My 8V is looking rather lovely, having been polished up and so on. Runs perfect, goes like stink, needs the suspension fettling but is a bloody good car.
However, I'm moving to Sheffield soon, which is making me worry about the thing getting broken into. My old 16V is still sat on the yard (nobody can start it) after having the cobra immobiliser ripped out of it by scrotes with less brains than Remus and that bloke who goes on about that barry boys website's lovechild. The 8v now has an disklock on the steering wheel whenever it's left alone, but I'm still worried about it.
Do I fit driver badges, lay it up in the shed, or flog it and get a diseasel ZX that only the blind would want to steal?
make it look bog standard i would, hide the GTi badge in a draw in the house for a bit and stick 1.4 GL or something on the back and maybe fit a good immob
Unless you're mad enough to be moving to Manor Park, then I can't see there being a problem :)
If you're talking about theft of the car itself, the only real prevention is something modern. It's pretty much impossible to take a modern car without the keys or a tow-truck - but the thieves will happily try to obtain one or the other.
If you're talking about theft from the car, then you're screwed whatever. Modern windows are just as eaily smashed :) You need some security film -
95mph on the A7, lots of 4th gear, little bit of >100 along Foutainhall. I can drive fast when I want.
I mean, I drove from Jedburgh to Southend - 380 miles - at motorway speeds (so, around 85) with the sunroof open. I was running on Optimax all the time then, and it did the trip on £30 worth of fuel, 46mpg.
I honestly, truly, am not kidding here. Filled at Jedburgh with Optimax, reset the trip meter, drove, got into Southend with just below 1/2 showing, filled at the first Shell garage I found, and it took exactly £30.
I was convinced the MFA was screwed. I worked it out on my phone a few times because I didn't believe the MFA (after all, my 2.9 Scorpio used to say it was doing 33mpg average) - and it turned out the MFA was out.
By .1 mpg.
On the pessimistic side.
I don't think I'm an unusually economical driver. I get 33mpg from the Beetle average, the Supra I don't even want to think about. I have strong hooligan tendencies (50 miles of A roads, with two towns (done at
30 totalling 5.7 miles of slow traffic), done in 45 minutes in the 2.3 Scorpio Estate - cornering at 110 near Soutra Aisle).
When I swapped it for the Sera, I deliberate drove to get the best economy. By this time I'll assume to trust the average the MFA gave me.
I handed it over displaying 52mpg average.
I wish they bloody did still make them. Best car ever made IMO (excluding silly non-mass produced stuff or supercars, of course).
Damn, that'd be nice. My Trip Computer's been sat at a 25.9mpg average for the past few thousand miles - which would be fine, if there hadn't been quite a few lengthy motorway trips in that time :/
Heh, my ultra modern 1.6 has given 47mpg over a 65 mile journey, with a boot full of stuff in, about 2/3 dual carriageway dispatched at 80/85, the rest of it A roads dispatched at 70. I was quite proud :)
Of course, normally i get about 32mpg, just blasting between here and filey/scarborough on cold engine round the twisties :D
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