June 2005
Hi all,
after purchasing my backbox today, I saw a silver car approaching. I thought "That bloke's done a tasteful job on his 'goona" as the headlights were tinted in much the same way as the ST170 lights are on the Focus"
It went past and I had a look - the back lights were completely different. They looked almost like Integra rear lights. They were the same shape but looked a lot newer and cleaner (kinda like Lexus lights but no silver to be seen and certainly not as stupid looking). It was in silver, and the bloke was an oldish gent wearing a suit - didn't strike me as the type to do his car up.
Despite not being a Renault fan, I like the Laguna. This new one makes me like it even more.
Oh - and on the subject of new cars, I saw the new Focus saloon on the road before. I was overtaking so got a good look at the side and front before letting it pass. Got to say, looks very nice but the tail lights let it down. Quite bland and Mondeo looking.
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Adam Read more
After years of having a protected NCD which would have allowed me to make an unlimited number of claims without penalty, my latest renewal notice now specifies a maximum of 3 claims in 3 years without penalty. Is this now the norm in the car insurance trade?
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L\'escargot by name, but not by nature. Read more
Story was I had an accident, car was a write off so the policy was cancelled. I then got quotes from all the ins companies, including the one who the claim was with. Turned out it was cheaper to move to Norwich Union. Hope this helps.
Advice from fellow readers requested ... My Nissan Primera is getting old and needs to be replaced. I can set the heater to warm the cabin and cool my face at the same time. Great for keeping alert on long winter motorway journeys. Most new cars these days have sophisticated systems that cannot achieve this simple setting. Does anyone know of a current car (other than Rover) where the heating/ventialtion setting can work like this?
Thanks for your help. Read more
How bizarre. 55 reg Mondeo I'm hiring doesn't have that button
on it with air to face and feet. Has one button
for air to feet, one for air to face and one
for air to windscreen!
You can select two of them - so achieving the result you want.
Hi All.
I need to get a new front door speaker - how do you measure them ?
1. Across the diagonal - opposite holes
or
2. Straight across
Many thanks in anticipation to a reply to this ! Read more
Yes indeed. I found that the readily obtainable speakers were marginally smaller than VW ones across the mounting holes.
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I wasna fu but just had plenty.
can hardly read mileometer reading as it so dull can you change a bulb to brighten this up Read more
In all probability, yes (although I've not yet had to try).
I take it that the actual figures are accurate and move on as you would expect?
after power washing my 406 1.9 diesel engine the rev counter has stopped working properly does anybody have any ideas what is wrong with it or even where it gets its feed from Read more
Argh!
Don't know why it does it, but mine (same car) sticks at 1,800 rpm. Sometimes it clears itself, but the problem always comes back pretty quickly. Since the rev counter problem began to manifest itself, the speedo has started sticking (most often at 40 mph, though often at other speeds), moving up and down to get to the sticky speed.
I suspect, from online research, that it's due to bad soldering inside the instrument panel causing an intermittent connection (knocking the glass generally cures the speedo problem) but I'm not entirely certain.
My route to work is pretty hilly and on some of the gentler downhill slops I tend to drop the car into neutral to let it coast along around the speed limit, with the aim of saving a little fuel.
In some of these situations if I was to put it in gear with foot off throtle the engine braking effect would be too great thus requiring use of the throttle and a waste of fuel.
Is there anyting wrong with coasting along in neutral, both in mechanical and bad driving practice terms?
I guess one downside is that you cannot suddenly accelerate if needed, but if you were in 5th say, your potential for accelearting sharply would be minimal anyway.
Your thoughts? Read more
On my daily queue to work i often knock the car into neutral and coast slowly to a standstill from about 20mph. It saves me constantly holding the clutch in for a few seconds before crawling along a bit further - i just coast along in neutral then select first or second when needed, which i find a much more comfortable style of driving in these conditions. I don't see anything wrong with doing this?
According to the BBC, a Trabby can now trade for as much as 7,000 pounds. Is this true?
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/derbyshire/4620217.stm Read more
They're only worth £7000 because he's got most of them so if you want one you have to go to him and pay his price!!
Cheers, SS
I have a Megane Scenic 1.9DTi, 60,000 on the clock, everything has been fine except recently the CD player stopped working, doesn't even come on, and then a couple of days later the LCD display went blank. Could this be just a fuse, or somehting to do with the computer. Also I have noticed that when the heater control is turned right down to cold, warm air still comes through, I know its been hot recently, but even when the fan is on full blast for a while, the air is warmer than the ambient temperature. I've heard of heater problems with Scenics, but they have usually been air too cold, not the other way round. Any ideas? Read more
My daughter, now living away from home, has a pug 106 1998 R plate and is telling me that the steering feels heavier than it used to be. How heavy does a 106 feel if the pump fails or blows a fuse or may be a faulty relay. I sent the manual down with the car when she was last up here, Scotland, so any information fuse number and relay number and location would be appreciated. I know heavy is not a good description but she's a lassie. Thanks. Peter Read more
Thanks mjm, I have a manual ( same as yours from memory ) but I left it in the car so it is now in Birminghan. It has an EHPS system and have obtained details of which fuses and relays to check. Apparrently a corroded connector at the pump is the most likely cause so her boyfriend who is visiting her today can check it out and give me some feedback. Thanks again, Regards Peter
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I did only get a glimpse RF - I was doing about 70 in the opposite direction. I'm on about the rear lights specifically not the rear profile.
Looks nice either way.
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Adam