New Car

[Grauntie Mag]

Lovely new cars, enjoy, ladies.My Honda as nearly been rebuilt with silly bumps! OH is car mad and always changing his. He desperately wants to change mine but I absolutely refuse. I agreed to a new DAB radio and that is all I need to make me happy.

[Daisy]

Qwerty - that looks very smart indeed - ideal for that equally smart-looking couple by it!

We changed OH's Honda last year for a CRV - in bright red, and OH added red mats. The DSs are far too embarrassed by the colour to ride in it, although DIL1 has the same model but in a non-descript grey.

I'd love to change my Zafira. I've only had it a few months but was never in love with it, and I'm still not. But OH hates, really hates changing our cars, so I think I'm stuck with it for the time being. It's taken all the pleasure out of driving.

[Qwerty]

I've just been out to shut the gates but my it looks overly long hope I can park it, managed to Bluetooth the mobile to the car phone and OH did the sat nav so we can go anywhere now and if we get lost we I can make a phone call lol.
Cars Daisy are silly prices now and it's a chunk out of our savings but none of us know what's round the corner, and I appreciate not everyone can afford a new car and I think whatever you pay be it new or used it's a means of getting from A to B and that's all, and whatever we can afford it's your pride and joy 🚗

[ZIZI]

Q I have those peeping things for parking, I have always been rubbish at reverse parking (I will deny that statement if a bloke asks) so I feel great when I have reverse parked without knocking anything over. Also have Bluetooth but company does not allow us to pair it with our phones due to health and safety. Actually my car has all sorts of lights and whistles but I haven't got a clue what to do with them and a couple of times there have been warning sounds and I have to stop to discover what is wrong, once it was that the boot was still open, what a racket! I keep meaning to properly read the manual and I have looked at the onboard computer a couple of times but to say the information is succinct on there is an understatement. First time I put petrol in a) I went to the wrong side of the pump as I thought the open thing was the same side as the other car, it wasn't b) I couldn't get the stupid flap open. In the end I asked a man and his wife who were about my age and driving a BMW to help. Took a while but we finally found a button on the right hand side of the steering wheel! Mine is a hybrid which sounds very nice and all that but there are virtually no charging points around here, I am not about to spend £400 on a home one for a company car and if you charge it from your domestic electricity in order to claim the money back you have to have evidence of charging which doesn't happen on our electric bills. Still it is my last company car and worth over thirty three grand so I will make the most of it until I need to buy a Nissan Micra again!

[Enfys]

We've got the parking warning thingies too, very useful. We don't have a key with our new car only a fob that you keep in your pocket or bag and as you approach the car you can open the doors and just press a button to,start it, Great, apart from when I dropped DH off at docs for a blood test and went to drive on to the library. Because we left the engine running I was able to drive off but couldn't lock it when I got there. Then I couldn't understand why I couldn't start the car to go,and pick him up!! Suddenly realised that he'd got the fob! Luckily, the docs was only up the road but would have been a nightmare if I'd gone on somewhere miles away. So know we have to remember who has the fob or else I take the spare one with me.

[Plantaholic]

The locking and unlocking button is on my fob that I push into a slot to start the engine. I have the parking sensors on the back but not on the front, I would like front sensors. I don't have a lock on my petrol cap, at least I don't think I have. changing the clock time is a bit of a challenge. I also have run-flat tyres, I can travel about 50 miles if I have a puncture, don't ask me how, hope I never need to test it.

[Qwerty]

Lol cars ! We have parking sensors on the back but not the front, I don't intend to reverse if I can help it 😱 I don't need to know all the singing and dancing things just lights and windscreen wipers 😀

[Glammanana]

Zizi,my John has a Micra he calls it his "Mini Bentley" it 19yrs old and he bought it when we came back from Spain 10yrs ago as a quick cheap and cheerful runabout whilst we got settled again he bought it off a Vicar my DD knew and up to now it has only done about 30K and passed every MOT with out failure he won't change it as he says it costs him next to nothing to run and he can park anywhere,I never use it I use my Audi,he is waiting for next year when the insurance can go classified as vintage I think.He still has his eyes on the full size Bentley on the top Chester Road when he wins the lottery one Saturday night.

[ZIZI]

Glam I had a micra for many years and when we had the shop it really didn't know it was a car, thought it was a van! Q I discovered the other day that my windscreen wipers are automatic, but sheer chance! Enfys I have a key fob like that. It also opens the boot.my husband is not allowed to drive so there is no problem about who has the key.

[Oma]

Our new tin can on wheels is all singing all dancing , its huge , very long takes all of our drive up , we just put our foot under the boot to open that ,as long as you have the fob in your bag or pocket the car opens itself , parking sensors ,reverse camera , huge sat nav /computer , strip lights all around the inside of the doors and dash , heated seats and steering wheel , hoist in the boot , you name it it does it , a beautiful car but still only a tin can to me to get us from A to B , I think its a man thing all these gadgets , we have had it since 1st September and I still don't know how to work the Air con

[Plantaholic]

My son was telling me that he was giving a lift to a friend and her phone a new all singing, dancing one wouldn't let her make a call because it detected she was in a car. Whatever next.

[ZIZI]

My car will not move unless all seat belts are on and fastened. It knows where the bums are! it probably has a lot more twiddly things - oh OMA it has blue lights as well which I only noticed the other day when I realised I had left my handbag in there! It is a bit of a joke adventure but as long as I know the important things, how to start and stop, where the lights are etc. It will be fine. One of my sons says such an expensive car is a waste on me but I don't care!

[Oma]

Zizi lost and wasted on me too , Cars are so advanced now its scary
Qwerty ours is Automatic too, well I always drove auto to be honest when I drove its so much easier , As long as you can get it on and off the drive your sorted

[ZIZI]

Mine is automatic and the first time I have driven one (except years ago) it didn't take me long to get used to it. Oma I looked under the bonnet to find the window washer thingie and it doesn't look like an engine in there you are right, plus it is all lovely and clean, It is going in the body shop on Tuesday and the company phoned me and said they didn't have a like for like vehicle. I told them I don't really care as long as I have something to get me from a to b but they are insisting that under the terms of their contract it has to be like for like or higher quality than your usual car so I said a Mercedes convertible would be acceptable, he just laughed..........

[Daisy]

I agree - modern cars are so complicated. We haven't had a new car since OH retired (he used to get a new company car every 3 years, but they were never anything special).

Both our cars are about 7 years old, but OH's has lots of bells and whistles, including parking sensors which frighten me to death when they start beeping faster and faster! His also has a rear view camera which is very useful.

Mine is a nightmare to park - the corner pillars are very wide so I have to keep looking first one side of them and then the other, but I do like the automatic lights. The wipers speed up on their own which is very good of them. LOL All cars seem to be getting wider, but car parking spaces aren't and we've got several friends whose garages are too narrow to get their car into.