August 2010
We’ve tried some cars and read up on others and the only one still In the frame to replace my wife's 7 year old Toyota Corolla Verso is the B class Merc despite it being a bit expensive.
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Went to hire a rof box for our hols today. The S-max has fixed points under covers on the roof. All going well until, when tightening the bolt holding the rack to the roof, the guy fitting it sheared the bolt flush with the hole.
He drilled down the broken stud but it did not fully remove and the bar is now held firmly with a self tapping screw into the hole left by drilling... Read more
Firstly, I'd be a bit pee'd off with the fitter. He should have felt something was wrong as he was tightening the bolt before it sheared.
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Did anyone else watch this program
Once again we have a program that is giving out the politically correct massage speeding kills. to illustrate the fact the program rolled out a number of clips from reckless criminals and the tragic story of a young girl left brain damaged by some rich irresponsible yob driving a powerful car, stupidly. It also had a demonstration that a car going faster takes longer to stop! Now that is news.
It illustrates the stupidity of these that make our laws, surely 19 year olds, or these that just passed their test should not be allowed to drive fast cars on public roads
The program claims 40% of road deaths are due to speeding, therefore 60% are not
These programs should get across the dangers of tailgating, not indicating, not putting the headlights on in bad weather and so on and not just go on and on and on about the dangers of speed and then show irrelevant examples Read more
Mothers ( & fathers) should be banned from transporting their offspring in the same vehicle.
been there & had it done to me ..... by the children rather than the Polis....
My Father has a 2002 52 plate 320d on 44k. Around 6 weeks ago, the car began to smoke and burn oil. Turbo failure was ultimately diagnosed and the turbo was duly replaced. EGR valve, etc, was cleaned, exhaust system thoroughly cleaned. Anyway, the smoking continued after the period in which the residue of the engine oil would normally have been burned off. The smoke is white. When left to idle under some load oil is depsoited on the road from the exhaust. The oil level is gradually declining at a slow rate. The car however is running very well and there is no loss of pressure. Current thinking at the garage is that there is a problem with the head or the block more generally. It looks like the engine is generating 2-3 times the pressure that it should and is forcing oil through the system. It is recommended that a pressure test on the block be carried out. Any thoughts or advice would be most welcome.
Regards,
Anthony Read more
I would agree with you but there is pressurisation and smoke, time will tell.
is it just me or has the Autotrader website become unuseable. There is now so much unrelated advertising that my PC can't load it. Each refresh takes upto a minute. What other sites are good apart from Exchange and Mart and Petrolheads? Read more
Confirmed the browser issue to myself yesterday, round my brother's last night on a fairly slow antique computer, he was trying desperately to show me something on Autotrader (IE8) - page just hanging - cut and paste url into FireFox - pow, instant access no problems.
Hi. I had an unfortunate incident yesturday in my work car park. My car wouldnt start so had to push it back to get start leads to the engine. When i pushed it back my abs wouldnt work as the engine was off so no brakes. As a result i bumped into some girls car and dented her front left side wing. So i went back into work and asked at reception whos car it was. They made a call on the radio and some girl came out. I showed her to her car and described what happened. I said i would pay for the costs rather than going for insurance. She then pointed out some marks near the headlight which had red paint and claimed i did that also. My car is silver and so is hers. All i had done was a dent directly above the wheel and minute scratches. She has an 02 plate vw polo. She had a few bumps all round the car and scratches. She went on to say her father works in a garage and that it would cost £600+ and she would take it there in the morning. I wasnt in the mood to argue and was waiting for her father to say it would cost 100/150 max.
So i saw her the next day and she said her father told her to go to another garage in which they said it would cost 500/600 and she wanted to go through insurance. I know this is a lie and she must know someone within the garage who is going to pull a fast one. ... Read more
Ideally you should have taken pictures at the time of impact so you could show where the damage was. Take a photo of the damage you admit and also for the additional damage she is claiming - particularly showing the other paint colour.
You are only responsible for the damage you caused not for any other damage and if it could not have been caused by you or shows a different paint colour any loss adjuster would recgonise this and will disallow the claim....
any help please. i have a 306 hdi that suddenly would not start. i have found there is no fuel comming from the pump driven by the cambelt.
low presure pump working in tank. fuel being deliverd to filter and main pump but not comming out of pump to common rail and injectors.... Read more
The ecu will only try to fire the injectors if it detects enough pressure in the fuel rail. Dont start taking any of the high pressure sytem apart - very very high pressure and single use connections.
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Hi,
Just a word of warning if your power steering is intermittently failing I suggest you get it seen to before your warranty expires.
Just recently my power steering started to play up and was told the steering rack had failed and needs replacing - it cost me £1300.
The car had just ran out of it's 3yr warranty with only 26k miles on clock
[Ford S-Max 2.0 TDCi Titanium (56 plate)]. I've heard similar stories that seem to point towards a faulty component but Ford Customer Services want nothing to do with it and will not assist financially.... Read more
I need to replace a faulty sensor next to the front number plate.
Jaguar Part Number C2C29376XXX but the dealer price is £51.05... Read more
There is a special place with people with white coats awaiting you.
And my nationality I am cross breed.
I'm trying to work out which is the best smallish MPV that can take 6-7 people. I've got two kids, 1 and 3, and hope to have another in the future, so I need space for 3 kid's car seats. I live in town and have to park on the street, so while there's usually plenty of spaces I don't want a monster sized car (the only thing stopping me from looking at the full size MPVs, but I'd like the extra seats for friends / family when they visit. While most of the weekday driving is just in town to the shops, etc, we often do 1 - 3 hour trips at the weekend on Scottish motorways and A-roads.
Reliability is important (though I recognise that guaranteed reliability of some makes can be a myth, as can unreliability from other makes), safety is important. Fuel economy not so important, but I don't want to lose too much on depreciation, so it'll probably have to be a diesel.... Read more
Browse
Absolutely, 659. I had a B200 CDI automatic for nearly two years - until I could stand the drone no longer. The combination of 4 cylinders + Mercedes diesel + CVT transmission is not one I'd ever like to come across again.
For 6,000 miles a year you don't need a diesel and you'll never recover the extra cost, and I'm not sure even the better resale value is enough to make up for this. If you particularly like diesel, there's nothing wrong with another Verso, which I think can be had as an automatic....