28-09-2012, 07:48 AM
Well, I'm gonna have to be totally honest here - I'm really not getting on with it.
I've REALLY tried to get on with it, and trust it, but I just can't. Thought it was just cos its different and I dont do different well, but sticking my audio and 'clones on hasn't made a difference.
I'm constantly worried about it breaking down with the EML on, or the brakes failing as they're so shit, and the clutch I fitted, thought me fitting it would be a good idea but I just don't have the confidence in myself to have fited it properly so I'm worried about that breaking, or the aux belt snapping, or the CV joint with the split boot drying up and locking, and its well overdue a service, the oil is like treacle, I can imagine the fuel filter is full of shit too. It just doesnt feel 'safe' at all, I'm worried to drive it anywhere at all, I went to a DG meet last night, I felt safer when I took the bloody 106 there a few months back! And by safe I dont mean that I feel its gonna crash, I mean that I can't trust it to get me anywhere. And what the hell is the point of a car if you can't trust it to go anywhere?
Then of course theres all the little niggles which soon add up, those bloody clocks for a start, the radio doesnt work at all now as my bodged aerial has failed too, the fan direction doesnt seem to work, the massive boost leak, the TPS that moves with the broken airbox, the remote central locking doesnt work, and I know this sounds daft, I keep forgetting to lock it as I'm just so used to pressing the button on every other car, so then I keep worrying even when its parked that I've forgotten to lock it!
Honestly, I'm in a constant state of panic with this car and beggining to think theres a frying pan and fire situation going on here.
Now the temp insurance runs out on Monday - I dislike the car so much I'm thinking about taking it back to Sams before then or SORN'ing here until Sam comes to get it if his parents/Nan dont want it there. Seems pointless to spend what I save in fuel not driving the Avensis on stuff for an estate I can't trust, which won't pass MOT in November, and will be returned to the owner by Xmas anyway.
Wish I'd just sold the Golf as a whole (was offerered a grand for it in the end) and bought a better car BUT I'd already got about £700 in provisional sales, yet due to people f*cking me about with towing or car trailers now lost some of those sales. You guys might be happy enough in old cheap cars with 'charachter' or as I like to call it, broken stuff, but it isn't working for me. I did like the handling and the direct steering of the 306, the autowipers and the size of the estate boot....but I'm struggling to find anything else good atm. Why do I make the wrong decision every single time theres one to be made.
I've REALLY tried to get on with it, and trust it, but I just can't. Thought it was just cos its different and I dont do different well, but sticking my audio and 'clones on hasn't made a difference.
I'm constantly worried about it breaking down with the EML on, or the brakes failing as they're so shit, and the clutch I fitted, thought me fitting it would be a good idea but I just don't have the confidence in myself to have fited it properly so I'm worried about that breaking, or the aux belt snapping, or the CV joint with the split boot drying up and locking, and its well overdue a service, the oil is like treacle, I can imagine the fuel filter is full of shit too. It just doesnt feel 'safe' at all, I'm worried to drive it anywhere at all, I went to a DG meet last night, I felt safer when I took the bloody 106 there a few months back! And by safe I dont mean that I feel its gonna crash, I mean that I can't trust it to get me anywhere. And what the hell is the point of a car if you can't trust it to go anywhere?
Then of course theres all the little niggles which soon add up, those bloody clocks for a start, the radio doesnt work at all now as my bodged aerial has failed too, the fan direction doesnt seem to work, the massive boost leak, the TPS that moves with the broken airbox, the remote central locking doesnt work, and I know this sounds daft, I keep forgetting to lock it as I'm just so used to pressing the button on every other car, so then I keep worrying even when its parked that I've forgotten to lock it!
Honestly, I'm in a constant state of panic with this car and beggining to think theres a frying pan and fire situation going on here.
Now the temp insurance runs out on Monday - I dislike the car so much I'm thinking about taking it back to Sams before then or SORN'ing here until Sam comes to get it if his parents/Nan dont want it there. Seems pointless to spend what I save in fuel not driving the Avensis on stuff for an estate I can't trust, which won't pass MOT in November, and will be returned to the owner by Xmas anyway.
Wish I'd just sold the Golf as a whole (was offerered a grand for it in the end) and bought a better car BUT I'd already got about £700 in provisional sales, yet due to people f*cking me about with towing or car trailers now lost some of those sales. You guys might be happy enough in old cheap cars with 'charachter' or as I like to call it, broken stuff, but it isn't working for me. I did like the handling and the direct steering of the 306, the autowipers and the size of the estate boot....but I'm struggling to find anything else good atm. Why do I make the wrong decision every single time theres one to be made.