Super Southern Meet (turn it up to) XI

Howard said:
How come? If you don't mind me asking.
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Short story - sold it.

Long story. New job meaning longer commute, girlfriend moving in meaning I don't have as much time to tinker with a car every weekend. Even when I do work on it, I have to use my dad's garage as my house is on road parking. I've spent loads on it as you know but other stuff kept cropping up so it's stopped becoming about the money and more about the hassle factor of an older car. Decided a few weeks ago to advertise it at what I thought was a silly price - I figured if it sold for a high price then it was worth doing, otherwise I'd keep it. Got an offer which meant that the 6 months of ownership have cost about £250 a month all in to run and maintain - which is high but not devastating.

So accepted that and trying to find myself a well equipped reasonably new and nice to drive focus size hatch of some sort. Probably going to be a Diagro spec Mazda3, sans MPS bits obviously :)
 
Sort of sad I live so far away (not really though it's lovely down 'ere!) so many fine looking men and their wonderful machines all in one place, think of me boys x
 
iaind said:
Short story - sold it.

Long story. New job meaning longer commute, girlfriend moving in meaning I don't have as much time to tinker with a car every weekend. Even when I do work on it, I have to use my dad's garage as my house is on road parking. I've spent loads on it as you know but other stuff kept cropping up so it's stopped becoming about the money and more about the hassle factor of an older car. Decided a few weeks ago to advertise it at what I thought was a silly price - I figured if it sold for a high price then it was worth doing, otherwise I'd keep it. Got an offer which meant that the 6 months of ownership have cost about £250 a month all in to run and maintain - which is high but not devastating.

So accepted that and trying to find myself a well equipped reasonably new and nice to drive focus size hatch of some sort. Probably going to be a Diagro spec Mazda3, sans MPS bits obviously :)
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Fair enough! Understandable how life often gets in the way of certain things. I'd have another 'toy' car myself if I had the time, space, and money.






You know you want a Mondeo.
 
Howard said:
Fair enough! Understandable how life often gets in the way of certain things.






You know you want a Mondeo.
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Yeah and to be honest I've got to the point where I've had my fun, I've always wanted one so can tick it off the list. I've had a hot hatch, a 4wd v6 and the Saab I've always wanted in the last 18 months or so - I've got a lot of it out of my system and happy to return to something boring.

I do fancy stepping a size down really. Like I said it's on road parking and it's really annoying when there's a space outside my door that's 6 inches shorter than the car. Focus would be nice but the budget (circa 8k) is right on the border of the top end of the old shape or the low spec undesirable new shape ones. Not set on a diesel but I want reasonable fuel economy so it probably will be a derv. We had a mazda 3 as a pool car in my last job and always really liked driving it, my only gripe was the 1.6D was a bit slow but not as bad as you'd think. So I can't see a reason not to get a 2.2 sport one, good 2011 cars are 6-7k with tons of kit on them
 
Hopefully you'll make it to the next meet then!


I'm gonna aim to get straight to the pub for around 11:45ish and I'll park in the field bit.
 
I now have a clean car.

Just need to bleed the clutch and see if that helps with 1st engaging without having to select 2nd or 3rd before.
 
Plot twist ... Some Bloke called Darren from down the pub - Ford Focus ST is actually coming now , plus he will be being his buddy Artu as a passenger or he be driving his Fabia vRS

I have cleaned my car as well ... actually got someone else to do it :)
 
For those meeting a Cobham - Are you heading down the A31 are Guildford or sticking to the A3?

I fancy filming a Hindhead Tunnel blast on the A3 so I may split off if you're doing the A31.
 
Both are virtually the same time/length so no difference there but I don't use either A3/A31 to know which is "quicker/more fun" on a Saturday morning but I'll be going down the A3 to the tunnel regardless.

The fact there's NSL speed camera's in the tunnel now actually makes it better as before people would go too fast to enjoy the exhaust noise and just end up just hearing wind noise instead. Now you can do 40-70mph pulls and hear the noise!
 
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