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lozz wrote: ibet when you got out of Manchester,bet you thought thank **** for that, shite hole aint it,

Steady on now, my car's from Manchester! Some ghetto called Cheadle Hulme, I think it was. Dog-rough apparently.

they call that curry mile,

not abad place,if you like spicy food,


Yeah,its a Ghetto,mainly alot of college/uni students, reside there, must be cheap rent or sumink,
id certainly take a rain check on living down there, but saying that, they dont seem to do to bad,

lozz wrote:

rwb wrote:Went to Manchester the week before last. On the M6 at junction 8 (M5) I put exactly 100,000 miles on since I got the car, and rather pleasingly this was only about 5 miles from where I bought it from.

ibet when you got out of Manchester,bet you thought thank **** for that, shite hole aint it,
100.ooo miles you havent done bad there,

lol. no, it's nice. Reminded me how cramped and miserable the south is.

Yeah, pretty happy with 100k. Would like to put another 50 on it, but this keeps looking at me -- now under 5k

New front drop links (and what a difference that made), handbrake adjusted, air con gassed up, and feeling quite lively with the clutch switch pulled

What a brilliant car I love it when stuff works

thoughts of 407s are gone

nice one:) could you tell me how much cost you to fill up air con? mine`s empty,its a hell drive back from work:(

Got a local guy to do it. £55. Emptied all the old gas out, filled up and put oil in.

MOT today.

Couldn't get a 501 bulb in the town centre so I swapped with the courtesy light

Passed, without even any advisories

Tester said "its quite tidy actually"

You had to make do with a "quite tidy" .........pffft

Good news though!

Well done young man.

Remind me again, how long have you had it?
how many miles?
at what point does it get promoted to, 'A fairly unremarkable 406'?

Got it September 2005 for £5k, and it had 84k on it. It was new and shiny and they were a popular business car on the motorways.

187k today.

The title is a bit tongue in cheek: 103k over 7 years and it has never let me down, and I think this is pretty remarkable. It's just not very exciting.

475 miles to Accrington and back today -- only found out I had to go yesterday afternoon. Clog down and still only used half a tank. Early start but liked having the time to myself.

Only saw 2 other 406s, and there aren't many 407s about. Not many 508s either.

Following the barrier incident:

rwb wrote:The next question is what to actually do with the car. It looks a right mess, but its in good mechanical order: there's no point repairing it but there's also no point scrapping it.

And just to add insult to injury the arm rest fell off and the airbag light returned from a month long holiday today both while I had passengers

However, having had it so long I just cannot bear to part with it.

So on to Plan B: "out with a bang".

• Remap. Should be good for 125hp... if anyone will touch a Siemens system.
• de-cat, although I'm still confused about the MOT status on this.
• lower. It's always looked like it's on stilts.

Or is this just throwing good money after bad?

RWB, have the CAT removed and the insides smashed out.
The MOT only tests for smoke but since the begining of the year it does have to be present. If you have the insides smashed out it will still look like it's there.

Took a trip to skegness last week end put 60 pound in witch gave me 43lt and my car done 387 miles before I put any more in it that's about 47 mpg not bad for an old car pluss it was loaded and I have a fuel leek and I've just done 99k miles