

I reckon a 4.4 TDV8 autobiography / westminster is a good buy.

We played a slightly strategical game by going older/cheaper with the 3.6 Vogue SE - I reckon I 'saved' about 10k on purchase price, but given we have one toddler and are about to add another to that I'm not sure having 'newer/nicer' cars is worth it till kids get to a certain age.

Up until then you just spend your time scrubbing food/dribble/poo out of fabric

Stereo and functions (sat nav in particular) does show its age - but a new head unit that pairs to phones with Carplay to bring it in the 21st century is a few hundred quid by all accounts. Will be investing in one in the next few months.

After many months looking we finally picked this up:



3.6TDV8 like Hoyley's. Like Hoyley we've bought a cheaper one with a view to having a fighting fund. The 4.4 with the 8 speed gear box is undoubtedly better but not £8-10k better.

So far it's awesome. Completely the opposite of my Elise - heavy, slow and comfortable. We had a family mountain biking holiday in Scotland which it was fab for.



It has an absurd amount of 'features'. Some like the programmable heating are a bit dumb others like the deployable steps turn out to be quite handy. It's a weird mix of old and new technologies.

There have been a few quirks: we had a farce getting a second key for it as it wouldn't code. The DVD player died but a retired heart surgeon on one of the forums posted a guide to DIY fixing, so I gave it a go and lo and behold it worked! Then it kept going into limp home mode when the turbo should kick in - we feared the worst but it turned out to just be split turbo hoses. It does have the unreassuring air of a ticking bomb though.

davejevons wrote: Fri Dec 07, 2018 9:41 pm 3.6TDV8 like Hoyley's. Like Hoyley we've bought a cheaper one with a view to having a fighting fund.

Err... did you see his last update ?

Yeah, it didn't help with the nerves. When it's working there's nothing quite like it though.