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Post by racingteatray on Jan 15, 2024 10:30:36 GMT
To be fair it's had an easy life! It's always enjoyed off-street parking, has only just over 22k miles on the clock and has been serviced religiously every year irrespective of mileage.
The acme of a "one careful lady owner" car.
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Post by Grampa on Jan 15, 2024 10:31:02 GMT
A venture into the wilder parts of Wales got the Elgrand covered in shit and mud yesterday - gold does seem quite a good colour for hiding just how dirty it was though.
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Post by johnc on Jan 15, 2024 10:54:10 GMT
Have you tried gummi pflege on the door seals? The Range Rover suffered from frozen door seals unless you ran the FBH for a good 30mins, but that solved it. I’d also recommend the ‘Swedish Ice Scraper’, it’s great at tackling thick ice. It was -3c at home this morning after raining quite a bit yesterday evening, so everything was frozen. I activated the heating through the app about 25mins before I was due to leave and it was fully defrosted and very toasty inside. Yes, I have gummi pflege which I use on the boot rubbers but on the M5 doors, it isn't the rubber bit that sticks - it has a secondary seal which is made of something similar to a draught excluder strip and it's that bit that sticks. I haven't bothered to put anything on the door seals of the courtesy Mercedes CLA!
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Post by Martin on Jan 15, 2024 11:31:43 GMT
I have a real problem with the 911 at this time of year as the windows have to drop down to open the doors. You can pull the door open without the windows dropping but you can hear the electrical motors having a melt down. Then when you try and shut the doors they wont because the window hasn't dropped. I really don't feel like peeing on the doors every morning so a better solution would be gratefully received. Keeping it in a garage is the best solution! If that’s not an option, then worth trying this for under a fiver. amzn.eu/d/an8eOrz
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Jan 15, 2024 11:39:23 GMT
It never ceases to amaze me how clean the X3 manages to stay. I paid (or was conned, depending on how you look at it) to have the BMW paintwork protection applied and it still beads up really well. That, and with it being silver - a colour I find always looks pretty clean, I can get away with washing it fairly infrequently. There a also some mouldings along the bottom of the doors that seem to prevent much of the road muck being thrown up the flanks.
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Post by Alex on Jan 15, 2024 20:45:30 GMT
[quote author=" Grampa"[/quote]Hard to get your head around the fact that a 63 plate is now over 10 years old and yours seems none the worse for it - seems like only yesterday that our 65 plate Mini Clubman was a nearly new car and already it's 8 years old.[/quote] Think that's difficult to fathom. Try getting your head around the fact that this year is the 20 year anniversary of the release of the mk5 Golf. Not the 4, the 5!
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Post by bryan on Jan 16, 2024 7:13:14 GMT
Or that the MK2 Golf becomes eligible for historic status this year!
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Post by Grampa on Jan 16, 2024 15:02:06 GMT
Hard to get your head around the fact that a 63 plate is now over 10 years old and yours seems none the worse for it - seems like only yesterday that our 65 plate Mini Clubman was a nearly new car and already it's 8 years old.[/quote] Think that's difficult to fathom. Try getting your head around the fact that this year is the 20 year anniversary of the release of the mk5 Golf. Not the 4, the 5! [/quote] Notable for the moment when, for me, it started to go downhill - the Mk3 VR6 being, for me, the highlight closely followed by the Mk4 R32 and the Mk2 16V (the VR6 was the only time I came very close to buying one)
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Post by Alex on Jan 17, 2024 6:16:25 GMT
The Golf was a great car in mk7 guise. Its the latest one that's the problem. The mk5 was a massive improvement on the mk4 and was the basis for your Scirocco so must have had something right about it.
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Post by Grampa on Jan 23, 2024 12:23:15 GMT
The Golf was a great car in mk7 guise. Its the latest one that's the problem. The mk5 was a massive improvement on the mk4 and was the basis for your Scirocco so must have had something right about it. The underpinnings were a big improvement but the parts you see (which for me is a big part of the way you engage with a car) suddenly became very boring and bland.
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