May 2007
My old man is thinking of getting on as a weekend, summer car. What are people's feelings on the Rover and any alternatives up to £2.5k ? Read more
Seen as my post about Carcraft has been stopped. Could someone please answer my query about warranty.
If I buy a 2 year old s/hand car which originally had a 3 year manufacturers warranty from new is the remaining 1 year transferrable to me on purchase? Read more
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Found a screw in a front tyre yesterday for the second time in six months. Last one was deemed unrepairable for being too close to the outer shoulder; this one is about 50mm in and the hole seems to be clean enough for the screw to have kept in most of the air I pumped in (in the pouring rain, of course) to get me home from Sainsburys yesterday.
I'll take it down to my friendly independent this afternoon but should I be expecting to repair or replace? Last time the front tyres were almost due for replacement anyway, so I replaced both; this one is 20,000 miles old but has done most of those at the rear and still has 6mm of tread. If it helps. it's a Pirelli P6000 and the screw is in the curved part of one of the lateral grooves.
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Tyre repaired. Took 20 minutes and cost £15, which is £65 less than a new tyre. Screw had only just penetrated the casing, so had no opportunity to cause further damage, and the tyre had only been partially deflated when I noticed it yesterday. I suspect I know where I picked up this one and the one before, so I won't be parking there any more.
Now I'm not 100% but last night I filled up my car (Volvo S40 TD) at the nearby BP garage. It had around 10 litre diesel in it and I poured in another 30 litre (of diesel I hope now). I'm quite sure I filled it up with diesel but I'm not entirely sure. Last night I drove car back home which was around half a mile and it was fine but this morning after driving it for 10 minutes or so car seemed to get a little bit funny, jerking a bit. I kept on driving it and drove 40 miles to work mainly on the motorway and at speeds over 70 it was as smooth as it normally is. But when I came off the motorway it got really jerky in 1st and 2nd gear. Do you guys think I filled it up with petrol last night or is it just the diesel which I poured in from BP garage? I've got a BP petrol pump down the road from where I work so me filling it up now with Ultimate diesel would make any different or what shall i do? I'm really worried! Read more
I'm not surprised it ran if it's a proper old diesel - I know someone very well, if you know what I mean, who put 60l of petrol in an old-tech diesel (2.5litre VM in a Scorpio). It pinked a lot and took a bit of starting but as and when there was a couple of gallons of space it got topped up with diesel and by stages it recovered fully. It did another 60,000 miles after that with no problems.
I know I will sound like a typical woman BUT I purchased an Astra in February from a dealer. Last weekend the body work has been damaged so my insurance company came out to asses and have said that they will not undertake the repairs as there has been damage to the car previously and the work is of a poor standard and they are not prepared to carry out repairs on poor previous repairs. I want to return the car to the dealer and try to invoke Sale of Goods Act 1979.
Would this be possible and if so how do I do it?
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make sure you do your homework next time
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There may have been no way this could have come to light, as a HPI check will only show repairs which were done via the normal insurance system. If the car was damaged and repaierd 'off the records', short of her being and expert car inspector it may not have come to light.
I have £6k cash to spend on a s/hand car and was thinking of having a look around Carcraft.
Can any of you share your experiences with me (good or bad) as to what they are like?
Also:
Can you haggle with them at all-especially for cash? If so how much i.e. would £6k get me a £6,500 car?
If I bought say a 2 year old Ford Focus would I be right in saying that there would be a 3 year manufacturers warranty with this of which 1 year would be left on this which would be transferrable to the new owner i.e. me?
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As the previous message may be libelious.
The one time I visited I found their price policy (potential libel removed) and expensive compared with elsewhere. (In eek's opinion)They target customers who are unable to get credit elsewhere and hence seem to provide expensive cars on expensive credit.
Have a look at their website and then look at your local ford dealer. Ford direct have a large number of 06 Focus 1.6 LX for £7500 or so.
'Er indoors reckons that the three chords played at the start and end of the parts of the ITV F1 race programmes are the first three notes of "Three Blind Mice"!
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L\'escargot. Read more
Also Aaye Ho Meri Zindagi Mein from from the film Raja Hindustani.
I'm going to replace the rear wheel bearing on my VW Polo soon. I've looked through the HBOL and it [surprise surprise] doesn't mention which type of grease to use.
I was going to use Duckhams LM (High melting point) grease - is this type the correct? Read more
Putting it simply, it's because platelets of MoS2 can line up under a rolling element and form a wedge, jamming it. Because the additive has such a low coefficient of friction, a jammed ball or roller will then tend to slide rather than roll. This spells doom for the bearing - they are rolling bearings.
MoS2 grease is fine in bushes and balljoints, especially where reciprocal motion is involved as jamming will not occur and clearances are large anyway. Similarly, in a CV joint the rolling elements actually reciprocate as the joint turns under articulation so there is no danger of jamming. Clearances tend to be large within CV joints after a period of use anyway. Wheel bearings are made to very fine limits
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I have just had the paperwork from DVLA for the renewal of my car tax on line. Included is a leaflet warning me, if buying a car, to check that the V5 does not fall within the range BG 9167501 and BG 9190500. This is 23,000 documents involved which is a significant number! Information posted for the benefit of Backroom car buyers.
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Thanks for the confirmation. Buyer Beware!
Hi All
Probably a silly question but how can you tell if a car was undersealed?
I live in Ireland and planning on buying a Skyline from a private buyer in Ireland.It was originaly a Jap import imported into the UK where I think its spend the last few years.
Im afraid the salt on the Uk motorways will corrode the underbody eventually.
Do all Jap Imports have do be undersealed comming into the UK? Read more
It may or may not have been undersealed - depends on who owned. Either way, I would steam clean it underneath and then treat it with Dinitrol products.
There's still a qualification needed though, as you rightly wrote; "for a convertible"
The 306 Cabrio mentioned above though looks pretty, pert, and just plain "right" in a timeless way without the need for any qualification.