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April 5, 2017 at 7:08 pm #5868
Bob Williams
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Yesterday I took delivery of the Tucson and I love it! 1.7 CRDi Auto, extremely comfortable, not as quick as the 2.0 TDCi C-Max of course, but not far behind it. C-Max 146 PS, Tucson 141. The difference is better roadholding and steering, and it soaks up bumps much better, which is what we need around here, with some truly horrible road surfaces. I can enter and leave it just as easily as I could the C-Max, but the even better news is that SWMBO can do so more easily than she could in the case of the C-Max. In fact the only problem is that my tiny missus cannot see much out of the windscreen, so I will have to get her a booster cushion. My considered remark that ‘only the pilot needs to see the runway’ did not go down well at all. :negative: :whistle: It must be a form of torture for a female, to miss what is happening around them. 😉 🙂 Well, it is for my other half!

Pic’s – you are looking at a Senior Citizen’s Ghetto:

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April 5, 2017 at 7:29 pm #5871
Richard
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Congratulations and good news that you and yours are both happy. Does the passenger seat have height adjustment? Some can be raised and lowered electrically, if available it might help.
April 5, 2017 at 8:57 pm #5883
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Had a quick look at one today, one of mum’s neighbours is a trade delivery driver and he was about to go out when I spotted him. They look good and aren’t as big as they look. Space inside though.

Would be on my radar if/when I need a car.
April 6, 2017 at 1:58 am #5890
The Duke
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They seem to be a very popular car, I have two in my street, both on the Motability and both love them. They have the sat nav spec level, which I think is the second tier up.

Both silver, I like yours in red bob better. Silver is good if your owning the car, as it’s the easiest colour to sell, bit red isn’t far behind silver I think. But silver is a bit boring.

Glad the wife likes it, it’s a big bus, hope it had reverse sensors or camera. Personally I prefer sensors over a camera. The blind spots on the gtc are that big, front and back, with out sensors, it would be almost impossible to manager in tight spaces.

My next car will be Matt grey, if I get the Octavia Vrs, but me and the duchess have been looking at the rav4 hybrid, totally different car to the Octavia. But the rav4 hybrid had a non turbo 2.5l petrol unit with 2 electric motors, and gives the power and mpg of a diesel. Real world 44mpg combined, which is great for a proper 4×4 of its size.

I quite like how ones it is too, I hate Cheese tractor 4x4s, I don’t really need a 4×4, and would usually avoid a true 4×4, and get the 2wd version, but in the case of the hybrid and the way the 4×4 works, actually it’s AWD not 4×4, it doesn’t hurt the milage, and the grip is nice for our area and caravan pulling.

Though the new 245bhp Octavia vrs will likely win, just because inside I’m still 12. Well not quite as at 12 skoda wad a laughing stock, but you get what I mean.

Anyhow bob loving that your liking the new bus. Now you have a smart phone install fueio and take your milage. I’ll link it below

My car is reporting I’m now doing 38mpg on average, but when I track with the app, it turns out my car over the last 3 months has gotten 32mpg! It’s like 1980 all over again! The skoda will get about 26mpg so can’t wait for that!
April 7, 2017 at 5:23 pm #5932
Bob Williams
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Richard: No passenger seat height adjust, a source of much grumbling from SWMBO: “The test car had it!” Then I reminded her that the test car was top of the range and would have put the deposit above £1,400, it had electric everything including seats, with motors under the seat lifting the seat higher. Expense was the reasoning for not taking a C-Max, not paying more than £1,000 deposit. Tucson was £899 and I also bought genuine Hyundai Tucson carpet and rubber floor mats, with a boot liner: just a tad over £1,000. Bought rubber and carpet mats for the times we take it to the beach and when I pick up mucky engineer No.2 gson. The rubber mats have a ‘lip’ to stop any muck spreading to the floor, as does the boot liner.

Nolan: no, they are defo not as big as they look, although the front end looks a bit brutal (Drivers in front seem to move over a lot). Loads of legroom and the boot is a bit high, due to a genuine 17″ alloy spare wheel, which is better IMO than those daft tyre inflation kits. Monster No.2 gson is quite comfortable and is pleased that his knees are no longer up by his chin when there is a rear seat passenger. Rear seats actually recline a bit, pronounced “cool” by No. 1 gson, who can fall asleep on a clothes line.

Steve: red was my choice this time, C-Max was SWMBO’s choice of blue. All my Forest-supporting relatives criticised that, none has anything other than a red car, they are all FTID bonkers. I also prefer sensors rather than a camera, but only the top range choice has a camera anyway. I got used to sensors with the C-Max and have learned to judge the difference with the Tucson, which starts pinging fast before the C-Max did.

Before the VW takeover, the Czech’s used to make cars in a convict factory. True – I met a Czech guy on holiday once and he told me about it. There was a tunnel from the factory to the prison and at every shift, they took the convicts to and from work. Not as bad as it sounds though, apparently they offered engineering training to the ones with enough smarts and many of them had jobs waiting for them after serving a sentence. They were also paid reasonably well, having nothing much to spend it on, they had a good sum and good training to restart their lives on the outside. A lesson there for us, I think. The cars were not always as bad as pictured either, my lad had one (120 I think) and loved it because it was so cheap and easy to work on, he could afford to run it. I worked on a few, quite easy to work on, but I hated those bloody awful Lada’s. To get at the starter motor, for example, you have to remove the manifolds. Only a former Russian tractor factory would throw together an engine like that.

Getting 42 mpg atm from the Tucson, keeps increasing a bit each day.

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April 7, 2017 at 5:33 pm #5933
Bob Williams
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Pic from the Hyundai PR demo, may be in the Motability “Lifestyle” mag. The guy giving me the keys, is the Motability sales bloke, a real good guy, Wayne Healey. Read Hyundai could not do enough for us, this was my 8th Motability lease and the 24th lease. It was the best experience of any, they were great with us. Tuesday it was freezing, hence the coats. Last 2 days have been lovely and warm.

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April 7, 2017 at 6:36 pm #5939
The Duke
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Your looking pleased with yourself their Bob. Glad it worked out for you you.

I have a theory the smaller (even though Hyundai is huge) the sellers, the more they will do to get your custom.

Hyundai own their own steel, so they have more high strength steel than any other Oem, they are great cars, and over the last 5 years, they have really started to break into the higher end of the market. The Koreans are coming for the likes of GM and VAG.
April 7, 2017 at 6:50 pm #5940
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I am afraid I cannot get fired up by the sensors as they are always going off at the wrong times. I have about 0.5 cm each side between the mirrors and the garage door frame, it drives the sensors nuts until I switch them off. The camera is only slightly more useful, I pretty much use the mirror exclusively. Perhaps I am just too old to change my ways that much. The lane guides are another pain, many of our small lanes have very frayed edges and the sounder keeps sounding off for every pot hole… I do not like its beeping. Mind you I have not used the new car that much as I keep the old one for my daughters dogs now that it is fixed.
April 7, 2017 at 6:58 pm #5941
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I’d agree about the sensors if i didn’t own the car I own. It’s shaped in such a way you just cant see or even judge the rear of the car, and its lack of Windows (being a Coupe) doent help, also the front falls away, so even judging the font corners is half.

The window thing is weird as I’ve dropped e vans, my first car was an escort van, and had no issues, but older cars was more square, so judging corners etc was easy. My current car is impossible.

Also i think my reverse light is a birthday cake candle, it is trully usless, I have to ride the break to illuminate behind me.

I just drove back from Liverpool 50miles while the fuel light was on, got home and fueled up at tesco. I put in 56.52 litres, the tanks capacity is 56 litres. One was riding his luck.
April 7, 2017 at 8:53 pm #5955
Bob Williams
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“…this was my 8th Motability lease and the 24th lease. ” – nonsense! Should have said “22nd. YEAR of leases”! Brainfart…

I can use sensors better than a camera, don’t have a garage so it sits immediately outside my front windows. If we get the kind of weather again that we experienced in 2010, I do have a full cover that fitted the first C-Max, a MK.1 which was taller than the last one. There are just too many oldphart insomniacs here for tea-leaves, plus it’s a cul de sac. Always at least 2 or 3 lights on in the Close at night, some have a kip in the afternoon and are baffled when they can’t sleep at night. :scratch:

My lad has just bought himself a Transit diesel, for transporting his Stationary Engines to & from Shows. As usual, his inventive brain and clever hands are at work. So far he has floored it, put in an electric winch, (uprated the battery, fuses and alternator) fixed a folding table to the bulkhead, acquired and fitted Ford stereo, ramps, side boxes, and fitted LED lights in the roof. Next is a cooker and rollaway bed. My lad is a genius with his hands, but dyslexic.

Steve I had forgotten about the Koreans and their steel, but I do remember the first Hyundai in the UK. That was a Stellar, and I worked on the first one in my area. Check out the Stellar here: https://tinyurl.com/mh7kzl6

An old Cortina MOT fail was the void bushes on the front suspension. In the pic, N.1 refers to these bushes. I didn’t know it at the time, but the Stellar was built with Cortina MK1 & 4<span style=”font-size: 14pt;”>*</span> chassis & suspension. When I tested the car, I saw immediately that the bushes were worn and thought they must be the same as the Cortina: I had tested and worked on so many Cortinas, including 3 of my own! So I took a chance and ordered Ford pattern parts. They fitted. Reading the rest of the link, you see the car was a Bitsa – Mitsubishi-derived engine, etc. Now the Hyundai company has come a long way from those days and may be about to do to the Japanese motor industry, what the Japanese did to the UK. What goes around, comes around…
- – There never was a “MK.5” Ford Cortina. It was a redesigned MK. 4 and caled by Ford a ‘Facelift’ MK. 4. The difference is mainly in the roofline, which in the MK. 4 Facelift, is higher than the previous MK.4. More ‘Oldphart mechanic knowledge’ – my head is full of this crap. :wacko: :good: :yahoo:
- EDIT: Forgot the suspension pic. It’s been a hard day…
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