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240PP wrote: ↑Wed Jan 10, 2024 3:47 pm If I did that at my current place I’d be met with “Fucking contractors, too much money.” while they’re getting out of their £30k Fords.

jamcg wrote: ↑Thu Jan 11, 2024 7:14 am Anyone had any experience with the likes of cinch and Cazoo? Or should the be avoided like the plague?

MikeHunt wrote: ↑Thu Jan 11, 2024 10:13 am M550i: Im one of those spooked by car troubles so, when BMW diagnosed a nasty coolant/oil leak, the car was practically dead to me. Finding a replacement that ticks all the boxes feels impossible.

scotta wrote: ↑Thu Jan 11, 2024 8:48 am

jamcg wrote: ↑Thu Jan 11, 2024 7:14 am Anyone had any experience with the likes of cinch and Cazoo? Or should the be avoided like the plague?

Buying or selling?

MikeHunt wrote: ↑Thu Jan 11, 2024 10:13 am Ive just realised that 2023 was the first year I didnt buy or sell a car since I passed my test.

EQV300: while it's perfect for daily trips, we regularly need to travel to Oswestry, a good 150 miles round trip, which is on the upper limit of the battery range, especially in winter. So the plan is to go back to diesel. I think unless you have a Tesla, any sort of medium distance journey is a faff. Mercedes released a slick V300 facelift in December, but they don't currently have a building slot. My company owns the EVQ and I need work out a way to depreciate the car and sell it off.

MX5: I promised myself that I would use it or lose it. I really enjoyed an epic Northern England adventure, but the rest was an epic fail with other things getting in the way of drivers and trackdays. I sold it last year, but the buyer vanished, now there are 2 new folks are interested now, so it might be gone by the weekend. Every time I hop in, I can't quite make my mind up about selling. It just sits there gathering dust, though, and passing the MOT with only 4,600 miles was a bit embarrassing. Maybe I'll invest the proceeds in Bitcoin, retire next year, and cruise around in an NSX-R.

M550i: Im one of those spooked by car troubles so, when BMW diagnosed a nasty coolant/oil leak, the car was practically dead to me. Finding a replacement that ticks all the boxes feels impossible. The new BMWs are a definite no, Panamera or AMG GT look good, but I'd need an older one to even come close to the price, and they're nowhere near as Q. If I keep it, I was impressed with AC Schnitzer suspension on the Z4 might be a tempting upgrade.

Marv wrote: ↑Fri Jan 12, 2024 9:49 pm Well the 968 and M3 are still in storage. After nearly 3 years, hopefully I'll finally be able to get the out of storage and back on the road, before the middle of this year!

Other than briefly driving them in August 2021, they have been sat in storage...so seized hydraulics are a little bit of a concern

Simon wrote: ↑Sun Jan 14, 2024 11:31 pm We take my son swimming every Sunday morning and every time there's a GLB parked in the drop off area (!) so I had a good gawp at it today. It's funny how you suddenly see a lot of particular cars around when you have an interest in a certain model.

I'm more certain than ever that a GLB/EQB will replace the Yeti, as that's the next car to get changed anyway. Whether that'll creep into this year I don't know, and somewhat doubt, but it seems to be logical choice, if I can get my wife to accept the size of it (f'nar).

E53 is what I'm aiming for and that won't be till later in '25 I guess.

nuttinnew wrote: ↑Mon Jan 15, 2024 2:38 am https://www.carsized.com/en/cars/compar ... its=metric

IanF wrote: ↑Mon Jan 15, 2024 12:42 am

Simon wrote: ↑Sun Jan 14, 2024 11:31 pm We take my son swimming every Sunday morning and every time there's a GLB parked in the drop off area (!) so I had a good gawp at it today. It's funny how you suddenly see a lot of particular cars around when you have an interest in a certain model.

I'm more certain than ever that a GLB/EQB will replace the Yeti, as that's the next car to get changed anyway. Whether that'll creep into this year I don't know, and somewhat doubt, but it seems to be logical choice, if I can get my wife to accept the size of it (f'nar).

E53 is what I'm aiming for and that won't be till later in '25 I guess.

I’d have thought it wa a lot bigger than a Yeti, is it not? I saw one today and though of it as a mini GLS as opposed to something between an A and C (in the Mercedes vernacular)