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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: Taxi_Driver on 16 February 2012, 18:10:31
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Its going, going, gone to the scrappy as far as i'm concerned.
It now needs a new engine.......and it isnt getting one from me!
Broke down on the m4 earlier......and got recovered to the garage i use.
Boss of garage managed to get it started after it turned over for ages.....would hardly rev, sounded like a tractor and smoke poured out of the exhaust....
Seeing as its a pug engine, i was a bit surprised its only managed 151k miles :(
He did try to help by suggesting he had a can of petrol ::)
He's lent me a Skoda Superb to use until i get a replacement
Looks like im bus shopping next week.....
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Never buy French cars :y
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Never buy French cars :y
In my opinion a lot of the french cars are actually quite good. Had a Laguna that did 260000km and was sold still running fine and tested. Also a Pug 205 - very reliable. A R5 Turbo - good car, until it ended up on its roof :'(
But of course, we can only speak from our own experiences.
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Never buy French cars :y
Quite right. I mean, only 151 thousand miles.
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Never buy French cars :y
In my opinion a lot of the french cars are actually quite good. Had a Laguna that did 260000km and was sold still running fine and tested. Also a Pug 205 - very reliable. A R5 Turbo - good car, until it ended up on its roof :'(
But of course, we can only speak from our own experiences.
Never had a decent experience with French cars, even though I am a francophile
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Its going, going, gone to the scrappy as far as i'm concerned.
It now needs a new engine.......and it isnt getting one from me!
Broke down on the m4 earlier......and got recovered to the garage i use.
Boss of garage managed to get it started after it turned over for ages.....would hardly rev, sounded like a tractor and smoke poured out of the exhaust....
Seeing as its a pug engine, i was a bit surprised its only managed 151k miles :(
He did try to help by suggesting he had a can of petrol ::)
He's lent me a Skoda Superb to use until i get a replacement
Looks like im bus shopping next week.....
that sounds familiar...i have a pug 308 that as that problem...smoke pouring out of it that is...luckily it a company car and garage have it back again :y
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Never buy French cars :y
In my opinion a lot of the french cars are actually quite good. Had a Laguna that did 260000km and was sold still running fine and tested. Also a Pug 205 - very reliable. A R5 Turbo - good car, until it ended up on its roof :'(
But of course, we can only speak from our own experiences.
Whoops! I loved my old R5 GTT, and my R19 16V - both where exceptionally reliable (I had to replace a king lead on the R19 and a clutch cable - ok so the latter is a common fault - and a turbo on the R5, although given what I'd wound it up to .. and then forgot to do up a jubilee clip, that was my own damn fault! ;D)..
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Seeing as its a pug engine, i was a bit surprised its only managed 151k miles
My Omega has just nudged over 200k inspite of me driving it :o
Don't buy a Tourneo, we've four on our fleet and 120k is about the limit of engine life... :-\ Bit sheet really >:(
Happy hunting though :y
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My little 1.3cdti astra estate on a 55 plate turned 150k yesterday on airport run and still does over 50mpg around town good old Vauxhall :y