******Motors Chat - Round 6******

I never thought Imd appreciate electric windows as much. Have been in a work caddy the last few days with windy windows man there some pain. And for some reason I've been pulling up and down the window more often than I normally do probably the lack of a/c. Not a bad van other then that I'd certainly prefer them to berlingos and connects. Speaking of connects I was In one of them another work one and there some dog of a van not very quick or comfortable and that 1.8 is so unbelievably loud.

Bpmull wrote: »

I never thought Imd appreciate electric windows as much. Have been in a work caddy the last few days with windy windows man there some pain. And for some reason I've been pulling up and down the window more often than I normally do probably the lack of a/c. Not a bad van other then that I'd certainly prefer them to berlingos and connects. Speaking of connects I was In one of them another work one and there some dog of a van not very quick or comfortable and that 1.8 is so unbelievably loud.

I had a 2006 Caddy DSG with windy windows too. They're nice but ffs, I'd expect electric windows as standard on all VWs bar the Fox by 2006.

Kaiser D wrote: »

I had a 2006 Caddy DSG with windy windows too. They're nice but ffs, I'd expect electric windows as standard on all VWs bar the Fox by 2006.

This one is 2005. It's kind of something you'd just expect it to have alright. They have a 2010 one and that's a really nice van infairness electric windows, nicer dash and newer type radio. Sdi though although there not as bad as you'd think the 1.8 tdci connect is far worse no power at all and is extremely hard on diesel.

Noccy_Mondy wrote: »

Wallet is down €319. Wheels are with the courier in the UK now though

Hooray

YbFocus wrote: »

Anyone for some boiled Astra??
Got towed home and going to rip the head this evening!

Anyone for a world record belt, pump and head gasket time

Ah jaysis :mad: I'd love to get stuck into that :pac:

Have fun!

I pulled this out of the 900 engine today :pac: a bit of tape should sort her out

Interslice wrote: »

What was that?


NCT retest in the morning. Hopefully my panel beating skills are up to scratch!

That, was a water drainage cover i do believe its called, they are known to rust a bit, but my god! :eek:

Heres to hoping it passes!

I got test driving a 10 Avensis D4D earlier tonight extensive detailed research of wikipedia reveals I was driving the 2.0D, with 125 unicorns under the bonnet :cool:

Build quality is superb, not a rattle or a squeak. Reliability must be somewhat superior to the predecessors, as you don't see these in scrapyards much, which couldn't be said for the predecessor, where significantly more of the same aged vehicles were a common and still are frequent in my local breakers (he hasn't one of these and he is a Toyota dismantler (that's right, I get the bulk of my spare parts from a Toyota breakers.....!)). I saw no rust, which can't be said for even the year old Sprinter vans, which look like brown swiss cheese after a few years :eek:

I get handed the keys to a 10 D Avensis in black with a garda spec reg. My first question was why was I handed the key to a Yaris as well as this car but I was reassured that it was the spare key. With the key in and turning to start, I was met with a nice orange dash, with a barrage of numbers and letters I couldn't understand. I was also confused on how to de-activate the handbrake, but when I was shown it's location and that driving off would disengage it, all was all good. Thus I began to move, when a sudden jolt gave me shivers up my nono mentions :eek: but, it was only the door locks activating after just a few metres and a certain speed. Lovely touch :cool:

I wasn't impressed with the flat performance, full boot of my right boot resulted in a scenario similar to PE, but you would be correct in saying that coming from the 406, everything else in that segment is a huge let down. But to cruise at a nice safe sensible speed, it is a miser on dayyysel, with a smug grin on the owners face with chape tax at €280 a year! That engine sound, whilst un-noticeable at sensible rpm's, did remind me of an old retired cat being harassed when opened up ie a bit pissed it's being poked with a stick. But a lovely shift light is provided to remind the driver when to change gear, a nice touch. So for cruising, it's eventless and reassuring

There was a strange wind noise at motorway speeds, but apart from that you don't notice much while sitting up in the seats. I wasn't happy with the seats, parts stuck in my backside and hips that made me feel uncomfortable, like I was in the George. The position reminded me somewhat of the IH 574 I was only operating earlier today to collect some shopping. When the air con was activated, it was like pointing a hair drier at your face, only it was very cold. So if it's blistering outside, chill inside :cool:

Brakes are traditional Toyota ie you will go through the windscreen but sure it's nice to know they will work extremely well when needed. The speed bump test was fantastic, with decent ground clearance you can approach those sleeping garda at the current limit and those shocks will soak up the bumps, with no bouncing. Bliss however, cornering with the high performance Runway tyres left a lot to be desired and resulted in a feeling similar to sea sickness. It likes to lean when cornering hard, but for that comfortable soaking of bumps and discarded pringles tubes I won't complain :cool:

For a 4 year old car, the electric seats didn't work (it was at the lowest setting and all, what kind of shortarse would you have to be to need to raise the seat up?), the pleather centre arm rest was flappy, the gearknob shiny (and I turned it arseways to face me just because ). Opening the bonnet, no lifts did catch me off guard (ba dum tish!) and revealed a plethora of black plastic covering, as black as Walt Disneys heart. I became puzzled on how to change a bulb, thus I came to the conclusion a hammer was needed to carefully remove the covers but sure, they never blow bulbs now do they Opening the guillotine boot revealed a modest sized boot, but under the cover revealed a puny wheel and a horrible hospital smell which made me recoil in anguish :eek:

However, shouting "ah biyyyys dya's fail yer leaavin cert" or "if the pub won't let you in, I'll let you in the back door of me TEA-OAT-EEEEEE and you do the same for me hai" at the locals who frequent the town did get some serious laughs. So for you young folk out to buy a new car on finance, it is quite the bird puller

So, whilst I wasn't happy with a few characteristics, it's a thumbs up from me for the average john handwash on the road. Ticks all the right boxes for all the cost cutting reasons

Back to my peasants Mercedes for me....