Well well well. What do we have here? A nice new looking forum. very nice and no mistake. This place just gets better!

This is my bi-yearly call in to let you all know that I am still alive.

What to tell. Hmmm, 21000+miles and it decides to tell me that in 800 miles it needs a service. Horrid nasty car. Still, I did get an average of 71.9mpg (yes you read it right) from Chester Le Street to Billingham on Sunday night. 60mph with the cruise control. You know, cruise control, something you non-L&K pikeys have to buy as an optional extra!

It even managed to pull 69.1mpg from Lincoln to Chester le Street with three adults and associated weekend luggage (pair of socks ofr me and 24 suitcases full of clothes for the two girlies) at the same 60mph a few weeks back. Foul oil burner that it is. Yak!

Anyway, just to call it in. The nasty foul smelling thing seems to run like a swiss watch, with only one minor fault in 21k which was a misted up xenon headlight (standard again pikeys!). It blew an interior light bulb (that's the Octavia down to the bottom of the JD Power survey then) and it suffered a puncture. Towed the caravan 600 miles at 32.5mpg ave and I hardly knew the thing was hitched to the back all the way. Tyres were swapped around at 18000 miles and the brake pads seem to have a seriously large amount of meat left on them. Mind you, this could be due to the fact that I drive it like an old lady. I manage 55.4mpg around the Newcastle doors at an average of 27mph.

The 'Davey Lamp' as it is affectionately known (oil burner) has loosened up a bit now and can run up to an indicated 130mph given the time (probably a true 118-120mph) and it does seem to have quitened down a bit since new. It still has that horrendous cold motor rattle though.

The beige leather is shrugging off the worst my bum can throw at it. The same cannot be said for the stupidly coloured beige carpets and plastic trim. The boot copes admirably with my yellow labardor who now sleeps on a bed of his own cast dog hair!

Miss L insists her heated seat (standard again my peg selling friends) isn't as hot as mine but she is mistaken. The sunroof (you know what I am going to say, don't you) is a particularly bad piece of design. Let me tell you why.

When the sunroof is open there is a spring loaded deflector which pops up into the airstream, obviously designed to channel buffeting away from the aperture. Nice touch in theory. In practice it funnels turbulent air right into the car. In fact if you pull the deflector down into its closed position all is calm and serene. A hamfisted fix involving blocks of wood is in order, I feel.

Cost of a service?

:silly:

Steve

Good to hear from you again Mr. Lucky.

... and good to see that you are a fully converted member of the oil burning fraternity

At least us non L&K "pikeys" don't have to go anywhere near Chester-Le-Street :P

new octy

http://www.briskoda.net/forums/showthread.php?t=7203&page=3 check the 4th post on that page.

lucky!

good to see you. congrats to you both and to miss l. on her tests!

At least us non L&K "pikeys" don't have to go anywhere near Chester-Le-Street :P

Some of us privileged L&K owners don't have to either

I tell you - we'll be a rarer breed now that they have stopped making them!!

Some of us privileged L&K owners don't have to either

I tell you - we'll be a rarer breed now that they have stopped making them!!

They still make the L&K van with windows don't they?

They still make the L&K van with windows don't they?

He's not often wrong!

(Don't you mean the executive shooting brake??)

You mean the one I'm ordering this week?

Black or Silver? Black or Silver?

Mr L, good to hear from you again Looking forward to my L&K PD130 (not the pikey 110 engine :P )

Glad to hear your "neice" passed her tests, any news on the results from yours?

Anyway, see you again in 6 months

Oh and congrats on the engagement

Go for silver Jon...hides the stone chips better, specially with the miles you cover

He's not often wrong!

(Don't you mean the executive shooting brake??)

Nope, i mean Executive Plasterer's Transport. They've graduated from Cortina Estates now

aha - "engagement" - the penny drops after what Ffelan told me at the weekend.

Well done! congrats! I know who you really are.

No you don't Jason, so nah nah neeh nah nah! :P

Mr Lucky is Mr Lucky, he is one of the seriously old school Briskodians. He used to have a red RS, took the sump off it about 10 seconds after I did mine. His "neice" was not happy. We spent several cold hours sitting in the Yorkshire Dales waiting for the AA. He then did what I'm doing now and swapped to a TDI L&K estate.