If you look to the right you'll see a link to a story about a specialist national police unit set up to counteract vehicle crime: "Stolen V5C etc".

{here's the link as it won't stay on the RH side of your screen forever:-
www.honestjohn.co.uk/news/item.htm?id=6023 }

The story says that the unit has recovered 1200 stolen cars since it was set up in December 2006. The Home Office website says that in 2005, the most recent year for which the data is easy to exctract, there were more than 200,000 cars stolen.

So 1200 recoveries seems a bit inconsequential and another fine example of attempted spin.

Or am I being unfair and, writing from deep within my armchair, failing to appreciate all the problems? Read more

Morning All,

Having recently been brought up to speed on the new EU directives on Daytime running lights, on a trip to Blackburn yesterday I saw two '05 reg MK V Golfs like mine with what appeared to be running lights, in the section at the bottom of the headlight, below the dipped beam and next to the indicator.

I had always wondered what this section of th eheadlight was for, but is this a retro-fit option or somehting that came from the factory?

If Retro fit, it would be something i would be quite keen to install...................

Cheers,

Nick Read more

Hi my heater in my 2000 1.25 fiesta was only blowing cold air so i changed the heater control valve and now i only get hot air, is it the heater control panel thats at fault? could it be anything else.... i have checked the voltage across the 2 pin plug which goes on the hcv and it was constant regardless whether the heater dial was on hot or cold Read more

Every car I've driven with climate goes from 16 C to "Lo" usually accompanied by a fanfare of fans as it tries to cool the cabin. So to what temperature does this setting attempt to get the car to ? Read more

My old car, 2006 Avensis 2.0 diesel speedo read 62 mph when my Tomtom read 60 mph and a regular over the same route measured 108 miles on the odometer.
I took delivery of a 2009 Avensis 2.0 diesel recently, the speedo reads 65 mph when the Tomtom reads 60 mph and the regular run over the same route reads 110 miles on the odometer.
I have the Avensis T2 with 16 inch wheels, higher specification Avensis models have 17 inch wheels.
I've spoken to a main dealer who doesn't believe it's a speedo calibration issue (calibrated to the wrong wheel size) and has informed me that you are allowed 10% speedo error. If my Tomtom is 100% accurate, my new Avensis is pretty close to the 10% inaccuracy limit.
I guess the next stage is to undertake a long journey checking the distance on the Tomtom against the odometer.
Does anybody have any thoughts or comments please. Read more