Paging the amateur car mechanics

I once tendered for the Hyundai Import Centre leather business around
1997. I was too expensive at £475 a car fitted when turning around 10
sets at a time. The company who got the deal pitched at £385ish IIRC.
At the time a good 50sq ft hide cost about 100 quid and you'd need 1
1/2 to do the facings on a Coupe, plus labour, collection, delivery
etc. That says volumes about the quality of the leather they went with.

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Lozzo
SV650S K5, ZX-7R P4, CBR600F-W, SR250 SpazzTrakka, SR250 Project
SpazzCaffer
I see a bright new future, where chickens can cross the road with no
fear of having their motives questioned

 

Do a search on google using WUN and Ryan air as keywords. You're not
dealing with a normal thinking person here.

 

A mate of mine took around a 9K bath on a Forester that lunched it's
engine around 2 - 3years back. I can't recall the exact details[1] but
something to do with a head warping. After fixing in continued to give
trouble and is now outed in favour of a Skoda superb.

[1] I could find out.

 

No. For a five year-old car? Nah.

They will just not get my business again.

 

This is the point - these are the 'old' Nissans, before bloody Renault
managed to **** things up.

 

You've reminded me now - that's what happened to my mate's Legacy. The
head gasket blew & warped the head.

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Krusty

'03 Tiger 955i
'02 MV Senna (for sale) '96 Tiger (for sale)
'79 Fantic Hiro 250 (for sale) '81 Corvette (for sale)

 

[snip shit happening]

Sheesh, I would say so!

That could put P off another Nissan[1], although...

P's has been absolutely fine. Condensation is an issue but it's never
failed her.

[1] She keeps looking at Qashqais and going "oooh, that's nice" even
though she's rabidly anti-4x4[2]. I reckon she should look at the
A-Class but because some bloke at work told her that the manual isn't
all that[3] she won't even look at one at the moment.
[2] Not all of them are actual 4x4, but they are an SUV, which a lot of
people think synonymous even though they're not.
[3] She doesn't want an auto.

 

If you tell her it's just a Renault Megane on stilts, which way would
that influence her...?

 

Probably put her off as she "doesn't want a French car". Still with
her logic she "doesn't want a Ford as they're all crap" despite the
Focus & Mondeao being best in class or thereabouts for a while and the
new Fiesta is raved about too.

 

Who'd want a Ford? Hell, you might as well just go all the way and buy a
Vauxhall.

--
ogden

RGV250 VJ22
GSXR1000 K4 (incoming)
GSXR750 K4 (outgoing)

 

Our local newsagent (inevitably called Patel) still runs one. Old E
reg and just never gives up.

 

I had an F plate one when I lived in Worksop, wonderful car for the
£170 quid it cost me. Not a spot of rust anywhere and drove really
nicely despite approaching 100K miles. It was a pretty decent spec as
well, with 4 door e/w and cdl, e/sunroof etc. Mine was ne of the first
to be built in UK, and as such the workers there were trying very hard
to prove they could build cars as good as their Jap counterparts, and
in the case of those Bluebirds they were actually better.

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Lozzo
SV650S K5, ZX-7R P4, CBR600F-W, SR250 SpazzTrakka, SR250 Project
SpazzCaffer
I see a bright new future, where chickens can cross the road with no
fear of having their motives questioned

 

Devastatingly fast cross-country missile, was it?

 

Bear wrote:

Mine was a blue version of this model.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Nissan_Bluebird
_front_20071105.jpg/800px

--
Lozzo
SV650S K5, ZX-7R P4, CBR600F-W, SR250 SpazzTrakka, SR250 Project
SpazzCaffer
I see a bright new future, where chickens can cross the road with no
fear of having their motives questioned

 

sounds like davethedave's old beetle. of course, once it had exited the
roundabout you would be facing in a completely arbitrary direction.

 

Bugger.

Like this one in blue and not chavved up

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:1990_Bluebird2.jpg


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Lozzo
SV650S K5, ZX-7R P4, CBR600F-W, SR250 SpazzTrakka, SR250 Project
SpazzCaffer
I see a bright new future, where chickens can cross the road with no
fear of having their motives questioned

 

what's your excuse?

 

it isn't though, is it?

 

As much as any <insert generic modern car> sharing a platform and plenty
of beneath-the-skin stuff with any other <insert generic modern car>
produced by the same incestuous-mega-corp.

 

Working in financial services.

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Krusty

'03 Tiger 955i
'02 MV Senna (for sale) '96 Tiger (for sale)
'79 Fantic Hiro 250 (for sale) '81 Corvette (for sale)