What did you do today?

[Hooli]

I've always found Sprinters much worse, designed by a committee that aren't talking to each other.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

I've driven most vans and the Vivaro/ Trafic gens 1 and 2 are the only ones that actually drive like cars, i.e properly. The cabin is much longer so you can stretch out. The new Vivaro is a Peugeot and I don't know what they're like.

[DodgeRover]

How many Polish guys did you upset when you had all the good bits off already?

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

DILLIGAF?

[PhilA]

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I've just been driving the shit out of this. It is performing duties of Car quite well, though I backed the auto-choke off a little much the other day which has made it noticably harder to start.

Phil

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

It's not my era for Yanks, but nice to see one being used as a car. How much old stuff do you see on the roads out there? My Mum lives in Canada and the cars are as depressing as they are here. I've only ever seen a 1958 Impala being driven.

[PhilA]

It's not my era for Yanks, but nice to see one being used as a car. How much old stuff do you see on the roads out there? My Mum lives in Canada and the cars are as depressing as they are here. I've only ever seen a 1958 Impala being driven.

These days, nothing older than about 25 years really.
However, there's a few factors involved in that.

First, hurricane Katrina did a number on a lot of vehicles, meaning a lot got scrapped due to flood damage and were replaced new. So that sets 2005 as a step date for a lot of cars.
Second, the mechanical design life of most cars and easy parts replacement is about 20-25 years, so beyond that a lot of cars get replaced when they're worn out mechanically.

So that sets the date around there for here but no, seeing something from the seventies or even eighties is becoming significantly more rare these days.

There are cars being driven about that are from that era but we suffer the same thing as y'all do there- nobody wants the cooking base models so inevitably there's many more cars from the seventies with big displacement v8's and automatic transmissions than actually rolled out as a model. Everyone wants the GT, the SS, the 427.
Nobody wants the 218, the six, manual steering.

[xtriple]

Checked the tyre pressures (all correct) and topped up the screenwash again as it seems to leak a bit. The sensible thing would be to have a butchers at the screenwash tank but it's buried behind the wheel arch liner and holds about 8 litres (seriously) so it will have to keep on leaking until sometime in 2023 when I finally get so annoyed with it I pay someone to take the wheel off and get it out.

Yes, I am well aware that taking a wheel off is hardly taxing any mechanical aptitude but... not for me anymore it seems

[LynehamHerc]

You could always look at Eddie's CBW for ideas as to how to get the wheel off with no real effort.

[paulplom]

Or bounce it up that traffic island that warran t was on about. If nowt else it'll loosen it a bit.