Bye bye Rangie

commited said:
at least it wasn't the S2000!
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NEVER!

The only thing that will replace the S2000 is an F-Type or a 997 Turbo Cabriolet. I can afford neither.

mikeh501 said:
im guessing the rangie bills started spiralling out of control and you got shot of it before it bankrupted you :D CRV pffft
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It has been surprisingly cheap to run (excluding fuel and road tax). A local specialist has been doing work on it and his rates are very reasonable. Parts are pretty cheap too.
 
My wife has a 10 plate petrol CR-V, automatic.

It's comfortable with arm rests, but the engine is gutless and it's horrible trying to make swift progress anywhere. The Sat-Nav stereo is irritating. Even if you left the volume on '0', the next time you turn on the ignition, it will blast out at volume and then put itself back down to '0'.

When I drive it on the motorway, I now resort to pressing the button on the auto stick to knock it back into 3rd to overtake.
 
!bluetonic! said:
My wife has a 10 plate petrol CR-V, automatic.

It's comfortable with arm rests, but the engine is gutless and it's horrible trying to make swift progress anywhere. The Sat-Nav stereo is irritating. Even if you left the volume on '0', the next time you turn on the ignition, it will blast out at volume and then put itself back down to '0'.

When I drive it on the motorway, I now resort to pressing the button on the auto stick to knock it back into 3rd to overtake.
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Hmm. I didn't find it gutless on the test drive. Adequate would be the best way to describe it. 0-60 is just over 10s.
This is of course for the manual. I've no idea what the auto is like.
 
Personally I think you should have back handed her and tell her to have a quiet word with herself, absolute ridiculous excuse to get rid of a car, all you have to do is leave your left leg on the rest and the right one do most of the work, as it normally does in a manual anyway.

*facepalm* :confused:
 
Uncle_Gravy said:
Personally I think you should have back handed her and tell her to have a quiet word with herself, absolute ridiculous excuse to get rid of a car, all you have to do is leave your left leg on the rest and the right one do most of the work, as it normally does in a manual anyway.

*facepalm* :confused:
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I think it's the feeling of lack of control that she couldn't get used to. She felt that the car was always running away from her and she also kept putting both feet on the brake when pulling up, resulting in an emergency stop.

I don't get it myself. I can swap from manual to auto and back without thinking about it. I guess some people just can't.
 
Its an odd one but does seem to be true that some brains are a bit...automatic dysfunctional

Last time we were in the states a mate kept slamming on the brakes every time he was coming to a stop, said the pedal seemed overly sensitive so I tried the car and couldn't see what he was talking about.

About 4days later I happened to be in the same car as him ( 2 cars I always drove the second).....realised he had been left foot braking the whole time, absute dumpling
 
Did you lose anything on the Range Rover?

I can't say i'd be happy if my girlfriend did that to me. She'd get told to get the bus.

She came to me yesterday to say that there was a scraping sound on the Fabia when breaking. I had a look - pad has worn away completely and scored the disk to hell. Wonderful. I love it when I get warnings about these things. :/
 
Tute said:
Did you lose anything on the Range Rover?

I can't say i'd be happy if my girlfriend did that to me. She'd get told to get the bus.

She came to me yesterday to say that there was a scraping sound on the Fabia when breaking. I had a look - pad has worn away completely and scored the disk to hell. Wonderful. I love it when I get warnings about these things. :/
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I lost a couple of k. No bother really. At the end of the day I just want her to be happy.

Unfortunately the bus isn't really an option. We have a 3 week old baby now.
 
There sure are some wise guys on this forum. It was only a question and as you can see from op, nothing was stated about mileage or the sort trips OP goes on.

Some people need to stop getting offended on behalf do someone else. :rolleyes:
 
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