robertliu.com » General http://www.robertliu.com My personal blog, photos and travel diary. Sun, 04 Dec 2011 22:20:41 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Replaced my VW with a Ford http://www.robertliu.com/archives/1299 http://www.robertliu.com/archives/1299#comments Sun, 04 Dec 2011 22:20:41 +0000 Rob http://www.robertliu.com/?p=1299 Continue reading »]]> I hope those of you who read my blog don’t think married life has bogged me down as I haven’t blogged for almost 3 months! Whoops. I’m actually enjoying married life very happily but I’ve been occupied with various stuff which I won’t go into. If you’re my friend on Facebook, you will have seen some of my wedding photos but my wife is internet shy, so I won’t publish them here.

Anyways, part of my problems was that my Polo GTI decided to have a cam belt failure 10k before it was due to be replaced. It destroyed the engine and I decided it was no longer economical to repair. This was how it was after I got it back from the garage. Sold it to another VW enthusiast who would repair it themselves.

Polo GTI after timing belt failure
After relying on public transport for a few weeks, I finally found a replacement. The used car market is somewhat different today with inflated prices, high demand and low supply. I eventually found this 2007 Ford Focus 1.8 TDCi Zetec Climate.

2007 Ford Focus 1.8 TDCi Zetec
As you can see it’s in a pretty good condition. Being a Diesel I’m hoping it will give me  55-70 mpg on my motorway drives. It’s a much larger car compared to my Polo and perhaps slightly bigger than the VW Golf ‘s which I was also looking at. Not really a stand out car but hopefully it will be cheap to run which was the main thing I was looking for.

]]> http://www.robertliu.com/archives/1299/feed 1 New WordPress theme http://www.robertliu.com/archives/1214 http://www.robertliu.com/archives/1214#comments Thu, 24 Mar 2011 19:51:05 +0000 Rob http://www.robertliu.com/?p=1214 Eagle-eyed readers will have noticed a new look to my blog. Still tweaking bits here and there but it’s a fairly clean theme so I don’t need to do much.

]]> http://www.robertliu.com/archives/1214/feed 0 Cold snowy winter http://www.robertliu.com/archives/969 http://www.robertliu.com/archives/969#comments Sat, 19 Dec 2009 15:35:53 +0000 Rob http://www.robertliu.com/?p=969 Garden’s all white:

Snow Dec 2009

About 4-5 inches of snow on our picnic table:

About 4 or 5 inches there

It’s cold with more snow forecast!

It's a cold December

I hope road conditions improve on Monday!

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