May 2007
Any comments?? I can pass them back to the individual concerned. ;-)
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I am looking at a caravan (I can hear the boos and hisses already). My knowledge of them dates from the 1970's - i.e. 2 litre car tows a5 berth caravan.
2007 - Apparently not or at least not with my 2 ltr car.
The problem is that a caravan to meet the family needs is around 1500Kg +/-
A budget for a tow car with say 3-5,000 miles / year (not an every day car) I wanted to be <£10K.
I had thought of a Honda Legend (3.5V6 - 2001/2003 vintage from say £7K), A Lexus GS300 (Staright 6 Yr 2000 Around £9-11K). Honda Accord Coupe3 Ltr V6 (£3-5K for 2001 and low mileage)
What other come into the category of "worth considering" category - not really wanting a CRV/RAV4 as this they struggle a bit on hills with a caravan on the back and the bigger 4x4 are just to ungainly/van like IMHO. Read more
I also meant to add that I did tow a van with an Omega V6, excellent tow car but relaibility poor & everything that went wrong was loads of money but very dissapointed in pulling, was an auto but really struggled on inclines in Europe & down to 50 mph on many with auto box hunting everygear so often had to lock down, fuel consumption used to drop to 13mpg as well. Diesel one excellent but thirsty for a diesel when towing & prone to overheating on big hills!
For shear pulling with a grin factor X type diesel wins. for a 53 or 54 around 10k now.
kerb weight around 1675kg & 2.0 360nm at 1900rpm or 2.2 400nm @ 1900rpm
Regards
Why is an insurance company allowed to discriminate on grounds of age? SAGA only insures over-50's, yet if you were to discriminate against an over-50 on any other grounds it's illegal. Just wondering! :)
Cheers,
Dave.
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TSB only offer a maximum of 90 days cover as do several other companies!!!
If I wanted to purchase a new "stereo" for the car. would there be a technical term to describe a system that can be controled by the steering wheel controls. Almost all the specs that I have looked at just seem to list a vast array letters that mean nothing to me. Almost forgot I would also like to keep the dash display (02 Astra). Thanks Read more
Autoleads site is exactly what I was looking for . All the info I could want. The other site also looks like my kind of place to use in the future. Two more sites for my collection. Many thanks.
my S reg focus seems to be idling at low revs (about the 900 mark) I dont know if this is contributing to it cutting out. When i release the accelerator the revs drop and it has occasionally cut out. I thought this was something i was doing because i have only had the car a month but it has happened a few times now. I know that older cars had an idle adjuster screw. Does the focus have something similar?
The revs have also increased after the release of the accelerator when changing gear.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
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my S reg focus seems to be idling at low revs (about the 900 mark)
900 rpm is certainly not low. Depending on the particular engine, my Focus handbook states 700 +/- 30 to 880 +/- 30 for petrol engines, and 825 +/- 50 to 900 +/- 100 for diesel engines.
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The brake pad warning light has come on, I have replaced the pads ( the old ones still had about 10mm left on them) but the light is still on. All the wiring seems to be o.k. If I disconnected the battery would this reset the system, or could it cause more problems. Thanks in advance. sparky 100.
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I love to bash this spin society, My organisation, is lovenly following Blaire PLC, we are an ex Council housing stock. I thought we were all suffering the same way but, the last two years I have taxed my car via the internet, abosultely no problems, shock, no. I only buy a new car when I am not well, helps me, but maybe not my bank account. To compound that I bought a xxx SUV, A Hyundai Tucson, very poor spec, not, terrible 5 year warranty, and even worse still, a 50000 thousand mile free servicing package. Going off subject I have had one problem, the alloys have a slight problem, they go in Friday for four new ones. Anyway back to our alleged spin society. In a moment of apparent madness I click on HJs banner on top here for number plates, choose a non confrontational, non changeable means etc from dvla, order a very expensive set, paid £250 all in, arrived two days later, went today to their office in Worcester, waited 10 minutes, dealt with a very helpful, friendly guy, and why cannot the govt look at this type of organisation who in my opinion actuely work well and try and run the country like this and forget the spin. Read more
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6705323.stm
A German mistook a subway entrance for an underground car park and her vehicle got stuck on the stairs.
The 52-year-old drove her Volkswagen Beetle across the pavement in central Duesseldorf and into the entrance where it ground to a halt about five steps down, police said.
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Blimey - that's a bit spooky.
I have recently bought a T reg Focus 1.6 Zetec off a neighbour, it has a low mileage 21000 because the car has not been used a great deal the suspension has dried out and is knocking on uneven roads, can I use anything to lubricate the rubber bushes like WD40 or is this a bad thing to do. Read more
that if the car has been unused
for long periods the suspention and bushes can dry out.
It can, possibly, though silcon spray is the thing not WD40.
Instead of pushing consumers to dealers every time a warning light comes up (for fault diagnosys), why can't the cars display error code directly on dashboard??
Is it another way of extracting money from drivers??
I think in BMW X5, dash displayes message like "Check brake light" etc.
I think depending on manufacturers, dealers charge from £30 to £100 just to diagnose the error code!!! Read more
Yesterday my friend bought an Y-reg Vauxhall Astra 1.6.
It says "add coolant" on central console. Also, asks to "check brake light".
Nice feature. Wish every manufacturers do it.
You have time to eat sarnies? Whats it coming to?? ;-)
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