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Well, I am afraid the daily driver / recycling run transport died ignominiously last week. It was a 2000 is VW Caddy in white and rust, then one morning it snapped its timing belt on the driveway and munched up the sturdy 1.9 litre diesel powerhouse. Now this promoted the V8R to daily driver...

My Caddy has died. I need a sub-£1,500 van (Car-derived, not a whopping great Transit) quickly. Anyone have one or know of one? Attractiveness declines as the distance from Cambridge increases.

Time was when this would have been unremarkable. After all #296 lived here for three or four years. But out walking today I spotted possibly the first FRP I have seen for a good few years. We have a Millennium currently rotting away at the local filling station though. And the FRP still looked...

Apologies if it has been posted previously, I only drop in from time to time now. https://www.facebook.com/dodgydriversuk/videos/335973623627748/ XIIVVX

Mrs X11VVX has decided that Monique the Megane is due for replacement, and after a month long search which included Boxsters, Z4s, TTs, MX5 and SLK has finally finished up with... There's a nice Megane for sale (63mpg and £30 VED) if anyone is interested XIIVVX

My friend Keith Jillings, a guy I was proud to know, died last week and is buried tomorrow. "So what?" I hear you say. Well in the second half of the last century Ford Motor Company (Fomoco) in the UK was run by bean counters. British Leyland was run by engineers. Nothing happened at Ford...

Just wondering. I have a black vehicle, fresh from a respray last year. What would the knowledgeable people here use to keep it nice and shiny? I particularly hate anything that leaves a white deposit. Really I need both something for a quick spruce up, and a wax for greater protection should...

Luckily I didn't see he was for sale or I'd have been very tempted, despite the fact we have run out of drive space and are in the middle of moving on Mrs XIIVVX's rather nice Megane Coupe to replace it with another commuter-mobile. I'm rather hoping the new owner of the little mongrel turns up...

Older members will know that I run a £600 from eBay Skoda pick-up in white. Well not so much white as matt white / grubby grey / mildew green and rust. The thing deserves a little TLC. What do those who know suggest for an ultra quick fix with as little elbow grease as possible. This is not...

OK, you all (or long-term residents do) know that I am not one of nature's polishers / detailers. I wash the car quite frequently using a microfibre mitt and Autoglym shampoo, but that's as far as it goes. Now I want to pick the brains of the assembled experts on what I do with my, new-to-me...

Puma always did 'cute' Toyota Aygo always did bland. New Aygo? It looks really cross. I like it

In my bid for fame I offer you the shortest replacement thread ever

You will possibly recall the 1.7s misadventure of some good few years back? Now look what has happened! I am mightly pissed off. Particularly as I was driving it to a dealership with a view to part-ex at the time.

Well Mrs XIIVVX's car can hardly be called a project, but as ever there are one or two little adjustments being made to get it how we like it. The first of these, inspired by her, not me, was a remap to liven-up the overtaking performance in the mid range. For a 1500cc diesel it is pretty...

I thought I was pretty savvy on the insurance industry and its tricks but I have been caught a good one. I always knew I would be selling the 996 this year, mentioned it to my broker at renewal (February) accepted his quote of £520. Sold the car at the end of September - 2/3rds of the way...

I think it's probably a negligible chance as the brand is fairly new, but has anybody any experience of these?

As it's traditional to post 'replacement' threads, I thought I'd echo here what some will have seen on FB. The first guy to view the 996 bought, though it took a while for that first viewing, something like four months from advertising it. Now I need a car for Mrs P, so I posted the following...

I'd like to see a PhotoShop of that. It's a bit beyond my limited abilities.

As regulars know I spend part of my life working for an automotive company on industry events. There wasn't a great deal of jealousy expressed when I was teaching Nissan staff about the DIG-S engine, nor the ins and outs of the Leaf. This week I have been in Oxfordshire working on an event. I...

In 1967 I was walking down a street in my home as a car mad schoolboy and saw my first 911. I looked at is, stunned and decided that one day I had to have one. It took me well over forty years to get there, but finally in 2010 I made it. Over the years I decided exactly how it had to be, and...