February 2024
I'm wondering what a banger is these days? Twenty or thirty years ago a banger, IMO, would be considered a very rusty, shabby car on its last legs. When advice was asked this week on what someone should replace her Ford Fusion with, someone wrote £2000 was banger money. My C-Max I've just bought for £1890 is pretty well immaculate inside and out (bar some wear to interior door handle inserts and a scuff on the rear bumper), no way is it a banger.
So what is a banger? Sub £2000 cars have served me very well for over 20 years, except the £650 Citroen ZX I bought in a hurry, my fault I didn't check it over properly. Got shot of it within a year. Read more
Hi all, this only started recently, dipped beams dont work, everything else does, mains, fogs, DRLs, sides...
So bulbs are fine?... Read more
Wouldn't an Auris of this age have twin filament H4 bulbs?
Just been rear ended whilst stationary at a roundabout. Guy admitted he wasn't looking forward he was looking left, gave his details bar his insurance company (quick MID check confirmed he is insured) and we both went on our way.
I reported the incident to the police, got the log number and now not sure what to do regarding making a claim as my insurance is due for renewal next month. I've been led to believe this could really bump up my insurance as it would be an ongoing claim during renewal.... Read more
I was once stopped in an outside lane on the motorway and a car back ended me at speed, but the damage to a brand new fiesta was only marks on the bumper, no other damage. £150 sorted. The young lady paid for it rather than me put her through insurance hell.
What a ridiculous statement. If you had been "back ended" at speed when stationery, the Fiesta would have been destroyed and you would have been seriously injured....
Hello people of the world, does anybody have any recollection of this vehicle mk4 1998 fiesta zetec automatic 42,000 miles... just recently purchased as a little project.. just curious to know ? ?? Read more
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Hello all.
We live on a crescent with multiple bends (sounds odd for a crescent I know) and it is fairly narrow with no parking restrictions but has wide pavements, so people park semi on the pavement and it allows both traffic and pedestrians access. The road is also a route taken by parents walking their children to the nearby school.... Read more
You will never get physical presence to enforce. Most police forces now accept videos of bad driving and will send out NIPs if they deem it poor, so dashcam, gopro etc and submit the evidence to them.
Now on my second ford fusion which quite frankly has been nothing but trouble since I bought it,so I'm now looking for something else. The only trouble is I have arthritis and have difficulty getting in and out,which is why the ford fusion is great. I've narrowed it down to a honda jazz,c3 picasso or a Skoda fabia. But I'm wondering if there's a estate that I could get in and out of,cheap to tax and run. Mainly i just go about the town but I need the room for grandkids and the dog. My budget is £2000 it's all I can afford so needs to be cheap to any suggestions? Read more
Thank you
The recent;y announced crack-down on eyesight testing, especially among the elderly (and I count myself as one!) has more than likely been made as a result of the modern trend to fit LED headlights to new cars, and also to retro-fit old ones. Virtually everybody I know, old and young, complains about the dazzle from them. The regulations were written so long ago that LEDs had not reached the brilliance they now have. They might very well obey the regns. as regards the number of Lumens emitted, but they still dazzle, and no doubt accidents have been caused (but of course nothing can be proved...)
And don't get me started on the number of cars, vans, lorries and even buses, with one dead headlight! Being "old school" I always flashed my headlights when a car approached at night with no lights on, and now I increasingly do so to cars with only one. And they are often LED - so much for their vaunted longevity! Read more
Fabia has halogen projectors and they are tat, possibly the worst lights since the 70's....
I have just purchased a brand new MG ZS and the cruise control functionality is inconsistent, when using the lever to accelerate or de accelerate via the one mph increments. Sometimes it misses and you have to activate the lever again, sometimes it doesn’t work at all and sometimes it just jams the whole system up, meaning you have to turn it off and back on again to regain its activity.
The jamming up occurs, during deceleration when the speed reaches a figure that contains a 7 or a 2 in it, very strange and annoying. For example, if you decelerate from 40mph to 35mph using the 1mph increments it will jam at 37mph. If you decelerate from 35mph to 30mph using the 1mph increments, it will jam at 32mph. This happens in the 20’s, 30’s, 40’s, 50’s, 60’s etc…..... Read more
Hi,
I am having the exact same problem. My car has currently been on the garage for over 3 weeks and still they have not sorted it. Have you had yours fixed?
I'm just about to purchase car insurance after my first year of driving.
So just to check I can claim one year's worth of no claims correct, even though technically it has not been a whole year yet if that makes sense? Because obviously by the time I purchase new cover it will be a whole year - as long as I don't need to make a claim until my current insurance ends (13 March)...... Read more
Apparently the premium quoted will often increase as renewals draw closer.
If you wait until the existing policy is about to expire they will assume you are (a in panic buying mode, and (b) disorganised which may be reflected in your driving....
Looking for new slave cylinder to try and eliminate possible problem with notchy clutch pedal. It's quite possible it's not the slave, but it's the easiest/cheapest place to start.
But looking on Autodoc, there are a ton of aftermarket suppliers - some well know brands, many unknown. I doubt very much all of them, possibly none of them, actually manufacture the part. So how do I know which is actually the original brand, so I'm not replacing a possibly perfect original with a possible poor replacement? Parts listed are: Ridex, FTE, Valeo, Sachs, NTY, TRW, Febi, ABS, Samko, Brembo, Delphi, Ferodo, Cifam. Probably only one or two companies actually make the original part, and probably one one or two make all the off brands. Read more
Valeo have been an OEM supplier to PSA for decades, they may even be part of the empire. All the others - no idea.
Other than being French they aren't related.
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