Simviation Forum - Thinking of changing my 318i to a 730i am I mad ?

Reply #30 - Jul 27^th, 2005 at 1:20pm

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F1 paddle gear box. If your getting a pricey car thats the way to go. But not on a cheap car. It will break your neck. Grin

Nice choice of car Paul.

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Reply #31 - Aug 1^st, 2005 at 7:22pm

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Finally picked her up yesterday (1'st) took the camera along to get a few shots of my old car for the memories......

Here it is, the old & the new..... Apologies for my daughter Shannon posing in the pictures!!!

I'm taking Shannon & the new car down to Taunton in Somerset to give it a good run, I'll take some further photo's later.

£75 to fill it up is enough to bring tears to my eyes !!!! 85 Litre fuel tank !!!! Shocked

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Reply #32 - Aug 1^st, 2005 at 7:24pm

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£75

good lord thats alot:)

Beautiful car.

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Reply #33 - Aug 1^st, 2005 at 7:41pm

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Great car Scania - I know for a fact that you will absolutely love the drive to Taunton. Have fun.

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Reply #34 - Aug 5^th, 2005 at 7:56am

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550 miles into ownership and I can honestly say my expectations have been exceeded by a margin I never expected, I really have gone up into a new league of travel !

My old e36 3 series was such a good car, I doubted I'd be so critical of it now, when I look back!

The 728 on the Motorway down to Somerset was fantastic, its as smooth & quiet @ 110MPH as it is @ 60MPH, even the 235/50/18 front & 255/45/18 rear tires don't intrude with road noise.

One slight gremlin, I had a weird grinding noise on full lock, when moving slowly, I was fearful I'd bought a dog!

The trouble was an ill fitting mudflap catching the tyre! Roll Eyes

Its firmly rivited in place now, problem solved!

34MPG was my motorway average !!! roughly, I reckon I'm getting 22 - 27mpg round town, not bad for a 2.8i 5 Speed Automatic near 2 ton barge!!!

Sorry I hav'nt posted any further pictures yet, Its been a busy week, yesterday me & Shannon went to Alton Towers http://www.alton-towers.co.uk/themepark/ the cars now absolutely filthy (alas, a downside of it being Black) I'll get the car washed & post some photo's this coming weekend.

As long as I can stop myself from going off elsewhere in it!!

No doubt , the novelty will wear off, for the time being, I'm a happy bunny for the first time in a very long time.

Sorry about the over endulgent post btw! Embarrassed

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Reply #35 - Aug 5^th, 2005 at 11:20am

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Over indulgent post? - pah!! Don't worry about it, good to hear that your lovin' the 7 series.

I for one would love to see more piccies when you get round to posting some, would love to see some 'VC' shots aswell Grin

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Reply #36 - Aug 5^th, 2005 at 11:39am

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Over indulgent post? - pah!! Don't worry about it, good to hear that your lovin' the 7 series.

I for one would love to see more piccies when you get round to posting some, would love to see some 'VC' shots aswell Grin

Cheers,

TSC.

Excusing my stupidity, VC Shots ??? erm, Very close ??? , if so, I will.

I'd better go wash it! Cheesy

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Reply #37 - Aug 5^th, 2005 at 12:45pm

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sounds like fun, glad you got a good one Wink

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Reply #38 - Aug 5^th, 2005 at 2:22pm

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Excusing my stupidity, VC Shots erm, Very close , if so, I will.

You must've my post in the Cafe:

I was referring to some interior shots Grin

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Reply #39 - Aug 5^th, 2005 at 5:44pm

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Photo's uploaded in the Photo's forum !

http://www.simviation.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=photos;action=display;num=...

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