December 2008
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I am considering buying an 05 reg. tdci 115 model and would like to know what the rpm is at 70mph in top gear, and likely mpg overall. Any suggestions as to what to look out for when buying would be appreciated.
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Hi - My car is a Vauxhall Corsa 2005 (55 plate) just out of warranty by 15 weeks and has only got 15k miles on the clock. On Boxing Day evening, whilst driving on the motorway at 70mph, my engine management light came on and I lost power. The RAC recovered the car and I have had it diagnosed that the camshaft has snapped in two.
I?ve read various posts on other forums of people who have had an identical problem. I will be contacting Vauxhall next week as it would appear I need a new engine and would be grateful for any advice and help you could give me for when I approach them.
My worry is that that I have had two dealership services but the last one was by a non-dealership garage. However, this was a major service and they used approved Vauxhall parts and stipulate in their advertisements that it will not affect any Vauxhall warranty. The service book has been stamped accordingly.
I look forward to hearing any advice you may have and would be happy to join any campaigns to get Vauxhall to address this issue.
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This has been discussed a few times on here. Some technical threads (where I've moved this) and some discussion on what can be done in terms of Vauxhall's response.
Some links here:
www.honestjohn.co.uk/forum/post/index.htm?t=69027&...f
www.honestjohn.co.uk/forum/post/index.htm?t=69006&...f
www.honestjohn.co.uk/forum/post/index.htm?t=56906&...f
As there are already a few threads on this I have made this one read-only.
Rob (Moderator)
Hi can anybody help, i have a 307 sw hdi (90) on a 53 plate, i have only had the car 2 weeks. It has developed a flat spot between 1500/2500 revs as you go up the gears, also it is low on power in high gear and low revs. I m begining to worry this is going to be expensive, as it apears hdi engines are a problem for alot of garages, any advise as to where to look before i take it to a garage and they start changing bits willy nilly. Also do i have any come back with the dealer i bought it from, he was a small trader with a lock up selling on tradeins, i bought the car sold as seen?
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If he is a "trader" he must stand by what he sells-no such thing as "sold as seen"!!!!
I had the joy of travelling down the new M1 yesterday evening - traffic cone free. Some thoughts:
1. Educating people on using 4 lanes. Generally, lane 3 was occupied by the CLOG, pootling along at 65mph. Lane 4 was choc-a-bloc with cars struggling to do 70, in a long queue. Lane 2 was completely empty. Lane 1 was also completely empty, save for me, undertaking all the other cars, doing an indicated 80 which equates to 74/75. Me: v. happy. Driving dangerously? I don't think so; the other cars were 2 lanes away.
1b. Where Lane 4 was empty, but Lane 3 occupied by the CLOG, whilst travelling in the inside lane, I had to cross 3 lanes in order to overtake. Bonkers!
2. Speed cameras. On a motorway??? Why???
3. "No parking"? The overhead gantries had a lit-up sign that was a circle with a line through it - looked to me like a no-parking sign. I imagine that it was telling us that there was no speed limit, but..
4. 2&3 looked to be a part of a variable speed limit activity.
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Well I for one wish that something like this was done to the M8 for the rush hour into Glasgow. Vehicles come pelting through from the East and traffic grinds to a halt at the same points every day.
If instead the traffic was limited to, say 40 / 50 from a good few miles away it would help the traffic continue to move, and with that comes less stress, fuel consumption, pollution etc etc.
It sounds a damn good idea! A perfect example of, when working, that sometimes as motorists we need to let big brother control things as we are not all able to do so ourselves.
Since Christmas, the television has been non stop adverts for sales for everything across the board.
50% here, 75% there.
How about the same principal being applied to new cars. I'm sure they could shift some of the back log, even if it is only for a month. And save a few jobs in the process.
It seems they are just too arrogant to apply the same consumer games that other manufacturers are applying.
Come on, severe discounts please.
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Perhaps you are right about F1 and Honda.
I always support the Brit drivers but I had become fed up and unconvinced by listening to Jensen tell us of how the new car was going to be the one - it was always the car later in the season and then the next season's car.
How long can anyone wait for success, be they Honda execs or F1 fans, when you are spending so much money and no improvement is visible?
I have been having problems with wheel wobble.
Three different tyre depots have tried to cure the problem with little success.
It has been suggested that On Car Balancing may be the only answer.
However all attempts to locate anyone still offering this service have failed.
Does anyone know if this is
A) Likely to work?
B) Available anywhere within a resaonable distance of Herefordshire?
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The dealer supplied the vehicle brand new with buckled wheels, only indication was a vibration at 55mph. The wheels were rebalanced at the dealers and several tyre depots without anyone realising there was a problem.
Think before you post insults this site does not tolerate personal insults.
Noticed recently on my daily commute quite a few new cars in white. Not just compact cars like Pandas and the like but prestige models like Audi and Bentley. Makes a change from every other car being metallic silver but hardly practical for hacking along the motorway especially at this time of year? Silver seemed to be the best colour for not showing the dirt but white? The ones I've seen were all gleaming so they must wash them every day. Bit of a pain in summer too with all the dead insects Read more
According to the AA ..........
"The top 10 most popular colours for new cars are
1 ?Blue, 2 ?Red, 3 ?Silver, 4 ?Green, 5 ?White,
6 ?Black, 7 ?Grey, 8 ?Gold, 9 ?Mauve, 10 ?Yellow."
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hi central loking wont work ,checked fuse and it fine ,sick of locking each door with the key .also radio seems to have no power going to it , Read more
I have a very similar problem. My door locks are all going crazy (So I pulled the fuse and use the key manually). But I also have a dead radio. None of the other posts seem to mention that.
Before I attach my door looms, any suggestions?
I have got a new Tomtom XL for christmas and got to test it a bit.
On my own car I have discovered if my speedo reads 30mph I am actually doing 27.
My dads is identical but has bigger wheels 14" instead of 13", his reads 28 when he is doing 30.
And the best bit, I tested it on a train, was on a Class 91 with rather fantastic reburbished MK4 Mallard rolling stock, these are simply the most comfortable trains I have ever been on, and I have been on TGVs and the german and dutch stock.
The train reached a 100mph limit betweeen Doncaster and Leeds it felt like I was doing 70mph, so I got my TomTom out and amazingly it recorded a steady speed of 100mph for 5 minutes I had it out.
So my obersations:-
Even cars as old as 1996 seem to have speedos that underead rather than over read (which is different to cars designed say in the 80';s or earlier)
The speedo seems very accurate as longs as you're doing a steady speed, it does not seem to cope well with constant slowing down and speeding up due to the gaps in the tracking.
Just thought I would share my observations as a lot of questions often come up regarding this.
Also on the 100 mile journey by car this morning (I was a passanger) the speed limits the sat nav displayed were correct, but there was one large B road with a 60 limit the sat nav did not know the limit for. Read more
GPS uses a mathematical model of the earth's surface that is not entirely accurate. Thus actual elevations won't be very accurate, but relative ones will be OK. So the GPS might be wrong about your altitude when, for example, on the beach, but it'll be fairly accurate about the height gained in getting to the top of the hill inland.
I'm sure I'll be slated for this, but I've just seen the new Golf advert on TV and I thought it was quite cool compared to the usual run-of-the-mill stuff you see. Read more
Bet it won't be as good as Golf V - "30 years in the making."
Browse
Consumption a little worse on Euro IV engines (is his 115PS engine a EuroIV?). They also take longer to warm up which means you are not at optimum engine temperature for longer and therefore average fewer MPGs. Best I got was around 50mpg but mine was a 130PS.