Sam Hosier

@MycroftBrown It was a nice car but probably wouldn’t go back again, 3.0 C5 however 😉🤔

@AutoInfatuation Another 508?

I am now free of old BMW’s for the first time in a year! X5 went this evening, sold as spares & repairs in the end as I just couldn’t be doing with sorting it. Lovely lad popped up from Essex and took it away. I now only have the XF which as it turns out isn’t the best family car in the world with two young children with very big car seats 😅 Absolutely love it for me though 😍 Better get looking for a new family car, I promise this one won’t be very exciting this time though.

@RealJKay Yes it’s very surprising the lack of space in the back especially. Lovely for those up top though, really like it so far. Even the twin turbo 3.0D has some shove.

@AutoInfatuation The XF is surprisingly big outside, but just as surprisingly small inside. It’s the length of a 7 series with 3 series rear room. Loved my 5.0 though.

@Samatyorkshire @uwu_underground I thought the inside of the X351 was beautifully put together, just such a shame I didn’t have a good experience with it otherwise.

Yes it's not as retro cool as my other but all the things needed for luxury Learher Wood Deep pile carpets @uwu_underground on the stereo

Canary Wharf spot @AutoInfatuation

@ScottCross79 😂 That would probably be the way to do it

@AutoInfatuation Mate you're pretty shit at engagement farming, post a pic of the Jag with "love my new AUDI"

For reference there really isn’t any point “Engagement Farming” unless you have a tonne of blue tick followers and even so we don’t do that in the car community. You’ll often see the finance, investing or even Political accounts tweeting something very basic and every blue tick follower they have jumps on it with something equally as basic as it goes hand in hand for engagement and potential payouts. Also, Tyres and Brakes are quite an important thing for me as they are the only things connecting me to the road and stopping my car, respectively 🤷‍♂️🤔

@FatBloaterFX @Nath_______ Haha yes it does, but he only currently has a Bentley 😉

@G33PERS I just want some reliable decent ones really. I’ll only be doing about 4500 miles a year in this car so nothing major.

@AutoInfatuation Green stuff pads for ease of cleaning. Though I did just put brembo pads on the back of the range rover after a binding caliper as they were in stock locally. Discs from any of the well known brake manufacturers are much of a muchness imo. Unless you're going upgraded maybe?

100% need front brake pads for the XF-S, possibly need front discs too but yet to confirm that as they feel ok so far. What brand does everyone recommend now? Always went with Brembo on my Mercedes in the past……

I hear this a lot unfortunately. The client who owns the 911T S was trying to get into a new GT3. They made him buy two Taycan Turbo S’s and said he will more than likely need to buy another car within a year before they’d let him have it. Bought the Turbo S Taycans, barely used them then there was the insurance debate about high voltage battery recalls so he took them to Norwich, traded them both in for a very new GTS Cabriolet and forgot about the GT3 🤷‍♂️

@TheEvEngineer @jjbconsultltd Plonk 100’s of homes down then they never improve the infrastructure do they? In my village we are having a handful of new homes built right at the top but other than that the last homes to be built were about 15 years ago. Just all of a sudden having lots of leakage issues.

@AutoInfatuation @jjbconsultltd Been happening my way for ages since they've added hundreds of homes ....

Woke up to what I thought was the sound of heavy rain. Sadly not Burst water main #EalingBroadway

@gibberingphil @jjbconsultltd That would make an awful lot of sense, so do they put the hosepipe bans in to stop the stress momentarily on the pipework?

@AutoInfatuation @jjbconsultltd The ground is very dry after this run of weather and as the subsoil dries out and shrinks it stresses the (often very old) pipework.

@FatBloaterFX @Nath_______ I’ll be dealing with Porsche Centre Norwich in October on a 911 Turbo S, Porsche Cambridge already lost my customers business through lack of customer service so it’ll be interesting to see what Norwich are like.

@DanRa_82 I like the idea of not having to clean the alloys as much 😅

@AutoInfatuation ATE discs and pads. I use the ceramic pads, next to no dust.

@SlyRenard Good to know, easily available it seems too

@AutoInfatuation I used Pagid disks on my XF. Worked well and half the cost of Jaguar ones.

@GitGrumpygit You may be correct on this, seems to be a few options for the same brands 😑

@AutoInfatuation If memory serves me right there is 3 different pads that can be on that .. I couldn’t get match via ViN and had to take pad over to euro car parts to match it .. I may be wrong though

@MarkBuckland73 Did you go direct to MTEC Mark?

@AutoInfatuation When I did mine I went for MTEC drilled and grooved discs and pads. They were excellent. And very reasonable.

@HaasjesLeon Lots of people liking Mintex it seems

@AutoInfatuation Pad wise; Mintex Disks; ATE

@MattTakeThree Brembo I do hear a lot of bad things about now, they were always decent back in the day though. APEC I’ve not had any experience with so will have a look into those.

@AutoInfatuation APEC Cheap enough, and even under my torture they survived well. Brembo cheaped out when they went to euros etc. Pagid aren't worth a wank Good old ferodo seem to also survive my abuse.