May 2023
I've recently come across this product and wondered what the knowledgeable panel thinks. The reviews are all excellent and as it's so easy to apply I have thought about doing the underneath of my old car, especially along the sills and subframe. Now is the time of year to do it. Although it seems quite pricey, a 2L bottle should do two average sized cars. I still have some Waxoyl in the garage but I find it a messy product to use.
Just a curious question here but what’s everyone’s thoughts on which Petrol cars or engines are the most reliable? Which ones have the least amount of larger issues? All cars have to be maintained and have wear and tear items changed but it would be good to get peoples opinions on the ones that are more bullet proof. Speaking from your own experiences. Anything from like 2012 onwards really.
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in the modern era, maybe the Toyota 5.7 v8 petrol?
Surprisingly I spotted a Toyota Tundra 5.7 V8 in our local supermarket car park, with an
LPG conversion, imported from a specialist dealer in the Netherlands. ...
I have a 2016 VW Passat with Sat Nav. (Discover or Discover Pro)
Along with the navigation it has a TMC system providing traffic information.... Read more
RE Some success - follow this thread already mentioned above ignoring a hijack on a different subject :- www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/512443-tmc-traffic-e.../
For the past 18 months i've been monitoring the DPF in my Kia Sportage 2017, 1.7 diesel with an OBD plug in and Car Scanner pro on i phone. The car has done 27k miles. Virtually every regen it's performed has been after 160 - 170 miles when the soot level reaches 15 to 16 grams. I give it a 10 mile or so run and the soot falls gradually to zero. On the last 3 occasions it's regenerated a lot earlier after 70 to 80 miles before the soot level reaches 15 to 16 grams. Yesterday after a journey of 30 miles the soot level went from 2 grams to 14. Any ideas what's causing this? The engine runs fine but i did notice that in the 30 mile journey on the motorway the fuel consumption was about 5 mpg lower than normal. Read more
Emission readings were getting high on my Landcruiser at MOT time, checked the EGR and sure enough its choked up with soot.
Luckily the engine is designed and laid out to be worked on so i whipped the thing off and cleaned it and the entrance to the inlet manifold out, flies through the MOT now and definately running better for having a full bore clean inlet....
Hi everyone, the heading says it all really....... Does the Peugeot 107 urban 2012 have a timing belt or chain? Read more
Thanks very much for that elekie
Hi everyone, would be so grateful if someone could help me out with this please. I'm in the process of buying a Peugeot 3008 1.2 puretech petrol on a "17" plate with fsh. After checking previous mot's there were 2 fails. I'm not sure if I'm allowed but here's the link to the government mot report.... www.check-mot.service.gov.uk/results?registration=...f Read more
Not a car I’d personally buy. There’s too many cases of engine issues with these and many rival manufacturers small capacity turbocharged motors - VW’s belt driven 1.4 TSi’s are good news though, but they do suffer other issues as they age.. I’d be looking at a Mazda 3/6 2.0 skyactiv petrol, a Toyota Auris or a previous gen Honda Civic 1.8 or HRV 1.5. These have no inherent reliability worries and they’re an easy sell when you’re done with them.
The time has come when I have to start thinking about the replacement for the current car. Being recently retired and having all the family spread around the country, most of my driving is on motorways and fast A roads with very little town driving. My shortest journey is a 150 mile round trip down the M6 and M55 to the closest family. My current Mazda CX-30 will happily do 55 mpg on these trips without me trying too hard.
Obviously, many of the possible replacements are hybrids. However, my concern is that most hybrids don't seem to return particularly good mpg figures for my kind of driving. Am I right in saying that for my driving habits, a hybrid is not probably not ideal?... Read more
That's OK. Not doing anything for a while. Got a busy few months coming up so will probably wait until the autumn before seriously looking at my options. Thanks for the heads up anyway.
Hi, I am looking at changing my car to a 2019 Kia Need 1.6 diesel engine, the model looks to have excellent mpg and seems reasonably priced for a roomy family hatchback. I am looking at this model as I am hoping to start a family soon so need a bigger a car to accommodate our things. We also have family that live around the UK so the choice of diesel would be more economical for the miles we will be getting in.
I just wanted any opinions on that particular car if anyone on this forums owns or has owned one?, is the MPG as good as Kia makes out? what are the common faults if there is any? how have people found the drive? would be interested to know some thoughts?... Read more
DPF equipped diesels are ok if you are aware of how they function. I have a Kia Sportage 1.7crdi and knew about the issues when i bought it nearly 4 years ago. It doesn't matter whether the car does mainly short journeys as long as you know when a regen is taking place. The problems arise when the engine is stopped during a regen so its not allowed to complete it. I have the app Car Scanner on my i phone connected to a plug in OBD2 reader. Car scanner shows the soot level in the DPF and the miles since the last regen. When the soot level reaches 15g to 16 grams the regen starts and this is usually about every 160 miles. The soot level doesn't seem to accumulate any faster whether the car is driven on local runs or a fast one. Car scanner also indicates the regen is taking place because the exhaust temperature rises to 700c. A run of about 12 miles clears the soot to zero and then i know it's another 160 miles until the next one. Sound a faff monitoring this but petrol Sportages aren't known for being particularly economical. When posters say that diesels are more suited to higher mileages is probably true to a certain extent only because the chances of completed regens are more likely.
The soot should accumulate faster if you predominantly do short runs from cold rather than longer runs, because you get far more complete combustion on the latter....
I’m currently running a Renault Austral, ahead of its launch in the UK later this summer.
Only had it a couple of days, but probably done 300 miles so far.
It’s the replacement for the Kadjar, in that it’s a C segment SUV, with a 1.2 ICE linked to a full hybrid system.
This one, to give it its full name is a Renault Austral E-Tech Iconic Esprit Alpine.
So far, it’s quiet and comfortable, has 200ps and is doing c50mpg with a mixture of motorway and extra urban driving.
It’s continuing Renault’s adoption of Android Automotive, so you just treat the centre screen as s tablet and give it voice commands after saying ‘Hey, Google’.
Lots of toys to play with and updates to follow if anyone’s interested. Read more
If you’re on Facebook, there’s a dedicated Austral group.
I haven’t posted here for a while, but am suitably irked today to start a new thread.
My wife’s Yaris was in for its three year service and MOT last week at our local main dealer. We told them it had a problem with the tyre pressure warning light, which was refusing to go out after a recent puncture, and we’d hoped they would sort it. Tyre pressures were all fine. ... Read more
again toyota dealership seems to come good.
but tpms is going to be pain as the miles roll up
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