snow scene & 944

[DivineE]

ORIGINAL: 944Turbo

Ken Blockesque donuts around the lamp post areas felt good. i even had an audience of fairly senior dogwalkers spectating for a while. But anyway Ben I see the student lifestyle isnt cramoing your car buying too much, how long have you had the 996?

I'm sorry I missed that I'd have loved to come along and watch.[] Art in motion.

Banks are getting all nervy and wont give mortgages to students anymore so I couldn't buy to let and rent to other students, interest rates are appauling unless you lock it into something for 5 years or more and the 996 turbo is at an all time market low which is very unlikely to depreciate further over my next 3 years of uni. You only live once right.

Numbers on a computer screen are pretty meaningless I you died tomorrow but a 3.6 turbocharged house deposit makes every day that little bit brighter. I'll have to come up and see you one weekend in the spring, I can get you some vallium and you can come for a passenger ride[]

 

[944Turbo]

Fair enough, sounds like top economics to me.

I actually pass you relatively frequently, well a bit North but if you are driving to the end of cornwall its only a small detour to plymouth.

Its quite a nice drive across to here as well outside of the school summer holidays, my nephews GF is at plymouth he has a red coupe quattro 20V and is over there most weekends.

I'll let you know if the carpark ices over again []

 

[sulzeruk]

There has been a lot of problems with diesels the last 2 days. Seemd to come from the percentage of biofuel in the diesel now as it was just as cold (and sometimes colder) last year with no problems. Thawing today as we are up to a summery -3. Wanting to get my E type jag from Europe as well, have decided on a company to go and get it so now have the hassles of giving someone I know lots of money in a different country!

 

[MarkK]

Ben,nice one,love the only live once logic i totally get that[]

 

[Diver944]

ORIGINAL: DivineE

but a 3.6 turbocharged house deposit makes every day that little bit brighter.

How did I miss that too?

So tell us more, how long have you had the 996TT, what's it like and ultimately how does it compare and differ from your old 944 3.2T. Must be blummin useful having 4WD on the current slippy roads

 

[Fat Albert]

Absolutely Brilliant application of Man-Maths!

 

[zcacogp]

ORIGINAL: peanut
Our cars are only worth 1x months salary at most.

Oh dear. Either you are paid a huge amount, Nick, or 944's really are worth hardly anything these days ... [X(]

(S2 still going, the snow hasn't stopped it getting to where I want to be yet. Ferry Porsche most definitely did make these cars to do a vast milage, and I'm throughly enjoying clocking those miles up, come rain, snow or shine!)


Oli.

 

[peanut]

ORIGINAL: sulzeruk

Wanting to get my E type jag from Europe as well, have decided on a company to go and get it so now have the hassles of giving someone I know lots of money in a different country!

oooh one of my all time favourite cars. As a spotty faced oik I was taken to a local shoot by one of the local gentry in one of the first E types . To say i was gob smacked was an understatement. All the other kids had to go in landrovers [][][]

What model have you bought ? I was once offered a rusty black v12 E Type for £500 back in the late70's .I just love those subtle wheelarch curves.. lets have a picture []

 

[peanut]

ORIGINAL: zcacogp

ORIGINAL: peanut
Our cars are only worth 1x months salary at most.

Oh dear. Either you are paid a huge amount, Nick, or 944's really are worth hardly anything these days ... [X(]
Oli.

ha ha []you know i'm not earning anything these days Oli [][][]
I estimated that the National average basic salary of professionals nowadays was around 35k-40k ie Teachers, Police officers, Social Workers etc so 4x weeks salary would be around £3k ?

 

[zcacogp]

You forgot Tax, Nick. £40k/yr (sounds high, but there we are) is under £800/wk, which can't be more than £600 take-home.

So 4x£600 = £2400 ... perhaps that's not that wide of the mark after all. Smidge low for a decent S2, a big smidge low for a good turbo, but probably high (if anything) for a lux, and very high for an early, scruffy lux.

You're right after all. I take back my earlier comments. Apologies.


Oli.

 

[peanut]

ORIGINAL: zcacogp

You forgot Tax, Nick. £40k/yr (sounds high, but there we are) is under £800/wk, which can't be more than £600 take-home.

So 4x£600 = £2400 ... perhaps that's not that wide of the mark after all. Smidge low for a decent S2, a big smidge low for a good turbo, but probably high (if anything) for a lux, and very high for an early, scruffy lux.

You're right after all. I take back my earlier comments. Apologies.


Oli.

I did forget the tax didn't I ! I suppose I was referring to the annual gross salary which is how salaries are usually advertised.
I was shocked recently to see several Social Service posts advertised at £36k down in the SW thats more than a LA Architect gets !....
I figure the market value of our S2's is currently about £3k tops sad but thats the market unfortuately

 

[MarkK]

winter dirty car gang worthy?[]

 

[zcacogp]

Yeah. That's what left-wing socialist governments get you - hugely over-paid jobs that actually make no money for the country and just bleed the taxpayers dry. (Mind you, you couldn't run fast enough to give me the job of a social worker for £36k, indeed even £72k wouldn't get me to do it ... )

MarkK - precisely! My S2 isn't that bad yet, but I refuse to wash it until some time after the rear number plate is unreadable, for a number of reasons ... []


Oli.

 

[MarkK]

[]!had dodgy moment today on country lane,i think i need to clean it and put it away incase i stuff it!

 

[zcacogp]

Well, thinking about the notion (from this thread) that it's nuts to drive a 944 in cold weather, I drove home from a client site this evening with the roof out and the windows open! (And a woolly hat, scarf, gloves and thick jumper on and the heater at "Alpine Winter" setting!)

Recommended? It should be available on the NHS! []

(MarkK - sorry to hear about your near incident .... discretion is sometimes the better part. Which part of the car are you planning on cleaning first - the outside, or the driver's seat?)


Oli.

 

[MarkK]

[] Roads are SLIPPY!

 

[zcacogp]

Oh YES!

(Some people seem to consider this a problem. For me, the problem is that I don't seem to be able to get the back of the S2 a long way out - certainly not as far as in BMW's and MX5's. I presume the neutral weight distribution is to blame, although by my understanding this shouldn't limit the amount you can get the back out, it just means everything happens more slowly. Have I misunderstood it, or do I just need to try harder?)


Oli.

 

[TheFiend]

ORIGINAL: zcacogp

Well, thinking about the notion (from this thread) that it's nuts to drive a 944 in cold weather, I drove home from a client site this evening with the roof out and the windows open! (And a woolly hat, scarf, gloves and thick jumper on and the heater at "Alpine Winter" setting!)

Recommended? It should be available on the NHS! []

Nice to see someone with some balls!!!

So far this week, i have suffered a frozen driver's door lock and frozen heater fans..... Door lock needed a hair drier on it...... and the fan starts working as the engine bay warms up......

 

[MarkK]

It's the variation in road surface that gets me,some bits are thawed out and grippy and some bits ...well..have not quite got there yet...

 

[zcacogp]

ORIGINAL: MarkK
some bits are thawed out and grippy and some bits ...well..have not quite got there yet...

Erm, don't you mean that those are the bits where you were, but only briefly ... []

Neil - A remote central locking kit may be in order, perhaps?


Oli.