Copen Vivid (Limited)

[anonymous-user]

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[Glassman]

Cutting it a bit fine with the hood and that wall eh?!

[posterboy]

Nice car!! Suits you

Nice pictures, what camera was used?

[henrycrun]

Nice. BTW would this be the earlier or later engine ?

[SB - Nigel]

anonymous said:

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Fantistic

Great that you got the car you wanted and are enjoying it

I'm not raining on your parade just offering my experience from my wife's four and a half year ownership

Don't worry too much about revving it (it redlines at 8,000) but there no real piont going over 6,500 not that you need go that high the turbo cuts in around 2,200 so will pull from lower revs that's what makes it so nippy

Forget 50 mpg it's far too much fun for that

Here's some (edited) notes for you as a new owner they are what I left with my wife's car for the new owner

Hood

· Watch that the sun visors don’t get in the way of hood catches when raising or lowering the hood
· Don’t put anything on the rear window shelf as if it gets trapped it could be an expensive repair

Boot

· . . .to close gently push the aluminium boot lid onto the catch then the lid will pull itself fully shut

Bonnet

· . . . drop bonnet to close, do not push on it as it’s aluminium (as are hood and boot lid)

Driving

· Seat belt strap holders on the top of the side of each seat are only useful for very short people – if they are used watch that the seat belts don’t get caught in the door aperture when closing the door
· When driver only place passenger’s seat belt into the buckle to stop it rattling against side panel
· Turbo comes in around 2,200 rpm so there’s plenty of torque low down, altho’ the red line is at 8,000 there’s no point going much above 6,000
· Tyre pressure is 35 p.s.i. all round
· Rear tyres wear very slowly but front tyres more quickly so swap them round for more even wear
· Regular oil changes (with correct oil) and not letting the oil level get too low has kept one 1993 Daihatsu engine I know running without any work for 177,000 miles and still counting

Enjoy it - you've bought one of the few modern cars that is really fun to drive (and more fun than the 1300)

PS don't try it but, it's also one of very few cars that can actually reach it's claimed top speed

ETA: they love air filter changes but the Dai one was so dear I thought about looking for a K&N panel replacement

Edited by SB - Nigel on Saturday 24th May 01:44

[Goldeeno]

Think there a cracking little car, seen a few about, didnt realise what engine was in them. Looks like you have a great toy for summer! Lets just hope we get the sunshine!

[Yrv 130 turbo]

I had one for 2 years and i had alot of fun in it and it surprises loads of people i went on number of runs and it did very well.

The turbo is addictive and as posted before i would change around 5500 and 6000 for best results

Always have your lights on think like a moterbike because people will not be aware of you,i realy had no issues of lorries not seeing it is the large family saloons and MPVs

servicing go to a local dealer i have used West End Garage(Woking) and they are very helpful and very good service

Running cost if you keep the milage down then it is very good,tyres are rare but can be ordred by specialist company or dealer.

any other questions just ask

[SB - Nigel]

anonymous said:

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I'm glad to be able to help if you need more info just PM me

anonymous said:

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Wots that then ! - sorry no idea

Tyres - swap them round when you can as I said the front wear quite qickly with spirited driving but the rears last ages

Perhaps best to allow some time to get hold of tyres altho' our local and regular performance tyres specialist got four the next day for us no problem

Use the car's grip and have fun (but catious in this weather)

[SB - Nigel]

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Yeap it's a car that you actually have to drive if you are going at a good rate of knots that's what helps to make the car so much fun - we tend to get into bad habits driving (other) modern cars

I try to use the brakes as little as possible on cars but I do know that on the Copen the the ABS/EBD do work well from looking the wrong way when crossing from the central reservation of a daul-carrigeway in France

[Xenocide]

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Look at the size of that wheel!!

[flattotheboards]

We all know that this was bought for Dizee and the VXR is Missus Dizee's

[Crash Test Dummy]

at a first glance I thought the car had an old audi TT dash conversion. But realised its just very very very similar

[SB - Nigel]

anonymous said:

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Yes but better

I parked ours next to a original TT soft top on a Bear's tour and the size difference wasn't as much as you would expect (the Copen was silver and the TT was black so that could have made a difference to their appearance together)

[Dizzy_Girl]

My god so much fun has been had today!


Of course, we had to learn about the chuckablilty in the snow, as well as how to get it out the snow. I had to get to work tonight and it has taken us most of the day to even manage to get to the main road. This morning we were snowed in and saw this:











Last night as it started we managed to snap this. Had no idea how bacd it would get though.