Stuey

and they are bloody expensive too. Both to run and buy. Seems to be the way with anything under the VAG flag, Skoda's arnt to bad though...

you have mentioned it to Citroen then?? Clutches shouldnt be going this early at any rate...

Ham's car is remarkable clean, mine was getting there until it went for a diversion through a hedge hence the signiature picture. That flash washing thingy is about £20 when I saw it at halfrauds. Meguirs is probably the best cleaning stuff for the price. Wozza, Ham and myself use it on ours and the results are clear to see. but there is nothing wrong with Autoglym. I use the resin polish for a base for the Meguirs Tech Wax.

the picasso mate! we have talked about my knackered car enough :P

cool a new game! guess Z3's job....right so we have had rep and salesman. cant really think of any other job that could make you do 50K miles in about a year...anyone else have ideas??

from TopGear.com 5 seat C4 Picasso. I think this is pretty much what the new C4 will look like. I might be completly wrong but I wouldnt mind if it did look like it all things considered. Coupe should have the sloping back just like the current. take a look!!

my bad. Sorry dude, you must be some sort of salesman to do that many miles...

there are about 5 on autotrader...the cheapest is 28K. Looks like the "best value used car" status will be well founded.

the C6 section would be a very lonley place indeed. have they sold any yet??

Ebay is indeed your friend when buying car its such as that...

gutted!!

Z3M got 35K out of his tyres if I remember rightly, he is a rep so all of those miles would have been at high speed :D

scenes of crime have been and checked mine, the police are sure that it is the car but not the driver...anyway my car was picked up yesterday and I have a purple Ford Ka. This is the pont where I should be ranting about how crap it is but I simply cant which bothers me. It sounds like a hoover when you give it some and it is definatly quicker than the C4! I have spoken to the Citroen dealership and they seem to be desperate for sales at the moment as the salesman is speaking to my insurance company and the company that supplies the VRI to see how much cash I have to spend if mine is written off. 1.6 VTR+ me thinks...

sorry to see it go D&T!! stick around here though!! Im sure we can have an astra section for you!!

who's next?? cmon any takers?? we need a third crash to make this Xmas complete :rolleyes: doesnt look to bad mate, just needs a respray by the looks of it...

just a quick update...car is being picked up on Tuesday. As for the other car, a guy was nicked that night driving a silver fiesta with a dint on the side with traces of blue paint on it. its a shame that the police cant prove he was driving at the time of my smash. He is being tryed for driving woth no tax, insurance and license and assaulting a police officer. He swang at my mate who was arresting him at the time...needless to say the other driver came off worse...

I took the VRI out when I bought it so if I can persuade the insurance company to write it off then I will have about 12K to play with; im off to find my lump hammer...anyone know where the airbag sensors are on an 05 plate Citroen C4?? :o

cheers all! not sure if the car is a write off as it is sat on my drive waiting to be picked up. the thing that makes me think its screwed is the shere amount of panel damage right where there are joins in the bodywork, IE 3 quarter panel, I dont think even the best panel beater in the world could get that looking right again so it will be a cut out job and I have no idea how that works... It is still just about driveable but both front tyres have gone down since I took those pics yesterday afternoon so obviously dropping about 4 feet back onto the road does low profile tyres no good at all...oh and the front alloys are kippered, quite badly scratched, I hope the garage will replace them. I did report it to the police, as I have said before one of my friends is a traffic cop and he is looking for dirty silver fiestas and is going to check as many as he can out for me...its not what you know and all that :o If he does find it I will have to go around and introduce him to "hitty" the bat and German Shepherd of Biting. Ham dont mention anything anbout how soft my dog is :D

yeah im fine all told, could have been loads worse really. im a bit stiff today. Im not sure if he hit me or not, there doesnt seem to be any marks on the drivers side but any marks could be obscured by mud and bits of tree that is all over the front of it... comedy timing of it all.... :o

cheers mate, although as I said in the post I dont think she will be coming home after this... :o

Right then, please excuse me if I rant a hell of a lot during this, Wozza feel free to edit as you see fit. Finished work at dinner time on Friday which was nice of the boss. Nipped into Nottingham to get a few last minute bits and peices. All is still good. I took a shortcut on the way home down the country road I normally take in the mornings, the road was extremely slippery so I was driving nice and steady, I noticed a car in my rear view mirror, I carried on as before he then decided to overtake me on the way into a bend and bottled it halfway through his move and forced me of the road up a steep bank though a thicket and a load of small trees. Now it gets really good, the complete knobhead didnt even have the common decency to stop so I could knock his lights out! I am now car less until most probably the new year when the crash repair centre re-open. I cant see them being open next week. I do have a sneaking suspision that the car is going to be written off as all of the dints are across the crease in the side... Pictures?? I knew you would ask so here they are!! http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v199/LooseMoose/IMG_5030.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v199/LooseMoose/car6.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v199/LooseMoose/car5.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v199/LooseMoose/car4.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v199/LooseMoose/car3.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v199/LooseMoose/car2.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v199/LooseMoose/car1.jpg as you can see the wing mirror has gone pulling all the wiring out with it, breaking the circuit so the indicators dont work. The massive dint in the door is right on the handle so it doesnt open from the outside (that was from a tree, possible the saving grace of that wasnt there I would have gone over the top of the bank and most probably rolled) 4th pic down shows that you can see down into the door itself...am I p1ssed off?? you bet.

Merry Christmas one and all!!

nicely done KFK!!

the fogs to look photoshop'd as the black surrounds arent lit up...

you are the kind of person who gets wasted on a Friday night and walks around the town centre with no shirt on and shouting at the fountains... :)