May 2017
Need to get the cam belt changed on my 2012 XC70 D4. Is this an engine that needs the water pump done at the same time?
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My car has been in to a trusted garage today as it has started crunching ever-so-slightly when going into third gear. All other gears are fine. No problems selecting gears at all.... Read more
You can as Tom says learn to double declutch but you can probably extend its life by driving carefully, give it time before you push the gearlever right home, there is obviously still some synchro action so just give it time to work.
Hi , can anyone recommend a car between £3000 - 4500 for business use / tax purposes .
I do 12 - 15k a year mostly town driving ( nothing over 50mph ) with a longer run of a 100miles round trip ( hour each way) once a week from Birmingham to Northampton.... Read more
25/05 @ 22.38 OP Wrote "Just to clarify , I am a self employed and only have access to my personal car for transport."
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Very specific question. Every night i come down the A14 and leave at J7 for the A43 Northampton. Several cars go off an into the left lane and then proceed to turn right towards Northampton. I have seen numerous near misses here and are sure cars should be in the right lane to go right? Anyone have any info on this and can i clarify this with this highways agency? Read more
That junction is abot three miles from my house.
Its not marked but it makes two wide lanes at thge entrance to the roundabout, as said the vast majority of traffic is turning right for Northampton, if everyone religiously stayed in the right hand lane for right turn the queue would be back down on the A14 at peak times, its a wide roundabout so sensibly most people use both lanes and a bit of jiggery pokery at the N'ton exit and we're all speeding up the hill past Cohen's old scrap yard at a heady 40mph....
Hi, hubby has started selling cars part time with a mate. One is main driver on insurance and the other is named. Our question is are the trade plates only for main driver or so the plates come under the business name and can any of them use them? Should they have a set each? Is that allowed? Read more
I post this just to add into the mix and the wealth of info/experience.
I am lucky to have a trusted indy, who doesn't charge for minor stuff like changing a headlamp bulb and with whom I can have a good discussion about whether the car remains viable. (When the time comes it'll be a new Dacia for me)... Read more
Thanks for the suggestions.
Car has been into garage today - turns out the culprit was the drive belt. New one fitted - £82 inc.
No thanks. The only way I could afford a new car would be to essentially get myself into medium term debt, by taking out a PCP, Loan or a Lease and i'm not willing to do that during the current wave of economic uncertainty. Juggling a mortgage is hard enough these days without yet another sizeable payment coming out every month, and i'm not willing to increase the number of sleepless nights I already experience, by adding to the daily financial burden of "where is that bill payment coming from" by adding yet another one to the list, and certainly not because some £150k a year politician tells me to . Will the Government be willing to make the monthly payments on my behalf should I lose my job through no fault of my own? - no, I thought not!, so sorry but i'm out.
Perhaps these so called, intelligent people in politics should knuckle down, and concentrate on improving the economy, encouraging manufacturing back into the Country and eventually getting everybody on London salaries regardless of which area they live,, instead of worrying about what cars people already drive to work, and penalising them for daring to drive an old banger in order to get to work for an employer who doesn't pay the so called national average of £27k a year!. Far too many people are already living their lives around mounting debt or moving it from card to card, and i'm not sure that encouraging them to add even more to it, is an astute decision!. The jolly boys, making these ill thought out decisions are so far removed from the lives, and struggles of a lot of everyday working people, that they may as well be running the Country by email from Mars. Read more
8000 pounds off an new electric car wow where does the other 20,000 come from !!!, I'm sticking with my old banger, a 2003 fiesta 1.4 diesel 75.000 miles one careful owner.
when everyone has electric cars and they cost virtually nothing to run, who's going to pay the ridiculous high public transport costs.
Geely is buying a 49.9% stake in Proton and a 51% majority stake in Lotus - www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/geely-buys-lot...n Read more
Agree
Huge potential for Proton to come back and challenge Dacia at the budget end of the market.
I hate there traffic calming cushions and slow down to below 20 mph and drive one wheel over them and one wheel on the original road surface. Thus I've never broken a spring or worn out the inside shoulders of the tires. But, there are other hazards.
In Furness Vale there is a level crossing on a hill.. The level crossing was redone a few months ago and the railway rails are level, as you would expect them to be. Where the road meet the level crossing there has been no attempt to make a radius. Thus there are many scars in the road surface where cars have grounded where drivers have crossed too fast and the springs have ‘bottomed’. That is on the uphill side and the downhill side.... Read more
I used to live in Inverurie, a town in Aberdeenshire. Being on the A96 Aberdeen to Inverness road, the town was very busy with lots and lots of big trucks coming through. Quite a few years ago (mid-late 90's i think) it was decided that a bypass would be made, specifically to get the biggest trucks out of the town centre. On the bypass itself, as you'd expect, there were a few road bridges and at least one foot bridge. Unfortunately the foot bridge was not set high enough for the tallest trucks (like triple deck cattle floats) to get under, so they had to be diverted back through the town centre till it could be modified......!
Recently outside a village near me, a new roundabout was made, but it was put in well off to one side of the existing route. The only reason i can see for doing this is to keep the traffic flowing as normal on the old road, till the work is nearly finished, then just join it on to the old road minimising the amount of work to be done and traffic disruption. But this results in a roundabout in an odd position with odd angles and sharper turns than you would expect. Surely it would be better to make a temporary road off to the side for the traffic to use and make the roundabout on the route of the existing road?...
Does anybody know what tdv is?, if you compare a A4 1.9 115 05 reg, with the same 56 reg the latter one is...tdv, but both are euro 4, the earlier one is 154 k/gm, latter is 152 k/gm.
With just 2 k/gm difference, that cannot be a DPF on the latter?... Read more
I think TDV stands for Technology Demonstator Vehicle which was Audis terminology
for a DPF when they started fitting DPFs to develop the technology
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The word 'needless' is missing. I choose and maintain our cars very carefully and only when I think necessary. That is why they last so long and cost me so little. ...