I have a deep rumble (with some vibrations) which arrives promptly everytime I reach 60mph and which continues until 70mph after which it seems to diminish in annoyance. I don't need to be accelerating hard for it to happen and in fact If I accelerate gently and put cruise control on at 60mph and continue driving, the rumbling arrives and the car doesn't feel as smooth as it should. If I accelerate up to 80mph and then release the accelerator so as the speed falls back to within the 60-70mph range, it's pretty noticeable.

Bearing in mind the known weaknesses of theses cars, and Audi's in general, could this be the drive shaft bearings ?... Read more

Not exactly a heating problem but I was a little lost for two or three words to sum-up the problem.....no suggestions please :o)

My wife complains that there is a draft coming down the lounge chimney and asks me to find a solution for it!... Read more

Evening all.

Last year in October I wS involved in a collision. Without going into too much detail a pedestrian ran out in front of me. He died at the scene. It's been a horrible few months and the police investigation is over. They said there was nothing I could do so no further action.

Now they have released the car. An approved garage picked up my car 4 months after the collision. They have assessed it to be a total loss. It is only cosmetic damage with most I can live with. New side panel, windscreen, passenger side window and a few dents.

The garage said the repairs would cost around 4000 pounds. The car is worth around 3200 pounds. I bought it for that just one month before the accident. I rang the insurance and told them to hang on while I get another garage to look at it. They went to look at the car yesterday and said the car would be easy repairable for 1500.

Today I rang the insurance up to tell them and I will email the invoice.

My concern is that they said they will still make the decision if the car can be repaired for the price my own chosen garage quoted.

I feel their going to write it off no matter what. Can they really decide if the car is allowed to be repaired or did they mean to say that depending if it would be a cat a,b,c or d then that's what would deem the car repairable or not. I'm guessing it's going to be a cat c as its only cosmetic damage.

They also talked about selling me the car back after writing it off. I was wondering what kind of price I would pay for this or how it even works.

It's been a long time with all this and getting the car back on the road will finally allow me to get my life going again. I know it's only money and metal and that's nothing compared to what happened. It's just the incident was bad enough and I was close to just ending it and now the insurance are making it very difficult. They've already sent one assessor out and they said they would send another.

I'm thinking of just getting the car to the other garage asap. The insurance approved garage, where my car is now, have said they will take it to anywhere I like for free as he felt sorry for me. Thanks for listening. Read more

Hi All,

I picked up a '03 Reg 2.0L Mazda 323 last week. it had no issues at the time but around 100 miles later it popped up an error code (believe P0038). I cleared it and asked the old owner who said he had the same thing, cleared and it had not returned since. it did not come back for another 50 miles when I cleared again.... Read more

Hi when the road tax goes to a flat rate does the existing rate continue for cars already registered or will they pay the new flat rate .

I have been given conflicting info.... Read more