June 2009
Early this week my wife's car had some work done on the brakes due to safety recall. The safety recall said that the brakes could fail.
Today she had a minor accident and she said the breaks didn't seem to work properly.
What's the correct course of action to take now? Read more
School run is a dangerous business. A study by the University of Glasgow found that the average person has about one near-miss car crash for every 1,000 trips to and from school.
The study also found that the riskiest time for children is between 8am and 9am, when many pupils are on their way to school or just leaving.... Read more
Walking to the post office this morning I noticed a very smart Saab 9-3 convertible shod with Wanlis. This made me examine the tyres on other newish "prestige" cars en route. In the 1/4 mile journey I saw a Civic R on Achilles, an MB E class on Federals and a very recent C class on Lassa. Why?
I recently replaced the tyres on my wifes Golf and the difference in cost between Bridgestones and ditch finders was about 15 pounds per tyre. So doing the complicated maths involved I worked out that it cost me about 20 pounds/annum extra to have decent tyres.
Any thoughts or explanations on why one would buy an expensive car, spend time or money on keeping it very shiny and scrimp where safety is concerned.
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more repairs to his Alfa?
Sorry to disappoint but the money went on the Bridgestones. No longer have an Alfa but in six years of ownership of an Alfasud and then a 147 neither needed money spent on repairs.
alfalfa
Hi Guys
Previously you have been of great help to me and I hope this is quite simple
Last Monday when leaving work I had an anti pollution fault. I had it checked out on Tuesday and had the ECU reset - since then, no faults or warnings
On Thursday, going home, I tried to use the windscreen washer and the wipers worked fine but the screen washer didn't - neither front or back.
Looking at Haynes it would appear that the washer circuit has its own fuse, which I will check tomorrow. If the fuse is ok it would appear that the fact the washer isn't working could be down to 4 things - washer or switch fault, electrical fault, kinked/blocked pipe.
I can check the pipe to see if there is a blockage or it?s kinked but even if there was no water in the reservoir I would have expected to hear the washer pump trying to work, but ther is nothing to indiacate that it is trying
Before considering the circuit or switch, is there anyway I can manually by pass the normal circuit to test the pump?
Thanks
Allan
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does any body know why my corsa 1.6 sport (x16xe) is developing a smokey habbit, ive recently had every single gasket changed i mean evry one, ive recently changed the valve stem oil seels but stil no look, its fine when its cold but after say 20 minutes when it gets slightly warm its booting out grey/blue smoke also when it wars up it idels up 2500 rpm and will some times drops to around 500 rpm its a problem that is anoying me, can any one help.
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10 w 40 oil,,, im not sure about the breathers i may of put the stems in rong
The German media have reported that the VW chairman Ferdinand Piech is looking at bolstering the group with three additional brands,apparently he made a long distance call to suzuki
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Yep, apparently the possibility of a cooperation or VW taking a financial interest of around 10% in Suzuki is being discussed. The idea being that Suzuki could get diesel engines and VW could get access to the Indian market. Presumably Suzuki could also get access to some rust proofing.
Where can I find this for my car? Glass's Guide warns that its prices can't be used for insurance purposes. Drive The Deal won't open up its used car section for my computer. Read more
.. or >WhatCar.co.uk< for valuations.
Resting piece ~ tinyurl.com/noddk9
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My sisters house backs onto a graveyard, part now grassed over, part still used for burials. The C of E and the vicar have sold the church, which needs repair, and most of the graveyard to a property developer. He wants to turn the church into flats and build numerous houses on the rest.
The remaining small graveyard will have an access road to the flats and houses running through the middle. I think some vicars just aren't that bothered as long as the cash is being handed over. The vicar in the story should be ashamed of herself, in my view.
Hi all i have just installed a brand new washing machine yes it's a washing machine and like the clumsy oaff that i am now there is a dint in the front of the machine!
The wife is not happy at all im going to be shot or skewred soon so anything on the market like a puller with a sucker on the end or a magnet which can pull out?
For the forum this also applies to car bodywork im sure!
Please help before im on the bbq!
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Several examples on youtube. Just search for something like "Paintless Dent Repair"
eg - www.youtube.com/watch?v=8m5P_LYlhKs
Browse
I once had problems with my MGF after it had new pads.
Driving it on an 'airfield day' - it could only do about 4 emergency stops out of 5. The instructor took the car out because he couldn't believe the extremely long stopping distances I occasionally had - he had the same problem. Foot hard on the pedal - rock solid brake pedal, no ABS action - but very long stopping distance.
This wasn't brake fade !
It went to 3 different specialists before the problem was resolved - with new disks and pads.
Not one of those specialists could say what the problem was - in fact, 2 out of the three didn't even find a problem.
I now try an emergency stop every so often just to make sure the car can do one. (the MGF has long gone)
Good luck with resolving your braking problem on the S-MAX