September 2007
I've just driven behind one, till it shot away like manure off a spade.
Can't find it on the VW website. Any info please. I have not been living in a cave.(I think)
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Bought an old FP to get me by until the new car arrives. Both doors make an awful noise when opening - a sort of grinding noise as though the hinges are knackered. One of the doors moves so much on the hinges that it actually hits the wing upon opening! Other than this and a broken rear wiper mechanism it seems fine for £300 with tax and MOT until March to get me till Christmas when the new one lands!
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Its what i would do
Well UK ones anyway. It's so boring. Must make it difficult to find your 'van among a load of them parked up 'cos they all look the same.
Why don't caravanners demand more variety? Why are they so uninterested in individual expression. Says a lot about 'em, IMO...
(Mind you, even if they were painted more imaginitively/attractively, they'd still be mobile road blocks that are difficult to get past.) Read more
The council quote was something along the lines of white is standard. Anything else costs extra.
Contemplating buying a Mitsubishi Colt 1.1CZI or Ford Fiesta 1.25 Studio for SWMBO, any backroomers got pro/cons advice.? Cost about the same for "cost to change"
Thanks
Claybuster
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3 or 5 door?
I was willing to sacrifice substance for style on this occasion (well....for the wife actually) I think it looks great in 3 door, but slightly.....er.....old personish (Agila comes to mind for some reason) in 5 door. I appreciate you need arms like a baboon to get the seatbelt, but wife is a Yoga freak and very supple......nice eh?
Hello,
Can anyone talk me through charging my air-con
where the charge point is - where to buy charge unit (what type) ...............
It a Vectra estate 2.2 petrol Y-reg (51)
thanks Graham.
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Thanks for all the replys, this was what I was looking for, It has helped me make my mind -up.
I wiil try Kwik-Fit.
Thanks again, Graham.
My 2003 406 HDI Estate has always had a useless handbrake, but I have found an easy cure.
Since the handbrake uses a drum within the rear disc, it never gets any wear on the linings, and in fact I don't think mine had ever got properly bedded in.
Simply run (preferably down a steepish hill or two to avoid fuel wastage) with the handbrake firmly on,to bed in the brake linings properly, and the handbrake will subsequently work much better. It might then be worth re-adjusting using a screwdriver through the hole on the drum, to maximise the benefit.
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Vauxhall recommended almost the same thing (except to not put the H/B full on, but only until resistance was felt) for the Mk3 Cavalier and Vectra-B, which also has drum brakes for the handbrake if rear discs are fitted.
Found this whilst looking at a Battery website, may be a useful item to put in your tool kit.
Billy
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Wouldn't work on a Volvo as they require the ignition to be off for ten minutes before disconnecting the battery for all the hardware to shutdown properly.
Disconnect the battery before it has done this and it will light up like a Christmas tree afterwards. This requires a trip to the local dealership for a reset and a quick forty or fifty quid drain of the wallet.
Just wondered if there is any particular practical reason for the plethora of diverse mounting of radio aerials on vehicles. Those on the roof / wing areas do nothing for the asthetic appearance and are vulnerable to malicious / accidental damage whilst others are a more discreet device on the rear of the roof or rear screen and some are totally unseen re incorporated into the rear screen etc.
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Remember the XR4i-the one with the double wing spoiler?It had an electric aerial on the rear wing and was wired into the bootlight switch so that the aerial retracted when you opened the boot so the aerial and spoiler didn't tangle.
My 19 year old daughter's car (a 1999 Corsa 1.0), free-gifted by a kind neighbour a year ago, is dying (it has needed head gasket, exhaust, cat, clutch etc doing in last 6 months and clearly won't last too much longer based on the oil its losing).
She regrets not taking us up on the offer of old 1994 Volvo 440 "tip trip" car and needs to replace the Corsa with something cheap to insure and ideally more reliable than the Corsa has been.
Any suggestions for £2000 max?
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Sadly, it has been neglected based on the condition it is was in. Several owners, the last being an elderley lady, and an incomplete history. Less than 60k and should be a sweet engine but it it has been troublesome from day 1 and the locally recommended and apparently "reputable" garages that it has been to for repairs seem to have done more harm than good, each damning the work done by the one before but the same problems re-emerging.
Job just to keep the oil topped up right now and suspect further work will just be good money thrown after bad. Thanks for the suggestions thought, shall start to look this weekend and take the point about condition.
My local car parts shop sells mainly GM and Comma engine oil and other products for these two brands. I just would like to know how good or bad the engine oil is and other products if you've any experience of them? Are there engine oil of good quality and safe enough to use in diesel cars in particular as long as they meet the viscosity and grading (like CD, CF etc..) requirements? Read more
I have used Comma engine oils for the past twenty years and have no complaints. I currently run a Skoda Octavia (VW engine) and still use Comma.
May I suggest you go to the Comma Oils website and check out an engine oil that meets the VW specification.
A good friend had an A6 2.5 TDI, it lunched the injector pump and some injectors as a result. Not cheap :-(