Losing enthusiasm

[Toms306]

Put the power down? On a wet road? Funny I had to do a similar thing yesterday and it just made me hate mine more...think I've taken a few mm off the proxes....and the clutch....in the process. I want rid of the heap nowwwwwwwwwww!

This says more about your inability to drive in wet weather conditions than it does about your perfectly capable and well-equipped car.

Ok, so how do you pull out of a junction or onto a roundabout quickly in the wet? Theres traffic as its 5pm so you've only got a small slot to jump in to...how do you do it?

You cant! Boot it and it just spins the wheels or slips the clutch, use little enough power to avoid the spin and you've cut someone up, even then you can't get out of thier way quickly as it still spins if you drop into second....you could drp into third by then you've lost the small amount of power it had and laboured it..... I really cannot get on with the HDi lol.

Wouldnt mind if it had some top end instead, but it doesnt, someone in a van decided to play with me on the A14 yesterday for a few miles (i was on the right as Id let him join from a sliproad, he was speeding up and slowing down each time I did, what was the point of that!) to the point where I was almost at my sliproad and couldnt get across, doing about 65ish, so I floored it in 4th to speed up, nothing happened, dropped to third, lots of noise but barely any increase in speed (in the end I thought f*ck it, cut up the bastard and made my exit, his own fault for being a bellend!)...I mean wtf, where is this designed to be used if not round town and not motorway!


I do agree I'm not a particularly good driver, and at the moment concentration and skill are not exactly at the front of my mind, but certainly not the worst driver, it just seems as though the HDi is crap in pretty much every situation. Being an estate you'd think it was good for carrying stuff....well you can fit it in, but the decrease in power to weight ratio is terrible, its about the same as the NAD when its filled up!

Whats worse is that I cant find anything I 'like' (which meets my criteria) to replace it with either.

Anyway, that'll do my HDi rant for the day. Hopefully mine is just broken as I'm sure yours all beat veyrons...