January 2010
Just reading up on Triumph Tiger (I know it's a bike) and found that Triumph offer a service via their website whereby you type in the VIN number of a bike and it presents you with all the safety and warranty recall related data and whether that bike has been seen to. Would this be too much for a car-maker to offer ? Read more
How much longer until they have to leave the UK market? I can't remember the last time I saw a brand new Subaru around here, and I often see people mentioning that Subarus don't sell well in the UK. They appear to be very good reliable cars, especially the Legacy. Maybe the image of the sporty Impreza has put people off their other vehicles?? Read more
I think Subaru will be in the UK long term. They are doing well in other countries. In the UK they are imported by international motors group and there was some talk in trade of the japanese hq taking the concession off them if things get much worse. Pricing and support is all wrong at the moment, and it neednt bee that way.
I've just bought a very cheap 740 to tide me over for a few months. I certainly wasn't expecting perfection but I am really disappointed at one problem. Basically after driving it any distance I feel rather 'high' and I'm thinking some sort of fumes are making their way inside. There is a feint oily film on the windscreen and possibly a very feint antifreeze smell from the vents - there's some sort of smell anyway. I was thinking that maybe the heater matrix was leaking but there is no evidence of wet carpets.
The car essentially hasn't been used for two years and I wonder if that has any possible relevance. Any thoughts as to what the problem might be? If the heater matrix IS the culprit, any idea how much it might cost to get it replaced. I see there are used ones available for about £45 but what about labour costs?! How big a job is this?
I might be able to get most of my money back on this car if I act promptly so am now trying to work out if i should cut my losses... Read more
Re the valve; on a car of this age I expect the valve not to open and close fully as it is a movable part that in 20 years has been adjusted many times and would be prone to wear so even on the max cold the air in may be luke warm. If the valve was leaking this would be apparent as you would feel the coolant around it and on mine pools of coolant collected (luckily) in the snow trays (plastic floor mats).
the glow plug light stays on even when ignition is switched off, any ideas Read more
Probably a faulty relay, if the glow plugs were actually working they would flatten the battery in an hour.
hello, i have a problem with my van, it starts for just 2 seconds and than stops. i think it is a immobiliser problem but i don't know what can I do. please help me Read more
disconnect the battery wait 20 minutes and reconnect and retry.
Does anybody know if there would be any dealers out there who would do a straight swap on s car?? I own a Mitsubishi Galant 2.5V6 24v Auto Estate. I need something more fuel friendly! I have no money to buy another car. I do a 50 mile round trip to work and back daily in a car that does an average of 28mpg!!
It's taxed till July and mot'd till end July.
I've tried all the car swapping websites and gumtree, but had no interest!!
Any help appreciated.
Thanks. Read more
Doing a swap at a dealer will mean getting a lower value/inferior car - the dealer is not a charity, after all. And gas guzzlers like your V6 Galant are well out of favour compared to more economical cars. Best bet is to try and sell privately (or auction as suggested) and then buy something quick.
Can anyone recommend a car that is easier to get in out of than my small volvo which has got to low for me to easily get out and in . i fancied a renault scenic 1.4 but have been told they have quiet a few problems in my price bracket about £1000 Read more
They are not that popular with the buying public (the image isn't right for young people) so they tend to be very cheap. £1K should get you a 01/02 reg with good service history and no more than 60k on the private market depending where you live. They seem to be about 25% cheaper than Corsas/Fiesta round here.
Like the sinister, seething swarm of clacking bureaucrats who have made London such an obstacle course for the unwary, the crooked builders and smirking small-time retail tycoons who run piddling small towns have jostled to squeeze a quart into a pint pot and cover the narrow streets of their cities with incomprehensible paint and irritating signs and arrows. In the case of Bath, these frightful men and women, worthy successors to the syphilitic, nose-dripping, smelly-trousered aldermen of a couple of centuries ago, and the vacant uprooted peasants who man their Mickey Mouse camera systems, have made their jerry-built Georgian Butlin's-for-toffs noticeably traffic-free.
It isn't really the thirty quid I mind, or the fact that the bus lane, in which of course none of the Cathedral City's thirty or so town buses is to be seen, must have been the obvious place to be (or I wouldn't have been there). What I mind is the singularly unflattering portrait of my car, stretched and flattened to resemble a huge grinning silver cowpat.
This is fashion airbrushing in reverse. I will email Charlize Theron and Jordan to ask if they can recommend a decent Hollywood (or better still Philadelphia) vanity lawyer. A girl has her pride. Read more
Bath is the nearest thing I have to a home town. I was raised there to nearly eight years old during the second world war, and lived there again in the mid-fifties. My parents left for Dunfermline while I was away at university and off in London with the raggle taggle gipsies oh, then lived nearby in Batheaston in the mid-sixties.
My mother who wasn't entirely English loved the place, my father who came from Bristol despised it. The term 'jerry built' comes straight from him. Mind you, the colonial and imperial fortunes that led to the development of Bath, acquired in India, Africa and the Caribbean mainly and in the most spectacular cases depending heavily on the 'triangular' - i.e. slave and sugar - trade, must have come quite often partly from Bristol which was a big slaving centre. My father wasn't quite so keen on discussing that.
Both my parents are buried there and I have a deep affection for the place anyway. But that doesn't make me blind to its faults. It's provincial, poncy and nearly as smug as Bristol, the pubs are rubbish and then there's the scrofulous, whining, grasping, moronic, aftershave-wearing council.
Is it possible for a main dealer to unregister a brand new car with the DVLA after its been registered to someone?
The reason i ask is that i have been into the Citreon main dealers today to ask about a 1.6 petrol VTR+NAV C5.
After discussing my requirements he pointed to a C5 in the car park and told me this sorry tale.He said that they had ordered a diesel C5 for a customer and it was registered to him.When it arrived they realised it was a petrol 1.6 model.They then had to sell him an alternative car and are now in the process of deregistering the car so that it can be sold as one owner.They have said that if they cannot get it deregistered then it will be classed as a prereg model.
Now the list price for a brand new factory car i am looking at is £21000 with paint.They will only drop to £20500.A popular car magazine says that the target price is £19500(with paint) so theres still some room for coming down on price.
Now assuming that the car they have in stock remains preregistered then whats a good price to offer assuming that it is a 59 plate(with 1 mile on the clock) compared to a March delivery and a 10 plate.
I would have thought at least £500 off the target price of £19500.So £18995 would be ok with me.
Do you think that this is a fair price or should i try harder?
I know i can get it cheaper online but my wife wants to stick with our local main dealer even though his prices seem high to me.
Any advice would be most appreciated.
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...I can remember it being done too, but I thought DVLA had stopped the ability to unregister now to stop sales figures being manipulated....
Don't think they were too keen when we asked them to do it.
The garage - a Renault dealer - was privately owned and I think we had the reputation, at least with the local licensing office, of being dead straight.
The car was still unsaleable and untransferable to another dealer for several weeks, so I can understand the dealers where cashflow and turnover is king wanting to sell the car as a pre-reg.
hello, just fitted a new brand alternator not a recon and the battery light is still on, the battery its self is fine, what else could it be? thanks Read more
thanks again peter ps watch this space john
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Wow - I never new that !! And I own one - Oh well that's a good one to remember and it's not too hard for the either.