February 2020
Afternoon all,
I'm presently in the market for a new car as my current is unreliable and too costly to repair. I do minimal driving during the week - perhaps 5/6 round trips of less than 10 miles (food shop, gym), but do a monthly drive between Liverpool and Bristol (round trip of approx. 360 miles).... Read more
Morning all, I have to replace the battery in my Tom Tom Toyota Eclipse II (AVN45429) Sat Nav. No problem removing the old battery, it's 3.7v 1320mAh Li Polymer but the only replacement I can find (so far) is 3.7v 1200mAh. Any views on whether this will do the job? Thanks... Read more
Thanks for that, much better than the 1200mAh I found.
Can anyone tell me if my car has a relay for the cooling fan and if so were it is located. I'm having a problem with my fan coming on randomly and the relay is something I've not yet checked.
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Thank you. Thats saved me some time and 1 more thing ticked off my things to check.
Not a chance. I wouldn't want to be inside this tiny thing if it was involved in an accident, and I'd love to know how it has a storage capacity of 1100L for deliveries - where's the 'delivery person' going to sit? Packages don't deliver themselves, and what's to stop someone stealing all the other packages if it opens up by your front door? Read more
Speaking with a Car Salesman at the weekend, I was advised that in future I would need to organise my driving to suit the whereabouts of electric power points round the country if I wanted to recharge,
He'd best be looking for another job then, because a heck of a lot of us are going to keep running our existing petrol/Diesel/hybrid cars for as long as possible, and some of will use the passing of or complete banning of ICE vehicles to give up driving completely, which will be great for the climate (if you are a believer) but leaving those driving what they are told to make up the tax shortfall.
Hello everyone,
The fuel gauge of my Vauxhall Astra H 1.6 is reading empty even though it is half full.
Yesterday I had to take my battery out and charge it (Bad connections on stereo I suspect, I usually take my stereo out when I turn the car off, but the past few days i've left it in and now the battery is dead, not the first time it's happened).
When I put the battery back, the car works but I noticed the fuel gauge all of a sudden is stuck on 0 and the Low Fuel light is flashing. I'm not sure whether this is a mechanical problem with the fuel tank or an electrical one with the signal not being transmitted.
I've not done any diagnostics on it yet and i'm hoping it's a cheap fix lol
Thanks lad that worked! Life saver
I'm shortlisting at the moment - my current car is a Fiat Pand 4x4 fitted with all Continental season tyres - I went to have a look at used SEAT Arona (19 plate) with 14k on the clock, I tested the tyre depth and these were showing just under 5mm left on the (summer) Hankooks. I have around 35k on the Panda with the original tyres on the front and approx 4mm left. In particular, do any other Arona owners find this the 'norm' ? Thanks Read more
You are comparing apples and pears - all weather v summer tyres. My all weather tyres last 40,000, summer tyres not much more than 20,000.
You also don't know how it was driven or those 14,000 miles and if they are even the original tyres - they may have done 8,000 and the new tyres are a second set. They may have been rotated etc etc...
Who says it's all wasted? It may be that many people's existing insurer gives the best value for money in the eyes of the policy holder, which is patently NOT the same as a policy being the cheapest.
Sounds more like a sales pitch for MoneySuperMarket to me. Read more
You can see why the govt of the day regards the motoring public as a cash cow, if they have so much money to spare investigating renewal values is too much bother the govt will soon relieve them of it.
Always interesting Mark. Thank You. Read more
You're very welcome. Thanks.
Now that we're heading inexorably towards a world of automatic hybrid/electric propulsion and within a few years manual gearboxes will be a distant memory...
Without wanting to get into the left-foot braking debate, if you could choose one foot-operated car gadget to give the soon-to-be idle left foot something to do, what would it be?
A 70s Ford wash/wipe? A dipswitch? Maybe a blood curdling get-out-of-the-way horn? A harpoon, perhaps?
My reason for asking is that there are so many bamboozling multifunction touchscreens around nowadays that it may be time to look at alternative locations for commonly needed controls, and a foot control can be just as good as a hand, as any church organist will confirm. Read more
A dip switch definitely. After 50 years of motoring.
Coming over a tight bendy crest and needing to go to main or dip fast, I'd rather not let go of the steering wheel . ...
Hello,
looking at an advert for subaru boxer and declared to sound a bit agricultural, also claim this is normal with the boxter but louder on this one.... Read more
Loads of Subaru Diesels for sale with wrecked engines, can't give them away, crank issues, nil points Subaru.
I don't think this op is looking for cars from himself to own or run, almost all posts are about specific faults on a variety of vehicles.
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A few more locally at less money.
I just found a great car on Auto Trader:
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I just found a great car on Auto Trader:
www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/20200127661...3