July 2007
My new car was registered on 28 June 2007. My V5c arrived 2 July and the PO were on strike for one day - is this a record? Read more
Was driving my Civic this morning, started first time as always, whilst driving to the petrol station I had a quick flicker of both the immobiliser light and the engine management light and thought nothing more of it.
Pulled in to the petrol station and filled up, when to start the car and it wouldn't fire up. It made all the right sounds apart from the fact that the engine would not start running.
Has anyone had a similar problem or if anyone can shed some light in my problem I would be most greatful. Thank you in advance.
Rich
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thanks for this link - should help with the rover 214 too.
anyone else know of other free on-line workshop manuals - is there a directory somewhere?
Particularly interested in the Hyundai i30. If it's anywhere near as good as recent Kias it'll be a hell of a good car for the money. I'll just have to wait 3 years, buy one for half the new price and still get 2 years' warranty! Read more
Particularly interested in the Hyundai i30.
Base 1.4 model is a good price, and has most of the 'goodies'
The 1.6 in the same trim is £1,300 more for 13bhp extra.
The higher trim levels have a big price differential for not a great deal IMO.
Hi all,
I recieved a PCN in april with a fine of £80 because I had failed to pay a PCN charge. I had not, however, seen a ticket on my car. I made representations to Lambeth Council, and recieved a letter from them to say they were very busy and would get back to me in due course. Yesterday I recieved a charge certificate that said that if I had made an appeal, this had failed and a higher price of £120 was now due.
On the PCN it said something to the effect of- if you do not either pay or make representations we will raise the amount to £120. it did NOT say 'if your appeal fails we will raise it to £120.'
do I really owe them £120 just for making an appeal? this is SOOOOO unfair.
I phoned lambeth up last night and was told to write to them telling them I had recieved a charge cert and that i was awaiting the result of my appeal. but I dont want to do that if it means that in 14 days I will get a court summons for not paying.
please can someone advise, thanks. Read more
Hi Jessica
It would appear that Lambeth PCNs are non compliant and are therefore a nullity, looks like some cases are going to the adjudicator.
see here
tinyurl.com/39aqce
As always
Mark
I've discovered my bike won't fit inside my Accord unless I put it in through the back door, which is a touch inconvenient and costing me £20 a time because I keep bending the mech hanger. Local Honda dealer advises that I can get a set of roof rails for £68 + VAT, which I can fit a bike carrier to.
a) Does this seem like a good price?
b) Will they fall off?
c) If I buy a bike carrier, do I need anything else (additional rails / bars etc)?
Thanks,
David. Read more
a). This seems a reasonable price. Honda brand bars ?
Halfords do cheap bars and used to stock Paddy Hopkirk brand.
Try search for Roof bars. This will give you a good list of suppliers and they will also have bike carriers on their site. e.g.
www.roofbox.co.uk
www.autorack.co.uk/roof_racks.php
www.roofrackshop.co.uk/
Thule are a brand that is well respected but not cheap.
www.thule.com/Thule/Page____5206.aspx
They make two types Traditional & Rapid.
Rapid are the newer, smarter model that can be lockable and you can buy lighter "Aero" bars.
For Thule you need bars, foot pads and adapter kit.
Have a look on Ebay and you will see a few other brands.
Consider buying S/H off Ebay? I was lucky and bought my Thule bars for £5.50.
b) NO.
c) You buy a set of roof bars and attach the bike carrier to the bars. www.thule.com/Thule/Page____45916.aspx
The most common type have a sort of V or U shaped trough that the wheels go in and each wheel is strapped to the trough. Then there is an arm that hinges up and a clamp at the end is secured to one of the bike frame tubes.
I bought a very very simple, very very cheap one and it worked fine over many trips up and down the M3,M25, M40 to and from UNI with sons bike, a roof tray (rack) loaded with stuff.
I actually paid £10 ( special offer) instead of £20 about 5 years ago so you can see it was not high tech.
tinyurl.com/2vp8x8 shows this type but a better make, new, for £28
With this type you just heave the bike up, clamp the frame, tighten the ties around the wheels and that is that.
There are other designs of roof mounted bike carriers, some of which the front wheel is removed and the fork ends are bolted to the carrier.
WARNING. BEWARE height restrictions in car parks or as in my case avoid trees overhanging a drive or carpark. Believe me it is very easy to forget ( admits to having previously had a roof rack "puncture" a HRW :- 0> )
Hi I am going to look at a car for sale privately and intend selling mine afterwards. I have always traded mine in hassle free for a new one in the past.
Just a few points of advice.
Firstly, as I will have two cars until my old one is sold what will I have to do as far as insurance is concerned?
Secondly, as the car I may be buying costs over £6000 what is the usual way to pay for it. I will be making a journey of 110 miles to see it but am happy to do that as we will be making it a good day out in what is a very scenic area.
Hopefully I will hopefully be selling mine for £3000 and am not looking forward to that.
Thirdly am I doing the right thing!!!. Read more
Hi I am going to look at a car for sale privately and intend selling mine afterwards.
I have done just this several times with quite high value cars. It takes a steady nerve and confidence that your old car will sell easily, however I have always been lucky and had a car that was relatively easy to sell. On the subject of insurance, most copmpanies will either give you a free short-term cover note or will give you say 2 weeks insurance for a nominal fee.
The only thing to try and avoid is the buyer getting wind of the fact that you may be anxious to sell because you have a new car and need to release the capital in your old car, thus giving them the negotiating 'high ground'.
I tend to hide my new car away in the garage just in case.
If you get all of this right you should save a significant amount of money on the new car deal and the selling price of your old car, over the margin for the convenience of a part ex.
I vowed never again to do a part ex after I traded in a tidy Mk3 Golf for a pitiifull sum to a dealer some years ago, with much tut-tuting from them about how bad the tiny faults thay had manageed to find on the car were thus reducing its value to about £800 less than I could easily have sold it for privately !
I am babysitting my son-in-laws Audi 80 K reg while he is in Afgan. Takes ages to fill up at pump sometimes pump will time out it takes that long. Also fuel gauge is not reliable any suggestions welcome as he is home on leave soon
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Breather pipe - not familar with Audi 80s, but generally need to look under car and follow route of filler pipe and see if any other pipes connect to it. It could possibly be built into the filler pipe itself.
I too have had slow filling cars normally due to the fact that there has been a few bends in the filler pipe design meaning that fuel cannot flow at the maximum rate dispensed out by pump.
However it is never been so slow that it is a major problem.
If there are no obstructions in filler pipe or breather pipe, then I guess there is very little you can do if, as suggested, it is a characteristic of the Audi 80.
If you find any obstruction, be careful not to push it into the tank, as it could block the fuel lines or filter.
I had the C5 serviced last week and I found the answer to the 'fault' with the tyre sensor that was telling me I had a deflated/punctured tyre. Some time ago, I put the spare wheel on the rear offside of the car and the original went into the boot as the spare. Little did I know that the sensor is read by the ECU whether the wheel is fitted to the car, or left in the boot. There is no sensor in the original spare, so the car's ECU was taking the read out from the new spare, which had become low on pressure (down to 24 psi). Read more
That's not true - the main danger is from a slow puncture that causes the
tyre to overheat and blow-out at speed on a motorway.
I should be concerned about driving a car not fitted with tyre pressure sensors?
My mums Hyundai has finally had a proper issue, such that it has been off the road for nearly a week now.
The problem appears to be a glitch with the ESP. It operated without warning on a straight piece of road at 40 mph in top gear at a steady speed, ESP light flashing. It appeared to brake the NSF wheel, possibly others but it pulled hard to the left, and brought the car almost to a halt on a main road before it would release the brakes and allow the car to accelarate again.
Hyundai have taken the car off us and given a loan car. Every working day, they have phoned to update us on what progress they have made but they are having trouble locating what caused it to happen and they said that in no uncertain terms, should it have done what it did, so yes there is a problem, but so far, cant find it.
They first got a bunch of codes from the car and sent them to Hyundai who responded with a list of things to look at. This didnt bring anything up so Hynudai have suggested that there is possible water ingress somewhere, but where is anyones guess and it could have originated in another system.
As such, its looking like a lengthly process but my dad has some concerns about the situation.
He knows he cannot reject the car as its too old ( 2005 27k ), but he does not want the car to come back with no fault found either, so he has told the dealer that if they send it back without having discovered the fault, he wants the full facts stated in writing and their assurance that there is no fault - no idea if this is why they are going to such lengths to locate the issue.
His main worry is IF there is a fault and say this happens again and it causes an accident, how will this affect any insurance claims - will it invalidate his insurance? Is he to take the dealers word that it is fault free despite having experienced an obvious problem?
As it stands, neither I, nor my mother who was also in the car at the time, will drive it as it was utterly without warning - the sensation that you have no control when you know you should is frightening.
How is it best to handle this? My dad asked me to pose the question as he has never had a problem as serious as this that cannot be found. He cannot currently afford to replace with without loosing a bucket of money either. Read more
thamks for update, sounds like one of the control valves in the pump sticking. It sounds like you have had a very attentive dealer who have taken the issue seriously they are one of very few. well done & hope it all gets sorted.If they fix it I wouldn't mind putting money on it that you would buy another car from that dealer should the situation arise
Regards
Does anyone know if it is possible to do some work on the air conditioning system, it seems that my one is not running to performance and I have been told that it might be worthwhile cleaning the air filter and topping up the airconditioning. However it was muted that this needs to be done by an engineer.
Does anyone know where I can get some information on the procedure Read more
More likely the advice was to change the pollen filter, not the air filter.
If it needs a gas top up, then DON'T attempt to use the DIY kits (known as death kits) from car accessory shops. Instead look up your local Kwik Fit. Recent comments in the link below.
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friend of mine been waiting for driving licence application 2 months so far, although they are a foreign national with medical conditions, still seems a very long time for a bit of paper/plastic