January 2009
What price would this be on a dealer's forecourt?
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This seller has a very high throughput of good looking vehicles - interested to know if they are getting better prices on Ebay than they would on the forecourt? Read more
I haven't even seen one of these on the roads yet! Can anyone give some ownership feedback on them? Read more
Finally sat in one on Monday. Octavia has an intermittent beep and had some time to kill at the dealer.
One disappointment was how close to the roof my head was when I sat in the back, back seats are set higher than the front and my head (6' 2" tall and not especially long back) was so close to the roof I could not get my hand between the two. Plenty of leg room but a back problem means I sit properly and don't slump.
Too big or the two of us.
Any recommendations for somewhere to stop for a light lunch ?
thanks
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Theres a nice tearoom/cafe in Ashford in the Water. Or turrn left at Ashford and go up to Monsall Head for bar meal and gift shop at the Monsall Head car park....and a cracking view as well.
Ted
In today's DT
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At least one person will be buying a new car soon - well as soon as the cheque from the MB driver's Ins Co arrives.
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If you only ever drive an automatic, then left-foot braking makes perfect sense - though as HJ says if you don't like it, don't.
But if you drive both automatics and manuals - and SWMBO has always had manuals even when I've had automatics - then I wouldn't recommend it. As someone rightly said above, we all have ocasional lapses in concentration, and starting fron rest is a particular time when you may have other things on your mind, having just come from some other activity.
All the automatics I've had have not allowed you to engage Drive or Reverse without your foot being firmly on the brake. I hope that's universal. Mercedes have this safeguard - presumably on all their models: so if this driver accelerated suddenly she must have already been in Drive, and thus it could equally have happened in a manual.
I am experiencing a rather bizarre problem - I cannot unlock the car with the remote control or with the key. Each time I try it immediately locks itself again. I can open the hatchback with the key. Can anyone help? Read more
HJ's review of the QUBO says the 1.3 engine is 1248cc. Surely that should be a 1.2 then?
I couldn't find the cc on the Fiat website, but Parkers says the same as above. Read more
Yes - a 1.1 Golf wouldn't have pulled the skin of a rice pudding. The 1.3 was slow too: we were looking at the '1.5' which from memory was also a bit short of 1500 cc.
Random thought - isn't it strange that for many, many years - certainly when I was a child in the 50s - we have been quite happy to take a lead from industry and think about litres and cubic centimetres when measuring the size of an engine, yet outside industry we were to be faithfully Imperial for years to come.
Okay - your opinions please!
Having gone for a more expensive car than I would have normally, for the sake of a modern efficient high mpg diesel engine - only to have electronic problems needing dealer attention.
Interested in your opinion of pre-electronic wizardry diesels. Also whether worth going to a tax exempt classic and putting in a modern diesel to avoid paying the government any more money either! Read more
Back on the topic,
dashboard is lit up like a christmas tree and the car beeping incessantly when driven
My '01 Octavia 1.9SDi would sometimes do this, but the warning lights and beeps would self-cancel after 10 engine starts without the relevant fault being flagged up. So after tripping all the warnings I would sit there and start the engine 10 times in succession. On the 11th go, no warnings and everything was fine until the next time...
This did leave the error codes in the fault memory for the dealer at the next service, but at least I didn't have lots of red and yellow lights showing in the meantime.
Dave TD.
I wondered has anyone come across this before and are my thoughts correct?
My wife has bought a new Volvo C30 with the D5 engine. I have noticed a groaning fromn the power steering, esp when nearing full lock. Last night, the steering went dead, with total loss of assistance when parking. Restarting the car brought the assistance back. I can now reproduce this loss of assistance on demand.
The main dealer is having the car in for a couple of days next week.
There was also a warning came up saying "power steering service reqd"
I am wondering is this a safety device that prevents the pump overloading on full lock?
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Glad your problem has been resolved. Maybe you could post an owner review in the discussion forum as I still only see C30s very rarely. Just wondering what it's like to live with on a day-to-day basis....
My clutch pedal keeps sticking halfway?
the garage has bleed it number of times still not working
then decided to put a new master cylinder on next few weeks
still not right so bleed it again several times still no luck so
decided to put another master cylinder on and still sticks halfway
and have to lift up with foot, any ideas please?
thanks in advance
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Hi can anyone tell me where this heater blower relay is located?
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I paid £2800 privately for a similar (identical spec, but saloon) Passat earlier this year. 53 plate, 90k on it and thought I got quite a good deal.