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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.
• 1952 Vincent on the Preston Bypass 13 Jan 2007 (Forum)
  The song is about red-haired Molly and James, their love of the Vincent Black Lightning of the song?s title, James?s death from gunshot wounds and his gifting of the bike to Molly, as he lies dying and sees ?angels on Ariels in leather and chrome?. In 1959, my father bought a 1952 Vincent. Soon the bike was on the road, the sidecar was attached and the whole family set off, with me on the pillion, aged 13 and wearing a flat cap crammed on backwards, held in place by the elastic from my goggles.
• ABS fault - VW LT28 van 20 Aug 2006 (Forum)
  If the ABS is disabled, the brakes work normally, but without the thud. I've replaced the ABS unit, (with a known good one), bled the brakes, and adjusted the n/s/r sensor to ring clearance. The problem persists. The local VW dealer has been helpful, but - like me - have run out of suggestions and opinions. Can anyone help ? {vehicle details added to subject header - DD}
• Peugeot 406 stalling during warmup 20 Jun 2005 (Forum)
  Here?s a puzzling one. The engine on my Peugeot 406 2.0 (1998/S) petrol runs fine when cold, and when very hot, but during the warm up period there is a nasty period when it stalls, falters when driving off, flat spots and is generally unhappy.
• Thanks, you saved me £s 30 May 2005 (Forum)
  I read a few threads on insurance recently and took up the advice when my wife's insurance renewal hit the door mat, from Direct Line. First stop was the...
• By Car to India 2 May 2005 (Forum)
  It's about his trip from Leeds to India in 1924 in a 14hp Wolseley. The book itself seems to date from the late 1920's I would think judging by some of the terminology used, although as Persia changed to Iran after WW2 possibly the 1940's. Anyway there's one paragraph that made me smile: 'On our way down (from Beirut) we counted four hundred cars coming up to the hills, but alas, only one car in that four hundred was British.
• Shock absorber failure on Vectra C 1 Mar 2005 (Forum)
  The n/s rear shock is covered in oil , whereas its counterpart on the other side is dry. Ok so that explains the noise - looks like I need a new shock but could you chaps let me have your opinion on these points?
• ABS and Tradesmen's Vans 29 Sep 2004 (Forum)
  t think that it would have been necessary if he had been travelling at a normal speed for the situation. Are ABS brakes fitted to tradesmen?s vans ?
• Mercedes S-class 16 Sep 2004 (Forum)
  Dear all, My friend, who is about to move abroad, is offering to give me his W126 1987 420SE as he believes it would be effectively worthless and time...
• Bus Lane covert Cameras 30 Jun 2004 (Forum)
  They got lost and mistakenly went down about 20 yards of a bus lane at about 21:00 hours and were caught on camera - NOT by the bog standard cameras you get on the road side that are coloured grey but a camera placed high up on a lamp post on the far side of the road judging by the picture they have sent me. Is this common practise now to use community s************s to catch motorist? This friend of the family does not ever intentionally drive in bus lanes when they are in force. Even I nearly got caught out Sunday as I travelling in a certain part of the country and the bus lane enforcement times changed several times within a short driving distance.