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PostPosted: Thu Oct 23, 2014 15:42 
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I'll take it, wbac price, right?

Curses, forgot I'd told you about that :D


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:D

In all seriousness, I have two choices. Buy an MX5 now and potter around in it till we buy a house next year (hopefully) then put it in the garage and buy a barge to go with it. Or buy a cheap barge now, and buy the MX5 when we move.


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I'd have thought now was the better time to pick up a bargain Mazda than in the spring or summer.


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I'd have thought now was the better time to pick up a bargain Mazda than in the spring or summer.


It is, however that does mean i'll be driving round in an mx5 through the winter, which isn't an amazing prospect. And that will mean we have two tiny cars, which isn't massively practical at times.
Both things are liveable with though, and getting an mx5 now means some fun for a bit while it isn't awful weather, plus like you say it should be a bit cheaper. Also, having the mx5 already makes it more likely i'll be able to keep it when we get a new house, buying one after spunking gazillions on a house will be harder to justify :D


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MX5's are great in the winter, the cabin heats up quicker than any other car I've had.


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It's more the scraping of the ice off the inside of the windscreen ;)
If I bought another mx5, it would be my third!

This has some appeal
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/ ... 9257703048

Cheap enough to not worry about the engine going pop, as it will certainly do at some point.


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 Post subject: Re: Gas Guzzling Money Pits
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 Post subject: Re: Gas Guzzling Money Pits
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£1495, what the fuck? Surely the engine has *already* gone pop on that?

5.1mpg does seem a bit low for a 1.2.


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£1495, what the fuck? Surely the engine has *already* gone pop on that?

5.1mpg does seem a bit low for a 1.2.


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


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 Post subject: Re: Gas Guzzling Money Pits
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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


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 Post subject: Re: Gas Guzzling Money Pits
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This is weird, it's the first time in 22 years that I don't own a car.


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 Post subject: Re: Gas Guzzling Money Pits
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Do all electrically adjust able door mirrors use 2 worm drives and a ball joint?

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 Post subject: Re: Gas Guzzling Money Pits
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What's a worm drive?

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

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


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 Post subject: Re: Gas Guzzling Money Pits
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Do all electrically adjust able door mirrors use 2 worm drives and a ball joint?

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


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

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 Post subject: Re: Gas Guzzling Money Pits
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Ah well.

Thanks, anyway

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Cannibalize it for what reason?


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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.

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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.


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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.


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 Post subject: Re: Gas Guzzling Money Pits
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Dude, where's your Ka?


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 Post subject: Re: Gas Guzzling Money Pits
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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.

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Cockermouth

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Cras wrote:
What's a worm drive?

/wiggles finger


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

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 Post subject: Re: Gas Guzzling Money Pits
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Cockermouth

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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.


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Wait - you locked the RAC man in the boot?

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I think that might have been a sex thing.

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 Post subject: Re: Gas Guzzling Money Pits
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It was his idea - its where BMW keep the battery, and his drain monitor only had a short lead.


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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.

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It was cold and windy in Cockermouth.


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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

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 Post subject: Re: Gas Guzzling Money Pits
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5.1mpg does seem a bit low for a 1.2.


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.

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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.


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


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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!


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


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


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


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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?


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


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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.


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

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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.


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My car changes its clock automatically.

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


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