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Who suggested the car club? its a nightmare for an old befuddled man like me. I couldn't find the car, couldn't find the pin pad to start it, it wouldn't lock when I had finished! all sorted by the very helpful customer services but that was difficult. Better luck tomorrow I guess!
Travelled Carlisle to Edinburgh on public transport (empty train/bus) to pick up a Pug 208 I'd bought on eBay - low bid to keep track of it, that ended up winning. Did my due diligence, MOT check (N Irish, so a few years not accessible), HPI check (Cat N, in 2015 as advertised), spoke to the guy on the phone asking about Cat N, history etc, condition - it all tallied and he runs a car related business. He agreed to pick me up from Waverley, as it was a few miles to his. Car had fairly obvious repairs to bonnet - which I could accept, as I knew it was Cat N. But then there was dog hair on the underside insulation of the bonnet, part of which was soaked in oil. Top of the engine clearly had new parts, bolts etc. Can only think the head had gone spaffing oil upwards etc? The bonnet had obviously been off recently, unless the spaniel at his feet could levitate. Awkward conversation to tell him I was backing out as not as described - there was him and a few of his mechanic lads watching on. His attitude became like a bolshy schoolboy caught red handed, but not giving a f*@k.
Lesson learned. On the up side, it was an exciting day, travelling to another country etc and I do like Edinburgh.
to fit the tandem in the boot with just the wheels off needs around a 6 ft load bed. Remove the fork as well and it can be a bit shorter
For info - and just because someone else asked me to measure it recently - my 2014 Octavia Estate has 210cm (just over 6'10") between the back of passenger seat (pushed forwards) and the inside of the rear hatch. So it should fit easily in something like that.
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Astra estate here, and it has been great for us in the 5 years we've owned it. Test drove one but found it very wallowy with a lot of body roll on twisty roads. The SRi has stiffer suspension and it's road holding seemed way better, so is what we ended up with. You do feel every bump though!
ridc has the length behind front (and rear) seats of nearly every car sold in the last ~20 years. Extremely useful for comparing stuff when you're buying to try to get a bike in.. I'd probably still go for a roofrack over this for a tandem though
https://www.ridc.org.uk/features-reviews/out-and-about/choosing-car/make
sample of cars I was interested in..
car 2 seat length
old berlingo 1356
tourneo 1450
touran 1660
qashquai 1721
new m berlingo 1755
old i30 1760
mazda 5 1760
leon 1780
zafira 1800
carens 1812
ceed 1855
grand c4 picasso 1864
logan 1865
insignia 1880
optima 1885
v70 1885
signum 1900
disco 1906
octavia (2017) 1911
xl berlingo 1930
mondeo 1931
v90 1935
i40 1967
mazda 6 1968
passat 1970
smax 1975
mk3 mondeo 1979
new insignia 1985
Vectra 2001
sharan 2005
2011 e class 2010
galaxy 2040
superb 2061
grand tourneo 2175
t6 2565