Newbie from Scotland

[Euan1P]

Morning all.

I've been snooping around here for a while gathering info on Leon Cupras, I've found a lot of good information so far. I am completely new to the world of Seat but not to the world of TFSI's as my current car is an Audi A4 TFSI Quattro, lovely car to drive but limited with tuning (unless you want to spend loads) due to being longitudinal and K03.

Anyway, enough of that, I pick up the new car on Monday

It's a completely standard Red 1P Leon Cupra 2007 with full service history, low miles and a fair few extras (Satnav, Zenons etc etc), cant wait to pick it up! I've got a few plans for it but nothing too extreme, I'll most likely take it to Stage 2+, lower it a bit and put on a Splitter, rear valance and boot spoiler, not sure which ones i'll be going for yet.

Looking forward to spending many a working hour on here.

Cheers
Euan

 

[RUM4MO]

Hello and welcome! Sounds like you have been lucky with your A4 as lots of them had oil burning problems, well mainly the 2.0TFSI in the B8 platform! Anyway, I try to always spell the car company as SEAT as it is formed by four initials - the same way as SAAB is always spelt SAAB and not Saab. Going further into name spelling, only recently I noticed that it should always be quattro and never Quattro - it seems! (learned by exposure to the Audisport forum!) I can't think why this website name does not reflect that though?

 

[Euan1P]

Cheers matey.

Unfortunately I haven't been lucky with the oil consumption/burning issue on my Audi, it uses about as much oil as it does petrol.

See, I'm learning stuff already on here already, I never knew that about SEAT and you'd think that I'd have known that about quattro seeing as I am Audisport every day, it's strange how all spell checkers have it with a capital q

 

[andrewpain]

Spelling?
so we can soon start expecting posts about anachronisms (especially about Routemasters) and continuity errors on TV as well?
Sunday Times readers start here....

 

[RUM4MO]

Spelling?
so we can soon start expecting posts about anachronisms (especially about Routemasters) and continuity errors on TV as well?
Sunday Times readers start here....

Sunday Times readers - my wife is a Times reader on Saturdays only - sorry.

Trouble is a Seat is just something to sit on, so rather undersells the SEAT marque, now BMW stands for ----- no I will not go there!

Anyway, these new Routemasters look a bit crap I reckon, especially their front lights, though I can't say that the latest offerings being bought by Lothian Buses are much better!

 

[RUM4MO]

Cheers matey.

Unfortunately I haven't been lucky with the oil consumption/burning issue on my Audi, it uses about as much oil as it does petrol.

See, I'm learning stuff already on here already, I never knew that about SEAT and you'd think that I'd have known that about quattro seeing as I am Audisport every day, it's strange how all spell checkers have it with a capital q

See, every day can be a school day - if you let it, when I spelt out that "four wheel drive" title on this forum it did default to Q !

 

[G17RY]

On the SEAT vs Seat issue...

Most know that it is an acronym, however, when you call your insurer do you call your car a say-at, see-at or do you (properly) spell out S.E.A.T. Like you would with B.M.W.?

I'd like to get Kayvan Novak's electronics buying character on the case ...I'd like to insure my seat and bumwii!

Personally I think that Seat (leading cap) distinguishes it as a brand name from seat, the object you park your bumwii on!


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[RUM4MO]

Yawnnnn, take a look at how that car brand writes it and maybe accept that what they write is correct?

 

[G17RY]

RUM4MO (I had to retype that), I take it you are not familiar with Fonejacker? I think the car manufacturer uses all caps to distinguish them from the Italian one, which similarly started as an acronym, that now quite happily uses leading cap plus rest lower case? Pronouncing it say-at seems to have worked for me thus far, much quicker than spelling it out, no one has looked at me funny, and everyone seems to know what I'm talking about. As for typing it I'm sticking with Seat... (knowing I'm wrong is different from being ignorant BTW! FWIW I agree with you and know you're correct, pedant 8-P). Cheers, G17ry

P.S. I reserve the right to use SEAT when I can be bothered double clicking caps lock a couple of times.


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[Euan1P]

Thanks for the info guys..... Now if we could move on from the "how do we pronounce SEAT" then that would be great.

 

[andrewpain]

must be the quickest way any newbie got 15 posts without discovering anything useful at all.......
"say-at" works for me, BTW. When they first started in the UK I assumed they were a Spanish offshoot of Fiat.
Shows how old I am, and how stupid.

 

[RUM4MO]

You are correct there, I seem to remember that any (maybe foreign) company setting up business in Spain needed to include "S" in its name, maybe they were part backed by Spain's national government. Remember this was happening round about the time that Fiat seemed to be selling lots of licenses (Seat, Lada, Polski Fiat, FSO) to build things that looked like the discontinued Fiat 124, and Seat also took on the kind of Fiat 127 and Fiat Panda as well.

One thing that I remember (as Seat started off as a laughing stock car maker to us Brits), was that Seat was the inly car maker in the world at that time building cars that did not have the obligatory second or safety lock on the car doors - not a clever idea.

Of course this is essentially the same company as VW Group bought up and turned into a proper car manufacturer, and I['d expect that if you had one of these early Fiat based cars, that you could source parts from your local Seat dealer.

Right, now that I've slipped back into using Seat in place of SEAT, and completely ignored that fact that Fiat is probably also an acronym, lets get on with main stream forum life!

To the OP, don't worry, this forum, is not like what I've heard the Audisport A3 section is like, (I think that I've heard that Audisport A3 forum section it is a bit "see you behind the bike shed later mate - and we will see who is right!").

 

[Euan1P]

I was always on the A4 forums, it was a lot quieter and never had any issues