I finally bought one.....

yep, formula one cars, and aeroplanes and some jaguars are held together with glue these days aren't they?

Only very occasionally do you hear about planes falling apart.

Don't know, you never saw my missus trow hers arround lie a rag doll.

I once felt it leave a bridge with 3 :)

Of course you have ! There's a sensor, usually in front of the rear-view mirror, that automatically adjusts the intermittent wiper speed, depending on how hard it's raining.

I used to be like that.

Now I'm more like

Ahhh rain sensitive WINDSCREEN WIPERS!!!

differential

yep - it was a french design IIRC.

Precisely !

Did you lose a relative at the Battle of Waterloo, Tim?

Nah, he's just got funny ideas.

He drives a people-carrier FFS :)

I was so confused as to how rain sensitive windows could work!

But it ISa french design

Only because I have four kids.

Shame they didn't borrow a bit more from Pug, maybe they'd have managed to make a decent car ;)

-- Dan

The 200/400 are decent cars.

;-) That's why I don't have nine kids!

So you've "made love" (or whatever you married folk do) a grand total of 9 times?

That's a poor show for your country ;)

-- Chet

Surely that's just on the 1.8 Diesels, and only then because it's a Pug engine ?

IIRC the gearbox mated to the K series is the same as the Pug 205 gearbox, certainly shares its diff design and suffers the same weak crown wheel and fifth gear.