October 2004
Is there a way to reset the warning lights on the dashboard?
I can\'t put out the low washer level warning light even though I have recently filled it up. Any ideas?
Tim
406 Coupe V6 SE Read more
Advice on repairing torn leather seats
Someone has decided to use the rear seat pocket to help them exit my car. The result is that the leather has been pulled out of the seat frame and now has a rip in it. Any idea who the best people to fix it would be?
Thanks,
Tim
North East Scotland
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This has came up before in the forum and my suggestion then, based on real life experience, was to contact your local undertaker and ask then who they use for leather repairs in their limos. I did this and got referred to a specialist who repaired the half leather in a 306 Meridian perfectly.
Over the past couple of weeks i've noticed that my car (1994 205 STDT) pulls quite sharply to the left when i accelerate hard and as soon as i back off it veers back to the right.
During normal driving and gentle acceleration it's fine so any idea's on what it could be?
Cheers
Kev Read more
Had a similar problem on my 306 after changing front wishbones. Tyres were replaced in original positions. However, it still pulled.
My theory is that tyres had become accustomed to the worn bush position, and had worn unevenly. The new wishbones changed the geometry, and this was causing the pull. Replacing tyres with new fixed the problem.
Several year ago I managed to buy a product called Kraus Bond ( or could be Kraussbond ) that you just dropped down the spark plug hole and it helped seal worn piston rings. I have searched the web and can find no reference to it. Does anybody know if its still available, or something similar, and if so where to get it from .? Read more
If you have a sloping engine, it doesn't even last a week Actually, it doesn't work at all.
This week I have noticed a sign on the northbound A370 Weston-Super-Mare to Bristol road promoting the imminent introduction of a dual occupancy lane, i.e. a lane that will only be able to be used by drivers of cars with one or more passengers.
It is by pure chance, and not by choice, that an individual's spouse, child, parent, neighbour, best mate etc just happends to work or study in the same locality as themselves, not to mention having to start/finish at the same time so as to make it worthwhile sharing the journey .
Why should I have to sit in a slow moving traffic queue because I do not know anyone who fits the above criteria when a bloke in the next village who has a neighbour who works in the same factory can cruise past missing the queue.
Vat on a new car, tax on fuel, road fund licence, company car tax (for some), tax on insurance, parking permits, tolls etc etc, how much more is the innocent motorist going to be percecuted.
Outrageous.
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Some more thoughts, this type of road use is also very common in Sydney, called a transit lane it can be marked as T2 or T3 requiring at least 2 or even 3 occupants per vehicle. These are usually used on multi-lane roads (3-4 lanes each way) and they have replaced the bus lane with a transit lane. So multiple occupany of a normal car allows you to use the old bus lane.
On the dual carriageways without bus lanes prevalent in the UK I cant see them working as well.
StarGazer
I'm trading the car in today at a franchised dealership - what do I do with the V5? Should I fill the garage details in as they will be the keepers after today or just give them the document as it stands?
I'm doing it this afternoon so if you know, please help!
Thanks,
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Lee
MINI adventure coming to an end Read more
Yep they will just fill in the Transfer to a trader section - nice and simple!
If you read this before you go remember to take any tax out of the part-ex motor and cash it in yourself rather than let the dealer do the same and put it in his caribean holiday fund.
Just picked up the DT and I have to say that I thought you meant the Signum. Regards. Read more
Last time I went to Sweden I stayed in a hotel in the centre of Uppsala. Very nice too - very modern, tastefully furnished and the food in the restaurant was good (a very memorable venison with redcurrant sauce and grated potatoes). The only downside to the trip was that it didn't get light until 10am and then went dark at 2pm (I was there in the middle of winter).
I drive circa 30k a year private miles and have run a Honda Jazz for the last 2 years which I now feel I have wrung the most out of and I'm due a change. (Laugh if you liek but it's a brilliant bit of kit with more interior space than the A4 my wife drives and has averaged over 50 mpg in 60K miles!)
I was thinking of buying a mid size diesel (Passat/Avensis/Octavia) but recently heard about the Jazz being sold in other countries with a 1.5 Vtech rather than the 83ps 1.4 fitted here.
I can't find any info on the car let alone find one for sale. Can anyone help?
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I think HJ knows something about Swedish hotel rooms (today's Telegraph column and separate thread) - maybe the comparison of driving experience was actually a compliment?
My wife would have loved a bigger-engined Jazz - we changed her Jazz for a 2-litre Civic for the extra acceleration, but it's bigger than she needs.
I assumed that anything bigger wouldn't fit (that word again) under the sloping bonnet. But since it does in Malaysia, perhaps the press could encourage Honda to bring it to the UK.
I'm going to change one of my rear wheel bearings in my 97 megane coupe and want to know if i need any special tools to do this. i've done this before on a fiesta and i've looked at the haynes manual and it all looks straight forward, but from my experience theres always something that proves difficult. Any advice would be great. Read more
I semi did the job myself, as there is an easy bit and a hard bit. The easy bit is removing the rear hub, the hard bit is removing the bearing from the hub and replacing it with a new one. Do to this you'll really need a hydraulic press (not your usual DIY tool I would imagine!), so this is something a garage will have. So maybe your best bet is too remove the hub yourself, and take it your local garage and get the to swap the bearing over. This will take them a few minutes, so just pop them some beer tokens, and save yourself a load of money for the full job.
Hi, everyone
A friend of mine has a 1995 Vauxhall Omega 3.0 v6 Elite automatic, the problem is the cambelt snapped on tick over and wondered what sort of damaged this might of done other than a few valves and what sort of costs are we talking of repair either by a garage or myself.
Cheers for any help.
terry Read more
Andrew, I agree fully, once the cam stops, the engine only needs to do one rev to do the piston/valve damage. The valve head will not resist the kinetic energy contained in the engine's own considerable rotational inertia at idle without bending - especially if it is at an angle with respect to the cylinder axis.
The cam will stop very quickly after the belt snaps because it has relatively high friction, and owing to the camshaft's small inertia, it possesses little kinetic energy.
number_cruncher
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Is the float sticking?