October 2008
I've just bought some new alloys and winter tyres.
The alloys have some weights on them.
Am I better putting the wheels with the least weights on the front or rear axle of a FWD car or, does it make no difference ?
My thoughts are put the lower weights on the front as they are the better manufactured wheels in theory and the fronts have all the work to do. Read more
for some reason the petrol pump turns off every few seconds when I try to fill up my jeep its is driving me crazy
have I got a dud car, is it a bad design or does it happen to everybody
it takes me 10 mins to fill up repressing the trigger at least a hundred times Read more
great I'll try that, and yes I have been surprised at how economical it is Im getting 22mpg
must say that I have tried every angle possible in out rotated and its still the same Ill end up doing a Fawlty Towers and smashing it to pieces soon
a mate of mine said he had a Volvo that was just as bad
Will give a background in case that helps of other problems that may be related.
Previously the car would occasionally lose power when low on fuel (below 1/4 tank near the low fuel light) you would notice it when revving just above 4k or when you went round a corner fast she would cut out.
The other day on about 1/2 a tank it felt like it was stuttering/hunting a little when you tried to put your foot down but only slight. Was on way to get shopping, when I got near the store it was starting to get worse... but thought ah well.. did shopping got back to the car and she wouldn't start.
Green flag came out, took off the pipe going to the air filter housing and sprayed something into the air filter housing and also in the other end through MAF towards throttle body. It started again and ticked over ok and I manged to get her home but still very rough no EMLs or anything tho. Dude reckoned it was the MAF and suggested I clean it...
Cleaned MAF.. no difference.. car will start.. sometimes will tick over ok but as soon as you put it in gear and give it ANY juice at all even the slightest it will just hunt and cut out. If you are very very gentle with the throttle it will sometimes move.
Changed MAF for known good MAF off my dad's 1.8... still the same so I suppose that rules out MAF.
Now car doesn't want to start at all
Not really sure where do go yet... the green flag guy said he didn't think it was the fuel pump as he reckoned it would either work or not and wouldn't even tick over if the pump was gone?
Can anyone give me any ideas?? I'm quite stuck now and can't even get it to a garage.
Other possibles I've been thinking of myself are ignition coil/catalyst collapsed/fuel pump.
If it is the fuel pump (which seems like worst case senario) does anyone know how to change it? Read more
But not if it's a diesel!!!!
I have recently changed the engine in my car and it is a passat motor that i have used,my query is do I need the injector pump reprogramming or should I use my original pump from the A4,Thanks Tom. Read more
people say it needs programing,and people saying it doesnt ,ive had advise from you before and its been spot on.audi want £170 to do this ,do you think it could be done with vag com?thanks again screwloose!!
Been around a few garages with a view to buying a Focus (still looking). I'm a serious buyer with cash plus p/x in my pocket. There are a lot of Focus/s/i about, but many are strongly priced with no hint that there is a cash crisis.
Shown dealers the colour of my money, but am getting truly silly offers on the Getz. An 05 getz ,with FSH and in good nick. Offered £1700 today. What a laugh. They may just ask me to give it them for free. I don't want silly money on it, just a fair price to change. I don't know how desperate they think I am..but they're in for a shock.
The Getz is a very reliable and keeping it won't be a hardship. I would imagine that the dealers are actually more desperate than I'll ever be. Read more
Want the focus because of the extra luggage room and to silence a grumbling 9 year old complaining about his legs.
Tailgating.
At some point during early every journey I glance in the rear view mirror and find it filled with some goon who seems intent on parking in my boot.
Tailgating is ignorant, inconsiderate, dangerous, annoying and just plain damn stupid.
Now, I fully concede to making the odd mistake myself.
Sometimes forget to indicate, lane discipline can be a bit sloppy, pull into a junction before rather than after the driver already there, that sort of thing.
But tailgating? Never.
So the most annoying thing on the roads for me is tailgating.
What is it for you? Read more
Drivers who speed up just as I go to overtake (Im on cruise control) on the motorway,then slow down again when I pull in behind them.
Idiots like the one on the M74 last Friday, two lanes that merge into one at road works he sits in both lanes preventing others passing so effectively causing a 4 mile jamb behind. Once passed the road works drives at 40 MPH. Thinks that he has the right to enforce some kind of traffic control.
Cyclist with no lights and think traffic lights are not to be obeyed.
Lorries that site behind each other for miles then site side by side on the next strech of dual carriage way,A9 typical example.
the list is not exhaustable
i have got a peugeot 206 cc and the clutch bites right at the very top!! the pedal is nearly fully up before you feel the bite! i was just wondering if this was normal for whats classed as a sports car, because none of my other standard cars have bitten so far up, and i am unsure if its right.
any advice on whether it is right, or if it can be adjusted (i have been informed that it is a hydrollic clutch) or even if it needs replacing, any response would be appriciated.
thanks in advance,
a confused cc owner Read more
its got 51 thousand on the clock, we have just bought it second hand, from the owner who has had it from new.
we were lead to believe that these types of cars did have "high clutches" but speaking to people now we are unsure,
any advice would be welcome
thanks
"More than 60 cars were seized during a police operation to target travelling criminals in East Yorkshire.
It comes a week after a similar operation around York, the biggest the city has seen, which led to 278 cars being taken off the roads."
Full story here:
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Must be like the retreat from Moscow on those blizzard driven slip roads around Liverpool then ? :-)
I see on today's news that Ford and GM are having major problems in the US due to very poor sales. Ford shares are down to '1950's levels' apparently and the US government is offering them £14bn of loan guarantees to help them stay afloat! Read more
Bloomberg might disagree about Ghosn's prowess; he's made Renault into a joke....
www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601090&sid=ageZX...e
Looking at the car by car breakdown, there is the following for my Accord:
"Reports of problems with swirl chambers of 2.2iCDTIs at high mileage. Best to have replaced before the 3 year 90k mile end of warranty."
How exactly should I go about getting this done? I've never had much luck with getting things that are actually broken fixed. Surely the dealer will just tell me to get lost if I start asking for something that isn't broken to be replaced?
Any thoughts? Read more
I've just re-read that, and it sounds like I'm whinging.
Not only am I not convinced that's how you spell it, that wasn't my intention. I was trying to ask whether anyone had tried to get a pre-emptive warranty replacement done? In particular, what proof of the problem existing would I need? I don't think "it says so on the internet" is very convincing.
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Thanks. I'll get the wheels off and measure them again.
Maybe need some better fitting rings.