I recently moved to a house just yards from a busy rail line. Six weeks later, I've noticed dull brown patches over my car, which was white. My garage said "it's chippings off a railway line", and did I live near one? Nothing gets this stuff off apart from T-Cut. Is there anything else anyone knows of that's less damaging to use, and which isn't gonna involve 3 weeks of elbow grease per month? I've already invested in a car cover.
I have looked at the house's windowsills (which were white) and they are deep brown on the horizontal surfaces thanks to this stuff. I'm concerned my white Citroen ZX will resemble an old British Leyland colour before too long. Read more

Anyone got any comments?

I thought it was amazingly realistic, even if the probability of all the circumstances occuring is thankfully very small.

Tony
(As Dec 19th is my birthday I wont be on/around/inside the M25 this year!) Read more

Hi all,

I've just bought a 98 Vx Omega Elite 3.0 Elite (Manual!!!), the Sat Nav works fine, but has no sound.

I know this has happened before on other Elites, please help!!!!

Thanks

Craig Read more

Opinions please: we're about to replace a 7 yr old VW with a reliable smallish car (wifes instruction) for use by wife and offspring, on mostly town and minor road work. Narrowed down on reliability and insurance cost grounds to new or nearly new Honda Civic 1.4, Jazz (1.4 of course) or Yaris 1.3. I'm a little more inclined to the Civic, but the Yaris looks neat to the females. All seem competent and much the same price, within about £1000, with some shopping around. The mix is brand new discounted Yaris T3 (the revised one), nearly new Civic 3-door S (garage courtesy car) and low mileage pre-May update yellowish Jazz SE. I can't make a rational choice except I think maybe the Civic could have been thrashed by the uncaring. The Jazz is a horrid colour, so the Yaris is leading by a nose. Anything I've overlooked? Read more

...VD5D, if I recall correctly.

Was it you who said that if you had another V70, you'd have 16" wheels instead of 17", after SWMBO had wiped the more exposed rims on the latter down a few kerbs? I think so, but if not it was someone else on this Forum a while back.

Well, I have just done the same on our new V70. :-(
Thank heavens it was not Mrs, especially as she has wiped her 306 down more lefthand kerbs than you can shake a stick at, and I'm forever reminding her to keep right! I guess I'll still get a wry smile later this evening though!

In my case the atrocious V70 steering lock is at the root of it: Very heavy crawling traffic both ways on main road leaving work. Waiting to turn right, a driver coming from the right held back to let me out, as did the car coming from the left, but I was partly blocked by a bus going in my direction. Feeling an obligation to 'go' (colleagues behind, too) I therefore swung left, then right to tuck in behind the bus, so I am oblique to the road, and not blocking anybody in the crawling traffic. Of course, I ran out of steering lock. Krrrrrrrrrrr for a third of a wheel revolution down the kerb... Right through to the alloy it is, too. Aaaargh. More annoying that it's our car, when I haven't touched a kerb in years of company cars! Oh for 16" rims (and I have just read on one of the Volvo web sites of a guy who wants to fit 20" rims to his!)



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