May 2022
Hi, looking for a new car.. An Estate type but petrol due to the low mileage i do daily (so the petrol takes away alot of the selection).. i like the look of the Kia Proceed budget up tp around £18k.
The Kia is only a 1.4L engine, is this engine big enough for the size of car? and also would the car be okay to tow small camping tralier now & again?
Any other suggestions / advice on car model.
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Just done an oil change of my Kia Sportage 1.7 diesel. Capacity is 5.3 litres and i've put 5 litres of Castrol edge 5w30 C3 in so need a bit more. Probably get called a tight a**e but i've got half a litre of Castrol Magnatec 5w30 C3 left over from something else. Should be okay using it bearing in mind a litre bottle of Edge is nearly £13? Read more
I wouldn't personally worry much about doing this, but I wouldn't advise anyone to do it, because there is the possibility of unexpected interactions.
The cases I've heard of involve a change in extreme cold weather performance due to interactions between the viscosity modifiers, gelling the oil and damaging engines....
I've finally bought the car that I have always wanted.
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Artill, you can actually raise the front of the squab with a rotating knob on the side of it.
The seats aren't particularly supportive otherwise and you feel as though you sit on top of the car ...
I purchased my tiguan back in Sept 21 with 30k on the clock and it was only 3 years old.
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Heres a famously irritating American on coolant system leak detection.
He reminds me of the first Mechanic I ever worked under as an apprentice, similar voice and attitude ...
Hi - this is on a Mazda2, just bought from Cazoo, 2015 90ps manual 44k miles 1 owner FSH and apparently in pretty good nick...
...apart from when I pull away forwards from my parking space, which is on a significant incline. I haven't done this too many times yet, but most of the times I have, there's a brief but significant judder before the clutch fully engages. I haven't experienced it when pulling away at other times albeit on relatively flat road.... Read more
Well I think I've fixed it. Chap I sit next to at work (in the office - we don't co-habit) used to race motorbikes and is pretty mechanically minded. He suggested just slipping the clutch in 2nd or 3rd gear to smooth off any uneven wear that might be causing the judder.
And that seems to have done the trick. It's still booked into the Cazoo service centre though, as I've discovered that the speaker in the driver's door keeps cutting out, and the driver's door (electric) mirror is loose and unaffected by its controls....
It is reported again today about the long wait for driving tests in some areas bookings into next year.
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where this report state . i can't get a test till next year. . i have to wiat ten months . is just plain wrong. the booking system stops at 24 weeks period
We are in Belgium currently. Crossed Dover to Calais this morning.
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To add to saturdays comment,
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Looking to buy a used 2011 honda civic. Hpi check is clear, but it has a gouge in the front bumper just over an inch ling and maybe 1/2 of inch deepe. It looks like it may have cut into the impact bar behing the bumper.
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Bumpers used to be for...like...bumping.
Dunno what they are for now....
I noticed yesterday the fuel prices at my local Shell station were 173.9 and 184.9, but today they had gone up even higher to 175.9 and 186.9. It looks like the energy companies are trying to pass on the windfall tax to the consumers, rather than their share holders, what a surprise! (not).
The new windfall tax has been introduced to take attention away from partygate. Of course the oil companies won't pay it, we all will.
I think that may be a little cynical. Rishi's handouts go straight to consumers' power accounts, which may persuade them to spend to keep the economy ticking a bit. Meanwhile those companies pay (some of) it back to the govt. It just helps money to circulate....
My wife and I spend most of the year outside the UK. One of the delights of visiting the UK for me (along with meeting family and friends) is seeing imperial measurements being used - pints in pubs, miles on signs and phrases such as 'miles per gallon'. My cars in Thailand and Spain both display fuel economy as 'km per litre' - but I always convert to mpg. Ditto distances and speeds I mentally convert to Imperial. I have seen on British news media that Boris is going to allow the use of imperial measurements in shops and possibly re-introduce pounds shillings and pence. This monetary system existed for 300 years and is based on principles going back at least a millenium. Imperial measurements and money are part of Britain's identity and heritage. The EU seemed to think that British people couldn't handle two measurement systems and demanded 'decimalisation' - I still remember my grandmother struggling with 'New Pence'. Now that Britain is free of the EU I think a return to the use of Imperial measurements would be a fitting reminder to future generations of British independence. Read more
Aargh ... so a floz is not a floz. Now you will be saying there are different litres depending on which country.
Does it, with ancilliaries, completely fill the engine compartment, so that all routine maintenance tasks require it to be removed?
If the answer is YES, then it meets current standards, and so must be considered big enough....