Be Excellent To Each Other

Wait - you locked the RAC man in the boot?

I think that might have been a sex thing.

It was his idea - its where BMW keep the battery, and his drain monitor only had a short lead.

We had the same problem on our car but instead of locking himself inside the car the mechanic stuck a screwdriver in the catch to fool the car sensors that they were closed.

It was cold and windy in Cockermouth.

with no clothes on.

Roof rack purchased for the Forester! Neatly sidesteps wife's "we need a bigger car" from last weekend when we parked next to the Humvee

For a brief moment I wondered what you meant, out here they measure fuel economy as litres used per 100km travelled so a low number is good.

Lady T's car displays on the dash an average of 14.6 L/100km. I think that's pretty bad actually.

Does anyone's car do the daylight savings automatically on the clock?

I have 2 Skoda's, one is a pretty basic specification so I didn't' expect it there, but the other one is the Laurin & Klement spec so leather and Sat Nav, I would have thought this one would have picked up the time from the Sat Nav, but still had to change that one manually.

Mine did but it's a Mk3 Octavia and I needed to go into the settings and change the clock from Manual to GPS.

Ah ok I will try that, time to read the manual for the first time ever!

Or you could just press buttons at random like I did.

I find when this happens that if you leave it for six months then it goes back right again by itself.

Funnily enough, that's what I do with my scooter's clock.

Is it too much to ask that if you have advertised a car on ebay, then if someone emails you, and then texts you, you respond? Why advertise if you aren't going to talk to prospective buyers?

My 2001 astra changes its clock automagicly. My 2011 golf requires me to do it. This is the future.

My 2009 Honda Accord ES-GT (mid-range spec) did it automatically, now my 2008 Honda Civic Type-R GT (hot hatch with upgraded kit) doesn't do it automatically and sits there like an arsehole with a clock that's totally wrong until I speculatively press various buttons on the audio controls in an attempt to correct it, sending my* attached iPod into a total fucking loony spin in the process.

This is also the future.


* Previously GazChap's, and doing sterling service it is too.

I've never had a car that changes its clock automatically

Despite the better spec on the Octavia I still had to do it manually, there was a an option for daylight saving and when I ticked that it added another hour to the time!

Driving to Belgium with 2 other guys tomorrow so asked work to get us an estate car, the hire company turned up with a Fiat 500 Estate and said "its an estate car" told them to take it back and they returned with a Superb Estate.

My car changes its clock automatically.

To midnight, every time it panics about shutdown energy consumption and turns everything off.

I sent him a "best offer" on ebay, to which he didn't respond. Rather than accepting that, he has now dropped the price to under my best offer...
Still not responding to emails, texts or phone calls, but he has obviously been on ebay to drop the price, so would have seen the offer and my message I would have thought?

I don't get it.

He's probably replied loads of times to OtherTrooper.

Hmmmm.... I can get a 2005 Subaru Outback 3.0Rn with 127000 miles, for £1500 from a guy I know. That's the same price as we buy any car would pay.

Not exactly what I was after, but I think I would be silly to turn that down really!

Decisions, decisions.

You guys suck, you need to be quicker off the mark.

I've just bought it

Trooper, would this 2005 Subaru Outback 3.0Rn with 117000 miles, for £1200 be better?

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/ ... 8/usedcars

Walk away and find another car, if he is to dumb to read his emails and manage his sale then you can bet getting this car if you win will be a nightmare.

Funny guy

This is the beast.


Picking it up on Saturday.

The Pit is open on Sunday! Pick me up on your way past!

Nice Vespa to the side of it.

I know it's a 4x4 but I don't think it is quite that capable

Pfft. Some guy got a Volvo V70 XC round, you'd be fine.

That's a nice car how come it's so cheap? High miles I know, but even so, cheap!

Obliteraingly bad on fuel likes, but then again you've had your share of guzzlers in the past already lolz.

Probably got a decent turn of pace too, isn't it the same 3-litre boxer they use in the Legacy Spec-B?

Those wing mirrors look like they will fit mine. I hope you get more than 26mpg.

Yup same engine, 250bhp,should be reasonably peppy.

It's from a guy on my Facebook, his new car is being delivered on Saturday so he wants rid. I expect £1500 is still better than he could get from a dealer, and his deposit on his new car (a Golf R) is £1500, so it works out.

I'm expecting 24mpg average, so anything over that is a bonus.

I have a Hyundai i30 as a courtesy car at the moment (Jazzy returned home from the cottage to a pranged car...). It's a surprisingly nice drive, very smooth. I wouldn't want one myself though.

There are some cracking lease deals on the Golf R, 3 people I work with have ordered them on 10,000 PA 2 year leases. They cost £250 a month as well as I think something like £2,000 down.

Almost got one myself, until my wife found out how fast they are and blocked it

Yup, the business lease deals on them have been incredibly good. Lots of dodgy deals being done on personal lease to get the business rate though, which ended up with a huge amount of cancelled orders by VW!

Which is a bit off, as the only differentiation should only be VAT, which isn't the suppliers problem.

My new car is actually more expensive for being on a business lease (before I claw the VAT back, natch).

2 out of the 3 people have had their cars delivered so fingers crossed for the last one!

Oh, you can pay your car tax monthly now. 18 year old Grim... would have loved that.

I'm loving it too, now I only need to remember to get it MOT'd.

I'm paying monthly, mainly because I can, godammit. Also, tax on a 16 year old 1.2 petrol = £140

Edit: It's weird not having a tax disc.

Monthly costs extra though, remember.

Typical Osborne

Typical Osborne

Typical Osborne?

SHARON!

Interestingly, the new tax system is quite convenient for a buying a car now, due to the inefficiencies in the system.
Whereas before if you bought a car and the seller wanted to keep the tax disc, you had a higher chance of being caught if you drove it home without taxing it, due to needing to display a tax disc.
Now that you don't need to display, and it's a computerised system that will check your car via cameras, the car will show up as taxed in the system, until the V5 gets sent in and processed. This typically take 2 weeks for DVLA to process.

The only way you will currently get caught, is if you get pulled over by the rozzers for some other reason, and they ask you about your tax.

The car's taxed, though.

As long as your insured, it's all good.