July 2006
I'm noticing a lot of cars out there with pink, fluffy steering wheel covers. Are you "in" or are you being trad like me and sticking with leather?
JH Read more
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Have a read of this Euro NCAP test of the Toyota RAV 4, Pay attention to the comments at the bottom of the page in the frontal impact box.
Im not happy that a major world manufacturer like Toyota is taking that attitude to safety, They have enough money to sort the problem, They should be forced to issue a recall.
You need a PDF reader to view it.
www.euroncap.com/images/results/Small_Off-Roaders/...A RAV4 Datasheet.pdf Read more
the n-cap test is just that and they normally smack these cars up at a far higher speed than us poor mortals would be likely to live through....
i am 100% sure that if toyota thought there was a non airbag safety issue at stake or the fact that the late firing of the airbags was an issue a safety recall would have been done either at their own request or at the insistance of vosa...
personally i dont think its an issue at all......
sorry.....
Does anyone have experience of these tyres, do they wear well etc... Read more
I use Conti's on my Ford Ka as they were original equipment from new, they perform brillianty despite the price tag. The rears are still the originals, with about 4mm of tread left on them after 40k miles
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Its not what you drive, its how you drive it! :-)
Itsa 1981 280 auto V6 petrol. The problem is that the brake pedel travels almost to the floor at over 8000 rpm. The servo and master cylinder have been changed to no avail. It has been bled and there is plenty of meat on the shoes and pads. I was wondering if there is some regulator that determines brake power at high speed. It is in the hands of a classic Mercedes mechanic at the moment and he hasn't been able to trace the fault so far. Read more
It's a straight six engine then, not a V6?
i have a astra 1.6 16v year 2000, when i drive from cold the car seems to judder like its on choke, if the lights are at green and i have done 4 miles or so its still the same, however if they are at red and i stop the revs are at 11000rpm and drop down to 800rpm as normal then all is fine!! i have seen on here it might need the ecu re-programing?? or is there anything else that holds the revs?? its fine when warm i service the car every 10,000mls regardles any ideas?? Read more
yes got a bit carried away with the noughts!! 1100 revs, i'll have a look in the throtle body cheers.
Despite the screaming drunks and loonies and all the fire and plod sirens, not to mention the ordinary clamour of the inner city, my London main road sometimes seems almost peaceful even in some of the minutes of daylight.
Then this noise begins to penetrate all the other noises, like a cheap modern alarm clock. After half an hour it stops. Then three minutes later it starts again for another half-hour.
Last time, a year ago, eventually there were people looking at it: an Escort van belonging to some half-witted artisan. He came and turned it off. This was after several hours during which people had called the authorities, who asked for the registration number and eventually called the pink fluffy dice on his mobile.
Today it was going again, for a good couple of hours. DK if it was the same vehicle. But longing thoughts of paraffin bombs must have been present in many brains other than mine. Just a brief flurry of much louder NYAA-NYAA-NYAA-NAYAA, a bit of shouting and then blessed silence.
8< SNIP 8< last comment removed - DD Read more
!5+ years ago at Port Merion we were in the car park and a car fairly near to us had an alarm which kept going off at seemingly random intervals. The alarm sounded for a couple of minutes and then re-set for about 3-4 minutes and then went off again, ad infinitum.
We went for a walk round the village and on our return the alarm was going off as described above. We had been at our car for a short while (having a drink from the Thermos) when the owner(s) appeared. I went over to the driver and told him that his alarm had been going off and he replied, "Oh yes its supposed to!" His reasoning was that as the alarm was making a noise, it was more effective at scaring off the bad-guys than a silent car which only made a noise after it had been attacked.
I suppose there is some logic here, but thankfully not many people seem to have adopted it.
Mods - Not in IHAQ because of motoring content.
Does any BRer have experience of an ISOfix "0+1" child seat, please?
I can find ISOfix "0+" seats, ISOfix "1" seats, and non-ISOfix "0+1" seats, but not any ISOfix "0+1" seats.
For clarity; in this context "0+" means from birth to 13KG whereas "0+1" means from birth all the way through to 18KG (approx four years of age).
I wrote to Britax who replied to say that in their case the anomaly exists because of timing; their non-ISOfix "First Class Si" permits rearward facing for babies to nine months and forwards facing from nine months to four years, but the ISOfix equivalent is still at the design stage; it will arrive in production too late for me (well, for the twins, to be precise) and I can't find any other ISOfix "0+1" seat.
If push comes to shove we will buy two ISOfix bases and two ISOfix "0+" seats now, then later on two ISOfix "1" seats, but it would be good to buy ISOfix "0+1" seats from the outset and be done with it.
TVM. Read more
Slightly O/T but car seat related:
This month one of the baby magazines my wife buys has a feature on the new car seat laws - if your child is under 4 foot 6 inches tall and aged under 11 from September they still need to be in a suitable car seat.
The feature is quite extensive and gives tips on different car seats, fixing mechanisms and tips for buying. Two tips are - never buy a second hand seat - you don't know if it's damaged and if you buy from a distance you don't know if it's suitable for your car. Always try a car seat in your car to ensure it can be fitted safely. All good stuff.
You then turn over two pages and what is the competition prize? A brand new car seat! Not a voucher for one, but an actual car seat.
Surely offering the seat as a prize flies directly in the face of the advice they are giving in the article two pages before and in my mind could be considered irresponsible and possibly negligent. If the competition winner fits this seat in their car thinking it's suitable and in an accident found not to be are the magazine liable?
My wife has e-mailed her concerns to the magazine in question so we'll see what they say.
I am trying to wire up a trailer electrical socket and asked advice at a Peugeot dealer. I was told that if it was not multiplex, I could just connect up to the wires to each light etc.. However, if it was multiplex, then I would need o purchase a genuine Peugeot wired up plug.
I was then told that I myself would be unable to tell if it was multiplex or not, and I would need to take it in for the dealer to look at.
Can anyone help me to find out the answer? What do I look for? And if it is a multiplex version, do I really only have the one option of buying a genuine Peugeot plug?
The car is a March 2000 reg 1761 cc petrol LX estate. Thank you. Read more
No need to worry about buttons; your car is not multiplexed so you know how to proceed.
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Number plates for cyclists!! now that's a good idea! Read more
Bad habits learned in ignoring, and having no regard for the law whilst a young cyclist, with no consequences, are carried into adulthood and transferred to powered vehicles, where laws are often treated with utter contempt. The trouble is, boundaries of social acceptability change, and one man's fog lights on is another man's no insurance, and dreckless driving, drink driving, and before you know it.............
Mike
recently had second hand turbo fitted by garage as was told that was the problem .but still having problems with lack of power when going up hill speed drops to 10miles and unable to get into higher than second gear also car has stalled on several occasions . was told oil in turbo when fitted was causing this but not convinced this is so , any ideas gratefully recieved Read more
Sb
Assuming that this is a 1.8TD and not something later; then also check the thin pipe from the inlet manifold to the aneroid unit [round tin thing] on the injection pump. They're well prone to splitting the rubber connector hose between the two. Any splits will spit oil; so if it's all oily - look hard.
Browse
>>can get sanguinary hot in the sun.>>
...and so can seat belt buckles too as I found out the other day...:-(
By the way do the steering wheel covers come in that lovely lime green?
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