F30 330D XDrive

Simon_16v

ClioSport Club Member

  GLC43

• Jun 2, 2020

• #81

@Gray We are meant to be saving money to start a family, so even harder to justify to the other half. Worst case is I use my motorbike for commuting to work and this can be used for long haul journeys for holidays etc

 

Simon_16v

ClioSport Club Member

  GLC43

• Aug 13, 2020

• #82

My car will be due for some discs and pads shortly. Autodoc had an offer of 40% off discs last week so took the opportunity to get the front ordered, now I know 370mm is big but when you see the size of the box they come in you can't help but laugh....scale against an iPad


F30 Discs by Simon Blades, on Flickr

 

Kev@KAM

ClioSport Trader

  Badass Toyota

• Aug 13, 2020

• #83

How much did the discs cost? I need to do mine. These the Brembo ones?

 

Simon_16v

ClioSport Club Member

  GLC43

• Aug 13, 2020

• #84

I got them for £265 delivered. Yeah Brembo 2 piece - thought I'd go with the dimpled/grooved to replicate the M performance discs.

 

Simon_16v

ClioSport Club Member

  GLC43

• Oct 14, 2024

• #85

6 years and 50k miles of ownership and the car has been traded in for a Mercedes GLC 43 AMG. Other than a bowden cable snapping in the door and needing a couple of brake reaction arms for an MOT it hasn't wanted for anything.

Probably the most reliable car I've had.

 

imprezaworks

ClioSport Club Member

  Mk5 Golf GTI :)

• Oct 14, 2024

• #86

Did they give you a fair price part ex?

 

Simon_16v

ClioSport Club Member

  GLC43

• Oct 14, 2024

• #87

Just under part-ex price due to age and mileage, but the garage owner where it has been looked after is interested in buying it

 

Simon_16v

ClioSport Club Member

  GLC43

• Oct 14, 2024

• #88

Roll on some petrol noises.

 

Stay Puft

ClioSport Club Member

  Clio 172

• Oct 14, 2024

• #89

Great looking motors.

 

_Tom

ClioSport Club Member

• Oct 14, 2024

• #90

I liked our diesel GLC, i like my C63. A b*****d child of the two would be sublime.

C43 motor is a peach too.

 

Simon_16v

ClioSport Club Member

  GLC43

• Oct 16, 2024

• #91

_Tom said:

I liked our diesel GLC, i like my C63. A b*****d child of the two would be sublime.

C43 motor is a peach too.

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We were initially looking at Porsche Macans, our budget only allowed us to look at the first generation. After discovering on YouTube that the front end of the car needs dismantling even to replace an auxiliary belt pulley, I soon sacked that idea off!

With the 2.9 V6 generation, this issue went away as they put a bit of room between the rad pack and engine to get stuff for maintenance.

 

_Tom

ClioSport Club Member

• Oct 16, 2024

• #92

Simon_16v said:

We were initially looking at Porsche Macans, our budget only allowed us to look at the first generation. After discovering on YouTube that the front end of the car needs dismantling even to replace an auxiliary belt pulley, I soon sacked that idea off!

With the 2.9 V6 generation, this issue went away as they put a bit of room between the rad pack and engine to get stuff for maintenance.

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I like a Macan and the owner of the company I work for has had a couple. One however had a gearbox issue just outside of warranty which was somehting like a £8k bill. It has done less than 30k too.

Our GLC was perfect in the 4 years we had it other than an adblue fault because diesel.

My old man had a C43 which was 100% reliable too. The 43 lump in the GLC must be a great combo.