October 2008
Just an addition to the previous thread on motoring writers. I have just been looking in my local bookshop and found two new books released with a selection of articles taken from Car magazine from its glory days. If you are interested these books are published by Anova Books. I used to enjoy this magazine a lot, especially as a young lad growing up in the 80s. I think it is very disappointing that current car magazines do not seem to have anywhere near the quality of writing that you used to find in Car Magazine. I was shocked to pick up a "best selling" car mag affiliated to a well known t.v programme and find the artcles expletive ridden and just generally poorly written, happy days eh. I wish i could get hold of some old Car magazines from the 80s, I threw all mine out years ago! Read more
Hi Everyone,
My bluetooth and voice control has suddenly stopped working. Everything else on the steering wheel controls works fine.
Has anyone got any ideas? Read more
Thanks Simon,
Went back to the dealership and they fitteded a new buetooth module. All fixed and working again.
Thanks
Spending far too many hours on the internet searching for a Focus for 'er indoors. I got sick of looking at them today and decided to search any make between certain price levels. Cane across a Corolla 1.4 vvt-i T3 (55 reg) for under five grand at a Toyota dealer.
Simple question. How does it compare to the equivalent Focus. Read more
recommendation to get something Japanese
see www.honestjohn.co.uk/news/item.htm?id=5247
Toyota Corolla Most Reliable Used Car
Sat, 27 Sep 2008 07:19
Hey guys. Just wondering if you can give me some advice.
On Monday afternoon I unfortunately hit another car in a car park of a shopping centre and badly damaged the paintwork on the rear side bumper. I thought about waiting where I was, but I was blocking the road so went off to quickly find a place to park. I had no pen with me so didn?t take the Reg. However by the time I had done this and returned to the scene, the car had gone. Clearly, I want to compensate the driver for my poor driving and for the damage caused. I have emailed the car park management about the incident (and the car details of the car that I can remember) and they have said they have had no reports from the driver to them. I am going to the Police Station tomorrow morning (Wednesday) to report the incident.
Am I taking the right actions regarding the incident?
Is there any way you could suggest that could help me to find the driver?
Any feedback would be highly appreciated.
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It may mitigate it, you're quite right.
hi All,
just come across this!
tinyurl.com/6msmfw
if this isn't the "ultimate" snob gadget, in your opinion what is?
Billy
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The Oerlikon company, subsequently Oerlikon-Buhrle, diversified quite a bit in the latter half of the 20th century. One of its more unusual aquisitions was the Bally shoe company of Switzerland. It sold it again after a few years.
Funny old world really.
During re-generation,with particulate filter equipped diesels, do injectors really blast fuel into the cylinders on the exhaust stroke, wetting bores and contaminating oil?
Or is there a separate injector just upstream of the DPF?
Is there a better engineering solution to cleaning a particulate filter?
From the engines perspective, is DPF the mechanical equivalent of `fouling your own nest`and if so, why?
Anything else you can think of describing the system as?
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But the thread is about diesels and yet another undeveloped wasteful troublesome expensive device being
foisted on us by greedy car firms and venal politicians.
Well, considering that Diesel Particle Filters were first introduced in passenger cars in 1985, it's not as though the manufacturers haven't had time to get their act together.
Unfortunately, the approach initially adopted by the EU of relying the manufacturers to do something voluntarily about diesel emissions didn't work as noone unilaterally wanted to pass the cost on to a customer base who refuse to pay for something that cleans what comes out of their exhaust. So the EU eventually took the big stick approach instead.
As someone living in a city, I'm pleased something was done about it. The drop in air quality here over the last 10 years is noticeable and I'm sure it's not coincidence that this coincided with the boom in diesel powered cars.
Is there any scientific reason behind it or just as it is?
In contrast, motorcycle chains are often on left! Read more
>> Even penny farthing bicycles were designed to be mounted on/from the left.
Click on my link. It says "To mount, the rider had to first place his left foot on the step above the back wheel and push off with his right foot, after gaining speed he stood up on his left leg, slipped forward into the saddle ..."
Whatever happened to over-riders? Those on my Phase 1 Vanguard were a joy to behold. And the front bumper was strong enough for me to be able to stand on it to work on the engine. Ah, the good old days. Not! Read more
I have posted this before, but in the seventies I knew a gloomy New York artist whose car was a Porsche 356 cabriolet - long past its best - fitted with horrible looking, large bumpers and overriders made from scaffolding, complete with clamps. When I asked if they protected the poor little Porsche from the behemoths around it, he said morosely that they didn't, but they discouraged people with new cars from coming too close.
other than built in alarm/immobilizer?
I find that some people still use steering lock, gear lock etc. Is it necessary even when you have immobilizer?
How easy for a determined (and professional) thieves to break those devices?
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Driving a young TWOC-er to Court in the early 90`s in my Maestro Clubman D.
" we nicked one of these last week" (pause) "we didn`t know it was a diesel until it started- we dumped it after 100 yards"
Hi,
I'm about to look at a couple of 05 Diesel Xsara Picassos which are both listed at £5k in 2 local dealers. I have cash and no part exchange so it'd be a straightforward deal.
Ideally I'd want to pay no more than £4.5k for either of them. Is this realistic or too high/low? I'm not really sure at which price I should be starting my negotiations!
Any advice much appreciated.
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I'm on the other side, I've got an '05 1.6 Hdi Exclusive that I really want to P/X and I'll be lucky to get 3K. IT has got 100K on the clock mind.
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If any of you guys have a few that you don't want I'd be happy to take them off your hands. I'll leave my details with pugugly. Just interested in the mid 80s mags as reading that book brought back such happy memories of when I was a kid and owning a car wasn't a crime. Iwonder what old Len Setright would have made of the current situation. I would have loved to see him live long enough to review the Prius.