May 2021
Hi everyone
I was recently involved in an accident which was my fault and the police have offerfed me a drivers awareness course to take instead of incurring points. My question is will this affect my car insurance?... Read more
Just wondering what people's thought are?
Any pros cons?... Read more
The Triumph Herald and Vitesse had frameless windows. Maybe that was a cost saving idea because the doors were the same as for the convertible versions which were quite popular.
Just got a 2.0 Touran around Christmas and it's had problems with the 'engine management system' and 'catalytic converter' ever since we got it. Practically it means the engine depowers and I drop to half speed if I'm lucky, sometimes I'm at 15 mph max with my foot to the floor trying to get the kids to school.
Our old garage (very experienced guy) said the only way round it was to always buy premium diesel. We've been doing that the last 3 months, but that's not fixed it.... Read more
Yes, well Rudolf did design the compression ignition engine for vegetable oil in the first place.
My mother aged 98 plus lived in Scotland and took local cabs everywhere. They bought vegetable oil from Tesco. Illegal of course, but nobody seemed to mind....
My nissan x trail, 2015 model, has done 100k miles and more recently, its developed a squeak, which is more audible, when driving at a speed under 15 miles. The sound happens after driving for say a distance of 5 miles and it's like a loud squeak, almost as though, when the wheel is going round, its catching onto something. My local Nissan initially advised changing the brakes, but the sound has remained and they just told me, they don't know where its coming from, even though I have taken them on a test drive and they heard the sound. I have attached youtube link, in the hope that someone on here might have an idea of what this is. Nissan have advised they have checked the car and all is good, but they can't figure out where its coming from,which is disappointing. ... Read more
Maybe a very little air bubble in your caliper (or behind the dust boot) expanding and pushing your brake pads out.
If it was a lot of air it would make your brake pedal spongy.
Ahuge section of a Chinese Long March 5B rocket is falling back to Earth and debris may land sometime Saturday evening or later — if the rocket doesn't burn up on the way down.
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Apparently it came down about one degree (fifty miles) west of the Maldives.
Lucky them. Rather reckless of the Chinese, as usual (remember them deliberately firing at a satellite of theirs - not sure if that was to test some missile system or to artificially bring it down, but either way it created loads more debris in orbit and, indirectly, money for Hollywood).
Sad to hear that a man who did so much to revive MG motors in the UK has passed away.
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With he advent of EVs only being on sale new from 2030 I thought how Diesel engines have improved in the emissions department. My current car has the cat and add blue and must surely be much cleaner than diesels in the past. Science is advancing all the time and maybe other technologies would develop to enable ice cars to become even cleaner. Read more
<< In your opinion. And I didn't deliberately leave out 'can'. >>
Must have done it accidentally then :-)...
The current Rover 75 K series engine debate on another thread got me thinking more widely.
My recollection was that initially the K series was lauded and the envy of other manufacturers for its design and performance. Now it’s heavily criticised.... Read more
Has there ever been any engines to match the long life of the VW PD , Peugeot XUD , Isuzu Diesel, Zetec ?
Maybe these were the heyday of long lived engines which we may never see again ?...
hi everyone. i have used a multi meter to read the ohms on my glow plugs.
3 glow plugs are 1.3 ohms... Read more
1.3 ohms is about right . Looks like you have one glow plug in trouble. This is enough to bring the mil light on .
Hello, I will need to buy a new van soon for work, I live on the outskirts of London and drive locally most of the time, mostly driving for 20 minute stints. What I cannot seem to get my head around is that most tradesman where I live, motor factor delivery drivers, and others, mostly drive newer diesel vans; I see alot of them on the road. Ive asked a few people if they have had issues with their DPF's when most of the round town driving is below 40mph with alot of stop/start driving due to traffic; most of them say no their vans are fine but need to blast em now and again, So what exactly is the deal with DPF's with small vans now. I'm looking at the PSA group offerings from Peueot/Vauxhall/Citroen/Toyota, but keep asking myself if its a better idea to buy a petrol; rather than the diesel; thing is the petrol is about 3K more expensive. Does anyone have a new PSA small van and use it the majority of time around town, if so have you had DPF issues ? My dialema is not helped by the fact that Toyota has recently released its small Proace "City" van (which is diesel) and its obviously marketed for City driving. Do the DPF's in these vans do an auto regen when it needs to even when not driving over 50mph ?? Theres alot of conflicting advice out there !! Read more
I now understand white van man driving style - they are simply regenerating the DPF.
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