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Newbie Area => Newbie Welcome Area => Topic started by: PeddyP on 19 June 2012, 20:13:00

Title: Hi from the West Midlands!! (by accident...)
Post by: PeddyP on 19 June 2012, 20:13:00

Good evening! I'm Pedro and thought I might aswel join up and get introducing as I have bought myself a lovely MV6  :)

It was actually an accidental eBay win but I decided to honour it instead of falling silent like 99.9999% of eBay t$%#ers. I didn't even know I'd won it untill I got a message off the guy asking when I was going to collect! His name Was Darren from Reading, anyone reckognise the car?

(http://i842.photobucket.com/albums/zz347/Peddy_P/bbdd0319.jpg)

I must admit it is sweet as a nut, sounds gorgeous, better on fuel than my old 2.0 Volvo V40 (work horse) and turns heads absolutely everywhere!

When I first got it I wasn't interested in it atall. Really not a car I could've seen myself in, almost decided to break it! I like low centre gravity, 4WD, Turbo, Noisy exhausts and no interior  :P

Long story short, I like it, the Mrs Loves it, baby on the way, it's staying lol


I'm very impressed with the handling and power for such a beasty. Tail end gets a bit happy from time to time when the buckets of torque kick in but I'm getting used to it now.

There IS a couple of things I'd like to do at some point...

: AirCon Removal. Excess weight and an item I doubt I'll miss

: Disable/strip out the manifold warmer doodaa that goes "WIIIIEEIIIEEIII" for about a minute

: LSD if they're not $100,000,000...

: Rear arches have some surface bubbling

: Very long distance/dream... maybe supercharge...


Well, thats the car, this is me, and that's my introduction over! Now for me to go and poke my nose around your Forum  8)

Pedro  :y

Title: Re: Hi from the West Midlands!! (by accident...)
Post by: Kendo1690 on 19 June 2012, 20:34:17

Hello and welcome to OOF, :y

Title: Re: Hi from the West Midlands!! (by accident...)
Post by: allen25 on 19 June 2012, 20:37:24

Sounds like a good project!

Title: Re: Hi from the West Midlands!! (by accident...)
Post by: smithpa7 on 19 June 2012, 20:41:21

Hello Pedro, welcome to the forum :y

Title: Re: Hi from the West Midlands!! (by accident...)
Post by: PAULCDX on 19 June 2012, 20:47:10

Hello fellow midlander,  ;)

Welcome to the forum  :y

Title: Re: Hi from the West Midlands!! (by accident...)
Post by: Bucko on 19 June 2012, 20:50:26

Welcome to oof :y

Title: Re: Hi from the West Midlands!! (by accident...)
Post by: Omega_Dan on 19 June 2012, 20:57:08

Hello and welcome :)

Title: Re: Hi from the West Midlands!! (by accident...)
Post by: waspy on 19 June 2012, 21:21:30

How do & welcome :y :y

Title: Re: Hi from the West Midlands!! (by accident...)
Post by: omega3000 on 19 June 2012, 21:52:24

Welcome to oof , yes seen that car before some where  :y

Title: Re: Hi from the West Midlands!! (by accident...)
Post by: x25dt on 19 June 2012, 22:08:33

Hello Pedro, welcome to the forum :y

Title: Re: Hi from the West Midlands!! (by accident...)
Post by: Cliffo B on 19 June 2012, 22:33:34

Hello,welcome to the Forum :y

Title: Re: Hi from the West Midlands!! (by accident...)
Post by: b4ndit on 19 June 2012, 22:46:21

Welcome to the forum :y :y

Title: Re: Hi from the West Midlands!! (by accident...)
Post by: The Red Baron on 19 June 2012, 23:05:57

welcome to the forum pedro.  :y

Title: Re: Hi from the West Midlands!! (by accident...)
Post by: dbug on 19 June 2012, 23:16:03

Welcome to OOF mate  :y

Title: Re: Hi from the West Midlands!! (by accident...)
Post by: Seth on 20 June 2012, 00:40:36

Welcome bud! :y

Title: Re: Hi from the West Midlands!! (by accident...)
Post by: sandune on 20 June 2012, 12:57:45

Hiya welcome to the OOF :y

Title: Re: Hi from the West Midlands!! (by accident...)
Post by: flyer 0712 on 20 June 2012, 15:00:01

Hi and welcome to the forum  :y

Title: Re: Hi from the West Midlands!! (by accident...)
Post by: Jusme on 21 June 2012, 09:38:13

Hi Pedro, Welcome to the OOF..  :y

Title: Re: Hi from the West Midlands!! (by accident...)
Post by: PhilRich on 22 June 2012, 09:21:48

Hello & welcome! :y

Title: Re: Hi from the West Midlands!! (by accident...)
Post by: PeddyP on 23 June 2012, 00:27:39

Woah! Thanks for the warm welcome!
Didn't realise how fetching the car was, getting looks absolutely everywhere! Get followed by the police at any given chance too though lol.
It appears this would be quite a rare model (had a Vauxhall boffin drooling over it at work) and he was shocked when he came to realise the engine was running the whole time he was talking to me and couldn't hear it  ;D
I take it it's normal to tick over at 500rpm?! Also been keeping it on InstCon mode and I'm averaging 25mpg and 30+ on motorways.