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Author Topic: So what have you done to your car today?  (Read 2962301 times)

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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #16620 on: 11 July 2018, 17:40:30 »

Just awaiting authority to order the F-Paces replacement
Hang on, at max, you've only used it 6 days....

Odo currently shows 1380 miles.....it arrived with 100 on  ???
If you're going to Gaytown every day, that's gotta be 600-700 miles a week?
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #16621 on: 11 July 2018, 17:41:14 »

Got the front wheels rebalanced. Again.
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #16622 on: 11 July 2018, 18:00:44 »

Had plans but got called into work at short notice for 15 hours overtime. Oh well.  ::)
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #16623 on: 11 July 2018, 19:09:03 »

Swapped the clutch pedal with a shiny new one and replaced a missing jacking point.

Neither particularly arduous, but the old pedal was worn enough to still stick down and the jacking point was missing, so both needed done.
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #16624 on: 11 July 2018, 23:11:38 »

Had a mis-fuelling incident, for the sake of marital harmony we aren't discussing how it occurred.  :-X

No problem, covered under breakdown. Except when the car was delivered back last night, it was clearly pissing diesel. Didn't notice till tonight due to it being on the passenger side and my leave time being 5am.

Noted it tonight. Not in the best of moods I got the recovery garage back out, a quick investigation shows the threaded cover to the fuel lift pump was cross threaded and thegrips broken where someone had clearly hit it with a screwdriver to tighten it  ::).

Long story short they've got it back and are fixing it, I'm in a VX viva rollerskate and I'm pricing up the cost of removing diesel from my driveway cause I'll be facked if I'm doing or paying for it.

In other unrelated news, I ordered it's replacement.
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #16625 on: 12 July 2018, 06:46:51 »

 Got the camper from its storage yard and getting ready to give it a much needed wash before loading up to go o Market Harborough

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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #16626 on: 12 July 2018, 10:54:26 »

Ordered it's replacement  :y
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #16627 on: 12 July 2018, 11:02:46 »

Ordered it's replacement  :y
Welcome along, folks, to the Opti type guessing game.  ;D
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #16628 on: 12 July 2018, 11:10:38 »

Nope.

It's a e-golf.

Game over :p
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #16629 on: 12 July 2018, 11:12:48 »

Nope.

It's a e-golf.

Game over :p
Right. e-golf. Give me a moment while I consult my friend googlie  ;D
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #16630 on: 12 July 2018, 11:13:50 »

Nope.

It's a e-golf.

Game over :p

Thought you did big miles? eGolf would not have the range?
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #16631 on: 12 July 2018, 11:14:50 »

Done. Wow, that's an expensive milk float.  :o

Still....it is the future, no doubt about that.
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #16632 on: 12 July 2018, 11:26:46 »

Tunnie: I do, about 28k, but it's 99% made up of a commute that's 75miles each way with charging at both ends (and the work end is free). Longest journey is 110 each way with plenty of rapid chargers enroute. So even in the dead of winter the worst it would need is literally a 5 minutes rapid charge while I grab a coffee.

Stemo: it's £440 pcm on my work scheme (fully maintained). So when you work it out I'll be spending about £9/week more than the Volvo, assuming that petrol and energy prices stay constant, I work on it myself and nothing beyond regular service items goes wrong. In other words, it'll end up costing me less.
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #16633 on: 12 July 2018, 11:35:03 »

At 28K pa, it will probably be well down on the charge it holds after two years. Still, not your problem.
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #16634 on: 12 July 2018, 11:41:06 »

Tunnie: I do, about 28k, but it's 99% made up of a commute that's 75miles each way with charging at both ends (and the work end is free). Longest journey is 110 each way with plenty of rapid chargers enroute. So even in the dead of winter the worst it would need is literally a 5 minutes rapid charge while I grab a coffee.

Stemo: it's £440 pcm on my work scheme (fully maintained). So when you work it out I'll be spending about £9/week more than the Volvo, assuming that petrol and energy prices stay constant, I work on it myself and nothing beyond regular service items goes wrong. In other words, it'll end up costing me less.

There are charging points at work as well, but only a handful.  :(

Sounds like it would work well, my commute is 25 miles each way, so in theory milk floats could work for me.

Be interesting to see how you get on  :y

What are you going to do with the Volvo?
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