July 2007
h,v,s whats that all about....thanks
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Looking to buy a portable Sat Nav unit this week for our holiday in cornwall at the weekend. Which would you go for and why from your experiences.
Looking at below £200.
Currently looking at TT One of Navman F20/F30 Read more
I have just biught a Blaupunkt Lucca mp3 with full european street level mapping for £127including p&p BNIB from ebay and it works well I believe it uses the Navigon software and is quite upto date as it shows a recently opened autobahn which my sons newish Tom Tom fails to show.
Hi all.
I'm slowly inching closer to getting an S60 D5 and, in my search, have come across something odd.
Car supermarket X in Cheshire has car for sale with photo. Great. Car supermarket Y in East Midlands has the EXACT same car for sale (ie same car and reg) with "in transit" and no photo. Car appears on ebay under the name of supermarket Y.
To the best of my (limited) knowledge, X and Y are not part of the same group.
Is this normal or potentially a bit suspect, as I've never purchased from either X or Y?
Spoke to Y on the 'phone and they know nothing about the car ("it's not showing on the computer") and waiting response back from X.
Over to the experts......
TT
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Ah, so mind reading is one of your many skills Aprilia?! [Either that or your knowledge of the motortrade is boundless!] ;-)
The S60 D5 they have has 19k on the clock and from just the two photos looks OK.
Thanks anyway. Much appreciated.
TT
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I've only seen two S-MAXs on the road, and being a bit of a petrolhead I tend to notice new cars. Have they not gone down as well as Ford hoped, and are the sales as dire as my experience makes it seem? Read more
Word has it that Ford have sold ALL of their 2.0 diesel allocation - if you want to order a 2.0 diesel it won't be delivered until October.
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Is anyone here a wiz on bio fuel? I have a customer with a Jeep Cherokee 2.8 diesel. Jeep says it?s only allowed to run on 5% bio fuel so really that means it can?t use it. Anyway this customer has been using it anyway and had no running problems with it until it started making a noise then broke down. So I had a look a found it wouldn't start due to low fuel pressure traced the fault to injector not holding fuel and leaking it all into the cylinder. Replace the injector and it started no problem but was still noisy so turn it off and check the oil found it was all sludge tried to drain the oil but no oil came out it was all just sludge. Suspected this was just because the injector had been leaking and contaminated the oil by going past the rings. Removed engine and found damage to crankshaft and camshaft due to loss of oil pressure and as the car was under warranty replace the complete engine for him. He went away very happy however 9 months down the road it has now done the same thing again. Warranty has told him where to go as he has been running it on bio fuel but I don?t know much about bio fuel and can?t see how or why it should do this to the oil and wreck his engine? Think he is now going to learn a hard lessen and not run it on bio fuel being it?s now going to cost him a new engine but I would like to know more if any of you are a wiz on this fuel or know of a web site as jeep technical don?t want to know or tell me why or give me any info at all.
This maybe a good point to all of you that are running on bio fuel or are thinking about using it to check if you can first.
P.S i didn't know when I change the engine about the fuel this has only come to light this time around.
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Merlin. Read more
There still seems to be confusion between biodiesel, veg oil and RME.
Sounds like the Jeep was run on a high amount of raw veg oil, as the symptoms described ocurr with veg oil and insufficient oil changes (9,000 miles is waaaaay to long!).
Veg oil is also available from different plants and in different grade, food grade, used etc... also, fat used in catering tends to be very heavily processed and gums are removed, whereas other types will polymerise into sticky residue (Sunflower oil is one of the worst for this)
Some call veg oil a biodiesel because it is bio and a works on the diesel principle, wheras advocates of biodiesel tend to say it is not and prefer to call it SVO.
The pump diesel with 5% RME, is not biodiesel with 5% vegetable oil, it is 95% mineral diesel with 5% RME. There is a big difference, and until people can get a grasp, cars will continue to break.
Just having a peek at the FAQ's and was suprised to see Volvo missing from the cars with timing chains list.
Do they not have any engines at all that do not have belt driven cams? Read more
No idea about the smaller ones but the five-cylinder engines - petrol and diesel - have a recommended belt replacement interval of 96,000 miles or 8-10 years.
I've just had a look on the just-auto.com website and in the Blog there, they were discussing the performance of Chinese manufacturers vehicles in the ADAC tests.
It appears they still have not taken onboard the shortcomings found on their cars in 2005.
The side impact of this family saloon is just scary.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvhuFvkX688
Thankfully we have type approval rules and regs to protect us here. Read more
The Chinese cars will take a share of the market,not going to happen overnight but its going to happen.
Could anyone please advise, if the GM 1.2MPI engine used in the 2005 Wagon R is the same unit used in the Vaux Corsa, or do Suzuki change parts or the spec of the unit?
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I've had my Golf for about 18 months (Y reg, 2001, MkIV, 73,000 on the clock, 1.6 SE 16v). It's got full service history but it's been a real Friday car.
In the time I've had it, it's had whole new exhaust system, new oil pressure switch, new rear washer pump, new boot catch, 4 tyres (Goodyears), new brake pads and it's still got some minor stuff that needs sorting - slight play in MacPherson struts, new clutch master cylinder required. I'm basically waiting for the next breakdown.
I bought it for £5500 in Jan 06 and it's probably worth £3500 to £4000 now.
Typical driving is 16 miles a day (commuting), short trips into town and the occasional long motorway journey. I typically get around 38mpg on my commute. I rarely cart much stuff about so space isn't an issue.
So, question is, should I trade it in for a Jazz? I'd be looking at nothing more than 3 years old and I'd want a 1.4.
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Any news simon on how you got on - have you reached a decision ?
I have a November 2004 Renault Scenic 1.9dci dynamique. The air con does not seem very cold (although we have not had much hot weather to warrant switching it on) I have an RS Thermocouple measuring instrument that I could measure the temperature. Does anyone know what sort of reading I should expect and where should I be putting the probe to measure the temp? Also if the reading is low will Renault repair or more probably re-charge the system (car is still under 3 year manufaturers warranty) or is this considered a service item, which is down to the customer? Read more
Bob in the three years I had my Scenic, the air con broke twice.
Both times the dealer said not warranty and chargeable. Took to a private air con dealer and first timehe diagnosed what was wrong and that it should be covered under warranty. Took back to dealer told them what theexpert had said and it was duly covered under warranty.
Just before I sold it the air con was poor again. Back to same guy who re-gassed it and this made a huge difference. An easy way to tell is if the pipe coming from the air con unit goes cold (its under the engine on the drivers side). When air con was regassed and switched to cold, this pipe was (almost) freezing cold.
Regas was £40.
IIRC the compressor won't start if the gas is too low so just because you aren't hearing it not kicking in, doesn't mean that its not just a simple re-gas required.
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