And after the first week, I like it.

I use proper English measures, not those new-fangled European kilograms.

After all he's suffered so far, why would you wish that on him?

;-)

Not me... I do it by stone.

Meh, someone else replied in KG I'm sure heh. I used to use stone, but then doc's all do it in Kgs, and I've never bothered to work it out 'cos it doesn't really matter, as long as it's about where it should be and not going either way too quick. Three figures and you're either very tall, or a bit of a porker, around 80, like 78-82 seems to be 'about right' for most people, low 70s or below and you probably don't look well. Unless you're a midget. Then, well, who cares cos midgets are still always funny :-)

When I first started all them years ago, and was a little fat kid, they said that if you lost a 1/3rd of your body weight when on treatment and that young, they'd give you a feeding tube. I lost a 1/3rd and they just kind've said, oh, well you needed to dtop some anyway heh. I thought about being offended but instead just conceded that, with a smile and a nod, they were so right :-)

The NHS weighs people in Kilograms these days.

You should go private, then.

"I don?t care to belong to any club that will have me as a member."

well a quick tap into google and 80kg's is about 12 stone i'm bout 10.5-11 stone which is under 70kg's when i was well into my martial arts i was lifting weights about half my body weight lol can't now mind, well can lift it just but not as easily as i could

i think he should get an E55 AMG, that dumb enough?

I wouldn't think that it makes a lot of sense for it to be the knock sensor - the frequency of the 'wobble' will be very different to the engine rpm/2, and in any case the knock sensor is usually a piezo element fastened to the engine block, listening for a sharp and very loud noise inside the block - the acoustic coupling from the suspension via the bodywork and all the mounting rubber will be very poor, and the wobble won't be producing much in the way of millisecond-length impulses anyway.

More likely that whatever is binding is effectively braking the car and you don't have enough torque at the wheels in 6th to overcome the braking effect.

You bought a car from a dealer and it didn't have 12 and 6 on it?

Ditto. Nice car, possible bad example. See what the dealer comes back with.

Edited for comedy purposes.

The power of mince pies and stuffing? Maybe. Fingers crossed here!

I thought half of this stuff was the law heh, like I thought you get 3 months warranty from a dealer, they have to give 12 months, or at least like, not a tiny short MOT. Turns out, unsurprisingly, I had no idea :-)

You want to see the bother we had getting anything off the internet price, after all his promises of I'll do you a deal, then I mentioned the forecourt price was £500 more than the internet price.

And that was that, our good deal was the internet price. Managed to get him to drop £400, but he wouldn't shift on MOT, or Tax, I had to pay the tax. When we went to walk off, he dropped another £50. Couldn't get nothing out of him, and that was even before he talked about trading the saab. He wouldn't shift. The price we got was fair for the age/miles/history, but he wouldn't move on giving anything but they money off.

But don't worry, it will come back to bite his arse if they can't fix it in the half a day they will have it, and it doesn't show until the car is totally cold, and I'm going to be dropping it off straight from a 20 something mile motorway journey, and picking up at the end of that day with the warning when I drop it, that if it shows the same fault Friday (either the sluggish drive or the wobble) I will be back on Saturday for an immediate refund and I won't leave until I get it.

And I'm good at starting random conversations with blokes waiting while I'm waiting for something. I don't need to shout about something to be heard.

Weird thing is tonight, at 55 I had to drop two gears after I braked from 60 to let a car in, to keep forward motion going so I'm guessing brakes again. All guessing though. Then the wobble started as normal but it was nowhere near as bad or as long as it has been.

You should have walked at this point.

An MOT costs £50. Or less if you have contracts within the trade.

If he'll give you £50, but won't MOT it, then you know there's something wrong.

Which there is....

I think we'd better start organising some food parcel drops for you, then.

What gets me is, the 8valve 4pot petrol in the Octavia seemed torquier, and more economical (I got a best of 38MPG out of that) than this feels for the first half of each leg of my daily journey.