poprock wrote:I’m gonna moan a bit. This is my car. There are many others like it but this one is mine. Etc etc. It is as near to perfect as a 15 year old convertible kept outdoors in the Glasgow weather can possibly be, and every mechanic who looks at it tells me so. It’s usually called ‘very tidy’, or ‘the cleanest one I’ve seen’, or something similar. Which is nice. But every single year, it fails the MOT on handbrake strength. Then I pay for whatever work the garage think it needs to get that handbrake up to MOT pass strength. Then, a year later, it fails on the handbrake all over again. This is down to a shitty handbrake design from Toyota. Just like an MX-5, there is no separate handbrake. What the handbrake actually does is lock on the normal rear brakes. So, to make it work properly, you need to push the footbrake down and then pull the handbrake. Do that, and it’s perfect. But for an MOT the garage have to pull the handbrake unassisted, and that does next to fuck all. No question here from me, I’m just sharing my woes. And cursing Toyota’s handbrake design.
Dinostar77 wrote:I thought skoda was supposed to be Volkswagens bargain basement brand. Have you seen the prices for them?
Unlikely wrote:But then you'd have spent £9,995 on an Astra.
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