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BigRuss

Member Since: 15 May 2010
Location: Norfolk
Posts: 2785

2010 Defender 110 Puma 2.4 USW Santorini Black

Now don't forget audi's don't have heated front screens

Russell
2011MY 110 XS USW Black

29th Dec 2011 11:20pm

ZeDefender

Member Since: 15 Sep 2011
Location: Munich
Posts: 4731

2011 Defender 110 Puma 2.4 SW Baltic Blue

Fatally flawed...

Tell someone you love them today because life is short.
But shout it at them in German because life is also terrifying and confusing...

29th Dec 2011 11:23pm

Projectblue

Member Since: 22 Nov 2011
Location: Devon
Posts: 1096

BMW aint all that. Expensive to service, and the 1 series is like being inside a pillbox the windscreen is so narrow. The 123d has loads of oomph, Evo mag just did a test against original M3 and it couldn't shake it. BUT, the 123d is not the popular one as TJ pointed out.

I'm look at the Skoda Octavia Vrs or Volvo V50. We have the Vrs at work and they have proved to be pretty reliable under a lot of extra work - no worse than the BMW's we have on fleet. If budget is shrinking, I'd be tempted by the Jag XK 2.2d. It's a Mondeo underneath but a nice place to be if you do the miles.

I'd love to try a Jag XF, but they are still holding their value at the minute.

30th Dec 2011 12:01am

TJ101

Member Since: 30 May 2007
Location: Taunton Somerset
Posts: 3750

2015 Defender 110 Puma 2.2 XS CSW Montalcino Red

Projectblue wrote:

I'd love to try a Jag XF, but they are still holding their value at the minute.

Should have said PB,, a good friend has just dumped £12k in 10 months on a used ex Jag XF, dealer had it longer than he did due to the DPF !!! In the end he swapped it in for a poverty spec RR Sport !! California F1, 75th 110 "Kermit", 50th Ann V8, 90 V8 Hybrid, 55 Series 1

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30th Dec 2011 8:37am

BigRuss

Member Since: 15 May 2010
Location: Norfolk
Posts: 2785

Projectblue wrote:
BMW aint all that. Expensive to service, and the 1 series is like being inside a pillbox the windscreen is so narrow. The 123d has loads of oomph, Evo mag just did a test against original M3 and it couldn't shake it. BUT, the 123d is not the popular one as TJ pointed out.

I'm look at the Skoda Octavia Vrs or Volvo V50. We have the Vrs at work and they have proved to be pretty reliable under a lot of extra work - no worse than the BMW's we have on fleet. If budget is shrinking, I'd be tempted by the Jag XK 2.2d. It's a Mondeo underneath but a nice place to be if you do the miles.

I'd love to try a Jag XF, but they are still holding their value at the minute.

Don't you mean the 2.2d x type not Xk?

My father drives an xf and loves it he's had no problem at all, he just only wishes he ordered one with xenon head lighs as the standards are like a glow worm in a bucket. His is the 3.0d the same in the disco's and it really does go like &£? Of a shovel. I speak from experience

Russell
2011MY 110 XS USW Black

30th Dec 2011 8:53am

TJ101

Member Since: 30 May 2007
Location: Taunton Somerset
Posts: 3750

BigRuss wrote:

Don't you mean the 2.2d x type not Xk?

My father drives an xf and loves it he's had no problem at all, he just only wishes he ordered one with xenon head lighs as the standards are like a glow worm in a bucket. His is the 3.0d the same in the disco's and it really does go like &£? Of a shovel. I speak from experience

Strange,, friends was also the 3.0 V6,, I had no problem with that lump in a D4 and Sport, But his XF was terrible,, OK it lived in Torquay, and every other week the DPF light came on, 50 percent of the time he could regenerate it, the rest,it was a recovery job back to the dealer, had a whole host of stuff fitted to sort ! When it was good, was good, when bad, Very bad !!! From memory paid 32K+ for it, supplying dealer offered 22k to have the thing back, 10 months later, California F1, 75th 110 "Kermit", 50th Ann V8, 90 V8 Hybrid, 55 Series 1

Main Brian James Trailer Dealer for South West UK

30th Dec 2011 9:03am

Zagato
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Member Since: 08 Jan 2011
Location: Billingshurst West Sussex
Posts: 5013

bpman wrote:
Zag ... are you serious

OK Steve, let me give you a bit more mahogany and kudos, lets up the class rating from a Jag to a Rolls

What about a nice Roller that has been LPG'd

http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C131029

With the saved cash you could forget the Arctic trip and go to the Antarctic - you can see Polar Bears in the zoo

No I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole either!

30th Dec 2011 9:59am

bpman

Member Since: 21 May 2008
Location: Oslo
Posts: 8069

2008 Defender 110 Puma 2.4 SVX Station Wagon Santorini Black

Zagato wrote:
bpman wrote:
Zag ... are you serious

OK Steve, let me give you a bit more mahogany and kudos, lets up the class rating from a Jag to a Rolls What about a nice Roller that has been LPG'd

http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C131029

With the saved cash you could forget the Arctic trip and go to the Antarctic - you can see Polar Bears in the zoo

No I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole either!

30th Dec 2011 11:45am

bpman

Member Since: 21 May 2008
Location: Oslo
Posts: 8069

BigRuss wrote:
Now don't forget audi's don't have heated front screens

that reminds me ... why do Skoda's have heated rear screens ?

30th Dec 2011 11:46am

BigRuss

Member Since: 15 May 2010
Location: Norfolk
Posts: 2785

bpman wrote:
BigRuss wrote:
Now don't forget audi's don't have heated front screens

that reminds me ... why do Skoda's have heated rear screens ?

No thats heated rear wings and boots

Russell
2011MY 110 XS USW Black

30th Dec 2011 11:56am

BigRuss

Member Since: 15 May 2010
Location: Norfolk
Posts: 2785

And it's to keep your hands warm when you pushing it

Russell
2011MY 110 XS USW Black

30th Dec 2011 11:57am

bpman

Member Since: 21 May 2008
Location: Oslo
Posts: 8069

BigRuss wrote:
And it's to keep your hands warm when you pushing it

HRS - heated rear spoilers

30th Dec 2011 12:37pm

110SEB

Member Since: 29 Jan 2009
Location: Essex, England
Posts: 1444

2007 Defender 110 Puma 2.4 XS CSW Java Black

bpman - can't recommend this enough - bought a Feb 2011 1.6 Tdi Sport sportback at the weekend. We love it.

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4th Jan 2012 9:20pm

bpman

Member Since: 21 May 2008
Location: Oslo
Posts: 8069

110SEB wrote:
bpman - can't recommend this enough - bought a Feb 2011 1.6 Tdi Sport sportback at the weekend. We love it.

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I really like the Audi A3s, we had a Q5 in CH and liked it but not in a defender sort of way...

I found a beaut. A3 2.0 tdi, flappy paddles, red, xenons, leds, 21k miles but the dealer was not keen on a 15 month old fiesta with 33k, so no deal on the ford. An A3 is next on my list but I'm going to run the fiesta for 1 more year. it will be 2 years old, have 70k and be worth £4-5k ? I will have had my monies worth out of it.

What the economy like on the 1.6 tdi ?

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4th Jan 2012 10:23pm

CR

Member Since: 28 Jan 2010
Location: Ireland
Posts: 947

2011 Defender 110 Puma 2.4 CSW Santorini Black

What about a Defender 110 ice ?

5th Jan 2012 12:04am

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