coozer
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| posted on 15/4/16 at 11:04 PM |
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Sods law innit! Talk about it and I'm stuck 200 miles away from home with a truck that won't start!!
1972 V8 Jago
1980 Z750
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Adamirish
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| posted on 15/4/16 at 11:44 PM |
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Oh yes, it's a stupid idea. A couple of years ago my boss bought a go-fast 2.0 TFSI A4 which had no dipstick. The trouble was, there was a bad
batch of these cars with a dodgy breather system. It would drink 2 litres of oil every 1000miles. That isn't a typo either, it really did drink
that much!
The first she would know about it was the dash telling her to top the oil up, how much? Who knows! It went back to Audi 5 or 6 times having 2
different "revised" breather systems installed. Audi wouldn't admit to there being an engine problem until she got trading standards
involved. She got a new engine fitted along with a 3rd "revised" breather system. I can only assume the dodgy system eventually borked the
engine to the point it had to be replaced. I wouldn't have liked that bill!
3 weeks later, the DSG gearbox shat itself. New gearbox fitted. All this and the car had done LESS than 20k and was 2 years old.
She now drives a Merc but guess what? No dipstick. the gear "lever" is a small, electronic selector on the steering column.
Bring back old escorts with carbs, dipsticks and proper gearboxes. None of this fancy double clutch, 43 speed electronic shite!
MK Indy 1700 Xflow
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907
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| posted on 17/4/16 at 08:45 AM |
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I have never owned a new vehicle and doubt if I ever will, but I am eternally thankful of those that do.
Without those that part with huge amounts of cash there wouldn't be an abundance of second hand (or 3rd, 4th, 5th,)
stuff for me, and those like me, to choose from.
It seems that the more expensive, technically complicated, and large it was when new, the faster it's value plummets
to the sort of figure a manual worker can afford.
As for those "simple to work on cars" of yesteryear, the type of person that buys new now wouldn't buy them.
They don't care about how easy the plugs are to change because they won't own the car when time comes round
to change them, and if they did someone would do it for them.
How many (BMW) Mini's would be on the road if the windows where "slide to close" or you had to walk round it to
lock each door?
To the lady that bought my Avantgarde, thanks, but I'd bet it wasn't chosen because a 2x1m of metal fitted in the back,
or that the braked towing limit was 2.1 tonnes. 
Cheers
Paul G
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