May 2006
I see that someone has leaked pics of the new freeleander - you can se them on 4car.co.uk Read more
I have purchased a Rover 416 BUT the car is loosing water now , when the car is revved I can see a shooting of water coming from just behind the exhaust manifold . I have been told its the head gasket gone , seems strange considering the car has only done 45,000 miles and there is no oil in with the water and vise versa . Any ideas or was the mechanic right ? Read more
Do not drive this car any further, you may be able to save it in time. K Series HGF at this mileage doesn't come as any surprise.
I expect the water heated inlet manifold gaskets have gone, causing the leak.
Hi all,
I don't suppose anyone was travelling on the M1 today between J21 and J25 at around 4-5pm. I saw 6 unmarked cars with blue lights flashing going Southbound while I was going North. First was a Scooby, Honda Accord was another (X plate) followed closely by another 4 (couldn't see what they were.)
Anyone see where they went or what was going down?
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Surveillance team catching up with a train.......I reckon.
some lowlife put a brick through the sunroof of my mondeo. i have comp insurance with norwich union. have rang the customer centre twice. twice because they are based in india the the first person was unsure. the second person says the sunroof is not covered under windscreen cover. it will be treated as a seperate claim whose excess is £175.
are they correct?
on my policy document it says windscreen/window/sunroof is covered and will not affect the no claims bonus. However it does not say what the excess is for sunroof.
has anyone had experience with a broken sunroof and insurance Read more
No the headlining doesn't need to come out just the 6 screws.
The Haynes referenece was just a thing about putting it back together in the reverse order of removing it, sorry for the confusion.
Picked up my new Berlingo on Monday, had been ordered at end of April. Got it for what I considered a very good price with Cit cashback of £1400, interest free credit and a very good dealer discount etc. Joe the salesman had kept in contact, let me know when it had left the factory, when they received it, when I could pick it up etc (complete with huge bunch of high quality flowers for my wife!). All went very smoothly and I was chuffed to death with it. Today my wife took a phone call from Darren the sales manager.
"You know you got cashback of £1400 on the Blingo? Well, the cashback offer has changed for May, and you car was delivered in May. We have just been credited on our account with £1900 cashback so there is a cheque for £500 in the post for you"
Now, I would never have looked up the cashbacks for this month, and even if I had I would just have said to myself that I should have waited another month to buy so I reckon this is pretty good of the dealer, especially since there is no way I could find out how much cashback they had been credited with - so all credit to them for being so honest and straight.
Luffield of Belton Road, Loughborough. As a satisfied customer I can highly recommend their service.
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I got good service from both the Citroen dealers from which I bought ZXs.
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L\'escargot.
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I am the only Pole over here. Read more
Normally yes, and justifiably: but it was badly caught out last week by a particularly stupid one-way system on the south side of the Clyde in Glasgow (I was trying to get to the Tulip Inn in Ballater St, for those of you who know Glasgow).
It could have changed in the 6 months that I've had my Tomtom - or does anyone else have Tomtoms that can't cope with illogical one-way streets?
Thought I would start a thread where people can describe some of the most awkward cars to work on and the actual tasks involved.
To start, I would like to nominate changing a clutch cable on a 1993 Vauxhall Astra 1.4 as a real 'back breaker'as one has to hook the cable into the pedal whilst trying to hold a torch and manipulating the hooked end of the cable using long needle nosed pliers through a 1.5 cm gap between the foot pedals. No room to reach round the pedals either.
Another frustrating job was loosening off exhaust manifold down pipe bolts on a Citroen XM 2.1 TD. Can't get to them from underneath because of very limited access. Had to make up an extra long tool by welding a 10mm spanner to an old screwdriver then bending it to get correct shape. Then one has to hope the nuts aren't seized or rounded off...
Anyone had bad repair experiences?
Spanner
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Changing a headlamp mounting bracket on a Lotus Elise!
Oh what fun that was!
I have a 2HA axle from a Jaguar But I do not know which model. Does anybody have any ideas please and possibly its value? Thank you. Read more
Thank you for your advice. Regards.
I have a V plate Vauxhall Zafira 1.8 petrol with a non functioning heater.
I been told by Vauxhall that the hot water valve needs replacing after it started to make a clicking noise when the rotary heater control was turned.
Apart from lack of heat, the engine temperature gauge reaches normal and the engine has never overheated etc.
They said it's a 6 and a half hour 'dashboard out' job to change it.
Anyone out there know any different?
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Haynes manual 3758 Vauxhall/Opel Astra & Zafira covers it.
I didn't think there was a hot water valve, I thought it was an "air-blending" type of heater. There's no reference to it in Haynes.
i just got some off a kind rac windscreens man im gona try it on a long but very light scratch on my windscreen.
Just wondered if anyone had used it for any tips etc? Read more
With lots of patience on your part, you should successfully remove the scratch from your windscreen. Polish awhile, remove the rouge, check how the scratch is improving, and repeat.
You'll need a fibre-free cloth (a lens cleaning cloth for glasses or a chamois would do) to apply it. When you're done, use isopropyl alcohol to remove the residue of the rouge - so make sure the cloth isn't coloured as the alcohol risks leaching out the dye and ruining your careful work.
I've used jeweller's rouge frequently to remove scratches from (very brittle and easily scratched) salt plates used to hold samples for chemical analysis in spectrophotometers. Even with these, it can take up to an hour to remove the surface scratches, but it does work eventually.
Let's hope that reliability and build quality are better.