Hi all,
I just bought an Insignia estate - 2010, 2.0 ecoflex - and it's the newest car I've ever owned by at least 10 years. (If you go by when the models were released, it's about 15.) So I'm a bit out of my depth with all the toys and gizmos.
Currently I've been mainly driving a 1989 Toyota Camry - got drunk and bought it on EBay for £500 - for the last few years. It has EFI and an early ecu, but that's the only electronic system in the whole thing. Toys comprise electric mirrors, electric windows and electric sunroof. If anything goes wrong, it's usually completely obvious, and it's such a well built machine that working on it is trivially easy.
I also have a 98 MGF VVC, which has abs and airbags; still no toys, but the whole thing is a toy. It's ridiculously awful to work on, easy to see why BL went bust - but the online knowledge base is vast.
Before those (unless I've forgotten one) was £275 worth of 1991 BMW 3 series - another ebay special, of course.
Recently had a baby, so time to put away the older cars and get something a bit safer. I think I'm going to need lots of advice on all the electronic bits.
I just bought an Insignia estate - 2010, 2.0 ecoflex - and it's the newest car I've ever owned by at least 10 years. (If you go by when the models were released, it's about 15.) So I'm a bit out of my depth with all the toys and gizmos.
Currently I've been mainly driving a 1989 Toyota Camry - got drunk and bought it on EBay for £500 - for the last few years. It has EFI and an early ecu, but that's the only electronic system in the whole thing. Toys comprise electric mirrors, electric windows and electric sunroof. If anything goes wrong, it's usually completely obvious, and it's such a well built machine that working on it is trivially easy.
I also have a 98 MGF VVC, which has abs and airbags; still no toys, but the whole thing is a toy. It's ridiculously awful to work on, easy to see why BL went bust - but the online knowledge base is vast.
Before those (unless I've forgotten one) was £275 worth of 1991 BMW 3 series - another ebay special, of course.
Recently had a baby, so time to put away the older cars and get something a bit safer. I think I'm going to need lots of advice on all the electronic bits.
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