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[LetsTryAgain]

Macron said:

This 9-5 Aero that we've had before has dropped nearly a grand to be within thread. Tasty.

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2...

That's seriously nice and could be a well sorted car, *but* it still seems to be a lot of money.
Maybe if you were to keep 10+ years it'd be a good shout. But I think if you had to sell within a couple of years you'd really struggle to find someone who appreciated it enough to pay OTT.

[anonymous-user]

Macron said:

This 9-5 Aero that we've had before has dropped nearly a grand to be within thread. Tasty.

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2...

I think the seller is going to learn that spending £4k on mods on your £1k old Saab does not a £5k car make.

Frankly I'd not have given you £5k new for one of these in 2005; they're very dated, very creaky, and mods or not once the novelty of some straight line heroics has passed you're left with a poorly made, poor handling, poor riding car, with the engine driving the wrong end so it can't use the power properly anyway. Totally overrated on PH IMHO.

[Speed addicted]

harrykul said:

Another vote for cross climate here, have fitted them to a couple.of the family's vehicles. Can also recommend the Bridgestone equivalent too, A005 iirc.

The cross climates win most of the all season tests and apparently last well.
I had them on a Subaru Legacy winter/dog/tip car but my knee gave out so I needed another auto.
They worked well in snow and felt like normal tyres in summer. Couldn’t really fault them.

If you’re a Costco member they were doing money off deals on Michelin’s last time I was in.

[anonymous-user]

Also consider the Goodyear Vector 4Seasons Gen2. They have a little bit more of a cold/winter bias by the looks of it, I'm having a set fitted to a spare set of 16" wheels for my MX5 today for the winter. Cheaper than the Michelins too, and Black Circles were running a discount on them last time I looked

[Bonefish Blues]

stickleback123 said:

Macron said:

This 9-5 Aero that we've had before has dropped nearly a grand to be within thread. Tasty.

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2...

I think the seller is going to learn that spending £4k on mods on your £1k old Saab does not a £5k car make.

Frankly I'd not have given you £5k new for one of these in 2005; they're very dated, very creaky, and mods or not once the novelty of some straight line heroics has passed you're left with a poorly made, poor handling, poor riding car, with the engine driving the wrong end so it can't use the power properly anyway. Totally overrated on PH IMHO.

The smart money buys one for cheap and goes to the well-known remapper who will turn the wick up for almost nothing and has a short-term hoot in what's a tip-run car these days.

[ALawson]

Just got 4 225/45/17 high load CrossClimates for £450, that included a £50 discount card I need to apply for, manufacturers November deal which runs out today. That worked out at £100 a tyre, Black circles has them at £108 each with £40 off if you buy 4 so about the same and they did it this morning.

[Northbrook]

Another vote for the Cross Climates here - nearly 5k in, the tyre place asked if they were very recent. Looking forward to snow!

[Jimmy Recard]

It’s a lot of money for a 95 Aero, but as a big fan, I do like it. I wouldn’t spend that on one though, I’m not that big a fan!

[lyricalgangster]

Boo. Volvo T4 sold.

[anonymous-user]

mondayo said:

For some reason I've always fancied a V6 Galaxy or Sharan.
Possibly not this one that Guna is selling though.
But with lines like "As Soon AS Dream!!! Hello , Drive!!!," maybe I could turn a blind eye to the fact it's a Cat C.....

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201...

I always wanted one of these with a straight through exhaust and induction kit, but looking exactly like that.

[W00DY]

lyricalgangster said:

Boo. Volvo T4 sold.

I wouldn't be surprised to see it pop up again with a price tag of £3495.

[Rubins4]

It looked good that t4, leather and heated all sorts too.

[Macron]

Tiny engine, but £2k, 1993 E200 with lots of recent work done.

https://carandclassic.co.uk/car/C795906

[LetsTryAgain]

Macron said:

Tiny engine, but £2k, 1993 E200 with lots of recent work done.

https://carandclassic.co.uk/car/C795906

Different generation completely but my W211 E200 is more than acceptable/adequate for most situations.
I'm a man who usually likes plenty of oomph and I'm more than happy to pay the bills to support that but my E200 is spot on

Edited by LetsTryAgain on Saturday 30th November 22:20

[bolidemichael]

bolidemichael said:

On the topic of gearbox oil, mine was done about 30,000 miles ago whilst the transmission was dropped in order to change the leaking crankshaft oil seal. I don't know if it was a change or a flush though, I'll look that up.

Right-o, I have looked up the documentation and a 'transmission service' was carried out involving 6L of transmission oil. It's clear from the labour why it was worth servicing at the same time as the replacement of the leaking crankshaft oil seal as removing the transmission alone is just a tad under four hours - the transmission service took a couple of hours.



Finally, on all season tyres, I opted for Maxxis SP2 on Mrs Bolide A2 which is an urban runaround, on 205/45/17. They feel great. particularly because a motivation for the change was the shocking ride on the lower profile 205/40/17. The middle number is a ratio - a proportion of the tyre width, in this case 205, so made a large difference. It then made sense to opt for All Seasons, but the reviews vs usage vs price made the Maxxis very tempting indeed. I'm thinking law of diminishing returns here.

[tog]

harrykul said:

bolidemichael said:

ALawson said:

In terms of tyres are the Cross Climates ok? I just had a Maxxis Sport separate at the shoulder, pressure always been pretty good and only done 14k miles.

On the winter tyres thread (sorry I can't find the bookmark with the crappy mobile site) they get good reviews and Black Circles have a black friday promo as someone mention earlier.

Another vote for cross climate here, have fitted them to a couple.of the family's vehicles. Can also recommend the Bridgestone equivalent too, A005 iirc.

I appear to be a lone voice, but I fitted Cross Climates to my Saab 9000 a few k ago and I'm not overly impressed. They may yet turn out to save my bacon if it gets cold and snowy, but so far the ride and handling is a long way off the summer Contis that I usually run, and they are noisy in the wet. I have a spare set of wheels so I plan to fit summers on those come the spring and keep the Cross Climates for deep winter.

[mondayo]

Quite like the look of this as a proper shed/tip car. Just wish it was a little closer to home. It's got the right engine for chugging about in and it's not silver.
E320cdi estate, £1350.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Mercedes-E320-CDI-Estat...

[0a]

I have been giving the w124 a good spanking this weekend down in the boarders.

[TyrannosauRoss Lex]

0a said:

I have been giving the w124 a good spanking this weekend down in the boarders.

Brilliant photos, looks wonderful, if a bit chilly!

[anonymous-user]

tog said:

I appear to be a lone voice, but I fitted Cross Climates to my Saab 9000 a few k ago and I'm not overly impressed. They may yet turn out to save my bacon if it gets cold and snowy, but so far the ride and handling is a long way off the summer Contis that I usually run, and they are noisy in the wet. I have a spare set of wheels so I plan to fit summers on those come the spring and keep the Cross Climates for deep winter.

I've just put a set of 16" wheels with 195/55 R16 Goodyear 4Seasons Gen 2 all season tyres on my MX5 to replace the 205/45 R16 standard fit Bridgestone summer tyres.

Firstly they look ridiculous with that 55 profile, which I love, but secondly the dry grip is miles off the Bridgestones to the extend that on a dry road yesterday it stepped sideways briefly during a full bore 1-2 shift (on an unrelated note the new 180bhp MX5 is decisively quicker than a GT86). I don't imagine the extra CM of width has made all that much difference in and of itself so it must be the compound/tyre itself.

They better be brilliant in the ice and snow to justify bothering putting them back on next year. As it stands I would be very reluctant to use them all year round. I'd approach the similarly related CrossClimates very cautiously.