****Motors Chat Thread Round 4****

MuppetCheck wrote: »

You're not having a good experience with that car. Delete all pictures off here and throw it on done deal. I had an experience like that with a car a couple of years back, as soon as one problem was fixed another surfaced. I bought it planning on keeping it a couple of years and doing a few things to it but conceded defeat and got rid as the turbo had started whistling...you might take a hit but it makes life so much more relaxing for me not waiting for a tow truck on the M7 in the mornings...

+1

Why do you think I got rid of my silver 406? One thing after another was replaced, it still kept throwing up faults, the final straw was the power steering pump going in sh*te. Replaced with another 406 and I haven't looked back, its approaching 10k miles put up since feb, worlds apart from the hape

Do yourself a favour and get rid of that thing, its a money pit. Talking from experience, don't end up like I did

MuppetCheck wrote: »

You're not having a good experience with that car. Delete all pictures off here and throw it on done deal. I had an experience like that with a car a couple of years back, as soon as one problem was fixed another surfaced. I bought it planning on keeping it a couple of years and doing a few things to it but conceded defeat and got rid as the turbo had started whistling...you might take a hit but it makes life so much more relaxing for me not waiting for a tow truck on the M7 in the mornings...

I know what you mean it's starting to wreck my head alright it's not a nice feeling breaking down either and the constant issues just put me in a nad mood. Im hoping to hear about my summer job next week. so if that goes well ill just get rid of it. Hopefully it's still worth 4k its 07 with 115k km on it and if I put abit with it id get a nice astra h van 1.7 07 ish as Its about the best car derived van I can think of at the moment.

MuppetCheck wrote: »

Saw you mentioning you thought it was better than the focus the other day, thought then you were cheesed off with the Focus.

Still its a low mile focus with money put in it and advertise it as so with a higher price;)

Hopefully. Maybe it's just my focus and the rest are fairly reliable as my mechanic thinks there the best thing ever and he maintains 15 plus focus van. But even if they are good in general I couldn't buy another one not anytime soon anyway even the 1.8 i have no interest in them for the moment. And looking at all the vans available the astra h 1.7cdti is the best bet IMO. I'd prefer to get a car van astra if I do change rather than a van van astra than I had. But at this stage I'd take any of them even the 1.3.

At the end of the day I sold my astra as it was painfully slow on take off in first and second gear especially but all the 1.3cdti were like that. And the focus is way quicker no arguments there. But I'd take back a 1.3 happily at the moment as at least they are reliable.

MuppetCheck wrote: »

I'm in a newer astra saloon at the moment, 5 speed 1.3. It's alright, works better on the motorway than plodding about town. If I was buying a commercial it would be the sporthatch shape though.

Does it have to be commercial?

Unfortunately it has to be a commerical alright there's a few reason I don't really want to go into. The sport hatch is the shape I'd like too alright. Very few vans sold in 1.7 though most were 1.3 6speed the same as the one I had. Althought hatch version would be a small bit lighter than the one I had. Fingers crossed it something small thats causing the coolant leak and ill have to take it from there. It's abit of a pain to sell it after putting so much money into it but then there's no right solution in this situation ill loose out either way selling it or keeping it.

It's a pity really as all I wanted out of it was 4 years and quite frankly I didn't care after that even if it was worthless at that stage as by then in my eyes the van would have paid for itself as I would have got 4 years use out of it.

Jaysus this is quite nice!

A rendering of what a Skoda Octavia coupe may look like. It's not official (or announced) mind you. A VRS version would be sweet.

MuppetCheck wrote: »

They call that the Audi A5...

I was just thinking that to myself

Great minds think alike and all that

Toyotafanboi wrote: »

http://www.camskill.co.uk/m19b0s1310p61690/WHITELINE_SUSPENSION_PRODUCTS_-_Front_Poly_Droplink_Kit_-_Toyota_Starlet_EP82_up_to_01_92

is poly bush stuff actually good or is it a gimmic? kind of tempted to buy this kit now the front links on the glanza are getting pretty tired. if they are anything like the links on the vitz they will get tired very often :P and i'd like to do them once and be done with it.

Tougher than rubber, usually quite pricey but less to flex

Sunny busy Howth.....!