Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

^ sorry, no idea how that decimal place got in there... i meant £499 a 2m roll

I can't see how a lease can be so much less than PCP. PCP is supposed to be the opium of the car buying masses.

The big Skoda is costing me £5k a year all in over 4 years, including 4 year warranty and 2 years servicing (ok, so all in except years 3 and 4 service costs).

So yes, could have spent £20k on a nice 2nd hand car instead,and hoped that running costs equalled roughly whatever it's worth 4 years later, but chose to go for low hassle and peace of mind instead.

The PCP was for a car with some options - which pushed the price up by around 5k.

The lease is for the OTP specification car, which is probably fine tbh.

Significant distance between the two positions though - 10 grand.

It’s the options that fuck you. Other than paint and gearbox you pay for them pro rata, so £5k options adds £100 a month to a 2 year lease.

What options do you even need? Our base model 2017 Golf came with adaptive cruise, sat nav etc. The GTi has heated seats, which is the only thing I miss on the base model. Other than the missing 100bhp of course. I’m struggling to see what else it could need...

I guess the thing to do is to go for the stock version:

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Ha. You’ll not settle for anything else than than the full bells and whistles.

Don’t let us watch you spend a fortune upgrading a cooking spec golf to an r, please.

There you go.

Why would you not just get that?

:)

Also, you’ll save significantly dropping that to 6k miles pa.

You win the internet today. I thought my OCD was bad. It pales into insignificance compared to your attention to detail.

I had considered getting in touch with you about the Volvo until you posted it costs 5k a year to run. #richmansgame :)

I did 4,224 miles in the Volvo last year, April - April, which was before I bought the 911.

I've done around 2,000 miles since April.

You win the internet today. I thought my OCD was bad. It pales into insignificance compared to your attention to detail.

I had considered getting in touch with you about the Volvo until you posted it costs 5k a year to run. #richmansgame :)

Hah! Yeah, it's not cheap to run. Although surely (surely) I must get to a point where I've fixed everything soon.

To be fair, that 5k/year spend has coincided with my salary going up significantly, so I've been taking care of absolutely everything/anything that might be considered wrong with it.

In previous years it has just had oil/filters/plugs and been fine.

@Dammit assume you've seen the e55 amg wagon on pistonheads?

Link?

Is the replacement column adjustable?

There we go, another rabbit hole

Yep

Moving the fuck on...

So do you need the closer steering wheel?

Sump guard in the wrong place.

Eh?

Do you still need the special steering wheel to be closer with the adjustable column?

The existing/original column is adjustable - there's no difference in range of adjustment between that and a later column.

Subaru engine layout. Very compact. Much low CoG.

But sensors, wires and pipes everywhere.

I'm going to bin everything that doesn't make it go.

Secondary Air Injection is the first on the list.

Any other ideas for parts that can be jettisoned?

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EGR?