What car do you drive

Edited by Walle_W - 26 September 2015 at 3:34am

Transporter T4 1998
Not suited for my pallets of sound system.

It's here by the way:


I prefer bikes too, just built a crazy soundbike!


Edited by tv00 - 30 September 2015 at 7:37pm

dlyxover wrote: Will be at Wales Rally GB on 15th & 16th Nov, come say hello if your there

What a lot of pictures of useless cars !-)
The usefulness of a car is measured by how many speakers it can load!

After all cars are for speakers, not personal transportation :-)
I mean that gas tank car in top can only take liquid speakers.
That Ford would have to carry them on the roof.

Walle_W wrote: biotec wrote: another nice truck, still surprised see you choose 6x2 for gravel road work but if it works the margins are better I guess. I always wondered why truck manufacturers don't put interlocks on the diff-lock so that they can't be activated above a certain speed. If the ECU can turn off the retarder below 700rpm, then for sure it can stop you using the diff-lock too. Do you see many FMX where you are? I see a few for muck haulage work here but they're not very popular. These truck are too light at the rear, they are useless as 6x4 during winter time when driving unloaded. No traction what so ever.. And since we drive a lot unloaded it is a problem.. A timber truck at least have a crane weighing a few tons at the rear and i even see more and more timber trucks that are 6x2. Even if most of them are 6x4. The MAN hydrodrive has become very popular as timber truck. I believe Volvo has something like that in the making. That could be something for me! Before the red Volvo my old boss had a FH12-420 6x4, i hated it :) During winter time it is necessary to use the difflock at full speed. Would never get up the hills even on the highway.. But of course you have to lock the diff before you need it, with no power added..  The I-shift (Volvos automatic gearbox) is nothing more than a manual gearbox that the computer controls. And they are without synchronization, the computer senses when it got the right speed an gets the gears in perfect every time.  I wonder why they don´t do the same with the difflock.. Maybe they do in the newer trucks? I see a few FMX. Same here, not very popular.  To me (without really knowing) the FMX looks just like a FM with different styling.. It is nothing for me so i have not checked it out properly..

Oh God, ark at all this. No wonder, "modern" truck drivers are hopeless, how easy can they make it? Seddon, ERF, Scammell, crash box, or twin spitter, THEN the driver was in tune with his machine.
I recon whatever auto box is in the local Tesco lorries is bloody useless, it's hilly here and they often just give up and stop as the box can't sort it out. Even luvvely Lisa from ICE Road Truckers can shift no clutch on her 18 speed and she's a girl :)
Empty 6x4 or 8x4 have always been an arse on the slippy, try clay quarry, worse than ice, nothing new. Good fun sideways with the diffs locked up though.

 Still got the M5 but using it every day with average fuel consumption at 15-16mpg it was crippling me, not to mention £350 every 8k for a new pair of Michelins on the back as well as the BMW 'M' tax on parts so I've resigned it to being my second 'bit of fun' car and went and bought a mk3 Titanium X Mondeo 2.2 tdci and what an awesome car, drives nice, handles very well and goes very well indeed (quicker than I expected!) for a 155bhp derv, the amount of low down torque it has is daft, wheelspin in third gear is quite common!