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I briefly considered taking it to the usual hand washing / scratching professionals, but thought better of it. Car is shocking, covered in dust and wheels were washed about 3k miles ago! Time to do a rain dance 🤣

New price list below, so 717 bill coming up, with mot on top.

I must admit, I haven't always been a Porsche fan, I admire them, but don't have a want for one - I'm not sure why - because they are fantastic cars - I do prefer a v8 noise to the flat 6. As you say that is good mpg - especially with the performance on offer! Obviously a SUV height etc does dent the mpg a bit. Always found with my europe drives if the temperature is over 30c, as the air is thinner the mpg improves. Jaguar just updated service prices - will post up how much they have risen - not sure what I will do next year!

I did see another video that a UK guy used the thing window cleaners have, and wash the inside of the window with normal car wash stuff, obviously laying towels down first, in order to gather any water.

Theres a video by Pan the organiser - that deals with inside the windscreen doing a deep clean - quite interesting watch - not sure if I will do it on mine - its to do with oils from the dash (if my memory is correct). No expert at this thing - and I might be getting the wrong end of the stick. I don't really like his videos now as hes always saying about his products here the vid:

So a brief update - will upload some photos etc in due course. I have done 5k miles since I picked the car up at end of January. Thanks to the war - approximate fuel costs are around the £1500 mark currently. In terms of mpg - well its around 14mpg currently taking my daughter to school, and me going to work. This is in stop start traffic, obviously a V8 is not the best vehicle for this. I have just come back from Germany - time to share some stats. So far, my average mpg is 23.374 according to my fuelio app of having the car since january. My worst tank has been around 14mpg - this was a month of just taking my daughter to school and work, no motorway runs at weekends etc. So what did I think of it on the autobahn - well it certainly picks up speed quicker than the R which was expected. MPG of course worst than the R. With a nice autobahn run - 25.8 mpg, averaged 68 mph - but this included a good 40 miles of local german roads to our hotel at both ends. Did approx 120 miles on the autobahn. For our trip to Germany - according to the car the average mpg was 30.5 mpg. we did 1392 miles, average speed 48 mph. Happy with that tbh.

Stunning colour, lovely example. How do you find the slightly more rear biased 4 wheel drive? It took a little bit of getting use to for me, not got a BMW though, do you notice much difference to the r?

Still got the Jag and r then? You going to mod the mini too?

I got a offer of 14k from wbac, but that was them not seeing it, and had to be pristine. In the end I traded mine in, got 13k. Went up for sale for 17490 (now sold). That's a 17 plate, standard spec no extras estate with 72k miles. MOT and serviced before I traded it in 2 months later. Enjoy the new car, great cars Octavia's, I test drove one and a superb, but decided on neither, and got the r back in 2017.

So not a R, but it was a quick wash today, after France trip, a few bugs were killed. Some weird filter on full shot 🤣 Just after putting on some citrus pre wash mixed with water, find this is best for bugs. Just snow foamed, then used my wash mitt with some gtechniq wash Car wasn't overly dirty, just bugs, pollen, and some dirty from the dirty rain we had. (Half washed, half snow foam). Car was covered in these dirt spots. Done, time for a cup of tea. Paint is similar to oryx white (pearl effect) but difficult to photograph.

Looks great, HG number plate too, same as my r (now sold). My car is same white as oryx, really liking the pearl effect after having solid white. Looks great for a 10 year old car

After this, I can see me probably in a b58 m340i, or something like that, maybe a X3 with the b58. More economical than the Jag, but still a very nice turn of pace

I'm in the accountancy field too, yes in 2027 I can see more firms going under, the employers nic has hit hard. Add the fuel prices (118 for me to fill up this morning), plus food costs which will rise further, it's expensive all round. It's a heavy car, but not as heavy as others, I saw a video of Chris Harris with a M3 estate, and was getting 28 mpg on motorway, so I cannot grumble at all, especially with limit being 80 mph in France. Looking forward to Germany in June, would be good if they could lower fuel tax again, last time 102 Ron was around 1.40 a litre

Mpg for my trip to France, tolls are fun 🤣

It does, most of it is fluid changes - I believe the 4wd set up is to change every two years the oil. I can get a better breakdown. Just back from france - will post up my MPG from the trip - some scary fuel prices in France, I paid £1.78 and £1.84 for super 98 (per litre converted to GBP). Most expensive diesel we saw was Euros 2.73! Highest petrol price we saw was Euros 2.38. Both of these was on the motorway at service stations. Quite cheeky - a lot say the price is 1.99 euros on the boards before you come off for the services - then when you get to the service station its a different price.