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They are worth absolutely fuck all due to the engine worries and terrible mpg, that one is good value but not especially cheap.

I almost bought a Porsche last week.

My wife will be stopping work in the next 3 months, I was in a used car place the other day waiting for my car to be cleaned next door.

I got to thinking that soon we won't need 2 sensible family cars with baby seats as for the short-term only one of us will go to work.

This one was a Carrera on a Y plate for 12K, no idea about the miles it had done that would have ruined my mid life crisis day dreaming.

Never went back after been put off by service, mpg and running cost horror stories by car savvy work mates

This is weird, it's the first time in 22 years that I don't own a car.

Do all electrically adjust able door mirrors use 2 worm drives and a ball joint?

What's a worm drive?

pretty much, although I've seen one that uses a solenoid and ratchet setup but that's a bit shit.

/wiggles finger

Sweet, do you think I can get an electric mirror from, say, a corsa, and cannibalise it for the bits?

Internet says "you'd need to be pretty lucky".

Ah well.

Thanks, anyway

Cannibalize it for what reason?

The glass and the plate the glass is attached to has fallen out. One of the threaded bars for the adjustment is snapped and the ballon the middle is missing. I need to replace the ball thing and the threaded bar I think and work out how it fits into the housing again.

Dude, is this still a Ka? Get ye to the scrap yard man! Replacing the whole mirror is going to be many, many times easier. And quicker.

The forester

FTFY

Stuck in a car park in Cockermouth because something has drained thr battery (or thr battery has given up the ghost). Rear windows stuck down so I can't even go back to the ace pub we just left.

Fycksake.

snigger

Thank fuck for that. I thought I was flying solo for a minute there.

i know right?
with Cockshott Wood just down the road.

RAC man came. His mobile jumping thing couldn't deliver enough juice so he had to do it from his van.

He measured the current being soaked off the alternator into the battery - 42A at 12V or.something - then got me to turn it off and lock it with him int boot so he could monitor 'off' draw; 0.3A which is what its supposed to do.

It started up on its own twice after a couple of minutes idling.

After totally draining the battery post-12-mile drive 4 hours earlier.

Mental bloody car.

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.