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General Car Chat / Re: Costs of running a car
« on: 25 March 2024, 14:23:26 »
picks its heels up when asked.
All things are relative.  I consider 150bhp to be a sluggish dog ;D.  Maybe when I'm (even) older....  ;D
And to think it wasn't all that long ago that 150bhp was considered to be pretty decent.
By the late 80s, most 2l petrols were getting thereabouts.  Thats 35yrs ago now ;)

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General Car Chat / Re: Costs of running a car
« on: 25 March 2024, 14:21:33 »
"good fun to drive" NO  :D
I quite liked it. Well, the challenge of trying to get from A to B as quickly as I could.

During the lockdown period, my colleague and I had to travel in separate cars (even though we'd be working in the same racks all day), and we struggled to get hire cars at the time, so on the way back it would always be the Battlebus racing his 1.7CDTi Astra, and not too much in it until we got to the (mostly empty) M40 - M25 has too many cameras for such shenanigans - where his better top speed would leave me behind.

There is fun to be had in slow speed racing ;D

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General Car Chat / Re: Costs of running a car
« on: 25 March 2024, 14:14:25 »
Touch wood but the Yeti has just cost service items and MOT for the last 2 years, does about 10miles per litre in comfort. Handles well and 150 HP 2L oil burner picks its heels up when asked.
My Altea didn't cost much in maintenance terms...tyres, brakes, rear shocks and servicing over 2 years/135k miles... Probably about £5k, not that it was particularly reliable... it wasn't and dealer ineptitude meant the cambelt service was free amongst other things. Plus £10k in depreciation. And £22.5k in fuel along with £600 in rfl, £3.7k insurance and £7,200 in payments.

Man maths makes that a grand total of £56k to run a £12.5k brand new car for 2 years/135k miles. Or 41ppm over the ownership of the vehicle.

Thinking about it, £56k sounds like alot but 41ppm almost sounds reasonable... :-\
Like you, I don't know whether to weep or laugh at that :o

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General Car Chat / Re: Costs of running a car
« on: 25 March 2024, 14:13:54 »
picks its heels up when asked.
All things are relative.  I consider 150bhp to be a sluggish dog ;D.  Maybe when I'm (even) older....  ;D

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General Car Chat / Re: Arrival of new Vehicle.
« on: 25 March 2024, 14:11:13 »
Come on, common as now. Even my Yeti has Zenon's that turn when you steer and at slow speed puts the spot light on to light kerb at a junction.
Yeah, but thats VAG, and the stupid foglight turn lights are built to burn retinas of oncoming drivers...   ...be it a Pisshat or a Yeti.  How dare other road users try to use the road ;D

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General Car Chat / Re: Insurance renewal .
« on: 25 March 2024, 14:09:26 »
after they sold my details following a non fault accident. The spam calls got so bad I had to change my number >:(
They all do, sell on your accident to all the ambulance chasers and other scum of the universe.

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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?
« on: 25 March 2024, 10:16:46 »
Treat patio slabs etc  ;)  BAC50 ,BA50
Benzalkonium Chloride Algaecide Bactericide & Fungicide clicky

strong stuff  :)
very effective  :y
How long is it effective for?

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General Car Chat / Re: Costs of running a car
« on: 25 March 2024, 10:14:26 »
As to Zafiras and running costs, mine was an incredibly reliable, cheap to run car.  Bought from auction, a fair few issues were discovered before it even got home, including an inability to rev beyond about 3k rpm ;D.  But once that nice DTM fella had sorted that, it never had more than basic servicing, and I thought it was indestructible.   ...until the front subframe fell apart.

It was gutless, handled shite, was desperately uncomfortable on longer trips.  But it was reliable, practical, reasonably economical (around 40mpg most of the time), cheap to run, and good fun to drive (as you dared not slow down for anything, as took too long to get back up to speed ;D


When it died, we looked at Zafira-B's to replace it, but every single one we looked at was a rust bucket underneath :o

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General Car Chat / Re: Costs of running a car
« on: 25 March 2024, 10:08:30 »
Anyone else know what they've spent, or am I the only one who's this sad  :-\
No, I'm just as sad. Mainly to prove to my boss its impossible to run a decent car on the miserable 28ppm our company pays.  I changed app in November 2021, so seeing stuff before then is a pain involving spreadsheets, which is just an office self-abuser's tool.

Since November 2021, I've spent just shy of £3.7k on mine in servicing costs :o.

Admittedly, the bulk of that is on tyres and wheel straightening.


The Battlebus from the same period to July 2022 when it was scrapped was £96 ;D

Her car has a fair amount spent since July 2022, mostly to get it back up to snuff following purchase, but also on tyres and it needed a pair of new rear calipers.

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General Car Chat / Re: Arrival of new Vehicle.
« on: 25 March 2024, 09:58:29 »
It's got Bi-xenons that go round corners for some reason, How I've managed all these years going round corners I don't know..
Like many gimmicks, it's one you miss when you suddenly dont have it.

I know Dad missed 'em when he replaced his 1970 DS Safari with a GSA that didn't have them....

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General Car Chat / Re: C1 (The skate) serious misfire.
« on: 25 March 2024, 09:55:37 »
Im hoping to keep it until I retire (hopefully) at 70.  :)
Wasn't that 20yrs ago?

 :P

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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?
« on: 24 March 2024, 17:06:13 »
My rear garden is north facing, so rarely sees the sun over the winter months.  The slabs start to go green and manky, so do mine every spring.

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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?
« on: 23 March 2024, 21:16:00 »
Just how much mess pressure washing the patios made :o

In my limited defence, they haven't had much more than an annual scrub since we had them built 22 years ago :-X

That said, they look like new and I can honestly say that I am glad I went with a pressure washer with a water cooled motor... Three hours almost non stop without so much as a splutter 8)
I can only do about 45mins a day, as the water doesn't drain quick enough after a while once the adjacent grass is waterlogged :(

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 23 March 2024, 21:10:17 »
Had an enjoyable, fast run across the Dales at dusk.  Reminded me how capable the X351 really is  :y

Is that when it works !!
We were joking earlier on our way back from Yorkshire how it usually breaks down on the way back home from holidays ;D
Did it?  >:D
Surprisingly, yes...

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 22 March 2024, 17:45:04 »
Had an enjoyable, fast run across the Dales at dusk.  Reminded me how capable the X351 really is  :y

Is that when it works !!
We were joking earlier on our way back from Yorkshire how it usually breaks down on the way back home from holidays ;D

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