March 2006
Chevrolet have just reduced their car prices until 31st March.
Matiz 0.8S now £5295 reduced from £6095
Kalos 1.4SX now £7645 reduced from £8995
Lancetti SW 1.6SX £8995 reduced from £11095
Tacuma 1.6SX £8995 reduced from £10995
For full details go to www.chevrolet.co.uk/offers/march_markdown.htm
I am not sure if these are discontinued models or does it mean Chevy cars are not selling very well?
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Roger
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Just been given a delivery date of 12th April for my
CRD version and have started the 'countdown'. You are right about
the resemblance to the Rover P5 Commerdriver, thats one of the
unique aspects about the 300C...it has the ability to be brash
American 'bling' or sedate British exec depending on what mods etc
you carry out.
Hi Geordie1
I bet that you're really excited to have got a delivery date for your car, as you say counting down the days.
You mention making "mods" to your car. Have you considered changing the grill ? Whilst the original one looks very very good, there are some American aftermarket grills available to pesonalise your car. One of the best available is called the T-Rex, and is apparently the dogs dangly bits.
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Just for you 'BobbyG'.....
A 6 inch stretched version is due for launch stateside. You have in fact hit on one of the endearing styling features re long bonnet and shorter boot(which is biiiiiggggg!)
Rest assured...the style grows on you (no pun intended).
Geordie
Hi,
Have a very curious issue with power steering on AR147 2.0. After crusing (70mph or so ) for 20-30 mins I occasionally have experienced what feels like zero power steering when decelerating and steering-a very startling experience !! It only lasts a second or two and 'normal service resumes' - again, it's intermittent.
The fluid level goods and can't see any leaks anywhere
Anyone any ideas ? (besides taking it in to a rip-off Alfa garage that is !!)
Many thanks
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Probably a sticking valve in the system. I once had this on a nearly-new Zafira that I was driving for the day. Very nasty when it happens.
Morning all,
This is something that has been bugging me for a quite a while now. I though the idea of having the letter at the beginning of the enumber plate to identify where you were from was a really good idea, but since it is actually relevant to where the car was registered and not where you live seems to defeat the object. I live in Sheffield, but my registration in AX, which is from East Anglia where my parents live and bought the car, and in Sheffield there is a huge number of cars that don't have the local YS or YP prefix. Whay also did they decide to go with some obscure method of assigning letter to counties?
In Germany, each city/landkreis has a logical prefix letter assigned to it (Frankfurt is F, Wurzburg is WU etc)cars are registered to where you live not where the car is from, so it is immediately obvious where someone is from. If you move, you have to re-register your car. The British version just seems overly complicated! Read more
By the way this subject is called "Autonumerology" something like that.
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Its not what you drive, its how you drive it! :-)
I've been watching a BMW 528 for nearly a year now on a local forecourt, it's that lovely light green, S reg and in good nick but no-one's buying. It started at 6295 and is now down to 4995 but the important thing is it never moves. Does there come a point where a car is so used to doing nothing that all the parts stop working? Could a car that's stood for a year be a reliable one or is is fatally damaged. Should I go in and offer £3000 for cash? Read more
It'll be fine with some new brake discs I'm sure.
Our old 3 series used to stand for up to 6 months and started on the turn of the key and drove straight off when the battery was reconnected, and that was with no prior prep.
Blue
My son was trying to sell his car through the usual papers, Autotrader etc but after 2 weeks no luck - of course one the car matching people called and he cold shouldered them.
However yesterday they called again and he said that if they were that good he would give them £500 instead of £89 if "their match" bought the car. This of course was refused by them but soon after they called back - made remarks that were wholly inappropriate, swore and then rung off. The "agent" then phoned his home and was "less than polite" to my son's girlfriend.
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Better still, send the complaint to BT with a copy to the MD, so there's less opportunity for the recording of the call to go 'missing' when the tapes are stored away.
Regards,
- Gromit
Has anyone ever bought car from E-bay motors??, I have been looking at a 05 reg Clio Extreme 4, only 5000 miles and it is offer for "buy it now" for £4700 , is that just to good to be true??
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Seems suspiciously cheap to me.
The saga of my daughter's driving continues. She failed her second driving test this week. Going forward, she's a competent enough driver to pass. But her reversing isn't good. As this saga has been going on through 18 months of lessons it's becoming an expensive problem and living in Northern Scotland, with its dearth of public transport, we really need her to be able to drive.
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Good idea L but they don't help with positioning.
Not really a practical suggestion but don't the whizzier new Lexusessss have a rear camera and a "predictive" set of lines on the display screen which show where you'll end up the wheel in the current position? So obviously it's not a rare problem.
I recently came up against a tractor towing a l o n g trailer in a narrow street with parked cars. I had right of way but given what he was driving, I backed up. While I backed up he was busy reversing about 40 feet of tractor and trailer between parked cars quickly, smoothly and with about 3ft to spare at the rear. Amazing!
And I agree with the lady above, I'm far better at reverse parking than driving in forward, it always turn out a pigs ear.
JH
Nows your chance - the liquidators are having an auction:
www.channel4.com/4car/news/news-story.jsp?news_id=...4
A 765bhp ZT sound entertaining too! Read more
At least we know now where some of the money went that could have been spent on developing new mass market cars that might have sold and saved the company...if that's what the 'Phoenix Four' ever intended.
My lovely chrome badge on the centre of my 2003 Mark 4 Vauxhall Astra's steering wheel is badly damaged due to the steering lock that I use. Is it possible to remove and replace this badge and how do I go about it? I have looked on Ebay for a badge but I'm unable to locate one. I have been told through a friend who rebadged his Opel Astra to a Vauxhall Astra that this badge cannot be replaced on the streering wheel. I hope somebody can help. Thanks
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This may be a long shot, but Vauxhall Heritage Services are the obsolete parts arm linked to Vauxhall, but they can help sometimes with info on current parts too. www.vauxhallheritage.com/ They may be able to help if you give them a call & they may know who makes the badge or even if it was fitted to a non-airbag steering wheel (older base model Corsa, Astra, Vivaro etc)so you may be able to get the badge separately.
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A lot lower yet I think