Hi Guys,
Just wanted to say hi and let you all know that Iam excited about picking up my Soul Echo tomorrow
! I have been eagerly awaiting getting behind the wheel of herand look forward to becoming an active member of the site! I have been reading various posts on here for some time and there genuinely does seem to be a wealth of both enthusiasm and knowledge about the cars!!
welcome Paul,
Echo is a lovely original.... are you black or white?..... leather interior is stunning - very jealous!!!...lol
Post some pics soon please in the gallery.
This forum is a nice personal space for the UK owners - and we have the benefit of the many owners "general experience" from the Canada and USA links too.
Hi there and welcome to the Soul club lol There's going to be a meet up on the 16th July for Soul owner's if your interested It's in Buxton, Derbyshire! Let me know if your interested and i'll drop you an address!
Hi. An thanks for the warm welcome! Mine is the white version tempest......I am very excited about getting behind the wheel! Unfortunately I will be away on holiday mid July titch but would be keen to hear about any future dates for meet's!
Hope you all have a good weekend!
Welcome to the club,very exclusive for people with good taste. You will love the soul and your echo with the leather must be really good. Have a good day when you pick it up,happy motoring.
Thanks again for all the warm welcomes! Cant say Fussychick that the weather here in Guildford has been anything less than awful today! Lots of rain and wind! Still I will be behind the wheel of the Soul tomorrow so let it rain.......I don't care
Blimey, I've just finished saying cheerio on the RAV forum and then you pop up here!!!
Enjoy the Soul Paul. It isn't a RAV but it is a damn good car. I moved for the same reason. Couldn't justify £24k gathering dust now my job has changed.
Hey Anchorman! Small world! I thought when I'd been lurking on here I'd seen your name crop up! but then thought.......'Nah it can't be him'!!!!! Good to have you on board as you were a mine of information on the Rav4 site! Agree with all you say about the Rav4.........but for me it was just time for a change and I'm dead excited about picking up my Soul Echo! Only an hour to go and I'll have her!!!
Have agood weekend!
Lol! No I've not been driving! In actual fact it was my stag night last night as I'm getting married on the 30th! Picked up car yesterday morning though! Love it! Will try and get some photos sorted out soon! Hope you enjoy the rest of your weekend
Getting married and getting a new car!!!..... they say good things happen in three's....wonder what the other two things are!!!!....lol.... Good luck matey.
Many thanks guys for the warm welcome and the kind comments! Am loving the car! Sometimes you just know you've made the right decision! Let's hope my wife to be has
Yeah , got a good deal & also done the servicing scheme , My wife got her Carens from there as well . There ok for parts & servicing ,but not been sogreat about dealing withother issues& questions Ive raised , Im gonna take mine to West End Garge to do a paint thickness test , my friends son is a mechanic there & is gonna try & pull some stringsfor me .
Good luck with the paint thickness test..... that was the one thing that i couldnt make happen when i had chipping problems.... let us know the results..... the paint is very thin on all cars nowadays.
where are the chips?.....is it just the bonnet?. A good dealer may well help you out as a goodwill gesture. I cant recommend the film protection enough!.... it is fabulous.
You lot have got me paranoid about my paintwork now! My Soul has got two little bits of clear film on the rear door and wheel arches as someone showed on a pic of the 2012 spec.
Even if I had the money for the protective film I'd begrudge paying it, I've spent what I consider to be a lot of money on my car and will be gutted if it doesn't stay looking new for very long. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for you too raider
The chipsI have are on the drivers side .three on the rear door & two on the wheel arch . all from the same bit of crap thrown up by a truck in the outside lane of the A3 , typically this is not one of the areas I got covered in paint guard .
I have 22k miles on my Tempest now and I have some stone chips on the bonnet and two screen chips that have been repaired.All cars get stone chips and as far as I can see the Soul is no worse or better than any other apart from the fact that it has a large area on the front of the car that is bigger than a lot of others which is a fact that you cannot get round.Modern paint on cars is not as good as paint that cars had a few years ago,it's all water based now,so apart from covering all the car with film which is to costly its something we have to live with.A bonnet respray in a few years time is not that high a cost anyway should you want to do it.I have contemplated putting a contrasting film of carbon fibre on my bonnet but I am not sure how it would look.l
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