AlanG wrote:

Pimp or drug baron or cop?


Typical anti-BMW prejudice. I'm just someone who loves good engineering,
and enjoys driving. I like working on my own cars, and for this BMWs are
great.


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Grunff wrote:
AlanG wrote:

Pimp or drug baron or cop?


Typical anti-BMW prejudice. I'm just someone who loves good
engineering, and enjoys driving. I like working on my own cars, and
for this BMWs are great.

Surely if the engineering is good then there shouldn't be any need to work
on them, apart from routine maintenance?

Brimstone wrote:

Surely if the engineering is good then there shouldn't be any need to work
on them, apart from routine maintenance?


Routine maintenance, and repairs when they get older. Mechanical
components wear out, regardless of how well engineered something is.


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On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 16:28:50 +0000, Grunff wrote:

AlanG wrote:

Pimp or drug baron or cop?


Typical anti-BMW prejudice. I'm just someone who loves good engineering,
and enjoys driving. I like working on my own cars, and for this BMWs are
great.

Actually I had a 4 yr old car with 20000 miles on the clock and I was
due to start a new job after being made redundant at 49 yrs old.

Guess what make of car it was that did a hit and run on mine while it
was stood outside my front door.

Couldn't get to the new job so lost it and the car was a write off and
I was only TPFT cos I'd cut the insurance until I found out what my
new financial situation was. Never had a full time job again and every
car I've owned since then has been over 10 yrs old.

Yes. You could say I'm prejudiced against BMW drivers just a teeny
bit. I know its irrational but...

Grunff wrote:
AlanG wrote:

Pimp or drug baron or cop?

Typical anti-BMW prejudice. I'm just someone who loves good engineering,
and enjoys driving. I like working on my own cars, and for this BMWs are
great.


You need a rear window sticker proclaiming "I'm not like all the *other*
BMW drivers!".

Sadly round here (NW London), cars are purchased (more like
hire-purchased) for the bling factor.

They look great but not properly serviced or even driven. Some of the
elderly female asian drivers can barely see over the steering wheel of
their son's Mercedes supercharged 'kompressor' when driving it to the
supermarket to look down at the other shoppers.

But I reckon dogs are the reason for the most damage of the environment.
Two adults and two children are fine in a normal family sized car. The
family buys a dog - and suddenly a gas guzzeling 4x4 or MPV is required.

Why? :-(

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Adrian C

On 2007-02-20 17:40:07 +0000, Adrian C said:


But I reckon dogs are the reason for the most damage of the
environment. Two adults and two children are fine in a normal family
sized car. The family buys a dog - and suddenly a gas guzzeling 4x4 or
MPV is required.

Why? :-(

Well, how else are you going to deal with a slobberador who feels duty
bound to wash the car windows on the inside?

Andy Hall wrote:
On Adrian C said:
The family buys a dog - and suddenly a gas guzzeling 4x4 or
MPV is required.

Why? :-(

Well, how else are you going to deal with a slobberador who feels duty
bound to wash the car windows on the inside?


Training, Restraint - or lash a kennal to the roof rack. Dunno, some
folks have coped with normal size family estate cars for this sort of thing.

Great thing with a 'slobberador' if you can get it used to a diet
including washing up liquid, you could spray the outside of the car with
a 'dognip' compound - and get it licked really clean.

Hmmm.... Opps... Reality slipping...

Now, where did I put my tablets?

:-)

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Adrian C

Grunff ) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were
saying :

Pimp or drug baron or cop?

Typical anti-BMW prejudice.

But it gets a bite every time...
"We laugh because it's true"

I'm just someone who loves good engineering, and enjoys driving.

thinks back to 2xE36 Co.Cars and several other BMWs driven around same
era

Ummm... So *why* drive a BMW? Massively underwhelming, imho.
But that's for another place.

Adrian wrote:

thinks back to 2xE36 Co.Cars and several other BMWs driven around same
era

Ummm... So *why* drive a BMW? Massively underwhelming, imho.
But that's for another place.


The e36 is an awful, awful car - possibly the worst bmw ever, certainly
the worst I've driven. Reliable enough, but neither fun to drive nor a
good cruiser.

If you want fun to drive, you want an e30 325i. If you're after a
cruiser, an e39, 528i or 540i.


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Grunff
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