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Author:  oceanicitl [ Mon Apr 11, 2011 2:15 pm ]
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We got a new car! Not new new but new to us. Pick it up Thursday. Silver Vauxhall Astra 2003 1.8 sxi.

Woohoo!

My puma will finally be going to the scrap yard - had her about 7 years so she's had a good innings

:)

\0/
Author:  JJW009 [ Mon Apr 11, 2011 3:27 pm ]
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I really quite like the Astra. The ones I've been in drive very nicely and handle well, and they're practical. The only reason I've never bought one is because the adverts used to be so incredibly nauseating. Remember the one with the babies?

I've just been shopping today. I've got a couple of days off for gardening, so I needed a nice new roll of stringy stuff for the strimmer. Not quite a new car, but hey :lol:

Also bought stuff to do the fence and driveway. Needless to say, it's started raining :roll:
Author:  jonbwfc [ Mon Apr 11, 2011 3:47 pm ]
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I have to be honest with you, I've seen two people driving like absolute knobheads (i.e. actually dangerous) in the last week or so have both been driving Astra. One of whome decided to turn left at a set of traffic lights despite being in the right hand lane and the other who decided to overtake a queue of more slowly moving traffic, which must have been about 6 cars long, even though the road had those central traffic islands. His solution? Go round the other side of the traffic islands, even though there was oncoming traffic doing 50MPH.

I have no reason to assume you're not a careful and contentious driver but still, some cars do end up giving their drivers a bad reputation...

Jon
Author:  oceanicitl [ Mon Apr 11, 2011 3:57 pm ]
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jonbwfc wrote:
I have to be honest with you, I've seen two people driving like absolute knobheads (i.e. actually dangerous) in the last week or so have both been driving Astra. One of whome decided to turn left at a set of traffic lights despite being in the right hand lane and the other who decided to overtake a queue of more slowly moving traffic, which must have been about 6 cars long, even though the road had those central traffic islands. His solution? Go round the other side of the traffic islands, even though there was oncoming traffic doing 50MPH.

I have no reason to assume you're not a careful and contentious driver but still, some cars do end up giving their drivers a bad reputation...

Jon


I could say the same about Ford Focus drivers, biggest bunch of smeeeegggg heeeeaaaaads I've ever come across. Don't tar us all with the same brush and I am not an Astra driver YET. Still got the puma vroom vroom! lol ;)
Author:  JJW009 [ Mon Apr 11, 2011 3:59 pm ]
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oceanicitl wrote:
I could say the same about Ford Focus drivers, biggest bunch of smeeeegggg heeeeaaaaads I've ever come across.

Guess what I've got :oops:
Author:  ProfessorF [ Mon Apr 11, 2011 4:00 pm ]
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At least it's not an Audi.
Author:  oceanicitl [ Mon Apr 11, 2011 4:01 pm ]
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JJW009 wrote:
oceanicitl wrote:
I could say the same about Ford Focus drivers, biggest bunch of smeeeegggg heeeeaaaaads I've ever come across.

Guess what I've got :oops:


Yeah but I bet you're not a smeg head lol ;)
Author:  oceanicitl [ Mon Apr 11, 2011 4:01 pm ]
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ProfessorF wrote:
At least it's not an Audi.


No Audi's are over rated and really expensive to run. My A3 cost £800 every time it went in the garage.
Author:  l3v1ck [ Mon Apr 11, 2011 4:44 pm ]
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oceanicitl wrote:
My A3 cost £800 every time it went in the garage.
:shock: Blimey that's a lot for a small car.
Author:  AlunD [ Mon Apr 11, 2011 5:34 pm ]
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oceanicitl wrote:
ProfessorF wrote:
At least it's not an Audi.


No Audi's are over rated and really expensive to run. My A3 cost £800 every time it went in the garage.
Growls nothing wrong with Audi's.
Author:  l3v1ck [ Mon Apr 11, 2011 5:36 pm ]
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oceanicitl wrote:
My puma will finally be going to the scrap yard - had her about 7 years so she's had a good innings
How many miles did it have on the clock?
Author:  JJW009 [ Mon Apr 11, 2011 5:42 pm ]
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l3v1ck wrote:
oceanicitl wrote:
My puma will finally be going to the scrap yard - had her about 7 years so she's had a good innings
How many miles did it have on the clock?

How heavy is a puma? Is it corroded? I've been looking for a fairly light car with a decent body but knackered mechanics for a little project involving a milk float and a small nuclear reactor...
Author:  ProfessorF [ Mon Apr 11, 2011 5:46 pm ]
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Does it have to reach 88mph?
Author:  l3v1ck [ Mon Apr 11, 2011 5:49 pm ]
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ProfessorF wrote:
Does it have to reach 88mph?

Quote:
Marty: Casually. Oh Doc, I tore a hole in the gas tank. We'll have to
patch it up and get gas.

Doc: Frozen in place, expression changes. You mean we're out of gas?

Marty: (Still unaware of what's wrong.) Yeah, no big deal, we got Mr.
Fusion, right?

Doc: Mr. Fusion powers the time circuits and the flux capacitor. But
the internal combustion engine runs on ordinary gasoline; it always
has. There's not going to be a gas station around here until some time
in the next century. Without gasoline, we can't get the DeLorean up to
88 miles per hour.

He needs the milk float to get to 88mph. :o ;) :lol:
Author:  jonbwfc [ Mon Apr 11, 2011 6:07 pm ]
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JJW009 wrote:
l3v1ck wrote:
oceanicitl wrote:
My puma will finally be going to the scrap yard - had her about 7 years so she's had a good innings
How many miles did it have on the clock?

How heavy is a puma?

About the same weight as a Fiesta with the same engine, given that's pretty much what it is...

Jon
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