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The 170BHP in the Fabia makes it effortless to drive, it'll happily sit in 6th gear and still pull nicely, at 60MPH in 6th it's basically idling where as the 306 is doing about 2250RPM. The 306 feels like it's accelerating fast due to the torque, but it's actually quite slow, whereas the Fabia feels fast and goes just as well to back this up. You've got to work the gears in the 306 to get it going anywhere and being the lazy person I am I just can't be bothered with that. The Peugeot is a 2.0 and the Fabia is a 1.9, both return similar MPG. I love the 306, but unfortunately it was love at first sight with the Fabia when my uncle shot out of the dealership in it the day he picked it up with me sat in the passenger seat. It's been an aspiration of mine to own it for years. A couple of years down the line I think I might have some fun with it with a bigger turbo, better brakes and a better suspension setup. Should be a relatively easy 220BHP.

I know you can get 130BHP out of a 306, but at the risk of the thing falling to pieces even faster, I'd rather not. The Fabia has 170BHP rather than the standard 130BHP anyway, I just want something solid and effortlessly quick enough to propel me down the A-Roads to work and back everyday which I know the Fabia does with ease. I also know every part of it's history as it's been family owned since new so I've got added piece of mind in that respect. It may be considered a boring car by many, but I'm a boring person, so it'll suit me down to the ground.

Well it's increasingly looking like I'll be posting a Skoda Fabia vRS in this thread in the next year. I keep looking at cars with the same engine, but my dad came in while I was on Autotrader the other day and said he'd do a deal with me of £2,500 + my car (he really likes my car for some reason) which looking at prices of similar vRS' is a good deal... As long as he gets a new clutch for it :p That'll do me for a few years until I can source something like an Impreza, I think.

..As the Sun Sets. by GTAMADDOG, on Flickr lolstupidphototitle.

This weeks was pretty boring, and in the usual fashion when they decide to smash up perfectly good cars, I wasn't impressed with that either. My favourite part was probably Star in a Reasonably Priced Car which doesn't bode well for the program as a whole.

I vote pancake. Infact I vote for a pre-pancake pancake day in place of Valentines day.

Another year with no anonymous card or gesture on Valentines Day. *forever-alone*

Here's a few more now I've got all the ones I think are acceptable uploaded: #20 Mitsubishi Evo by GTAMADDOG, on Flickr #238 MG ZR by GTAMADDOG, on Flickr #240 Peugeot 106 by GTAMADDOG, on Flickr #316 Ford Escort MK2 by GTAMADDOG, on Flickr #307 Ford Escort MK2 by GTAMADDOG, on Flickr MG Metro 6R4 by GTAMADDOG, on Flickr

Thanks, I think those two are probably the best of a pretty poor bunch really. Cars were going off left, right and center due to the ice so it was hard to pick a focus point which worked. Even saw an MG roll after 30 minutes of getting to the track, got a photo of it before the roll and of it on its side after, but not during sadly. Your brothers shot looks great, what lens does he use?

A couple from today, first real outing with the 500D shockingly, so I don't think they're that bad: IMG_0723 by GTAMADDOG, on Flickr IMG_0807 by GTAMADDOG, on Flickr Not at home so I cropped the first one using a primative online editor so some of the edges look weird.

Most amusing/odd photo in thread award is yours :p

First weekend mines gone without a wash since I passed my driving test, lol. Admittedly it isn't too bad at the moment, I think it's partly due to the snow cleaning some of it off as it does. Could've washed it yesterday, but due to there being water on the roads which usually turns into mud by way of magic before it hits my car and the fact that the hose pipe was probably frozen from the snow I decided to leave it.

He's just a bit arrogant when it comes to things like driving in snow, he always seems to forget he isn't in his Series 2 Land Rover.

I just stayed at my mums last night as even the A-Roads were getting covered with snow a couple of hours before we got back. That and my step-dad slid my mums Golf into the kirb when turning into their road then slid 20 foot sideways towards a parked car but managed to save it, but he was going a few MPH too fast, took some small chunks out of the alloy wheel and put some scuffs on it which my mum isn't happy about. I didn't want to risk it in the end seeing as the last mile or so to my house is all steep hills. Came home this morning and only wheel span once on a section of road where no-one had been, wasn't even at 1/4 throttle, but the wheels span.

Gotta love how this thread doesn't get updated as much as the Bad Day thread :p Anyway, signed my life away today (almost literally). Signed the contract which extends my job for another couple of months at least and also increases my working hours so from next week I'll be working from 9AM-5PM instead of 10AM-2PM. Mixed reactions about it really, I'm knackered as it is, it's a long way to travel and I'm not entirely certain I can stick with the job really. On the plus side I don't have to faff about trying to get another job in a crap climate, I get an hour off for lunch and I'll be earning double what I do now so I'll be able to buy my dads car a lot sooner than planned. In other (not so good, but I can't be bothered to post in the other thread) news. My step-dad had a little accident in the MK3 Golf GTI a couple of weeks ago. Being the arrogant driver he is and being late for work, he was sat in a traffic jam following the car infront too closely, shouting at everything that exists and decided to try one of my pet-hates (using a mobile while driving) to call his boss to say he'd be late for work. Only as soon as he picked up his phone did he crash into the back of the woman infront. Luckily for both of them it was a low-ish speed shunt so the only damage sustained was a bent front grille on the Golf and a scratched rear bumper on the other car. Oh, and most importantly the Golf no longer wears it's GTI badge as it fell off the grille on impact, but it was found again. So that car has now been in three accidents and doesn't really look much different :p

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I think you could get a V6, but most of them (in England anyway) appear to be 2.0L. Not suprising considering fuel prices in the UK. Looks like a tidy first car though.

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Can't remember off the top of my head, I'll have to find the receipts. It's had a new cambelt and crankshaft pulley, auxilary belt and tensioner, front and rear brake disks and pads, two new tyres for the front, water-pump, oil filter, fuel filter, air filter, oil. Which in the scheme of things are all things that could need replacing on any car at any time. It's just a pain in the arse that they've all decided they want doing within less than a year :p With my job hanging in the balance I don't need the car throwing problems at me all the time. I suppose as long as the rear beam or injectors don't break then I can't really complain too much. Those are the parts that'll send the car to the scrap yard if they let go.

Only replaced them the other week. Went to put the new pads on as well but they turned out to be the wrong type so I had to use the old pads for a while until I got some others, but the disks look fine.

Frickin' car is doing my head in now. I get one thing fixed and then something else starts going wrong. Got the new brake pads on yesterday and I thought "Finally, the car might not have anything wrong with it for a while". Bad thing to say. Went out for a drive, turned left at a junction and now I get a knocking/clunking noise from the front somewhere, it doesn't do it constantly, maybe once or twice throughout the turn (not full lock) so it's hard to determine exactly where it's coming from because by the time I realise the car's make the noise I've stopped turning. Could be a CV joint, I don't know. It doesn't do it every time I turn at a junction either. I'm also getting another noise from somewhere which half of me says is a wheel bearing and the other half of me says could be tyre noise from the ditch-finders on the back not liking the cold weather. I went somewhere with my step-dad yesterday, and his Golf was making exactly the same noise and he only replaced the bearings a year ago and didn't seem to notice/be bothered by the noise either so I don't know what it is. Whatever it is is bound to be more money leaving my bank account. Definitely a love/hate relationship with this car. I love the car in general, but I hate how it keeps breaking something else everytime I fix something.

I bought Windows 7. Not for me, because I already have it, but I bought it for my dad for his birthday. Amazon Prime is hilariously good. Ordered it from there while I was at my mums yesterday evening, and it was already on the floor waiting when I got home from work at 2:40PM today, but they did use DPD as a courier and DPD are legends. Did think about getting him a carpet/fabric cleaner thing I saw on a JML TV advert last night because they showed it cleaning Fabia vRS seats, he's tried endless products on them, but they still look grubby :p

Didn't really think it was anything other than normal considering the TVs in the bedrooms only get watched for an hour or two if you're having a lie-in or have them on to watch a bit before you go to sleep or whatever. Plus the bedrooms in my house are smaller than the living room so if you had the same size TV it'd look a bit stupid in my opinion. The TV in my room is a 26" LCD and is just about the right size, where as the TV in the living room is 42", and again seems to be around the right size for the size of the room.