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After pop star, but before the SAS, after business magnate but before small scale sheep farmer, but definitely during the ***t phase.
Don't forget his part in creating the internet, and bringing Paul Gadd to justice.
I bought a Fiat Scudo but it's actually a Peugeot Citroen. Thank feck for that!
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Go back. He said he had a BX then a Xantia.
As did I.
I loved the BX, a naturally aspirated 1.9 RD. Used to drive through Studentville in Manchester and Stockport and all of them tried to flag me down! Both my BX and my Xantia rolled on a hill. The BX was on my sloping driveway and I went home to pick something up. When I came out, it was blocking the road. Always put it in gear after that.
Until the time I forgot (after a tiring long distance run). When I happed to own a Xantia....
It rolled down a long hill and bumped into a VW Polo at the bottom.
My ins co rang the dealer to ask if it had been serviced as per schedule. "Yes", they said. So they concluded I hadn't put it on tight enough. Would not entertain the well-known design issue Citroen had.
To cap it all off, I had arguments with them about the repairs to the Polo: the Citroen was undamaged and there was no visible damage to the Polo. But they had paid out thousands in repairs, including a new bumper and numberplate, which (in the photos I sent them) were completely undamaged.
I suggested there was some kind of fraud going on between the Polo owner and the "repairing" garage, but that got me nowhere. They're a lot hotter these days when it comes to accepting or refusing claims.
I didn't have this problem with the BX and it will have been parked in a large number of places including our drive which slopes. The Xantia rolled back on that and blocked traffic.
I took a look to see why there was a lot of hooting going on. Past that I mostly just applied it more firmly. I believe other makers earlier on had problems as disk brakes were fitted to the rear. Not sure about this but on one car and I suspect it was the Xantia the handbrake didn't move across to suite the side of the road we drive on.Something I noticed on one car and may explain why some had problems.Disk brakes going on the front had an interesting change. People noticed they were finally stopping with a bit of a jerk. Muscle memory and disk brakes behaving differently to drum.
Knowing who made a car yes - finding out which design house came up with shape. Why the hell would I be bothered? Motoring magazine chat that is of no interest to me.
I was just reminded of this post, when I rediscovered a story about potholes!
I've had three Fiat Pandas (MK3 and Mk4) - they were brilliant little cars - totally reliable (at least for me!), no rattles, no rust. Great to rev to the limiter!
...and this was a memorable pothole that my little Panda went through - I had no idea it was coming, as there was nose to tail traffic, on a narrow rat run - the entire wheel went in, subframe scraped, poor little car struggled to get out the other side!
But it did and there were no issues, unlike the others that littered the roadside that day...
How the potholes on Millionaire’s Row claimed eight victims in one hour
A POTHOLE so large motorists compared it to a shallow grave was only filled in after claiming the wheels of at least eight cars in one morning.
www.walesonline.co.uk
Eight cars needed recovery, but many more had punctures that they dealt with themselves.
It was a plucky little Panda!
