So that come the next willy waving contest at the golf club you can get one up on the club captain.
Weird car options, an observation
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Slick
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As is the same with most rear wheel drives of a certain vintage. I remember one brand new one grounding out on the front end on a series of humps, admittedly taken at speed. Sad sight, but still a great car.
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Nah my willy is so small it doesn't wave at anybody & besides that I hate golf
Velour seats, centre console, vinyl roof, headrests. You were really somebody in a GLX.
Richard A Thackeray
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My wife has a Toyota C-HR (the hybrid model), & that's 'keyless'
To lock, so long as the keys are within a yard, all you do is touch a sensor on the door handle, two touches 'deadlocks'
Unlocking, again keys nearby (pocket/handbag), it unlocks as you pull the handle
Range??, it won't unlock, if the keys are more than a few feet away/otherside of a garage wall..... I've tried
It's cruel I know, but I'd love to see someone with OCD trying to lock it/check the locks...….
Indicators?, they're fitted now!?!?
The Vauxhall Monaro, & VXR8, were allegedly capable of 180+ when unrestricted
A by-product of those long straight Aussie roads?
Plus, undoubtedly more fun than a B*W
Our old Jaguar XKR (first shape) was '155 limited', we used an independent for the servicing, but he was factory trained/ex main dealer, & showed us in his files, an old letter (or fax, can't remember) stating that factory 'unrestricted' test cars had reached 170MPH, & were still 'pulling'
I had several Land Rovers like that, I could open the door with a penny!!!
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mustang1
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Mmh weird. A dealer near me never charged for it.
Salar
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Many, many years ago my company car was an Austin Montego Estate. 
The M.D. referred to it as a shooting brake and had it de badged so that nobody knew it was a Montego. !!
The M.D. referred to it as a shooting brake and had it de badged so that nobody knew it was a Montego. !!
Profpointy
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Whilst the "restriction" is no doubt just a setting, one really important consideration is tyre speed rating. If your car is restricted to a mere 130 say, you can have lower speed rated tyres - but if the car is undrestricted you'd really need higher speed rated tyres. The thing I'd not realised till it had been explained to me by a car design engineer is that the higher rated tyres are not "better" tyres at all, since ride, roadholding, longevity and cost had all been sacrificed for a speed rating that you'd never use.l The lower speed rated tyres were likely better in every other respect
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Anyone remember the old FS keys I think there was only either only 1k or 10k of them FSXXX or FSXXXX everybody's car in the 60's virtually had these
Nigel-YZ1
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When I had the midlife crisis Astra Couple Turbo (at 35 ) I priced up an unbadged replacement front grille. Waste of money at: £125.
I broke the bootlid spoiler. Those were £500 from Vauxhall dealers and a fittable option (another £50 I think) if you didn't have one. I found a place online that sold the Irmscher factory rejects. The only fault was crappy paint, so so I bought it and had it sprayed to match - total cost £200.
I was buying 150mph rated tyres because I had this dumb idea about doing track days (which I never did). £150 a pop and you had to replace axle pairs. £300 is not good news when you work in a window factory and the dingbats throw the screws out of their pockets in the road at then end of their shift.
) I priced up an unbadged replacement front grille. Waste of money at: £125.I broke the bootlid spoiler. Those were £500 from Vauxhall dealers and a fittable option (another £50 I think) if you didn't have one. I found a place online that sold the Irmscher factory rejects. The only fault was crappy paint, so so I bought it and had it sprayed to match - total cost £200.
I was buying 150mph rated tyres because I had this dumb idea about doing track days (which I never did). £150 a pop and you had to replace axle pairs. £300 is not good news when you work in a window factory and the dingbats throw the screws out of their pockets in the road at then end of their shift.
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Nigel-YZ1
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When I was a kid the boot key from the neighbour's Morris 1000 would open the doors on my dad's Hillman Hunter.
We once found our car gone at a supermarket. It seems there were very few key combinations on Hillman Avengers - someone had mistaken ours for theirs and gone home in it. They came back half an hour later.
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My aunt once got in her Rover 2200 to go home & noticed she hadn't much fuel so pulled into the petrol station & only realised it wasn't her car when her purse wasn't in the glove box. She drove back to the car park to find the owner leant against her car he'd seen her drive out of the car park & knew she'd be back.
Richard A Thackeray
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Our XKR was on 'Z' rated Continentals
Quite a low profile too @ '45'
I know about the ride quality on a few scores
Eg;
1. I once had a lift, many years ago, from someone in a mk3 Escort
He'd put a set of 17"(??) alloys/low-profile tyres on it, but kept a totally stock suspension, & it suffered for it, every single white-line/catseye/drain cover could be felt
He just considered it sporty
2. Another lift in a Range Rover L322 ('Series 3', as I'd call it), it had aftermarket 22" wheels/tyres on it
Quite apart from them looking horrendous, & like something out of a bad rap video, or a 'WAG' shopping, it again suffered
Even allowing for air-suspension
There was a spate of prosecutions/insurance rescindments, back in the 90's (quite appropriate...) when Land Rover started to fit their Tdi engines into 90s, 110s & 130s
Given that one of the big tyre choices in the 80's (& thus into the 90s) was the old Firestone SAT (as a 7.50), it was transferred to the newer vehicles, but it had a 'L' rating (75MPH), & the Tdi'd vehicles could touch, or even better 90mph
Still a damned fine tyre though, as was BF Goodrich 'Trac-Edge'
Yes, I know this is a CCV trial Series 1, but it's on SATs (one of my late 80's photos)
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mustang1
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Many, many years ago my company car was an Austin Montego Estate.
The M.D. referred to it as a shooting brake and had it de badged so that nobody knew it was a Montego. !!
Many years ago my dad said he might get me a Montego so when he took me out to show me the new car, I couldn't see it anywhere .He said it was right in front of me but still I couldn't see it. He said it begins with M and I still couldn't see it .Then he walk over to a Micra .omg, a Micra. What a poncy car o thought. But I loved that car, it was awesome!
MontyVeda
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We slighly made 'skeleton' keys in metal work a school... a blank key shaped thing that definitely opened my dad's Marina. Didn't dare try it on any other car though.
Many moons ago a mate had locked his keys in his car. I suggested trying any other car key, but he told me how super secure his car's locks were, and reckoned he'd have to break a window to gain entry. I reiterated that trying any other key was worth a try... but he was adamant that it wouldn't work, and began snooping around the river bank for a suitable rock. Meanwhile, the second 'other' car key i borrowed opened his car.
