July 2012
Hi thereThis car has, until now, been the most reliable that I have ever owned, however it decided to die on me, I thought that pahaps I had run out of fuel, as it was showing low before this and the orange fuel light had come on, so went and bought some more and put it in, however she still will not go, tried priming the filter,( this is bolted to the battery housing, and has a primer on top) but the primer is drawing little or no fuel through, just to make sure that it is a definate fuel starvation problem, I filled the rubber inlet pipe from the filter to the engine manually, and she fired up right away, this morning, i took off the filter unit, and it had some fuel in it, but not full, I am now at the stage where I am left with the fuel pipe sticking up, but not going to anywhere, I flattened the battery whilst trying various things, so have now taken it off and put it on charge.As a chef I am not the best mechanic, however I can turn my hands to most things, I just wanted to ask, when I re connect the battery, and turn the engine should I see fuel being pumped up through the fuel pipe...? If I should and I don't, is there anything else I can try, and if not and the worst comes to the worst, how big a job will it be to replace the fuel pump.Greatful for any advice, kind regards Dave Read more
"quicker battery charging time" is very misleading. Both cars charging on an ordinary mains lead take about 6 or 7 minutes per mile of range. The Toyota is three times faster to charge than the Ampera but only gets one third the electric range.
I'm not sure where that £2.20 for a full Ampera charge comes from either: it takes 12.5kWh from the mains to fully charge an Ampera (and you then get 10.8kWh back out of the battery). That would mean you would have to pay 18p per unit of electricity when normal rates are nearer 13p. It looks to me as though they've assumed a full charge is 16kWh which is the full capacity of the battery (and would mean they've used 13.75p per unit which is nearer the mark), but the Ampera never runs the battery flat and never charges to 100%. An actual charge on standard rate electricity costs less than £1.70 or about 3.7p per mile. Read more
Hi everyone can anyone help me i have been driving my beetle for 4 years it is a V reg, 2lt engine, 141,000 miles, i have to top it up with a little oil every 6 weeks approx. it has just had the cam sensor changed, can anyone tell me what sort of milage you would expect or you have seen on this engine .... Also what are the common faults on this car at that age and mileage.. im thinking because of the milage i need to get rid of this beloved car and of course buy another one but im really broke and dont no whether to sell or repair it if anything goes on it, and also if i should buy 4 new tyres or just part ex it? thanks Read more
Will do stellar mileage, although you'll get odd electrical gremlins - think the 2L had some coil issues
I have a SEAT Altea XL bought new from Perrys SEAT of Aylesbury in April 2007. It has been serviced and, when appropriate, MOT tested by Perrys SEAT at Aylesbury annually until 2011.
This year I was in Edinburgh in April and the servicing and MOT testing were done by Arnold Clark SEAT in Edinburgh.... Read more
Has it got hydraulic PAS?
If so, have you checked the fluid level?
Doesn't half look dull. I was expecting avantgarde from what Skoda had recently said. I wonder what our own avant thinks!
www.honestjohn.co.uk/road-tests/skoda/skoda-rapid-.../ Read more
Its amazing how a car manufacturer can now allow higher profile winter tyres (yours are the same size as my summer tyres!) and not for summer ones - what a great wheez! If you do, your insurance is invalidated! Mine as "V" rated (max. 149mph), yet an "H" rated tyre would suffice (I believe my 1.6 can do about 116mph), still, slightly better than my previous car (96N Micra 1.0 "S"), which had standard fit 175/60 R13 W's, even though it couldn't top 100mph (actually 93mph).
I bet the new Rapid will be the same. I still can't believe you have to shell out quite often over £400 for a set of new tyres every 18-36 months on many standard cars. I just wish some of these companies bothered to listen to their customers for once - hopefully Skoda and others may cotton on before releasing new vehicles.
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I'll be buying a car in the next couple of months and I was hoping for some suggestions.... Read more
60 miles a day in any car is easy. If you really want an automatic with diesel without too many problems try the Kia Ce'ed or Hyundai i30. Both have diesel and slushbox autos.
Almost every time I go online to this site within a very short time my computer comes up with the message that this site is not responding and have to use ctrl/alt /delete to close it down.
I then get the usual please do you wish to report this to microsoft, and get directed to an help page which gives many options including set your browser back to when it was first installed.
However only use this option if you your browser is completely unusable.
This is the only site I use which ever crashes.
Any suggestions please....
wemyss Read more
For obvious reasons I look on this forum every day. I've been using Google Chrome since the problems started, but I'm on IE9 now and will go on using it to access the forum to see how things go.
For all its faults, at least IE9 doesn't have GC's infuriating way of moving up a line when you're about to click on a thread, so that you open the one above it....
RH headlight is gone quite opaque in recent years - the other headlight which was replaced 7 yrs ago is crystal clear. Skoda mech thought it was UV damage but Skoda regard car as being out of warranty. Replacement parrt is prohibitively expensive (Bi-Xenon headlight!!) Any suggestions.
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Hi,
Try polishing it with good old fashioned 'Duraglit'. It will even fetch a small scrath from a windscreen where the wiper blade has scraped it. I've seen it work on glass and plastic headlights too. Cost is just a few quid - its the elbow work thats the hard bit....
A customer brought in a Shogun with no drive six months ago. I renewed the dmf and clutch with genuine oe parts. It went away fine but returned two months later showing signs of iminent dmf failure. I replaced it all again and thinking that the parts must have been at fault.
Another two months down the line and the same thing is happening. I can get no joy out of Mitsubushi who tell me that they have never had problems with Shogun dmf's.... Read more
Is the owner is likely to chug along at low revs with the engine at near idle or be labouring the engine regulary?
Steve.
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As Peter says. The primers and fuel lines are well known problems.
Steve.