And while we're on cars...

**DimPrawn** · 16 September 2005, 10:05

Changing the cam belt is a fun thing to do at the weekend.

**The Late, Great JC** · 16 September 2005, 10:07

Fire can be both cleansing and profitable...

**threaded** · 16 September 2005, 10:14

insight14: Even trying to start on a broken cam belt'll mean the engine'll be fooked. It'll be easier and cheaper to swop the whole engine out for a reconditioned one, and even easier and cheaper will be to swop the whole car for something not recalled quite as often as the Laguna (affectionately known in the trade as the "Yo yo" for it's regular habit of reappearing at the shop).

**DimPrawn** · 16 September 2005, 10:16

I thought some cars had cutouts in the tops of the pistons so that they cannot hit the valves even if the cam belt breaks?

**threaded** · 16 September 2005, 10:18

DimPrawn: I think you are thinking of something where slightly more thought than garlic went into the design.

**The Late, Great JC** · 16 September 2005, 10:31

Has anybody on here got an RX-8?

Comments?

I'm thinking of getting one. Don't really need 4 doors but it would make throwing the golf clubs in the back easier.

**G8_Summit** · 16 September 2005, 10:35

I've heard that they are cr@p.

I've got a nice Peugeot 306 you can have.

Only £2500 and it comes with one month's free MOT !!!

**DimPrawn** · 16 September 2005, 10:36

RX-8

Pros : Good value, nice shape, rotary engine
Cons: MPG pathetic (like struggles to do 20), rotary engine (sounds like a food blender), no torque.

**The Late, Great JC** · 16 September 2005, 10:44

Originally posted by DimPrawn

RX-8

Pros : Good value, nice shape, rotary engine
Cons: MPG pathetic (like struggles to do 20), rotary engine (sounds like a food blender), no torque.

Now, I've had a test-drive and it does not sound like a blender. As for MPG... FFS I'm a contractor!!! Who gives a feck about MPG... Tut. As for torque, I'm not planning on towing a bloody caravan!

And while we're on cars...