Bye Bye Jazz

[guest3469]

After almost a year to the day from I bought my 2009 ES and 16000 miles of faultless motoring I've moved on and traded in for a Mazda MX5, since my work setup has changed and ive gotten a work van oh and a mid life crisis lol.  I loved the economy, the mods I'd made and all the stuff that makes the Jazz a great car, did a few 250 mile journeys and a 700 mile day all without fuss or discomfort.
A great car, with plenty to recommend it, but in all honesty, a bit too sedate for me.
The forum has been a great resource and I've enjoyed contributing.
Ive my Longlife Stainless exhaust for sale in the For Sale section and my arm rest on ebay both of which are to be recommended upgrades

I'll drop in from time to time to see how you're all getting on.
Thanks

[Garyman]

Sorry to hear you're leaving the fold but just coz you've got the Mazda doesnt mean you cant stick around 

[culzean]

After almost a year to the day from I bought my 2009 ES and 16000 miles of faultless motoring I've moved on and traded in for a Mazda MX5, since my work setup has changed and ive gotten a work van oh and a mid life crisis lol. 
Thanks

my wife calls all two-seater sports cars driven by men of a certain age - meno-porsches 

[guest3469]

Garyman, thanks for the good wishes.  As for the meno-porsches comment, that sort of ignorant comment would generally deserve an equally ignorant response, however  gentlemen of a certain age, regardless of their vehicle of choice, realise that such uninformed comments deserve pity rather than scorn.

[guest765]

The theme is ongoing as i am changing vehicle (or my wife is)....not going too far though,....the really great Jazz is to be replaced, not for any running problems, i have found while we have run the Jazz that it is without doubt a really reliable vehicle for what it was designed for. My car is not your usual everyday run about car either but its great for what its designed for too, i run a 1999 Daimler Super V8, a bespoke made model for a Jaguar director..........so with the high end motoring with that, and going back to the Jazz we found that the Jazz has the one or two downsides in comparison......mostly the quality of roadnoise and basic all round lack of luxury ECT......basically i have no other issues with it at all...........so biting the bullet we were looking for that missing bit between the Daimler and the Jazz........we have decided to go with the Honda CRV......a bit more refinement but still Honda which because of the Jazz reliability looked again at Honda....a bit more expensive to run no doubt, but the comfort is getting important as our age is getting older........its been good to share this forum with you folks ,and i can keep bobbing back to read up on all things Jazz

[uovouvou]

Good luck to those leaving, pop in now and again to say hello!

I passed my Jazz on to the Missus back in August, it was just too underpowered for me plus her car was due for a change.  Fortunately the Missus loves it (except that she too thinks that it's underpowered), although it's better than it was as its air filter has just been changed for the first time in 60,000 miles - the Skoda dealers never bothered changing it or even inspecting it.  The Honda / VW specialist I now use in Leeds said they'd never seen an air filter as dirty - it was absolutely black with dust!  The Jazz will now drive a gear higher at any given speed than previously.

I'm now running a Skoda Octavia vRS.  Lovely car to drive, lovely powerful 180bhp engine but build quality and general design not a patch on a Honda, plus it's cost me a few quid already in repairs.  Might get an Accord 2.4 i-Vtec next time...

[RichardA]

Good luck with your new car.

A MK3.5 MX5 with folding hardtop is on my next car list.

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