Hello everyone.

 

I bought my 6-month old Superb 280 almost three years ago to replace a Mazda 6 MPS that I'd kept for 9 years. I needed 4WD for winter safety and a powerful engine for not being held up by all our summer tourists in their campervans  - that's my excuse, and my wife believes it, so I'm sticking to it. There weren't many options available for sensible money, given that I also wanted a hatch for practicality and an autobox to make life easier for my wife - the Audi and BMW alternatives were no better built, as far as I was able to judge, and the Superb had a much nicer interior.

 

I must confess to have been "lurking" on this site for quite a while, but have finally decided to try to persuade this infernal device to perform the necessary procedures for joining you properly. I am not mechanically competent, so am unlikely to be of much use to the group, but if I can pass on any helpful suggestions, I will.

 

Best wishes to you all, David.

Welcome and “Hi David” 👋

 

The 6 MPS was a nice car. Not many around these days. 

Hello David. Two cracking motors you've had there. Also, hats off to you as well for convincing the wife 😉

Thank you both for the welcome. 

 

I was sorry to lose the MPS, but the MOT tester in 2016 told me that there was corrosion on the front subframe, although just surface stuff at that point, and if it got worse it would be new car time. He said he had to mention it on the certificate, so I decided that it was time to change and part-exchanged it for the Superb. Fortunately for the next owner it passed its next three MOTs, including the one two weeks ago according to the government website, without any mention of the front subframe! Still, nothing lasts forever, and the Superb is a very fine car indeed.

 

Prior to the MPS I had a Nissan 200SX for 8 years, and before that a Mk 1 Toyota MR2 for 10 years - it is a sad indicator of my advancing years that my cars have become ever more powerful, but ever less "sporty".

1 minute ago, ArisaigDavid said:

Thank you both for the welcome. 

 

I was sorry to lose the MPS, but the MOT tester in 2016 told me that there was corrosion on the front subframe, although just surface stuff at that point, and if it got worse it would be new car time. He said he had to mention it on the certificate, so I decided that it was time to change and part-exchanged it for the Superb. Fortunately for the next owner it passed its next three MOTs, including the one two weeks ago according to the government website, without any mention of the front subframe! Still, nothing lasts forever, and the Superb is a very fine car indeed.

 

Prior to the MPS I had a Nissan 200SX for 8 years, and before that a Mk 1 Toyota MR2 for 10 years - it is a sad indicator of my advancing years that my cars have become ever more powerful, but ever less "sporty".

You seem to have a habit of selecting future/cult classics.  Perhaps the 280 might go up in value in 10 years (once you've sold yours) 😂

1 hour ago, ArisaigDavid said:

Prior to the MPS I had a Nissan 200SX for 8 years, and before that a Mk 1 Toyota MR2 for 10 years - it is a sad indicator of my advancing years that my cars have become ever more powerful, but ever less "sporty".

I too had a Mk1 MR2 for a while. Great fun, but winter commutes on untreated rural roads were "interesting" to say the least! I wish I knew as much about driving now as I did when I was 20...

The only successful, if unintentional, "opposite lock" event I have ever had was on a packed snow-covered rural road just outside Bedford one morning. I turned off on a junction and the back end just went on me. Without thinking, and certainly without any prior training, I reflexively gave it that almost mythical "dab of oppo", the car straightened up, and off I went - I can claim no credit for any apparent skill involved, but I still wish somebody had been behind me to see it! The thing was, it was in the MR2 - the one type of car in which I shouldn't have got away with it. The only time prior to that was a deliberate attempt in a Mk1 Ford Granada, just to see what would happen - what happened was me parked on a neighbour's front lawn, so I never tried that again.

 

In reply to penguin17, I have only bought cars that I really wanted (and could just about afford) after much agonized deliberation, and made them last as long as possible. I wish that I could have kept them all (apart from an unfortunate VW Scirocco), particularly the MR2 and the Granada, but I'm sure I am far from alone in that - even with a big lottery win, most of them are probably in the great scrapyard in the sky and I couldn't buy them back now anyway. Still a shame......