and today i have mostly been...

[lozz]

ah feck there goes that idea then,

so its not like buying a car from ireland popping in a office filling in a form and its sorted,

tbh ithought they was just thrown in a container sent over and re:plated,
iguess they got clever on people :buying a car andsending it out to someone for christmas : sorry imeant hiring a car

[steve_earwig]

is being not part of the eu any good during the eurozone crisis?

Not really, as part of the Croatian government's "European harmonisation" initiative ("here are all our generals gift wrapped we don't know why everyone is so upset we promise to get them back one day maybe perhaps we're going to burn our ex-prime minister at the stake he was the corrupt one the rest of us are honest please give us some of those european parliament expense fiddling good times please please please we'll do anything") they've buggered up the Croatian economy in order to fit right in.

[DaiRees]

I am allowed to drive a foreign-registered car here for 6 months, after than I have to either import it or take it home.

Nip over here every 6 months to visit friends and family.....

Croation Neighbour: "Every time you go to Britain you come back with a different car Steve....."

[steve_earwig]

That's a rolling 6 months. I could always buy two cars...

[FarmerPug]

That's a rolling 6 months. I could always buy two cars...

you could probably get 2 uk cars cheaper than one there

[steve_earwig]

2? I could buy a small fleet!

[steve_earwig]

Yawn http://www.njuskalo.hr/auti/toyota-rav4 ... as-3989701 Tomorrow afternoon yadda.

Minus: high kms, 2 owners, no history, *possibly* childish interior modifications. Fuel gauge iffy.
Plus: 2 sets of wheels & tyres, winter set new, local, knows my mate Goran will break his legs if he sells me a duff'un.

[lozz]

Yawn http://www.njuskalo.hr/auti/toyota-rav4 ... as-3989701 Tomorrow afternoon yadda.

Minus: high kms, 2 owners, no history, *possibly* childish interior modifications. Fuel gauge iffy.
Plus: 2 sets of wheels & tyres, winter set new, local, knows my mate Goran will break his legs if he sells me a duff'un.

Thats alovely motor,
ilike the colour

[FarmerPug]

ill agree, it suits the rav4, the dash is nice too with the cool looking blue, the instrument cluster is different looking, id expect the speedo and rev counter in the big dials with fuel and temp in a smaller one.

[lozz]

They are lovely looking motor inside,
my mate rekons the stereos let them down, dont know why

he took his out after a week and replaced it with a fancy touch screen thing and fitted a reverse camera,
idont know what make of stereo he used but it looks awesome it even displays a Toyota screen logo,
cost him £150 with the reverse camera,

[FarmerPug]

They are lovely looking motor inside,
my mate rekons the stereos let them down, dont know why

he took his out after a week and replaced it with a fancy touch screen thing and fitted a reverse camera,
idont know what make of stereo he used but it looks awesome it even displays a Toyota screen logo,
cost him £150 with the reverse camera,

double din is great for that, so many hi spec radios available for it, when my uncle ordered the hilux the option for sat nav costed £1000 when an aftermarket radio just as good can be fitted for £200.

[lozz]

They are lovely looking motor inside,
my mate rekons the stereos let them down, dont know why

he took his out after a week and replaced it with a fancy touch screen thing and fitted a reverse camera,
idont know what make of stereo he used but it looks awesome it even displays a Toyota screen logo,
cost him £150 with the reverse camera,

double din is great for that, so many hi spec radios available for it, when my uncle ordered the hilux the option for sat nav costed £1000 when an aftermarket radio just as good can be fitted for £200.

idont know what unit he used,
but its got satnav/ bluetooth etc, the name is simalar to pioneer but its not,
its some sort of clone of a expensive unit, he got it off ebay iwas shocked when he said it was £150 it looks something like you wouid expect to pay £500 -£600 for

[steve_earwig]

The owner's club don't think the inside is original, it might be well done or it might be a complete mess, I won't know until I see it.

the name is simalar to pioneer but its not

Cakeonchin? Reversing camera sounds good & I like the price, I'm already thinking about a Mickey Mouse spare wheel cover in case the wife reverses it into something, they aint cheap apparently

[lozz]

The owner's club don't think the inside is original, it might be well done or it might be a complete mess, I won't know until I see it.

the name is simalar to pioneer but its not

Cakeonchin? Reversing camera sounds good & I like the price, I'm already thinking about a Mickey Mouse spare wheel cover in case the wife reverses it into something, they aint cheap apparently

You couid be right mate,
idont think the inside is original, theres lots of bits floating about for these ravs,
bits of chrome and stuff, perhaps its been modded slightly,
iwouidnt worry, if you dont like bits of it you can easily change it back to how you want it.

[steve_earwig]

It's not original, apparently he does that to all his cars

I've seen it and driven it - stiff clutch with no feeling, two-position throttle (making it very hard to drive smoothly), clunky gearchange, eml light on (although the owner swears black's white this is the fuel sender), noisy snow tyres (but better than all season "ok at everything but good at nothing" tyres) and a dent in the rhs running board. I was quite surprised how it drove, after the first heap I've not bothered and let my mate do all the clutch torturing but he missed the dying clutch on the Vitara. I got him to drive it anyway and said this one was just the same as the others, smoother if anything Perhaps I've been driving diesels for too long

Anyway tomorrow, as it's local, it's going up on the lift in the workshop for the mechanic to inspect, he'll also plug the code reader in to see what's going on with the light. I won't be parting with any money unless the mechanic gives it the nod.