Driving a Cerbera everyday
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Who uses their Cerb as an everyday motor?
Can I get away with it or am I mental to be considering it?
Drive to work across Edinburgh is about 10 miles of slightly stop start (not what you're used to daan sarf, believe me!), but could be made lengthier to keep an entertaining car happy.
Responses from folk that do use their car everyday preferred, rather than the "I only use mine as a 2nd/3rd car cos it's a troublesome barsteward" brigade.
Can I get away with it or am I mental to be considering it?
Drive to work across Edinburgh is about 10 miles of slightly stop start (not what you're used to daan sarf, believe me!), but could be made lengthier to keep an entertaining car happy.
Responses from folk that do use their car everyday preferred, rather than the "I only use mine as a 2nd/3rd car cos it's a troublesome barsteward" brigade.
Everyday is not really the problem, plenty do and it is often considered better for them. However if it is primarily across Edinburgh traffic (and I used to live there) I would not want to be doing it, would be constantly shiting myself about fecking the clutch and also would be watching the water temperature like a hawk as well. Depends on your route of course, my memories are of sitting on North Bridge waiting to cross Princes St or horrible journey around George St and the New Town where you can sit for quite a bit, if your route is more free flowing you might be ok. The many cobbled streets would be interesting as well, the arse would be all over he place on a rainy day; I had an E30 shape 318i whilst up there and it was fun keeping it straight. 
Touching Cloth said:
Everyday is not really the problem, plenty do and it is often considered better for them. However if it is primarily across Edinburgh traffic (and I used to live there) I would not want to be doing it, would be constantly shiting myself about fecking the clutch and also would be watching the water temperature like a hawk as well. Depends on your route of course, my memories are of sitting on North Bridge waiting to cross Princes St or horrible journey around George St and the New Town where you can sit for quite a bit, if your route is more free flowing you might be ok. The many cobbled streets would be interesting as well, the arse would be all over he place on a rainy day; I had an E30 shape 318i whilst up there and it was fun keeping it straight.
West end across the meadows to the new hosp...
I know nuffin' about everyday Cerb drivin' but I would have thought that a distance and traffic like that would not completely warm the oil up and leave condensation which would, in turn, attack the interior of the motor. On the other hand the outside of the engine would get very hot without decent air flow and the Starter Motor would fry !!
Any of you puffters who think a Cerb clutch is heavy should try driving a Fezza 308. Fastest knee-cap 0-60 in the world !
Any of you puffters who think a Cerb clutch is heavy should try driving a Fezza 308. Fastest knee-cap 0-60 in the world !
Edited by Mr.Cerbera on Monday 14th August 22:21
cerby4.5 said:
I use mine everyday too, no major issues (2000 450LW). Makes even the most boring journey fun!!!!
I am a firm believer that the more you use these cars the better they are!
Just remember the regular checks - oil, coolant and tyre pressures.
Enjoy it!!
Cerby4.5
I am a firm believer that the more you use these cars the better they are!
Just remember the regular checks - oil, coolant and tyre pressures.
Enjoy it!!
Cerby4.5
Totally agree with everything (and mines a 2k 450 LW as well!).
I use her for work although sometimes it can be a little slow (due to traffic) or little too short (due to no traffic!).
So at least once a week and for at least an hour, I take her her out for a really good blast to shake off any cobwebs!
I've also learnt that in nose to tail traffic, wait until you get a good few car lengths in front of you before catching up. Helps avoid the Popeye clutch leg. And some swear by a quick squirt of power in such situations which help to get rid of the heat trapped underneath the car and within the engine bay.
Bill
Mine's my daily driver. I take a slight de tour to avoid the bumps down my road.
The car get's over them, but they fell like they're realing "testing" the shocks, so rather than attack them every day, I prefer to go round them.
Going to work & back returns about 13mpg.
That's about it really....remember to push the snow from the top of the window, else you press the mirror button & as the window goes down it all drops on to your seat
The mirror buttons tend to freeze in the winter, but with some warm water, there's an alternative way in.
The car get's over them, but they fell like they're realing "testing" the shocks, so rather than attack them every day, I prefer to go round them.
Going to work & back returns about 13mpg.
That's about it really....remember to push the snow from the top of the window, else you press the mirror button & as the window goes down it all drops on to your seat
The mirror buttons tend to freeze in the winter, but with some warm water, there's an alternative way in.
Against the grain a bit here, but i wouldn't use mine every day. On top of the odd reliability issue (which to be fair to Cerbs is not half as bad as some might make out) i just dont think a 4.5 litre V8, 350+ hp supercar that doesn't like traffic jams, with a heavy clutch, hot cockpit, not the best mpg, not the greatest visibility, and gets so much attention when parked anywhere ; is an everyday car in the truest sense of the word.
I love my Cerb to bits, and i almost like not driving her everyday, so i can look forward even more to the times when i do drive her
; is an everyday car in the truest sense of the word. I love my Cerb to bits, and i almost like not driving her everyday, so i can look forward even more to the times when i do drive her
I use mine every day - 75 mile round trip (four times a week) and for going fishing (I know I know its hard to imagine), shopping, nursery runs, and it does everything I ask and more.
Driving in the snow is a little different, in fact one day it took me 5 minutes just to get up the road to the top to get out on gritted roads, as I bounced off the kerbs everywhere.
But that said drive them as much as you can I say, what a brillaint car,I love it dearly.
Its in for a service and fettling and the 1.8TD Escort (courtesy car) I have is killing me daily, I had forgotten just how slow some cars are, you get so used to Cerb power delivery.
foxy4200 said:
"Popeye clutch leg"
Thats well funny, cos every cerb driver knows exactly what your talking about !!
It could be a way of recognising fellow cerb drivers when your out and about. Just look for people with a left leg six times the size of the right leg
Thats well funny, cos every cerb driver knows exactly what your talking about !!
It could be a way of recognising fellow cerb drivers when your out and about. Just look for people with a left leg six times the size of the right leg
Mine was really stiff (ahem) until I had a new clutch fitted, whereupon I would now describe it as "positively firm" - not tiring at all.
As for every day, I use mine thusly (even through the snow last winter), about 15 miles each way, with only a queue at the destination (sometimes the journey home is a little longer
). However, I do have use of the wife's Mondeo to cover "pit-stops" ;-)I have a 4.2 2003 and driving it every day is brilliant. it may not be the best or most comfortable in the town but you will get the most attention. one or two niggles will creep in but you just have to keep on top of your fluids including stearing fluid.(mine practicaly ran out and the powerstearing stopped working, funny that.) as mentioned by others it does seem to me that if used regularly it does seem to work better. i have had mine since last november, having had it over the winter and being the first rear weel drive car i ever had, it was entertaining to say the least. ENJOY!!
I commute daily in mine in London (Highgate to the City and back) - compared to which an Edinburgh commute is like a blast across open countryside. Always fun jousting with the buses at the bottleneck by King's Cross. Time the lights right to hit 70 on York Way... Wouldn't do it any other way - a joy every morning and evening.
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