damian.r.smith

Hi. Would you take 420 for these. I could collect and pay cash. I am down in Gloucestershire so if I collected it would likely be late evening in the week if that's ok? Can you please also confirm if any wheels are buckled or have any fractures/cracks? Thanks Damian

Hi. Can you please let me know if these are still available. Had a few problems today with my superbs wheels and need some replacements. If they are avaialable it would be good to know the condition and location. Many thanks Damian

I use either linseed oil or more usually olive oil. Grab a few cotton wool ear cleaner things (what the hell are these called again?) And dip into the oil. Then spot touch each tar spot. Let soak and then they should clean off. They should almost burst and break down when you clean off.

This is especially nice to read as it isn't just about the toyds but how they work. We are taking delivery tomorrow of a superb and I was so very very close to getting a 5.

Yes but don't manufactures also opt to get them tested to see if they can make tweaks to then get a few more points at final production?

Many thanks for this. Nice to hear experience of owning one from a mum with two. My wife is already eyeing up a new bugaboo! as she claims it is marginally smaller than the phil and teds. Yet another buggy we will no doubt be buying to accessorise the smaller car.

Doesn't sound like an easy solution. I think we will just have to see how we get on with it and decide if the extra cost and hassle of fitting it is really worth it. Fingers crossed the dealer with be in touch this week about a delivery date.

Agreed. Not a big fan of the mini itself and the clubman doesn't seem to make sense to me. Suicide door is also on the wrong side for this country. No way will we be buying one of these. Interesting to you're thinking the same. I regretted not going for an X5 or Disco when we bought the Touareg but I guess now I would come to the same type of conclusion whatever the 4x4 it was. Hope you haven't taken too much of a hit with your X5. I imagine it has held its value a little more than my Treg has. Eerrr, perhaps you can tell her. I will be in the USA when you do it though. Thanks for this. Very helpful. If you are going up to the roof however do you use a net or something else to prevent everything flying forward in an emergency. My BMW has a great net fitted as standard but the VW only has a roller blind style cover. Nothing that goes up to the roof. The buggy is perhaps the problem. It is quite a "rolls royce" type and I think my wife has here eyes on an equally bank balance threatening other one. The car we are getting doesn't have the false floor (it was already specced out so we avoided the long waiting list). Might have to think of another solution for the changing in the back of car scenario. Ah, good point, bumper seat. Badge snob. Yes. She was very excited when we bough the VW and BMW and coulnd't wait to get them on the drive. This one however, I don't even think she has told anyone she is getting a brand spanking new really nice car. Good idea. I am very hopeful that she will get on with it and not complain too much. I think it is the right choice. The alternative last weekend was a 5 series or ford s-max. Love the 5 series but it was used and not really the exact car spec I wanted. If I could have found the right 5 series I probably would have gone with that. The s-max. Wow, what an over priced car. £18k for a 2009 one with 23k miles. It just amazes me how much they hold their value. Whilst it clearly would have been more practical I couldn't face shelling out that sort of money for a ford MPV. Cannot wait until it arrives now. Everything in our household magically gets paid for by American Express. The numbers don't seem to register for my better half. nice to hear that the boot and rear has some degree of flexibility. I will try a few differnt things out to see what works. Taking out the centre one sounds like a good choice. The car doesn't come specced with the spare. I may look into buying seperately and leaving in the garage most of the time. The car, I agree, is very distinctive and last weekend on a round day trip to London we spotted 1. Saw more Ferarris. As an accountant I like the idea of monitoring the savings. I don't think it will take long to pay for that Mulberry handbag she longs for. VW takes £125 to fill and achieved about 400 miles on that. Cheers for all your replies. Very useful.

After many (and I mean many many months) deliberating over what car we should replace our VW Touareg with I finally bought (on its way from Germany as I type) a Yeti. Here's the problem. Two very young children and my wife has been spoilt with a huge 4x4 diesel gussling beast of a car. I hate the Touareg, it's a sod to drive and hateful to own. Crazy road tax, awful MPG and very slow. Not My better half however loves it. I had to bribe her by saying she could have an iPhone if she agreed to selling the Touareg. She caught me out as she agreed, bough an iPhone the next day and left me to deal with he car. Anyway, after reluctantly test driving it (I haven't even tried it myself) I decided to cut our losses with the VW and buy an already specced out Yeti that is someones cancelled order. It's a 2WD 1.2TSI (my choice over 1.4 as I feel we need to give our planet something back after owning a Co2 monster) with b.tooth, auto/come home lights, xenons, special paint, ESP, heated front screen and a few other nice things (can't remember). This forum has been a great help before I even put the deposit down. Problems I am facing, despite the Yeti being delivered in a couple of weeks are: - "it's too small, we won't be able to fit the buggy and everything else in" - "I can't stand the kids up in the boot and put there shoes on" - "I can't fit another person in the back" Blah blah blah. Now she wants to trade my BMW in for a Mini Clubman!!!!!! Crazy! Anyway, I was hoping to hear from anyone out there who has kids, uses this car as a family car and could give me some ammunition to fire at my wife. I have just bought her a brand new car (first time we have ever owned from new) and was hoping she would be excited about it. I personally cannot wait until it arrives. It looks great, everyone says its great and it will be loads cheaper to run than the VW. Cheers everyone.

Hi all, Just put the desposit down on a 1.2 2WD Yeti. This will be the first brand new car we have owned and quite looking forward to having it with a new car smell. Spec is SE with xenons, ESP, heated front screen, bluetooth, metalic paint and come home lights. My wife is pretty dissapointed as we are trading in our massive VW Touareg for this. She is a little concerned about the size. The Touraeg was becoming embaressing and the depreciation we have suffered in the last year was astonishing. Fingers crossed our young children are ok in it and fingers crossed I still get to keep my BMW.