Motorway Mile Munchers

[D Walker]

Fair play the Yanks built some rubbish

Built is past tense!!!!
They still do......

 

[Wanderer]

Albania does some decent cars now, consider the Tartan Prancer....

 

[CatmanV2]

I thought you weren’t enjoying the commute in it tho?

Yebbut the forst 20 miles or so are just *EPIC*

Someone pointed out to me today that I could, actually, get a company car....

C

 

[lifes2short]

how about this and when you get bored with it steaks galore

 

[Wanderer]

Yebbut the forst 20 miles or so are just *EPIC*

Someone pointed out to me today that I could, actually, get a company car....

C

I talked about that with accountant, but as I am a one-man Ltd company, it's not beneficial, even an electric one, which having driven one a lot, I don't fancy.

 

[Wack61]

More up your street Darren than Chris's.

You don't know how much , but about 15 years ago the garage that worked on my van had one in , it looked Ok but the owner who was a friend of the garage owner had gone to a casino in Liverpool , parked on a disused petrol station forecourt

Came out at 2am jumped in and hit the gas , 3 tonnes of Bentley straight into one of the elevated pump islands

He said I don't want to claim just fix it, looked OK from the bumper up but it was a mess underneath , he'd taken the sump off and all the pipework, wiring and bent the subframe

When the parts bill got to £10,000 they stopped counting , it was probably a 30k car back then but it was touch and go whether they were going to write it off

That's when I had my eyes opened to the real cost of running a Bentley

 

[Wack61]

anyway 7K Quattroporte , just a slight misfire, it'll be a fouled plug



https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2005-Mas...f4b1237:g:OXoAAOSwenJb8Anr:rk:2:pf:0#viTabs_0

 

[Navcorr]

the Tartan Prancer....

Wondered what you were on about for a moment ….

 

[philw696]

One for the Brave a bit like that suit.
That's not Cobratwins old QP is it by any chance for those of you been on here long enough to remember

 

[CatmanV2]

Wow that's going back some!

C

 

[mjheathcote]

Yebbut the forst 20 miles or so are just *EPIC*

Someone pointed out to me today that I could, actually, get a company car....

C

If you are entitled to a company car, do you get a car allowance presently instead?

 

[CatmanV2]

If you are entitled to a company car, do you get a car allowance presently instead?

Currently I take the cash. I am entitled to a car if I give up the cash.

C

 

[Wack61]

That's a dilemma, I suppose the question is would the company provide a car you'd want to spend long periods of time in.
I'd sooner drive a new Peugeot 508 than an old Mercedes

 

[philw696]

Have to say seeing plenty in the flesh here in France that Peugeot certainly have upped their game.

 

[CatmanV2]

Yeah, I need to find what's available and what it's gonna cost me

C

 

[TridentTested]

anyway 7K Quattroporte , just a slight misfire, it'll be a fouled plug

Could well be simply a coil pack!

 

[philw696]

It certainly could be an easy fix which can be the fun of a project car and I have done a few over the years but could also break you.

 

[Wanderer]

Could well be simply a coil pack!

I had two coil packs go on day one on drive from Newry to Dubs, car ran like a pig and cabin filled with acrid smoke and a melted plastic smell....

Was awful!

 

[Wack61]

Could well be simply a coil pack!

bought this car as a weekend project but do not have the time and has sat around for 5 months

I'm out of touch on QP prices but if it's just a coil pack why not fix it and add value
Where its parked looks like the place cars go to die , if its been on that grass for 5 months the underside will be rusty

 

[Wack61]

Yeah, I need to find what's available and what it's gonna cost me

C

I think the 508 estate looks better than the saloon, new insignia estate looks great as well