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- FastLaneJB
- Member Since: 29 May 2021
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The highlander does look like a reasonable all round car. I imagine it wouldn’t quite hit my lofty comfort goals I had when looking for my first SUV but cannot argue it seems like a good value and nice package overall.
As for the wife. Just prepare the dog house for your 1 - 2 week stay and you’ll be fine after that
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- Equilibrium
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- FastLaneJB
- Member Since: 29 May 2021
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If the car does what you need of it and are happy with it plus you get to save £20k over the lifetime of the vehicle then does seem to be a no-brainer.
Yeah, diesel's in general just not good for lots of short journeys. One of my worries actually as used to do a certain amount of long-distance trips for work but since the pandemic that's been zero so far. Guessing it'll come back a bit over time but probably never quite as much. Will need to do some longer distance trips myself once I get the Disco so the DPF can do its cleaning trick.
Ordered with the rear diff, noticed in the manual it says to take it easy for 1,000 miles because of that. I thought, in general, you were supposed to run them in care in general but see nothing in the manual that says so other than on the rear diff page. I'm thinking if I hadn't of ordered the rear diff I could have gone straight out of the dealer and onto the Nurburgring. Seen a video of a Disco 5 on there
Hoping to take some time off work and go around Scotland, the NC500 maybe when I get it so can get that out of the way. Otherwise, 1,000 miles of little around-town trips will take me forever to clock up. Only issue is knowing when to book off work because I fully expect I won't get my car when it's estimated. -
- stingray
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- Equilibrium
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- FastLaneJB
- Member Since: 29 May 2021
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stingray wrote:
WBAC offered £41,200 for my three year old HSE three weeks ago. They have since increased the offer twice, and now up to £44,300. I paid £58k new, so about £4,500 depreciation per year, which can't be bad!
This will make you laugh but that’s not far off the value of my M760Li. £145k list new though got it for just over £100k with discounts plus it’s also 0% APR which helps no end. Obviously knew a V12 powered super limo wasn’t going to hold its value, it’s been about the experience for me.
Still if you want a 24k miles on the clock 3 and a half year old super saloon, let me know. It doesn’t have the ground clearance of a Highlander or overall space, it drinks a bit of petrol as well but it goes like stink and is super comfortable
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- drwhopilot
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- Equilibrium
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- JonM
- Member Since: 30 Jun 2016
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My new one is scheduled for 1st November, so I've been keeping an eye on the WBAC value as well. They emailed a few weeks ago trying the sell now, the price will go down when the new September reg comes out. It didn't and now it's also gone up by £3k.
I wonder if I can make a profit by just parking the old one up for a couple of months after the new one arrives.
MY2022 D5 HSE D300 - with extra nice bits added
MY2019 D5 HSE 3.0 SDV6 - sold to a dealer for a crazy price! -
- Darras
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- BigCol66
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- Equilibrium
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- FastLaneJB
- Member Since: 29 May 2021
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Absolutely agree, if you read the articles around the semiconductor crisis there were capacity issues before the pandemic and it's just made it far worse. It'll take years to resolve this as building a state-of-the-art fab takes around 2 years, there's only a couple of companies that even build and operate them globally because of the cost.
Not even sure that will help car OEM's as they don't use state-of-the-art fabs but older, cheaper processes. They aren't as power or size sensitive as someone that makes chips for mobile phones for instance, also means they get their chips cheaper. The problem is those older processes in old fabs don't tend to get new ones built so it needs people to transition their designs over to newer fabs. Maybe not the car makers but others that are using up the supply. For reference a lot of cars are using chips made on processes that PC's used 15 - 20 years ago I believe.
We'll still be having issues in 2022 and probably well into 2023. Of course, if car makers can strip out enough high-tech features out of their mass-market, lower-end models then they might fix their supply issues before then by just needing fewer chips for a while. Take out the radar and processing for pedestrian collision alert and just fit a soft rubber bumper instead kind of deal?
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- Equilibrium
- Member Since: 26 Feb 2019
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Good stuff in that post FastlaneJB. Knew that the car manufacturers used cheap chips, but not that they related to PCs of that age. Makes perfect sense.
Suspect some of the processing in my car (InControlPro) is actually handled by Spectrum or C64 chips, never mind old gen x86
Drives: 2020 MY20 HSE Luxury SDV6 in Eiger Grey/Glacier
Departed: 2019 MY20 HSE Luxury SDV6 in Carpathian Grey/Glacier, 440i, 320d, Toyotas, Mondeo, Citroen BX amongst others
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