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Whats the furthest people have been in the valver/williams?
Im going to newquay with some mates, were going from colchester so its 350 mile trip/6 hours. Plannin to take many stops to let the cars recover for 10 minutes.
Were going down in a Valver, Fiesta RS and XR2i, any bets on what will break down first?!! :lol:
Whats the longest people have driven for before they started encountering problems?
driven 500 miles in mine with no stop with no problems mate, so long as your valver isnt a boag of nails you should be able to tell them you will meet them there :wink:
Swervin_Mervin
26-06-2006, 15:22
Longest single journey is Sharston > Warrington > Sparkford (Haynes motor museum)
Killer of a journey. The car can take it but my back was properly fooked.
500 miles!!! I done 250 with no stops and at the very end my battery light started flickering on and off, not sure if that had anything to do with have very high wattage bulbs in and turned on?!
U dont get a bad back with leather seats :wink:
Scott-16v!
26-06-2006, 15:52
I was going to be doing the same thing in july, from derby to newquay in the valver, decided it was far too small for 4 of us and luggage though so we're takin my parents sedona instead :lol:
I've every confidence it would've made it though, best to join the rac/aa just in case though mate ;)
Longest single journey is Sharston > Warrington > Sparkford (Haynes motor museum)
Killer of a journey. The car can take it but my back was properly fooked.
was 550 odd miles that for me by the time i got home. Killer !
Done Huddersfield - Romford - Huddersfield (alarm) in a day when i first got NLRG !
bass_direct
26-06-2006, 15:55
Longest single journey is Sharston > Warrington > Sparkford (Haynes motor museum)
Killer of a journey. The car can take it but my back was properly fooked.
was 550 odd miles that for me by the time i got home. Killer !
Done Huddersfield - Romford - Huddersfield (alarm) in a day when i first got NLRG !
Did you buy N LRG from Romford mate?
no - it came from Durham
had my alarm fitted at Romford.
Swervin_Mervin
26-06-2006, 16:25
U dont get a bad back with leather seats :wink:
How does leather help?
It's the seat back that's worn tbh. THe passenger side is supposed to be quite comfy. :(
We just take the Xsara on long journeys now. It's about 3,000,000 times better for doing it in and it's a better m-way muncher. Thirsty though, and quite easy to do highly illegal speeds in. 8-[
dan-hipgrave
26-06-2006, 16:30
Longest journey i did in the valver was to FCS - just over 100 miles, i had siezed the starter motor with the heat from the engine bay by the time i got there..
The previous longest journey was when i went to Brighton, about 90 miles, overheated and blew a coolant hose on the way down from sitting in traffic for half an hour!
Not had much luck with long journeys in this car :roll:
bass_direct
26-06-2006, 16:40
I've had loads of long journeys..
FCS - 130 miles each way
Manchester - 500mile+ round trip in one night!
I did portsmouth to southend, southend to docklands, docklands to exeter then exeter back to pompy again in 1 day was stops for like 20 mins but moving most of the time :S
Car loved it :) but didnt rag it much justa nice easy drive
Thats about 470 miles
middlesbrough to bedford then bournemouth, then same journey back approx 700 miles, no breakdowns or anything, but about 2 weeks later the valver caught fire and ended up as a shell
Smokey McPot
26-06-2006, 18:34
Did 600 and a bit miles driving from manchester to norwich, to plymouth, to nowich and home to bedford a few months ago.
Well i live in Newquay and i went to FCS this year and the car was fine.
Going to Bristol on friday night too :P
Jimmie1.4RT
26-06-2006, 19:05
450 miles round Wales and back to Burnley in a weekend, nothing. But mines a 1.4. :roll:
i did 700 round trip to edinburgh n back via sheffield n that was in the old 1.4 n all! safe as houses on long journeys if u are sensible! at the end of the day its just a normal mid ninetees car, wudnt think twice bout doing it in me 1.8 cav now would i! :wink:
fooking hell do regularly 100+ mile trips longest is 240 back from newcastle non stop with a totally fooked wheel bearing, lower ball joint, and driveshaft
God i'd be disgusted if the car couldn't do decent long trips - they're not supposed to be fragile little things - at then end of the day they're hot hacthbacks!
Hell if most of them can take a day's abuse round a track i'm sure they can take a 350 mile journey
Just top everythign up and take spare coolant and oil and keep an eye on the temps, as long as you aren't sat at 120 all the way i can't see any problems
Justin..
26-06-2006, 19:32
furthest ive been is to where lunner lives (cant remember where :oops:) from southampton and back was about 250 miles in the 16v. had 138 on the speedo on the way home boot filled with leather seats :lol: :lol: , dont all that in about 4 hours driving lol
Longest I ever did was to Germany a bit over 700 miles I think it was which wasn't easy with the coilovers and hard bucket seats. The back roads bottomed out the supension none stop had to slow down all the time.
Didn't break down once in what was probably 1600mils or so including ring driving I was prepaired though had a spares kit Renault UK would have been proud off.
vts_saxo
26-06-2006, 23:23
45 miles, was a killer :lol:
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