So what do you drive ? - Page 10

**GTRMagic** · 22 Sep 2007, 23:45 (Ref:2020712)

The Magna fuel computer i usually accurate to within 2%... whic is helpful, but doesnt improve the consumption

Something new might make more sense... with less weight, less driving wheels...

STEALTHY · 23 Sep 2007, 00:49 (Ref:2020727)

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Originally Posted by GTRMagic

The Magna fuel computer i usually accurate to within 2%... whic is helpful, but doesnt improve the consumption

Something new might make more sense... with less weight, less driving wheels...

My V8 is a 93 model (hardly new) but it is injected, which is ****loads better than the carby of a few years (5) earlier.

The point is, for a newish Magna, thats still a mighty high average. I think you'd have to be sitting flat out on 180 for a few 100 k's to get it that high.

Adri_tifosi · 23 Sep 2007, 12:03 (Ref:2020911)

2002 Renault Megane Coupe 1.4 16v

**GTRMagic** · 24 Sep 2007, 08:31 (Ref:2021500)

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Originally Posted by STEALTHY

My V8 is a 93 model (hardly new) but it is injected, which is ****loads better than the carby of a few years (5) earlier.

The point is, for a newish Magna, thats still a mighty high average. I think you'd have to be sitting flat out on 180 for a few 100 k's to get it that high.

I keep having the exact same discussion with the geniuses at the dealer's service department.... my last Magna, also a 3.5 was almost 4L/100 km better on fuel

Peter Nightingale · 25 Sep 2007, 03:59 (Ref:2022253)

certainly not a GM or FORD product...........

henk4 · 25 Sep 2007, 06:02 (Ref:2022282)

Citroen C5 2.2Hdi-FAP Estate, 2002, chipped to 160+ BHP. Just due for its 100,000 mile service

http://img221.imageshack.us/my.php?i...fap221sxe9.jpg

DanFord · 25 Sep 2007, 16:38 (Ref:2022782)

My car

converted to RWD and 400ish bhp

and this is my other run around

around the 300ish bhp

btcckid · 30 Sep 2007, 19:26 (Ref:2027225)

nice cossie's- im guessing they are

i can't drive yet (15 years old) but my first car i would like would be a saxo(good for modifying)
then when im older-maybe a skyline or supra-they are stunning cars.
my taxi to school is a bmw 1.8-its so smooth so im lucky there i suppose!

redshoes · 1 Oct 2007, 17:04 (Ref:2028095)

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Originally Posted by btcckid

my first car i would like would be a saxo(good for modifying)

Nothing wrong with a Saxo as a first car, but modified??? Please, no!!

I guess you mean the usual badly fitting bodykit, oversized aftermarket 'zorst and boot full of bass speakers. You'll spend a small fortune and be left with a car with minimal resale value. Just look on eBay - pages and pages of half finished 'projects', usually with badly cracked filler where the bodykit was fitted, front spoiler smashed against every road bump, half covered in primer.

Don't try the usual "it's cheap to insure" line. A bog standard Saxo is cheap to insure, but you need to declare the ICE, alloys, bodykit, etc. All of which bumps up the premium. Unless you don't declare the mods, which means your policy becomes void and you are driving around uninsured.

I've nothing against modified cars as such. Dan's Escort Cossie lookalike may not be to everyone's taste but at least it appears to have the performance to match. No matter what you do to a Saxo it's only ever going to be a glorified shopping basket. The world needs another barried Saxo like I need a third armpit.

btcckid · 1 Oct 2007, 18:00 (Ref:2028146)

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Originally Posted by redshoes

Nothing wrong with a Saxo as a first car, but modified??? Please, no!!

I guess you mean the usual badly fitting bodykit, oversized aftermarket 'zorst and boot full of bass speakers. You'll spend a small fortune and be left with a car with minimal resale value. Just look on eBay - pages and pages of half finished 'projects', usually with badly cracked filler where the bodykit was fitted, front spoiler smashed against every road bump, half covered in primer.

Don't try the usual "it's cheap to insure" line. A bog standard Saxo is cheap to insure, but you need to declare the ICE, alloys, bodykit, etc. All of which bumps up the premium. Unless you don't declare the mods, which means your policy becomes void and you are driving around uninsured.

I've nothing against modified cars as such. Dan's Escort Cossie lookalike may not be to everyone's taste but at least it appears to have the performance to match. No matter what you do to a Saxo it's only ever going to be a glorified shopping basket. The world needs another barried Saxo like I need a third armpit.

oh dear-you have put me off buying to modify now!-the only thing i wasn't gonna put in anyway was many speakers-im not into that style of music. i knew you payed more for modded engines but not for ice and bodykit etc...
i hate insurance now u said that...im guessing everyone hates them

redshoes · 1 Oct 2007, 18:22 (Ref:2028168)

Result

In theory any non-standard equipment needs to be declared.

Expensive stereo = more chance that someone will put a brick through the window and steal it = more chance you will make a claim = greater insurance risk = bigger premium.

Body kit = more expensive to repair = bigger claim = bigger premium.

and so on

Rockmunky · 1 Oct 2007, 21:43 (Ref:2028353)

Just found a nice Fiesta 1.25 zetec for £550... maybe I could get my dad to buy it and owe him the money.. it'll be gone before I know it.

btcckid · 2 Oct 2007, 17:44 (Ref:2029148)

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Originally Posted by redshoes

Result

hahahaha-seriously-thanks for the info-im guessing that applies to all modded and valuble cars

dj choc ice · 2 Oct 2007, 19:07 (Ref:2029241)

Quote:

Originally Posted by redshoes

Result

In theory any non-standard equipment needs to be declared.

Expensive stereo = more chance that someone will put a brick through the window and steal it = more chance you will make a claim = greater insurance risk = bigger premium.

Body kit = more expensive to repair = bigger claim = bigger premium.

and so on

true true, you just saved a soul from utter humiliation when he drived up to a nightclub, however as for me im thinking of putting some peugeot 106 GTI alloys on my pug, make it look a little bit nicer but im not keen on having my insurance bumped up just because of a nicer set of wheels.

ah well im thinking on the lines of a new fiat 500 sport, it was on fifth gear last night and looks like one sexy little car, maybe on my gap year before going to uni i can find a cheap one and with full time work for that year maybe pay it off or atleast most of it before going to uni.

AND TOP GEAR IS BACK ON THIS WEEKEND!

btcckid · 3 Oct 2007, 18:06 (Ref:2030076)

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Originally Posted by dj choc ice

ah well im thinking on the lines of a new fiat 500 sport, it was on fifth gear last night and looks like one sexy little car,

AND TOP GEAR IS BACK ON THIS WEEKEND!

top gear will tell u what to get-they are much better then fifth gear!

angelamia · 13 Oct 2007, 00:27 (Ref:2038937)

i drive one of these http://www.zannel.com/viewupdate.htm?id=I95N75CBQB

but older. and like 2 weeks ago i scraped up the front bumper on the wall next to my parking spot, and then rear ended someone cuz my breaks didnt stop me in the rain on an offramp and i lost my VW Badge. *sigh* i'm so embarrased.

I really want a mini S convertible but it's clear i cant have nice things.

dj choc ice · 15 Oct 2007, 13:42 (Ref:2040725)

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Originally Posted by btcckid

top gear will tell u what to get-they are much better then fifth gear!

hmmmm, jason potato?, no wait baked potato

.

seriosuly though the fiat 500 sport is a seriosuly nice looking car and according to fifth gear guy with fuzzy hair its very very good.

it beats a mini cooper, fifth gear guy was sick in one.

Rockmunky · 16 Oct 2007, 15:10 (Ref:2041836)

Wow! I've just been quoted £1000 car insurance for a 2001 Vauxhall Corsa, i know they're not as good as the Fiesta, but if it's that much cheaper overall, I'm seriously tempted.

**bella** · 16 Oct 2007, 16:36 (Ref:2041941)

to be fair, until you're old enough to pull girls, it doesn't really matter what you drive

. save the money on the insurance, definitely. parts and servicing can't vary that much?

Rockmunky · 16 Oct 2007, 17:42 (Ref:2042015)

Well.. the RAC wanted £3000 for the same car!
Who said anything about pulling girls?

Mike_Wooshy · 17 Oct 2007, 07:38 (Ref:2042400)

No one said anything about pulling girls, but its the way things go !

so yes save untill your old enough for a nicer car, well thats my advice.
For what its worth My first car was A Ford feista, now I own a Ford Feista RS1800,
Only reason i can afford it is because or My NCB i built up.

**chunterer** · 17 Oct 2007, 08:27 (Ref:2042437)

Sound advice from Mike there I think. £1k-3k to insure a Corsa!!!! - Jeez, how's anyone supposed to afford that?!!!

I think you just need to get yourself a sensible cheap set of wheels and don't shunt it for a year or two then the premiums should start to come down.

When I look back, it cost a couple of hundred quid to insure a Panda or similar little car in early 90's - a frightening amount of money back then, so I had little choice but to go on as name driver on my mum's policy in order to drive anything!

Rockmunky · 18 Oct 2007, 17:33 (Ref:2043808)

Well, by adding my dad on there my premium came down a bit. But yes, it's a hell of alot of money. More than the cost of the car if i do buy it.

Oh well, providing i don't crash or anything naughty like that, it will eventually fall..

johnh875 · 19 Oct 2007, 01:10 (Ref:2044124)

For a very cheap car, it would be worth looking at third-party only cover if you have the option. So long as you could afford to repair/replace your own car if need be - as always the question with insurance is "can you afford not to have it?"

**chunterer** · 19 Oct 2007, 08:24 (Ref:2044328)

3rd party is a good one, as long as it's for a right old shed and not something you intend to cherish or spend any money on!!

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