June 2005
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?
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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
Hi,
After a slight error when my wife said the oil light was on, I suggested getting oil and putting a drop in. just enough to last until the weekend... Unfortunately, due to an error in communications, she got oil, put it in. The same night when I got home, I put in some oil... OK My fault, I should have dipped it but we both put oil in. So, the following morning (today) she informs me it is smoking badly... On her way home going up a hill, she lost power and LOTS of smoke out the back. I was able after letting the car sit get it up the hill and home.
Can someone confirm that:
the smoking is caused by too much oil
A N D
the loss of power and excessive smoke is also due to too much oil and the hill incline didnt help...
The car is 10 years old and is needing a clutch amongst other things... We just need this car running for another month or 2 before we change!
Please help... Read more
How much oil does this thing take?
I have vague recollections of it being 5 litres. However, as you've already put 4 litres in, add a small amount (100 ml) at a time and keep checking the dipstick measurement.
Ok
well i have bought a car which was advertised as having heated seats, when i noticed a couple of days later that there werent any i wrote the seller (a small dealer) a letter saying so and that i wanted a full refund on the car. The gearbox has also turned out to be dodgy (the gears slip)
he has offered to repair the car's gearbox and install heated seats but i want a refund, which i am totally entitled to but he refuses.
Now the car cost 10k so its not gonna go to small claims court.
what will happen if it goes to court, is there any chance he can win? Read more
If he employs a lawyer, in the Small Claims Court he can't claim those costs back irrespective of whether he wins or loses. (Neither can you, so if you do spend half an hour with a lawyer, you won't see that ~£50 again).
However all you can claim are the costs of repairing the car, not the whole amount, as there is a limit of £5,000.
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