7403406 is Dead

[DiscoPol]

Im feeling dandy now thanks chaps

[Blue406]

Out of interest, what was the meaning of the old user name?

[DiscoPol]

It was a typo

it was supposed to be reference to my move from my last car a BMW 740 to a peugeot 406 so hence should have been 740-2-406 without the dashes but some how my useless fingers but in 740-3-406 and before i realised i was signed up as 7403406 and the rest as they say is history

after finally getting over the loss of my beloved 740 and accepting the new 406 it seemed a bit pointless to keep an out dated and incorrect user-name so in a drunken haze on Saturday night I thought a change was in order to something a bit more relevant, and off i went in pursuit of Polskipug, i didnt even think of just asking an admin to change me over and the posts are there for all to see now

Still its taught me that vodka and the internet shouldnt really be mixed

[sirwiggum]

I've driven a 728i before. Very comfortable cruiser, but very thirsty, prone to the 50mph shakes, and (quite rightly) no-one lets you out of the junctions.

Better off with a bread and butter car like a 406

[DiscoPol]

I've driven a 728i before. Very comfortable cruiser, but very thirsty, prone to the 50mph shakes, and (quite rightly) no-one lets you out of the junctions.

Better off with a bread and butter car like a 406

You think the poxy 2.8 straight six was thirsty?
you want to try the manly 4.4 V8

the shakes were the Torsion control arm bushes at the front, very common on the 7's but an easy job and not too pricey if you do em yourself, best to fit full new arm rather than piddling about trying to get the old bushes pressed out and fresh uns pushed in.

and as for people not letting you out, well i could wait a week at a junction and still overtake anything that had not let me out ,
that motor was stupidly fast, especially after the Superchips man had paid a visit ,
a two tonne luxury limousine that could hit 60 in under 5 seconds( if you knew how to drive it with the DSP traction control off) and kept going right up to 196mph if you had the balls, I didnt, bottled it at 186 ish on the Autobahns

but that was then and this is now ,

what it do for me was quench my need for speed ,

im happy chugging along in my 90 HDi pug now and knowing im getting at least triple if not quadruple the mpg, and if im honest, the pug is just as comfy for long journeys having done the uk-poland trip a few times in both and comparing the aches when i step out at my destination and in the pug it costs about 120 quid each way including ferries,
the BMW cost me nearly £400 each way when we did the journey before the wife was pregnant, it did cut nearly 5 hours off the journey time though

[Blue406]

It was a typo

it was supposed to be reference to my move from my last car a BMW 740 to a peugeot 406 so hence should have been 740-2-406 without the dashes but some how my useless fingers but in 740-3-406 and before i realised i was signed up as 7403406 and the rest as they say is history

LOL!, so what happened to the 740?

[DiscoPol]

Sold mate

I was made redundant at Christmas 2008(cheers tw@ts),
I was the head buyer at a big developers in Manchester so we were hit hard when the crunch came

I couldn't justify pottering about in a car that did 15-19mpg as a stay at home dad,

I never spent enough time with the little fella before as left for work at 7am and got back about 6.30-7pm so that was his day done and I wasn't the nicest of guys till I'd had a bit of time to unwind from the stresses of the day, so taking a year out and being Daddy daycare was fantastic but I had to make some sacrifices to afford it and the 740 was one of em

a couple of pics of my baby


Mines the nearest the camera


and the full frontal


I miss it, but Im a family man now and dont really have a need for that kind of power anymore, after all nobody needs 354bhp and more torque than you can shake a stick at, do they

[Blue406]

No BMW make you less of a twat on the roads too ;)
I loathe BMW Drivers, they've all got chips on their shoulders! Present company excepted, of course.

[DiscoPol]

I agree completely mate,

I will be the first to admit the roundel gives you a inner feeling of tw@tishness but those days are over for me now,

you cant help being a bit of a bully when your packing that kind of weight and power tho

I thought all the tw@ts had moved over to Audi's now anyway

The thing i miss most was the motorway slip road preferably with traffic lights at the bottom, standing start in sports mode up to whatever you can get away with was something else

Im an older and wiser chap now, but will admit the next motors a Range Rover 4.6 V8, but purely for the bad roads over here you see, not really for that V8 roar

[STALLED]

I had a punt of my mates E34 535is (before some c*nt rear ended it and wrote it off)...

Was wicked fun to drive and bought it for next to nothing. There is something very attractive about the M30 engine, plenty of low down torque, but they are fairly simple and wont give much trouble in the long run! LSD = AWESOME!

The E38's were a great car - always lusted after one after seeing it in the James Bond movie as a kid!