chrishill

it does look a bit odd and out of place when its up, someone (biggerbighugemassiveben?) was talking about getting theirs disabled and smoothed in, which would look well smart. Its a bit of a gimick and 'is' fun to pop up at traffic lights to see the reaction of people behind for the first few months of ownership but after the novelty wears off I found I hardly even noticed it going up/down and I deffinatly prefer the lines of the car with it down.

blowing on the passenger side? £150 from VW? got to be the windscreen washer nozle.

is that a full, all over, stripped out shell respray or just an once over?

I'd become a tea-total veggie and model citizen for that opportunity, sadly i dont think any vayron owners are going to be persuaded to part with their keys in exchange for that. euro lottery is up to 80m (or so) tonight, should be just about enough to buy, insure and keep a vayron in fuel... for a week.

the mk3's a funny old car, wheels you'd never expect to suit it end up looking the nuts! and if you thought that was wallet battering.... welcome to corrado ownership! :lol:

ouch mate, dont blame you for being sceptical about the email, but I bet you felt a bit daft when you found out it was for real!

are you and phatvr6 having a contest for the title of 'The Emelda Marcos of Wheels' or something? :D why not though eh? always nice to have options!

nice photos, just nabbed the 7th-day one for my desktop at work... but removed the 7th day text ;)

Not_Aircooled_or_Taxfree, for stright-line fun yeah, it'd be a hoot.. its just pig ugly and, having owned a micra, you'd have to invest big bucks to get the chassis anywhere near good enough to be fun on the twisties!

the little known 'march super turbo' dont think there were many made, mad little machine but I dont think it pushed massive BHP. (not) sexy mmm

mk4's seem to still go for good money (99 is a mk4 isnt it?) when i was looking there wasnt much under £4500, and a good one was more like £5500!

i dunno, i always got some perverse satisfaction from crushing their overinflated egos and misconception that a 1.4 fiesta could somehow come close to a 2.9 v6. I remember shortly after i got the VR I was driving through newcastle with a mate, taking him for a spin in the new motor but not being silly or anything, not planning to race anyone or show off. Theres a duelcarrageway with 2 sets of lights on it, about 100m between them. We stopped at the first set and an chav'd up 306 pulled along side revving away. I wasnt going to rise to the bait until the lights changed and he squealed away, he had at least a car length on me when my mate said something like 'go on!'. I caught and over took him in 1st gear, and was slowing down to stop for the next lights before I needed to change into 2nd :lol:. When they changed he pulled away normally :)

sub 10k and fun? well, if you're not fussed on practicality, you could get a nice lotus elise for that money, and the cheapest vx220's seem to be arond 10k these days...

orange certainly is less common, but IMO theres good reason for that! looking past personal tastes, I reckon it'd be harder to sell on an orange one when you wanted to. I've driven a new clio, albeit not a 182, and it was alot nicer inside than I expected, they seem fairly well put together these days, and by all accounts are more reliable, which could be something to do with the nissan involvment. I 'had' a couple of 172's in my old VR quite convincingly, although it was on the motorway, i doubt i'd have walked all over them on a back road. its a large wedge of cash for a small hatchback though.

I think part of what makes this site so good is the fact that its very focused on one VW marque, whos owners are, in general, a specific sort of person. If the forum were opened up to (for example) all makes of VW things could well change very very quickly. since buying my goof i've had alot of trouble finding a good, busy, friendly forum to ask about the ins and outs of the car, e38 forums are 'ok' but seem very quiet, ukmkiv's forum seems to know its stuff, but takes weeks to reply and the list goes on. I think this just highlights how good this 'little' community is. if more makes/cars were added to the mix it could muddy the waters of whats currently a pretty clean pool of information. (hows that for a 9am metaphor?). just my 2p :)

:lol: thats pretty funny, old duffer I remember years ago watching a guy try and do a 100 point manuver to get out of a very tight shopping center carpark space, he failed horribly and ended up ramming into the cars parked either side of him out of pure frustration, and he still didnt get out. I wasnt there long enough to see the owers of the other cars return but I'd love to have seen him explain it!

well yeah, i'm sure theres plenty of tallented american car designers, i mean in a population that big you'd expect there to be at least a handful! I guess the american car companies just stick to what they know sells well.

named the 'aztek' because its what they think the ancent race might have driven if they's invented the internal combustion engine and were all blind drunk, I assume?

I think you'd fail the MOT without them, so technically yes.

sad they have to re-hash old designs to get any sort of character into their cars, it'd be nice to see a nice 'modern' yank car for once. I guess its really all the heratige they have, so fair play. I'd still rather have one of the old ones though, those look a little too clinical and safe to be fun :)

love the garage door shot, you've captured the 'wide' look which is often elusive in photographs of the C.

tricky, fiddly and finger-skinning, but not impossible. it helps if you take the dash appart (but not out!) remove stuff like the undertrays and the speedo clocks and you should be able to get your hands in to where they need to be. the old trick of tiing the wires to a wire-coathanger works well too.

i once saw mpg in the 50's in the VR but that was a sub 30mpg trundle back from my parents house (about 10 miles) stuck behind some old biddy in a corsa and no hope of overtaking, now thats torture! still, i got to take in alot of the northumberland countryside which would normally be rushing past too quickly to apreciate.

I'm a good deal younger than you craig (not meaning to call you old!!) and my driving experiance was... lacking, i might go so far as to say i was a bit 'gung-ho' at times! maybe with a more mature head on my sholders i'd have trusted the beeps and stopped, as it was I thought I new better! :lol:

had them on a micra (the shame!) i owned ages ago, its good if you're really rubbish at parking, but i found that the beeps got more frequent until you got to a distance of about a foot away from an object, at which point the tone went constant. problem being than you sometimes need to know a bit more accuratly how far you are from something, and knowing you have a foot to go when you hear that constant tone means you're more likely to think 'just a touch further' and end up still hitting something. I did it a couple of times when trying to get into a tight space! so to sum up, in tight spaces they're not as usful as you might hope :(