July 2007
Have a look at today's Sun and you will see that some youths have been arrested for dropping an 18 inch slab from the top of a dual carriageway overbridge and killing the driver of an articulated truck passing under. Firstly our sympathies to the family of this unfortunate driver. It apparently happened at 4.15am on a downhill stretch of the A45 at Wellingborough, Northants. Fortunately it appears no one else was hurt which is amazing, because this is a busy road and the thought of an uncontrolled hgv at 60 mph downhill is awful. What are the panels printable thoughts. snip Read more
My brother has just bought a Fiat Croma (120 bhp diesel version) and wishes to know if there have been any recalls on the car. Where would he go to find out? He hasn't much faith in the local dealer and I can't find any details on this site. Read more
A good analogy with the Mondeo, as I have just returned from a holiday to Lake Como and saw very few Fords at all. This has been my experience in Italy before. I saw lots of Mercs, BMWs, Audis, VWs, Renaults, Fiats and Lancias, of course and even quite a few Citroen C3s (with Italian plates).
We hired a Lancia Musa Multijet automatic and very pleased with it we were too. The little engine and the gearbox were very impressive. I assume it is the Lancia version of the Fiat Idea?
Hi all,
my Daughter has purchased a Toyota Import above with the 8 seats.
The problem we are having is fitting two baby seats in the car, the original seat belts seem too short, I purchased a couple of extenders off of Ebay, but the couplings did not fit, although the idea was brilliant.
Has anyone else come across this, any answers, is it legal to sell these cars under the "not fit for purpose", or what?
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the centre lap-belt has a different size of buckle to the neighbouring lap-and-diagonal belt to prevent them being mixed up - maybe this is the souce of your problem?
For the past year I have noticed intermittent steering vibration/judder which can happen at any speed but more likely when either braking or accelerating. Sometimes it just comes on all of a sudden and can be quite alarming. During the last year I have had all new tyres and the wheels balanced three times but the problem is still there. I live in France and strangely this does'nt seem to happen in the UK!
The car is right hand drive and has done 60K miles
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Thanks charlesb. This is exactly what I wanted to hear, but thought it a bit bizarre to suggest. I have suspected this for some time although my garage could'nt see it. May have been lost in translation!! I will take it to a tracking station and ask them to track it French style!! thanks again.
Hi
My father bought an '03 passat a few months ago and all was fine until he found a load of water in the passenger side footwell. He took it back to the place he bought it and they found there was a leak from the pollen filter gasket. They fixed it and it seems to have stopped leaking.
Problem now is with the cars electrics. The windows seem lethargic to move, the temperature sensor on the climatronic seems intermittant, the cars clock keeps resetting when the car is started. Perodically while driving the speedo and rev counter etc drop to zero, all the dashboard lights come on for a while, the car keeps going and the radio still operates.
Any thoughts? Could it be connected to the water problem? I wondered if the voltage to the electrics was dropping too low (battery problem) but the engine seems to turn over and start ok.
thanks for your help.
Rob
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Be careful with the warranty before you contact them, go through the T&C with a fine tooth comb.
They may not cover faults caused by other faults, faults that were already there when cover started etc...
I think a lot of people predicted this - myself included!
However, I wonder if the figures include double-cab 4x4 pick-ups - a lot more people seem to be using these as cars these days.
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One thing nobody has mentioned here.
I mentioned it earlier in the thread, thinking about the Nissan models, and that this is common in the US. The Jeep Grand Cherokees you hire in Florida have 4x4 badges on the tailgate but they're only 2 wheel drive.
Problem I see in the UK is that you'd still be attacked by lentlists as they can't discriminate between the 4x4 and 2x4 versions.
180 cars found in a Portugese barn that had been welded shut for the last 15 years.
http:forocoches.com/foro/showthread.php?t=548055
The above link is now dead. Someone has since posted a valid link further down, but is repeated here in case you didn't find it.
forum.autohoje.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=97706&whichp...7
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Wow! I'd be like a kid in a toy shop if I went in there.
That red Cooper S is stunning!
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04 Grand Scenic 1.9 dCi Dynamique
00 Mondeo 1.8TD LX
A warning light which looks like a radiator with a fan on it has come on.
The air con does not work.
The engine cooling fan does not cut in when I let the engine idle until the temp gauge goes into the red.
My local Vauxhall garage ran a diagnostic test, they said the aircon sensor or switch needed replacing.
They replaced it but the light stayed on.
They now say it could be a wiring fault or it could be a cooling control module faulty.
Does this sound correct?
Has anyone had this problem?
Can anyone help please?
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Cooling fan module seems favourite here.It is located behind the front bumper below nearside headlight.This module controls the operation of the a/c pump & the cooling fans.Cost around £70.hth
I have a Saxo vtr 2001 (Y reg) mk2, 80k on the clock, in hte past few
months done a service of , sparks, oil, gear box oil, coolant. A few days ago, my engine warning light came on, so I checked out the engine and connectors and such like, running 100%
OK.
I disconnected the battery for 2 hours, to clear any fault codes,
restarted, still have the same light, took the car to my mechanic, whose has a full test setup, first used a new diagnostic tester, would not "see" the ECU, which was weird, so he then put on a old diagnostic tester, which was used on the car about a year ago, which at the time worked fine, again did not "see" or could talk to the ECU.
Any idea of what it could be? not normal is it?
The car is running fine, OK, just a tiny, and I mean tiny ( could be me) smell of petrol when you start it up, could be me, though!
Slight tweak to subject line - Welcome to the backroom you should get some help - PU
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Changed the offside front headlamp unit tonight, then found both the front and rear offside side lights won't work. All the other lights, front and rear, on both sides of the car, work OK. Fuses seem OK. Anyone any ideas where to look for the fault please?
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whats an OE bulb ?
Original Equipment, as recommended and approved by a manufacturer.
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news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/northamptonshire/69187...m
Link to the BBC news report. The epitome of a balanced report. Everything's in there. No need to discuss further on here. Thread locked. Open a discussion on the risks of driving under overbridges by all means but any reference to this case and it's binned.
The knife has been wielded big style on this. The Back room is not a quasi-judicial "panel"
PU