I just got a text from Williams offering me a 116i sport for £249 with no.deposit.

Why does their system think it's worth spamming me with that when I have a massive 3 litre diesel estate?

thinking of getting a Toyota Auris 1.6 (2013) - anyone know of a reason not to get this? The next in line is the Seat Ibiza

Because before that you had a Twingo?

I have just bought an E46 M3.

World of pain? We'll find out soon enough.

Nope, although the MX5 will need to go.

Hmmmm... How much?

So bought a Toyota Auris, picked it up Wednesday gone.
It is (semi)-auto, and I have noticed there is a clunk from the front of the car when I go from drive to neutral, or from having my foot on the accelerator to not. Any one know if this is normal for an auto? Anything to worry about?

Very nice did you get rid of anything to get it?

It's a 2002 model, and I think it's a Mk2.5 rather than just a Mk2 (not sure though)

It's a blue, manual S-VT Sport, so it has a fairly high spec for MX5s - heated leather seats, strut braces up the wazoo and, critically, an LSD as standard. The engine has VVT so is torquier down low, makes it more usable

~96,000 miles on the clock.

MOT'd until end of April.

Comes with a Bluetooth-enabled Pure radio too which is pretty good - upgraded the firmware on it last week to fix an issue with it not auto-connecting to my phone.

Drives beautifully, and as far as I can tell there's no rust on it (or certainly wasn't when I bought it anyway )

Only downsides to the car are:

- couple of scratches on the OSF wing - not really that noticeable and may even polish out, I've not really been that bothered to look at them.

- fan belt squeals occasionally on a cold start, this only started this week though so might just be the cold weather

- no service history to speak of. I need to contact Mazda to see what they have in the dealer network for it, but there's no SH with the car. However, the previous owner told me that it was basically given a thorough once over by one of the guys at MX5Nutz shortly before she bought it, and this is reflected in the state of the thing - the engine bay is pristine - only time I've seen an engine that clean is on a new car, and yeah, no rust.

- Bit of wear on the seats but nothing major.

Looking for about £1,600.

I'd get it looked at, could be an engine mount away or exhaust touching or something simple like that.

Apparently all the S-VT Sports are Mk2.5s so yep

And you don't need a bloody garage! It'd probably be the smallest car you've owned, with the exception of the Fiat 500

So how does this work then? The car is under warranty, do I just turn up at a Toyota garage and ask them to look at it? Does a warranty cover investigative work like this?

Glad you're all OK, dude

I'd be surprised if that gets written off though, doesn't look like the damage would be too costly to repair?

More details dude, you're crap at this story telling lark!

Tesco fuel save I guess - that's quite a lot of pence off per litre - most I've ever managed is 8p.

I had 14p off over the weekend. Did spend over £400 on the clubcard first though.

Hudl 2,trampoline and much food

Currently £1.27.9p for normal unleaded over here, we've been told by our OFT that a 4p price differential with the UK is acceptable due to the smaller market and increased transport costs etc etc, and admittedly it has come down a bit recently, but folks are starting to get a bit cross about the cheap fuel that's widely available across now.

I remember it peaking at something utterly fucking ridiculous like £1.52.9p for super unleaded for the Scooby, that stung a bit on a car that did about 15-18mpg when driven 'enthusiastically'.

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