Progress thread : White Astra 2.0 Cdti Sri vx line

[marcus01]

Time on my hands due to Covid19 home lock-in so thought I would update this thread. Hope you guys are all ok.

Despite my gushing about how much I like my newly acquired Focus ,  I decided I needed a change and sold it. (Yip I only had it 18 months .. haha)  

The Focus was a nice car to drive, had all the gadgets but there were a couple of things I didn't like about it.

1. The seats looked great (Part leather) but they were not comfortable on any trip lasting more than an hour. They were quite firm and lacked support lower down in the seat despite having lumbar support.
2. The ride could be a little firm on less than perfect roads. (This was a Titanium X spec so wasn't even a ST Line which is 10mm lower) I did test drive a ST Line and it was a little firm for my liking.
3. The road noise.....having owned a Focus MK1, test driven a couple of MK2's and then owning a MK3 they all suffer with road noise. Surely Ford  could have addressed it along the way.  

I liked:-
1. Averaged 55 mpg over 20K vs 44 mpg I got in my Astra.
2. Controls were light to use
3. The car was good to drive, had a bit of poke with the Bluefin fitted. (Sad to hear of Superchip's demise)

Anyway, I talked myself into a new car by telling myself I needed an automatic due to traffic congestion on my daily commute. (I couldn't really justify buying a new car when I only had 40K on the clock...haha)

Bought myself a 2019 Seat Ateca 1.6 DSG XCellence with 4K on the clock. Had extras like brown leather, heated windscreen and active cockpit.  (Android Auto) Surprised that it doesn't have front parking sensors though. Anyway it is great to drive, mpg is about the same as my Astra. (44-45 mpg)    

I had always detested these compact SUV's having driven most of them as hire cars but 3 weeks in a VW Tiguan changed all that for me.

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Some thing I forgot to mention about the focus. It was fitted with BI-xenon headlights with were adaptive. They constantly gave problems and I had to repair them multiple times. (sheered wires in the directional mechanism) Had to replace bulbs, buy 2 new ballasts. Bloody nightmare. New headlamps are 1000 quid a pop, hence my enthusiasm to keep them going....

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