Some you just breath a sigh of relief

"he wouldn't ****-spannering want that? nobody would understand him?"

 

She had a (Y-reg) Fiesta 1.6 before that which was crap to drive
(boingy-boingy suspension and brakes made of the finest teak) but had an
absolutely storming engine that felt like a turbine. Mazda Zetec design,
iirc, built by Yamaha.

I was in a mate's 56-plate Golf GTI the other day. Taut to the point of
discomfort. My Cupra has a pretty good balance but both pale in
comparison with the 306 XSi I had before.

 

Nicky's mum has just bought a new Fiesta - and it's quite nice. But the
crime was, she sent her old one for scrappage - obviously as it got her
2k off the new one. The old one was a P reg, she's the only ever owner
and it had less than 30k on the clock. It was like a brand new car - the
main outing each week for her was to the local Bulgarian hand car wash
who did it inside and out each week. Bloody crime to scrap it.

I have a TR7 like that...

With the C-MAX we wanted a nice easy to use new car for her really - as
she will be carrying a little passenger shortly the priority was more
ease of use and space for the accoutrements than out and out loveliness.
Plus, as I have a relative at Ford we got 1500 quid off the new price,
lots of extras chucked in etc etc - ended up costing less for a brand new
car, than the two year old one they had on the forecourt.

 

Does it actually get scrapped though, or is it fed back into the trade?

I had to buy something reasonably sensible because V was outing her
Focus, no longer needing it to drive to work. Had she kept that, I'd
have gone with plan A and bought an Elise.

 

Has to be scrapped, whole, within (IIRC) a week of coming in to the
dealer if they want their £2k.

 

I doubt it's really scrapped - probably just fed back into the trade
somehow.

dear god.

 

Allegedly they get scrapped, otherwise the stealer don't get the
government money.

 

Really gets scrapped. Wrong but true.

I didn't realise you had come out of the closet.

 

I am pretty sure there are ways around that.

 

plenty of lube, presumably.

 

exactly my concern. You'd think there'd be some sort of law against
it.

 

Yep, there are.

It's called "find the £2k to fund the customer's discount from somewhere
else within a week of the car coming in".

 

I was also thinking along the following lines:

* you're a breaker[1]
* you've just been handed a mind-condition P-Reg Fiesta to scrap
* you happen to have the VIN details/V5 of another (wrecked) Fiesta
from the same year
* you're not totally honest[1]

hmmm...

[1] I realise this is a tautology.

 

When you've all quite finished.

 

I'd have to stand on a chair to look like the sputum dribbling,
Discovery driving wankspanner anyway.

 

<waves finger in direction of Active Suspension button>

 

Room for a father?

 

if you're using your toe, it's amazing you've managed to spawn.

 

And this week's award for snappy humorous responses goes to... <Ta-Daaaaa>


Ginge.

 

I'm pretty sure that a DNA test will prove your toe is innocent.