April 2007
For those who want to use the A3 to the Portsmouth area. ( summer holidays / ferries)
There will be greater delays en route due to BIG roadworks.
The new road will be 6.5km (4miles) long and includes 1.8km (1.1miles) twin bored tunnels under the Devil?s Punch Bowl Site of Special Scientific Interest.
Work is well "underway" and things are slower even off peak.
www.gnn.gov.uk/Content/Detail.asp?ReleaseID=277409...2
"At peak times traffic will take an additional five minutes to drive through the work in the interests of safety."
Due to open Summer 2010 so a long job and I guess lots of disruption.
Lots od detail here
www.highways.gov.uk/roads/projects/3832.aspx
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I can get rid of the creak with a liberal spray of WD 40 but it comes back within a week or so.
Can someone please tell me what it is that may be actually creaking please. I lay under the car today and can hear it but can't actually isolate it. There only seems to be so much that actually moves when you bounce the car up and down but I still can't work out what it is! Read more
Squirted some Halford's spray grease on it and it's shut up for now.
Hi, everyone the brake lights on my peugeot 206 stay on. I've changed the flexi hose pipes, i've changed the callipers cause the brakes was binding. The switch is ok. Anymore suggestions please. Many thanks. P.S I've noticed a few more peugeots with the brake lights on. I wonder if they have the same problem. Read more
Hi, screwloose,
sorry about the long delay. So do you think the cross-shaft is faulty because it looks ok but the pedal seems to return to ok as well.
Hello,
I hope someone can offer some advice here....
Can anyone tell me how to replace the actual rubber in a bosch aerotwin wiper blade. I own a peugeot 307 and a whole new set of front replacement blades is going to cost me 50 quid, although I've seen some replacement rubbers for a fraction of that cost, although I'm not sure how to take the old rubbers out. Read more
Are you sure they are Bosch Aerotwins as Peugeot use Valeo ones.?
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wiperblades.co.uk/product_display.php says Valeo
Had brake pads and discs replaced 3 months ago due to brake judder it failed MOT, it seems to have started to come back checked front brakes anybody know what thickness new discs should be? only the discs appear quite worn also the pad housing is scraping against the face of disc. Read more
thanks going to garage this morning
My daughters insurance is due, as she had an accident last year which has cost her the no claims bonus she is looking at other companies on line. The stumbling block for a quote is the question being asked -how much did the repairs cost and any injury claims? She knows how much her own vehicle cost but is the insurance company going to release such details of the other party? I quess I can only aske the question but till tommorow when we can phone has anyone else experianced this situation?
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rustbucket (the original) Read more
She was using confused.com which asked the above qustion she put in the max figure allowed as she did not know the correct figure and still cut the original quote by 2/3.
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rustbucket (the original)
Long time since I've been under a car - but needs must.
Anyone have any idea how easy it is to adjust the handbrake cable on a 2001 Shuma Manual? Logic says it should be quite straightforward but if I'm going to get under the car and then discover I'm out of my depth then I won't even bother getting the jack out of its box!
BTW - to give you an idea of my skill level - the last car I looked under the bonet at for anything other than oil & water was a Maestro, 10 years ago
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you didnt answer the question uuh young wunn
i havent seen a handbrake cable stretch for at least 20 years maybe 30
so
the question is
do the brakes want adjusting?
well do they?
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Hi all, I got my 06 meriva 1.7cdti 11 days ago, it went back in yesterday as the abs light kept coming on, they replaced the sensor but today the lights come back on. They have told me its safe to drive. The brakes seem fine but I concerned about the light being on. I will be ringing them agfain in the morning, any ideas?
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I don't think it's normal for Vauxhall dealers to treat an ABS sensor fault as "vehicle off-road" - they certainly didn't when one of my front sensors went faulty. I was aware that ABS wasn't available but the car was otherwise driveable.
Had the Fiesta up on ramps recently looking at the driveshaft boots/steering rack. Front wheels were off and mechanic was demonstrating possible leaking steering rack seals. He put it on lock to lock and squeezed the gaiters so I could hear the fluid in the rack (hope I'm making sense so far) . Thinking we needed a new rack, wheels back on and when we switched the car on, the engine management light came on.
Much messing about with an electronic thingy and he eventually got it to go out. Nearly a week later, it came on again this morning. (Wife driving car). Stayed on for a short journey. When she switched the car on for the second time, it didn't reappear and hasn't for the rest of the day. What could possibly be causing this. It's never done it before and for the life of me, I can't think what's responsible. Read more
Definitely engine management light. It just comes on now and again. Seems odd that it never did it before. It's just the thought of having to fork out in the region of £60ish to Ford to tell me what the fault is.
2002 52 reg Hyundai Accent 1.5 CDX in Hip Hop Red. 70,000 miles. FSH.
My uncle just bought this thing for £2,000 cash. Seems a lot of car for the money but would welcome opinions and any tips on things to look for work to be done ASAP etc.
The Niallster. Read more
I drive a 1.5L Hyundai Accent X-reg [~70k] for last 6 months.
The car has not given any trouble so far, fun to drive, nippy in town, good at motorway, parts are not expensive either.
I have driven this car continously over 4 hours at a stretch without any leg or back pain.
I can see the bonnet from driver's seat, an option IMO very few modern car offers - it makes parking a joy.
Hyundai only gives 5 years warranty as standard since 2002.
Browse
I can't say I sympathise with the Selborne residents on this occasion, as we suffered the brunt in our village of their success in getting a HGV weight limit imposed, thus making our village the mandatory alternate route for a lot of HGV-1's we wouldn't otherwise have got !