January 2010
Hi am currently with Post office insurance brokers and currently have insurance at £240 for a hyundia lantra with AXA insurance, i've recently been involved in a NON FAULT incident where the other partys insurance has admited full liabilty, as a result of this i am in the proccess of making a claim for my car damage aswell as a injury claim because someone was hurt in the accident traveling in my car!!
Now today i phoned my brokers (post office insurance) for a quote on a toyota celica 2.0 gt 1994, well over the phone they said it would come to £456......i screamed out WHAT!!! when they quoted me!!...thats a full £215 more than i'm currently paying for my present vehicle (the Lantra)...
I get home get a quote on line and it quotes me £212( with the post office) NOT £456 she quoted me over the phone!!! What are they up to??
And when i suggested canceling and going else where, she said i'd have to pay the whole years premium for my current car (the Lantra) because i'm paying monthly and the insurance just started for that car rolling over for another year from November 2009 (i've been with them a few years paying monthly) and they renew automatically unless i say otherwise......but why would they lie about what the insurance for this car should come to?
Discracefull...and she double checked my details when getting the quote over the phone!! Read more
When the renewal for my Hayabusa came through this year it was a shocking £808, I went online for a quote (same insurance company) - £198. I took that up and cancelled the renewal. The moral of the story, insurance companies expect you to not be bothered to look around!
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I hope someone out there can help,
My 806 is a 2.0 petrol. I suspect that there's a head gasket problem as inside the oil filler there is a white gunky substance that looks like water in the oil.
There's no oil in the water though, and it doesn't overheat, needle stays between 70 and 90.
My question is, is the enough room in the engine bay to get the cylinder head off? I had an espace a few years ago with the same problem and the only way to get the head off was to remove the entire engine and gearbox from underneath! I'm hoping its not the same with the pug.
It looks like it might be possible if a little tricky, anyone out there with similar experience?
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Great response Robin.....
What car would Spyker-Saab have to make in order for you to part with your cash? Read more
>>SAAB are in a similar position to that of Rover and will fail for much the same reasons.
If thats true, then they might as well not bother even trying to make it work. How can we get this thread into the 'what shall we do with SAAB' meeting at their head offices?
Some good ideas on here on what people want from a future SAAB, and I'll wager many people in the country would want to see the same. Basically to go back to properly engineered vehicles with a touch of individuality, the sort of thing that people would be willing to hand over money for.
If 659's thread is right and they do another mish mash of GM bits and pieces, then they might as well throw in the towel now, and kiss goodbye to the prospect of interesting and individual cars. Bland, corporate, tosh, no substance like McDonalds and Starbucks.... :-(
car has developed problem when driving along she will loose all revs for a few seconds and return again fine. egr valve, inlet mainifold, swril aculators and fuel filter have all been replaced by vauxhall and the diagonis says shes all good. ive tryed two bottles of fuel flush but its still playing about. she is still a lively car and pulls 100% rite up the revs in every gear. my heart is broke now as she is doing it more often and espically when pulling out at junctions. also i never seem to be away from vauxhall with my wages.
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Hi all,
In a bit of a predicament, and would welcome advice.
It would appear that the slightly off set driving position of my Megane (2000 model) is aggravating an old back problem I thought I had long since got over. Specialist suggests changing the car before further damage is caused.
However finances at present are not fantastic, and realistically I am looking at sub £2k territory. The Megane was/is a great find - a reliable Renault with one owner, full service history and virtually unblemished. I paid £1400 for it 9 months ago and suspect I could still get £1k for it. I really don't want to get rid since in every other respect it is perfect for my requirements.
Requirements are: Economy, good boot space, room for family use/holidays etc since my wifes 3dr Rav 4 whilst a great car is woefully inpractical (and no she wont part with it), and reliability. And of course the driving position needs to not require you to twist your lower body to get to the clutch etc!
Any thoughts anyone?
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never had an auto that doesnt suck the juice
thing is if you want town pootling then you need small car small engine auto as a big car big engine just cant hope to cope with high mpg
Move to Puigcerda in north east Spain. They're going to reward good drivers by sharing out the money from traffic fines! Lovely!
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Keeping the motoring connection, taxi for Freddie please!
The sky was a vivid pinky red, the trees and even the pylons looked pretty. I had The Temptations running on Spotify through my aux in socket, a large V shape flock of slow moving birds crossed from right to left under the contrails left by a high flying jet. All of a sudden, I had this moment of peace, blessed peace..all was right with the world.
Anyway, am home now cooking dinner, pasta in a rich spicy tomato sauce, news is on. Carp is happening around the world, spell broken! Read more
Avant,
Ever heard of the three wise moneys?
See no evil, hear no evil... most of all, speak no evil. Something you need to be reminded...
"Shortly to be wreckful perhaps. Happens after you've been reckless"
I wasn't driving at all yesturday, I left the car alone all-day. If you live where I live you will know that 33% of the drivers using the stretch of road start to get extremely wreckless after 6 oclock.
Swedish radio has just announced the sale. Read more
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 :-)
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
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