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• Smokey Ford Diesels 26 Mar 2005 (Forum)
  My 95 Escort 1.8TD chucks out a fair old smoke. Once up to a cruising speed it appears to die down - its at its worst during acceleration - especially if there's another car behind you with its lights on highlighting the smoke. The car has 78K miles on it - serviced often, uses no oil between services.
• Getting an MOT certificate 25 Mar 2005 (Forum)
  My (nearly) new 10 year old Volvo has just sailed through the first MOT I have had done on it. The last time I had to spend more than about £10-£20 to get a car through the test must have been in about 1989! Am I just lucky? Or just a careful owner?
• Alfa - Cambelt Woes 18 Mar 2005 (Forum)
  Does anyone have (or know of) an official Alfa document number or id that proves this one way or the other. Am I right to expect Alfa or the deale rto meet a good proportion of the cost above (car is 3.5 years old). bit of a long first post so thanks for bearing with me. cheers.
• Renault Modus 17 Oct 2004 (Forum)
  Anyone bought a Modus yet? In this month's 'Diesel Car' magazine it is very well written up. For 10K this seems a cracking little car and certainly it felt thoroughly well built when I went to the dealer today. It seems to have the charm and character of the old Renault Five but obviously better engineered given the newness of the design.
• Sitting with clutch depressed - good? 5 Dec 2003 (Forum)
  The question is, am I damaging something somewhere? Surely I must be stretching or wearing something doing this? On my old car, depressing the clutch in used to stop an annoying rattling; I think someone mentioned it might have been an "idler gear" ? I guess it's been habbit since then....
• Mondeo TDCi 24 Sep 2003 (Forum)
  I have a Mondeo TDCi 15 months old with 26000 miles.Since May it has spent some considerable time at the dealers with a reoccurring fault.ie. Management light comes on and shuts down to "limp home mode". Cold starting is not good with rough running and smoke.The car went in last week for three days came out, ran fine for three days and went again.
• Hard to value 30 Aug 2003 (Forum)
  Well these two certainly were. The Great Trade Centre is well known for shifting highish mileage, mainstream cars from 1 to 4 years old. Anything else and it doesn't really know what to do with them. So what was it doing with these in stock: A 96P Polo 1.4 Harlequin (the one with the body panels in different colours) with 6,600 miles on the clock (!)
• VW Golf battery going flat 28 Mar 2003 (Forum)
  I have a 20 month old Halfords HCB063 "heavy duty" battery in my 1999 Golf GTI (the VW battery lasted 30 months). After parking the car for 4 days there's only enough in the battery to turnover the engine for a fraction of a second.
• Well fancy that.. 26 Nov 2002 (Forum)
  The largest bill for fictious work carried out on a woman's car by garage mechanics was on of £6322.88 by ********** of Stevenage. Calling in for a routine service on her 1 year old Peugeout 305 Mrs June ***** agreed to pay for amongst other things: new trumpets (£752), cracked Gangle Pin (£1785), realignemnet of main glib shaft (£2268), new gromets (£112), set of hexagonal Tag nuts and dangleberry adapter (£35) and new valves (£120).
• Renault Clio alternator 1 Oct 2002 (Forum)
  When asked why a new alternator is needed the only answer I get is, "the alternator is miss aligned". Renault are prepared to pay %40 of the cost of the part. As the car is only 2 1/2 years old and it has only done 15000 miles I feel a little miffed. Has any one else had similar problems the car has a 1400cc 16v engine and was registered in 2000 Hwyl
• Speedo digits ......... 15 Sep 2002 (Forum)
  It is less than 3 years old, so no MOT's to veryify it. Is this anything to worry about? Its a Vauxhall Omega BTW. Any hints comments? Regards ........ Robert
• Golf V6- 4 Motion / 1.8 T 10 Sep 2002 (Forum)
  While comfort is an issue, I am a driver and need a drivers car! BB
• kids and cars! -advice needed 5 Jul 2002 (Forum)
  As I don\'t like to waste a good worry, could anyone out there manage to assuage my slight concern as to whether a flattish, triangular-shaped sea shell...
• Lexus and cats 7 Jan 2002 (Forum)
  I would like to buy an old Lexus LS400. What terrifies me is catalytic converters. I have never owned a car that had one and don't want to. I think that all Lexus's had them from new as standard even before the legislation that made them compulsory.
• Automec brake fluid 5 Feb 2001 (Forum)
  Contacting stockists left me much less enthusiastic! Feedback ranged from "don't stock it anymore mate - no demand" to "it's allright for old cars but not so sure about moderns" - and they are selling it!! What's going on? Is it really OK to use on cars with ABS, ASP etc? I was intending to use it on our Rover 214 and Audi A8. Kind regards, Max Brown.
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  Buying a long car..not too long. 21 Mar 2011 (Ask HJ)
  I am thinking of buying a used car. I want a somewhat long car. My budget is £5000. I would prefer a manual though automatic would be a last resort. Based...
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  Can I let my son in law drive my car? 9 Jun 2025 (Ask HJ)
  I would like to get a Kia Soul Electric. As a 75 old man if I stop driving for a short while could I loan my car to my son in law for him to insure as...
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  Why are there delays on BMW new car deliveries? 25 Oct 2024 (Ask HJ)
  I ordered a new BMW X7 which was supposed to be delivered on 23 September. It’s now 24 October with no sign of the car, and the dealer has updated the...
• Advice on replacing my car in UK - sellers market? 11 Jun 2024 (Forum)
    4 months and a lot of hospital time later I've received 3K for my old car from the insurers and need to replace it as it was written off.  I've had terrible issues with second hand cars in the past and have bought ex demo cars from dealerships to avoid this for the last 20 years with success.
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  Can we skip our car's full service this year? 12 Feb 2021 (Ask HJ)
  My wife’s 9-year-old Nissan Micra will only have done about 1200 miles since it’s last service and MOT as she has worked from home and the car has mainly...