December 2008
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
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."
When I have been starting the petrol engine of my car first thing in the colder mornings we have been having once it ignites it turns over quite slowly/reluctantly - is this purely because of colder weather ? Read more
the engine sounds like it is running slower for the first minute or so than
when the outside temperature is higher
But does the rev counter show any difference?
Excuse me for mentioning, but looking back over your other questions about your car, I think you're being overly paranoid about some of the *problems* you think it has.
MARK 4 2.0T GRAND ESPACE
The other day after a short trip into a shop after a 20min car journey i returned to my car started it and it started reving itself up to 3000 revs up and back down, i turned the car off and started her again and it was fine. I have been told it could be a turbo issue, but then another person said not .. im not sure as when the car is warmed up when driving i can hear the turbo alot more now then i used to. ( just the normal whisling sound but slightly louder than usual) also if you put your foot down flat to the floor you can hear a bit of a rattle.... maybe bearings on turbo. I DO NOT have any smoke from exhaust. Any ideas welcome .. does anyone know how much a new turbo would cost fitted? thanks
{no idea of year of manufacture, as author of thread failed to mention it!} Read more
Sounds more like an engine sensor to me. This is a petrol model I think. The engine revving is a symptom of a failing turbo on a diesel.
Hi my Girlfriend has a 2002 vw lupo 1.4 tdi .A fuel hose has split that can be changed very easily .How to bleed the pump (system) is what I am not sure of.
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Got it done there was no need to bleed the fuel line it fired straight up .We took it for a 100 mile round trip.
Neil
At RTJ70's suggestion, let's not confuse a general, though interesting, issue with Oldgit's original question specific to the VW Golf 1.4 TSI.
The more general issue - which some people have commented on already in the other thread - is "is there a risk of early failure in a small, highly tuned and (presumably) highly-stressed engine like the VAG 1.4 TSI, as compared to a bigger, less stressed engine?"
I'll reproduce what I said there:
It seems logical that a big, comparatively unstressed engine will last longer and be generally less temperamental than a small highly-tuned - even highly-strung - powerplant. The big engines - even some petrol ones - tend to have plenty of low-end torque which is surely far more useful for the sort of driving that most of us do every day.
Particular favourites of mine have been -
- the B-series Austin engine in my first car, the beloved A50
- the 2.0 Renault engine which I had in a 20TS and two 18 GTX estates in the 1980s
- the V6 24v in the Laguna
- the 1.8 XUD in the Peugeot 205
- the 2.5 TDI in the A4 Avant of blessed memory and the current VAG 2.0 TDI (though I believe both these can give trouble when they get to high mileages).
I've only test-driven the VAG 2.0 TFSI (in an Octavia vRS) and liked that too: I suppose I should reserve judgement till I have a go in a 1.4 - but it does sound as if it may be at its best only at high revs - which isn't what I want.
One comment - which may be the answer - is that it depends whether the small engine is turbocharged or not.
I'm no engineer so I shan't mind being told I'm wrong! Read more
I doubt someone coming from a 2.0TDI would think it was as instantly quick because
it doesn't have the hit in the back kind of delivery but it's certainly not
slow.
Trouble is, my Octavia 2.0 TDI PD engine can be very annoying on take-off as for a moment there is naff all acceleration then the wallop you describe. Not useful for a quick entrance onto a roundabout or pulling out from a junction.
I'd much rather some more low-down useable power.
I have been driving since 2002. For the past 4 years I have had a company car, and obviously incurred no 'no claims' bonus.
I?m about to purchase my own car and have been looking on the Insurance comparison sites. About 2 weeks ago I was getting quotes for around £400 fully comp. I?ve just been back on and now the quotes are around £650.
One of the comparison sites (I can?t think which one) had an option to tick what previous driving history you had - i.e. private or company car use.
I?ve searched through the main ones - Compare the market, Go Compare, Confused.com and Money Supermarket.com and none of these have this option.
I swear i used one of these sites and it had the option. Can anyone advise if they know a site which does this or why this option has been removed?
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I had no problems getting full no claims from Liverpool Victoria with a letter from my previous company's insurance broker.
I think, though, that LV will give a 50% introductory discount to anyone who declares a clean record (their full NCD is something like 72.5%). I've found that their quotes vary though - for me (and my brother) they were very good, but others I've referred have found them very expensive.
Strange one this but I'm sure someone will have experienced this problem.Car's a 55 reg Berlingo 2.0Hdi with 25k on clock .Have checked the oil level and found the dip-stick about an inch out of it's holder.Oil level fine,not over-filled or anything.A week later the same thing-about an inch out of the holder.Anybody any ideas whats going on?Car's running fine.Never had any problems with it. Read more
Check that the plastic engine cover hasn't become loose as they have a habit of doing, they then vibrate about and lift the dipstick slightly exactly as you describe.
This is a very common problem on Picassos fitted with this engine !
You may need to replace the rubber mounts on the engine cover, these are very cheap items from a Citroen dealer.
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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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