) of your XM collection, or perhaps searching for those elusive headlight washer covers? This is the place to do it.Hope this checks out for you Rob, it might teach me to check autotrader more often.ragger wrote:Well, I'm getting the train to London on Saturday!
Always a gamble but I travel with optimism.
Rob
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Ken Newbold
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Bought and brought home the 250 miles. Picking it up in London, I'd driven for 45 minutes before I got it up to 4th gear - what a dreadful place to be a driver!
Bodywork is shabby with lots of peeled lacquer and a couple of bits of plastic trim missing. The interior is fine and the load area does not look to have been abused. It drove well and with expected economy. In looks it doesn't compare well with my 2.0 petrol saloon (auto) but it is very practical and cheap to run. I shall run it for a month or so and decide if it is the one to keep or whether SWMBO will get her way and persuade me to spend an awful lot more money on something more modern.
I'm only a pensioner, you know!
Rob
Bodywork is shabby with lots of peeled lacquer and a couple of bits of plastic trim missing. The interior is fine and the load area does not look to have been abused. It drove well and with expected economy. In looks it doesn't compare well with my 2.0 petrol saloon (auto) but it is very practical and cheap to run. I shall run it for a month or so and decide if it is the one to keep or whether SWMBO will get her way and persuade me to spend an awful lot more money on something more modern.
I'm only a pensioner, you know!
Rob
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The estates will always work harder for their keep so the appearance will suffer more easily than an infrequent
use saloon will; add to this the fact they're a whole lot bigger to manoeuvre about and there's more chance of
a dink or scrape. Drivers these days seem to think their Ford Ka's ate 10 foot wide too which must make piloting
a genuinely large car a whole new level of inept woeful driving so inevitably it will end in tears.
Citroenmad Chris paid substantially more for his red estate and still got the bodywork respray paint matched along
one side. You say it drives well and is economical - those are usually the hard bits to get 100% on any car but the
bodywork/appearance is something that can be fettled at your leisure.
Andrew
use saloon will; add to this the fact they're a whole lot bigger to manoeuvre about and there's more chance of
a dink or scrape. Drivers these days seem to think their Ford Ka's ate 10 foot wide too which must make piloting
a genuinely large car a whole new level of inept woeful driving so inevitably it will end in tears.
Citroenmad Chris paid substantially more for his red estate and still got the bodywork respray paint matched along
one side. You say it drives well and is economical - those are usually the hard bits to get 100% on any car but the
bodywork/appearance is something that can be fettled at your leisure.
Andrew