Post a picture of your vehicle here Part 5 (don't quote pictures, 24h ban!)

Hunky Monster wrote: »

That's a gorgrous 36!

Mine is gone, well it will be in a few hours, deposit is taken.

Thanks man

Why so fast? Did it not agree with you?

Those current C Class interiors are very nice when they are really speced up.

Far too many tax pansies around these parts here days, that's your problem SG. :pac:

Tis a fine example and will make someone delighted once they appear. Might just take some time for that to happen unfortunately.

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Thats a smashing colour Midman - love it.

What's the PCP like on it ?

In all seriousness though, you were knocking a poster for driving an A4 (over how common a site they were) and you drive a fabia combi......

fancy pigeon wrote: »

Lets add to the Euro car scene... With another European made car

Ah the Mk2 Avensis is a grand old yoke for low maintenance. Nothing goes wrong with them, which is more than can be said for anything German.

The 1.8 is fine compared to the rubbish small petrols and diesels most people have but obviously it's as dead as a do-do if you're used to something faster.

The brakes are rubbish in them (that's a standard feature), the steering is feel free and is overly light (that also comes as standard) but they're actually a good handling car and the VVTi is a revvy little unit, the gearbox is quite nice in them apart from the long throw. They're leaps and bounds ahead of older Toyotas to drive but if you're used to a BMW or something sporty (like I am) it's a big culture shock.

They're comfortable as well, fine and quiet and the ride is excellent but yeah the seats aren't great in them.

Try running it on 10W40 if it's fond of a drop of oil. We've got a 1.8 VVTi in the family and it was going through 5W30 at quite a rate, since we switched to 10W40 it's hardly using anything.

We've had our 2005 one since brand new and there's 193,000 miles on it now, it's needed a gearbox, clutch, wheel bearings and there was a problem with a coil once as well but it's been pretty much fault free otherwise, everything else that's gone on it was just usual wear and tear stuff like tyres, pads etc.

Oh I like the E36, can't say I care too much for the yoke underneath it though (X4 is it?). What engine is in the E36?

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Avatar MIA wrote: »

There's a good reason for that

FFS.

James Bond Junior wrote: »

It's a 3.0d X6, drives much better than it looks!

E36 is a 323i. 2.5l straight six with about 170bhp (originally anyway!)

Ah very good, they're fantastic engines really, every time I drive my 2.5 M54 engined E46 it reminds me of how much better things were in the good old days, when even a 320i got the six cylinder engine and none of this four bullcrap BMW comes out with these day. The naturally aspirated straight sixes are really superb engines; not the fastest, or the most economical engine ever made, but it's so smooth and refined when you want it to be, and such a joy to work hard when you want to have fun with it.