May 2008
Going to France next month on the bike ! Anyway being joined by a friend from the North, we had a planning meeting the other night and he suggested that he travel down the M6 and then veer off along the A14 and join the M11 instead of the more traditional M1 route. What is th A14 like ? Read more
Local station (Total branded) has 6 diesel pumps. 4 seem to dispense Total "Excellium" which is 128.9p per litre. Fortunately I read the unit price on the LCD dsplay before I started dispensing fuel. I jib at paying 123.9 but I wonder how many other people check the unit cost per litre on the pump before they start filling their tank? Does the garage really expect that much demand for premim diesel or do they rely on people just filling their tank without checking the price?
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Local station (Total branded) ................ premim diesel ...........
Be careful how you use the word "premium" in relation to Total fuel. You'll find that their 95 RON petrol is branded "Premium".
I am considering buying a W124 or W210 E class Mercedes and would appreciate if someone could advise when M. Benz ceased production of diesel engines with Bosch mechanical fuel injection systems.
Could someone also please advise when M. Benz switched to common rail diesel engines ??
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No, it's to stop people editing their posts days later and then being out of context / not making any sense with posts that follow afterwards.
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I would like to know more about lpg as it seems on the face of it a good idea. Anyone know about it? Volvos seem to do a production model or two.
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If you have a good conversion or a factory-fitted or approved one, it's fine. Diesel running costs with the pleasure of a petrol engine. More to go wrong I suppose, but it's pretty reliable kit, if properly installed and maintained. You soon get used to which garages stock it and I never ran out when I ran one. You still have either the original petrol tank or a smaller one that gives you a good range. No loss of interior or boot space with a decent conversion either, but some saloons will lose the spare tyre so you'd have to carry a tin of gunk to get you home. I think they make a lot of sense in the current market.
But if too many people use it, watch the tax go up.
I paid a deposit for a new car at a main dealer by VISA debit - I now have major concerns over the deal.
No paperwork signed or provided other than a manual receipt for my deposit, no details of the car etc.
Is there a contract to buy?
Your thougths & advice much appreciated
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Thanks to everyone who has replied so far.
These comments are most helpful.
My giving a deposit when questions remained unanswered is quite out of character - however I am heavily involved with urgent domestic issues.
Am going to have a conversation with the dealer today if no joy then my bank.
will update later
Hi seem to have a lot of oil on the engine under the exp tank any ideas?
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AWX Code is that correct the oil seems to be landing on the metal bit under the turbo pipe.
Thanks
Just been offered a 2006 EOS diesel manual 70k on clock for £11k.
This is some 5k less than any other I have seen and the mileage is way out of line with others on sale which seem to have been used as second hand toys.
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My apologies. I did not look at the date of the original post.
Must try harder.
In laws are just back from Rome and last night they had a big display of exotic cars, Lambos, Ferrari, Zondas etc as well as others like classic Austins.
My son is now desperate to know more about what his gran saw but can't see anything on net about it and in laws don't have any more info on it. He is ashamed of his gran as she didn't take photos and gran can't confirm which model of the Lambos it was!
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My wife decided to buy a new Yaris back in March.
"Dismal" is the best description of the vehicle, in terms of build quality, presentation and the overall lack of interest from the supplying dealer. There has been a non-stop catalogue of minor and irritating faults, from lights not wired up through grille and number plate dropping off to fumes entering the cabin.
Nothing has been fixed first time. To drive the car lacks any power at all, is really noisy with mechanical racket competing with the rattling trim.
The car is back at the original dealers and I have refused to collect it. The dealer has indicated that ours is "normal for a Yaris" and is implying that our expectations were too high. Toyota Customer Services simply refer everything back to the dealer.
We have lost all confidence in the car, Toyota and especially the dealer.
So what next? The temptation is to leave the wretched thing with the dealer but I suspect they will try to charge for storage.
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Hello HonestJohn,
I do not agree with your comments. I found the Yaris T-Spirit 1.3 petrol (2007 model) noisy on the motorway, had a rather bouncy, unpleasant ride and the steering lacked a bit of precision at speed. (Incidentally even the archaic Rover (Metro) 114 had a much better ride quality and superior handling and was much nicer to drive)
But the Yaris did look pleasant, was an excellent town car, had marvelous space packaging and extremely versatile rear seats and I did like the equipment levels especially the keyless entry, although the radio sound quality was truly diabolical for this price of car.
Good to drive on the motorway for 620 miles it was not and it would not be my first choice supermini for doing so!
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My next door neighbour owns a spanking new X3, which she mainly uses to drive to the local tube station, on her way to work. The car is usually left parked up all day in a resident's bay, near the station, for which she has a regular permit.
A few days ago 2 individuals in full police uniforms turned up at my next door neighbour's door, because, according to them, the X3 had been parked in such way as to cause an obstruction. As she was away at work, those "policemen" convinced her elderly mother to hand over the spare keys, so that they could move the vehicle. The keys were duly returned an hour later.
In the evening, when my neighbour went to collect her car after work, she found it unlocked, but it was still parked in exactly the same place, where she had left it in the morning. The inside of the boot was messy, but everything was still there.
On hearing the full story from her mum, my neighbour drove to the local police station, where they categorically denied they had anything to do with it. They told her that the police never deal with parking matters and in any case, they would never have moved her car, because they are not insured to drive it.
If those individuals were not policemen, who were them? Secret agents? Is it possible that they just wanted the keys to clone them? The car is left in the same place day in and day out, so it would be quite easy to steal it at a latter date. Should my neighbour head for the nearest BMW dealer to have the locks replaced? What do you think?
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Is the car park under CCTV? Get the tape examined. If its no longer available (assuming there is one) its the dirty-tricks brigade. Ordinary crooks would have nicked it already - unless it was used in a job, which seems unlikely as it isn't burnt to a crisp, and has been returned to base. Too tidy for usual jail fodder.
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My wife was returning from Birmingham to our Essex home a few weeks ago, I noticed that the A14 was suffering from one of its frequent accidents so I directed her through Papworth (surely it was only a matter of time before the site of one of Britain's leading heart hospitals got a bypass!) to avoid it. However, she managed to get back onto the gridlocked A14 going east from the A428 rather than the southbound M11!