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The Car Thread: Mark III
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You've got to take those figures with a pinch of salt, they come from the DVLA stats which are a vague stab in the dark for old cars at the best of times, new ones are registered a bit better. I've had plenty of old cars over the years with no model name listed (or the trim spec instead, or something like "SALOON" or simply left blank). They were never registered to the same method across all the local offices and the data cleansing operation they did from the old microfiche sheets was a slapdash job.
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Going to take a look at a Toyota Hilux today. The roads have become so bad round here that me and the girlfriend are both going 4wd. Sadly my merc is only worth a max of about £6k these days so I’ll have to fork out another 5 or 6 and it’s not even the new year yet.
Not terribly exciting for the petrol heads on here but I’ll post pics anyway if and when I get it. Got a Navara to look at tomorrow as well.
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New car here. What follows is a tale of sadness followed by happiness:
Got car home, front 12v adapter not working. Rear one not working either. Dug out manual, says fuse is in socket 25 under the bonnet. Bonnet open, no fuse in socket 25 but more worryingly no clips to plug one into either! ARGH!! Crap I thought; clearly some big issue here and they've taken the whole thing out. Turns out the manual was out of date and that fuse is now (2011 onward) under the glove compartment. Anyway, it was blown. Put a new one in and all working.
I'm sure you all feel your lives have been enriched by reading this story.
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