Dogconker

Do you know what, I haven't managed to find a way to turn off the airbag detection. It's an automatic system, if you put a child seat in it it's active, you need a rear facing seat I don't think (from what I can make out) that you can use a forward facing seat in the XV or forester. I'll have another look though see if I can work it out. I don't have kids so it's not something I've looked at Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I was being kind, the next gen looks even worse :P

Ok seriously? Qashqai? Why are there so many? They're apparently the biggest car on the Motability list so its the one everyone on disability wants. Nissan sell 40000 Qashqai a year, this means everyone has one and they're not exclusive. Subaru currently only sell about 3500 XV a year. Now the killer blow, a 2.0l 4x4 Qashqai will be about £27k (because nearly all Quashqai aren't 4x4) the same XV £23k (even the bottom of the range has full 4x4) the Nissan has 1 2yr 50k warranty that you can pay 2 grand to extend to 60k 3yrs. Subaru is a standard 100k 5yr warranty. as standard the basic XV has heated seats, cruise control, bluetooth. you want all that in a nissan, you'd better get your credit card out. and now the looks The Nissan Quashqai jelly mould, boring and bulbous. And the Subaru XV Nuff Said!

What's strange about a man requesting a woman wear a pinny and do some housework? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Pretty sure you can but I'll check as not a feature I've ever needed Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Subaru means Severn sisters and is in relation to the Pleiades constellation, and it is pronounced the way he is. Though he is a nob. As for the car, I doubt my wife would let me have one, though I can see me seriously considering it in the future, I'm getting to the age where I could use my mid-life crisis card [emoji39] Shame they didn't put an STi engine in it, that's what's really needed, a bit of boost [emoji41] Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Depending on how you want to carry the bikes, both will support a roof bike rack. XV is much firmer suspension and better handling, forester is definitely the more refined of the two. XV has the highest NCAP rating for infant occupants in its class, if that's important to you. Well worth looking on YouTube for the NCAP tests. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I don't know off the top of my head but I'll have a look at the XV, we also have a new forester on the drive due to some odd circumstances so I'll have a look at that too Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

All I can say is, lucky gambits not got heavily involved in this discussion else we may find ourselves plunging to new depths. Where you might find done fishy otters Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

So can otters, and they smell all fishy Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Well had you been searching for leather clad men, you'd have probably found gambit so you'd have ended up here anyway Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Now is that a clean female beaver gets more action or a male beaver who walks around with frequent erections. I'd just like to be clear on that Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Nutty bars, that'd sort a ginger squirrel out if he liked it up the arsenal Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

And chunky ones Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Boom boom Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

No he's not a real ginger, cough, so I've heard Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Ginger squirrels [emoji38] Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

You just did [emoji38] Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Ha ha, from little acorns . . . [emoji41] Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

That has to be a pretty low point on anyone's life! I think I'd have at least made to a bridge to hide behind a pier Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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