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

No room for a trailer unfortunately.

I’ve got 2 plots at the allotment and a reasonable sized garden so the horse manure is for personal use. But it’s 4/5 ish trips per year to get. Normally when it’s summer and it’s super dry.

The need for a truck is that I can’t have nice things. My life style ruins nice things

As long as you bag the manure up a Disco would be fine. All the windows open on the way back to the allotment, obvs.

But will it handle bombing up and down the a1 during the week?

Ah! Now I understand why she's saying no to the farmer cosplay. But she's clearly wrong about an estate. Send her links to stories about people letting SUV tyres down.

You can rent trailers. The most cursory of searches says £70. So assuming £300p/a it's probably on par with the extra fuel you'll spend with a truck. And probably a quarter of a disco's running costs p/a.

This reminds me of my godmother's husband who hung on to the family estate for years so he could take the Xmas tree to the dump once a year.

Just buy dearly beloved a Hermes scarf.

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Good to see rental car costs have gone back to sane levels.

Rented a car during the summer holidays last year and paid something like £750 for 9 days, and that was scraping the barrel and risking using Greenmotion. The more reputable people were >£900.

Just booked an A-Class Merc for a week during Feb half term for just over £200 with Avis (which includes an additional driver for free) via BA/Avios. An MG ZS for the week would have been £180.

take the Xmas tree to the dump once a year

It's an interesting point. Do you spec your car for the typical use case or the outlier / occasional use?

We don't use our car on a daily basis but use it for trips out of town several times a month.

For my typical use something like a Golf would be ideal, but a few times a year we take the family to Scotland or somewhere which is 2 teenagers over 6' tall plus two adults plus a load of holiday related crap at which point a Golf wouldn't suit, which is why we have a Superb estate.

Which most of the the time, we don't really need.

that is good to hear. thanks for sharing dude. last time i looked was just before xmas and I could see was getting more reasonable.

in other less exciting news I bought my nieces car over the holidays as her dad was sick of it being on his drive and not getting used. and I needed a motor. European Car of the Year 2006.

Isn't that just seasonal pricing?
We usually get something like a fiat 500in the summer in Italy for €150 for about 5 days. I went to Milan in December and could have got one for 3 days for €23

Nah. Just checked similar dates to my trip last year (a week in late July/early August in school holidays) and seeing ~£250 for a week long rental and not £700+.

Does anyone have a wheeled trolley jack, or wheel skates?

Dropping campaigning for direct action RE pavement parking problems eh?

;)

Where you are might help.

Get it delivered by someone else with a truck.

We have a wiener. Then buy a money pit exec BMW like everybody else.

Alternatively, buy a modem Ford Ranger with just about enough room in the load bay for a neatly folded handkerchief.

Catford

That is clearly the right and only answer. God, how good does that look?

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Still after a left hooker mk1 rangy?

EGR valve? if you go on any car specific facebook group e.g. Audi B9 TDI its just people talking about removing the DPF, AdBlue and EGR valve, which makes your car stink.

I think with diesel just keeping on top of your servicing, using a fuel additive and/or premium fuel and some regular long trips keeps it going.

The torque on a diesel engine is a lot of fun, interesting that Audi moved to diesel for their S models