I think I want another Ka

645D. Don't. I'll give up my day job... although it's doing that without me at the moment.

If Leica ever do an M digital (yeah yeah yeah) then I'll be up for a remortgage - used to do weddings with an old college mate, we both had rangefinders loaded B/W and SLRs loaded colour - mine was pentax and minolta, his was nikon and leica....

Pentax glass has always been spot on - I never really kept a lot of lenses - for me it never really got beyond being assistant / second on stuff my mate did. Doing quite a bit of video now though.

The point is fitting more than two drives in a notebook = not easy... twice the transfer rate!

MBP is the way to go - I'd kind of like one for Logic, but got other priorities and problems justnow...

Agreed, except, still *way* too expensive.

Yeah, I know, which is why I'm in a 2.0 NA petrol. What about a standard 1.9 TDi Octavia. They can be sorted too, and all the VAG diesel tuners sort them.

Aye, that was me, well the missus. Now it's running ok with the new engine, and has some nice Oz wheels she's happy for now. Although she's trying to persaude me to buy a 205 CTi that she can drive over the summer and I'll have the MR2. Very tempting if the Manta sells!

PS whats wrong with a Manta? I happen to know of a good one for sale :)

Stick a V8 in, tell her it's a Chevy Monza that shrunk in the wash (and somehow lost the chassis in the process).

Richard

I don't mind the Manta, but Charlie's all fussy and "eww" you know?

Hmm. Octavia TDIs are one of the vehicles of choice for taxi drivers in York, at least, they seem to be - prices are steady. And whilst they're good cars, the interior is a bit, erm, hmm, not my cuppa tea. Some interior fabrics look appalling. The only ones I've seen with cruise control are the

1.8T models, too.

Ultimately I do like the Octavia TDI but they're not great value as a used machine.

Given they're VW through and through mechanically, I suspect you can retrofit the same cruise control kit onto those as you can on the Passat / Golf...

-- JackH

So long as it's one with the electronic throttle. Don't know what year that came in.

Did they ever do an Octavia *T*Di without an electronic throttle then?

Given the Golf had it from something like 1994 (and it's all the TDi in those ever had), can't see them reverse engineering that.

-- JackH

Ahhh. Diesel. *shudder*

Brother got a bargain couple of years ago.

3 year old white, TDi, quick enough. =A32k 190k miles though. It was a taxi, it had been auctioned because it was =20 finance snatchbacked when the firm folded. Full service history, serviced about once a month.

Sorted him though, he was doing about 7k a year, and the boot was good=20 for his tools. Felt and drove like new even with those miles. Had it given a "major service" when he bought it, drove it for 2 years,=20 that balanced the age/mileage just a touch, 205k in 5 years, instead of=20

19k in 3, then flogged it to another taxi driver for =A3300 more than he=20 bought it.

--=20 Carl Robson Car PC Build starts again.

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Carl Gibbs waffled thus:

I know someone selling a 306 convertible if you're interested?

Probably too expensive. I'm looking in the

How do you manage to get cheap inswearance for one? I've had to resort to having another 'main' car and keeping the RR on a mileage-limited policy to get a reasonable quote...

Mine's around £400 a year, fully comp, through the RAC.

I want a better one now though, I'm considering getting an Overfinch one in the next year or so, at the moment I'd be happy if the LPG on mine worked as it should...

This one 'ere will be for sale very soon, and the LPG conversion on that one actually works rather well.

Well, I can't afford to drop the price so it depends what you'd call cheap. That said, now that I managed to get most of the service done it appears to run rather well. Just need to do the diff and transfer box oil changes now...

Does that mean I'm not welcome. ; )

Fraser