January 2010
Swedish radio has just announced the sale. Read more
I have just had this amber warning come up on the dash, handbook says its ok to drive but nothing else. (not restricted performance mode)
The warning comes on from start up so it is not a high temp in the gearbox, it sometimes goes away.
Does anyone know of this fault or fix
Many thanks
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Hi guys
Can anyone help me out with my rights?
I ordered a Hyundai i30 under scrappage on 0% finance. It was a very good deal. Too good, in fact, as the dealership has just called saying they are withdrawing from it.
I paid £500 deposit, both they and I signed vehicle order form, etc.
This is the first time I've bought a new car and don't know my rights - do these things happen?
Thanks in advance
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In reply to Bill Payer:
>> I have heard that if as a buyer you pull out of a deal the dealer can keep your deposit and pursue you for the loss of profit on the car even though they can sell it to someone else. >> >>
That's correct. I've never heard of that happening though. >>
It does happen, and there have been cases posted on this forum.
In reply to Cheddar:
... It would be interesting to hear a definative legal view. >>
;-) The one definitive thing about legal views is that they are never definitive.
Even the Lords (now the "Supreme Court") can get overruled on some matters by the highest court of the land, that land of course being the EU.
Back to the OP:
Hyundai have a new scheme to replace the scrappage offers, and Hyundai HQ is keen to keep all its old and future customers sweet, so the OP may still get his deal.
The following is an extract from a real contract's T&C by company X:
1 If you cancel this contract otherwise than in circumstances permitted by this contract or fail to take delivery of, and make payment for, the vehicle at the agreed time, or if no time is agreed within 14 days of X giving written notice requiring you to take delivery, then:
(a) your deposit will be forfeited and you will be responsible to X for any loss of profit and other reasonable and foreseeable losses which we may suffer;
(b) X will be entitled to resell the vehicle to a third party without giving notice to you of its intention to resell.
2 If X is in breach of its contract to deliver the vehicle to you, you will likewise be entitled to seek recovery of your deposit and your reasonable and foreseeable losses which you have incurred as a result.
3 If X is unable to supply a vehicle for some reason which is beyond its reasonable control, then X may by notice in writing to you cancel this contract without penalty. Any deposit on the vehicle paid by you will be refunded in full. You will remain responsible under the contract.
4 If the contract is cancelled as a result of a breach of the contract by you or as a result of X being unable to supply the vehicle for a reason beyond its reasonable contract, then any agreement by X to take a vehicle in part exchange will also be cancelled, unless the part-exchange vehicle has already been sold by X, in which case the price obtained by the sale (less payments we have made to settle the outstanding finance on the vehicle), will be paid to you.
i just swapped my engine over from same year model engine,but the problem is i can't get it to start 1st thing is the key not turning engine over ,the fuel is not getting though cause of the shut of valve witch comes back to immobliser (pats)and the key ,had a guy out to reprogram key could not get any response from his computer when he plugged into main brain, can you bypass the imobliser does that cure the rest of my problem's thanks Read more
Hi,
Wondering if anyone can give me a few pointers please.
Have a 1.4 2004 TDCi Zetec fiesta. Recently is getting very hard to start. Will crank over but doesnt seem to catch. I can crank for 30 seconds then I think the diesel pump cuts out? No glow light is present when I turn the ignition on, wait then try.
Getting more difficult to start now.
When it does go if I drive a while its fine but also seems to happen more if I have moved it to outside my house and left it eg short journeys.
Have had a look on the web and there seems to be issues with glow plug and seals on these?
Any help would be great.
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Hang on this seems to be a common prob as theres other threads!
I am looking for a car for my 17 yr old son. Does anyone know of a database in which cars age catagorized by insurance group? Read more
autotrader tell you if you click on a dealers advert in the correct way
Good afternoon everyone. The central locking has evolved a mind of it's own and although the driver's door lock has been renewed the other three are quite unpredictable. Grand children are carried and advice is eagerly sought. Read more
focusman, a belated thank you for your reply, the site you recommended is very useful.
I get a light rattle when changing up from 2nd to 3rd or from 3rd to 5th. This is only noticeable when the revs are above about 2500. Can anyone tell me what the cause is and how to cure it? Read more
Heard on the BBC breakfast this morning if you display more than one parking ticket you can be fined...refuse to pay the fine and you could face prison! apparently some commercial drivers leave loads of the things on the dash and the poor traffic wardens have to seek the right one out.
Also certain types of ticket must be stuck to the window, or....well you get the idea. Is there no end to this country tthinking up ways to get cash out of motorists? Read more
The US has lawless heavily ghettoised areas with massive gang-warfare problems, no amount of punishment will stop crime when that kind of culture becomes entrenched as (sadly) we are starting to find out as a direct consequence of abandoning stop and search here. Death row holds no fear to a person who does not expect to live beyond 30 in his 'hood anyway. In the US's "European" populated areas you'll find there is hardly any crime, people are kind and polite, crime is rare - much rarer than the UK.
I like my cars black, but shiny is optional as I never wash them.
Hi all, I need some advice about an engine failure in a Z4, the car is 7 years old, has done less than 20K and is used almost exclusively on short runs of less than 5 miles. It was last driven hard in October for just a few miles and has more or less pootled around gently since then.
The car has a FSH and last had an oil change (using Mobil 1) about 6 - 8 months ago, it hasn't been topped up since as it hasn't needed it.
During the very cold spell the car was started and left idling whilst the screens were scraped etc. during this idling the car began misfiring and the cabin filled with smoke. The car cut out and would then not turn at all, seized solid.
On removal of the head it appears that up to 3 cylinders had completely filled with engine oil. The dealership have literally stripped the engine down to it's component parts and say they can identify no problem and are completely confused as to how the cylinders could have filled with oil. They have stated that the engine appears immaculate inside and more or less as new.
As it stands at the moment the bill is over £2K to strip and rebuild the engine and there is no guarantee that the problem won't reoccur immediately. The best idea I could suggest is that the oil breather system has somehow become clogged, perhaps with something having frozen, and this has subsequently thawed out leaving no trace of the problem, but how would this fill a cylinder?
Theories please!!??
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Just a brief update, the owner is very grateful for the comments here and is putting them to the BMW service manager tomorrow when he returns to work to see if this could be the cause.
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They may be able to struggle along for a while like lame-duck Rover did but it cannot last. The competition is too stiff these days. I give it three years.
To succeed you need excellence across the board, USP (which may or may not tie in with excellence?), volume and LOTS of money.
GM couldn't make a success of it. I believe SAAB last made a profit in 2001. That's bad when the period up to 2007 saw large economic growth in the Western economies, the like of which probably never to be seen again.
GM may well still have a steak* [sic] but if they become too successful to the detriment of GM sales then you can imagine a situation where they pull the plug.
People on this forum bang on about the 'pre-GM' honeymoon days. People underestimate what GM brought to the party. Before GM there were no six cylinder engines for example. Many of the SAAB safety features that characterised the company's products are now mainstream. They may have been ahead in their day but the World moves on. If pre-GM was so good, then why didn't that business model succeed?
I don't relate to the pre-GM era being that good - a SAAB 99 was one of the worst cars we ever owned. A Peugeot 504 did everything we wanted far better.
Let SAAB die peacefully and gracefully, akin to Rover. Keep Volvo though.
There will be no tears in our house.
* Chips with mine though :-)