June 2005
Ok,
I am possibly going to buy a car but need to pick it up pretty sharpish, but wont have my insurance docs in by that time.
Is it totally illegal to drive it home without roadtax?
Advice appreciated.
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Yesterday I put a deposit down on a Citroen C3 1.4 SX, six months old from local Citroen Dealer. I had actually gone out to look at C1's, but they were too small: considered a new C3 Desire but having test drove the 54 reg SX on the forecourt, bought that for slightly cheaper, at £8495 before discount PX etc. I am happy with the deal, the finance and glad of the PX for my Octavia. £500 Deposit left.
One slight problem was that i had a look around on Auto trader when i got home and found apparently the same car for £7,495 on the net. Not a different car, but the same one. The doubt is the car on the net is described as a Desire, but the spec is a SX, and the mileage and age is identical to mine. They also only have two C3's for sale at the moment, and the other one is older and a different colour. Unfortunately and unusually, there's no photo on the AT advert.
Now, if i had bought a car and found another one with same spec somewhere else for £1000 cheaper, you'd put that down to experience, or maybe forfeit deposit at Dealer A and buy the cheaper car, thereby still saving £500. However, what we seem to have is a car advertised on the forecourt for one price and on the web for £1000 less. The AT advert does say to contact a salesman and claim the AT discount, but it isn't stated that the £7495 is a special AT price.
Is there any mileage in going back and asking for more discount?
Sorry for long post
(BTW, i'm fairly philosophical about this, the reverse happened when we bought my wife's Almera and we got £1,000 off due to the (other) dealer's mistake. What goes around and all that!)
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Bazza - the salesman in my view was guilty of very questionable practice.
Also how many times have you seen that attarctively priced car on the website only to be told 'its just been sold' when you ring up or visit ' but I have this one at £X thousand more -
Its downright dodgy practice and when I was looking for SWMBO Yaris last year it happened surprisingly often. Its an old trick
The salesmans sin was one of omission ( 'forgetting ' to tell Mare of the lower internet price ) rather than a sin of commission ( telling an outright lie) but if I was dealing with him in my business and he had tried it on me he would not be dealing with me again , ever.
Heading over to Manchester on Friday night, was overtaken by a new (completely debadged - testing?) Micra C+C - SWMBO was driving so I grabbed the XDA2 and took a couple of photos, so the quality is fairly low :
groups.msn.com/honestjohn/interestingshots.msnw?ac...9
Funny looking thing in the metal - rear end is a bit fussy, the front and back look too high (pedestrian safety?) and there doesn't look to be much room at all inside.
However, when we got past it and had a good look at the front it does look cute, with a "smiley" face. If it's cheap enough it might be worth a punt for the Japanese style bomb-proof reliability, but it's got a lot of stiff competition if it comes in around 13-15k, and the opposition look like more appealing.
-- Lee Having a Fabialous time. Read more
Good find, that site RF.
The back end on those photos is a bit different - it's not quite as flat looking in the metal; the lights are different though.
-- Lee Having a Fabialous time.
My 97 1.6 Primera has a problem with the ABS.
Sometimes when coming to a stop at low speed the ABS operates.
I had a NS CV boot changed just over a year ago and the mechanic did report something loose which he loctited back on.
I suspect that the fault lies with the ABS rotor.
Is this easy to check? What needs to be removed?
Any help or other suggestions welcome. Read more
Finally got the car into a garage to get this done.
It was the O/S CV joint that was the problem. The ABS ring was damaged and had some teeth missing.
My local independant charged around £150 all in.
Hi
does any one know how to reset this, the imobiliser works fine, but the lamp flashes constantly.
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Hi,
apart from renault does any one else do replacement keys for clios, the imobilser transponder isnt working in one of mine.
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Ed666
Yes I know the exact spot
Thanks a lot
Alan
Hi All
I'm helping to resuscitate a friends '99 Saxo VTS and there appears to be something *very* strange happening with the electrics. I've owned and worked on everything from CXs to Xantia Activas but never seen a thing like this.
The near side indicators all stay on with or without the key in the ignition. I have tried:
- Leaving battery disconnected for 24hrs
- Changing Flasher relay
- Checking and re-checking all fuses
- Cleaning and inspecting all earths
- Wiggling any and every wire/connector/component.
- Repeatedly arming/disarming the alarm
I should point out that this does have the factory fit alarm and this does flash the indicators when arming so I am assuming this to be the culprit.
Is this a fault anyone else may have come across?
Another issue is that the blower fan and power steering aren't working. From looking at the car it seems to be an electric pump but again I have checked all the fuses and can?t find a relevant relay.
All and any help would be very much appreciated!
Tom
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I've also hydraflushed the Activa, and I think a lot of the old fluid stayed in the Activa rams - I wasn't aware that non-Activas witheld a lot of fluid too.
I also need to look at the antisink valve (all spheres changed), height correctors, Activa control rods and finally Activa Ram bushes!!
Maybe this is going a little too OT now ;-)
My local radio station has a phone in every morning on things to "help the listeners".
The other day there, it was how to shift dead bugs off the windscreen, front of car etc. Usual ideas inc vinegar and newspaper on windows, off the shelf bug killers etc.
However, one person said that when going on long journey, they just smear front of car with a Vaseline type jelly and then hose off at the end of journey.
Would this work, I assume it wouldn't damage the paintwork but would it have any affect on the waxes / polish on the car?
For those of you that hammer along each day then I can see you not bothering too much, but for someone like myself who might travel down South a couple of times a year I think it might not be too bad an idea as I usually have to wash car several times to get rid of all the bugs.
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Why not go the whole hog and buy a car bra?
My son came in today with new Top Trump Cards - the ones where each card has various technical specs eg engine size, top speed etc and the idea is you compare these to the other player and the best of each spec wins the cards.
I remember playing this about 30 years ago, but in my cards, the best cars were the Jensen Interceptor and the Lambo Countach!
Todays pack has everything from a Clio sport to a MacLaren F1!
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1308cc !
I am in question asking mode at the moment -:)
SWMBO is learning to drive at the mo.
(I've just figured out what that acronym stands for - slow that I am :))
Our daughters bloke has offered to be the passenger-advisor when I am working late and cannot get home for the daily ride of terror.
Question is - is he allowed to be the accompanying qualified driver if he not insured to drive the car himself?
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Thanks for the replies. I Reckon it might still be best to put him on the insurance if its going to be a regular occurrance.
Browse
book it in for an MOT at the nearest station to you if it passes you get 12 months ticket and you get the car home if it fails you still get the car home ...easy and legal...cheers...keo.