auroan

I'll defo be at this now. If anything I want to have a look at Dan's Quatty and see what he's had done.

And I thought I had a simplistic view of things

A very simple view from my part I accept... but why should a country who looks after its finances better... bail out another who can't ?

For a country in so much debt... how are they expected to service the 7.5% interest to the people buying the bonds ? Sounds like a good way of ****ing away your savings. You could almost call it a pyramid selling scheme.

Sounds like someone was shell bidding to bring the price of the car up in the auction. Rule of thumb I always go by; is if you get a funny feeling about a motor... walk away. As they say "there are plenty of fish in the sea".

I'll see If I can make it over.

Yup.

Do it Do it. The only thing that you'll regret when you have it is the fuel bill.

My comment was in reference to work done by the human not the computer.

Skoda's range topper is the 4x4 3.6 Supurb. It's not that shabby a car, but I can't see it ever getting the same plaudits as say an RS4 etc on Top Gear.

I might be a long for a butchers, as it's fairly local to me.

How exactly ? It would be one (if not two) lines in the template code.

ah, my AX with 12 months MOT won't cut the mustard then ?

I've only done it once when buying an A4. I agreed a price based on the description being correct when I went down to pick it up. When I turned up the car was as described so paid what we had agreed. I didn't try and haggle for more off, that would have been rude. The car was in Oxford and I was in York.

MORE fuel duty !!!! Guess I'll be keeping the little AX I've just bought; as a run around instead of selling it on.

The interior controls/centre console are the only gripe I have with the B8 A4s. Unfortunately that gripe is enough to keep me in a B7 for a long time. IMHO Audi have taken a step backwards in the interior quality.

So an S4 Avant then with the sports diff?

Well not an S4 as A4 would have been wrong. So it I reckon it's one with stop start tech. 2.0Tdi 'e' Saloon SE executive

Erm, well A4 then ?

A5 ?

Something with 4 rings ?

I'd be seriously worried if a diesel exhaust tip got hot enough to burn the plastics in the back bumper.

Blimey S3s come in cheaper than that new.

Back when I had my A4 2.8q (which needed a fair bit of work doing to it, to bring it up to my stupid fussy stds)..... I'd finished doing a lot of work on the front end, renewing brake calipers, trackrod ends etc. After I'd put everything back together all was fine for about a week. Then suddenly the car developed a loud knocking noise from the front suspension when accelerating and braking. So with out even checking I thought.... "feck it.... I'll just order a complete set of meyle parts and have done with it... renew everything". Anyway parts arrived direct from Germany and I procede to start fitting. Whats the first thing I find ? A loose brake caliper !!!! I hadn't put a locking agent on the mounting bolts and they'd worked loose. Doh ! Long story short the 2.8q didn't stay with me long and was soon replaced by a B7 2.0tdi..... which again didn't last long as in reality I needed an estate.