February 2003
Ahem, no offence but i would rather push a supermarket trolly round than be seen in one of those.
They should be illegal. Read more
Have read some where about a problem with disintegrating turbo on this car can anyone point me in the right direction please.
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Hi Mike, Thank you for the reply, I have seen this problem, on a web-site, and thought it was HJ but looked through lots of pages and could not find it again, It said under sum conditions the turbo was disintegrating and giving major problems.
Help, can anyone tell me if the old shape audi cabriolet came with alloys as standard? I'm looking at buying a 1995 model but it's got really crap wheel trims on it! I've never seen a model without alloys until now and the owner reckons not all audi cabriolets came with alloys as standard they were an optional extra is this true?? Please help
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Actually, there's a 1996 one for sale privately in Southampton, in solid navy with no alloys, on the Autotrader website. (Look for a blue 2.0 cabriolet). It's also done a tiny mileage but is way over the money at £9895!.
Parker's reckons £9,430 but at that colour and spec more like £8,750 even if they're right. I'd say even that is optimistic.
have mk4 astra 1.6 8v x16sv engine. has intermitant misfire have changed leads and plugs. have interogated ecu fault code 351 low voltage ign coil 1+4. has anyone come across this before?
ign coil pack £162 inc vat from vauxhall so would like to get diagnisis right. thanks rich Read more
In reply I'd say that ECU testing is not always 100% conclusive with intermittent faults,so its a bit of a gamble.As far as I know you can remove and install the ECU without affecting the immobiliser but a replacement will require matching .In conclusion if a good coil unit does not fix the problem its probably easier to put it in to the dealer.
David Davies (Tune-Up Raglan)
I am hearing a rumble which I am worried is a front wheel bearing on my 2001 Y Reg new shape Mondeo - it is at its loudest at around 40mph ...... could it be the bearing, the car has done 27k? Have any other owners had this?
Any thoughts would be appreciated! - Thanks
Martin Read more
A wheel bearing noise will normally be affected by the load on the bearing.Does the noise change in pitch or intensity when the car is cornering? For instance a left hand front wheel bearing which is noisy will become quieter on left hand turns and louder on right hand turns,because of weight transfer when cornering.Good place to test this is in a large deserted car park,if you can find one!
David Davies (Tune-Up Raglan)
A few of you may remember Caz coming on here, looking for a small, sporty first car. Ideally it would be a silver 106 with a bodykit.
I don't know the girl personally, but I think I may have found it:
tinyurl.com/5jp8
Absolutely hideous, far beyond anything the manufacturer makes. If this is what gets the Max Power crowd going these days, bring on middle age (I'm 24)... Read more
Yikes! That is one tastelessly modified 106!
Not the worst I've seen though - here on Guernsey, where the "barry boy" (locally known as "Kev") culture is big business, the ultimate in this kind of thing is a metallic purple Hyundai Lantra with some kind of DTM-inspired bodykit, and earthmover-sized chrome wheels.
Run very close by the chap with a red Volvo 440, lowered with wide wheels and single wiper conversion, which sports a strip at the top of the windscreen that reads "440 2.0i", in case anyone didn't realise. Hmm.
(Apologies to the person who owns these cars if they read this but come on, a Hyundai Lantra or Volvo 440 getting the Kev treatment?)
Help! I am trying to replace the water pump on my '97 vectra 2.0 automatic. I can get as far as removing the timing belt, but to do that I have to remove the tensioner. But I can't get at the tensioner bolt as it's behind the crankshaft pulley, which means I have to remove said pulley. My Haynes manual suggests I have to lash up a system of metal bars, bolts, nuts and spacers to fix the torque converter to the engine casing to stop the engine rotating when removing the pulley centre bolt. Surely not? Is there a more simple and obvious method (not to me at the moment) of holding the pulley steady whilst undoing the bolt? Read more
the manual gave no clues nor mention of them.
Unless Haynes (assuming that's the manual you're using) have updated their data, you have to turn the tensioner bolt the opposite way to what they tell you to tighten the cambelt as well. This was the case with the Cavalier Haynes manual anyway.
Can anyone please tell me when Land Rover ceased production of the 2.5 DSE ( not 2.5 DHSE ) version of the old (i.e just replaced) Range Rover. In the current Parkers guide it only lists up to 99V but a dealer is advertising one as Apl. 02 reg. Surely it cannot have been standing about un-registered for over 2 years can it ?
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There's also a post on 4 Feb 'Rangerover 2.5 td/dse' with some other detail that might interest you..
Having had out holiday flights 'withdrawn' by RyanAir , we now face a long drive to the Dordogne this summer. Do we trust the internet routeplanners (which seem to route by utilising maximum percentage of distance on Motorway) or can someone recomend a good route from Cherbourg to Belves (20m west of Sarlat). Read more
Our trip to Le Mans for the last 2 years and this year via Newhaven-Dieppe on the Seacat (2 hour trip) cost around £112 return for car and up to 5 people. Had to book it pre-Jan 31 and over the net, but it's worth looking on the site for any special offers.
A deserted Mini dealership, mid-week, mid-afternoon. I go and open the door of a Cooper and 10 seconds later the alarm goes off. Salesman comes running and across and tells me I shouldn't sit in the cars without asking. Alarm can't be turned off because the car battery is flat. I ask to test drive one and am told there's a two day notice period for test drives. I gaze across the empty showroom, smile politely and walk away. The end (of their chances of selling me a car).
Roll on Tescos, Sainsburys etc. selling cars
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I love this. They were actually trying to sell you a car and they told you that they couldn't get it going, or did you have a spy in the camp?
Browse
Never mind roadsters, there was a squashed-up little smartette in the traffic in front of me tonight and I started snarling at the very sight of the thing despite my very wise and agreeable wife's soothing, and later reproving, noises.
To my amazement it hardly got in the way at all. If you have a heavy foot you can keep the things out of the way!
Amazing!