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

Nice. That's really similar to my old Mercian.

Fucking loved that bike, but it was just a touch too big and my Condor Pista (which I can't let go) was just a better ride.

That's weird as in real life the Touran looks loads bigger.

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practicality

I feel attacked.

I have a 2007 Mk1 C Max, £4k in November 2020. So the facelifted version of the Mk1 (early 2007 was pre-facelift), the first where they stopped calling it a Focus C Max. Tons of space inside, high driving position like you say. Has not cost me very much in the 2 or so years I've had it. Non-sliding door version but the 2l Titanium spec, which from what I can gather means front and rear parking sensors and a heated windscreen (only half of mine has ever actually defrosted and I can't be arsed to replace the windscreen for that). The non enginey bits are easy to work on too. I fitted a new touchscreen head unit so I could have DAB and bluetooth (even hooked it up to the steering column stalk), I replaced a wing mirror when it got smashed by multiple close passing dicks when parked, and I took the headlights out and polished them.

My model also has a feature where the middle of the rear seats folds away and the two remaining seats slide inwards and back to make a very roomy 4 seater. Never used it as we have a kid's seat permanently in the back.

They're also based off the Focus (B-Max on Fiesta and S-Max on Mondeo) so they're very easy to park.

Sounds ideal. We'll try and get a test drive on one.

If you can get to CR7, you're welcome to sit in a "lived in" one.

Appreciate the offer, there's a couple quite near us so should be good.

That's weird as in real life the Touran looks loads bigger.

I have an old '05 plate. It's built on the Golf platform I believe and just swallows stuff easily, seat height is also quite high too. 3 separate rear seats means it's easy to fit 3x kids seats if you're as stupid as we were to procreate to such an extent...

Is there a filter in the filler neck and is it properly seated? Sounds silly but this caused the same symptoms you have on my Abarth 500, I hadn't considered the fluid wouldn't get into the tank because of that. Appeared the tank was full but was actually empty.

I have this problem with the Skoda, my only annoyance with it.

The rear washer keeps stopping working, and just trying to unblock the jets with a pin or a needle doesn't work, I have to pull the whole plastic washer jet assembly off and give it a good soak and scrub in the sink.

Superb facebook group suggests it's prone to limescale from hard water blocking it up so I should only use premix but that doesn't seem to have fixed the problem because it keeps happening. Quite annoying.

I see @Fixedwheelnut mentioned a dis-assemble and soak in descaler already, that'd be my suggestion too.

love a touran. proper mummsy wagon

Continuing my week of cool old American car spots. Hard to believe this is 74 years old as it looks fresh out of factory, and the colour is soooo dreamy, and ALL THE CHROME! That front bumper/fender is a WMD.

1949 Cadillac.

That is very close in year to the base model used to create ZZTop's Cadzilla. '48 vs '49 so it may look oddly familiar.

(yes. I know. 4 door vs 2 door, but....)

Hello, which A2 is it? What is wrong and where are you. Have a Wish to have an A2

Much damage and can it be fixed with second hand parts...better the devil you know? After getting the max payout

More details maybe a picture ?

2005 1.4L petrol SE. Was in Lochgilphead, had been SORN'd for 4 years. I say was because it was scrapped over the weekend, RIP.

I'll create a classified at some point today/tomorrow 👍

New alias as can't use old login

Sources of bangernomic cars still eBay and Facebook market place?

Oh. Thank you tho.

I have an inconsistent annoying clunk from the front, happens at slow speed and bumpy roads. Went into my local Audi specialist where they have a ramp which can move the suspension around to find issues. Technician said he can't see anything wrong and even the recent advisories from main dealer shouldn't have been highlighted. They talked me out of replacing control arms at the moment

I guess I just need to let it get worse over the next few months? I love driving but starting to get over sorting things out on cars.

my racing car is (finally!) finished! off to the rolling road next week then we are on for test days.

the world's longest car build was pretty close to being fucked off a number of times.

anyway, heres a pic or two:

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Well bloody done!

cheers!

the steering wheel will be swapped for a momo prototipo and I have a tillett seat (my ass is a bit larger than when i started). there's belts in it now too.

Brilliant. And congrats for finishing! Can't wait for the drive reports.