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• 205 Knocking from Front 20 May 2003 (Forum)
  (I am fairly sure it is not the CVs as it is not a 'click', and does not happen on full lock. I took it to the garage this morning, and they have replaced the N/S front Roll bar Drop link and the OF Front Strut top mount. They also gave me an advisory that the front engine mount is worn, but not badly enough to warrant replacement. After the repair, the knocking is better on left turns, but now is there under hard acceleration, even when going straight.
• Am I Victor Meldrew? 2 Apr 2003 (Forum)
  I would have spoken to him about it but SWMBO thinks it is better to leave it rather than risk upsetting the neighbours who are easily upset. I know I am being territorial, but I would never consider parking on someone else?s drive. Am I a git? Jon
• vw with idle and decelerating problems 20 Mar 2003 (Forum)
  I have just purchased an approved used vw bora 1.6 S (registered in 2000). It seems to have a regular miss when idling (that is noticable inside the car) and also I it is impossible to get the car to decelerate smoothly. When the car is in neutral if I increase the revs to 2200 and then try to ease off to 1800 the revs just drop to idle and the accelerator pedal is pulled away from my foot!
• First time buyer-how can i make a best 3 Mar 2003 (Forum)
  Hi, I've just passed driving test at the third attempt( oh my god!) and thinking of buying my first car. The car I have in mind is new Nissan Micra S 1.2L 5dr automatic ( list price is £9395) The standard options are: PAS, ABS, front e/w, immobiliser, remote locking, radio/cd player. As I have no experience in bargaining with a dealer, I would like some advice as to how much discount I should be aiming at realistically; and what figure I should start off with as an opening offer?
• Good car 24 Feb 2003 (Forum)
  I am new here, and female too, but do need some good advice, not bothered in the least by street cred, but am looking for another car S/H, between 6-8k, now looked in the car by car breakdown over the Civic, but it says it is not a galvanised body so it has turned me off a bit, the other car is the Nissan Almera, one thing i have learnt on this site, buy Japanese so i have listened to you.Not in a rush though, like my Ford Fiesta zerec, well how it drives but quality is crap and it was a friday afternoon car too, its cost me a bomb and Fords main dealer cannot/will not fix my raining in so i just want to change my car and let one if the kids have this one as a runaround, i do about 25-30 thousand a year.
• Nissan QX don't go 3 Feb 2003 (Forum)
  RAC guy says this is a common fault with Nissans if it’s a bit cold and you start the car for a short time the management system falls when you come to start it again. He had been to a guy with a Rover 25 earlier that day with the same problem as all Rover 25’s are prone to the same problem. Does this make sense to anyone, is it true and what goes wrong. Is it the choke (electronic) that latches on and floods the car or what. ? Regards Peter
• Talking of Torque...... 18 Jan 2003 (Forum)
  (Apart from loads of empty space in the engine bay) If the answers' VIRTUALLY NONE, then why do the likes of Toyota, Nissan etc. still keep putting huge diesels with relatively low power/torque in their larger 4X4's when, in theory at least they could fit a much smaller unit with the same output? Chad.R
• BCA: Moving cars with forklifts ! ? 13 Nov 2002 (Forum)
  It must damage exhausts and other pipe work underneath the car.On one car in particular the side skirting was flexing so much it must have been close to snapping (it may explain why i often see 156's with cracked sideskirts at auctions....?). Maybe i'm over reacting but it seems a daft way to move perfectly driveable cars. I will be taking a closer look underneath future potential purchases at auctions.
• load restraint for Focus estate 4 Nov 2002 (Forum)
  Alternatively has anyone used one of the tubular metal things from Argos or Index? They are meant for keeping dog(s) in the back of the car but I guess they should work OK with a few sacks of leaves and the like. Thanks in advance. Floyd
• Why are Japanese cars more reliable? 3 Nov 2002 (Forum)
  ...better component design? ........what? Or, on the other hand is this just a "modern myth", perpetuated since the 70's, when you could argue that all of the above factors, were in indeed true? Now, I know that there are going to be backroomers with very reliable non-jap cars (myself included), also very unreliable jap cars, who may not necessarily agree with this theory.
• Passat 20VT 1 Nov 2002 (Forum)
  I currently have a TT so I know all about the engine, which is a cracker once you get used to the lag. There seems to be SE, Sport and S versions, anyone know the differences? and which would you recommend. How many miles do you think the 20VT will remain tight for? I am guessing 140-150K? I know the Mody is cheaper but I feel the Passat will be easier to sell on.
• Pet names for cars 18 Aug 2002 (Forum)
  Come on, own up. What affectionate or hurtful name(s) do you call your car and the reason? Me, well here goes. Shed. Austin Allegro. Reason:- it was one. Goldie. Mk1 Astra EXP. Reason:- Colour 2 tone black & gold. Wolf. Mk2 Cavalier. Reason:- Wolf in sheeps clothing.
• getting finer injection spray 12 May 2002 (Forum)
  I might be doing myself out of a potential patent application here, but what do you think of this idea. Vibration is used to speed up certain processes, in fact it has it`s own name of sonochemistry. Now ever higher injection pressures are used to obtain better combustion more power and lower emissions, eg diesel engines with common rail and unit injector pumpe duse technology.
• Alas, no Requiem for Ronald 4 Mar 2002 (Forum)
  Unfortunately twenty quid cracked it, so there will be lots more of what step-d calls teething problems with Ronald for you good guys to solve. Thanks again for all your help. Colin S
• 'Over drive 'v' 5 or 6 speed boxes 27 Feb 2002 (Forum)
  At what point does the number of gears cause more problems, do cars really need 6 speed boxes ? I know that HGVs have 8 or 16 speeds, but that?s for the heavy loads that they carry. Thanks again. Alex
• Early Rover 214 injection 22 Feb 2002 (Forum)
  Can anyone please advise, firstly which injection system this is (Rover-Honda?) and secondly of any good tune up agent or garage near S Bucks which would be able to help. Many Thanks.
• Focus for Accord 21 Feb 2002 (Forum)
  Well I'm still in the process of finding the right used Accord to trade in my Focus for, and managed to find a suitable candidate at a Honda dealer:- '98-S Accord 2.0ES Auto black 38k 1-owner £9995 Got a part-ex valuation from said dealer for my current steed:- '99-V Focus 2.0 Ghia 5-dr black 20k 3-owners (don't ask!) £6500 Now is it me or is this dealer trying his hardest to utterly con me?
• Golf Mk 3 keys 4 Feb 2002 (Forum)
  The dealer then orders the key. Once it has arrived they require the car for another 1/2 day to "progamme" the key(s). So, 2 visits (mon to fri only of course) and a bill of £40 for the key plus 1/2 hr labour for programming. The service receptionist was very cheerful about it all - lucky you don't have a FIAT sir, it would cost you £1,000.
• pug 206 woes 27 Jan 2002 (Forum)
  A girly friend of mine has a Met blue 98 S Pug 206 LX 3dr with air. She over-expended herself to buy the thing and can't really afford to run it. So now it is playing up bad (out of warranty in July) and she can't afford to fix it. A mechanic friend has looked at it and he says it is only running on 3 cylinders and she is complaining of loss of power.
• Installing stereo system from scratch 22 Jan 2002 (Forum)
  Could anyone point me in the right direction to being able to wire it up from scratch by myself (I can't afford to get it fitted) and what wires/connectors I need to do this. I am ready to buy a CD tuner head unit, two 4" cones, and two 6x9's (to be put in a box in the boot), I can understand the basic principals in doing all of this but I just want to find out if there is anything in particular I really need to watch for or do. I KNOW that this can be done, I just need a push in the right direction :) Any help is appreciated...