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That makes me reshape my eyes somewhat less.

Advice! Does anyone have any experience of i-Shift gearboxes with Honda?

Is it essentially a semi-automatic? I'm looking at a second-hand Jazz after my ancient Golf decided to stop unlocking, in an unforgivable pique of passive-aggressiveness. But I'm not really after an automatic, would prefer a manual, but would be willing to live with i-shift if it's not a piece of i-shit.

have no experience myself but a quick web search brought up this -



So the topgear website thinks its pretty bad

ah great, thank you. Sounds like it's to be avoided. I can make myself nauseous well enough with my own sloppy gear changes.

A group of my friends are buying some cheap cars and going on a road trip to the Nürburgring in May next year. If anyone is interested in coming with us, drop me a PM for more info.

Toad and I are actively searching for a vehicle now, we should probably think of a team name first though...

Christ, that's putting a lot of faith into my organisation skills

You should maybe wait for a confirmation date before putting any money down!

just applying a little pressure

At this stage, at least, there's not much I can do until Nurturing update thier event schedule.

No worries, I can work around whatever date it ends up being.

thinking of getting a Toyota Auris 1.6 (2013) - anyone know of a reason not to get this? The next in line is the Seat Ibiza

Keep the Ka!

Buy a Puma!

Buy another Ka! I might fix the radio by then!

No, shush, we need plenty of those on the market.

While it seems like I won't be buying a honda because of it's cruddy i-shift, their clever bastards in marketing have been, well, clever.

https://www.youtube.com/user/HondaVideo

Right looking at a car tomorrow, it is a 1.6 2013 Toyota Auris done ~13000 miles. It is on the market for £11k.
How much should I pay for it?
Also, there is another one V.similar which seems to come with a 3.5 Toyota year warranty (cf 1 sales place yr), how much value would people place on that extended warranty?

Also, is there a way to check the brakes without removing wheels? Should the sales place have a "report" detailing the state of the car?

I just got a text from Williams offering me a 116i sport for £249 with no.deposit.

Why does their system think it's worth spamming me with that when I have a massive 3 litre diesel estate?

Because most families have more than one car these days?

also I've only bought bits Off them, not cars, because I can only afford bits of BMWs.

Because before that you had a Twingo?

Backing into the drive today, I forgot which car I was in so took my off off the brake and rolled cheerfully into the concrete fence post. The post is ok and the ka seems remarkably unscathed.

Make sure it's had any recall work done. Toyotas have been plagued by bad build quality lately. Seat ibizas are lovely little cars, had two already myself.

they shouldn't know that though, the only reason they have my details is because I rang them and said 'so I've been a bit foolish...'

I don't remember what that first call ws about actually, but I did at least find out it had already had the 'intelligent battery sensor' recall sorted. You know, the cable that's so intelligent it caused widespread battery discharge and death. Ahaha?

I have just bought an E46 M3.

World of pain? We'll find out soon enough.

Cool! Pics?

I'm sure it will be the best car you've had until it needs work done

What colour, Gaz?

Very nice did you get rid of anything to get it?

Nope, although the MX5 will need to go.

So bought a Toyota Auris, picked it up Wednesday gone.
It is (semi)-auto, and I have noticed there is a clunk from the front of the car when I go from drive to neutral, or from having my foot on the accelerator to not. Any one know if this is normal for an auto? Anything to worry about?

Hmmmm... How much?

And do you have any details....

It's a 2002 model, and I think it's a Mk2.5 rather than just a Mk2 (not sure though)

It's a blue, manual S-VT Sport, so it has a fairly high spec for MX5s - heated leather seats, strut braces up the wazoo and, critically, an LSD as standard. The engine has VVT so is torquier down low, makes it more usable

~96,000 miles on the clock.

MOT'd until end of April.

Comes with a Bluetooth-enabled Pure radio too which is pretty good - upgraded the firmware on it last week to fix an issue with it not auto-connecting to my phone.

Drives beautifully, and as far as I can tell there's no rust on it (or certainly wasn't when I bought it anyway )

Only downsides to the car are:

- couple of scratches on the OSF wing - not really that noticeable and may even polish out, I've not really been that bothered to look at them.

- fan belt squeals occasionally on a cold start, this only started this week though so might just be the cold weather

- no service history to speak of. I need to contact Mazda to see what they have in the dealer network for it, but there's no SH with the car. However, the previous owner told me that it was basically given a thorough once over by one of the guys at MX5Nutz shortly before she bought it, and this is reflected in the state of the thing - the engine bay is pristine - only time I've seen an engine that clean is on a new car, and yeah, no rust.

- Bit of wear on the seats but nothing major.

Looking for about £1,600.

I'd get it looked at, could be an engine mount away or exhaust touching or something simple like that.

His sanity?

Does rather assume I had that to begin with.

That would certainly explain a lot.

Shame this wasn't a month ago, or a year in the future

Hold on to it would you, I'll buy it next year when I have a garage...

edit: simplest way to know if you have a mk2.5 is if you have white dials.

Apparently all the S-VT Sports are Mk2.5s so yep

And you don't need a bloody garage! It'd probably be the smallest car you've owned, with the exception of the Fiat 500

So how does this work then? The car is under warranty, do I just turn up at a Toyota garage and ask them to look at it? Does a warranty cover investigative work like this?

It's more that I only have one parking space and 2 cars already. Can't fit another one in.

Call the garage you bought it from first, they'll tell you to book it in. It won't cost you anything.

Have done, they said it was warranty so had to go to a Toyota garage.

Technically, it's their problem as you bought it from them, so they need to sort it out.
In reality, it might be best to go straight to Toyota. Give them all the info, explain the situation and see what they say you need to do.

edit: My response would have been "Great, i'll drop it off tomorrow and you can send it over to them. Let me know when it's fixed would you", but then I like arguing with garages who try and shirk their responsibilities

Yeah, and I also need a car!

Grey Ford Focus? It's "Midnight Sky", you dicks.

http://www.thecomet.net/news/a1_m_shut_ ... _1_3868874

Also, yeah, that was exciting.

Oof! Much damage?

Nearly had something similar a few months ago on the A5. Uncharacteristically I was driving sensibly for a change so I was in the left lane.

Had I been in the right lane, I'd have been stuffed.

Not a massive amount, but it's almost certainly written off.

I got to use my First Aid kit on some old people, though. Cheevo unlocked!