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idiotgap said:
A bit of epic barging (for me at any rate) this weekend...
Took the family to Gatwick to catch a flight to Geneva for a trip to Morzine to visit friends and see the penultimate stage of le Tour, damn Easyjet wouldn't let us on the flight. Despite arriving at the airport well in advance by any usual standards we were held up by checking in buggies and car-seats as well as the lengthy security lines and having to trek what seemed like 900 miles across the airport to get to the gate with 3 young kids.
So, no availability on flights later that day even from Luton or Stanstead so...
We dug the car out of the airport parking and drove the alps.
Brilliant that a 1-5 smoker barge (£3.6k 2004 S211 E320 V6 petrol) can just take it with no bother.
I've left the family there and had to come back to get back to work so yesterday I did it again and without everyone else in tow I managed to pick up a load of wine on my way through.
Just hope the family manage to get on their flight back because I'm not going to go over and fetch them!
Respect! Took the family to Gatwick to catch a flight to Geneva for a trip to Morzine to visit friends and see the penultimate stage of le Tour, damn Easyjet wouldn't let us on the flight. Despite arriving at the airport well in advance by any usual standards we were held up by checking in buggies and car-seats as well as the lengthy security lines and having to trek what seemed like 900 miles across the airport to get to the gate with 3 young kids.
So, no availability on flights later that day even from Luton or Stanstead so...
We dug the car out of the airport parking and drove the alps.
Brilliant that a 1-5 smoker barge (£3.6k 2004 S211 E320 V6 petrol) can just take it with no bother.
I've left the family there and had to come back to get back to work so yesterday I did it again and without everyone else in tow I managed to pick up a load of wine on my way through.
Just hope the family manage to get on their flight back because I'm not going to go over and fetch them!
cat220 said:
BlueMR2 said:
E65Ross said:
BlueMR2 said:
cat220 said:
BlueMR2 said:
cat220 said:
BlueMR2 said:
What do people think of this Volvo.
Its a V70 p1, 97,000 miles with a good sounding history.
http://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/Volvo-V70-T5-Auto-1999-Imm...
Looks good, serviced at Ron Sealey is a good sign too. Getting rare in that condition. Its a V70 p1, 97,000 miles with a good sounding history.
http://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/Volvo-V70-T5-Auto-1999-Imm...
The door shuts at the rear are so clean, it almost looks like it's been resprayed.
5 hour journey for me, 1 way
.When I bought my e55 I flew from Glasgow to Heathrow on a Sunday morning, jumped in the car and drove it up the road. Great way to get to know the car. Not sure where in the country you are but a flight to Edinburgh could be an option?
He's working Wednesday and Thursday however, not sure his back will cope with a journey that far the day after working either.
The current owner doesn't really seem to know what work was done in the past, so it needs a pretty big service for whoever buys it.
Probably to someone on here,
.Thankyou4calling said:
Is the bonnet a different colour to the rest of the car or is it the photo?
I think it's had a piss-poor respray at some point, so in some lights it looks a totally different shade.Some of the pictures it looks like a near match, others it looks like two completely separate colours!
idiotgap said:
A bit of epic barging (for me at any rate) this weekend...
Took the family to Gatwick to catch a flight to Geneva for a trip to Morzine to visit friends and see the penultimate stage of le Tour, damn Easyjet wouldn't let us on the flight. Despite arriving at the airport well in advance by any usual standards we were held up by checking in buggies and car-seats as well as the lengthy security lines and having to trek what seemed like 900 miles across the airport to get to the gate with 3 young kids.
So, no availability on flights later that day even from Luton or Stanstead so...
We dug the car out of the airport parking and drove the alps.
Brilliant that a 1-5 smoker barge (£3.6k 2004 S211 E320 V6 petrol) can just take it with no bother.
I've left the family there and had to come back to get back to work so yesterday I did it again and without everyone else in tow I managed to pick up a load of wine on my way through.
Just hope the family manage to get on their flight back because I'm not going to go over and fetch them!
Fantastic work... I bet it felt like a proper adventure Took the family to Gatwick to catch a flight to Geneva for a trip to Morzine to visit friends and see the penultimate stage of le Tour, damn Easyjet wouldn't let us on the flight. Despite arriving at the airport well in advance by any usual standards we were held up by checking in buggies and car-seats as well as the lengthy security lines and having to trek what seemed like 900 miles across the airport to get to the gate with 3 young kids.
So, no availability on flights later that day even from Luton or Stanstead so...
We dug the car out of the airport parking and drove the alps.
Brilliant that a 1-5 smoker barge (£3.6k 2004 S211 E320 V6 petrol) can just take it with no bother.
I've left the family there and had to come back to get back to work so yesterday I did it again and without everyone else in tow I managed to pick up a load of wine on my way through.
Just hope the family manage to get on their flight back because I'm not going to go over and fetch them!
0a said:
idiotgap said:
A bit of epic barging (for me at any rate) this weekend...
Took the family to Gatwick to catch a flight to Geneva for a trip to Morzine to visit friends and see the penultimate stage of le Tour, damn Easyjet wouldn't let us on the flight. Despite arriving at the airport well in advance by any usual standards we were held up by checking in buggies and car-seats as well as the lengthy security lines and having to trek what seemed like 900 miles across the airport to get to the gate with 3 young kids.
So, no availability on flights later that day even from Luton or Stanstead so...
We dug the car out of the airport parking and drove the alps.
Brilliant that a 1-5 smoker barge (£3.6k 2004 S211 E320 V6 petrol) can just take it with no bother.
I've left the family there and had to come back to get back to work so yesterday I did it again and without everyone else in tow I managed to pick up a load of wine on my way through.
Just hope the family manage to get on their flight back because I'm not going to go over and fetch them!
Fantastic work... I bet it felt like a proper adventure Took the family to Gatwick to catch a flight to Geneva for a trip to Morzine to visit friends and see the penultimate stage of le Tour, damn Easyjet wouldn't let us on the flight. Despite arriving at the airport well in advance by any usual standards we were held up by checking in buggies and car-seats as well as the lengthy security lines and having to trek what seemed like 900 miles across the airport to get to the gate with 3 young kids.
So, no availability on flights later that day even from Luton or Stanstead so...
We dug the car out of the airport parking and drove the alps.
Brilliant that a 1-5 smoker barge (£3.6k 2004 S211 E320 V6 petrol) can just take it with no bother.
I've left the family there and had to come back to get back to work so yesterday I did it again and without everyone else in tow I managed to pick up a load of wine on my way through.
Just hope the family manage to get on their flight back because I'm not going to go over and fetch them!
cat220 said:
0a said:
idiotgap said:
A bit of epic barging (for me at any rate) this weekend...
Took the family to Gatwick to catch a flight to Geneva for a trip to Morzine to visit friends and see the penultimate stage of le Tour, damn Easyjet wouldn't let us on the flight. Despite arriving at the airport well in advance by any usual standards we were held up by checking in buggies and car-seats as well as the lengthy security lines and having to trek what seemed like 900 miles across the airport to get to the gate with 3 young kids.
So, no availability on flights later that day even from Luton or Stanstead so...
We dug the car out of the airport parking and drove the alps.
Brilliant that a 1-5 smoker barge (£3.6k 2004 S211 E320 V6 petrol) can just take it with no bother.
I've left the family there and had to come back to get back to work so yesterday I did it again and without everyone else in tow I managed to pick up a load of wine on my way through.
Just hope the family manage to get on their flight back because I'm not going to go over and fetch them!
Fantastic work... I bet it felt like a proper adventure Took the family to Gatwick to catch a flight to Geneva for a trip to Morzine to visit friends and see the penultimate stage of le Tour, damn Easyjet wouldn't let us on the flight. Despite arriving at the airport well in advance by any usual standards we were held up by checking in buggies and car-seats as well as the lengthy security lines and having to trek what seemed like 900 miles across the airport to get to the gate with 3 young kids.
So, no availability on flights later that day even from Luton or Stanstead so...
We dug the car out of the airport parking and drove the alps.
Brilliant that a 1-5 smoker barge (£3.6k 2004 S211 E320 V6 petrol) can just take it with no bother.
I've left the family there and had to come back to get back to work so yesterday I did it again and without everyone else in tow I managed to pick up a load of wine on my way through.
Just hope the family manage to get on their flight back because I'm not going to go over and fetch them!
I genuinely can't imagine why anyone would fly rather than drive in this situation. Everything about flying is hideous, especially the bits that happen on the ground.
Good:
Bad:
No note or anything. It's a rubber like material which has been left behind. It looks like it has scratched the paint underneath and the foglight isn't aligned properly any more. The SL seems to collect these bumps even in fairly well protected spaces. I have been hit 3 times now in the same spaces I use for my other cars where I have not been hit at all in 4 years. I think it's the low, long bonnet.
Never mind... what can you do?!
Bad:
No note or anything. It's a rubber like material which has been left behind. It looks like it has scratched the paint underneath and the foglight isn't aligned properly any more. The SL seems to collect these bumps even in fairly well protected spaces. I have been hit 3 times now in the same spaces I use for my other cars where I have not been hit at all in 4 years. I think it's the low, long bonnet.
Never mind... what can you do?!
It was fun, but took a long time.
The car behaved well and really flies on the autoroute, airmatic and harman kardon were great.
Not so great:-
- paying tolls when travelling solo RHD
- The passenger windscreen wiper stopped working (well at least the driver's side was fine, just needed a nut tightening up). Had to wait until I got home because the W211 toolkits apparently don't come with spanners!
- I guess a 320cdi would have been cheaper on the fuel. I averaged slightly higher on the way back at 29mpg doing a steady 90/144kmh pretty much all the way.
- edited to add - parking scuff like oa's above incurred in French car park including cracked rear light cluster.
Doing it all again in a few weeks down to the Ile de Ré, but that it's a bit shorter journey.
The car behaved well and really flies on the autoroute, airmatic and harman kardon were great.
Not so great:-
- paying tolls when travelling solo RHD
- The passenger windscreen wiper stopped working (well at least the driver's side was fine, just needed a nut tightening up). Had to wait until I got home because the W211 toolkits apparently don't come with spanners!
- I guess a 320cdi would have been cheaper on the fuel. I averaged slightly higher on the way back at 29mpg doing a steady 90/144kmh pretty much all the way.
- edited to add - parking scuff like oa's above incurred in French car park including cracked rear light cluster.
Doing it all again in a few weeks down to the Ile de Ré, but that it's a bit shorter journey.
0a said:
Good:
Bad:
No note or anything. It's a rubber like material which has been left behind. It looks like it has scratched the paint underneath and the foglight isn't aligned properly any more. The SL seems to collect these bumps even in fairly well protected spaces. I have been hit 3 times now in the same spaces I use for my other cars where I have not been hit at all in 4 years. I think it's the low, long bonnet.
Never mind... what can you do?!
My 129 seemed to be something of a tBad:
No note or anything. It's a rubber like material which has been left behind. It looks like it has scratched the paint underneath and the foglight isn't aligned properly any more. The SL seems to collect these bumps even in fairly well protected spaces. I have been hit 3 times now in the same spaces I use for my other cars where I have not been hit at all in 4 years. I think it's the low, long bonnet.
Never mind... what can you do?!
t magnet too,it suffered a number of bumps in parking spaces. blueb10 said:
31mph said:
Anyone got any thoughts on this?
Been on sale for ages, but looks like it might go cheap (depending on reserve)
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/112058468931
Been on sale for ages, but looks like it might go cheap (depending on reserve)
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/112058468931
My old car! The advert is honest and truthful, the guy who is selling has a large and interesting collection of cars and when I did the deal with him it was an easy and pleasant transaction. I still have the car I got from him.
Probably the cheapest way to get in to Alpina ownership. Don't be put off by the cat D tag, I saw the car before it was repaired and before I bought it, it was only superficial damage, nothing structural.
A nice car, the only reason that I sold it was because I wanted something different and this guy had one of the cars on my list.
If you need any more information, PM me.
0a said:
Good:
Bad:
No note or anything. It's a rubber like material which has been left behind. It looks like it has scratched the paint underneath and the foglight isn't aligned properly any more. The SL seems to collect these bumps even in fairly well protected spaces. I have been hit 3 times now in the same spaces I use for my other cars where I have not been hit at all in 4 years. I think it's the low, long bonnet.
Never mind... what can you do?!
Were you in central London a couple of weeks ago, middle of the week? Spotted an identical looking '129 with an A2 *** plate.Bad:
No note or anything. It's a rubber like material which has been left behind. It looks like it has scratched the paint underneath and the foglight isn't aligned properly any more. The SL seems to collect these bumps even in fairly well protected spaces. I have been hit 3 times now in the same spaces I use for my other cars where I have not been hit at all in 4 years. I think it's the low, long bonnet.
Never mind... what can you do?!
idiotgap said:
A bit of epic barging (for me at any rate) this weekend...
Took the family to Gatwick to catch a flight to Geneva for a trip to Morzine to visit friends and see the penultimate stage of le Tour, damn Easyjet wouldn't let us on the flight. Despite arriving at the airport well in advance by any usual standards we were held up by checking in buggies and car-seats as well as the lengthy security lines and having to trek what seemed like 900 miles across the airport to get to the gate with 3 young kids.
So, no availability on flights later that day even from Luton or Stanstead so...
We dug the car out of the airport parking and drove the alps.
Brilliant that a 1-5 smoker barge (£3.6k 2004 S211 E320 V6 petrol) can just take it with no bother.
I've left the family there and had to come back to get back to work so yesterday I did it again and without everyone else in tow I managed to pick up a load of wine on my way through.
Just hope the family manage to get on their flight back because I'm not going to go over and fetch them!
Perfect timing, a nice little confidence boost as just bought one of those myself. I won't mention the engine as it would lower the tone of the thread. A real tsxi rank special I'm afraid. Took the family to Gatwick to catch a flight to Geneva for a trip to Morzine to visit friends and see the penultimate stage of le Tour, damn Easyjet wouldn't let us on the flight. Despite arriving at the airport well in advance by any usual standards we were held up by checking in buggies and car-seats as well as the lengthy security lines and having to trek what seemed like 900 miles across the airport to get to the gate with 3 young kids.
So, no availability on flights later that day even from Luton or Stanstead so...
We dug the car out of the airport parking and drove the alps.
Brilliant that a 1-5 smoker barge (£3.6k 2004 S211 E320 V6 petrol) can just take it with no bother.
I've left the family there and had to come back to get back to work so yesterday I did it again and without everyone else in tow I managed to pick up a load of wine on my way through.
Just hope the family manage to get on their flight back because I'm not going to go over and fetch them!
Lpg'd E34 525 tourer, £1500. Needs some reversion to original and crusty front wings, but poss a reasonable hack
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r129sl said:
What a great trip. I bet you got a massive sense of achievement out of this and also felt a bit of well-deserved pride in your choice of wheels.
I genuinely can't imagine why anyone would fly rather than drive in this situation. Everything about flying is hideous, especially the bits that happen on the ground.
Indeed. What a hoot. And in the perfect conveyance too.I genuinely can't imagine why anyone would fly rather than drive in this situation. Everything about flying is hideous, especially the bits that happen on the ground.
I stopped flying anywhere I could drive to many, many years ago. Blimey, it was 20 yrs ago that I commuted to Germany on a weekly basis. And that folks is how you put the best part of 60,000 miles a year on a brand new Vectra.
I would have preferred to have done it in an equivalent barge back in 1996, but that wasn't an option on the car policy
Never mind the fact that a typical 70s barge then wouldn't have got me to Dover, once, let alone Germany.0a said:
Bad:
No note or anything. It's a rubber like material which has been left behind. It looks like it has scratched the paint underneath and the foglight isn't aligned properly any more. The SL seems to collect these bumps even in fairly well protected spaces. I have been hit 3 times now in the same spaces I use for my other cars where I have not been hit at all in 4 years. I think it's the low, long bonnet.
Never mind... what can you do?!
No note or anything. It's a rubber like material which has been left behind. It looks like it has scratched the paint underneath and the foglight isn't aligned properly any more. The SL seems to collect these bumps even in fairly well protected spaces. I have been hit 3 times now in the same spaces I use for my other cars where I have not been hit at all in 4 years. I think it's the low, long bonnet.
Never mind... what can you do?!
SuperHangOn said:
idiotgap said:
A bit of epic barging (for me at any rate) this weekend...
Took the family to Gatwick to catch a flight to Geneva for a trip to Morzine to visit friends and see the penultimate stage of le Tour, damn Easyjet wouldn't let us on the flight. Despite arriving at the airport well in advance by any usual standards we were held up by checking in buggies and car-seats as well as the lengthy security lines and having to trek what seemed like 900 miles across the airport to get to the gate with 3 young kids.
So, no availability on flights later that day even from Luton or Stanstead so...
We dug the car out of the airport parking and drove the alps.
Brilliant that a 1-5 smoker barge (£3.6k 2004 S211 E320 V6 petrol) can just take it with no bother.
I've left the family there and had to come back to get back to work so yesterday I did it again and without everyone else in tow I managed to pick up a load of wine on my way through.
Just hope the family manage to get on their flight back because I'm not going to go over and fetch them!
Perfect timing, a nice little confidence boost as just bought one of those myself. I won't mention the engine as it would lower the tone of the thread. A real tsxi rank special I'm afraid. Took the family to Gatwick to catch a flight to Geneva for a trip to Morzine to visit friends and see the penultimate stage of le Tour, damn Easyjet wouldn't let us on the flight. Despite arriving at the airport well in advance by any usual standards we were held up by checking in buggies and car-seats as well as the lengthy security lines and having to trek what seemed like 900 miles across the airport to get to the gate with 3 young kids.
So, no availability on flights later that day even from Luton or Stanstead so...
We dug the car out of the airport parking and drove the alps.
Brilliant that a 1-5 smoker barge (£3.6k 2004 S211 E320 V6 petrol) can just take it with no bother.
I've left the family there and had to come back to get back to work so yesterday I did it again and without everyone else in tow I managed to pick up a load of wine on my way through.
Just hope the family manage to get on their flight back because I'm not going to go over and fetch them!
I've just driven it over a thousand miles on holiday to western France and back, and sadly it gave me a couple of semi-limp modes whilst on the autoroute. :-(. Symptoms are a slight hesitation on acceleration and unsmooth/fluctuating revs when the engine's cold, then after 2 hours or so driving I seem to lose kickdown and some power, which leads to falling speeds on inclines despite foot-in-carpet. The accelerator gives a slight "click" at its fullest extent. If I stop and restart the engine, it seems to give a big poof of black smoke sometimes but not always, and the limp mode is cleared and we're back to full kickdown/power again.
I suspect EGR. Any other ideas? It's going to a Merc indie on Friday.
Edited by SilverSixer on Wednesday 27th July 10:58
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