Bongo Fury

scanner wrote: ↑Sat Jul 20, 2019 5:48 pm Bongo has finally fatally failed.

Just too much is needed, head/head gasket gone, climate control has packed up, wheel arches look like lace (as does the underneath) and now the side door won't open.

However it has 16" alloys with goodish winter tyres, newish radiator, an unused set of silicon hoses (bought "just in case" 10 years ago and never fitted) a set of new (again unfitted) wheel arch trims, Waeco Cruise Control, tow bar, Willinton Split Charge Relay Kit (one of the last he made) and much much more.

I spent about £400 getting it through an MOT before the engine went and my wife has now replaced it with an electric car (we don't need the space any more and 3p/mile energy cost is more important) so it has to go.

Enquire by PM please.

scanner wrote: ↑Sun Jul 21, 2019 8:54 pm It died about a year ago and it's taken until now to decide euthanasia is the only kind ending.

I now have a Transit, a Pick-up and the trailer I brought back from France inside the Bongo for the log and load lugging and the full-size motorhome for the camping, so the Bongo is now "sans raison".

scanner wrote: ↑Mon Jul 22, 2019 4:48 pm No chance Jan has got too used to 4.5mpKwh* instead of 30mpg if she was lucky.

Let me know if you ever decide to visit the http://www.nvgc.org.uk/about.html


* Approx 45mpLitre or 205mpg and that's only on the rare occasions we have to pay to charge.
Peterborough has on street and car park charge points with 3 hours charging AND parking for nothing, zilch, zero. nada, sfa.
As parking in the City centre, where the chargers are, can be £1.00/hour they in effect pay me £3.00 to charge my car there.

Flanners wrote: ↑Mon Jul 22, 2019 8:26 pm

scanner wrote: ↑Mon Jul 22, 2019 4:48 pm No chance Jan has got too used to 4.5mpKwh* instead of 30mpg if she was lucky.

Let me know if you ever decide to visit the http://www.nvgc.org.uk/about.html


* Approx 45mpLitre or 205mpg and that's only on the rare occasions we have to pay to charge.
Peterborough has on street and car park charge points with 3 hours charging AND parking for nothing, zilch, zero. nada, sfa.
As parking in the City centre, where the chargers are, can be £1.00/hour they in effect pay me £3.00 to charge my car there.

How much was the car?

Northern Bongolow wrote: ↑Mon Jul 22, 2019 5:05 pm love it, it. It could only that way when it's run by the council.
Fill your boots mate.

mikeonb4c wrote: ↑Tue Jul 23, 2019 8:39 am I think my next adventure may be an electric car if i can afford one. I corresponded with Clive Sinclair with some ideas about them both before and after he announced the irrelevant C5 so have watched their progress for many years with interest. But right now, what a Bongo does is something I can really use so the next adventure will have to wait I fear. Enjoy yours though, wot fun. What make/model did you get?

scanner wrote: ↑Tue Jul 23, 2019 11:00 am

mikeonb4c wrote: ↑Tue Jul 23, 2019 8:39 am I think my next adventure may be an electric car if i can afford one. I corresponded with Clive Sinclair with some ideas about them both before and after he announced the irrelevant C5 so have watched their progress for many years with interest. But right now, what a Bongo does is something I can really use so the next adventure will have to wait I fear. Enjoy yours though, wot fun. What make/model did you get?

The uprated Zoe that came out last year with a higher capacity battery and more powerful motor.

For the sort of mainly short range motoring Jan does now it is as well suited as the Bongo was totally unsuited.

We have done 3 longish trips to London, Abingdon and South of Northampton without problems, picked up free charges on all of them total cost of the trip to Abingdon and back was a two hour (£2.00) top up when we got home.