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• Peugeot 205 1.6 gti broken cambelt help! 1 Nov 2004 (Forum)
  Any help, advice, tips would be greatly appreciated. Tip of the day, change the cambelt when you buy a car!!!!!!!! regards Tom
• 3 Doors or 5 Doors? 10 Jan 2004 (Forum)
  I am surprised that this hasn?t been covered before but a forum search come up with zilch (DD will now oblige I expect). Cheers
• Another use for a C5 22 Oct 2003 (Forum)
  During their four-year life with Co-operative Funeralcare, the C5 estates will cover up to 140,000 miles.
• Engine revolutions 4 Aug 2003 (Forum)
  In one of those moments on the A1 where there was some spare processing power available due to fairly low traffic levels I did a few calculations. Based on an average of 3500 revs to cover 70 miles (about the equivalent of running in 5th in the Yaris), the engine would perform 3000 revolutions of the engine per mile. Taking in to account things like idling, use of lower gears around town etc, you could easily expect an engine to perform 500 MILLION revolutions in it's lifetime and as many as 1000 million (or a foreign billion) if the car lasts much >100k miles or does a lot of around town work.
• Rainwater leaks - 205 12 Jul 2003 (Forum)
  However that was not the problem with the new car, which collected water only on the nearside. I removed the boot-floor coverings and started experimenting with the garden hose. Finally I found a tiny hole in the rubber sealant on a body seam at the lower corner of the boot opening - water was getting in from the space containing the tail-lamp cluster, and that looks the likely entry point.
• Exchange of fluids! 18 Apr 2003 (Forum)
  We have a 2 year old Skoda Fabia 1.9 tdi, with the PD engine. It has covered just under 45,000 km and we hope, as pensioners, to keep the car in good running order until WE are not! I asked my Skoda dealers to carry out the 45,000 service last Monday and in addition requested they change the engine coolant, brake fluid and gearbox oil, plus the air and pollen filters.
• 306 XU7 1.8i 8v oil weep 22 Mar 2003 (Forum)
  SWMBO's 306 SR Sedan with XU7 1.8i 8 valve engine has started to drop oil on the garage floor each night. Having lifted the car on to axle stands today, and looked up from underneath the car, I can see that the oil dribbles down the back of the engine block, about half an inch in from, and parallel with, the cam belt cover.
• Omega - oil leaking onto manifold 19 Feb 2003 (Forum)
  My neighbour's Omega ('94, 3.0 elite) has just had a coolant leak sorted out by replacing a leaking 3-way heater valve. It was also serviced at the same time. The mechanic (a Vx specialist) noted that the car had more than it's fair share of oil leaks (none of which were serious - rocker cover gaskets?) and that oil leaks were quite common on the 2.5/3.0 V6's and his advise was just to keep an eye on the oil level as fixing them would be fairly expensive.
• Seat Ibiza problems 27 Nov 2002 (Forum)
  After much to-ing and fro-ing getting it booked in to be looked at, them loosing the booking and the courtesy car availability, them ordering parts and not getting back to us, usual stuff. Eventually get it booked in to be done, but declined their courtesy car as they don't insure them, and her insurance wanted money to cover it etc, so borrowed her mums car.After first day they admit they didn't start on it till 3.00pm then following day they said they couldn't code the dash in and someone was coming from Seat to help.
• Astra running slow 21 Mar 2002 (Forum)
  Chaps, My 1.8i 1989 Astra CD seems to be running a lot slower than it used to. I have owned the car for a year now, and it just doesn't seem to have the power it had when I got it. I appreciate there is the 'getting used to it' factor, but friends also agree with what I think. I am not a boy racer and I do not thrash the car anywhere.
• Flat batteries & memory loss 18 Mar 2002 (Forum)
  I've had to fit a new battery last week & as usual radio code & electric windows lost their programming. That was all, as the car is a '93 model Carlton & has none of the later electronics as fitted to more modern cars. A friend later told me of a gadget that you plug into the cigarette lighter which has 2 leads coming from it, one is marked positive the other negative, these are connected to a 12 volt supply.
• Warranties:be aware 3 Dec 2001 (Forum)
  I have recently had some warranty work (used car) carried out by a well known Rover main dealer in SE London. I had a lower radiator outlet pipe split. I took the car to the dealer and explained the exact fault - I even drew a diagram for them!
• Mercedes E230 spare wheels. 30 Jan 2001 (Forum)
  It does warn of this in the manual, and I know that Honest John says "always read the manual", but is everyone who borrows a car expected to read the manual too? I call this bad design. It gets worse. The same applies to the same car when fitted with factory alloys. Mercedes only supply a steel spare, which is thinner than the alloys.
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  My car isn't being used right now. Should I let me insurance policy lapse for a few months? 4 May 2020 (Ask HJ)
  My car's insurance policy ends shortly and I want to know if I can let it lapse for a few months until more is known regarding the usage of vehicles under...
• Nissan - Tyre wear not proportional to age 9 Sep 2016 (Forum)
  Think I've been a bit stupid and trusting of a franchised Dealer. I have just purchased a 6 month old Nissan from My local dealership. The car ( so I've been told ) has been A demonstrator and used by one of the garage staff. It has covered 5200 miles. The car has a number of options that made it An attractive buy - sunroof, 18 inch wheels and special paint.
• Travelling to buy a (used approved) car? 22 May 2014 (Forum)
  Or is it a case of negotiate over phone, drive down, test drive, agree to buy, drive home, wait a week, repeat to pick up the car? Not knowing much about what makes a good car, and what makes a lemon, should I be able to trust any used car a Toyota Dealership provides?  Do I need to check everything (electrics etc) at the time I pick it up?
• Ford Focus (1998 - 2004) - 03 1.6 Advice please on buying this car ? 15 Oct 2009 (Forum)
  It has 2 previous owners and Full service history and 12 months warranty from a Ford garage. However I have a couple of concerns about it. The trouble is the car was first registered in December 2003 and by June 2004 the car had already covered 12k miles and then by about the same time in 2005 the car had then completed about 21k miles. At this point in time the second owner took ownership of the car (an older driver) until the present day (now 37K miles).
• Rover Streetwise (2003 - 2005) - No fault accident advice please 9 Sep 2008 (Forum)
  Advice needed in how to deal with insurance company. Firstly should we not accept the car back with cash if not roadworthy (No brainer I think). Secondally how do we get insurance company to 'write off' the car and give us a reasonable settlement. Obviously we will need to go after the other driver for policy excess and compensation to cover difference between insurance company payout and the cost of replacement car
• Scrape in Car park - hit and run ? 14 Aug 2008 (Forum)
  Went to the local Audi showroom for a simple MOT and unfortunately as I was backing out , heard the L front bumper scrape the 6 month old A5's L back door. Stopped car , went inside , spoke to the salesman, who mentioned that this car was unfortunately a customers car and that he would come out and take some photos of both cars , which both of us did,also that he would contact the owner of the car and that he would get the other person to contact me with his insurance details.
• Vauxhall Astra F (1991 - 1998) - 95 1.4 petrol - Not Starting... 19 Feb 2008 (Forum)
  The car is a Astra 1.4 petrol 1995, my wife drove the car yesterday, she told me the car began to lose power and as she pulled over the car cut out and refused to start. Having towed the car back home i was able to look at it today, first i removed the cambelt covers and found that the cambelt had shed quite a few teeth off , so i fit a new belt thinking this would sort the problem, having put the belt on and lined all the timing marks tried starting the car, no joy infact the car spins over really fast like it has little compression, i removed the spark plugs no petrol on them at all, so then i removed the fuel supply pipe and get my lad to turn the engine over whilst i hold the pipe in a jar, just to make sure the fuel pumps working ok, which it is.