August 2016
Hello every one
Anyone can help me please for code ... Read more
I returned to my parked car the other day to find a noticeable gap between the bottom of the rear offside wing and top of the rear bumper. I have absolutely no idea as to how this damage has occurred, but I've taken the following photos:
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Park it in the sunshine on thr rear and allow the plastic to return to normal. Regards Peter
Having tried several cars, my wife is thrilled to have found the Kia Cee'd 4 Tech - except she wants an auto. The dealer says that they don't exist in Auto as does the Kia brochure.
But in Septmeber 2015, there was a review in Autocar praising the very thing.... Read more
Hyundai/Kia do have a new 1.0 litre turbo engine which has replaced the 1.4 (manual gearbox) in the i20, and in the Cee'd fits between the 1.4 and 1.6
hi guys having starting troubles the car kept cutting out on me when driving traced it to crank shaft censor dosent cut out on me anymore but now when i go out to start it it start perfect will run all day until i turn it off then it will not start for hours even if i start it first thing it starts if i then turn off after a few seconds it takes a few turns of key to start again any help would be great its astra van 1.7ctdi 05 plate ecotec engine Read more
Not really much help,
just numbers,...
Hi my mate has a 1.4 escort 1988 and has just done valve stem seals with the head took off and replaced all gaskets , we went to start it and it fire up with choke and will not tick over with out choke and has a misfire , so changed leads , dizzy cap rotor arm and still the same , done compression check and all OK , but still won't tick over and misfires , the car has been stood for nine years Read more
Sorry but where should number 1 be pointing in distributor when at top dead centre as if timing is far out it would not run
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"I thought the Gold Coast was in Africa - was expecting dusky beauties!!"
Your taste must be for rather mature specimens - pre-1957, when the Gold Coast became Ghana.
I have read elsewhere that some of these Automatic/Autonomous Emergency Braking systems on lorries have applied full emergency braking when triggered falsely by road signs/fence posts on bends and other conditions. Some systems are evidently supposed to flash a warning to the driver and only apply brakes if he doesn't react by a dab on the brakes but don't always.
Apparently these systems became mandatory for LGVs last year and BIg Brother plans to make them universal on new cars in a year or two.... Read more
A friend is an HGV breakdown operative. He says its depressing how often he attends a 'breakdown' which may be causing tailbacks and misery for thousands and the 'fix' is advising the steering wheel attendant how to operate the new truck he has just taken the keys of.
He has also found that simply removing the key, locking and unlocking the cab can reset a lot of faults.
That said car drivers are just as bad. I was at the fuel station today and I could see someone struggling in a new Kia. She couldn't get the key out of the ignition and she then couldn't open the fuel cap.
I showed her she needed to push the key in to remove and the fuel lever was by the drivers seat. She advised me it was a hire car, she was driving to Birmingham from Leeds and was complaining that 'they give you a hire car and don't tell you anything about it'. The Kia dealer is about 100m away, but she has obviously never heard of the 'cockpit check'. Unlock, Radio 1, drive is probably as far as it went.
Worked today and yesterday.
Coming home from work yesterday, between the two towns there is nowhere to overtake unless its a push bike or 3am, so i'm following two cars who are in turn following a lorry, it is what it is, the cars were following at reasonable distance and i travelled roughly 100/150 yards from the back of the second car which is about my norm at these speeds.... Read more
Tailgating, mmm, that’s driving so close that the driver in front can see the whites of your eyes, except that in mist or fog it’s not quite as clear. One day in autumn I was driving on a country road known for speeding and there was a thick mist. Have you heard the saying that ‘even the birds were walking’ ? Following me were two cars, one black and one green. I forget which one was first, but he was too close to me and the one following him was far too close to him. I came to a patch where the mist was a little clearer and increased speed to about 40 mph to gain some distance. Then I saw about 12 mallards walking in single file across the road. I had momentary visions of chewing bits of mallard (which isn’t so bad) and bits of glass from the windscreen, (which is). I braked down to about 15 mph and the front 6 ducks began running forward and the rear 6 running back the way they had come. I went through the gap and accelerated to avoid a rear end impact. I needn’t have bothered because I saw in the rear view mirror that the two cars following me were at angles and stopped. I got the impression that their insurance companies would have liked to have my details.
Something unusual ...
My tracking is out, on my little peugeot 106
the tyres are wearing on the inside... so, too much toe out.
I'm off later to try and align the wheels better,
with some string, tape measure and axle stands.
On youtube , I noticed a TrackRite mat, which tells you how much the wheel are off true 0 degrees.. when you drive over it.
A cunning little thing !
Thinking about it , ..
if I got 2 or 3 k-i-t-c-h-e-n cutting mats and laid them on top of each other,
and drove over them,
I can't see why , the top sheet(s) wouldn't rotate in the direction of the toe in/out mis-alignment.
Did people, way back, just use sheets of papaer to see the rotation.
I don't need it perfect...just better than it is atm..
ps my settings for a 1.1 106, is toe out 0.5mm plus or minus 0.5mm
so zero toe , would do the job
Cheers
Liam
ps lol, I can't type "kit.chen" as it gets blanked out,
because of all those idiot spammers on here, using that word ! Read more
they are good little cars to be fair...
tho, I wouldn't like to hit anything in them, tbh !
Mine doesn't have power steering...so a proper manly mans car :)
Great to hear about the Outback... long may it continue to serve !!
I can understand why your wife loves the car,
as you do get attached to their little quirks/characters etc .
ps as you probably know Gordon,
Subaru is Japanese for the seven sisters' stars...Pleiades
you can see them as a fuzzy blob most nights..
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I wonder if they do a lpg conversion for my 1.1
or how hard it would be d.i.y :) lol *boom*
All the best
Liam
Friends had clutch done on car a few months back.. £900ish, then after that driving down the road, clutch failed a few days later, repaired free under warranty then gear linkage failed (bolt not tightened?)
later on scraped a gate so needs 2 n/s doors and rear quarter panel about £1300 (not done yet)... Read more
Depends on why it's lost power. If it's the (in-)famous oil pump failure, then it's down to scrap value anyway.
Rob from past experiences you are very probably right.
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