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

vintagevrs wrote: »

Is that a wagon? Love those

Ye it's a sw. 1.8ts currently powered by a broken 1.6ts...

166man wrote: »

Is the new engine broken? Those 1.6 twinsparks are a pretty reliable unit in my experience!

Edit: just saw your post in the chat thread dude...sorry to hear that. I'm on my second engine in my 156 and that's running 180k miles so with care and attention they can handle the miles.

The problem is most of them never got looked after. Sorry to hear of your bad luck.

Thanks man, I found the engine swap difficult enough so hopefully the crank in this one is OK. It currently sets me back 1 euro /mile. Hopefully I can improve on that!

@colm_mcm: Cleaned out the interior but no pics of the interior. :pac:

@Noccy Mondy: In MK3 VW's there are no bolts holding the seats in. You just need pliers or something to remove little metal piece which keeps the seat from sliding all the way out. Also there are no airbag sensors there so on a car like that, it's extremely easy.

@YbFocus: Thank Jesus, finally we got Astra pics.

Seems a lot of people made use of the good weather over the weekend to clean their cars. Mine got a good clean too as it was the first time since last September it was properly done (got a quick wash for the NCT in the middle of Jan).

Had to wash the alloys a few times and spray them with alloy cleaner to get them clean.

No pics but I'd forgotten how good it looks shiny!

Yeah, pretty sure they are.

Last day with the Mondeo today. Have had it for 6 weeks and 16k km. Have actually done over 42k km in two of these cars over three months at this stage and I must say that Ford have done a damn good job with this one.

Ecoboost 2.0T engine is a peach, interior is very impressive and it's very smooth and comfortable. I had a Passat and an Optima before this and neither can come close to how well this thing drives. Downsides are that auto box is a bit dimwitred sometimes and it wasn't exactly handy on juice but that's probably my fault

Subjectively I think it looks great too. All in all a great effort from Ford, if I was back in Ireland it'd be up there on the top of the list of the re-mobiles!

Edit: Meant to say I even had it washed this evening that's how much I like it! Lol

This was mine for 2 days cruising around Italy 2 weeks back. Absolutely great craic in the mountains but couldn't live with it full time, shocking lack of visibility. Definitely pays to fill in the "Additional Comments" section on the Hertz booking form.

Your shrubs are looking very green for this time of year!

After a couple of days detailing and a ceramic coating.

TTE spoiler? :eek:

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Maybe I'm wrong, but I'd avoid solid red from toyota - the worst colour in terms of reliability.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056997822

That Corolla looks great. Funnily enough, the other day I was wondering where nd has disappeared.

nd wrote: »

[...] And I'll still almost certainly keep my own.

Your green one looks waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay better!