Plan was for a big meal, night on the piss, and big fry up in the morming. Been the first time we have really gotten together to get mashed since my mum's funeral.
Mission accomplished on all counts. I have a lard relieved partial hangover.
but I've been thinking about his Frontera. He bought that Frontera after the Diesel Pajero he first bought turned out the be a lemon that wouldn't do more than 40MPH.
He wanted diesel again, but couldn't find one and needed another 4x4 for getting to the fields in the winter with the horse feed. So he got a petrol one that came up cheap. At first he said it was a thirsty old barge, but now he seems to like it and even took it upto Scotland last weekend for a run upto his brothers for the weekend. I asked how it was on fuel and he says "it doesn't really use much".
What are they like as a motor, I normally dislike Vx stuff after they went FWD, and the thought of a fairly ancient NA 2.4 petrol struggling to pull something as big as the Frontera It is similar colour to this one on ebay
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with leather seats.Are they any good as a truck/car/4x4. I've never even considered one because I remember being in Luton when the staff got them as "staff lease buy" deal that year and they all bought them for their kids. So I would see a load of local Yob students chugging about in brand new trucks especially the swb and convertible ones, but as they get older the LWB ones are looking a bit nicer. And I had a lift in his when we went to organise the flowers for the funeral, and it didn't lurch or clunk arround as much as I imagine an old VX would do. Mind you he did need new rear springs for the last MOT as one had broken. Not sure I would like one enough to own one as an only car(I haven't driven one yet). But maybe when money is better and I get chance for a project/hobby car for some offroading, or maybe as a car to practice stuff like car audio and car interior stuff with (lots of room to play with stuff, and if doing the interior and I f*ck up, common enough to get cheap replacements for). Is the diesel version any better than the petrol, either on economy or performance? Would you say manual or auto? Older ones are getting cheap enough to own and abuse without feeling guilty if it takes a while to put right.