September 2006
Hi
Another query regarding my fathers 2.4 litre camry. Basically, I am aware that the conservation or protection underneath the car has not been done by toyota. The car is a cmary right hand drive, but it is made in Japan. It looks like they did not do the protection needed.
How can I contact toyota to ask why this hadn't been done, and maybe getting costs towards this. It is a 2002 car by the way, and was bought second hand.
Thanks
Greg Read more
Can anyone tell me where on the engine my turbo is?
I have a Rover 400 D. I've lost the power from my turbo and had a look around. I found a slight split on a pipe at the back of the engine on a a part which has got a rod going to it and a small pipe running to the front of the fuel pump ( think it's the fuel pump).
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looking from the bottom of the car find the exhaust front pipe and follow it up you should see something like a half circle thats your turbo maybe a heatshield covering from the top?
Whilst browsing through a popular online car selling website I saw an ex Thames Valley Police unmarked Vauxhall Omega for sale, 03 plate 3.2 V6 Special 54,000 miles, £3995.
On looking at the photo in the ad the registration number rung a bell from a recent WOMA police auction.
I referred back to my scribbles from that day and found that the vehicle in question was sold for less than £1000 as an insurance total loss, with some quite substantial offside front damage from what I can remember, it certainly wasn't driveable.
The ad on the website states that the car is in absolutely excellent condition and is clear on HPi.
Maybe one of our resident traders can whizz this through their HPi check out of curiosity?
I'd be very surprised if Thames Valley Police haven't recorded it on the register.
How do these traders get away with it?? Read more
A lot of S/R have quite a bit of damage - thieves are not generally sympathetic drivers (as in 'drive it like you stole it').
Once coolant has passed it's two year life,how does it start to deteriate.Is it the cooling properties,the antifreezingproperties,or the corrosion inhibiter.I ask this question because the coolant in my car stiil has the ideal concentrate,but is about three years old.Many thanks Read more
Some cars are prone to headgasket problems if the coolant isn't changed every 2 years.
A company vehicle which is essentially used as a pool car does not have a current tax disc. Employee tasked with putting new disc in car managed to lose it . I looked on the DVLA site which shows that the tax was renewed but is it legal to drive the car whilst waiting for a new disc to come through from head office. I do not fancy getting fined etc for failing to display tax disc. Does anyone know the position on this? Read more
If it's all on the dvla computer why should we need to display them?
In Colorado Red. Where would I get one?
Thanks
Adam
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He got one from that place Rover25 suggested for around 30 quid apparently. Because the coloured part is interchangable, he just swapped that over and hey presto, he has a new wing mirrir...door mirror - whatever(!) again!
Thanks very much for all the help,
Adam
My two little ones usually get ferried around in my wife's Vectra. Fixing the child seats is no problem in this car. In my Accord Tourer however, the webbing on the belt buckles is too short, and leaning in trying to fix the seatbelt round and into the buckle is incredibly irritating, as it tends to fall down behind the seat squab.
In the fullness of time, SWMBO will inherit my car, so I need a solution to this problem. I've tried (although not very hard) to get some info on ISOFIX seats, but didn't get very far. I don't think my Accord (54 reg), has ISOFIX points, but I would happily stand corrected. If the webbing on the buckle was three inches longer, there would be no problem.
Anyone got any suggestions? I think I need a seat where the bottom 'tray' is permanently fixed with the existing belt, and the seat contains another belt which clips into it's own buckle. Any thoughts gratefully received.
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let me be the last to let you down.... Read more
It's not an Isofix seat but we use a Britax First Class group 0&1 car seat in our two cars as there is an alternative belt routing in the base of the car seat thus coping with the different lengths of webbing on the buckles in the cars.
For anyone living in or near the Trowbridge area I can happily recommend The Baby Carriage shop in Trowbridge, the proprietor has been trained in fitting by Britax and takes great care to help in the choosing and correct fitting of car seats. You'll pay a little more than you will in certain well known chains but then you won't be driving around wondering if you put the seat in right.
Why do car makers stick the rear veiw mirror to the windscreen on modern cars?
It fell off for the third time this morning (just as i was changing gear so it bashed my hand.) First time it fell off was about an hour after buying the car, stuck back on with the pads you buy from halfords, that held for a few weeks, then it came off again, this time when dipping the mirror. Stuck it on with superglue as I happened to have it in the car. Now its fallen off again, any sugestions on how to make sure it stays on this time?
Older cars that I've owned had the mirror fixed to the roof and never had any trouble, why don't they do this on modern cars? Read more
This might be worth a try:-
www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=46005&doy=se...h
I used something like it from Halford's years ago and it worked.
I bought a torque wrench in May, I sent off the warranty registration, I have now received a letter dated August from the manufacturer offering to check the calibration ... very kind of them ... at a cost of £15.00 plus postage ... but it's only three months old ... It should not need recalibrating so soon, should it? Perhaps it is not really neccesary and this is a nice little revenue generation exercise, the weight of the thing means the Post Office could do quite well out of it as well!
Surely it should either be guaranteed to be accurate for the one year warranty period or if recalibration is required it should be at no additional cost?
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I've used an old spring balance to check mine out. e.g. 50 ibs/ft 25lbs on the spring balance 2 foot along the wrench handle with the square drive in a vice. It's supposed to be more accurate when the force is applied at the end of the handle. Close enough for my purposes.
Martin
I think this has been discussed before but the insurance system seems to have changed regarding insuring a second car for learner drivers using full no claims from the full license holder.
we want to insure another cheap vehicle for our daughter to learn to drive in ,what are the best options?
situation :
Me- drive company car therefore use company insurance -no no claim in my own wright-do not own a car
Wife-has own car own insurance with full no claims
Daughter- 17 years old learner driver no car yet
Would it be best for me to own the cheap car and insure it? or any other suggestions appreciated
Last time we did this for our other daughters my wife owned cheap second car and her other car and insured it using her no claims and put me and learner daughter as namned drivers which worked out the cheapest option, now insurance companys do not want to take wifes no claim into consideration.
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rustbucket (the original) Read more
It's now possible with many insurance companies for a named driver (not the policy holder) to earn no claims from their name being on the policy. So one option would be for your daughter to be named on your wife's policy. This will raise your wife's premium by a large amount, and I expect that your daughter (having passed her test) would not be able to use the car for commuting on a daily basis to college/job etc, but would be able to use it for social etc. For your wife to own two cars, but effectively to be using her age and NCD for an inexperienced driver who will in fact use it exclusively (or as good as) is known as fronting, and the ins cos watch out for it.
Option two is to buy a car for your daughter, and have the policy in her name (your wife could not be the main driver on two cars, I suspect). Her NCD will be in her name therefore. This is what we did with my daughter nearly two years ago. First year was about £750, but one year's NCD and her test passed brought the cost down (with a different co.) to £450.
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