March 2007
Folks, thought I would share with you my most surreal motoring day to date...
8.45am -- I take my 3 series BMW into a well known independent specialist for a few minor bits and pieces to be attended to (Air con re-gas, minor electrical gremlin, etc. etc.). Agree mid afternoon collection.
3pm (agreed time of collection). Return to the garage (car is still in identical parking spot from this morning), told to wait a few moments by the receptionist. She leaves me for 5 mins, then returns, clearly very embarrassed and explains that it appears everyone forgot to carry out the work.
I stood there thinking this was a wind-up for a couple of seconds, but, no, it transpires, genuinely, everyone working there had forgotten to attend to the car.
I left, bemused and surprised - slightly upset, and wrote them a letter expressing my dis-satisfaction. I wonder what their response will be. Has anyone ever had anything similar happen to them???
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Help!!
My Punto has just had a new head gasket and clutch (last week). At the moment its temperature light keeps coming on. Just wondering why it keeps coming on - esp when i'm in stationary traffic. Sometimes it goes off again once I start moving and sometimes it just stays on. You can hear the fan kicking in but that doesn't seem to make it go off - it's not losing water as its water level is just under max - I keep checking it!
It's worrying me to death - esp after i've just had a new head gasket / cam belt and clutch to the tune of £450 - I don't want it to pack in again.
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Thanks for your help - i will speak to the garage that fixed it in the morning.
Thanks again.
Peugeot standard fitment radio
Does anyone know what the radio code is or how i can find it out bw there is only 4 numbers to find out and 6 different buttons. peugeot standard fitment one Read more
Try this link, they reckon they will sort you out for £20 online! I've never used it, if you do use it let us know how you get on.......
www.car-audio-accessories.co.uk/clarion-radio-code...A
Son and wife had a problem. Needed to change their hatchback for something that will better accommodate seat for expected baby. She sends him out at midday today to buy something suitable. He comes round this afternoon to shake up my pacemaker on the by-pass with his new Mitsubishi Evo. Exhaust pipe big enough for a sewer, 0-60 in 3.9. secs, 157 m.p.h. (governed, but he mentions special tuning kits), no suspension to speak of. He hasn't been home yet. How can he convince her this is the best solution to the problem? Read more
A colleagues husband uses an Impreza for similar family duties. Apparently the chief advantage is that, with blacked out drug dealer style rear windows, nobody can tell the kids are in the car so he can still pretend to be cool.
Is this Kia's press office having a seasonal sense of humour?!
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Surely this must be a Kia ikea, if you ce'ed what i mean! Someone is certainly having a Rio of a time. Maybe it is P(inc)anto show time or is it Ceranto an early April Fools Joke.
Just thought I would be a bit punny - just joking guys as it is Friday after all.
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Roger
A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well.
Having read reports of the Focus cutting out, I thought I would ask if anyone has an answer to my problem.
Twice my engine has cut out when i was turning right or left at about 10-15 mph. All the dashboard lights come on, steering is well nigh impossible, but if I dip the clutch, turn the ignition key, the engine immediately fires up and everything is normal! A friend has had the same problem several times but with a 2002 car. My garage have just changed the crank angle sensor as a possibility. Has anyone else had the same problem, and if so have they managed to resolve it? Read more
Use the 'Forum Search' (right hand menu) for Focus Speed Sensor, plenty of threads with similar symptoms which in the main are down to a faulty speed sensor.
can any1 help me i have a citroen c2 vts and i was finking about a engine converstion, and was wondering if a xsara vts 2.0 16 v engine would fit stright in or even a pug gti 6 engine, the c2 just isnt quick enough, has anyone got any ideas or has anyone tryd this before????? if sumone could get back to me please and thank you. ricky Read more
have a look and post on the club site?
www.c2club.co.uk
two recent journeys have highlighted a problem. Leeds to Durham, an easy drive and plenty of time cruising at 75 but Tom Tom says my time of arrival is well into the future. Even as I leave the motorway knowing I am 5 minutes from my destination Tom Tom tells me I won't arrive for 30 minutes.
Same thing today Middlesbrough to Wakefield. Arrived at my destination but Tom Tom tells me I still have 17 minutes driving to do even though the distance still to travel is zero.
If I didn't know better I'd drive faster to make the ETA come down . Anyone else notice this? Any solutions (apart from use my common sense...
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How do I set my average speed. just spent 30 minutes trying to find out ...
We have a K-reg 1.4 Clio RT automatic at work as a general runabout, with about 70k on the clock. Since we've had it, the heaters have never blown out warm air, only cold. The temperature gauge rises as it should when the engine warms up but no heat comes out the vents. Any ideas, and if so, is it an easy fix? Many thanks as usual. Mark. Read more
You can just get a hand up the drivers side of the dash/centre consol and feel the side of the heater matrix. If it is hot then circulation problems can be eliminated.
Friend has a toyota lucida on a M plate. Seems in a good condition. It is an automatic diesel. He is asking £2000 for it. What is the realistic value? What are the common problems to look out for? Heard they have head gasket/overheating problems. Also heard it is harder to insure imported jap cars.
Any advice greatly appreciated before i check it out thoroughly.
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Be a good idea to check if you have a local "jap" specialist - the official Toyota network used to be very reluctant to admit to the existence of grey imports and many of their dealers see them as a licence to print money as there are no RRPs.
Also be aware that the Lucida and Emina are completely different to the equivalent official UK spec Previas (the Lucida and Emina are narrower and shorter for a start) and there is very little parts interchangeability.
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I had almost the exact reverse. Took my car to a main dealer for routine service. They were to ring me when ready for collection. Phone call came in a bit sooner than I expected, but I went around and there was my car on the hoist without wheels { full brake inspection was part of that particular service }. At least I then knew that the service was being done, but don't know about the owner that the garage should have rung.