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• Vauxhall - GAP insurance - worth it? 15 May 2008 (Forum)
  Hi Just bought a 1 year old Vauxhall Zafira Design (150) from Network Q 0 pick up next week once they have added my bits and pieces. Anyway - they mentioned the GAP insurance policy which is if you car is written off in its first 4 years, and they will pay the difference from what the insurance company offer on pay out to what you actually paid.
• Volvo - out of time, into an aged Volvo 27 Apr 2008 (Forum)
  interesting to note amid all the tributes to the late jazz musician and radio comic host Humphrey Littleton in today's newspapers, that he "maintained a dogged attachment to a battered Volvo estate in which he reputedly clocked up more than 250,000 miles". A truly multi talented guy and so unpretentious, as his choice of aged vehicle shows. Which car and how old, I wonder, would each of us like to own when "our time" comes?
• Volkswagen Polo III (1994 - 1999) - (94 to 99) 1.9D Fuel Filter Problems 23 Apr 2008 (Forum)
  Can't figure out what I Have done wrong, took of the filter, filled the new one with fuel, put it back on and it just won't start. Noticed some air in the pipe. Any help? I know on my old peugeot, you could pump the fuel by hand, but not on this :( {No mention of the year car registered, so picked info up from drop down list - DD}
• Ford Fiesta (2002 - 2008) - 2004 1.4 diesel TDCi Injection pump/ECU problem 6 Mar 2008 (Forum)
  Car (33,000 miles) just 4 years old failed to start. No previous problems. After 10 days Ford dealer claimed it was a faulty solenoid valve in fuel injection pump and replaced the pump. Then said that the engine management module had burnt out and needed replacing.
• Misplaced tax disc 12 Jan 2008 (Forum)
  I have only just remembered that I'm running around displaying the old disc. Many thanks Steve
• Volkswagen Polo IV (2005 - 2009) - Polo BlueMotion 2 8 Dec 2007 (Forum)
  An old Elsan toilet just sprang to mind there. But this super economy car (Autocar Road Test this week) "only" got 41mpg overall and 51.8mpg touring. The claimed figures urban/extra urban/combined are 55.4/83.1/70.6 mpg.
• Ford Escort Lambda wiring 22 Jun 2007 (Forum)
  Ford Escort 1.6 CL 1998 The plug for the lambda sensor came unclipped and melted on the exhaust manifold, unfortunately the plug was too badly melted to figure out which way it goes together so I don't know where the wires go. The new sensor has 2 white 1 black and 1 gray wire, same as the old one, but the cars wiring loom is white brown black/yellow purple/yellow Does anyone know what connects to where? Thanks in advance.
• Mondeo Head Gasket ~ Wet or dry? 1 Jun 2007 (Forum)
  I'm about to change the HG in my 2litre silver top zetec mondeo and was wondering whether there is any merit in using any sealing compound similar to blue hylomar or should HG's always be put on dry? I used to change heads on my old xflow based kit car and do them dry with no problems but this one looks a tad more long winded and if using such a compound would be advantageous it seems silly not to as I dont fancy doing the job twice.......
• Cost of pushbike tyres 13 May 2007 (Forum)
  I thought SWMBO's bike looked like it could do with a new tyre. Twenty quid! I can buy some car tyres for less than that. What's going on? It's only a 700 X 35. The last one I bought cost about a fiver IIRC, a Michelin World Tour. It seems they're no longer available. It's a plain old bike, she doesn't want to ride it up any mountains (even if there were any within a hundred miles), just on roads and cycle tracks.
• Battery condition and engine performance 24 Mar 2007 (Forum)
  Last week I had to replace the original nine and a half year old battery on the Mondeo. Starting had become more laboured until, one morning after a frost, the battery couldn't turn the engine over at all. The car seemed to go better with the new battery and I thought it must be psychological, but I've just filled the tank again and achieved 40.12 mpg on the last tankful in mixed motoring conditions.
• Clicking from steering wheel (mazda6) 21 Dec 2006 (Forum)
  Hi, I had a clicking coming from the steering wheel, sounded like something in the auto cancel mechnism was broken. The car is about a year old and the switch assembly was changed (indicator, washer etc..). Well a few months later the problem has returned, its booked in but any ideas? Why does it keep doing it? It sounds like a spring has done and some bit of plastic is catching.
• Out of warranty claims with VW - 4 Dec 2006 (Forum)
  p=9185#post9185 I'm about to embark on the adventure of trying to get some money out of VW to cover the cost of replacing a part I think should not have failed, no matter how old the car is ! Anyone any experiece of trying to get recompense for components beyond warranty, specifically with VW ? Cheers
• Oddly located fuel filler caps 18 Oct 2006 (Forum)
  Can anyone help settle a discussion at work? I mentioned my dad's old Simca that had a numberplate mounted filler cap, and a colleague mentioned that; when he used to be a petrol pump attendant, he once couldn't find the filler cap on a car. He's unsure if it was a Humber or a Hunter.
• Advice: Convertibles 13 Oct 2006 (Forum)
  And of course I ask that the car that is good value for money. Am i asking the impossible?!
• Corsa losing power. 9 Oct 2006 (Forum)
  Sister has a manual Corsa 1.2 MPI just over a year old. She says that she is noticing a marked reduction in power now, from when the car was new. On a local hill, she now has to go down to a lower gear to climb it, than was the case before. Everything else works as it should, though the engine sounds a little more " lumpy " than it did.
• Daddy's little helper 22 Sep 2006 (Forum)
  I asked my 4 year old daughter to help me clean the car over the weekend. She obvioulsy got bored with doing that and managed to reach up and get hold of my oil can and proceeded to empty the contents in the front and rear brakes soaking all the pads and discs in engine oil.
• Drag 20 Sep 2006 (Forum)
  (Subject of thread changed from "The Unbelievable HJ Column" to "Drag") Some of you will have read the HJ column in the Telegraph http://tinyurl.com/hjyzx in which a reader tells of the improvement in fuel consumption achieved by putting mountain bikes inside the car rather than on a bike rack. A physics teacher at the local school read this to a class, as a practical example of the importance of reducing the coefficient of drag. One 16 year old boy absolutely refused to believe that this was true, on the grounds that a) no one would write to a newspaper on such a topic, and b) no motorist would ever think of doing such a comparison.
• 1999 Toyota Starlet 1.3 11 Jul 2006 (Forum)
  I am about to buy a car to teach my 17 year old daughter to drive in. Her mum has happy memories of learning in a Toyota Starlet 20 years ago. Our neighbour is selling her immaculate 1999 5 door 1300 with 79,000 miles for £1500.
• UK Vehicle Insurance Abroad 22 Feb 2006 (Forum)
  My UK car insurance certificate with MMA is entirely in English. No green card can be issued or necessary now apparently for EU. Asked my broker was this normal and they said situation was the same for all companies they deal with.
• Failed gearbox in VW Golf 8 Feb 2006 (Forum)
  The car had only done 29,440 miles at the time - VW say that the fault developed now, we say it was a manufacturing fault Has anyone else heard of this happening?