July 2007
As most of you would know here, I'm thinking of replacing my Volvo S40. I just want to get your opinions/comments on 1.7DTi engine in Astras. A friend of mine has told me you've to remove the engine mounts before you could change the drive belt on it and he's told me they're hated by the mechanics. I would like to get your expert opinions and in particular if someone has got one of these would love to hear from them tool. Many Thanks Read more
Hi All on yet another wet saturday night. Right, Sadly my father has recently died (84 bless him) any-way, kindly he has left me his car. I already have a car and cannot decide which one to keep, and which one to sell. (My dad would not bothered either way)
The car from my dad is
TOYOTA YARIS VERSO T SPRIT D4-D. 1.4 DIESEL. REG 16/8/2003 ON A 03 PLATE.
It is one owner from new(my dad) done 49,170 miles with full toyota main dealer service history.(from where my dad bought it from). It has a full m.o.t, 5 service stamps in the book. The last service being done by toyota 2 weeks ago.
It is a nice metalic blue. Manual 5 speed box. What is this worth if I sell it private?
My other car is a ford ka, 2003 reg, 03. It has covered just 16,000 miles from new with 2 prev elderly lady owners(both sisters) It is metalic black, fully stamped ford service history, just been serviced again by ford main dealers. My Questions is: Which one would I be better keeping, and which one should I sell, If its the toyota, What do you think I will get for it. Many Thanks for any advice, Graham.
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Hi Espada, Can you give me a idea on price? p.s. Can you contact me via my email rather than honest john, as we seem to be side tracking from this posting, Thanks, Graham.
Hi
Following the eBay thread of the Peugeot 505 Dangle 4x4, on the Dangel website they are currently producing the Berlingo as a 4x4. The promo video's here (I think quite impressive...)
tinyurl.com/2anju6
Comes with a 1.6litre 90bhp turbo diesel engine. The 'Performance' version comes with a front and rear limited slip dif.
Price's between £3,800 and £4,700 on top of the price on a new Berlingo.
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My mistake, it looked like a Berlingo in the video. Reading their website they do the conversion on both the Berlingo and the Partner so I guess they're pretty much identical cars.
Chris
I met a friend of mine this lunchtime and he casually mentioned that his coolant was low and needed topping up.I cannot remember ever having to top up coolant in my own vehicles, but he was told by a lady in a car accessory shop to top up with a 50/50 mix of antifreeze & water.
My friend says there is nothing in his vehicle handbook to say what coolant should be used, but surely not this antifreeze mix?
He drives an 04 Subaru Forester 2.0X.
Any advice please.
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Thank you Aprilia, I have passed the message on.
They have a 240 mile drive down to Pembroke today on holiday, so I hope the coolant loss is not major....the vehicle has done 40k and I am told that the coolant change was carried out at the last service.
Thought I'd just pass on a brilliant motoring tip that is so simple and brilliantly effective.
I was a passenger in a mates car last night and I opened the glove box (like you do in a friends car). Inside was a 'unused paint' brush.
Apparently my friend uses this to clean the dashboard nooks and crannies, you know all those recesses around buttons, around the radio, in the centre console, difficult to reach places and in particular air vents. All that nasty dust and grime that builds up over time.
Now I tried this out this morning and it's sooo effective! Much better than a damp cloth or those awful fake shine sprays and only takes seconds.
Now why didn't I think of this before?
Like all good ideas.. cheap, simple, effective.
...and it actually works!
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another good dash cleaner is the big ball of Blutack (sp? it is called prestik here!) rolled around picking up the dust, dandruff and general scurve on the plastic, and can be 'squished' into hard-to-reach corners.
This ensures that all the dust doesn't just re-enter the air, and get redeposited somewhere else a few minutes later
BUT never use it on a hot day, as it tends to become stringy when it gets in touch with warm plastic.
Rolled across the keyboard keys, it also picks up a fair amount of gunk.
I'm about to buy 4 tyres for my car but i don't know where the best place to go is or what to get.
I've looked on my tyres and found some real good prices but when I've phoned around for fitting, garages are wanting £20 per wheel because they don't like not supplying the tyre
My tyres are 195/55/15 and the brands I'm looking at are
Michelin pilot primacy
Bridgestone potenza
vredestein sportract 3
contenental premium contact 2
any advice or opinions on these would be appreciated
I was wondering if anyone knew when Costco would have sale on the Michelin pilot primacy as there price is £72 at the min.
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thanks dox may give them a try
About this time in the model cycle - or even a bit earlier (Oct 2001) I bought a Honda Accord. It was £8,500, so pretty much half-price.
I thought I might do the same again but the cheapest I can find is £12,000 for the basic 2.0 petrol model, which is 2/3 price or even a little more.
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Is it me, or have a number of posts just disappeared without explanation from this thread??!?
www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/main.jhtml?xml=/motor...l
Read and learn I think is the only thing that can be said.... Read more
I was just reading the article...
"Our French holiday was going well. Then we took a wrong turning off the A8 motorway in Nice and, "
then I looked down at the photo (showing the Arc de Triomphe). My first thought was how they ended up so far away in Paris. Hehe
For aprox the last 3 weeks my car when acclerating has been sounding a bit like a 3cylinder Vauxhall Corsa, but performance has not changed at all.
I suspect my front pipe is starting to go and I have a couple of questions regarding this.
(1) Cost of front pipe & fitting the best quote so far is £85 with 2yrs warranty
(2) Could I keep driving the car for another 2weeks as funds are tight at the moment
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Not sure what I'm listening for, but if anything it sounds like noisy valve-gear. If you're still fairly certain it's an air-intake problem, get a replacement filter housing and connecting hose from a scrappie. As I said in a previous post, squirt a bit of WD40 around, and if there's a leak, the engine will suck it in and burn it, hence you'll hear the revs rise for a second or 2.
Browse
i regularly drive Astra's at work............the older 2.0 diesel was fine, good for what it is and reasonably swift......
the 1.7 i find unacceptably flat and has to be worked hard for no real gain...