Reply to: New Car

[Churchill]

It probably does need one before then. Oil changes at least. Beware of long service intervals in cars that are aimed at fleet buyers: less servicing means fewer costs, and who cares if the car dies at 3 years 1 month? It's been sold on by then.

According to the manual, an oil & Filter change is not classed as a service. You change the oil when it tells you to.

Manual says at around 10k miles.

[expat]

My new skoda doesn't require a service until its done 20k miles.

It probably does need one before then. Oil changes at least. Beware of long service intervals in cars that are aimed at fleet buyers: less servicing means fewer costs, and who cares if the car dies at 3 years 1 month? It's been sold on by then.

[rootsnall]

My R Reg Vectra is running like a dream, thinking of stepping up to a new T or even V Reg in the next year or 2.

[Mustang]

I bought my mustang brand new in the States when I worked there. Still going strong, 12 years and over 100k miles later. Still looks cool too - especially here in the UK!!

Sadly, its probably the only new car I will buy!!

[milanbenes]

Supremo,

you're right he's avoiding the embarressment.

Glad to hear you are happy with your car,
I am thinking to replace my 6 year old tdi 4x4
200,000kms with a new 1.9tdi DSG in the summer

all the best,

Milan.

[Spacecadet]

Not to mention Giant Alien Lizards in Big Bloo Volvos...

A lot more common than some people think!

[Francko]

Threaded at the age of 30 had his second Lamborghini already.

[Churchill]

feck's sake,

kids today eh,

creaming their nads off because of buying a brand new 1.6 golf at thirty years old !!!

haven't laughed so much in ages

it's always fun here when Willi's around, he lifts the stupidity of people here to a new level

is this what new labour have done the uk, made people aspire to owning a 1.6 golf at thirty !!!

whatever next ?

nice one Willy, you are excellent entertainment.

Milan.

MB,

He's not come back about the 1.4 TSI thing. I don't think he likes being proven wrong...

But we'll forget all about that, eh?
(Nope, will we hell!)

C.

[OwlHoot]

Picked up my new car from the factory last night.

Was lovely. Brand spanking new, 6 miles on the clock.

Felt very special driving it home.

Would have been a better story if you'd written off the car a mile from the garage.

(Like a guy I once worked with at the Post Office DP Centre in Farnborough. He packed a 100 grand's worth of monitoring hardware in the boot of his car to take to a site in London, and some white van man slammed into the back of him and trashed the lot (and almost him along with it), and guess what - Due to a mix up with the paperwork, the equipment hadn't been insured!)

[milanbenes]

feck's sake,

kids today eh,

creaming their nads off because of buying a brand new 1.6 golf at thirty years old !!!

haven't laughed so much in ages

it's always fun here when Willi's around, he lifts the stupidity of people here to a new level

is this what new labour have done the uk, made people aspire to owning a 1.6 golf at thirty !!!

whatever next ?

nice one Willy, you are excellent entertainment.

Milan.

[Spacecadet]

Well no, but for commuting it is. If you like to drive down country roads at weekends then petrol with good chassis/suspension and gearbox.

For motorways/long commutes, something with good seats and lots of torque, pref automatic

I used to commute from manchester to chesterfield, no motorways and only 1 short stretch of dual carriage way in between so a good bit of oomph (170bhp) helped prevent me getting stuck behind tractors, trucks, old people, the stupid and learners

[Numptycorner]

not entirely true

Well no, but for commuting it is. If you like to drive down country roads at weekends then petrol with good chassis/suspension and gearbox.

For motorways/long commutes, something with good seats and lots of torque, pref automatic

[Churchill]

not entirely true

90 -> 0 is my most important criteria

[Spacecadet]

To be fair 50-70 is the only performance figure worth looking at. 0-60 is meaningless, unless you are a boy racer or are on a track.

not entirely true

[DodgyAgent]

No i went for 1.6 FSI Petrol Engine.

Everyone keeps telling me i should have gone for the diesel?

I have one of these two months old. We use it only as a second car