Time to change

[kamkar]

Car.

The little red lightning now need more money thrown at it in order to pass inspection than it is worth, so i will have to go new car browsing tomorrow.

Been looking online, and it seem like there might be a chance i will get my first French car.

 

[DT MI]

One of my favorite things to do - looking at new cars. 🙂

 

[kamkar]

I like it too, though pretty much only when i have choice, here i am severely hampered by a small saving and the fact i am on a pension.
TBH i am not even sure if anyone will want to lend me the 50% i can not pay cash, if that is the case, i am wrapped in a incline plane around a axis.

 

[kamkar]

New car zeroed out, will pick it up next week.
Awaiting good weather so i can uninstall Dashcam stuff from the little red lightning.
Red car included in sale, that be for its scrap value which is 2000 Dkkr / 310 USD ( yes Danes get paid for scrapping their car, though i would assume there have always been a scrap iron value )

New car,,,,, by chance,,,, i swear 😇 also have good install geometry / windscreen layout.
Rear window also have a wiper as it is also a small 5 door hatchback

Another thing,,,,, AC not that i have missed it terrible much, and i will gain a whopping 13 BHP to play with.

20000 km on the clock / 12427 miles, so barely run in, first registered 2022

 

[Finnegan]

Wow - very low miles indeed. My wife and I both bought the vehicles we are now driving, used,
about 2 years old and right at 20,000 miles each. Hers is 2011, mine is 2014. Both have
been trouble free, just investing in upkeep and maintenance.

Hers is now a little over 37k miles, mine is just below 125k miles. Here's hoping you have
good luck with yours!

 

[kamkar]

Just stripped dashcams and power pack + wires and fuse adapters out of the old car today, just got a couple of harder to get at 12 V tabs done on wires behind the center console so that will have to wait until Sunday.
My previous 2 cars have been new, the 2006 Gran vitara from Suzuki, and then the 2012 Suzuki splash i have been driving since then.

The new car is a French Citroen C3, so O la la 😀 My first French car.

1.2 L and a whopping 83 BHP and 5 on a stick.
added bonus it have AC too, though with that on the power is probably down to 70 BHP 😆

I am so old i can say that i have tried to drive the 2CV
And today if anyone should get into a 2CV, the first thing they will say is " where is the stick " and after that " that’s the stick,,,,, okay let me out of here "
Even if we factor in the person is a European accustomed to driving a stick.

 

[Augustus]

Just stripped dashcams and power pack + wires and fuse adapters out of the old car today, just got a couple of harder to get at 12 V tabs done on wires behind the center console so that will have to wait until Sunday.
My previous 2 cars have been new, the 2006 Gran vitara from Suzuki, and then the 2012 Suzuki splash i have been driving since then.

The new car is a French Citroen C3, so O la la 😀 My first French car.

1.2 L and a whopping 83 BHP and 5 on a stick.
added bonus it have AC too, though with that on the power is probably down to 70 BHP 😆

I am so old i can say that i have tried to drive the 2CV
And today if anyone should get into a 2CV, the first thing they will say is " where is the stick " and after that " that’s the stick,,,,, okay let me out of here "
Even if we factor in the person is a European accustomed to driving a stick.

Seems ok for city driving, with that lack of power on-tap it's a death trap on the highway. Don't need your licence plate either lol

 

[kamkar]

Perhaps the recently almost ready to go electric 2CV will be batter in the pickup.

 

[Augustus]

Perhaps the recently almost ready to go electric 2CV will be batter in the pickup.

Probably, the slowest EV I have seen is still 10 /10.5 seconds to 100km which is still passable

 

[kamkar]

I do like my overtaking getting done ASAP, so the Danish rule of you can not exceed speed limit while overtaking, i too do not care about.
So when i overtake a idiot on the highway constantly oscillating between 65 and 75 on a 80 km/h road, well some times i hit 110 on the other side i will have to admit, in my anemic little gasoline cars.
I use my speed pilot set to 85/86 which in actual GPS speed is 80 / 81 km/h, and it do compensate remarkably well to hills ASO which i did not expect in a anemic little 83 HP car.

Overtaking speed rule would be one of the first rules i would disband if i became the dictator in the land of the Juts ( western mainland part of Denmark )

 

[Augustus]

I do like my overtaking getting done ASAP, so the Danish rule of you can not exceed speed limit while overtaking, i too do not care about.
So when i overtake a idiot on the highway constantly oscillating between 65 and 75 on a 80 km/h road, well some times i hit 110 on the other side i will have to admit, in my anemic little gasoline cars.
I use my speed pilot set to 85/86 which in actual GPS speed is 80 / 81 km/h, and it do compensate remarkably well to hills ASO which i did not expect in a anemic little 83 HP car.

Overtaking speed rule would be one of the first rules i would disband if i became the dictator in the land of the Juts ( western mainland part of Denmark )

The fact that a small car takes so long to get up to speed when overtaking is the issue, not what speed is being done when doing the deed. In that time if the car you're overtaking speeds up etc etc, then you're playing a game of cat and mouse in terms of being able to complete the overtake safely.

How they're able to have cars that are under powered on sale in any country is honestly baffling.