September 2008
Hi all,
I'm looking for a new Honda CRV 2.2 EX in nighthawk black, and the best price i can get at the moment is £23,399 OTR.
Reading about car sales, it seems that September is going to be another hard month. I need the car in December or January, so i have no time pressure really. Would people on here suggest taking the above price right now (secured for Dec/jan delivery) or should i wait until later in the year in the hope that prices will come down even further?
thanks for your opinions!
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Heading for Canterbury tomorrow and Ferry Wednesday morning.
How much time will I lose in the roadworks on the M1 around Luton at 19:00 ish or is it worth going A14/M11? Read more
No lorries on the M20 either;P&O are operating a more frequent service but their boats are pretty full.
Should I expect suspension bushes to last more than 20.000 miles They were replaced under warranty at no cost after 30.000 miles. but replacements have just resulted in MOT failure and further warranty work being challenged by dealers
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This is a very common fault with PT's , some seem to need replaceing every 10.000 miles others seem to last for years ,our car is six years old and had one set, they are very easy to do yourself , you can pick the arms up very cheap now , and easier to replace than the bush, chysler would take the arm off to change the bushes then remove the bush and replace , all takes time , quicker to replace whole arm if you do yourself , or the other way to to use poly bushes , stiffens the ride but last a lot longer
Mondeo w reg auto ghia x. Handbrake warning light on dash comes on sometimes when driving. When on I have noticed that the light on the TCS swich does not light up when pressed. When the handbrake warning light on the dash is off then the light on the TCS swich will come on when pressed. The TCS warning light on dash only lights when ignition is first switched on but at no other time. Read more
I forgot to mention that the brake fluid levels are OK.
I was told that if i had my van re-mapped i could get better fuel consumption, I thought mapping would give me more power, how can i get better fuel consuption from doing this and is it worth looking into? I would appreciate your veiws, thanks. Read more
>>convert analouge signals from sensors to digital ones to enhance the accuracy
Sorry!, I have to take issue with that statement!
Digital signals for engine sensors can offer improved immunity from noise.
A conversion from analogue to digital cannot improve the accuracy of a measurement - owing to sampling delays and quantisation error, the conversion actually degrades the quality of the signal.
In most cases, the analogue signal is converted to digital at an early stage in the ECU - processors tend to deal exclusively in digital signals.
A friend has just had her car damaged in a minor accident, where another driver ran into the back of her car, and pushed it into one in front, The other driver has admitted liability and a hire car has been provided whilst the situation is dealt with.
The problem is that her car is an S reg Rover 25, it had low mileage, full service history, was reliable and been owned by her from new, but even on a good day can't be worth much more than a few hundred pounds. The repairs have been costed at £ 1600
I fear that the insurance company will make a derisory offer of £ 100 - 200 for the car and she will be left without any transport or the means to buy a suitable replacement, ie not a complete heap.
Does anyone have any experience of this kind of situation and how best to proceed.
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Foxy, check the engine in the GP on special offer - the 1.2 (8V?) I had as a hire car was slow as a mouthbreathing schoolleaver.
Not sure if this matters to your lady friend, but worth bearing in mind.
Ive mentioned on a previous thread that Ive been offered 4k off the price of any new Lexus (as I expect the whole customer base has)
I have found out today that Lexus GB are promoting this.How would this effect the dealers profit margin if Lexus are basically covering this discount.
Im currently talking to two dealers and need some urgent advice.(hence new thread)I need to know if I still have room to play with over a further discount on top of this 4K. I dont want a dealer trying to kid me on that the 4K is hitting them in the pocket when clearly its not, its hitting Lexus GB. Would it be unreasonable to ask for a further 2k off for example(surely the dealer has money to play with and if Lexus are covering the 4K they cannot lose can they!!)
I would negotiate further money off by asking over the book for my part ex (also Lexus)
I dont know how the trade works so if anyone has knowledge it would nice to go pre-armed.
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4k off any new Lexus. The IS250 SR auto for example is 25,580 on the road so 4K off that.
Im not after a diesel but the basic 220d is £23192 OTR so would be 4k off that, so 19k. Im guessing there is still a couple of grand at stake in the big scheme of things?
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Just imagine how the FIA will be if Todt takes over from Mosley - eek.
Has anyone out there, excluding journalists, actually driven a TDCI Focus or C-Max with the Powershift dual-clutch gearbox?
I ask as there seems to be none to drive in my area, namely Surrey nr Guildford, not exactly a sparsely populated part of the country.
Farnborough Ford (a sizeable dealership) has none. Basingstoke, the same. Guildford Ford claims they're still waiting on delivery of a C-Max Titanium Powershift, which is a month overdue.
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Ford dealers are hopeless at providing demonstrators, at least for private customers. A C-Max 2.0 TDCI was on my shortlist last year, and I never got near one. One salesman seemed surprised that I didn't think that a 1.8 petrol was similar enough.
As long as Ford and their dealers can get their fleet sales, they couldn't give a stuff about losing a private buyer. In any case, given the amount of value Fords lose as soon as they leave the showroom, private buyers are best off buying them used.
Will be dusting off my Accord in a week or two when I arrive back from the UK. It's being (very!) gently driven to the local post office for tax and then straight to the local Honda dealer for a timing belt change, since it's now eight years old and almost certainly due one, especially after being left sitting in a barn for 4 months.
The spark plugs haven't been changed since new either - worth doing? I'll give it to the dealer to do since if they've been in the head for 8 years then they can have the fun of getting them out. ;-)
Brake pads will also need doing - anyone know if bog standard Honda pads are fine or whether it's worth speccing some different ones? Anything else you'd recommend besides oil?
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Sorry to reply to my own post (too late to edit): The BBC report video is here, but it's wrong about Jazz only being made in Japan: news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7642967.stm