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Old 23rd October 2015, 11:28 PM
HPsauce HPsauce is offline
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Originally Posted by Delboy View Post
Shame because car park spaces on the UK are just far too tight in my opinion
Indeed they are. Had an amusing/annoying situation yesterday due to that:

Had a test drive booked (read other thread, a hybrid) at a dealer that was adjacent to an Audi dealer on a "tight" industrial estate. Was warned that the Audi dealer regularly "stole" this companies parking slots - I told them I would arrive IN AN AUDI and park in their spaces.

Arrived, found several empty slots (after wriggling past a ****-load of Audis) and parked in the dealers bays next to one of their cars. The spaces were too narrow, especially for a D2 so I left a considerate space for the adjacent vehicle with a reduced empty slot on my drivers side.

When I returned about an hour later someone had parked one of their cars within about 3" of my drivers door. I presumed, and told the dealer so fairly stridently, that it looked like someone had rudely assumed I was a cheeky Audi driver and decided to block me in, but that even if true that was not good customer relations or a good advert for their company.

Lots of grovelling and very quickly the offending vehicle was moved so I could get in and leave.
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1998 D2 PF S8. AgateGrey/Platinum. Every option (I think) except electric rear seats, tiptronic steering wheel, ski hatch, towbar & dimming door mirrors.
e.g. Cruise control, NavPlus/TV, Bose, GSM, Xenons, Solar roof, Parking sensors, Alcantara/leather everywhere of course. (internal dimming mirror added later)
1998 (very early) Ford Focus 1.8 Zetec; ABS/TCS, Heated screen/mirrors, Aircon, Auto-dim mirror, Leather, Trip computer, Cruise control, OEM Ford SatNav with CD changer.
And before that a lot of Rover 800s, a few oddities, a lovely Triumph Dolomite 1850HL with Overdrive and way back in my schooldays an Austin Seven aka Mini 850!
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