January 2005
Hi
Does anyone know whether the 5 Door Fiesta is now available with the new 1.6 diesel?
The Ford brochure says yes, (Ghia and Zetec), the local Ford dealership says no, the Ford website says no (but then, missing models on new focus aswell).
Anyone know anything?
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Just thought I would tell you that building work has started on this project. Will make Brooklands a good place to visit in 2006, But why wait - Brooklands is worth a day out anyway.
DaimlerChrysler UK has agreed to purchase a 150 acre site at Weybridge in Surrey with plans to build a unique Heritage and Technology Centre for Mercedes-Benz.
Geoff Brady, Managing Director for DaimlerChrysler UK Retail said: "We plan to build the centre to commemorate the history of the world-famous Mercedes-Benz marque and its association with Brooklands and as a technological showcase for our passenger cars.
"We recognise the sensitivity of this site and are working closely with Elmbridge Borough Council, the Brooklands Museum and English Heritage to ensure that our proposals will help to preserve and celebrate the rich history of Brooklands."
The Heritage and Technology Centre would be housed in a carefully designed single building and would include display galleries and a technology centre. A feature would be made of the long history of racing Mercedes at Brooklands and the theatre, visitor, education and hospitality facilities will be made available to local businesses and schools.
The new building would be next to the Brooklands Museum and historic motor racing circuit. The Centre would provide an opportunity for customers and visitors to learn about the evolution of the present day range of cars and to experience at first hand the many performance, safety, economic and environmental benefits of owning a Mercedes-Benz passenger car. The centre would also offer customers the ability to customise and collect their new Mercedes-Benz and to drive their new vehicles on a specially designed circuit.
Dermot Kelly, director for Mercedes-Benz, said: "This proposal is exciting for the Brooklands site and Mercedes. We both share a rich heritage"
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Cheddar, The runway was cut quite a few years ago now by an access road. I lived about 800 yards away from the end of the runway when the last plane was flown in (the sultans VC10 I think). Nearly took the Aerial off my roof.
Hello,
I bought a new SEAT Ibiza 2.0 Sport in April 2004. A week or so after buying it I started to notice rattles from the rear. These became progressively louder and eventually the dealer stripped the car to find that a number of rear panels had not been welded at the factory. They have since attempted repair twice, but the problem persists and the car sounds absolutely awful going over speedbumps etc.
I am not happy and have asked for a replacement car, based on the fact that it was not of satisfactory quality when I bought it. I have contacted SEAT UK and the car is to be inspected by someone from the VW group on Thursday. What do you think my chances are and what should I hold out for in terms of a compromise?
Thanks for your kind help,
Rob.
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A fair result I think Purbs, well done.
You may have got a better deal if you's actually taken them to Court but these things can have an effect on ones health.
Chalk It down to experience I guess.
Welcome to the ranks of disgruntled VAG owners, past and present.
CF
Four times in last 2 days, my Scenic has made a thump/bang whilst braking at slow speeds whilst steering wheel was turned. Twice when reversing out driveway, and twice when I approached a left hand turning.
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As per rules of the site, allowed to name where good service has been given - Reg Vardy in Livingston.
First time a Service Manager has ever thanked me for giving him a problem!
Incidentally, whilst waiting, had a look round the showroom. The Modus really is a mini Scenic but still very spacious inside with what looked like a clever rear seating arrangement. They also had a Grand Scenic but I wasn't too impressed with the way the middle seats folded out the way to get into the rear. Rear access would definitely be for kids IMO, and god help them if the middle seat fell on them as they were trying to get in!
the owner of my first car(ford escort)i took it to a mechanic i know as a friend when it developed a fault.
You should of bought 1 of these he says pointing to a mitsubishi colt.larf i larf so loud i nearly wet myself.Its 1987 im 17 what the hell do i want a jap car for!!
37 now and still japless?
is there still honda for the aged mentality towards japanese
cars?
PS do we still class the mazda as japanese?
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Tom Shaw has beaten me to it. Us older ones have
heard too many stories about the Japanese. My uncle was captured
at Singapore and was made to build the Burma railway,
they did not treat him very well at all. He was
lucky to come home, his wife did not recognise him, he
weighed about four stones and suffered untill he died.
I would rather walk than drive a car from Japan.
Its amazing how selective some peoples history is, if you really felt the way you do then there wouldn't be a country in the world that you could buy a car from. Every country has done things in the past that their not proud of.
Can any body tell me how to serch the archive for a problem with temp sonser on a rover 214 n reg.
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As mfarrow says, or by clicking on the link below.
www.honestjohn.co.uk/forum/search.htm
hi,
is it a good idea to buy a used car from a main dealership without seeing or test driving it? any advice will be extremely helpful. Thanks Read more
For something cheap enough, from an ebay seller with enough sensible looking feedback, then I'd buy unseen - on the basis that one can always reject it.
On the other hand, if you're paying a few thousand for something, you'd surely want to have a look at it, just in case the colour scheme was revolting, or there was some other similar problem with the vehicle - smell, maybe.
Otherwise, what do you mean by 'buying over the internet'? If you put your debit card number into a site you've never heard of, and expect a car to be delivered, then don't hold your breath! If on the otherhand, you fancy a car over the internet & then go to view, pay & collect it, that's using the internet as a source of advertisements, rather than 'buying it over the 'net'.
i have a golf 1.9 tdi 1999 mk 4, could anyone please tell me if there is a wrong way to put on a timing belt tensioner as the back plate has broken on mine this causing the cambelt to become loose.the parts were purchased from vw and were waranted for 2 years as my car has gone back to vw garage they are saying that there is 2 ways of fitting so they are trying to blame my mechanic. could anyone please give some advice on this asap.
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Would any backroomers know of any cars which allow you to have warm air coming from most of the heating vents but cold air coming onto your face? The only cars I know that do this are mercedes where the centre console vents give cold air whatever is coming out of the floor and side vents.
Mrs Ratty likes this feature a great deal, but we are put off by all the merc horror stories and hope that you might be able to suggest some alternatives. Thanks in advance (hopefully). Read more
Hear, hear!
I'm sure that sat nav is A Good Thing and here to stay. I have noticed, however that the calculator, another Good Thing, has produced a generation who, while not exactly innumerate, now have no skills at all in mental arithmetic, can't 'tot up' a colimn of figures, and will often unquestioningly accept any answer a calculator comes up with, however daft.
I wonder if sat nav, in its turn, is now producing a generation who not only cannot read a map but who may be in danger of losing any sense of the country's -- or even Europe's -- topography.
I use sat nav now where it will help, and like to think that I move with the times, but I love maps as I love books. Is there any hope that, just as the computer still has not replaced the book (as has so often been wrongly forecast) so sat nav will never quite replace the map?
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>>"Far more fun to have a map and do the woman thing of turning it around and around so it follows the way you're going!"
'ang on a minute, PoloGirl. Feminism's getting a bit out of hand when it lays claim to the centuries-old standard procedure of turning the map to line it up with the landscape. It's called 'orienting the map' in the army and elsewhere. Sound map-reading practice, and one of the skills we may lose. If any bloke chaffs you for it, tell him that if it's good enough for the SAS . . .
Some years ago, a French publisher printed a reversible road atlas, with upside-down maps on the reverse pages to make the process easier for those who can't read upside-down names.
But it does me old 'eart good to hear that rumours of the map's death are so greatly exaggerated.
Browse
thanks both.