October 2019
I recently had the turbo on my Discovery Sport 180 Ingenium diesel replaced as it failed, the garage charged me for removing the DPF to do the work. My warranty company days that wasn't necessary and wont pay all of my warranty claim. Who is correct please? Does the DPF need to be removed to change the turbo? Read more
Futureproofing: Any decent insurer will simply transfer your husbands bonus over to you upon his passing as you were a driver under the policy. No need to start again. Read more
Foot parking brakes are generally at a different height from the foot brake. I never had any confusion. So are brakes pedals on many automatics. I've never had any confustion right foot braking. Maybe I should report myself to the police as a potnetial killer/suicide candidate...D'oh! Once again, in a manual, you use the clutch and accelerator to control speed when parking and \ or reversing. This is called 'clutch control' and requires TWO feet. When parking an auto, you're a complete idiot if you try and control your speed when similarly parking and \ or reversing, by solely using your right foot. Use TWO feet, this time using the left foot to control speed via the brake.
Once you have mastered this, it then becomes 2nd nature to use LFB when driving 'normally.' Frankly, I wouldn't get in an auto if the driver only ever uses their right foot....
Porsche Alloys:
If the car was advertised with the 18" alloys and you were happy to go ahead with the purchase and spent three happy years with the car then what's the problem? If you want an extra £4000 because the car didn't have 20" alloys when you bought it, all the garage needs to say is if the car came with 20" alloys, the purchase price would have been £4000 more than you paid.... Read more
The Porsche issue, do main dealers give way above average part exchange prices. As if they are offering more than it's worth elsewhere the £4k difference will never be recouped anyway off anybody (assuming it's even true). Buy a Mazda MX5 Roadster.
Interesting (and ill informed) policy, this article by fleet news suggests that a switch to petrol vehicles may not deliver the desired long term air quality improvements, as some of the latest diesel cars tested actually produce lower Nox emissions than their petrol counterparts.... (in addition to the lower carbon dioxide emissions that has always been their benefit)
www.fleetnews.co.uk/news/environment/2018/06/22/ne...s
Note the Mercedes they tested producing 15mg of Nox per km vs the petrol car average of 36mg/km
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So what happens when the M5 is blocked by an accident and you get redirected through Bristol? How will they know the extra traffic didn't want to go through their clean air zone? Why are they going to charge HGV's and not buses (which are also diesels)? As usual woolly headed ideas with no foundation in reality
Why Black cab taxis are exempt dont pay
ulez charge rest of us are force to pay. black cab pay car insurance road tax but not ulez is tfl serious about pollution
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With those corrugated panels it looks more Nissen than Toyota... Read more
Yes, that's HubNut (Ian Seabrook). I've watched quite a few of his Youtube pieces. He buys old bangers, drives them for a time, reports on them and sells them on, but he's restored, and hung on to, a 2CV and an Invacar. He borrows unusual or rare old cars and does a road test on them - worth watching.
Also because he has a following on Youtube, he gets to test new cars as well sometimes. He did a very instructive piece on a Jaguar I-Pace: a lovely car to drive, but the charging infrastructure was completely hopeless on a 400-mile round trip....
I have a fan noise coming from underneath the drivers seat area underneath the car the noise just does tend to stop after a while as if it’s been controlled by thermostat or something and sometimes smoke is a omitted from the side of the vehicle somebody else suggested it could be a ERV valve.What is this and what is its purpose Read more
This will be the Webasto auxiliary heater unit . It uses the diesel fuel to heat the coolant more quickly to improve interior heating performance. Fitted to many large Diesel engined cars .
Hi all,
I've just signed up to the forums and looking for some advice from you all, I have 10k to spend on a car and I'm not sure what i want.... Read more
So reading this I should really go test drive a 308..........
May be someone can help... as on the look out for a replacement car.
I was on holiday in Spain and I got a free upgrade to a BMW 1 series. I was over the moon, as it was my first time in a BMW.
I noticed the suspension was hard when going on say a bump at slow speed, but one thing which impressed me was that when driving on long journeys, I did not feel tired. I think that is down to small amount vibrations which end up into the steering feel and into the body. I don't know if people understand what I mean or can explain it to me. Even on cornering on mountain roads, it was a spoil sport, as it did not fling me left to right. It was very poised. ... Read more
The comfort and handling balance on BMW's, like most 'premium' cars, is very dependent on wheel/tyre size, and suspension setup. You could test drive another one here and find it awful because it had bigger wheels/lower profile tyres, and stiffer suspension. Also, run-flat tyres have a reputation for having a ride which is very hard and unforgiving. Finally, as someone who reads a lot of car magazines, it would seem to be the case that the quality of road surface in Spain is far, far better than this country. So even if the car you test drive here was exactly the same spec as the one you tried in Spain, you may well be much less impressed with it on our battle scarred British roads!.
Another thing, and this may or may not be relevent, but the new (i believe, iminent) 1 series will be based on a 'fwd' platform shared (i think) with the current X1 and Mini Countryman. What this means is that it will have much more interior space for its size, so depending on how short on space you found the car you tried, the new one may be fine. I read a review on a high spec (4wd) version in a magazine and they were absolutely raving about its road manners (though motoring magazines do tend to wax lyrical about pretty much any German car!).
My daughter wants to take her car from its current address in Orpington (BR6) to her weekday address in Edgbaston (B16). I suspect it'll end up moving back-and-forth between the two addresses.
Are there any guidelines on how quickly you should inform the insurance company (i.e. when does the status change from visiting to being the new permanent address)? And are there any rules on how to handle two addresses when a car spends time at both?... Read more
Log on to the insurance company website and get a quote for each of the two addresses. If the new address will be cheaper then email the insurance company and tell them that the new address is your primary residence but that you also stay at the other address regularly. If the new address is dearer tell that is the primary residence but you also use the other address sometimes. It is up to you to decide which is your primary residence and the amount of time you spend at each may vary from month to month or week to week. It doesn't depend on where you spend the most time. If that were the case then oil rig workers would be resident in the North Sea.
If she owns one or both of the premises then there may also be capital gains implications depending on which she decides is the primary residence. To bolster up the claim of one residence being primary she can make sure she is on the voter roll there, get her car tax and driving licence at that address and do all income tax correspondence from that residence. If home ownership is involved it can have big financial implications so be sure to think it out carefully.
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Perhaps you should ask an LR main dealer. I’m not sure, but the turbo is bolted to the dpf, so presume it may need to moved for access.