German reLIABILITY

[CountryPug]

This is the awkward moment when my mates c32 (3.2 supercharged v6) AMG Merc had to get a little help to start from my little 1.1 106 Couldn't resist a sneaky pic



Sourced the problem to a faulty electric seat motor, drained the battery while the car was parked. Hope this amuses

[FarmerPug]

Japanse reliability is also bollocks. The cold weather left me on 3 occasions with a non functioning car. Because when i woke up my dad would already have nabbed the keys for my 406 and left me his non starting primera.
Its great to see a french car being reliable.

[sirwiggum]

Agree with German reliability.

To me the Germans have the Ultimate Marketing Machine to get everyone to believe this nonsense. Maybe in the days when Mercs were built like tanks, but not now with ever complex cars being made to meet accountant's targets.

I've heard of BMWs with dodgy fuel tanks, turbos blowing, head gaskets blown, rusting. Heard of VW and VW-derivatives eating MAFs and blowing turbos. Mk3 Golfs in particular are not aging as well as a similar 306 might.

Japanse reliability is also bollocks. The cold weather left me on 3 occasions with a non functioning car. Because when i woke up my dad would already have nabbed the keys for my 406 and left me his non starting primera.
Its great to see a french car being reliable.

Oh fer flip that's not what I want to hear

Was it the last mk3 Primera, the one that was Laguna based?

They had a good rep the mk1/2 Primeras, if a little dull.

[FarmerPug]

yup this is a mk3 apparently laguna based primera.
It obviously does share the lagunas rubbish drive, over light steering, gearchange that feels sloppy and tinny sounding doors, i really do mean tinny the whole car feels cheap and flimsy. My 406s doors feel like they are off a merc. He owned a mk2 primera and it was much stronger, but the avensis was the best japanese car we had yet, probably because it was designed in france

Back to the germans, the mk3 golf was a proper piece of sh*t, theres barely any around now. Even though our supply of 306s here are all a bit boy racerish they still are going. The mk3 has almost dissappeared

[supafrisk]

Hmmm.. sitting in a VW Passat at the minute, looking at the 480,000 miles on the clock and wondering whether my old 406 would have got as far down the road as this old girl has...

[Welly]

Sourced the problem to a faulty electric seat motor, drained the battery while the car was parked

Lucky to find that (unless it was obvious?) I know someone with a C Class who had the same problem, only the Merc dealer was left to find the problem.......at a cost of £1,000.00 after they finally found it

[steve_earwig]

Ah, but that depends if you take into account Mercedes dealer charges - I guess £1,000 means they found it rather quickly

Hmmm.. sitting in a VW Passat at the minute, looking at the 480,000 miles on the clock and wondering whether my old 406 would have got as far down the road as this old girl has...

It's probably like Trigger's broom - 17 new heads and 14 new handles...

[TRAVIS BICKLE]

the mark 4 golf was a load of pooh far worse than the mark 3. Over weight poor handling, its true about mafs and exhausts and brakes and wiring and window regulators and central locking motors and cam belt tensioners falling to bits, and brake servo recalls. Passat was better.

[FarmerPug]

The old passat ie the one before the one with keyless ignition was quite a good car, the one after it was rubbish.

[Doggy]

It's probably like Trigger's broom - 17 new heads and 14 new handles...

Is that a new avatar you have there, or mjb's last Nurburgring trip?

[steve_earwig]

I don't remember him saying he got it airborne - sideways, backwards, huge brown trouser moment but not airborne

New avatar, made very quickly from a clip on Yewchewb. Name that film

[sirwiggum]

I don't remember him saying he got it airborne - sideways, backwards, huge brown trouser moment but not airborne

New avatar, made very quickly from a clip on Yewchewb. Name that film

What was your previous avatar, the one with the dazed looking man putting weird glasses on and lighting a cigar?

[CountryPug]

Sourced the problem to a faulty electric seat motor, drained the battery while the car was parked

Lucky to find that (unless it was obvious?) I know someone with a C Class who had the same problem, only the Merc dealer was left to find the problem.......at a cost of £1,000.00 after they finally found it

Well apparently the electric seat was unplugged when he bought it, he plugged it in and the next time he went to unlock the car it was dead, luckily the trusty 106 was on hand to get the big merc started. It's not the only problem with the car, there are about 10 other electrical faults but it goes like stink so nobody is too worried, i doubt if they'll be fixed lol

[highlander]

New avatar, made very quickly from a clip on Yewchewb. Name that film

"Le Boulet" (also known as "Dead Weight"), a 2002 film directed by Alain Berbérian and Frédéric Forestier.

Edit: "le boulet" means "the ball", bizarrely. Being that it's a French film, it's full of weird crazy stuff that we don't understand and they can't explain </sweeping generalization>

I've also never seen it, though I did see the scene on YouTube that your avatar is taken from, and it's just nuts.

[steve_earwig]

It was on telly here about a year back, I sat their with my mouth open throughout the whole film.

...a cigar?

A cigar?! He's catching a mosquito