I have been a little in the maison de chien since taking our Xantia for an unplanned swim.
I have to say the Xantia has been one of our best cars ever, having added nearly 200 thousand trouble free miles to it's original 100 thousand miles.
I have been quietly watching out for replacements and last week on the Evilbay I got an early model of it's replacement vehicle the C5, also an estate, 1 owner full service history 130 thousand miles from new.
Getting it for about 30 percent below dealer price was a big plus. So we head out tomorrow to pick it up.
This in turn has triggered a bit of a frenzy, I bought her a Xsara last year for a few hundred pounds not knowing that the thing on the road is worth (dealer price) 2500 not including it's personal number plate that's worth another thousand or so. Have I been asleep this last year???
So that's going into the garage next week. With "for sale" going on the window the week after!! Then again, she might try it out and decide it's the car for her, it's no slouch ad she might decide she likes it, meaning the 106 might go on the transfer list now rather than in 6 months time when the student goes back to university and has vowed she wants a better car.
The vast and versatile 806 will go as soon as possible, it's done it's time but the management does not like driving it which is a critical fault. It is a bit of a tank, thought nothing like as tank like as the IVECO it replaced which I was very fond of, it being armoured and all. I also thought the long wheel base Turbo Daily van was easier to park than that dammed thing. Crucially, it does not handle our little shopping trips to Brittany as well as the Xantia used to though it's far better at towing Samba the caravan - oh that's on the transfer list too as Madam has decided we want a camper van
So it's all change on the vehicle front, look out Arthur Daly, I'm in town.
R
I have to say the Xantia has been one of our best cars ever, having added nearly 200 thousand trouble free miles to it's original 100 thousand miles.
I have been quietly watching out for replacements and last week on the Evilbay I got an early model of it's replacement vehicle the C5, also an estate, 1 owner full service history 130 thousand miles from new.
Getting it for about 30 percent below dealer price was a big plus. So we head out tomorrow to pick it up.
This in turn has triggered a bit of a frenzy, I bought her a Xsara last year for a few hundred pounds not knowing that the thing on the road is worth (dealer price) 2500 not including it's personal number plate that's worth another thousand or so. Have I been asleep this last year???
So that's going into the garage next week. With "for sale" going on the window the week after!! Then again, she might try it out and decide it's the car for her, it's no slouch ad she might decide she likes it, meaning the 106 might go on the transfer list now rather than in 6 months time when the student goes back to university and has vowed she wants a better car.
The vast and versatile 806 will go as soon as possible, it's done it's time but the management does not like driving it which is a critical fault. It is a bit of a tank, thought nothing like as tank like as the IVECO it replaced which I was very fond of, it being armoured and all. I also thought the long wheel base Turbo Daily van was easier to park than that dammed thing. Crucially, it does not handle our little shopping trips to Brittany as well as the Xantia used to though it's far better at towing Samba the caravan - oh that's on the transfer list too as Madam has decided we want a camper van
So it's all change on the vehicle front, look out Arthur Daly, I'm in town.
R
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