My son collected his new Golf Bluemotion on Friday.

Drove it from Milton Keynes to Staffs Friday (motorway), Staffs to Slough Sunday (motorway), used it for work (3 miles each way) Monday onwards and on the way in to Work Thursday the DPF warning light came on.

Should they be this sensitive to short runs? And what is the point of a car built to be economical if you have to give it a blast at 2500 revs for 15 minutes every 3 days! Read more

Hi, just wondered if anyone had anything similar or knows what this problem could be. I have taken the car to a Peugeot dealership 4 times with regards to this and each time they believe they have fixed it but it always seems to happen again.

It is fine when starting the engine when it is cold but after driving somewhere then trying to start it again after say half hour or ten mins etc it only starts if i rev it at the same time. The engine also cut out on me the other day when driving which has never happened before. The car is just over a year old and has only done 9,000 miles....................any ideas?! Read more

This came up on a non-car related forum today -- someone quoted HC rule 113, and on reading it, it flagged up something interesting:

113

You MUST

* ensure all sidelights and rear registration plate lights are lit between sunset and sunrise
* use headlights at night, except on a road which has lit street lighting. These roads are generally restricted to a speed limit of 30 mph (48 km/h) unless otherwise specified
* use headlights when visibility is seriously reduced (see Rule 226)

Night (the hours of darkness) is defined as the period between half an hour after sunset and half an hour before sunrise).

It's the second bullet-point that interests me. They appear to be saying that using headlights at night is either optional or forbidden (the wording is poor so hard to tell which) if you are driving in a street-lit area.

Surely this can't be right? On the one or two occasions that I've forgotten to switch headlights back on after stopping in a car park etc to drop someone off, and been driving around with sidelights, I've been flashed by other road users. This I've always taken to be justified, and I've been grateful to the other road user.

Now it appears that they may be wrong.

Can anyone clear this one up? Read more

Hi,

I'm flirting with the idea of a Fiat 500 1.2 Lounge, probably not for at least another year (thought I'd let supply improve) but was wondering which colour you people think it suits best.

Apparently 80% of them are being sold in white. The Fiat used site has only solid white and red. I think it looks good in solid white (not the bluey whitey pearl). Solid red and solid yellow seem to make it look even more like the original 500, as they're similar shades to the colours the original one came in.

Personally I'm going to avoid white as I want to be a bit different, and think there is a good choice of fun metallics. In particular, there is an olive green metallic shade which I think would look nice (and kind of 60s/70s retro). I think that because of the demand for this car, the colour choice is pretty unimportant to residuals, especially as Fiat don't offer it in any silly colours (as Honda seems keen to do with the Jazz).

So, any views on the olive green? Or have you seen it in another non-white or non-red shade which looks good? Please let me know, many thanks.

Robbie. Read more

Can anyone advise on a warning light problem with Streetka 1.6? It's my daughter's car and she tells me the engine warning light came on yesterday and remains on all the time. She also tells me the car seems to be driving fine at the moment.

She did have problems with the light flashing a few months ago, just after the car was serviced. At that time she returned it to the garage and it came back fixed. Sounded to me as if they disturbed a connection or something?

I'll be visiting her in a week or so so can take a look then, but would be helpful to have some ideas, also if it indicates a serious problem developing.

Tks

Stuart Read more