September 2008
I have a banging noise coming from the rear of my 405.
It seems to be coming from the nearside rear wheel area.
It's a constant banging with no regular pattern.
It sounds like the exhaust is banging against something but i don't think it's that as i've pushed the exhaust in all directions really hard and i can't make it bang against anything.
Also i have bounced on the towbar and rocked the car and i can't make the noise happen but when i drive it the banging starts by just driving down the road, i don't even have to drive over a bump for it to bang.
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Reading the thread below concerning plenty of like minded fools driving with little or no lights on in fog/rain etc. One poster got me thinking -- why exactly have car makers got rid of the dim-dip system that used to be so popular in the mid 80s and early 90s? Read more
Thick people aren't restricted to lower end models :-)
that has always annoyed me, there's no justice...:-)
It seems that Renault have launched a new Safrane! But in Middle East markets only? Don't suppose they'll bother with sales in Europe. What do you think of it:
www.safrane-for-me.com
Reminds me vaguely of the Nissan Altima...
Can't see them selling many in brand-conscious ME markets! Read more
I recently saw a new Nissan Maxima - a fantastic-looking car, almost up there with the Chrysler 300c - shame it'll never be coming to the UK.
Last night a scrote hit the rearmost of 3 parked cars (daughter's car was middle of three so damaged front and rear) and ran off after torching his untaxed,uninsured wreck as seems to be SOP in these cases.
My daughter will ring her insurer in the morning, questions are:
1) If she claims on her own fully comp policy, will the insurer need details of the innocent owner/car pushed into hers by the offender?
2) Will the insurer of the innocent owner/car hers was pushed into claim from her?
3) I presume her insurers will need a crime number from the BiB?
4) All cars were recovered to a Police compound by the Police recovery contractor - will they charge for this (West Yorkshire) and if so is this recoverable from her insurer?
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Hi,
My 2001 Honda Accord V-tech 2.0i auto won't idle.
It runs OK above idle but I suspect it is still missing a little.
I have changed the coil, checked the sensors are adjusted to be as near to the shaft as possible.
Could I have a faulty ignition control module (the one inside the distributor)?
I ask because I don't want to spend £59 to change it if it is not at all likely to fix the idle problem. The engine light doesn't come on and there are no fault codes.
Thanks for any advise.
Dave
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Guy got 10 years for death by dangerous after his stolen car flipped over the central reservation and hit and killed a driver coming the other way.
The prosecution played footage of the police chase in court.
I watched it with a few others and we all agreed, you couldn't fault the police on this occasion.
Decided to post this after seeing the locked thread about the grandmother.
www.journallive.co.uk/north-east-news/todays-news/.../
Finally sorted this link - third time lucky. For some reason it took a dislike to TinyURL Read more
uninformed
"un-uniformed", surely? :)
I think I am right in saying that we should see the Sept car sales figures out sometime this week? With all the credit panic over banks failing and such it will be interesting to see what the sales figures are for cars during September.
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>> BMW was 24.1% down for September
That's not as bad as I was led to believe, although it's worse than MB and a lot worse than Audi. BMW higher sales volume mean they were down by a chunky number of cars - a lot of value; approx 6000 cars at, say, £20K each is £120M. BMW's "efficient dynamics" is supposed to be a big advantage to them.
Honda's market share on the other hand was 3.77% v. 4.92% in Sept last year.
They registered 39.6% fewer cars.
I would image that's largely due to current Jazz being very much in its run out phase.
A sad story...
tinyurl.com/3l8oc5
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Matter being investigated by the Police and IPCC, likely to end up in Crown Court - so in accordance with site practice - locked until after the investigation has been concluded and its been to Court.
What are the best answers to give to obtain a lower insurance premium without risking invalidating the policy?
Clearly speeding, motoring and accidents/claims must be declared freely.
But I have no worries on that front :)
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The details are cross-referenced but sadly only to the insurer's benefit.
For example I own two cars and am the main driver on one and secondary driver on the other (the more expensive as the main driver is our au pair who is 21). I drive this other car about once a quarter to make a short journey but a claim I have had on my other (main) policy has to be logged, even though it was a no fault accident where the entire costs and excess were recovered in my favour.
It seems that this claim has as much impact on one policy as it does on the other which makes no sense whatsoever.
Tried Confused and Go Compare. Any others I should try?
Incidentally I got a renewal quote for £1100 from current insurer. Got £520 from the same insurer via Confused then realised I had forgotten to mention on confused a claim for damaged bodywork following a tyre blow-out this year, so I called the insurer and explained the situation and asked them to re-quote taking this into consideration. They added £80 to the Confused price so I bought it there and then, but they said I had to call to cancel current policy otherwise it would be automatically re-newed. I did this and the person I spoke to said I should not have accepted the revised price because I was deliberately misleading them because I had not asked them to consider the impact on my no-claims which had gone from 5 years to 2 years because of the blow-out claim - which was mentioned on page three of five of my renewal notice.
I have to say lost my rag a bit here and pointed out that I had called them to make sure that they were quoting with the right info and it was not my job to make sure that they understood that a claim might affect my no-claims bonus.
I was more than irritated by this approach and looking again at my renewal notice, amongst other errors such the wrong registration and mis-spelled names of the crivers it lists the blow-out as a "fault" claim. Is it normal for a blow-out to be a fault of the policy holder?
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Web comparison sites are brokers - as such they can vary their commission and therefore your premium.
There is no best comparison site - try them all you may find a gegree of variation of the same cover and company.
I saved £23 on a £171 premium.
seen a number of these where the rear swinging arm bushes have worn out. Also check the shocker is not either siezed or its bushes excessively worn
Make it so Mr Worf.