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Tag Archives: car
Bora Driver’s Log
Even painful memories are worth noting down. Here be failures, too. As of today, this blog will also include retroactive content from my very first proper blog. Also hosted at blogger.com, it was titled “Bora Driver’s Log”. Continue reading
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Tagged blogging, car, car audio, FAIL, personal, sardonicism
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It’d better not pour…
Now with 180,000km on the clock, it’s apparently also pretty normal that the windscreen wipers have given up the ghost. Continue reading
The beginning of a season called Summer
Although summer may not quite officially be upon us, winter never really happened either. In fact, it’s definitely time to revert back to the summer slicks… Continue reading
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Tagged car, money-money-money
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The beginning of a season called Winter
Now that’s it’s practically illegal to operate a vehicle without pneumatics that suit the current weather, fitting winter tires seemed like a sensible and necessary precaution. As for the sound system: MP3 capabilities are simply a must in today’s world. Continue reading
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Tagged car, GPS, personal, travel
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Working Holiday
The lack of entries in the blog doesn’t mean that there’s a lack of activity. In fact, the car’s exceeded the 150,000km landmark. It’s had its baptism of fire. Continue reading
Pitstop
Observant fans and followers may have noticed that there has been little development on the Bora sound front, and they’d only be partially correct: nothing but cranial and background activity going on… Continue reading
First Service
There are some things I should simply do myself — instead of paying them VW folks for labour and time. Continue reading
Finding Bora
In Europe, the Jetta Mk4 is known as a Bora. It’s an attractive car. It has a large boot, ample interior space, good performance, adequate handling, fair fuel consumption, and sufficient features. Strangely, the Bora is a bit of a dark horse around these parts and not nearly as popular as its Golf IV counterpart. Continue reading
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