SaintGrimm
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Hi All!
Whenever I get a new car, I generally tend to find the most active forum related to it so I can scope out what's what with my new buy but with the Puma things have been totally backwards and this is where I've come last!
Basically; I'm 24 this year and the Puma was car #10! Been driving 5 years and had a variety of stuff. Recently my Mk3 Golf TDI went kaput so I nipped down the local garage and started drawing up plates of stuff I wanted. I'll admit a Puma wasn't on the list.
In fact, a Fiesta was higher on the list of 'stuff I had considered' but it's because I forgot the Puma existed. When I ran my insurance numbers it was a pull between the Puma, a Vauxhall Astra 1.6, a Vauxhall Vectra 2.0 and a VW Golf Estate.
When I finally paid for the puma, the guy that owns the garage said "when you came here, you said you wanted a car with a big boot so you can carry all your equipment that was cheap to run and you've just bought a 2-door sports coupe?"
And that's that. Now I have a Puma. It goes against everything but boy am I glad I did.
It's got its niggles (speedo is guestimation incarnate, the temperature gauge has no clue what it's doing, my clutch housing is leaking and my insurance went mental at me, there is ZERO service history and someone has slapped some ripspeed stuff on the sills and it has a chrome rear wiper) but I stand by my purchase! The thing is the ultimate fun-toy when I want it to be and completely civil when I need it to be.
It goes back into the garage I got it from on Tuesday so they can remove the gearbox and sort one of the cylinders (I can't remember if it's the master or not but it's certainly leaking) and they "promise" to sort everything (I put that in quotation marks but so far they have been very helpful)
Anyway, once these niggles are sorted, I hope to spend a great deal of time here! The car is everything I never expected it to be.
When my friend told me to buy a Ford I did laugh very loudly but now I bought this - I wonder why it took me 10 cars to do so....
Whenever I get a new car, I generally tend to find the most active forum related to it so I can scope out what's what with my new buy but with the Puma things have been totally backwards and this is where I've come last!
Basically; I'm 24 this year and the Puma was car #10! Been driving 5 years and had a variety of stuff. Recently my Mk3 Golf TDI went kaput so I nipped down the local garage and started drawing up plates of stuff I wanted. I'll admit a Puma wasn't on the list.
In fact, a Fiesta was higher on the list of 'stuff I had considered' but it's because I forgot the Puma existed. When I ran my insurance numbers it was a pull between the Puma, a Vauxhall Astra 1.6, a Vauxhall Vectra 2.0 and a VW Golf Estate.
When I finally paid for the puma, the guy that owns the garage said "when you came here, you said you wanted a car with a big boot so you can carry all your equipment that was cheap to run and you've just bought a 2-door sports coupe?"
And that's that. Now I have a Puma. It goes against everything but boy am I glad I did.
It's got its niggles (speedo is guestimation incarnate, the temperature gauge has no clue what it's doing, my clutch housing is leaking and my insurance went mental at me, there is ZERO service history and someone has slapped some ripspeed stuff on the sills and it has a chrome rear wiper) but I stand by my purchase! The thing is the ultimate fun-toy when I want it to be and completely civil when I need it to be.
It goes back into the garage I got it from on Tuesday so they can remove the gearbox and sort one of the cylinders (I can't remember if it's the master or not but it's certainly leaking) and they "promise" to sort everything (I put that in quotation marks but so far they have been very helpful)
Anyway, once these niggles are sorted, I hope to spend a great deal of time here! The car is everything I never expected it to be.
When my friend told me to buy a Ford I did laugh very loudly but now I bought this - I wonder why it took me 10 cars to do so....
