October 2023
Hi,
I hope someone does have the answer to this, my Duster is making a very strange sound on a cold morning just like the one in the video Link below,it does disappear after a minute or two but it's not normal and I'm worried of not becoming something more serious,been to a dealership and couldn't find the issue, 2 hours of manual labor and investigation cand be very expensive and can't afford to go again and still the issue not being fixed, did anyone had the same issue and managed to fix it?... Read more
Apologies if this topic's been discussed before
A colleague who lives in Belfast has a 3 year old company car with NI plates – but the registered keeper (the company) is in England.... Read more
He took a day trip to Scotland and his vehicle now has its MoT – so all's well.
Thank you for all the comment and advice.
Well i have finally decided on a car to replace my trusty Astra. 2022 Skoda Scala 1.0 SE. I thought i would have something different. I looked a Astras and Focus, but the Scala caught my eye. And i had a newer Scala from a Skoda Dealer for a better price than an Astra or Focus.
I am waiting for the call for me to collect it. Exciting times Read more
Its the higher powered engine, i would not buy the 94bhp version.
I wouldn't have dismissed it myself without trying it first....
Following the last 1971 conflict petrol prices shot up. What will happen now?
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Israel (land) over the last 120 years has been controlled by the Ottomans (Turkey), the British, Egypt, Jordan, Palestinians (West Bank) and now Israel. Going back further adds no clarity with control by Greece (ancient) Roman, Assyrians +++.
Borders agreed by the UN in 1947 provided for a 2 state solution, and was undermined by the civil war in 1948. Israel borders with Jordan and Egypt have now been agreed, those with Lebanon, Syria, have not been ratified. ...
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Latest EV thread:... Read more
Neighbour has a new car, Brand new 73 plate MG ZS
£15,500 all in
An absolute bargain compared to similar size vehicles especially when you consider the warranty.
Not the best to drive, not the best mpg, not the best built, but perfectly adequate vehicle with a few gadgets and lots of space.
That is a competitive price , no wonder they sell so many.
Dacia duster has a rival. Read more
Compatible brake pads seem readily available for the MG ZS from quite a few places even if ECP can't oblige?
Growing up in the late 70s/early 80s, I recall both of my parents petrol cars needing a replacement exhaust, or at least the back box on a fairly regular basis.
I’ve owned cars for 30 odd years now and in that time, I’ve replaced one exhaust pipe on a Japanese import Nissan Figaro that we’ve had for 18 years. Have had both petrol and diesel cars (pre DPF, with a nice lining of soot in the exhaust and with DPFs) and in perhaps 350,000 miles over that 30 odd years, aside from one exhaust for the Figaro, I’ve never replaced any exhaust components, even on cars that I’ve run for longer than 10 years.
Are exhausts just made from more durable metal now, or do more stringent emissions regulations and the phasing out of leaded petrol mean that the gases passing through the exhaust are less corrosive? Read more
The latter, as the apostrophe is before the s
I think, although it's a long time since I did that sort of thing at school....
I have a Mocca SE Turbo 1400cc petrol automatic with a engine warning light on, after diagnostics from the garage I was told to use super unleaded, after filling up the warning light came on again has anybody else had this problem. Read more
Its like going to the doctor with chest pains and him saying "ah, its probably the coffee you drink - start having decaf"
If you think THAT is an example of bad medical advice, you clearly havn't had any....
I wonder if the driver read the manual or assumed everything was the same as his old ICE cars.
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There are errors of commission (usually obvious) and omission (often not so obvious). I sometimes wonder if one of the biggest political errors the UK made was not to convert to LHD like Sweden did when I was a teenager. At that time the UK still had an important car and truck industry. Now, apart from the relatively unimportant high end market, it struggles. Anyone who travels abroad will realise what little choice there is in the UK as so many manufacturers just don't bother with RHD versions of some models, and in turn we seem now to export relatively few LHD vehicles compared to other LHD countries with a well developed vehicle manufacturing base. Read more
Standardisation of steering wheel side and traffic side could potentially have been done on a much larger scale following the 1926 Paris Convention, when most countries chose LHD/RH traffic, largely owing to USA-led mass car production and a desire to "standardise". This desire was not felt in countries with an imperialist history (UK, Japan and, in pre-Napoleonic times, the Netherlands and Portugal), hence the plethora of former colonies which continue to drive on the left. Parts of the collapsed Austro Hungarian Empire (including Yugoslavia) continued to drive on the left until WW2
Over the centuries, common (and economic) sense led to the move to the right - or fully to the right! - in territories with land borders (Canada, Gibraltar, Sweden, Poland, Spain), although post-independence nationalism may have played a part in many cases (Gambia, Ghana, Nigeria, Bahrain.)
Foreign "imports" or anything less common or requiring adaptation is inevitably going to cost a bit more one way or another, but if the whole world had miraculously decided to drive on the same side a century ago this would have undoubtedly evened the playing field.
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Some Premium Diesel / Redex additive and give the car a run + a bit of an Italian tune up after it is fully warmed up.
I run my car of Premium all the time, a son fills up with premium every 3 /4 tfill ups....