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Swift wrote:I would stay away from anything Opel sourced like the plague. I would rather put up with a Korean Barina TBH.
A nice 3 cyl Suzuki Swift based one from the 80s would be my pick if I could find one that hasn't reached 300k and beyond.
homer9000 wrote:
I got a used 18 month old Spark the other day and what a bargain.automatic ls model.paying about the same or less a month in insurance and repayments compared to the nissan micra(fully paid off)i traded in last week.better drive and the safety levels are excellent.those extra airbags are things that till not so long ago you had to be mega rich to afford a Volvo or Mercedes for.
Swift wrote:homer9000 wrote:
I got a used 18 month old Spark the other day and what a bargain.automatic ls model.paying about the same or less a month in insurance and repayments compared to the nissan micra(fully paid off)i traded in last week.better drive and the safety levels are excellent.those extra airbags are things that till not so long ago you had to be mega rich to afford a Volvo or Mercedes for.
What distance has it done, is it a four door, does it perform well and does the auto shift smoothly and pick the right gear you want most of the time? High kilometres would worry me with that car when the time comes. Does it have cruise control and air?
Merc1107 wrote:
Be nice to see a 750iL (the V12) plugging about. A surprisingly economical engine to run - aside from the fact a lot of the running gear (ECUs, sensors etc) are duplicated. Rumour has it these early V12s are nothing more than two inline-six engines welded together.
It's supposed to take a variety of factors into account to vary the service interval - essentially giving short-trippers a short service interval and people who live on the highways a long interval. In reality, I don't think anyone really knows how the older Service Indicator works (what inputs are used and how they compute the service interval). The later version of the Service Indicator system from the mid-1990s to present operate on the quantity of fuel used, which in reality works well enough anyway - short tripping and very spirited driving use more fuel than highway cruising.scott wrote:It had one of those service indicators that decided when it was time for a service, and it could only be reset by a BMW dealer with a special tool. Can't remember how it worked as I have never read a BMW car manual, but it was a series of coloured lights.
werkhorse wrote:Swift .... that EK you posted is actually an EJ ... I've owned 11 different EJs over the years ... great old car
werkhorse wrote:No need to apologise mate, very much the same for me ... although I never owned an EH or HD I did have 3 HRs one of which was a Premier and the best car I ever owned. as for the Grey motor .. you just couldn't kill they and the more you loaded them up the more they liked it.
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