July 2017
IS there any future for diesel cars I have ford focus 1.6 tdci estate 59 plate dpf after recent announcement Read more
Don't know if this is fixable? It doubles as reverse light and indicator.
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Yeah! you're right.
Thanks anyway....
6th service isn't cheap (without any unforseen extras), and I will have to fork out £120 to replace a cracked tail light for mot, unless I can epoxy it successfully, so was wondering what the debit % would be for selling/trading in with only a few months left on mot/service period versus waiting and selling after everything had been done?
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Yes it is, I forgot all about that.
7 years for a Kia.....
So-with everything going electric,will be very interesting to see how the market behaves short to medium term.
1) Will people now start panic buying electric cars to the exclusion of everything else -forcing massive price drops on the entire existing UK petrol market ?... Read more
As to your question 4 : Why on earth would someone who owns a petrol car NOW hold on to it for the next 23 years ?
People panic-buying electric cars NOW ? Again, why bother. People will see the range, realise it won't work for them, and walk away. Or they just won't have the space and facility to put the thing on charge (lots of people park on the road, not in nice garages with power points)....
Try moving out of London. Our "morning post" arrives routinely at 5pm. Plus it's a three day thing. No delivery outside Tues to Thursday. Except for junk mail. Every time there is a parcel without fail it is card time and collect it yourself.
And we are 35 miles from London...
every time we travel to London from Australia we used europcar at Heathrow
but no more we find them very doddgy when it comes to insurance and many friends have found the same thing massively overcharging for insurance and upgrades we wont use them again. Read more
I hired a golf from Europecar last September. When I took it back they found an obscure scratch underneath the bumper. I wasnt responsible and as i had only walked around the car before hiring and not lain on the ground to look up it was not spotted. Interestingly the official who inspected the car went straight to that point. I would not sign agreement and left for extended holiday . 3 months later I noticed amount of £650.00 had been taken from my card. I had taken out excess insurance with third party but they wouldnt cover it as I was outside the claim period. Anyone know what steps I should take to get satisfactory outcome?
Dave C.
Saw one in a car park yesterday, looked like a clowns car.
Turns out a bit of Googling its a 2002 ish Toyota Yorik with a different body.... Read more
The S-Cargo also has echoes of the 2CV van which is why I think the choice of name is really inspired. I always fancied one of my own, but changed my mind recently when I got up really close to one and found how small and fragile they are. I've been in a "concertina" accident where my Astra G estate was pushed into the rear of an 8-wheel tipper lorry. The car crumpled front and rear as it should and we got out with just seat belt injuries. In an S-Cargo I think we'd have been in a metal sandwich. I really like the look of them though and the same goes for other small oddities such as the Suzuki Lapin, Nissan Be1 and Subaru Sambar.
Driving down the M1 today in South Yorkshire in torrential rain i was passed by a convoy of 10-12 unmarked police cars using lights and sirens at 90+ mph , rather them than me. Unusual combination of cars, Seat Leon, Golf, Audi A1 , Mini didnt see others as it was raining really heavy , i just wondered what was going on also never realised A1 and minis as unmarked traffic cars
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I'd love to be a fly on the wall when an unknowing patrol car comes across an unmarked car driving at such speed ...the chase would be interesting!
A few years ago now I was at home one night in Bilbao where I live and I heard a succession of deafening bangs down in the street. It turned out that an unmarked car full of (Spanish) civil guards had been following another unmarked car full of (Basque) police and both groups of police officers were convinced the other lot was an ETA hit squad. After a brief Mexican standoff and much shouting, they all started shooting at each other. Luckily no life threatening injuries and only one hospitalised police officer, but a lifetime of report-writing and I dare say some months of school crossing patrols for all involved....
This time I am not talking about people’s behaviour on the roads but their attitude to car maintenance. I got my first car in the seventies and m still in the habit of checking lights, fluids and tyres regularly. A friend who is ten years older than me ecently joined a forum for retired people when trying to understand what benefits he was entitled to. He is also something of a car enthusiast (owns a Focus and a Morris 8). However, he finds it hard to believe the attitude of some of them towards car maintenance and safety checks. Today one person boasted he never had his car serviced bar an oil and filter change every two years. Previously a number of members felt it was adequate to have your tyres checked as part of the MOT. They would probably think I have OCD as a check pressures, the treads (including sidewalls and also looking for uneven wear) and for any foreign objects in the tread most weeks.... Read more
I've had enough. Aplogies to all the polite posters who had good points to make.
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If the unit is telling you there is a battery problem, why ignore it? test your battery - it's probably doing exactly waht it is supposed to!
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Sorry, I misread your last post. Thought you said 228k.