TAJ Posted July 5, 2008 Author Share Posted July 5, 2008 Thanks for all your response OH away at the mo, so hopefully test driving on Monday. We have a 13 yrs old silver car and the only other brand new car we have ever had was silver - so I was just hoping for something different. That said though the silver one is £300 cheaper than the lower spec new one it is 15% off the list price, so a very good discount ... it looks as though I am being talked into silver! Tracy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Helen&Lee Posted July 5, 2008 Share Posted July 5, 2008 Re the aircon, I recently had the car in for repairs to our aircon (which we rarely used, thinking it was wasteful of fuel). The engineer said that modern cars use technology that means this is no longer true. You're better off using the aircon than having the windows open. I'd love to think this was true ... but it's not what I keep reading on environmental websites! Anyone know whether there's anything to substantiate this? Not doubting your word, ANH - but I have not come across this claim elsewhere, and I'd be interested to know if anyone else has read or heard this. I deliberately bought a car WITHOUT air-con last year , because of the fuel consumption issue. I do miss it, especially in recent hot weather, but on the other hand I only have to refill every 500 miles. Our car has air-con and also a digital display to tell us how many miles we are doing to the gallon, put the windows down and the mpg drops - windows up air-con on and it goes back up. Helen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ain't Nobody Here Posted July 5, 2008 Share Posted July 5, 2008 Not doubting your word, ANH - but I have not come across this claim elsewhere, and I'd be interested to know if anyone else has read or heard this. Don't worry, it's not my word, just that of an engineer! A very quick look on the web seems to say that if you have your windows open, that creates drag equal to the extra "load" the aircon would cause. Or something like that . So who knows? However I do now know that you should run your airconditioning fairly frequently or the seals dry out and things start to go wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TAJ Posted July 7, 2008 Author Share Posted July 7, 2008 Well I have done it - test drived today and paid deposit - will collect silver car early August! Tracy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cate in NZ Posted July 7, 2008 Share Posted July 7, 2008 Excellent news Tracy, I hope you love it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
