Best Smoker Barges 1-5 large [Vol 7]

[cat220]

Chicane-UK said:

r129sl said:

You've got to roll with the punches.

In the last three years:

(1) Wife reversed my newly painted SEC into a parking space between a colleague's brand new—days old—car and my estate car. On the way into the space she dunched the new car. On the way out she dunched the estate car. Laugh it off.

(2) Wife wrote off estate car in a multi-storey car park. Seeing a space on the next floor, she gunned it up the ramp, failing to take heed of the two foot tall concrete divider running up the middle of it. Laugh it off.

(3) Wife reverses (my) VW Golf into my brother's R230 SL. Laugh it off.

I can only hope she makes up for it in other ways - as a car enthusiast, this sort of stuff is almost as bad as sleeping with your brother

I don't have a brother but even if I did I wouldn't sleep with him

[rufmeister]

http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/l...

Considerable barge value!

[SpeckledJim]

SpeckledJim said:

Ok, hold on to your nuts - it's an E280 CDI.




3.0 V6 Diesel, with 7 gears and a seat for each.

So far so good. But the computer's read-out of 27mpg so far is giving me palpitations. We're half way through a tank-to-tank test to discover if that's accurate. If it is then this car will not be long for the fleet. That's ridiculous.

The 5-speed E320 this is intended to replace is no worse.

Experiment complete. The results are in:

480 miles on a tank.

30.0 mpg. Rubbish. Sorely disappointed.

[SpeckledJim]

rufmeister said:

http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/l...

Considerable barge value!

If it's good enough for Crazy Dave Cameron.

[JZZ30]

rufmeister said:

http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/l...

Considerable barge value!

Nice! I've only seen them sub 5k with 'issues' thus far.

[FrankUnderwood]

SpeckledJim said:

SpeckledJim said:

Ok, hold on to your nuts - it's an E280 CDI.




3.0 V6 Diesel, with 7 gears and a seat for each.

So far so good. But the computer's read-out of 27mpg so far is giving me palpitations. We're half way through a tank-to-tank test to discover if that's accurate. If it is then this car will not be long for the fleet. That's ridiculous.

The 5-speed E320 this is intended to replace is no worse.

Experiment complete. The results are in:

480 miles on a tank.

30.0 mpg. Rubbish. Sorely disappointed.

Did that involve many cold starts? Diesels can be less efficient in cold weather because they take a long time to heat up - thus increasing fuel consumption.

Better than my driving experience today anyway.. 300 miles in a 1.2 Corsa (2009). Hugely tiring to drive and a poor car by modern standards.



Matt

[JF87]

I don't really like these (even with lpg!), but there can't be many cheaper ways of getting to 60 in 5 seconds on four wheels. £3,695.


http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2014...

[Patrick Bateman]

I'll never understand fitting Kenda tyres to a 400bhp super-saloon.

[0a]

SpeckledJim said:

SpeckledJim said:

Ok, hold on to your nuts - it's an E280 CDI.




3.0 V6 Diesel, with 7 gears and a seat for each.

So far so good. But the computer's read-out of 27mpg so far is giving me palpitations. We're half way through a tank-to-tank test to discover if that's accurate. If it is then this car will not be long for the fleet. That's ridiculous.

The 5-speed E320 this is intended to replace is no worse.

Experiment complete. The results are in:

480 miles on a tank.

30.0 mpg. Rubbish. Sorely disappointed.

There must be something wrong with it surely?

[SpeckledJim]

0a said:

There must be something wrong with it surely?

Dunno. Recently serviced, and drives very nicely. Engine is strong and even. Doesn't give the impression of anything being 'up'.

The long-term mileage consumption reading (over 11,000 miles) is 32mpg.

I dunno...

That 480 miles is basically 24 20-milers from cold each time. My W210 320 CDi did 39 on the same treatment.

[Patrick Bateman]

It is definitely getting up to operating temperature?

A knackered thermostat obliterated the mpg on my 320Td.

[FrankUnderwood]

Interesting XJR40, although the info on the history is a little thin.

http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C560946#



£1995

[RobinBanks]

Strangely enough I was just looking at XJ40 XJRs.

This one is priced slightly optimistically:
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2014...

[MG511]

FrankUnderwood said:

Interesting XJR40, although the info on the history is a little thin.

http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C560946#



£1995

That one failed to sell at the last H&H auction so maybe not so nice close up http://www.classic-auctions.com/Auctions/12-11-201...

[E65Ross]

FrankUnderwood said:

Did that involve many cold starts? Diesels can be less efficient in cold weather because they take a long time to heat up - thus increasing fuel consumption.

Better than my driving experience today anyway.. 300 miles in a 1.2 Corsa (2009). Hugely tiring to drive and a poor car by modern standards.



Matt

It's not THAT bad.

Oh wait, no....it really is. I think it'd be a lot better with a bit more oomph. As said mate, when i'm off you're more than welcome to use the 745i....if you fancy fuelling it!!

[Stegel]

SpeckledJim said:

0a said:

There must be something wrong with it surely?

Dunno. Recently serviced, and drives very nicely. Engine is strong and even. Doesn't give the impression of anything being 'up'.

The long-term mileage consumption reading (over 11,000 miles) is 32mpg.

I dunno...

That 480 miles is basically 24 20-milers from cold each time. My W210 320 CDi did 39 on the same treatment.

That's roughly (31.8mpg) what I got over 100,000 miles in my CLS, but its average speed is a miserable 28mph. From your description of the journeys, I think you should be getting better. My wife's E320 CDI is hardly an economy challenge winner, but a replacement oxygen sensor added several MPG - do you have, or have access to, an OBD code reader? (It drove perfectly, with no warning lights, with the defective sensor, but was running "blind" on default settings).

Edited by Stegel on Friday 21st November 20:22

[anonymous-user]

E65Ross said:

It's not THAT bad.

Oh wait, no....it really is. I think it'd be a lot better with a bit more oomph. As said mate, when i'm off you're more than welcome to use the 745i....if you fancy fuelling it!!

Fuelling it wouldn't bother me, but given some of your recent posts maintaining it might!

[0a]

£1,295 with 78k miles. http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2014...



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[SpeckledJim]

Stegel said:

SpeckledJim said:

0a said:

There must be something wrong with it surely?

Dunno. Recently serviced, and drives very nicely. Engine is strong and even. Doesn't give the impression of anything being 'up'.

The long-term mileage consumption reading (over 11,000 miles) is 32mpg.

I dunno...

That 480 miles is basically 24 20-milers from cold each time. My W210 320 CDi did 39 on the same treatment.

That's roughly (31.8mpg) what I got over 100,000 miles in my CLS, but its average speed is a miserable 28mph. From your description of the journeys, I think you should be getting better. My wife's E320 CDI is hardly an economy challenge winner, but a replacement oxygen sensor added several MPG - do you have, or have access to, an OBD code reader? (It drove perfectly, with no warning lights, with the defective sensor, but was running "blind" on default settings).

Edited by Stegel on Friday 21st November 20:22

I do. I'll have a snoop next week. Thanks for your thoughts.

[0a]

Symbolica said:

E65Ross said:

It's not THAT bad.

Oh wait, no....it really is. I think it'd be a lot better with a bit more oomph. As said mate, when i'm off you're more than welcome to use the 745i....if you fancy fuelling it!!

Fuelling it wouldn't bother me, but given some of your recent posts maintaining it might!

I like to consider excessive spending on suspension and the like (as with my own merc) as "upgrading" not "maintaining", I am sure Ross is the same. Eg I "upgraded the cruise control to working" etc