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twinturbo 6th October 2011 09:04 PM

Bye Bye Volvo, Roll On Merc...
 
Back in April when we sold our MK1 golf we got my bro's Volvo V40.. then last month I was offered my m8's Benz C230 elegance estate for £200 :) which passed it's MOT fine :D .

Tonight the volvo went, it's cost me £9 excluding petrol and insurance to run it since April :o after working out costs/sales .. and done about 1400 miles. I think that's darn good.

So the C230 gets insured and taxed tomorrow and I am back in RWD Luxo Heaven again yay... Back with right wheel drive .

Strange parking brake!

And it uses a steerign box! lsat car I had with one of them was my old Carlton back in 2002.


Strangely, both our daily drivers are now both 2.3L 4 pots, which is about the biggest 4pot engine you get due to complexit caused by dealing with harmonics.

TT

wylliezx9r 6th October 2011 09:30 PM

My mate used to have a 944 s2 that was a 3 litre four pot. That's the largest petrol four pot I know of.

robo 7th October 2011 09:45 AM

A mate runs one of those merc estates as a mobile dog kennel and van, two bloody great alsatians + tools. Bomb proof car and the last of the better built mercs.

Bob

twinturbo 7th October 2011 12:51 PM

Yeah seems well put together , garage said it was mint underneath and it's got 152K on the clock.


TT


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