September 2006
Hi hope somebody can help. I have recently purchased a fiat stilo and it seemed to be fine but i have noticed a couple of little things. Firstly there is a squeaking noise coming from the front of the car not sure if it near or off side. If i tap the brakes it seems to stop the noise for a short period but then it comes back. Also sometimes when i am driving on the motorway and do around 80 the steering wheel seems to vibrate. But it doesnt do it all the time. Are both issues interrelated and could it be something to do with the bearings?
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The ones that you find on down hill gradients, full of gravel like material, and terminating in an unprotected sheer drop!
I have often pondered on whether these work for private cars or are designed for heavy lorries. The length seems very short to effectively stop a 130k (or faster) vehicle with small wheels tthat may 'not dig in deep'. My interest was retriggered today on seeing a F1 car skipping across the gravel like a coin on a pond.
Anyone with personal experience?
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This is interesting that you could 'drive thro,' as the ones that really frighten me are the ones where the end is just a shear drop into the valley below! if I ever need to use one this will certainly make me think twice!
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pmh (was peter)
Just out of interest, can anyone point me to a reference (preferably via web) that quantifies the change in number of vehicles on the road over the years?
Another thread has been discussing the possibility of 90mph on motorways and this led me to thinking about the time the M1 was being constructed through Leicestershire (late 50s IIRC) within a mile of my home village. At that time, there were only 2 or 3 families in the village who ran a car, but today cars line the main street and it is only just possible to pick your way through. Has traffic increased 50x in 50 years?
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Thanks for the references. A generalised figure of 'more than ten times as many cars as in 1950' is quoted, but it feels like much more than that to me.
I'm sure we've become accustomed to the general increase but there are two points of reference that strike me. One is when I return home and see the cars that now line the street - from practically nothing in the 1950s; the second was when I returned to motorcycling after a 22 year break from 1976-98. These days, the roads are (most of the time) too crowded for motorcycling to be a pleasure imho.
Hi, looking for any thoughts on the longeivity of the good old Peugeot 806 SVDT - 1998 model with 98k for £3395 private sale. Anyone got any useful thoughts?
We have a small car for town, and are looking for something in the £3000-£5000 bracket with a nice high driving position and min 6 seats.
My wife is concerned that being French, bits will just fall off it.
Our other option is to go for a Mitsubishi Space Wagon 2000< (newer shape, but not newest) for more money. These look a good bet in terms of reliability.
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Had a P reg 806 SVDT from new, did me 6 years, superbly reliable for 150k+, then things started to go badly wrong- so be careful. Loved the electric mirrors on this version, saved a fortune on having them knocked off
Just returned from a long trip into France, and I was tempted to fill up with Gazole (1.12) but I found a BP station locally that was selling Ultimate Diesel at 1.19 so I stuck to that (about 2 tank fulls).
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Nope Gazole is to the same EEC standard as our regular
diesel. French and german diesels were designed to run on it.
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French diesel has 5% biodiesel in it. I find that my car goes better on this mix.
hi iam thinking of buying a rover 600 diesel can anyone please tell me what they are like and they anygood. thanks trev Read more
One of the best Rovers ever built, probably because it was, as said above, a thinly disguised Honda Accord. And in parts very thinly disguised. Don't expect any refinement from the L Series though, it was criticised for being noisy even at launch and compared to the latest CR engines it's off the radar. But it has its merits, being fast, economical, very reliable and relatively cheap to fix should it go wrong. No CR four figure bills here.
hi i have a 94 model astra 1.4 hi torque engine, i have this intermittent fault, just yesterday and today whilst stationary at the lights the car cut out, it was idling fine, after a few turns it started.
I already got the distributor changed, new plugs, new ht leads, i wolud think it may be the rotor arm may need changing anyone got any ideas ?? thanks Read more
will do, dave also i opened the fuse box underneath the dash, found some of the fuses bit loose, so i just pressed them in, now the car has not cut off will let you if it does cut off, and book it for a engine diagnostic, thanks a lot for your helpful comments
Yet again, motorists appear to be in the firing line. This time from the Tories:
"Tories plan 'painful rises' in car and air tax"
"This is about rebalancing taxation so that, yes, you will pay more in green taxes. You will, for example, see the reintroduction of a fuel duty escalator, I'm quite sure," Mr Norris told BBC Radio 4's World at One."
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006...l
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The trouble is, there doesn't seem to be anyone worth voting for.
There is, but there's so much "politically correct" propaganda against the parties worth voting for, that everyone's afraid to vote for them.
No, not an old watch chain* but the seven cast off motors loaded on a Mercedes dual trailer car transporter spotted on a residential street today.
These ranged from a Mk II Astra to a very tired looking late nineties C180.
What was unusual was the country of nationality of the transporter rig: LT. Lithuania.
I guess this cast off old iron is probably now on its way over the pond, but tired old Merc aside, appeared a right old ecclectic mix for to be interested in.
*For those too young ;-)
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i am a johny foreigner i can give you TVM my man more than dubious fella in far away country give. Send me your email address soonest, we do good business yes?
My wife has to take her parents to London next weekend for a funeral on the Monday, including some driving round the Croydon area, before returning on Tuesday, possibly through London itself. We were looking at the various web companies offering sat-nav hire. Anybody used any that they could recommend, the Tom-Tom system seems the most common - is it reliable for that sort of use? And reasonably easy to learn to use? Thanks. Read more
Eventually got a TomTom from very helpful people at Satnavman. Cost from Friday delivery to Wednesday return £35.00 plus return postage. Obviously if you need one regularly it's not economical but for a one-off piece of mind it seems worth it.
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Agree it sounds more like a brake problem.
Sticking caliper or pads seems possible. Worth getting it checked out fairly soon, it could cause further damage to discs/bearings etc let alone may just give you a problem if you need to stop in an emergency !