Ryan. Posted October 6, 2016 Share Posted October 6, 2016 54 minutes ago, BOF said: He's going to stick an RPM sensor on it and if that fixes it then great. Otherwise it's a new chain kit for all in about ~€800, but for a ten year old car that's what you'd expect. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knoppy1987 Posted October 13, 2016 Share Posted October 13, 2016 ^ Well, you wouldn't want to put the mileage on a prestige car I treated my GTV to a Gearbox Oil change today and a PAS fluid flush and replenish. Success and then I went shopping and shut the door. The seat belt buckle got trapped between the door card and the seat and punctured the door card. Gah. Merry go round. I'll be under the stairs tomorrow in my own personal Alfa spares facility looking for one of my spare door cards to do some more work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alreadyexists Posted October 15, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted October 15, 2016 The Mrs is test driving an Audi A1 today, I think it's too small but she likes them. I've got a BMW 1 series, and she wanted the same but it's probably not worth having two rear wheel drive cars as in winter it'll be less dependable. I'm trying to convince her to go for the Audi A3 as it has a bit more room. She also liked the VW Scirocco but they don't do it in 5 door so she's not interested... told her I think she's missed the point of a Scirocco. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foreveryoung Posted October 15, 2016 Share Posted October 15, 2016 On 10/1/2016 at 00:44, Ryan. said: Very nice! Thank god you didn't go for the green version! I got the green one (elbaite green) on order, its at the dealer ready, had my other one (white) stolen recently (barsquids broke into the house and stole keys) but luckly I am moving house soon and waiting until then, just incase the tossers come back for another look. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan. Posted October 16, 2016 Share Posted October 16, 2016 Scum bags! are you using the green as a deterrent? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foreveryoung Posted October 16, 2016 Share Posted October 16, 2016 4 hours ago, Ryan. said: Scum bags! are you using the green as a deterrent? Its not quite inconspicuous, though I did order it before my other one went missing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dubbs Posted October 20, 2016 Share Posted October 20, 2016 My neighbour reversed into my A3 a week or so ago and I've just picked up a merchant a180. It's a bit sluggish compared to my 54 plate 2 litre Audi. Maybe I'm doing something wrong but it's just not fun to drive. I took it out of eco mode and into sport which made it better but it's just a bit meh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrentVilla Posted October 21, 2016 Moderator Share Posted October 21, 2016 On 15 October 2016 at 21:09, foreveryoung said: I got the green one (elbaite green) on order, its at the dealer ready, had my other one (white) stolen recently (barsquids broke into the house and stole keys) but luckly I am moving house soon and waiting until then, just incase the tossers come back for another look. If Kermit could drive..... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted October 22, 2016 Share Posted October 22, 2016 Thinking about trading my 2004 Ford Escape in for a new Suburu Cross Trek. Anyone drive a Suburu? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted October 22, 2016 Share Posted October 22, 2016 3 hours ago, maqroll said: Thinking about trading my 2004 Ford Escape in for a new Suburu Cross Trek. Anyone drive a Suburu? Always wanted a Subaru but never quite had the nads to take the plunge. Every time I changed cars for a good few years I'd go and sit in a Forrester or an Outback and then bottle it. Original purchase price was ok, but the local dealer didn't have a great rep and the repair and service costs were like something from a NASA budget sheet if something went wrong with it. When you 'want' a Subaru, but end up with a Mercedes because running costs are cheaper, something's not right... Might be different over there, but here, I could afford the initial purchase as long as nothing ever ever went wrong with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted October 28, 2016 Moderator Share Posted October 28, 2016 On 06/10/2016 at 21:29, knoppy1987 said: Score if it is the RPM sensor - and like you say €800 for something of that age is to be expected. Best of luck anyway and fingers crossed it is the former. It was the RPM sensor in the end 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turnbull Posted October 28, 2016 Share Posted October 28, 2016 Got rid of my Volvo V60 recently, basically because it doesn't tick enough boxes and doesn't really work well as an estate car, our ever growing Labrador was getting a touch cramped. I now have a Kuga, which I'm really enjoying (no cougar jokes, please). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted October 29, 2016 Share Posted October 29, 2016 I've been driving a 1 series BMW this week as a hire car. Very impressed with the finish of the inside: I'd have loved to have been at the design meeting: People love that dimpled rubbery faux black leather, we should have some of that. Yes, yes we should but we also need real leather that's very different, smooth with pronounced stitching. ooh yeah real leather lets have that. And matt black plastic because that's sophisticated. Yep, and piano black plastic because that's very 'now'. Can we have grey plastic, of course we can, we'll put it next to the silver metal bits. We need a bit of blue plastic too, where can we put that? We'll put it as a line that runs along under the fake kevlar we haven't mentioned yet... **** me, it's busy and confused in that car. Impressed that in such a small space they managed to scatter sooo many different materials. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knoppy1987 Posted October 29, 2016 Share Posted October 29, 2016 16 hours ago, BOF said: It was the RPM sensor in the end Excellent news BOF! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leviramsey Posted November 7, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted November 7, 2016 (edited) On 10/22/2016 at 00:14, maqroll said: Thinking about trading my 2004 Ford Escape in for a new Suburu Cross Trek. Anyone drive a Suburu? Coworker has one (a cross trek) and the transmission went within a year... Also note that if buying a Subaru in New England, you're giving money to Ernie Boch, Jr.... Edited November 7, 2016 by leviramsey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted November 7, 2016 Share Posted November 7, 2016 54 minutes ago, leviramsey said: Coworker has one (a cross trek) and the transmission went within a year... Also note that if buying a Subaru in New England, you're giving money to Ernie Boch, Jr.... Does Ernie take a cut of every Subaru sale? And if so, how? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darrenm Posted November 7, 2016 Share Posted November 7, 2016 Anyone concerned about the latest court case that says the government didn't do enough to limit air pollution and will need to press ahead with radical changes to meet air targets? The government was supposed to do things like ban diesels from city centres, raise tax on diesel and increase subsidies on cleaner cars. George Osborne apparently blocked it all because it was bad for businesses who use dirty, polluting diesels, and up until very recently government had been pushing diesels as the cleaner choice due to the them being quite good with CO2 emissions. The particulates and NOx emissions from diesels sit on people's lungs causing respitory illnesses such as asthma and lung cancer. We're killing ourselves because no one will face up to the reality and give up their smog machine for something cleaner. Euro 6 diesels are much better but in real world tests still show very high NOx emissions. Petrols are by no means perfect but at least modern cleaner engines emit far less NOx and a similar amount of CO2 to diesels. The answer is to drive less, walk more, cycle more, buy less polluting cars like EVs and hybrids. Toyota hybrids have been euro 6 compatible for the last 10 years and are very cheap to buy and run. Yet they're not 'exciting' enough to drive, people prefer their own excitement over other's health, and motoring magazines willfully give bad advice, promoting polluting cars over cleaner ones. Major cities are about to ban diesels from entering. That's just the start. Diesels will be worth nothing pretty soon. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted November 7, 2016 Share Posted November 7, 2016 On 29 October 2016 at 09:47, chrisp65 said: I've been driving a 1 series BMW this week as a hire car. One of the things that pisses me off, its a BMW 1 series - Not a 1 series BMW. You wouln't say Its a "Focus Ford" or a "Vectra Vauxhall"... just one of those things that bugs me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leviramsey Posted November 8, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted November 8, 2016 On 11/7/2016 at 00:26, maqroll said: Does Ernie take a cut of every Subaru sale? And if so, how? He owns the Subaru distributorship for New England. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted November 8, 2016 Share Posted November 8, 2016 On 07/11/2016 at 08:37, Genie said: One of the things that pisses me off, its a BMW 1 series - Not a 1 series BMW. You wouln't say Its a "Focus Ford" or a "Vectra Vauxhall"... just one of those things that bugs me The cars gone back anyway, so it's irrelevant now. I'm driving a C class Mercedes today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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