New Wheels :-)

Cool - we could turn this into a long-running saga, where you trade your way up to

We'd all die of boredom I suspect ;-)

Few pics here.

If you know what a Silver P reg A4 looks like, don't bother clicking the link - there will be no surprises :-)

Looks tidy enough. Never thought about the A4 as being that old a design. Guess it must be unless that is some kind of personal plate.

Elder gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying:

It certainly is - I considered one as a co.car - but got an Alfa 155 instead. Which was on a P-plate.

The 'GE' bit is fairly common up here as it's a Glasgow registration, I've just checked and it's February '97 so it really is that old.

Anyway - there it is. Scrubs up not too bad and I'm £142 a month better off. It's got around 15,000 miles less showing than the Golf too and feel much fresher into the bargain.

Since escaping the Golf, I really had been quite happy thrashing the little Skoda about and enjoying it for what it is. It's only when you get into a well made car again, even an old one, that you notice all those details that are just better made. Some small details, some fairly collossal details it has to be said. Maybe the alloys being a good bit newer too help take a few years off it too.

looks tidy enough, quite like that and for silly banger money too. does it have A/C?

No it does not. I shouldn't imagine it would have still worked if it had been fitted.

It's more like an extra powerful heater that's needed up here rather than soemthing to chill the air ;-)

Or maybe just drying it with moderate cooling, depending on how the system is set up? ;)

I should have known that someone would get me on a technicality. I'm almost as tight as you - it would never have been on.

LOL!

...and yet...

Most systems cool the air to the specified temperature (four degrees) and then heat it afterwards. Saab, however, use a variable displacement compressor, which means it doesn't chill the air down to the lowest it can, but instead it can reduce the cooling factor and reduce the engine load, so, yeah okay, so reduce the fuel consumption penalty.

Okay as you were...

For what it's worth, I leave the Saab's ACC in auto all of the time, as it varies the load on the compressor so that I don't feel it cycle in. Ever.