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

Also bc im selling the car in the next 6weeks

pls tell me its taycan time

thanks!

Car just has an advisory, but passed the test?

Nah the tyre is torn and can’t be plugged apparently

Model Y 😓

Nice, what bolts are you using?

musk'd!

Think they are just flat M5 nuts?

Because these bars are cheap u can cut the rubber liner to size.

I have not seen a thru axle version as yet.

OK, I see where to unbolt from the suckers, but I have Thule bars and also I can't adjust the spacing so may struggle with the rear wheel. Looks good though.

I have not seen a thru axle version as yet.

You just swap the grommets for Q/r or TA

Ok. Ta

Any experience with Cazoo? Growing family means we need a bigger car and my wife is quite tempted by the simplicity of the collection and delivery system… I would also prefer to avoid a ‘complicated’ sale but quite crossed with the fact that they listed the car we want as having alloy wheels 🛞 when it clearly just have bog standard ones. Shall we pull the trigger and ask for a discount once received? The web chat personnel seem to have a clear no discount policy but come’ on the alloys are at least £1000 (Apologies for the subpar post 😅)

torn

How the duck did you get it to the garage then?

Take it to a tyre shop. At least you’ll get a second opinion.

I had one done for £15 vs £300 for two new tyres.

My mind boggles at the idea of paying £300 per tyre.

Couldn’t because the MOT ran out yesterday

Tyre ended up being £350 yolo

I bought a Mitsubishi Shogun off them in lockdown, it was comfortably the most I've ever spent on a car but I was very happy, car was delivered to the minute stated, in absolutely spotless condition. Whole process was super simple.

HOWEVER they are very clear that there is no negotiation, once they have your money I would consider the chances of then getting a discount are pretty unlikely. They will say "pictures form part of the description" or similar.

They sent me a £500 voucher which might be still valid, are you interested if I can find it?

Yes, please. I might try to negotiate seeing the description is inaccurate. Did you take the Shogun for a local third party check just in case?

local third party check

No, I am lazy and laissez-faire. It had a full history, MOT and whatever standard warranty Cazoo offered, which was good enought for me. I drove it 10,000 miles in a year, did 1 main dealer service then sold it via Motorway for £500 more than I paid for it.

😂 genius!

Just back from a fabulous road trip with my two teenage sons. Neither drives but a mate joined us so we had two cars for the four of us. Non-driving boys swapped between the cars every so often.

First to the Nurburgring where we rented a Swift for their first taste of the circuit ... no. 1 son about to go out for his first lap:

Then a thoroughly enjoyable drive down the autobahn to Switzerland where friends of mine live ... this is the view from their house ...

A few days in Switzerland doing outdoorsy stuff ...

and then back across France with a stop to visit the old Reims-Gueux GP circuit.

Caught a few minutes of a car meet at Hook Norton Brewery this morning. Some nice Triumphs -a Stag, a couple of Spitfires, a really lovely TR4A (sadly no pic) and a TR7 - some MGs and a 'very thirsty' Jensen.

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I fucking hate stags, or is that stag owners or mechanics that have worked on stags. But love spities and GT6s and love for a gitfire.

How the duck did you get it to the garage then?

This happened to me one month a go. Failed it for a flat tyre, nail in. Put the fail on the mot. It was otherwise clear.

Loved my Stag, worked on a few for friends.

You're welcome.

What eva. Gave me a few stories, tho. Buying a stag from a guy that had never taken the roof off, as the owner was told that the soft top was missing. Took the roof off and there was the soft top.

How many heads did you get to replace?

EDIT: Ali heads were a bit poor so corroded in the combustion area, as well as needing to run antifreeze as the steel block and ali head combo caused issues if running just water coolant. The rad filled with crud and then the car overheated and the heads warped.

Some of the suspension and drive train bits were interchangeable with the triump 2000 and 2000 bits were cheaper than stag bits to guess which got fitted. Example is the UJ in the prop shafts and driveshafts.

Koni Special Activ dampers/struts. Something wrong with them? Fitted with Koni's suggestion of apex springs
Fitted the other day, took an age to come but production date looks like they literally just made them so fair play.

Old volvo V70, had bilstein B6 or b8 (the adjustable ones) on it and a mix of original v70r front springs and some H+R lowered rears (old non progressive wind types). All the old springs were trashed TBH, one front cracked, both rears sagged out from carrying massive weights around in this bus for years (car basically has no rear travel and a thicker ARB than standard).

Drove it around a few days round the city, then torqued everything back up again, all sound, its sat ride height back down to approx where it was before (years ago when old springs weren't snapped/sagged out). Around city its kinda softer than it was on the old stuff, but still crashy and then seems to inexplicably roll around like a whale at some small turns.

Out last night, few hundred miles of faster a roads, no problem, feels solid and doesn't roll around. Another 100 miles of moderate speed very twisty A/B road with very small weight in boot (80 kg), jesus, these shocks literally just do whatever they want. On smoother stuff feels great, on slower speed rough stuff, feels as you would expect, its a rough road. But where its bizarre is when you go through a strong/fast compression and over a crest, back end of car feels like its going stop to stop on the travel and then does about 3 bounces afterwards, feels exactly like a car where the damper is completely blown.
Unpredictable is what I'd call them. Gonna fire them an email asking if this gets any better as they settle in, or maybe they have an air bubble/air lock inside? Feel like the low speed rebound is completely missing. As i'm looking at my old bilsteins' that aren't blown but are a bit worn, and thinking those + the apex springs might actually be quite a lot better.