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One month on - Have I made a mistake ?
Now getting on for one month and nearly 2000 miles on my new car and I'm not sure if I've done the right thing.
Two things niggling me....
1- The colour, Stornoway. I keep looking at it and can't help thinking should have got another Zermatt.
2- The autobox. Whilst it is a joy too drive I find all to often it's in the wrong gear when trying to make 'progress' on twisty backroads. I find myself selecting sport and using the command shift...defeats the purpose of having an autobox. I've driven a couple of manual D3's in the past couple of weeks and really enjoyed them, more than mine.
Hopefully my trip to Keilder this weekend will see me bond more with the car.
Still miss my old manual Zermatt 'S' The best car i've ever had
28th Apr 2009 9:06 pm
SJR
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Have you had it remapped as that seems to sort a lot of the hunting for gear issues on an Auto when trying to make progress ?I believe that every human has a finite number of heart-beats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.
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28th Apr 2009 9:10 pm
simon
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Re: One month on - Have I made a mistake ?
jkp wrote:
1- The colour, Stornoway. I keep looking at it and can't help thinking should have got another Zermatt.
Still miss my old manual Zermatt 'S' The best car i've ever had
Don't be silly... its a great colour choice
Agree about the 'box though. Auto handy around town but boring on the twisty bits. It's nice to actually 'drive' the D3 and take control with hands and feet
Can't comment on the colour (though Stornoway was my preferred choice until the family outvoted me...) - but I think the auto is much better than the manual box.
And anyway - you have a D3. How can you be regretting that... The next American ex-pat that calls it a "truck" is going to find out what 2.7 tons feels like on their foot...
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28th Apr 2009 9:12 pm
landyhead
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The colour, Stornoway. I keep looking at it and can't help thinking should have got another Zermatt
Buy some rose tinted glasses
My first auto for 15 years and its growing on me day by day,give it time sure youll love it in the endwelsh petrol head
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28th Apr 2009 9:13 pm
Zermatt Vulgaris
Member Since: 12 Jan 2009
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I have the Silver (obviously) and wish i'd got it in stornoway quite a lot ..............
no what you mean about the auto box needs to be in command shift a lot on a scottish b roadVisiting from rrsport.co.uk
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28th Apr 2009 9:19 pm
jkp
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I'm sure it'll grow on me....maybe.
Mrs JKP had a go at me when driving home tonight I commented on how dark the tints were...maybe too dark...as it's harder to see whats behind me in the rear view. She mentioned that all I've done is complain about the car for the last couple of days
Fitting the MTR's and Mantec tomorrow in prep for the weekend. Maybe with it's more aggresive footprint it'll look a bit better.
28th Apr 2009 9:23 pm
Zermatt Vulgaris
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Have you put clear side indicators on it....i've tended to find grey metallics are quite orange intollerant...if it an 09 MY i am an idiot and should have checked before i posted..Visiting from rrsport.co.uk
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'grey metallics are quite orange intollerant'. - thats going in my little book of comments to make at meetings.
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28th Apr 2009 9:37 pm
GLYNNE
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Don't see anything wrong with the colour Agree about the auto, that's why I stuck with the manual.
28th Apr 2009 9:42 pm
jkp
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wha.....? orange incontenent
Is that like eating a chocolate orange only to find somene has swapped it for choco-lax
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28th Apr 2009 9:43 pm
Zermatt Vulgaris
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going to have to be a fairly specific meeting....Visiting from rrsport.co.uk
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Yep
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28th Apr 2009 9:54 pm
Zermatt Vulgaris
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it , they look quite good.......
next time i'll just write stornoway grey's look better with clear indicators...Visiting from rrsport.co.uk
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28th Apr 2009 9:57 pm
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A Diluted Bonnatti Stornoway & a woman that steers with her boobs Automatic . Nice
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The best car i've ever had 
it , they look quite good.......
