New 850T5 owner from Kent

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Post 791613 by T5-Ash on 2015-11-22 15:54:36

Afternoon all Been lurking for a while so thought i'd say hi My names Ashley, 32 and a petrol head from Maidstone Kent, always been a VW / BMW man and had 'show' / performance cars most of my adult life Family life took over so now use motorbikes for my adrenaline fix and cars to get from A to B. I've always been a sucker for a big estate having owned various golfs, Audi 80, Audi S4, Mercedes W210 all in the estate variant. After getting the wife a new fiesta Zetec S on a lease hire deal at the beginning of the year, i was happily running around in her old A3 1.8T sport as my station car when a work colleage mentioned his buddy was going to be selling his T5 if i knew anyone! Three weeks later and i owned a 1996 2 owner, full history, 107K , 850T5 estate... in manual for the pricely sum of £500 I'll start a build thread soon as done a fair bit of preventative maintenance and sorting silly niggles out in the two months since i got it. First foray into Volvo ownership and very impressed with the old barge so far Ash

Post 791626 by claymore on 2015-11-22 16:34:13

Welcome along, a lot of us have difficulty reading, so we like lots of pictures :)

Post 791630 by Santa on 2015-11-22 16:38:41

Welcome :)

Post 791632 by shepbomb on 2015-11-22 16:43:16

:welcome:

Post 791652 by abdul on 2015-11-22 17:27:18

Welcome

Post 791824 by T5-Ash on 2015-11-23 18:45:42

Thanks guys, i'll ensure the project thread is picture heavy :B_thumb: Ash

Post 791829 by CAMO on 2015-11-23 19:05:09

Hi there and welcome to the 5 pot blower maniac's!

Post 791833 by Orca2 on 2015-11-23 19:10:25

[QUOTE=claymore;791626]Welcome along, a lot of us have difficulty reading, so we like lots of pictures :)[/QUOTE] I can't read so in case nobody has said so, post lots of pictures . Welcome to bedlam mate

Post 791850 by jamesy12345 on 2015-11-23 20:13:31

:welcome: Pictures of the bikes too would be nice :)

Post 791855 by Saaamon on 2015-11-23 20:42:11

Evening sir.

Post 791864 by kmb on 2015-11-23 21:27:16

Hello and welcome, sounds like a complete bargain!

Post 791872 by stribo on 2015-11-23 22:14:50

Welcome to the forum, my in laws are in Maidstone, although they claim they're in Bearsted, I'll give youj a shout next time we're down, possibly meet up with LeeT5 too.

Post 792022 by T5-Ash on 2015-11-25 20:09:06

Meeting up could be good, still learning these beasts, im in Barming so not far Not of the car but a couple of the bike as requested, prepped for Brands GP circuit trackday Image Image And after Image Thread on the car coming soon i promise Ash