Mine was a Simca 1100 in the 80's. Oh how they laughed but my £300 gave me sveral years of motoring and it was a doodle to service..wings just bolted on and off etc etc. You could turn it into a van and the dog loved it. Whats yours? Read more

The ministry of transport or whatever they are called now, will be banning HGV drivers for two weeks in the North Shropshire area. The reason for this is that they are breaking the 40mph speed limit on the A41 and A53, both these roads give access to the M54-M6, and are both single carrigeway roads with a 40mph limit for HGV. There speed violations have not been caught by the police or cameras, but by checking of tacho discs.There has been a big crack down by the ministry in this area and more than 200 drivers have been caught by this underhand method.If this system was abopted for car drivers then every single driver in the UK would get a fine.I thought to be given a speeding fine they needed to prove speed, time, (which they can with a tacho) and location. So now this means the traffic conditions will be terrible on these roads as all the trucks do 40mph. The law of HGV speed is so out of date, about 1936 I think, the stopping distance of an HGV now, is better than that of a car in 1936. I am not an HGV driver but my neighbour is, and yes he will be banned for two weeks. Read more

Does anyone know how to bleed the clutch on a V reg Voyager? There doesn't seem to be a bleed nipple on the slave cylinder only a small allen key screw that opens a vent. Can't get any pressure in the system and the pedal goes to the floor. Someone said that the system might have to be pressure bled. Thanks for any advice. Read more

The display on my odometer has blanked out, and the problem appears to lie with the speedo head. The only solution is a replacement speedometer.

However, it's an 8-year old car which I intend to 'run into the ground', the speed indication and all other instrumentation is fine, so given the cost of a new speedo I propose to ignore it. I can live without an odometer -- it rarely moves much anyway, now that I'm retired, and service intervals are no problem since I never reach the mileage anyway and service by the calendar.

I wonder, though -- is the odometer an MOT item? The speedometer obviously is, but that's working normally. True, the MOT certificate carries the vehicle's indicated mileage at the time of the test, but can a vehicle be failed for lack of such indication? Since the instrument is not tested at MOT, and anyway the testing station has no idea as to whether the indicated mileage is even true, then I don't see how it can be. Read more

(This is not an invitation to enter into the question as to whether you think that the resulting car might or might not be roadworthy! Though I've no doubt it will soon feature...)

Suggestions for a car, for a £99 budget, that will do a few heavy tows in the short term. I dare say that it will have to come from eBay. It needs a life expectancy of not very long; it needs to pull like a train & it needs, of course, to be roadworthy.

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