February 2020
No a humdrum vehicle for 65k is an obscenity. The future is therefore going to be exactly like the past. Poor peasants wont be allowed to move off their feudal lords premises, living working and dying a few miles apart. Meanwhile an overclass will swan about in 65k crystal bourgeois mobiles powered by crushed swan beaks. But we'll have saved the planet. Well if that's the future count me out of all this saving malarkey. It ain't worth it.
"The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say...... Read more
I have noticed that the tyre pressure symbol tells me that the tyres need blowing up, I blew up the tyres to the pressure as stated but the symbol stayed on, how do I get it to distinguise. Read more
Went in to menu and found that the tyre pressure was set on High so put it back to low and symbol went out , problem sorted.
Hi.
Last year I bought a 2015 Astra Bi-Turbo 2.0L. Up until a few weeks ago everything was fine but then I took the car into a garage for a service and told them not to move the backrest on the drivers seat as this would cause me massive problems with my back. They moved the seat anyway and ever since my back has been in agony. If I don’t drive the car for a couple of days then my back gets better but then after 2 mins of being in the car again my back blows.
This has been an ongoing issue for a few years but usually once I get the seat back to the preferred position the pain goes away but this time no matter what position I get the seat into the pain will not go away and is just getting worse.
It is definitely the car seat that is doing it as I have driven my partners Clio and the pain is nonexistent.
What I’m wondering is would it be possible to take out the seat and have it replaced with a seat that doesn’t hurt me? Could I fir any sort of seat or would it have to be a certain type for my sort of car?
Thanks for any help you can give me. Read more
Unfortunately swapping seats over in modern cars is not so simple . Electronic airbag and sensor systems make this difficult. The only possible solution would be to fit a seat from a similar year Astra , but from a lesser or better model . That way the electrical system would possibly integrate into the existing circuits.
Hey all,
I'm going to view a Fiat 500 tomorrow, 2013 with 36000 on the clock, apart from obvious checks as tyres, fluid, test drive, brakes etc is there anything else I should look out for and ask about? ... Read more
Read what you will what this means for the standard of car he’ll be pedalling.If he's pedalling it, it must be a pedal-car :-))
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Indeed, but HJ is a consumer information site, cleansed of bias, advertorial and the all-corrupting need to attract big manufacturer advertising, but not complain too hard about their problematic products.....
HJ doesnt fit the Bauer portfolio. HJ doesnt fit a joint ownership of VAG and Daimler men. ...
Cheaper and just as painless to attach a hose to a pre-cat car exhaust (e.g.TR7). I wonder how long this post will last here! Read more
Hi people,
As I've recently joined and benefited from advice here, I just thought I'd get an opinion that may help a friend of mine.... Read more
Cheers I've noted your points. Thanks again for all the help.
When completing the finance form for the order, I was a bit surprised not to be asked for some income details.
Basic questions, Name, address, d.o.b. married ? how long at current address, Bank sort code acc number..... Read more
A credit check is enough, if you can't afford the car it will soon be repossessed.
I can't find any suggestion that routine maintenance should include changing PAS fluid. My Pug 306 is now 25 years old, and I'm sure auto-transmission fluid (the same stuff) would have been replaced during that time. I doubt that will have happened to this car, though it has been properly serviced. Of course PAS fluid doesn't get hot during use, so any suggestions ? . Read more
I can't understand why it would drain out when removing a drive shaft?...
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