April 2023
Where can I get a market value for insurance purposes for a 1992 Vauxhall Nova 1.2i hatchback with 52,000 miles? There are three Novas for sale on Auto Trader varying from £5k to £7.5k. Are these representative of today's market valuation? Read more
It’s looking we’re coming to the end of the road for the Land Rover brand, it won’t be used in future.
Jaguar Land Rover will officially become JLR, and they’ll sell Jaguar, Defender, Discovery and Range Rover products.
I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone say that they own a Land Rover Range Rover, so that had been a brand of its own for years.
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To be honest I don’t care if stuff goes wrong but as long as it’s sorted without fuss.
Easy to say that if you are driving a car which doesn't break down often. But if you are, and the new car in question cost upwards of £60k, I suspect that attitude would change quite quickly!...
Thinking of something like this:
If ours discovers a hog in the evening it's a nightmare getting him to settle for bed. He almost blows a gasket if he comes face to face with one. We've unfortunately had to stop leaving food out for them which is a shame because they need all the help they can get.
Morning all I would like to know if anyone else has ever come across this issue.Ive got 2006 bauxhall vectra c diesel It recently went into limp mode ,but when my mechanic came out and plugged code check machine in ,some things came up ,obviously, but then he couldn't clear codes again ,tried loads of times, he's s*** hot with.vauxhalls ,but this has left him completely baffled Help please Read more
Not clear if he has actually fixed the problem or is just trying to reset the codes. If fault is permanent then I would doubt if codes will clear.
Just had one of these as a hire car for few days.
The seats are squishy and the engine is pretty good. The SatNav works and infotainment in general is OK, if a little hard to navigate. We had four adults sat in it in comfort and five could fit. Boot was a decent size and shape too.... Read more
Thanks for the information. I should really move with the times. My 2021 Duster has an ignition key, a proper handbrake and old fashioned controls for the heating etc. Oh, and a spare wheel too. A CD player would have been nice.
Aircross has a proper handbrake although, for reasons unknown, it has a kind of t-bar shape with and enormous handle on the end. Presumably for those flippers again.
Speaking to an Australian who was visiting Goodwood Festival he told me that Honda are closing their dealerships in Australia and customers must order on line! Maybe a forerunner of abandoning their presence in that country
Isnt this what Tesla are doing over here.... Read more
“ The other consideration is that what would have been then a wam or hottish hatch if you look to acceleration times and top speeds, can often be found in a mundane hatch these days.
Our 123hp Leon with a 1.4 engine us quicker than an old Golf GTI.”
It’s more the feel than power. Modern cars with their electric steering over hydraulic or unassisted racks have no feel. They’re often overpowered and artificial in feeling with all the electronic trickery such as traction and stability control. Power doesn’t equal fun in my view. I’d sooner take an old Peugeot 306 GTi-6 or Renault Clio 16v down a winding B road than todays 300bhp plus £50k upwards hot hatches. In fact the best fun I’ve had behind the wheel was at the helm of of a Metro 1.4 GTA or Pug 106 XSi back in the day. Foot to the floor fun.
Very much in the news lately is the growing tendency for councils and private parking companies to switch to a non cash system. This has not reached where I live and I was wondering what the forum thinks. It seems the older generation is making the most fuss and a dexterity of thumbs and fingers seems to be required to operate your smart phone as some 100 plus keys going up to as much as 226 need to be pushed. The process from what I read can take ages and there are numerous apps for different parking companies. I just hope Cornwall for my hols is App free or I will be driving in and straight out of its car parks! Read more
Next there'll be a Dispatches type program aired complaining about the destruction of the high street, the disappearance of people with money to spend, they never came back the second national house arrest was cancelled and we're going to ask why.
Is there anyone in charge anywhere in this country from number 1o down with an ounce of grey matter, towns depend on solvent people wishing to visit and spending their money to keep the centres viable.
So, what we'll do is make the roads as difficult to negotiate as possible for cars, we'll charge (fine) people with the wrong cars for daring to approach our town and because people always go shopping and visiting cities with their familes on bicycles we'll narrow the roads off and make cyclists a priority.
We'll plant dozens of signposts to make sure a few hundred stray inadvertantly into a bus lane so we can fine them.
If trhey don't give up and actually arrive at the town in their polluting killer car we'll make it as difficult as possible for the mug, sorry, punter to park and charge them over the odds too once they've fathomed out how to pay the fee, if they happen to need a pee after all this faff we'll charge them for that too if they can find a loo at all....well done Claude have a gong or three, you've made the town as inhospitable as possible, we on the council are behind you all the way.
i could go on but you get the picture, the more unpleasant complicated and frustrating you make an experience the fewer people will comply.
These same people can't understand why Amazon and those huge retail parks where parking is free and where dangerous people generally arn't lurking about have done so well.
Bombshell locally as dealership loses all franchises.
Kia will open with Glyn Hopkin.... Read more
Vx are axing about 40% of outlets IIRC
Peter Vardy closed all their Vx outlets about 2 years ago - 2nd hand only and expanding the Carz Brand....
Came upon this brilliant clip today. Onboard lap (practice presumably) of Le Mans in a GT40 with none other than Stirling Moss providing the commentary, describing the speeds, cornering lines etc. The actual lap footage (from 1968 BTW) starts about 1:55 if you don't want to watch the whole thing, turn the volume up and enjoy! Read more
I went to Le Mans in 1984, the year that Jaguar made their official return with Bob Tullius’ glorious XJR-5’s.
A long time ago, but I do remember an overnight coach from Manchester, then a 24 hour race, then an overnight coach back. The sheer sleep deprivation put me off going back initially, but every June I remember that I must go back one day. But with a bit more comfort this time…
Hello! I have a PD130 engine with 130k miles on it and it seems it's at the age where things need to be fixed. Over the last few months I have noticed excess smoke from the exhaust and a large drop in MPG, especially so when doing anything other than tickling the accelerator. Oddly, when on cruise control at 70 on the motorway, the mpg will sometimes drop into the late 20's, then randomly back into the early 50's. There is also white smoke on tickover from the exhaust and a strong smell of diesel. I've been led to beleive this is most likely worn injectors but what are people's thoughts on this?
Secondly, it has begun using coolant more than it should. It uses a tank over a period of 400 - 500 miles, but there doesn't seem to be any oil in the water or vice versa, and no overheating issues. It's hard to tell if there is any steam from the exhaust due to possible injector fault.... Read more
I dose with 150 ml of 2 stroke oil every tank fill . Supposed to lubricate the moving parts.Interesting - the person who bought my previous 2003 pd100 Superb also started adding two stroke oil. With the pd he said it made it more refined but thinking about it surely it'd help lubricate the electro/ mechanical unit injector pumps of the pd. It can't have done any harm as the engine was still going strong at nearly 300k miles - sadly bad structural rust and a failing DMF meant the end of the road at the last MOT.
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Ebay, but tick the boxes for SOLD and COMPLETED ITEMS.
Then check to see if any have been relisted - a staggering number always get re-listed due to a non paying bidder.