January 2007
Got a 1.4 lanos s 5 door on a W plate with 60k.
can here a signficant knocking coming from the engine area.
any ideas?
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Well I was going to get a 1.9 diesel Octavia for my wife. She does 20k miles a year and needs a big boot for her work stuff and needs the economy of diesel. Test drove the Skoda - great car - but the seats dont fit my wife. She's 5'3" and the long base of the seat cuts into her calfs - so no use for long journeys. Its much longer than our megane or astra.
So next guess is the Seat - same engine I think and it looks good value. Not sure of the seat fit yet and nearest dealer is 40 miles away.
Has anyone driven the XL yet ?
Other likely option is a Diesel Vectra Hatchback. Only because her last car was an Astra and she liked that.
Any ideas out there for a girl with short legs ???
I did suggest trading her in for a newer model with longer legs, but I dont think thats going to happen. Read more
The C-max keeps coming up here and elsewhere as something most people can get comfortable in - seems to fit me OK. Should match the Octavia for luggage space too. I find it hard to see these things from a small person's point of view, though - I'm 6'6".
Seats are such a personal thing, though - a reviewer may praise them but real users find they're a different shape, or like to set them up a certain way. (Volvo and Saab seats are the exception here - everyone seems to like them,) I'd suggest you make a list of possibilities based on overall size and luggage capacity, then try them to see which ones are comfortable. (I'll save you the trouble of trying a Honda FRV - I can't see how anyone could like those seats!)
Hi fellow car fanatics...
A friend has offered to fix my girlfriends fiat cinciquento and says she needs a rear offside brake plate?
I believe it is the bit that the back brake fastens on to... is this right? If I go into a fiat parts dealer, will they know what a rear offside brake plate is?!?!
Following on from that, if anyone knows of a fiat parts dealer that sells online or over the phone that could supply the above part by post, that would help.... or somewhere near stoke on trent / stafford that I could buy one from..
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Neither actually
Rgds.
My son has just changed the temp sensor on a 2001 MKIV DTI as the Vag Com reported it reading 12 degrees instead of 92 which explained the overfueling the strange fuel consumption figures. However although about 1/3 litre of water escaped the level in the header tank has not changed at all. Is there a air bleed nipple on this model and if so where is it. Regards Peter Read more
There is no bleed valve on these.Run engine until warm with cap off ,top up level and then allow to cool o/night & check again from cold.hth
Hello everyone,
My 1995 petrol Passat has become very difficult to start from stone cold.
Crank and crank then a cough and nothing. Again and again. Eventually it starts, runs rough, and is then fine.
When warm it starts fine.
Have replaced the water temp sensor. But this has not cured it.
Any thoughts out there?
I am thinking of replacing the coil next.
Thanks for any tips.
- Steve.
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Glad to hear it, your welcome. No gapping required and 20K 2 years like on many of these But I always take plugs out annual, clean threads and replace. If a Ka then every service, out with the plugs and at least annually. Regards Peter
Hi all,
Noticed when my car was up on lift at National having an oil change (its a 1993 Mitsu Colt), that one of the metal brake pipes near the rear offside wheel is leaking slowly. I have been needing to top up every few days lately, but thought it would be a leaking brake cylinder!
Just wondered if its possible to put a sleeve on it, or any other type of repair, or is it a new pipe? Will have to go to a garage as its quite inaccessible, but be handy if I could be given some options.
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You are about to have an accident. If sounds as if the leaking pipe is due to corrosion and the pipe could fail completely at any moment and the panic braking with only one cct and the pressure could pop another pipe Fix it today. Regards Peter
Anyone else got Pirelli P7 tyres and find them very noisy? Read more
Bazza - I'm not suggesting we all swop to F1 slicks!!
But that if P6000s are noisier than ER300s - I'd take the ER300s, which I'm going to do. One outlet did say that Dunlop SP20s were quiet, but most sites that give any guidance go for Vredestein or Bridgestones. I think Subaru has something going with Yokohama, as my dealer was reluctant even to admit there were other makes!! Good year seems not to have a quiet reputation, but a good one in all other respects. Each manufacturer's site does at least rate its own. Tyres.com seems good too.
Hello, can anyone tell me the name of the plastic bumper like panel on the side of the door of a saxo it usually has the size of the engine on it or even the saxo logo.
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Closure, how did you resolve the rubbing wheels issue which was such a problem just before Xmas?
Car broke down, recovery chap said it was the throttle body. Mechanic said thought it was fuel starvation, has blown the fuel line through, and I think changed the fuel pump but still not working. It starts but there's no real revs and it won't idle. Mechanic now saying it's the ECU, but my brother says if it was the ECU it wouldn't spark so at a total loss. anyone had this problem that can offer some advise? Read more
Cool, I've been told about £60-£70 so that's great.
Thanks v much,
kja96
why is it that a car can gush oil from evry seal and thus covering the engine, fan belt ,alternator, road, driveway, et al, but they dont bat an eyelid at the mot station, seems strange in these pc,enviromental,tree hugging save the whale times we live in? Read more
>>Do commercial vehicles still have automatic chassis lubrication
Not usually as standard. My father used to have the Interlube system retro-fitted on the multi-wheel rigid trucks he used to run - the number of grease nipples on an eight wheeler is enough to keep someone busy for an hour or two, just cleaning them off, and getting some grease into them. He didn't bother with tractor units, because they were more managable. The systems ran off a central pump, which was electronically controlled (pulsed every so often), we would tend to up the pulse rate after the trucks had been pressure washed/steam cleaned, to make sure any water was driven back out of the bearing surfaces.
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