I solved my car dilemmas! (Long)

Want an MR2 T-bar, '97, for £1650? If I remove the satnav gear and fit a new alternator, that's what I'll take for it.

It might depreciate a little bit still, but not much ;)

Richard

Oh, there are many, but here's my problem again - I'd use it a lot as a daily driver as it's . I could buy a nice Scimitar or a Triumph Vitesse for what I want to spend and it would be a minter. It might not be by the time I've had if for two years though. I like to use the cars, not clean them incessantly and I'd be scared of it rotting away before me or me "spoiling" a good classic that could be better treated by someone else IYSWIM.

We're going to look at another MX-5 tonight. I wanted an MGB, but I reckon spending the same amount on a MX-5 will get me a car that does the same thing as a B, but doesn't break down or leak oil all over my drive ;-)

Mike P

Have you got pics? Missus wants a trip to Scotland as it happens..

Mike P

You are excused then. Want plenty of photos of our colonial cousins in black.

"DanB" gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying:

A very large percentage of new cars have been damaged & repaired in transit to this country/the dealer - and the customer never knows.

"AstraVanMann" gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying:

Only the 2.2HDi comes with manual box - and that loses a RAFT of kit over the v6s - adjustable dampers, pop-up rear spoiler, pyrotechnic bonnet...

Don't get PSA autoboxes confused with Renault - La Regie make their own, badly. PSA use proper ZF boxes.

Douglas Payne gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying:

BX, CX, XM, Xant, C5 etc etc.

Because for some reason, you reply to every one of my posts in the same patronising manner, disagreeing with everything I say as if you're doing me a favour and 'educating' me - then go on to talk about SteveH/Passats/etc etc etc.

ISTR I was the one who posted that first in that other thread heh. If I don't know about it, I can't be upset about it - so that's ok :-)

Aisin, in this case. I assume it's the same box as fitted to the 407 Coupe.

I'm pretty hacked off with Peugeot - they've discontinued the GT spec. coupes, replacing them with a cut down 'Sport Multimedia' - which is missing the lovely saddle stitch leather, JBL audio, front parking sensors (lets be honest, with a nose that big, you'll need them), bi-xenon headlamps and a few other more minor bits and pieces.

I had been kind of hoping to force a deal on a new one, with their 0% finance deal, but it looks like I'll have to settle for one that's a couple of years old instead.

Since you mentioned PSA slushboxes, do you have any experience of the EGS? Sounds like an automated manual box.

Yeah, and I heard about someone who bought a CVT Micra who then went on to get syphilis. What are you trying to say, Steve?

Chris Bartram gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying:

Not personally, but everybody that I've spoken to who has tried it _loves_ it.

Looks like it's yet another self-destructing Sillyspeed / DSG box.

A fellow Skonut bought a 1200 mile from new 1984 120L estelle from an old bloke.

There was a little overspray on the wing but no sign of bog or dents visible inside the panel.

The concesus was that it was damaged on the boat over. They weren't loaded below deck like modern western cars, they lived on top in any space available. They were strapped down but a lot of heavy tat on the deck wasn't.

An acquaintance is about to buy one. He test drove it and liked it, but I didn't even know PSA did such a thing.

It is a sillyspeed/dsg type thing, but no idea if it self-destructs. Sillyspeed is pretty notorious, but I haven't heard any DSG horror stories yet.

I've heard rumours of issues with hotter versions.

Do DSGs self destruct then? They struck me as much more likely to work in principle than the wop offering.