March 2006
There is a report in today`s Autocar, that one of China`s leading manufacturers Chery is planning to launch a range of quality vehicles, priced at 30% below their Western equivalents, into the European market from 2008.
If the price was`nt enough concern for European manufacturers, they are also promising 100,000 mile / 10 year warranties.
If this truly is the case, much of the motor industry in Europe could follow the demise of the motor cycle industry into total oblivion.!!!!! Read more
Under my sunvisor a flap lifts up revealing a mirror and at the same time switching on a lamp to illuminate it. The flap has warped so that it fails to switch off the lamp when it's closed. I think the fact that the lamp remains on may have made matters worse, as the lamp lies against the flap when the visor is up and the flap gets warm. My local Skoda dealer tells me that VW can only supply a new sunvisor for £45.50 plus fitting rather than a new flap. As far as I can see it's a small plastic fitting, so can this be true?
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Thanks charlesb & Ishok Leyland. Skoda told me they have a similar fitting in a Superb, but it's different from the one on EBay which slides, rather than being a flap. I seem to have cured the problem with a hairdryer. Heated the flap, bent it back into shape while it cooled, and it seems to be OK now.
Is there still a requirement for headlights to be at least a certain height from the ground?
As I recall the large degree of camber of the front wheels of early Hillman Imps was the result of a quick fix to raise the headlights to the required minimum. On later models I think the vertical position of the pivots of the front suspension arms was altered to take out the camber without lowering the headlights.
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Wasn't the MG raised for the American market as the headlights
were also too low? Blocks under the suspension to increase height
by 1½", IIRC.
DD,
I think it was the US safety regs that caused this...the bumber height of the original chrome bumper MGB was too low and hard, hence the revised (higher) rubber bumper model....with wrecked handling and much poorer looks.
StarGazer
where do you locate the VIN number on a 2005 renault clio??
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Not sure about the Clio but on a lot of Renaults
including mine it's on the passenger side windscreen, at the bottom.
Tick - yup should be there
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TourVanMan TM < Ex RF >
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Through work I've become aware that the EU and Ertice (www.ertico.com) are pushing for crash notification monitoring devices in every new vehicle by 2009.
Who will be receiving the info and what will they do with it? Read more
No, that would be too simple, these are EU bureaucrats.
Please. Am coming to the frozen north v.shortly taking M5-M6 off Jct.19 - A556 -A560 - M56 -M60 -which should I take Jct.26 or 25?
Tks in Adv. for advice.
Phil I Read more
Phil - have you arrived?
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Espada III - well if you have a family and need a Lamborghini, what else do you drive?
Morning all,
Obviously tyre choice gets covered alot on the forum, but I thought I would ask if anyone had any strong recommendations for our Astra G estate, as it needs 4 new tyres.
Size is 195/60 R15.
Main priorities are quietness, economy and abrasion resistance.
At the mo´ I´m thinking of getting Michelins (?74/corner)
Any thoughts?
regards all,
barchettaman Read more
I can get Dunlop sp01´s for ?65,50 a corner (40 quid?), so that´s decision made.
Car: Mercedes Benz "E" Class Estate 320 CDI May 01 Reg: 37,000 miles
Problem: I cannot get the engine revs above 2000 rpm when trying to accelerate in top gear. Engine will rev beyond 2000 rpm in neutral and in the lower gears as the car accelerates, but once in top there is no response once 2000 rpm is reached. Dropping the auto box down a gear does not help and there is no response to "kick down"
My MB garage diagnosed a failure in the Air Mass Sensor and this was replaced.
The car was fine for a day, but the the problem reappeared.
I am concerned at the cost of getting the garage to search for clues to the problem, so if anyone here has any suggestions, I should be most grateful
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Well, it's over a month now, taffyrts - any joy?
It isn't academic interest totally, I run the same model.
An advert for the Hillman Imp showed one going round a curve in the road. The caption was "Tear round (or was it along?) the dotted line".
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Going back a bit, and a poster rather than a TV advertisement, my favourite amongst many MG advertisements was the one showing a black MGB GT - with the black rubber bumper! - and the slogan "Psychologists say a saloon car is a wife and a sports car is a mistress".
As the actor Ian Richardson used to say in "House of Cards", "You may say so, I couldn't possibly comment."
Rather nice to have both - types of cars I mean ....
Jack
Browse
I said it because a lot of British people are only too ready to slag off the British working man and woman and British companies, and sometimes even Britain as a whole, whilst at the same time considering themselves to be in a superior class and not part of this system. I accept that this does not apply to you and I apologise unreservedly. However, the fact of the matter is that one reason that Chinese industry is on the up at the moment is that Chinese workers accept lower wages and a lower standard of living. They know their place and most British people don't. It may not remain like that forever in China, in fact I'm sure it won't. But at the moment that is the situation. Most of the problems at the moment in this country, both social and economic, are due to people not knowing their place.
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