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General Car Chat / Drive an Insignificant SRi - ARGH!!!
« on: 30 August 2016, 13:05:30 »
Had to move my old man's Insignificant out the drive so I could get Pissy out, he was away, so left the keys for me. Now, aside from the fact I haven't driven a manual since my driving test, save for a 30-second drive moving a mate's car last year.... may I say OHH YUK!!
Beeps when you put the keys in, really high-pitched horrid noise
you take the key out the get rid of the beep, and you can't use the electric windows, so have to listen to this awful beep until the window is back up.
There's parking sensors sqeualing at you.
Pretty sure you can't start the car unless your foot is on the clutch, even if you know it's in neutral.
Then all the interior hard plasticness
nearly threw it into the kerb as the steering is bafflingly light
Feels like your riding in an airship, floating slightly above the car, or your dreaming. You don't feel like you're 'in the car at all' Odd, given how high the sides are and you should feel 'cocooned'
I just think it's the style of modern cars, very remote and 'plastic'. And I freely admit that a Rover P5 driver would probably well lay the same gripes of 'modernity' against the Omega's door.
Oh, and apparently autolocks after a while....even if you've left the keys inside!!
Needless to say even though she wasn't running 100% after some twit named DBG left a vac line unplugged, it was a chuffing delight for me and my lovely PA to climb back into the cockpit of the Omega and Pilot it home.
Beeps when you put the keys in, really high-pitched horrid noise
you take the key out the get rid of the beep, and you can't use the electric windows, so have to listen to this awful beep until the window is back up.
There's parking sensors sqeualing at you.
Pretty sure you can't start the car unless your foot is on the clutch, even if you know it's in neutral.
Then all the interior hard plasticness
nearly threw it into the kerb as the steering is bafflingly light
Feels like your riding in an airship, floating slightly above the car, or your dreaming. You don't feel like you're 'in the car at all' Odd, given how high the sides are and you should feel 'cocooned'
I just think it's the style of modern cars, very remote and 'plastic'. And I freely admit that a Rover P5 driver would probably well lay the same gripes of 'modernity' against the Omega's door.
Oh, and apparently autolocks after a while....even if you've left the keys inside!!
Needless to say even though she wasn't running 100% after some twit named DBG left a vac line unplugged, it was a chuffing delight for me and my lovely PA to climb back into the cockpit of the Omega and Pilot it home.
) and I've got an experimental cleaning agent in the coolant, but here's my question - if I run with the blowers oh 'HI' that will cycle coolant round the heater matrix and clean out gunk from it, won't it? Moving fluid from the matrix into the rest of the coolant system and to the header tank, yes? Or is the flow basically non-existent, even with the water pump whizzing round?
(these were ''very good'' spark plugs which ''didn't need doing'' according to a certain previous owner 
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I'm assuming Mr Plod's database will be a bit more up to date than Swansea's website should he then go driving about the town tonight in 'his' new car. What's he meant to do? They've shaken hands, exchanged money, the logbook is sent off, he's rung his insurers, all's fine, but he's at work until after the Post Office is closed at 5pm. We've a building full of computers which he could 'simply' tax his vehicle via...except DVLA's not playing ball.
