November 2010
if a main dealer is changing a clutch is it policy to change the slave cylinder the vehicle had 60000 miles on the clock Read more
Hi all!!! My wee 406 is sick. was driving about town and noticed the temp very high. When i got home i checked the radiator and it had oil in it. I then checked the oil and it was empty with air bubbles on the dip stick..... I need advice on the problem of which i think is the head gasket, and how to source the part cheeply. You know the craic, comin up on Christmas with two kiddies, this needs to be a shoe string fix. thanks for your time
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Just been watching a motoring program on N24 and it explained what the word Mito means,its actually short for Milan and Torino where they apparently make them.
Piece of useless information. Read more
I think it was going to be called 'Milano' but the workers in Turin objected.
Subjectively it looks to me as if Fiats and Alfas are the subject of fewer complaints on this forum than they used to - indeed there are plenty of other makes which feature more often....
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my garage phoned me up earlier and want to offer a brand new 107 for the same, or even slightly less monthly payments. My lease agreement doesn't end until next August??... Read more
Got a similar offer on a sale not lease-offered new car,lower payments(HP),paused long enough to ask "what colours available?".Three days ,later-new car.I can only think that they had a customer for the car I owned and were trying to move what I was offered.However going back to that dealer several years later,I was told that neither the salesman or the sales manager was employed by them any longer-commenting that they made more on their sales than we did!
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recently i have changed the engine of peugeot expert 2003 2.0 hdi engine from 16v to an 8v, now the car starts up and then immediately shuts down. Is there any fix to this problem.... Read more
Did you change all the electrics including the ecu. Your time scale is not clear has it run properly at one time or not.
car four years old 21000 miles and time for a new cambelt. vw maindealer £299
Independent £270... Read more
,time has a great deteriation on belts not nessasarily milage.
Only when measured in decades. The original fan belt on my 1980 TR7 is still satisfactory - as was the cambelt on our ten yr old Passat with more than 240,000m. Modern belts only break if something makes them break. ...
My speedometer is fluctuating and the abs & asr warning lights come on. This is an intermittent fault. Some pne said it could be the gearbox speedo sensor but I have no idea how to take it off and fit a new one. Can any one help? Read more
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Car stalls while driving, Has had new Fuel Filter & oil filters, one day its ok next day will stop, Any one out there had that problem,Ford Garage did Diognostic check and said they could try something which would cost £130 but wouldn't guarentee would solve the problem Read more
I recently advertised my Mitsubishi in Auto Trader for my car to appear in the magazine and the internet. I was contacted by a person who claimed to want buy the car for the full price for his son and he would arrange for a courier to come down to pick the car up. I agreed and asked how he would like to pay for the car? He wanted to use Paypal and sometime later a e-mail came through to me that he had paid in full and I should receive confirmation shortly. The Paypal e-mail followed with all the correct logos and type face, saying the funds had been withheld until a £300.00 fee payable to a guy in Liverpool would have to be made before the transaction could go through. I smelt a rat straight away, the Paypal e-mail was from someone c/o Paypal in the address line and the whole thing was a scam to get a fee before disappearing into the night.
Auto Trader is becoming a popular hunting ground for scams and this one was a bit pathetic to say the least. If you are selling your car through Auto Trader just make sure if someone offers a Paypal method of payment check your account with them before doing anything else. E-mails saying the funds are there just might be fake.... Read more
Ref the payment issue,
im a small time car dealer and regularly take in cash.about 4 years ago i took two thousand pounds to my local bank, included in which were a couple of forged twenties.the bank seized them .b***** annoying. i had no idea....
When visiting the Royal Albert Hall by car, you can pre-book parking at the Imperial College carpark for around £8. It's handy and it's close to the hall
Be warned though, Westminster Council under-cover parking officers will be waiting for you. Everyone who has booked Imp College carpark has to queue to wait for the gates to be opened at 6pm (Prince Consort Road entrance), even if only for a few minutes. We did just this two weeks ago and wondered why a white van pulled in front of us, onto the pedestrian crossing and then parked, shortly to pull away again. The van turned around and sat behind other cars. Very curious. A week later we found out what the van was doing when the photo of us queuing was sent with a £60 parking fine.... Read more
Very true!! In my home town on the south coast, there are the usual areas which are blighted by idiots blatantly causing traffic issues with their stupid parking, yet day after day there they are, in 'their' spot, regardless. Funny how a top-end German sports car parked illegally (or whatever it is or isn't these days) outside the owner's estate agents, day-in, day-out, gets left well alone, yet your or me overstaying by a few minutes in a legitimate bay is game on. I drove for a living and we once made enquiries about a particular area and were told, without a hint of irony, that wardens were not sent there because it was a 'high conflict' area - why the hell do they pay these people their wages?!! Empty cars in quiet backstreets are far more profitable than genuine dangerous parkers, clearly.
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Standard clutch overhaul usually consists of replacing three items:-driven plate,clutch cover and thrust bearing.
Any other clutch-related items are only replaced if showing signs of excess wear or fluid leakage....