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• Motor Oil - names and brand attraction 28 May 2010 (Forum)
  You`re standing in Halfords and there are choices within the specs that your Motor requires for it`s engine oil. Halfords full synth - or Mobil 1............ BOGOF for own brand? Or 20% off Mobil 1 - if you hit Easter or August BH.. maybe. Free umbrella - with Mobil 1 around the edge......
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  XF actor 15 May 2010 (Ask HJ)
  I'm considering buying a 2008 Jaguar XF with 2.7-litre diesel engine. Mileage is 60,000 and I would like an opinion if this high mileage might give problems...
• Writing about motoring 5 Feb 2010 (Forum)
  I`m having trouble thinking of a single new topic now - not really writers block, but more burnout on the subject. Perhaps it`s better if you`re more into debating. I was never really into that - it was more about attempts to create `stand alone content` - to generate a little good feeling. Mostly. Creating `content` here has been interesting - a slate on which to write - just for amusement with no deadlines to meet - unlike the professional writer, or Journalist.
• Chrysler PT Cruiser (2000 - ) - Parts not exactly free... 28 Jan 2010 (Forum)
  Had to abort a trip to Sussex last Sunday at Roehampton Vale, where I became very aware of a dragging brake. In the petrol station there, the o/s front wheel was nearly too hot to touch. The AA sent a local proxy with a get-you-home truck which got us back here. On Monday took the car to my fine Aussie indy near here. He said the o/s disc had taken some punishment and anyway had corrosion on the inside braking surface.
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  Alcoholic anonymous 17 Oct 2009 (Ask HJ)
  Now living in Australia I have acquired a second-hand six-year-old Honda Jazz at auction with 165,000 kilometres on the clock - only an average mileage...
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  Much sport after 3 Oct 2009 (Ask HJ)
  I do 70 mile daily commute on the M5 so low gearing discounts the Civic Type R for me. What about the Honda Civic 2.2 turbo diesel? I read about it on...
• Petrol v diesel conundrum 26 Sep 2009 (Forum)
  My Mondeo has averaged about 1.5mpg less than its official combined figure, on that basis - a couple of options because I am not sure on budget yet - a Golf GT DSG?s combined figure is 47.1 MPG, could I realistically expect to average, say, 45 MPG? And a 325i?s combined figure is 39.2 MPG, could I realistically expect to average, say, 37 MPG? By the way I have not ruled out a diesel by any means.
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  Range over 8 Aug 2009 (Ask HJ)
  If you were going to trade in a Range Rover Sport for a 7-seat SUV or estate (I now have 3 children under 4 and the RR is a bit of a squeeze), would you...
• On transient human motoring time - toads lost... 30 Jun 2009 (Forum)
  Able to spot a centipede several yards away - but impassive and a mirror to the Moon and internal tidal pull - as mass, metal and halogen light past by, an angel of death in it`s transient way. Transient... barely a blink of Earths, life time line. Now the hills are dark at night - a larger, nearer, Moon casts shadows as golden irises move down over the hills, still following the beat - the internal tune of amphibian calling..
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  Edge fund 18 Apr 2009 (Ask HJ)
  I'm a 47-year-old man with up to £4,000 to invest in a used car. I'm looking for a car with a sporty edge to it. Which top 5 used cars would you recommend...
• Adaptive cruise control 17 Feb 2009 (Forum)
  There?s little enough regard now for the principle of using lanes 2 and 3 for overtaking, not cruising, and I can?t see ACC making it any better.
• Peugeot 206 hatchback (1998 - 2006) - 2000 1.9diesel timing advance soleniod 6 Feb 2009 (Forum)
  Hi everyone, can anyone help, i have a 206 van 1.9 diesel non turbo 2000 x plate i bought the van 6mts ago and nae having mutch luck. first the imobiliser packed in so the garage bypassed it and put a standerd 12v stop solonoid in wirred to the egnition that sorted that problem. now the van sounds like it,s about to blow it chaps like made more so when it is cold and a nightmare to start. i put it into a diesel pump expert and they got back to me saying the timing advance solenoid was u/s so they put on a new one which made it go better but it still chapped so the got it back on the computer then tested wires and fuses and all the sensors and told me everything was in spec but the problem was the timing advance solenoid was getting power and sending a signal to the ecu BUT the ecu was,nt sending signal back to advance or retard timing they said the timing ADVANCE SOLENOID was sitting fully advanced, they said a ecu fault(LUCAS). now i found a other ecu with same numbers and was going to buy that but did,nt know if that would work the garage said it would work as the stop solonoid had been changed to work of the egnition instead of the imobiliser????
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  Hip hop 24 Jan 2009 (Ask HJ)
  I had intended to buy the new Honda Jazz but discovered that it was slightly wider and not fully automatic. The old Honda Jazz, which we have will only...
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  Bump steer 24 Jan 2009 (Ask HJ)
  Whilst accepting that limitations on space may preclude publication of the full advice you give to contributors, so as not to mislead others, your reply...
• Now the salt lays round about deep & crisp & even 3 Nov 2008 (Forum)
  Top speed, chunks of salt like bullets, whole piles of it in the gutter on bends as though waiting to accommodate a load of Cod. Salt flung out so hard, it`s up your drive and waiting to come in. Now back to modern times... no salt on the road. (good no corrosion) but the local shopping centre car park gleams like a salt lake.. You just know, that even next May, with your car clean of salt, the salt lake will persist, even to the point of causing flamingo`s to pause in mid flight for a nest site assessment...
• BMW 3-Series E36 (1991 - 1998) - 1997 2.5 vibration from rear 13 Jun 2008 (Forum)
  About 3 weeks ago I replaced both rear tyres on my BMW 323i touring with a new set of Avon ZV3's. When I drove down my local dual carriageway there was a vibration from the back, pervading the whole car and through the feet. I took the car back to the tyre dealer and had them rebalanced. Still vibrating so had them rebalanced another 2 times.
• Would you stop for anyone these days? 27 Dec 2007 (Forum)
  It just seems appreciation of the effort, at best, is worse. Used to carry a big toolkit and spares, from the 60`s to the late 90`s. In the early years helped lots of folk out, with punctures, points etc. Once rewired a blokes trailer board at a motorway services in 85, then fixed a Suzuki jeep with a thread blown out of a plug hole.
• A bargain,am I missing something? 20 Jun 2007 (Forum)
  I realise a Focus would give a better drive and look nicer, that is clear, but as my wife does only 3,000 miles a year, driving pleasure takes a back seat against value and safety. Also the most savage depreciation has passed and it is likely only to lose 100's £ per year rather than 000's. If I can get £1,500 for the Fiesta (only 30k miles and well equiped) then the cost to change is less than £4k Have the last Almera's been proving to be reliable? Am I misguided and failing to take into account something blindingly obvious?
• Corolla vibration 30 May 2007 (Forum)
  s a sealed unit. Underneath I realised the exhaust heat shields all twang & vibrate, so I damped these using high temperature silicone and damping blocks. Quieter it was, but the root cause is still there.
• Saab 95 Aero estate airbag deployment 19 Apr 2007 (Forum)
  On 1st April 2007 the driver?s airbag suddenly deployed when I turned on the ignition while parked. In taking this up with Saab I was told that there was no evidence of a manufacturing defect or any other subsequent cause and that as the car was well out of warranty, it was my problem, not theirs.