kebabking
Not a Girly Swot, but I like them....
What size are they?
Recommend a fastish estate
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What size are they?
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Dunno, £329 per boot including vat and fitting and so on...
chainsawjob
Kipping in the dunes
I keep misreading this as 'Recommend me a fascist state' 
I keep misreading this as 'Recommend me a fascist state'
Same!
I was thinking, Christ now what they all banging on about.
kebabking
Not a Girly Swot, but I like them....
Fucking Christ alive!
My Octavia vrs (so probably not that different to your A6) uses 225/40/18 - I put Uniroyal Rainsport 5's on it for £104 each, fully fitted from Blackcircles....
kebabking
Not a Girly Swot, but I like them....
Fucking Christ alive!
My Octavia vrs (so probably not that different to your A6) uses 225/40/18 - I put Uniroyal Rainsport 5's on it for £104 each from Blackcircles....
kebabking
Not a Girly Swot, but I like them....
Fucking Christ alive!
My Octavia vrs (so probably not that different to your A6) uses 225/40/18 - I put Uniroyal Rainsport 5's on it for £104 each from Blackcircles....
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
I think cheaper are available, for some reason we have P Zeros now, but cheaper ones don’t seem to last very long at all.
dessiato
🇪🇸 my spirit is crying for leaving
You could drive gently to preserve tyre life. But where’s the fun in that?
My friend with a 411 Bristol has a similar issue. Unfortunately the only tyres that are the right size, and easily available, are Transit van tyres. But, of course, the speed rating is wrong. If you will have an almost 50 year old, rare car...
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
Do yourself a favour and switch to Continental Sport Contact 5, next time round. Just as good tyres and save yourself well over £100 a corner.
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UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
So I mentioned on the other thread I bought an Insignia. I was fed up of driving 15 year old bangers and them failing on me so I borrowed some money and bought a 66 plate one. And it failed on me. Relays, starter motor, head gasket, cylinder head reskimed. Luckily all under guarantee, but took forever because of covid.
Still finally got it back and it's very nice to drive and well specced, especially as its a more basic model. 170bhp, so a little less power then the old Avensis, but god is it kinder on fuel. Not properly opening it up yet till it goes back in for the cylinder head to be retorqued, but crossing fingers that's car bad luck over and done with for a while.
Still finally got it back and it's very nice to drive and well specced, especially as its a more basic model. 170bhp, so a little less power then the old Avensis, but god is it kinder on fuel. Not properly opening it up yet till it goes back in for the cylinder head to be retorqued, but crossing fingers that's car bad luck over and done with for a while.
kebabking
Not a Girly Swot, but I like them....
Mine's a 2017 diesel.
I'd go for a petrol then, and I'm not sure I'd bother going with a vRS - I went for the vRS because I do long commutes on fast, straight A roads and motorways, and it's only really on those empty Roman roads through the Cotswolds that you get the vRS-ness out of the car. Diesel is now only worth getting if you do more than 15k a year, and only then if it's long, fast driving - short, slow runs completely screw the engine up if you do lots of them - and if you live in a city, forget it...
Is there a more out there estate than this? 4 door as well!
DownwardDog
Riding a Brompton with a power meter.
FridgeMagnet
Administrator
For the first time ever, I did not read the title of this thread as "Recommend a fascist state", which I find a bit depressing 
Another small twinkle of comedy has disappeared from my life.
Another small twinkle of comedy has disappeared from my life.
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
Second hand car prices at the moment are bonkers aren't they?
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
Bonkers as in cheap, you mean?
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
No, everything seems more expensive, which is the opposite of what I'd expect with what's going on with people travelling less and working from home.
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Monkeygrinder's Organ
Dodgy geezer swilling vapid lager
Is that Prince Philip's bespoke hearse?
hitmouse
so defeated, thinks it's funny
It's almost a work of art how the thread title manages to suggest "fascist state" and also "fetish" at the same time. Has anyone tried asking Max Mosley? I bet he'd be able to recommend a fastish estate.For the first time ever, I did not read the title of this thread as "Recommend a fascist state", which I find a bit depressing
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
Think it's going to be many years till we see that reflect on second hand prices. What disincentive is there to not drive one at the moment? Like many people I can't charge one outside my house. My last diesel was £30 a year road tax. Hybrids cost more and have two sets of things to go wrong as the car ages.
hash tag
Reaching out
Congestion charging, ULEZ and traffic jams.
kebabking
Not a Girly Swot, but I like them....
Only applies if you drive in a city. The only place near me where that stuff applies is Birmingham. I've driven in Birmingham twice in the last 5 years.
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