May 2009
I took my car in to have clucth fixed and asked them to check the idle speed. They never got time to check it and said it is a screw that you loosen I don't have a clue any ideas pleas Read more
Commissioned by the vicar to find him a cheap Mazda 2, my first port-of-call was Drivethedeal, through whom I bought a Focus last year.
No Mazdas at all.
So then I look at your man's list of Highly Approved Traders, and no luck there either.
In fact the only place I got any joy was Broker4Cars.
Anyone know if Mazda 2s are in short supply, or suggest any broker?
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This old thread on brokers might help - tinyurl.com/pucuw7
Hello All,
Want to fit a towbar to my 1999 Audi A6 Quattro Avant and would like a bit of advice on the electrics. I am considering buying a "car specific" 12N kit made by Westfalia and would like to know if they are really plug in and go (no splicing etc). I have read some where that there maybe a wire/s that have to be run from the rear to the front of the car ???
All the best
Benno Read more
Westfalia is part of the VAG group.The tow kits are very much plug and play ,although sometimes wires have to be moved in some connectors.They are top quality products and come with very comprehensive fitting instrutions.hth
Hi all Both the fuel and temp gauages read when the car is switched off. Also the wipers now won't park .This all happend at once so presumably a common component failure. Can anyone point me in the right direction?? Read more
I have a friend who used to get into town in a car. Now he`s in an electric wheelchair and still gets into town, along the pavements.
Standing between the chair and the car is the mobility scooter. I knew someone who came up a steep Pennine hill and five miles into town on one.
There must surely be a market for the simplest possible electric car - ten miles at 20mph. That would get many people out and about locally. A sort of sub French micro- car. More like a Peel 50.
A simple lead acid battery array - nothing fancy. A new deal. Able to park in the City centre at no charge - except a `re-charge` parking meter style plug in re-chargers.
I think there`s a gap. Something similar in size to a Peel50/mobility scooter - but simple. If a mobility scooter can provide personal transport for twenty miles - why not? using cycle lanes.
You never see a cycle around here due to the hills and the cycle lanes are under used.
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I think that the 20mph limit is too slow - I remember being on a moped and felt really vulnerable at 30 - a vehicle which is bigger than a moped/motorbike but is limited to 20 would come under a lot of "pressure" from other bigger raod users... sensibly the limit would be better set at 40, but it should be restricted to urban use only...
Having said that, didn't some tests of the GWhiz mention that they felt vulnerable, and thats not that slow?!
As it says really
be safe when working on your car this weekend,as they are heavy things
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No point speculating is there - no doubt evidence has been gathered and will be presented to the Coroner's Court. Nonetheless good and timely advice. Locking it now.
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Horrifying standards in car design in the 60's. I am sure we have come a long way since then. I have never seen a whole bench seat with passengers (dummies, of course) come out of the drivers door before.
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I think it must have been Ralph Nader, whilst recommending large side mirrors and full harness belts, said that the greatest safety contribution would be to reduce the maximum speed of vehicles by 30 mph.
What is the current trend? Even some of the smallest cars do over 100 and many eaisly double the maximum uk speed limit!
Dont try to tell me that drivers don't try it!
No car names. But do you start to make a (seemingly) involuntary purring noise like a cat when you think of your badge?
Or does it make you want to put a finger down your throat instead (as it passes) or perhaps you would buy the marque if.
A) You could have a rear window sticker saying you were `not the typical owner`
B) You didn`t have to see other `inferior` cars passing you in 5th on motorway inclines.
c) Write you own script - but thread rule is humour, not nasty-pasty
(as after all, they are merely cars and not worthy of actual emotion....)
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Image means nothing to me.
Sure I've said this before but dropped down off of the Chiswick flyover many years ago guess 1976-77 following an Austin A35, black, standard steel wheels etc.. and when it opened out into motorway this thing just disappeared 'up the road'. What the owner had done was beyond me at the time. I couldn't see the front, but a shoehorned V8 maybe??
Also saw A Moggie minor years ago, Rover V8. Petrol, Nitrous and water mist injected. 0-60 in 3.5secs.
Q cars are the best...........Just ask the BIB
MD
Hello Forum
Today, I stalled the car reverse parking on an incline (Doh!) and lost braking and steering power. I was a concerned as I heard, just as (or just before {edited to replace 'txt' talk}) I stalled, a clunk that sounded very mechanical. Almost like a snap/spring/clunk low pitched sound under the car. I had to roll it down my hill and park using the handbrake. The car seems fine now having driven it round the block - BUT I want to be sure that this is normal, and that I shouldn't take it into a garage to check for an issue with the servo assist or something related to it.
Any thoughts appreciated.
James Read more
True, but not with the steering though.
My fiance is having new rear tyres fitted to her '07 Passat 2.0 tdi later this week. She will have covered just in excess of 70k on her original Dunlop SP Sports, and there is still some wear left. Her fronts managed 57k, again with a reasonable amount of wear left in them, before being replaced by Michelin Primacy HPs.
I was told, when ordering, by the fitter, not to expect similar mileage from the replacements as ''original fit tyres are always of a harder compound so you buy the same again''. Shame we can not put this to the test as we are changing brand.
I am very impressed with this wear rate on the Dunlops. Read more
<<...320 and the tyres must be made of concrete.>>
One of my cars has tyres with a treadwear rating of 520. Never had any problems
You can't change the idle speed its controlled by the ECM. If you have a problem with the idle speed it will need investigating, normal faults caused by vacum pipes leaking or a faulty stepper motor