July 2017
Hi all
I've asked a few questions on here recently about suitable vehicles for purchase, and received lots of good advice and welcome information. However, partially due to financial constraints I've been unable so far to locate an affordable example of the vehicles recommended.... Read more
Hi, I have a 2014 Corsa which I recently had regassed after the air con stopped working. After this the air con was amazing for about a week... and now it's just blowing warm, sometimes a bit cool but not what I'd expect from air con. I asked if there were any leaks when I had it regassed as it's still under warranty until September and they said it's fine just needed the regas. However it's also still hissing when I use it, the hissing comes and goes. I don't want to take it to the garage if it's just how it is, but I don't remember it being a problem last summer! Any ideas? Read more
Urgh- need two front break discs too :( Thanks though!
The aircon in my 66 plate M140i has not worked since mid-May 2017 (been lots of fun with these heatwaves!) and having spent multiple days at the dealership (Partridge Chandlers Ford) with the engineers scratching their heads, their diagnosis is that there is stone damage to the radiator....which is apparently not covered by warranty.
I am facing a bill of £750 for the radiator replacement.... Read more
I had the coolent radiator damaged that way once.
I would have thought it should be easy to spot though.
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Not quite the same .Early e90 variants were fitted with 2x 15 amp fuses for the cdl system. These cars would suffer erratic fuse blown failure.The official mod was to uprate the fuses to 2x 20 amp to overcome this problem.,as found on later cars. Unlikely to be fire or hazard risk as the cdl is only a momentary function.
Please help me!
Bought 09 astra van sportive 1.7 cdti. On way home the turbo blew up! Had it replaced n within a day or two it was struggling to start. I went to start it n it turns over n sounds like it gona catch but it just doesn't! I did bump it tho! I rang my mechanic he said the head was cracked! Don't know if it was or not. ... Read more
Pedal test is ureliable.
quite possible the CAS is damaged from fitting....
Hi all - new here, and am looking to change one of our cars but don't have the knowledge to make an informed choice of what to buy. Am hoping those with first-hand knowledge can confirm or quosh my assumptions, please.
Curently have an '08 Toyota Auris TR, only really because we needed something in a hurry when we relocated back to the UK. Thoroughly reliable but thoroughly ordinary, plus some quirks that make me hate an otherwise accetpable vehicle.... Read more
Just a quick note on where all the old Mercedes, Audis etc. all are. They're not all dead but have all gone abroad. Put up any car like this for sale and nearly all the enquiries will be from Eastern Euopeans. They usually use them in the UK for a while then drive them home, leave them there, come back to the UK, buy another and repeat. I can't remember the last tme I sold such a car to someone who wasn't originally from Poland, Romania, Luthiania or whatever.
In fact, the whole UK used car price structure is underpinned by an enormous number of cars going abroad. Go to any major auction and you won't hear a lot of English spoken....
Hired a car in Dubrovnik for a day trip into Montenegro on what I now know is the busiest weekend. Big mistake! The queue at the Croatian side of the border was 3 hours just to leave the country and a further hour to enter Montenegro. On the way back, it took another 3 hours to clear both border checkpoints and I clocked the queue leaving Croatia at 4 miles all stationary vehicles. Lots of German, Italian and French tourists trying to get into Montenegro many with young children and I reckon that most were facing at least a 6 hour wait, including tour buses. Why do they put themselves through this? Huge wear and tear to clutches, gearboxes and batteries never mind the massive emissions from thousands of vehicles with idling engines in 33 degrees of searing heat.
Can't understand why a country delays your departure from its frontiere. If this is what a 'hard border' looks like when the UK leaves the EU then I don't know what it will mean to take a car into mainland Europe.
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Sounds horrendous Galad. Must be just down to sheer volume of traffic. Even with electronic scanners it will still take a minute or so to process the passports, visas etc. Mutilpy that by hundreds and you have your delay time. I do sometimes wonder though if certain countries just have these annoying border checks simply because they can. It provides hours of endless fun to the border force to be able to irritate passing tourists, without any consequences. I remember in the 70's working in North Africa. The customs and passport control were horrendous. The thing is these countries were third, or even fourth world in parts. There was little you could bring in with your luggage apart from a few personal comforts, but they would empty all the luggage out and go through it. They even did this on the way out!!! There was nothing at all anyone would want to bring out from some of those places. We thought the guards and police just enjoyed irritating the travellers for fun. Nearly every trip the airline pilot used to come into the customs hall and really have a go at the officials for holding up the flight. Then we used to get waved through. So it can't have been that important for them to search us except for fun. I then used to hand back until the officials were told off, then just get straight through. Hey ho, all part of the rich tapestry.
Cheers Concrete
I very carelessly allowed my car insurance to expire and then a month later I caused a collision, only a minor one but unfortunately the young lady driver suffered some injuries and has loss of earnings expenses and also damage to her car.
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“If she goes to the MIB and gets a payment they will come after you too.”
She cannot go to the MIB if she has comprehensive insurance (certainly not for the damage to her car, anyway)....
Earlier this week I was driving a couple of cars behind an older BMW 3 series, on a 'B' road, passing through a '30' speed-hump urban area. The BMW caught my attention as it was emmiting big 'puffs' of thick black smoke every time the driver accelerated between the humps. Once the road became NSL the BMW accelerated and belched out an incredible plume of this thick black smoke which obliterated any forward view of the road (coverage between the verges and about as high again) and all cars behind had to slow dramatically to cope with the zero visibility. I am guessing this was a diesel BMW but wonder what would cause such volumes of black smoke to be emmited and surely this car cannot be long for this world? Looking into the distance as the smoke dispersed I could still see the car up the road, still smoking but had morphed into a sort of grey haze trailing behind the car. Next time I see it I'll grab the number and report. Read more
It can be as simple as a small hole or slack jubilee clip in the air pipe between the flow sensor and the air intake. It happened to my sister's Volvo and also a mate's Zafira with a few weeks of each other a few years back.
The escaping air ( which makes a right racket as it's pushed through at high pressure by the turbo) means that not all the air going through the flow sensor goes into the engine. There is then far too much fuel for the amount of available air, meaning lots of black smoke!...
Hi is there anyone that can help me find the code to my radio the serial number is M026647 Read more
99p on eBay sorted !
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K reg 1.6 Primera (P10 designation) sold at auction with 172k miles ... occasional timing chain rattle!