Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

MoT pass on The Proper Car.

Two advisories, one for front pads and one rear tyre getting low.

Handbrake just scraped through, but a brake service is on the list so will cross that bridge when I get to it.

Doesn't sound like too bad a job then. Fingers crossed

t's only nuts and bolts.

We'll see how it goes

How economical a PHEV is in the real world has everything to do with the length of your journey. The 500+ mpg will be over a standard test route (50 miles maybe?) so if the car does most of it on pure EV that will skew the figures. Once the initial battery is depleted, I doubt the PHEV will do better than the average diesel euro box.

If your max length of journey allows it (150miles ish max) then an EV charged at home is cheap to run. Otherwise id be looking at a diesel exec saloon to put those kind of miles on.
If it were me I'd have an F10 BMW 520/530d.

Al will suggest an e class of some variety I'm sure 

Of course 

Just reading about a guy in the States getting that when a tray of hot drinks spilled into his lap at a Starbucks drive through. On the footage it looks to me that he took the tray then dropped it himself. Can't do a link but it's on the BBC news site. Starbucks are appealing the award.

Good choice. 

My FIL.has one, an LCI 520d SE manual. Other than having the wrong gearbox (honestly it's like BMW punish you for choosing the manual in that car) it's a lovely thing. Even as a base spec it has DAB, cruise control and heated seats, which are the only three things I'd care about in a motorway cruiser and gets easily into the 50's mpg on a run.

It's the car I should have bought instead of the Chrysler, but that was an itch I just had to scratch 

I would recommend you try Autodoc who some of us have found very good for sourcing the products we need, and recently still had GM oil available. They source parts from across Germany and Europe generally, so still offer the items previously available for Vauxhall and Opel cars, where indeed the Omega was built.

Personally, I find the Autodoc (and associated companies) have the most annoying website... constantly wanting you to download their app for 10% cheaper prices - which then makes me search elsewhere. Car Parts in Motion for one have always provided good quality branded parts (if GM isn't an option for me) at competitive prices. Autodoc - no thanks. I can't stand their website.....

Thanks for the help & replies, it’s nice to find a forum still with active members i thought they all died away back in the early 2000s

I know any brand of stuff would do but thought it would be nice to have Gm lol, plus back in the day it used to be well priced but alot of stuff seems hard to get now which is bumping the prices up. Likes of the original red antifreeze for 5 litres is over £100 in some places. Is the blue stuff ok to use or better sticking with red from another brand?

How economical a PHEV is in the real world has everything to do with the length of your journey. The 500+ mpg will be over a standard test route (50 miles maybe?) so if the car does most of it on pure EV that will skew the figures. Once the initial battery is depleted, I doubt the PHEV will do better than the average diesel euro box.

If your max length of journey allows it (150miles ish max) then an EV charged at home is cheap to run. Otherwise id be looking at a diesel exec saloon to put those kind of miles on.
If it were me I'd have an F10 BMW 520/530d.

Al will suggest an e class of some variety I'm sure 

Agreed. 
The MG HS PHEV for example at 564.96mpg. If the MG did a journey of 100 miles and 60 (it’s limit on battery) of those miles were on battery, the remaining 40 miles (its average mpg on petrol) would be on petrol. They calculate that as 100mpg as only one gallon was used to complete the journey. Drive it on battery every day for round trips of less than 60 miles and charging it every day, the mpg could be infinite. It’s a load of 'dangle berries' really, but handy if you only do short runs. 

…….
If it were me I'd have an F10 BMW 520/530d.

Good choice. 

My eldest has a Nissan Joke hybrid, the range on the electric side is a joke.  , 1.5 to 2 mls. 

How economical a PHEV is in the real world has everything to do with the length of your journey. The 500+ mpg will be over a standard test route (50 miles maybe?) so if the car does most of it on pure EV that will skew the figures. Once the initial battery is depleted, I doubt the PHEV will do better than the average diesel euro box.

If your max length of journey allows it (150miles ish max) then an EV charged at home is cheap to run. Otherwise id be looking at a diesel exec saloon to put those kind of miles on.
If it were me I'd have an F10 BMW 520/530d.

Al will suggest an e class of some variety I'm sure