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Thank you for coming back, Cumberbatchfan: as Big John says, this thread has gone astray, quite needlessly, and once again because the rudeness of the same person.
I don't mean KB, who is normally very civilised and in this case has misjudged you and your friend: this is clearly not in the least a wind-up, and it's very good of you, despite your own problems, to lend a hand to your friend who with holding down a £90k job and looking after two small children and another on the way, has enough on her plate.
Good luck to both of you. Please believe me that the majority on here are normal human beings who realise that part of the point of a forum like this is to provide advice (even if from amateurs) to people who may be new to the world of motoring. We all from time to time need to buy things we don't know much about, and we have the right, if we ask for advice, not to be patronised, still less insulted.
Other forums are more ready to ban people than we are: we try to appeal to their better nature, and ever the optimist, I resolutely believe that everyone has a better nature.
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this is clearly not in the least a wind-up, and it's very good of you, despite your own problems, to lend a hand to your friend who with holding down a £90k job and looking after two small children and another on the way, has enough on her plate.
Avant have you read one of the OP's previous threads, she says that he friend
is on maternity leave
thus she should have sufficient time to visit this site and ask her own questions.
Believe what you want but it looks very suspicious to me.
I have tried to be helpful in the other threads but this is simply going too far.
I honestly wonder how most people in the past managed to survive without being able to seek advice, just remembered, they had their own opinions.
I will go away at that.
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this is clearly not in the least a wind-up, and it's very good of you, despite your own problems, to lend a hand to your friend who with holding down a £90k job and looking after two small children and another on the way, has enough on her plate.
Avant have you read one of the OP's previous threads, she says that he friend
is on maternity leave
thus she should have sufficient time to visit this site and ask her own questions.
Believe what you want but it looks very suspicious to me.
I have tried to be helpful in the other threads but this is simply going too far.
I honestly wonder how most people in the past managed to survive without being able to seek advice, just remembered, they had their own opinions.
I will go away at that.
You just don't know when to stop do you?. How much experience do you have in dealing with a new born baby?. This is obviously going to come as a surprise, but they can be very demanding and leave you utterly spent once you eventually get them off to sleep, if indeed you can. As well as the new one, i believe there are another two young 'uns to deal with, not to mention a very large dog which is going to need excersise. So i'd imagine the friend in question has considerably less time and energy to be dealing with this on maternity leave than had she been back at work.
Regarding being helpful, i seem to remember in the OP's original post for her own car, you contributed absolutely nothing, only jumping in near the end of the thread to tell the OP she didn't know what she wanted, how helpful do you feel that was?.
Myself and most others have no problem trying to actually help folk, even those who may be indecisive. I'm not really sure why this should bother you so much. It is my time to do with what i want. If you don't want to help, or have nothing useful to add to the thread, why not just ignore it?, instead of making insulting, sarcastic or accusatory comments.
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Well said, BBD - spoken for the vast majority of us. With four children and six grandchildren, I too know what it's like!
I'm pretty sure that the Sorento has always had a torque-converter auto: this year's model has a new 8-speed auto box. There's a road test of the revised Sorento on this site under Reviews.
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Well said, BBD - spoken for the vast majority of us. With four children and six grandchildren, I too know what it's like!
I'm pretty sure that the Sorento has always had a torque-converter auto: this year's model has a new 8-speed auto box. There's a road test of the revised Sorento on this site under Reviews.
You beat me to it Avant, yes the Sorento does indeed have a toque converter auto.
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Ok so I can't see my posts so I asked the question about the Sorento again, no idea why I can't see my posts, the fact you both have awnsers the Sorento question means you must be able to see the post I asked that.
Edited by Cumberbatchfan on 08/10/2018 at 11:28
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How much notice do you take to reliability surveys , such as the one below were Suzuki was in first place?
www.whatcar.com/news/most-and-least-reliable-car-b...3
I know this is nothing to do with this thread but it saves me having to write a new thread.
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Most reliability studies i've seen have backed up what i have seen with my own eyes, and experienced with my own usually older cars, for me they usually confirm my own thoughts.
The Japanese (those still Japanese) and Korean Brands at the top regarding reliability (and durability IME) is agreed with the usual suspects hanging around at the back, the middle field tends to juggle about a bit with the odd mid fielder scoring well and the other odd one scoring badly, but seldom do the highest and lowest makes swap places.
Do these surveys make any difference, well apparently not because the lowest two in the above survey especially one up from last place sells thousands of vehicles and for some unknown reason are rated and score highly in all motoring publications, including here, for buyers badge image is important to some people which is fine as its their money to spend on what they want.
It's quite amusing sometimes when the results of these reliability surveys are so at odds with the praise, or not, the same publication gives to the cars its tests.
Edited by gordonbennet on 08/10/2018 at 12:45
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Refering back to my comments on our 2015 Sorrento in your previous post Cumberbatchfan, I believe the Hyundai is mechanically much the same and certainly uses the similar 2.2 R type diesel.
Having read around, the latest models now have SCR to comply with emissions regs, so presumably need topping up with Adblue. Ours is Euro 6 and doesn't have SCR.
Given the very high mileage your friend does, the Hyundai warranty would be better than the Kia for her I think- as it's 5 years and unlimited mileage, vs 7 years and 100k on the Kia. Obviously you really have to keep a main dealer service history to maintain the warranty, the Sorrento has 1 year/20k mile intervals.
I've driven the manual Sorrento and our Auto, I found the manual absolutely fine but can't help thinking an Auto just suits this vehicle a little better. By all accounts the 8 speed auto is much better than the 6 speed we have, which I find just fine anyway. Also with an Auto, you don't have the worry of a DMF to fail.
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