Trying to sort out where my shiny new wheels have got to. Ordered nearly 2 months ago now and got nowehere, and company aren't being massively helpful at the moment. :bang:
What's made you not grumpy but not smile either today?
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What's made you not grumpy but not smile either today?
Finally got through. Back in stock next week. Hopefully they'll be with me soon. :yum:
Was offered the option to change the colour. Panicked and stuck with what I'd got. Gold would've been nice in hindsight.
Was offered the option to change the colour. Panicked and stuck with what I'd got. Gold would've been nice in hindsight.
Driving in thick-ish fog this morning on the M62.
How many drivers not only with no lights on, but way too close, and some texting as well.
It really is getting scary how little imagination people have as to what damage can be done at 70mph.
How many drivers not only with no lights on, but way too close, and some texting as well.
It really is getting scary how little imagination people have as to what damage can be done at 70mph.
So many cars with auto headlamps nowadays, but they don't operate in daylight fog. Drivers have abdicated responsibility for the lights and generally have no idea that they are unlit.
You are spot on with that
Also the daylight running lights don't put rear lights on either.
Also the daylight running lights don't put rear lights on either.
Cars with automatic lights still have an idiot light to tell you if they are on and a manual over ride option. The same people who drive around with only DRLs on or no lights are those who would have not had their lights on anyway.
They don't all have a warning light. The Audis I drive regularly have no indication as to whether the lights are on or off. I have driven other makes as well that don't have warnings. So the owners just assume.
The point made was that people choose to use the auto option, assuming it will make the right decisions all the time, and don't think to check.
Not entirely. We now have more added that just assume the lights will come on when needed.
I met a guy last year who'd been driving an Audi A5 for 3 years and assumed the headlights were on all the time. He was stunned to be shown that these were only his DRLs and that there was no light on the back.
Auto headlamps - Not clever.
Strangely it was foggy this morning...I was driving the DS3 which like both cars we own has auto lights. As it was foggy I turned the lights on manually and deactivated DRLs..true story.
I would suggest your story regards the Audi is more about the owner not knowing jack than anything else. I guess he only checks his tyres if a light tells him to? Oil if the light comes on? Only tops up screen wash if the idiot light comes on/he remembers the reservoir has been dry for a week? Being so disinterested in your car that you don't realise it's dangerous is not the cars fault.
I would suggest your story regards the Audi is more about the owner not knowing jack than anything else. I guess he only checks his tyres if a light tells him to? Oil if the light comes on? Only tops up screen wash if the idiot light comes on/he remembers the reservoir has been dry for a week? Being so disinterested in your car that you don't realise it's dangerous is not the cars fault.
Popped into the Fiat dealer yesterday to get a new front hub nut to have another go at the diff oil seal. Done the job today, but found he's sold me rear nuts instead of fronts. No worries, car can just sit there for a day or two. Hub nut can be done just by removing the wheel trim. Still, I've got some rear nuts, if/whenever I need some.
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Great to see it, sad I won't again.
Great to see it, sad I won't again.
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Moto GP - Rossi VS Marquez:nono:
overshadowed what could've been a great race
incidents pushed Brits into excellent 3 / 4 /5 positions though
overshadowed what could've been a great race
incidents pushed Brits into excellent 3 / 4 /5 positions though
Finding out my Dads next door neighbour had a floor of their house dedicated to "herbal" crops.
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Four and a half hours to get to Milton Geofin' Keynes yesterday evening!!!
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An hour and seventeen minutes to get back last night.
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I'm glad I was in my Panda and not my FTO.
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An hour and seventeen minutes to get back last night.
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I'm glad I was in my Panda and not my FTO.
DS3 is in getting 4 new wheels under warranty (corrosion) so I have a courtesy car which is a C3.
I'm very surprised never actually driven one but confirms a few suspicions I had about the DS3. Firstly with 16 inch wheels, decent sized tyres and slightly softer springing all the crashiness to the ride quality disappears. Second the interiors are literally identical except the door cards (obviously), steering wheel, and the gearknob. There are a few other DS3 details but none of it adds much, and in the case of gearknob it detracts as the heavy ball gearknob on the ds3 gives the box a top heavy imprecise feel absent in the C3. Oddly the brakes on the C3 are far smoother than the on/off switch on the DS3.
Finally there is the elephant in the room the engines, I've always felt the diesel engine in the DS3 adds something in the same way as dog turd adds something to a cream carpet. A drive in the C3 confirms that with a nice free revving 1.2 petrol in it it's a significantly better experience. 1st it's got a consistent power delivery, not lag followed by boost followed by nothing. 2nd it makes less noise/vibration and the noise it does make is more pleasant. 3rd economy is slightly better in the petrol so far 4th the petrol engine is far more flexible meaning you don't have to constantly change gear. I don't like Citroen gearboxes so this is a good thing (although the C3 is better). Yes I know everyone says diesels are flexible but modern eco diesels are not, the DS3 is never in the right gear it's either revving it's balls off or in the lag infested doldrums but such are the compromises made to get sub 100g/km.
So well I think the better car is the cheaper car personally.
I'm very surprised never actually driven one but confirms a few suspicions I had about the DS3. Firstly with 16 inch wheels, decent sized tyres and slightly softer springing all the crashiness to the ride quality disappears. Second the interiors are literally identical except the door cards (obviously), steering wheel, and the gearknob. There are a few other DS3 details but none of it adds much, and in the case of gearknob it detracts as the heavy ball gearknob on the ds3 gives the box a top heavy imprecise feel absent in the C3. Oddly the brakes on the C3 are far smoother than the on/off switch on the DS3.
Finally there is the elephant in the room the engines, I've always felt the diesel engine in the DS3 adds something in the same way as dog turd adds something to a cream carpet. A drive in the C3 confirms that with a nice free revving 1.2 petrol in it it's a significantly better experience. 1st it's got a consistent power delivery, not lag followed by boost followed by nothing. 2nd it makes less noise/vibration and the noise it does make is more pleasant. 3rd economy is slightly better in the petrol so far
4th the petrol engine is far more flexible meaning you don't have to constantly change gear. I don't like Citroen gearboxes so this is a good thing (although the C3 is better). Yes I know everyone says diesels are flexible but modern eco diesels are not, the DS3 is never in the right gear it's either revving it's balls off or in the lag infested doldrums but such are the compromises made to get sub 100g/km.So well I think the better car is the cheaper car personally.
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Interesting - I think modern diesels are starting to get strangled a bit now. My mom had an Audi A3 1.6tdi - that was not nice. Very noisy and tattily engine and didn't like 4th gear at 30mph.
The 1.3cdti 93 Corsa is the most rattily of modern diesels I have driven but it does actually perform quite well not to laggy and free revving.
The HDI 1.6 92bhp in the Peugeot is smooth and not laggy but it's one of the worst cars I've ever driven.
I'm thinking when the time comes, I won't get another diesel again, getting to complex and expensive now. I do very much like the 2.0tdci/HDI in my Focus though.
The 1.3cdti 93 Corsa is the most rattily of modern diesels I have driven but it does actually perform quite well not to laggy and free revving.
The HDI 1.6 92bhp in the Peugeot is smooth and not laggy but it's one of the worst cars I've ever driven.
I'm thinking when the time comes, I won't get another diesel again, getting to complex and expensive now. I do very much like the 2.0tdci/HDI in my Focus though.
We have the 90bhp 1.6 e-hdi "micro hybrid". My main gripe with it is the gearing it would be fine if it had a wide power band but it doesn't. I'm used to just being able to leave my car in top gear even down as far 25mph. So if your in a 50 zone, everyone slows down then speeds up again you don't have to shift. Obviously you wouldn't accelerate onto the motorway like that but it produces enough urge to keep up with traffic streams on a clogged A/B road. The ds3 gearing forces you to either roll along knowing you've stalled the compressor at 1600rpm and will have to count to 2 before any power is forthcoming from pressing the throttle or roll along at about 2100rpm to get the power but then you have a constant diesel sound track and at 2400 it goes full transit van.
Basically at 30 it's between gears, and 40, and 50. Making driving it and exercise in either constant gear changing or hanging on to the same gear for no reason other than the next one is slightly too tall and you'll drop off boost.
The e-hdi stop start system is truly first rate though do wish my car had that.
I assume you're aware that is the Fiat 1.3 diesel in the Corsa. I'm not a lover of diesel cars, but that 1.3 is quite good.
This is typical Peugeot. Many manufacturers gear the cars for the European speed limits, making keeping to ours often difficult. Peugeot seem to be the worst at it though. The Fiesta 1.0 100hp will take 3rd at 30, but complain at 28, and 4th at 40, but not as low as 38, then 5th is ok at 50, but drops off the power at 48. Being in the lower gear means the expected economy suffers. No better than the normal 1.4 before it.
This is not new. In the 80s, we had the VW Polo and Golf "Formel E" models with a high 4th gear (4 speed) and a high final drive. The same box was used in the 1.3 Maestro. In hilly areas it always needed a lower gear than expected, so economy was lost. The standard car was better. The motor industry have short memories, so keep repeating mistakes.
Followed a Fiat 500 "Turismo" edition. Yup.
