car - fuel - gallons - litre

[Shultzy]

Jenx, it also comes in handy if your clutch cable brakes

 

[Digit]

I was out on a job with my son some time ago when the clutch cable on his van departed for that scrapyard in the sky.
As he was getting ready to walk I explained the procedure for driving sans clutch, he gave me the look normally reserved for dealing with the mentally deficient, or politicions, (couldn't resist that one!) and completed the eleven mile return trip with a massive grin on his face.

Roy.

 

[Shultzy]

Yes Roy how many of our younger generation would know how to drive a car or ride a bike without using the clutch?

 

[Digit]

Very very few. One of the few advantages of car ownership years ago was that most of us soon found these things out the hard way didn't we? :lol:

Roy.

 

[DaveL]

Jenx, it also comes in handy if your clutch cable brakes

In my old Humber Sceptre the hydraulic clutch pipe broke while I was in Norwich. :x
I drove back to South Benfleet, only stopped twice on that trip, the overdrive was helpful.

 

[Digit]

I started a life long love of motor bikes in 1959. Being an apprentice I could only afford the sort of design failures that no modern collector in his right mind would even look at!
Not for me the supreme delights of a 'Goldie' or a 'Tiger Ton Ten', these machines could could only be dreamt of. But my engineering and bodging skills improved in leap and bounds! :lol:

Roy.

 

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[RogerS]

You could always stick Mazola cooking oil into your diesel engine.....

 

[RogerM]

If I had to buy a car this afternoon... Skoda Octavia 2.0 Diesel Estate.
absolutely no doubt about it.
:wink:

Snap! And that is exactly what I did yesterday. Actually it was a S/H Octavia II 2.0 Tdi Elegance Hatchback with leather seats. 22,000 miles on an '05 plate for a little over £9k. Same engine and 6 speed box as my company VW Golf 2.0 Tdi which happily returns 53 mpg all day with the cruise control set to 75 mph, and still does 0 - 60 mph in 9.3 secs. Hopefully Octavia will do the same. Would have happily settled for the 1.9 which with a bit of care gives 60 mpg, but we need to tow a caravan and the extra grunt of the 2.0 ( 105 bhp vs 140 bhp) will be useful.

 

[Jenx]

Be very interested to hear how you 'get on' with it Roger ... an imminent change of job and subsequent loss of Mondeo will have me looking for 'new wheels' just shortly..

Having done endless hours of reading and research... the Octavia looks like an obvious choice.

I'm liking the look of the Lauren & Klement derivative of the estate.... thats whole lot of car for the money, and as you say, its effectively a VW, which is effectively an Audi, ......
and that kind of pedigree will do for me ! :wink:

kepp us posted on what you think !

 

[mailee]

Well I am looking ot change my 20MPG gas guzzler for something that runs on Gold dust as it is going to be much cheaper than fuel prices in the near future. Failing that I think it will have to be a horse and cart but I can envisage someone writing grafitti all over it. :lol:

 

[Jenx]

 

[frugal]

Well I am looking ot change my 20MPG gas guzzler for something that runs on Gold dust as it is going to be much cheaper than fuel prices in the near future. Failing that I think it will have to be a horse and cart but I can envisage someone writing grafitti all over it. :lol:

The price of gold has doubled in the past year. My wife keeps kicking herself for not investing in it when she was advised to.

Then again, Shoggoth our 14 year old Shogun just did 14mpg towing the 2,500kg trailer from Gloustershire to the south coast and back this weekend. We get to take it to Colchester in a couple of weeks. I reckon it will cost about 200 quid in petrol...

 

[George_N]

Then again, Shoggoth our 14 year old Shogun just did 14mpg towing the 2,500kg trailer from Gloustershire to the south coast and back this weekend. We get to take it to Colchester in a couple of weeks. I reckon it will cost about 200 quid in petrol...

Doesn't exactly sound like you're living up to your name there Frugal :wink:

 

[Digit]

Of course he's Frugal, he has to be to run those things these days! :lol:

Roy.

 

[frugal]

Then again, Shoggoth our 14 year old Shogun just did 14mpg towing the 2,500kg trailer from Gloustershire to the south coast and back this weekend. We get to take it to Colchester in a couple of weeks. I reckon it will cost about 200 quid in petrol...

Doesn't exactly sound like you're living up to your name there Frugal :wink:

At the moment my wife has started to drop me off at work on the way past and then pick me up again on the way back. It means that she starts work half an hour later than normal, but we do not need to take the shogun out, which saves £10 a day! If we can car share all year, we wil save on the order of £2,500!!!

Given that the current guess talking to some friends who work for BP is that petrol is going to go up to £1.50 a litre in the next two months econmising on car travel is going to get more and more important.

 

[Mcluma]

It means that she starts work half an hour later than normal, but we do not need to take the shogun out, which saves £10 a day!

you lazy git :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[Rich]

I have just returned with my tribe from a week away in Cardigan, the weather wasn't up to much but we had a good time, I also got to meet digit and his family, a nice man and knowledgeable, his wife is so friendly,
anyway, from sat to sat, door to door, I covered 911 miles, fuel cost me £160.00 in a Volvo 940 SE estate, 2.3, can someone clever out there tell me my MPG please?
regards,
Rich.

 

[Slim]

I have just returned with my tribe from a week away in Cardigan, the weather wasn't up to much but we had a good time, I also got to meet digit and his family, a nice man and knowledgeable, his wife is so friendly,
anyway, from sat to sat, door to door, I covered 911 miles, fuel cost me £160.00 in a Volvo 940 SE estate, 2.3, can someone clever out there tell me my MPG please?
regards,
Rich.

29.99 mpg based on 115.9p per litre of unleaded.

 

[Digit]

Roy.