Quotethat could be another thread about pet names for cars...
Your wish is my command !!!
Right then, i'll start the ball rolling...
Fiesta - fester
Volvo 340 - swedish love machine (honest !)
Citroen xsara - lemon
mondeo - mondy the first (second and third)
Volvo 740 - love boat
Astra - ashtray
And one of our buses (Volvo/ayat bravo city B7) has been named 'The ASDA bus'... Because it rolls back !
Quote from: 4x2 on January 25, 2012, 08:20:22 PM
Quotethat could be another thread about pet names for cars...
And one of our buses (Volvo/ayat bravo city B7) has been named 'The ASDA bus'... Because it rolls back !
:smiley-laughing: :smiley-laughing: :smiley-laughing: :smiley-laughing: :smiley-laughing: :smiley-laughing:
We have a 1972 Orange VW Bay Camper called Bertie.
Great Fun
I have a souped up 1999 Ford Falcon Utility we call The Green Rocket, funny when it comes to cars I never really grew up.
My car is called Charlie:
(http://i869.photobucket.com/albums/ab257/Kilnevan/mooglesmotor.jpg)
20 years old and built like a tank. I'm always :) when I'm driving here for some reason!
fiat panda - amanda the panda
ford escort mk5 - the chav mobile ;D
Quote from: moogle on January 25, 2012, 08:52:36 PM
My car is called Charlie:
(http://i869.photobucket.com/albums/ab257/Kilnevan/mooglesmotor.jpg)
20 years old and built like a tank. I'm always :) when I'm driving here for some reason!
Good choice ! Last of the 'propperly built' merc's... keep servicing it and 300,000 won't be a problem !
My Audi is of the same vintage, and just as tough - they really don't make 'em like that anymore ! :thumbsup:
Quote from: 4x2 on January 25, 2012, 09:09:44 PM
Quote from: moogle on January 25, 2012, 08:52:36 PM
My car is called Charlie:
(http://i869.photobucket.com/albums/ab257/Kilnevan/mooglesmotor.jpg)
20 years old and built like a tank. I'm always :) when I'm driving here for some reason!
Good choice ! Last of the 'propperly built' merc's... keep servicing it and 300,000 won't be a problem !
My Audi is of the same vintage, and just as tough - they really don't make 'em like that anymore ! :thumbsup:
Too right they don't!
I had the choice of Charlie or a '95 fiesta. The insurance was about £50 more for the Merc - fully comp.
A no brainer which one I'd look at 1st and end up buying really!
I've done over 3000 miles in her, including a few long trips from Cheshire to Kent and back with no problems.
Twice round the clock, which she's approaching, is only really 'run in' on a 190E. ;)
The motorway seems to be Charlies natural territory.
I swear she cries 'Das Autobahn! Wunderbar!' once she's on it! :smiley-laughing:
So that's what my car ('the panzer') is muttering on the slip road.... :smiley-laughing:
(http://i1228.photobucket.com/albums/ee442/djmikeymike2011/DSCF1171.jpg)
HAHA, some good ones up there!
Heres a few of mine:
2001 polo - The OLOP
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(http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c171/polo2k/polo/DSC01413-1.jpg)
Gone but not forgotten!
Current cars:
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(http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c171/polo2k/vw%20audi%20track%20day%202010/DSCF0393.jpg)
(http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c171/polo2k/vag%20fest%202010/img002.jpg)
GOLFIE (I had a boost leak on the dyno. on another run, I pulled 450Nm - Daily driver with Quaife and coilovers
(http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c171/polo2k/Mona/SDC10123.jpg)
MONA
(http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c171/polo2k/Igor/Arrival/SDC12574.jpg)
(http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c171/polo2k/Igor/17th%20update%20-%20fuel%20lines%20and%20engine%20covers/DSC00361.jpg)
IGOR My missis at the time wouldn't let me call our new cat Igor, so I decided that my mad new VR6 Morris Minor Traveller project was the perfect surrogate for the name.
(http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c171/polo2k/RG%20gamma/SDC10139.jpg)
(http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c171/polo2k/RG%20gamma/SDC10137.jpg)
The Gamma
I've got a dark blue Mini One called "The Gronk" (as it looks like one with its somewhat industrial looking alloys) and half own a BRG Cooper S "The Wombat" that I had my first actual drive of yesterday after part owning it for 5 years and passing my test back in march. Fun car :)
Quote from: 4x2 on January 25, 2012, 09:42:54 PM
So that's what my car ('the panzer') is muttering on the slip road.... :smiley-laughing:
At the moment mine is muttering something like, mmmm clutch!
Too many dyno runs ? :smiley-laughing: :smiley-laughing: :smiley-laughing:
more like 50k miles on a semi race clutch. strangely it seems to be behaving again now, I think ive had at least one instance of clutch slip each winter, even on the stock clutch. hmm, maybe there is some funky contraction of something going on somethere, or maybe something icey in the release mech.
Im toying with the idea of moving on from the golf, but my issue is I want all the good stuff from the golf, and then some. Ive been thinking of a V6TDI A6 Allroad, hopefully the air suspension will be a good thing for my back, while the quattro should be good fun. Ive pondered fitting 2x VNT turbos so that I can get the same 2 bar that I get on the golf. Seriously hard on boost hoses though!
The V6 tdi A6 is a quality motor, quite high on my wish list !
Don't know if it's man enough for 2 bar of boost though.... Wouldn't the V8 tdi A8 be better ? (and more comfortable !)
Quote from: 4x2 on January 26, 2012, 12:36:51 AM
The V6 tdi A6 is a quality motor, quite high on my wish list !
Don't know if it's man enough for 2 bar of boost though.... Wouldn't the V8 tdi A8 be better ? (and more comfortable !)
yeah but they are pretty rare, ill have to keep my eyes open.
My Asz 1.9 is running 2.0 Bar on a stock turbo, head, gasket etc. the only things ive had to chance are the turbo outlet to pancake and intercooler to inlet as I jept obliterating the oem hoses, so the new ones just happen to be 3". Which is handy when theres 10,000L of air (at atmospheric pressure) going through on full bore with some revs.
The graphs dont show the overboost too well either, its great fun but gets a bit sketchy in anything but scorching hot conditions without the LSD. The final straw was
accidental 6th gear rolling burnouts in the wet on the M4 without touching the clutch. Despite the weight and brutality she is surprisingly kind to the tyres, not so the driveshafts, or gearbox mounts:
(http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c171/polo2k/DSC00021.jpg)
The rubber bush at the top was pulled through the alloy loop because I got wheelskip on full boost in third and when I regained grip, the box kicked back against the resistance and did that
TT brakes and posh compounds/discs take care of hauling off the speed to such an extent that you can feel your pulse in your FACE!
p.s. if anyone is looking at tyres at the moment look at the uniroyal rainsport 2. Naff name but more previce than Avon ZV3`s more grip in all conditions than the bridgy 050`s, better wearing than proxies and Yokes.
Had a great name for my 2004 Toyota Avalon, "The $h-t Heap"
Quote from: polo2k on January 26, 2012, 01:02:34 AM
Quote from: 4x2 on January 26, 2012, 12:36:51 AM
The V6 tdi A6 is a quality motor, quite high on my wish list !
Don't know if it's man enough for 2 bar of boost though.... Wouldn't the V8 tdi A8 be better ? (and more comfortable !)
yeah but they are pretty rare, ill have to keep my eyes open.
My Asz 1.9 is running 2.0 Bar on a stock turbo, head, gasket etc. the only things ive had to chance are the turbo outlet to pancake and intercooler to inlet as I jept obliterating the oem hoses, so the new ones just happen to be 3". Which is handy when theres 10,000L of air (at atmospheric pressure) going through on full bore with some revs.
The graphs dont show the overboost too well either, its great fun but gets a bit sketchy in anything but scorching hot conditions without the LSD. The final straw was accidental 6th gear rolling burnouts in the wet on the M4 without touching the clutch. Despite the weight and brutality she is surprisingly kind to the tyres, not so the driveshafts, or gearbox mounts:
(http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c171/polo2k/DSC00021.jpg)
The rubber bush at the top was pulled through the alloy loop because I got wheelskip on full boost in third and when I regained grip, the box kicked back against the resistance and did that
TT brakes and posh compounds/discs take care of hauling off the speed to such an extent that you can feel your pulse in your FACE!
p.s. if anyone is looking at tyres at the moment look at the uniroyal rainsport 2. Naff name but more previce than Avon ZV3`s more grip in all conditions than the bridgy 050`s, better wearing than proxies and Yokes.
I think I have just stumbled upon www.ngaugeforum.klingon (http://www.ngaugeforum.klingon) by mistake, that made no sense to me at all :-\ :smiley-laughing:
In order of appearance
Triummph Dolomite
Mk2 Escort 1300
Mk3 Escort 1300
Sierra 1.6
Primera 2.0 GSX (Last of the Nissan GB models and flyer, 120+ mph in a 4 door saloon ;D )
Primera 1.6 (one of the French lot - rubbish)
Current car is a 52 plate Volvo S40 1.9 diesel, solid car 50+ mpg on a run and with nutters flying about in souped up VW's - a safe place to be ;) :smiley-laughing: :smiley-laughing:
Quote from: Lawrence on January 26, 2012, 08:57:43 AM
Current car is a 52 plate Volvo S40 1.9 diesel, solid car 50+ mpg on a run and with nutters flying about in souped up VW's - a safe place to be ;) :smiley-laughing: :smiley-laughing:
??? 8) ;)
I've had (in no special order) Henry the Mk1 Escort van, most of which is still in the loft, Sid the Sierra, Leonard, a Peugeot 309, George, the beloved and sorely missed Seat Marbella (bought for £100 to do for a few weeks, ended up keeping him for 18 months), Luigi the Alfasud (learned how to weld with that one), and currently shift between the General (Seat Inca van, named for General Franco) and the wife's PT Cruiser (Sebastian (her choice)).
Forgot about TBF (that b*****d Fiesta) which needed 3 engine changes in four weeks, out in the street, usually in the rain. Wasn't too sorry to see the back of that one...
Quote from: polo2k on January 26, 2012, 11:13:30 AM
Quote from: Lawrence on January 26, 2012, 08:57:43 AM
Current car is a 52 plate Volvo S40 1.9 diesel, solid car 50+ mpg on a run and with nutters flying about in souped up VW's - a safe place to be ;) :smiley-laughing: :smiley-laughing:
??? 8) ;)
:smiley-laughing: :smiley-laughing: ;)
I have had bikes and cars and they only ever had one name each.
First named by a greatly missed (RIP) mate when my Cooper S left his Fiat somethingorother standing on a drive from Glasgow to Oban.
The bikes were "The two wheel beast"
The cars were "The four wheel beast"
John
There is a similar thread on the C4 Owners forum - spooky.
My C4 is called Foxy, from it's number plate. I used to have a Lada Niva called Ada, because the L had fallen off the badge.
Quote from: 4x2 on January 25, 2012, 08:20:22 PM
Quotethat could be another thread about pet names for cars...
Your wish is my command !!!
Right then, i'll start the ball rolling...
Fiesta - fester
Volvo 340 - swedish love machine (honest !)
Citroen xsara - lemon
mondeo - mondy the first (second and third)
Volvo 740 - love boat
Astra - ashtray
And one of our buses (Volvo/ayat bravo city B7) has been named 'The ASDA bus'... Because it rolls back !
Thanks 4x2, didn't think anyone would pick up on this...
Volvo 340 - I never called it that (at least in front of SWMBO!!!)
The Escort had several names maybe not appropriate to be repeated here in front of polite company (especially when the engine and electrics died going downhill and the power steering and power assisted braking failed!)
The other half has christened the current Corsa as 'Carlos'. OK probably quite an apt name as the original topic was about 'cars losing money'! (I'm already looking for my coat)
Escort = Scrote!
my Skoda octavia is called Humphrey and it looks surprisingly "like that Golf!"
Mark
Quote from: 4x2 on January 25, 2012, 08:20:22 PM
And one of our buses (Volvo/ayat bravo city B7) has been named 'The ASDA bus'... Because it rolls back !
Does it have i-shift or is it push button ZF type fully auto gears?
I struggle to pull away smoothly with our 3 Volvo coaches with i-shift sometimes!!
My own coach, an Iveco with Plaxton Panther body, I call a pile of :-X......
My car (an 05 Vauxhall Vectra), a call a shed on wheels - well look inside it lol
Quote from: Tackleberry on January 26, 2012, 09:32:02 PM
Quote from: 4x2 on January 25, 2012, 08:20:22 PM
And one of our buses (Volvo/ayat bravo city B7) has been named 'The ASDA bus'... Because it rolls back !
Does it have i-shift or is it push button ZF type fully auto gears?
I struggle to pull away smoothly with our 3 Volvo coaches with i-shift sometimes!!
My own coach, an Iveco with Plaxton Panther body, I call a pile of :-X......
My car (an 05 Vauxhall Vectra), a call a shed on wheels - well look inside it lol
ZF push button, it hasn't done it recently so maybe it's been fixed ? (that'll be a first ! :evil:)
Quote from: 4x2 on January 26, 2012, 10:07:14 PM
ZF push button, it hasn't done it recently so maybe it's been fixed ? (that'll be a first ! :evil:)
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Fair do's, decent 'box in a bus but in a 57 seat coach its horrendous, its not even got a kick down function!!!!
Funey that as railway enthusiests (I presume most of us are enthusiastic about trains) that we critisize locomotives and emu's/dmu's for all sorts of performance reasons yet we put up with nonsense from road vehicles and comment with a degree of fondness !
I've just traded in a Renault Megane (sedan) with all of the bells and whistles for a brand new Honda. The Megane was great, everything still worked but the tax man down here demanded a change to reduce his claim upon me.
Neither had a name because neither have a descernable personality which justifies this very personnal attribute. Mind you it is early days for the Honda - so far the only concern is the fuel gauge which seems to be in error by 30%. Anyone got a suggestion to encapsulate this defect ?
I have only owned a few cars in my 25 years of car ownership.
Car number 1
This was a metallic brown Austin Metro 1.0l.It had a faulty starter motor when I bought it,though it only manifested itself on very cold,frosty mornings.It only turned over very slowly but did eventually fire up.Its other rather bad trait was its inability to start when the weather was wet from cold.This gave rise to a lot of cursing and swearing and a brother who was a gym freak getting very tired pushing it down the street to bump start it.
Car number 2
This was a Ford Fiesta 950 Pop Plus on an F plate from 1989.Bought just after I got married.Nuff said really,very reliable,unlike the wife,cheap to run,again,unlike the wife and was kept for 7 years.Got rid of the wife after just over 2 years.No pet name.
Car number 3
MG Meastro 2.0EFI.This must have been tweaked somehow cos it went like stink,though after a 950 Fiesta a push iron may've felt fast.Drank juice like there was no tomorrow and was as comfy as anything.It even left my dads BMW 318iSE trailing.Only had this for two years.
Car number 4
This was the biggest heap I have ever owned.It was a Ford Fiesta 1.8DL.I bought it in August 2000,summer.The significance of the purchase date became apparent in the winter with its total lack of ability to start without waking up the whole street in a morning.In order to get to the bottom of it,I did the cambelt,heater plugs etc,all to no avail.Ended up having the piston rings done cos there was no compression on two cylinders.This helped no end.kept it for four years in total,until the cambelt snapped.It bent three valves and one managed to damage the guides so it burnt oil when it was fixed.No pet name but lots of swear words again.
Current and car number 5
Skoda Octavia 1.9TDI 90 GLX.Its a 1999 year car on a V plate,has 83000 miles on it and is on its second turbo.First one went bang,formula 1 style on the A1 eighteen months ago.I could've cried that day,cost me £700 to replace the turbo.Otherwise its been the best car I have ever owned.Its metallic chestnut colour is quite nice and now there are more brown cars on the road doesn't stand out so much.Again,no pet name.
As you may've become aware,I don't give pet names to my cars,I just curse and swear at em when they don't work,but don't we all.
I also own a vintage Honda motorcycle.This is a Honda CBR600FP from 1994 vintage,with the Fireblade style graphics on the side.Colours are red,purple and blue.The red is a pearly type of colour and looks great glinting in the sun.Its kept in my kitchen and hasn't been ridden for a couple of years,but for 2012,I'm going to drag it out and get it running so I can go out for a few blasts and maybe a trackday as well.Donington's only an hour away and Cadwell Park an hour and a half.Problem is though,I need a new lid and leathers.Helmet is 10 years old,Whitham replica,and my leathers fit a 20 stone fatty,not a 13 and a half stone bloke that I now am.Gonna cost a few quid this riding lark is.New suit,about £600 ish,helmet £300 ish.How many locos would be converted to dcc sound would with that money?
Pete
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Quote from: Pete Mc on January 27, 2012, 07:42:52 PM
As you may've become aware,I don't give pet names to my cars,I just curse and swear at em when they don't work,but don't we all.
Sort of missed the point of the thread then? ;) ;D
Currently between us we have:-
Ford SierrasSophia the Sapphire (2000E - the misses' car when we met)
Helen the Hatchback (modified XR4x4 - my car when we met - H*ELN numberplate)
Cassie the Cosworth (joint purchase show car)
Ford FiestasMia the Ghia - 1.8 n/a diesel (my work car)
Miriam the LX - 1.8TDi (the misses' work car). Long story to this one's name - Clare is a BIG Jimmy Nail fan, and Jimmy's misses (before they sadly split up) was small, red-haired, and Welsh and was called Miriam. Our Fezzy is small, red, and came from Cardiff ;D
Neither of us can stand kids and certainly couldn't contemplate the years of hell involved in raising one of our own, so our cars ARE our 'children'. Certainly cheaper than kids, they come with an off-switch, and they don't constantly whinge and moan. No contest. ;)
Paul
Don't get me wrong,the cursing and swearing probably was what I could say is a kind of name.Maybe if there was another Mrs Pete Mc,she would've given them a pet name.It doesn't seem too blokey for me to give a pet name for anything.Its a car or a bike,and I'm pretty sure if I turned up at me dads or anyones and proclaimed that my current car is called Vees,they'd look at me like I'd gone round the twist.Its just not me,sorry.
As for Jimmy Nail,I saw him as Oz in Auf Weidersehn Pet when I was a kid and thought he was good in that but in Spender,he was great.When I got Sky in 1995,one of the channels,bravo I think,repeated it constantly for.quite a while,late at night.I never got bored watching it,shame it doesn't get shown anymore.
Pete
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LOL, glad you took my comment in the spirit it was meant, I know lots of blokes would cringe at giving their car a name ;D
Clare knows practically everything there is to know about Jimmy Nail, probably more than Jimmy does :smiley-laughing: In a roundabout way if it wasn't for him we wouldn't have met - she was also impressed by the Spender series, she fancied him rotten in that suit, but was also impressed by the Sierra Sapphire RS Cosworth he drove in all three series. This led her to get a Sierra Sapphire when she learnt to drive (couldn't afford a real Cossie so bought a 2000E with Cosworth bodykit), which led her to join a car club, which was where we met :)
Now we have our own Sapphire Cosworth it was her name that went on the logbook, something she's always dreamed of. I'm nice like that :angel:
Sadly JN is very self-critical of his own work, and never sanctioned Spender for release on video or DVD. However, you can get hooky DVD sets on eBay that have been recorded from the TV, quality is OK and ours are still going strong despite thousands of plays - it's Clare's porn stash :smiley-laughing:
Paul
I remember going to the NEC for the car show when Ford launched the Sapphire Cosworth.I can't remember whether it was the 2wd or 4wd version but I sat in one on their stand and was in love.Sadly,I could never afford one and if I remember rightly,£17k was completely out of my price range.When I bought my house it only cost £28k.A few months before my marriage collapsed,I did go to a Ford car launch event at Althorp House,the Spencer family pile in Northamptonshire for the launch of the Ford Maverick.They also had the RS range their as well and got to drive a Ford Escort RS Cosworth.Man that was a quick car,220bhp and 4 wheel drive,it also looked fantastic what with the huge rear spoiler and bodykit and those lovely alloys.That sort of performance is available in a cooking Golf or Focus ST.
A bloke I know has a lurid green Focus RS with the Volvo engine in.This sounds absolutely wonderful on full chat.
My next car is going to be a Skoda Octavia VRS TDI Estate hopefully,so I can perhaps lug my not yet started exhibition layout around the country,but for now I think I'll carry on with this one,theres nowt wrong with it at the moment and seems silly for me to splurge £10000 on a car when I don't need to.
Pete
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