Dogconker

Off to give the dealership some grief tomorrow, they're thinking now it might be injector related. Apparently the engine 'learns' how you drive and sets up The injectors to be the most efficient. They think our car is then slowly forgetting what it's learnt and going wrong. Used to be easy with a diesel, if you had compression, fuel and air it'd run [emoji41] Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Well, wife's car saga continues, over the weekend her XV has started stuttering, misfiring, kangarooing and generally just running rough, so hacked off that I laid into the dealership. They're actually on to subaru to see if they can replace the car for a new one, which can be done but only if Subaru stump up the financial shortfall. They're worried that they aren't going to be able to sort it. But at least it's demonstrated that the fault wasn't ho my wife drove it. Getting a bit wound up about this now [emoji35] Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Sadly, a chap in Northern Ireland did this the other day, 3 blokes ran out if the hedge beat the crap out of him and stole his car which was found a couple of hours later burnt out. You even have to be careful these days being a Good Samaritan. Crappy world this at the minute [emoji19]Good on you for keeping up the standard Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I'm pretty sure that you actually need to stick those 'on' the car rather than 'in' the car to complete the makeover [emoji3] Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I just sat in mine for 2hrs on the M5 this afternoon in traffic, still, stereo kept me happy. Also managed to avoid some nob doing wheelies on his mountain bike, might try to find vid later and pop up Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

You could have just done a ghosty. No need for roll then Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I hate that, fortunately the XV doesn't have many big gaps. I do hate that bit down the side though between the console and the seat you can never get the Hoover down, you know the one, it's the one you drop your only pound coin down when you're at the car park kiosk and there's a cue of traffic behind you [emoji5]️ Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Just off to wash and Hoover the two girls ready for the week ahead. Might even wave a little wax over if the weather holds up [emoji3] Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

You sure he didn't say it's got a mint in it? Frustrating I feel your pain [emoji19]

Didn't work when I asked for the STi as a courtesy car [emoji20]

Just watch he doesn't try the same trick once your on his doorstep with a trailer, I've had that before when I've driven 70miles with a trailer having agreed a price the day before and then when I've got there he's wanted another £500. I just got back in the car and said good luck, he backed down and said he'd stick to the agreed price, I told him the offer was now £500 less than we agreed else I'm going home and he can waste more time and money trying to sell it again, I got a bargain in the end [emoji4]

I've had this before, I went down the road of not paying any more than agreed, and every day from now that we don't agree a price and a pick up I'm going to drop my offer by £100, they're trying it on and they won't be willing for you not to pick it up. This method focuses the mind and they risk getting stuck with it. Stuck to your guns he's just being a nob.

It is good, but it should never have been that much of a fight, I have no issue with there being a fault in the car. I just need to know that the dealer knows what it is and that it can, and will be sorted. Cars are complex they go wrong, not a problem. If they'd have come back and said there's a know fault with some of the glow plugs, we'll put some new ones in and it'll be fine. I'd have just been like, very good crack on.

Yep, just flush and glow plugs, oils etc.

Anyway, wife's XV saga seems to have reached its end finally, picked the car up this morning. Dealer said they'd just flushed the engine out to decoke it and it'll be fine now, oh and they've replaced the glow plugs, didn't clock this at the time but if it's just a bit of come build up, why did they replace £700 of glow plugs? Curious? Anyway car now drives fine, in fact it drives better now than at any time since we drive it off the forecourt which suggests to me that faulty glow plugs have caused the whole problem with coking and power loss, shuddering etc. They're now saying the issue with the other forester was a different issue. But they're pretty cagey about disclosing what the cause was with either car.

Pigeons generally not as hard as cars, you'd be pretty unlucky to damage a car hitting a pigeon, we hit one in our crv on the leading edge of the bonnet at about 70mph, the pigeon ( unfortunately for it) sort if exploded, no damage just a difficult clean up job. It's the waxy substance on the wings that's the problem to get off. Unfortunately pigeon will often die even with a small bump through shock, sorry. I did hit one in my XV and it did start to fly afterwards and I though it was going to be ok but the truck behind hit it and I think that was that. When your numbers up I guess [emoji19]

Would probably invalidate warranty. Been in there today to have it out with dealers. They're insistent that it's just carbon deposits and that an engine flush will sort it out and they're doing that tomorrow. Fingers crossed, for their sake!

Best one is, they say it just needs a flush but they've identified carbon build up in the forester behind the piston rings. Now I'm now expert but I thought the only way that could happen is if the piston rings weren't sealing, which would lead to loss of power, loss of compression and inefficient fuel burn which would lead to coking up? Or maybe I'm just being too suspicious?

The dealer manager is the one who told me the owner had picked his car up on Friday[emoji20]

Well, update on wife's XV. Phoned dealer they said that they hadn't even driven the car in the shop yet (dropped off on Saturday). Not sure what's going on but I'm clearly being told some fibs somewhere. They actually said on Saturday that the other forester was picked up by owner on Friday and he'd said it seemed fine, funny then that today I'm being told that they've just finished his forester this afternoon. Need to get to the bottom of this

Probably playing flight sims.

Personally I think nurburgring and TT not lightweight and heavyweight, it's more like party and mental asylum. Nurburgring is a challenge where people with a certain amount if skill can have a lot of fun with some danger. The TT is for people who have not so much lost the will to live but who now believe they can't die. You'd have to believe that to do ride a crotch rocket around it. I take this view, in a car I'd happily drive the nurburgring at speed, I wouldn't ride round my local car park on a motorbike, let alone the TT curcuit

I got pulled up on the Stourbridge ring road for drifting around it at 3am when I was a young stupid boy racer, they pulled me over and sat me in the car for nearly an hour bagging on about how dangerous my driving was then said, "right we've no intention of booking you, what you did was wrong and we've !Removed! you up for the last hour by making out you're gonna get done for dangerous driving, but it's 4am now and we knock off at 5 and can't be bothered to do a load of paperwork because of silly sod like you, get in your car and drive home, I don't want a single wheel spin and if we see you being silly again you're booked" I had a 200bhp rear wheel drive manta and it was wet so I had to pretend the car wouldn't start so they'd go, if I'd have tried to pull away it would have spun the wheels, it just didn't matter how careful you were, good old live axle[emoji2]

I agree in part with what you're saying but I don't think death rate is a fair assessment if which is harder. The reality is on the nurburgring most racers are surrounded by a big metal box reinforced with loads of tubing. On the isle if man TT most racers are surrounded by a leather onsie and a metal bucket with a hole in the front to see out of. Not many people die in cars in Motorsport compared to motorcycles. I don't believe anyone has died on the circuit during TT weekend in a car (though obviously mad Sunday doesn't count. I'm on about official laps). Not saying nurburgring is more or less dangerous, it's just difficult to compare which is the harder track. Most deadly, agreed definitely TT track, but is it the most demanding track ?

But at least they're not on the phone and cutting you up. Well you'd hope not at least [emoji4]