The last month has seen the following motoring incidents:

1. Car gets reversed into.
2. Engine swallows a spark plug core.
3. Car gets repaired, new bonnet and bumper etc.
4. Am now unable to get bonnet open, back to repairer on Monday.
5. Engine pulls like a train, yet won't idle properly and intermittently runs like a bag of gutless bolts.
6. Has had new plugs and coil packs to no avail.
7. Lost count of the number of times the plenum has been off whilst looking for an air leak.
8. Air con condenser has been replaced, just needs a re gas.
9. HBV just started leaking, 2nd one in 60k.
10. To cap it all, o/s/f wishbone is getting soft after 6k.

Could I ever forgive myself if I gave up and chopped it in? 

Thinking either a white VXR8 manual, insurance permitting, or a 4x4 Insignia.

vxr8 are awesome cars for the money at the moment, but then again so are omegas 

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Likewise, esp for work.

I think I heard that the estate was going to be available when the updated one comes out...

Might have been dreaming though.

Ex demo/pre reg Insignia VXRs are tidy value at £26k.

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Perhaps Emu, but even on five cylinders, it's closer to having a proper engine than a desmond.

taxi al wrote on 06. Apr 2011 at 08:37:


Desmond who?
Lynam.....? 

jonnycool wrote on 06. Apr 2011 at 17:50:

or Desmond Dekker...????

jonnycool wrote on 06. Apr 2011 at 17:50:

All the frustrations melt away on a good piece of road when everything is just right.

Trouble with that is that not all the punters are appreciative. One chap yesterday said that it was a very smooth and comfortable car, and for a diesel it's alot quieter than most of the cabs he'd been in.

I hope he was p!55ed.