September 2018
Amazing how an inconsiderate crooked scum bag like you can destroy a forum. Read more
Looking to buy a 1990 Cavalier with a beige interior. The beige headliner will certainly require replacing. Should I try looking for an aftermarket one, or one from a spares and repairs car? Also, any advice on replacing a headliner? Many thanks Read more
Go and see your local motor trimmer. They do them all the time. I got mine done about a year ago. Didn't cost too much.
How do I delete my account? Read more
It's not necessary for every member to engage in the day-to-day chit-chat that occupies some of the regulars on here, you know!
Pebble dash.
I live at the end of a non-asphalted road and at least once a year have the same problem with a small stone lodging between the brake disc and back plate. I have found that by driving the car a short distance in reverse the stone is sometimes thrown out. Read more
With regards to cross climate tyres, I fitted some on our Toyota Auris after reading reviews. When snow came, I have to say that while they do provide better grip for moving than normal tyres, they are not much better than summer tyres for braking or going around corners in snowy conditions. They are certainly much inferior to the winter tyres I have used in the past and will use again in the future.
RE: "Speed reading
The dashboard lighting on our 2018 Skoda Octavia is bright in good light but fades away to nothing as the ambient light decreases."
This is the car's (sensible) way of prompting you that the light levels have dropped to the point that it's dark enough to need your main lights on.
If the dash was always illuminated and with daylight running lights it would be very easy to forget to turn your lights on. By dimming the dashboard it reminds you to turn on your main lights.
The lights referred to as sidelights are strictly speaking parking lights and shouldn't be used for driving around, hence why they have no effect on the dimmed instruments. Read more
"Chip off the old block"
I'm guessing, and remembering back to O level Physics, that the steel 'case' the correspondent's tests, if in contact with the key would just act an an antenna. It's like extending the range of these fobs by holding it in contact with your head.
After the company I work for introduced car-sharing parking bays only, and I spent months car-sharing with inconsiderate people that were never on time, or ever let me know when they weren't actually going into the office on a particular day, I decided to give public transport a go.
Not only was it much more expensive than running my car, but with constant strikes and delays / cancellations, it also proved to be almost useless and actually damaging to my career (i.e. constantly being late or not knowing if I'd get home so had to work from home). The carriages stank too, and force people into 'enjoying' other people's annoying / anti-social behaviour.
I'll always remember looking at the train websites to check if my train was running on time - then in the 10 minutes it took to get to the station, find out it was actually severely delayed or cancelled! To hear the automated information shout "the next train has been delayed because............" then not give any reason, as if to say "we've been so awful for so long we can get away with anything now and you'll just have to accept it".
If the train workers were due to strike two days on a particular week, the Friday of that week couldn't be relied on either due to "driver / staff shortages" - maybe as a result of some strikers making an unofficial long weekend of it.
In the end, I had to return to using my car and all the additional expense to get parked near work.
Public transport should have been an option, but in reality it wasn't.
So all those politicians and other groups vilifying motorists who are just trying to get to work to keep this country's economy going, and all its services paid for, need to sort public transport out and provide a viable option to using a car first. Read more
You name it and no matter how essential it is to community life, local government funding for it is being cut. Same with central government funding, except when it comes to anything connected with diversity/ inclusivity, foreign aid and ridiculous vanity projects such as HS2. Yet instead of remaining static, our local and central taxation bills keep rising, with motorists, faced as they are with irreversible deterioration in the condition of our roads, used as a convenient taxation milk-cow. One of the most likely explanations of this conundrum is that there are simply too many people in these relatively small offshore islands of ours and too great a proportion of them is non-contributory. Until this is addressed, the cutbacks will continue and services will deteriorate further.
Got a lift in my bosses beat up mk1 ficus 1.6petrol estate today. She has been complaining about clutch slip. Symptoms are revs increasing dispraportionally to road speec in low gears. In 4th 5th it goes along quite nicely. There was also a burning smell in the cockpit??
It's just gone over the 200k mark and doesn't owe her anything. The bodywork has lots of parking dinks but it's largely rusty free and the engine seemed OK). I presume it may be the original clutch. Anyone know:... Read more
No I do OK salary wise thanks. I just don't think she chosea to spend money on cars. We all have our priorities and cars aren't hers. I think she may plug on with it until it actually stood working.
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Hello everyone
After reading some posts for a while for advice on this subject I wanted to ask for some help choosing a low budget car mostly to make around 40 miles per day to get to work. Im trying the best I can but only can spend near 1000 now, so I know I dont have much choices.... Read more
Might sound great on paper and even look good in the pics but don’t get overconfident, it could be a heap. It still needs carefully looked at with wide open eyes. Just because it’s a good make doesn’t mean it’s a good example.
Volvo S40 SE
RE05 XAH
1.8 Petrol
Engine designation according to manual B4184S11
Vin YV1MS214252102870
Bought car a couple of years ago and started getting "reduced engine performance" on dash readout. Garage determined throttle position sensor faulty and replaced pedal+sensor
Car uses 1/2 a litre of oil per tank of petrol. Drives well 35mpg.
Last week I was on a 200 mile run and stopped off for a break. Reduced engine performance dash warning had been showing for months but I couldnt afford to have it looked at or was ignoring the problem...
Car refused to start. No life from engine and a bunch of dash warnings:
Power steering service required, park assist service required, reduced engine performance, immobilizer see manual, brake failure stop safely... Read more
Another vote for the basics first - battery and charging circuit.
I find it incredible that systems are built to give hundreds of diagnostic codes, however a simple warning on start up that battery voltage is low doesn't feature....
Pub quiz/trivia question: How many British-owned carmakers are left? I make it nine: Ariel, Briggs, Caterham, Ginetta, McLaren, Morgan, Noble, Bristol and TVR (although the latter two aren't making any cars right now). Any I've missed? (I've discounted AC, as the company is registered in St. Kitts - no idea who owns it! - and only makes cars in South Africa and Germany.) Read more
Caterham
Caterham Cars are made in Britain but the company is owned by Tony Fernades and Kamarudin Meradun, both Malaysian nationals.
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No point in getting steamed up about it. The spam doesn't destroy anything - it just clogs the forum up for a bit - that's all. I'm just sorry that Avant has more work to do to get rid of it.
Our good doctor has been a very busy little spammer today, though, hasn't he?