August 2006
Does anyone know a good place/where to buy either a renault 25 or safrane?
Thanks
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Has anyone heard about the Citoen C15 not being sold in Britain anymore because it has vanashed from the van range on citroens web site?
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"van rouge or van blanc..."
Made me laugh.
Nearly choked on some red stuff
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Phil
Hiya.
1stly thank you all for your help & good humour in my van vs mpv for my bassets thread.
Looked at a right snotter of a T4 2.4 just now-yes that's the right size.
Also looked properly at the HJ car by car breakdown, searched on here & found the t4 forum & the 2 german T5 ones-thank you once again.
But you try finding a 2nd hand T4, let alone T5. Autotrader (so SWMBO says....she's usually spot on about these things..) has bog all. Really? Where should I be looking? FWIW I live about 5 mins away from Blackbushe, although shamefully I've never been to an auction there. Sold one once, but that's another story.
Or am I into get a specialist fella in? Or the VW dealer network? I do understand about you get what you pay for (hence looking at these) but my original budget has been totally blown. Anything to get the price down is good. Although I do love VW warranties..& that steering shaft issue looks highly unresolved.
Have the latest brochure for the brand new ones. Crumbs, it's like 1st Class on BA. Not that we'd know, as we usually get herded through to the back..
Where's those LCD screens in the headrests then?
Just so the bassets can watch TopCat DVD on an endless loop!
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The link below *should* take you through AutoBild´s table of fuel consumption increases for 4 cars with their aircon on - a Panda, Zafira, C-class and a Golf.
The bit on the left shows the different ambient temps tested: 20, 28 and 33 degrees.
The middle bit gives a percentage fuel consumption increase at 50 km/h.
The bit on the right the relative increase at 100km/h.
snipurl.com/vium
Zafira registered a 25.8% increase at 50km/h...
Regards all,
Barchettaman
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What I don?t understand is the big difference between consumption at different temperatures. I was always under the impression that climate control always ran the compressor but then mixed hot/chilled air to achieve the required interior temperature, only cutting out when the chilled air temp dropped to 5deg. I know most of these just have ?aircon? but it will be always "on" during all the tests.
P.S. Switching my Skoda Superb between ?auto? and ?econ?(compressor off) seems to make very little difference on the continuous MPG readout.
Just picked up car (99 PD TDi Tiptronic) after head gasket replacement.....(included new cambelt, tensioner, water pump, coolant and oil/filter)
Before repair car used to accelerate quite briskly but feels very sluggish post repair. Used to be able to overtake with ease, now I wouldn't be confident to even think about overtaking!
Anyone with any ideas?
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WOT Wide open throttle.
MAP Manifold pressure sensor.
Just a little observation I made today.
Yesterday i was cleaning a top-spec A4 estate which is about 6 months old and I have to say, Audi seems to be cheapening their interior trim somewhat these days.
The leather looked no better than that which I found in a Kia and the bit of psuedo-metal plastic surrounding the gearlever looked especially cheap and nasty. I also noticed that the boot carpet marks exceptionally easily as its so thin, so my customer, who plays golf and uses the boot often, already has a very worn boot area. I have another customer with one that is 2 years old and also plays golf and his boot looks like it was used as a pick up such is the wear and tear.
What makes me comment is that I was cleaning a 4 year old A6 today, also with leather. Now this car has 150,000 miles on it yet the boot area, which gets used extensively, is still as tidy as it was when new, because the carpet is far more suitable for a boot area.
The leather is also far better quality and the whole interior seems to have much more expensive looking trim, yet both cars cost roughly the same ( the A6 isnt that much more expensive ).
Is Audi cutting some corners now the same way Mercedes did?
To be honest, maybe not everyone would notice these things, but in my job, you get a lot of time to poke around a lot of different cars!
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I notice that today's Grauniad has Audi in the bottom third of manufacturer's for reliability - but on the brighter side, also has the A6 as the most reliable exec available - I wonder to what extent there are different standards of engineering and effort made by manufacturers across the ranges they build.
A relative has asked me to assist with getting the best price for their 54 reg Honda Jazz Sport CVT-7. The car is the bright blue metallic colour, has 17k on the clock and is in mint condition with FSH, its the 2005 updated model.
I have heard these are highly sought after - is it worth trying to sell it to a Honda dealer? Where would be the best place to advertise for a private sale? I'm also unsure of value, I had thought around £9.5k but is that a little optimistic. Its not an easy one to price because most 54 plate cars are the old model, and there isn't a great many CVT's around. Read more
Help again.
Having decided that the Yaris would be a suitable replacement for my RAV (and thanks to all previous respones on my purchasing dilemma) I now find the car is too low to the ground to safely navigate my steep and weirdly shaped drive. I have a two-day test vehicle and have managed to get it stuck on drive this morning (drive is steep then flattens out rather quickly). Has anyone any suggestions for a car which would sit higher off the ground - again must be:
small
cute
reliable
economical
OR - any way to elevate the YARIS - would fitting larger tyres do the trick or would this compromise the ride, economy, speedo (have looked through some previous posts)?
Thanks in advance for all help. I just want to order the car and be done with it! My family really are no help as they have no intertest in cars and are about to commit murder if I don't decide soon!
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These are 5-year old luxury apartments, I can't understand what they
were thinking when they designed them.
Designed, particularly by an Architect = hell usually.
The guys that put it in, i.e. the slope etc. (may) have worked to approved drawings, but in the construction industry just don't presume anything.
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...MD
Yesterday morning the management light went out along with all the others when the ignition was turned on.
Started the engine and it came on. Stopped the engine and this time it stayed off to the end of my journey but later in the day on return did the same.
This morning the same again did the same although this time it stopped on until the end of the road so it looks as if I?m in for some trouble.
It runs perfectly normal with no limp home mode although it wasn?t on long enough to be sure.
The last time the light came on was eventually found to be the CAT had collapsed after main dealer had it for almost a week. And cost a packet.
Will have to take it down to the garage of course but in the meantime any ideas from our residential experts on what its most likely to be.
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Had the fault code read yesterday by my local independant.
It read "Glow Device General Error"
He siad it could mean that the Glow plug controller could perhaps be faulty but couldnt be certain.
He removed all error codes and suggested that I leave it for a couple of weeks and have it read again to see if the same fault came up. His thoughts were also that as it only came on when the car was started from stone cold it was something to do with a temperature sensor. This morning it once again came on for about 30 seconds.
After a journey it stood for several hours before starting up again and as usual it didnt light up the management light as it wasnt completely cold.
Any ideas on this ?.
wemyss.
A couple of days ago I took Mrs H's C3 for its second MoT. I go to a local independent where I can chat to the tester and look under the car. On examining the front discs, he exclaimed, "Someone's been at these with an angle grinder!". I confessed my crime and he asked if I had any vibration when braking from high speed. The answer was no. The braking efficiency on the brake meter was found to be good. Now I know that discs are not expensive but it was an interesting experiment occasioned by having the car in pieces on the Sunday before a Bank Holiday. When I asked the tester how he knew, I got a passable imitation of Ham in Toy Story 2, "I can tell."
If you are of a sensitive disposition, look away now. My method was to jack the car up, jam one wheel with a screwdriver in the disc ventilation slots, engage second gear and take off the inner and outer ridges with an angle grinder. No attmpt was made to polish or flatten the main contact area; it seemed in good enough nick. New pads went in, followed by some extensive testing before I let Mrs H loose on the car. I first got the idea from a poster on this very forum. Next time I will be a jolly sight cleaner if I put new discs on and bin the old ones; the amount of rusty filth penetrated nearly every orifice.
Hawkeye
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Discs have a minimum thickness, so grinding not always applicable, 22mm as it happens on the Mondeo fronts, I recently measured them as 22.6mm with a micrometer so need doing soon. They were last changed at 65k and now on 109k, also the dealer highlighted them as an forthcoming job at the last service at 104k. The pads have a little life in them so as usual I have bought the parts in advance so I can do the job at my leisure. So for new discs and pads I got a nice discount from the Ford dealer, a benefit of being a good customer, under £90-00 all in, list price around £150.
Browse
It was more to do with the company I had and it was a bit of a dump we stayed at in the Loire, I think thats how you spell it?
So thats the reason for it being tedious. On the good side we went to Le Mans and drove on some of the straight.