My daughters 1992 1.1 carburettor AX has become a reluctant starter and when running initial pickup is hesitant.We have the service history for this 56K miles car and this problem has occured several times. Any advice would be welcomed. Read more

Cant see my mondeo doing this!!


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Ordered a new Citroen C4 via one of the brokers mentioned by HJ. The car was delivered by Citroen to a Citroen dealer on Wednesday 23rd. The car is prepped by the dealer and should be delivered to my home. However, the dealer has told the broker that they can't issue a registration number until Thursday or Friday next week. This means I can't get my insurance sorted out and won't get delivery of the vehicle until the following Monday or even Tuesday. That is almost 2 weeks from delivery to dealer.

I think the delaer is messing the broker about. I am sure that the dealer can pick from a list of registration numbers.

Can only assume that the dealer is not bothered about upsetting the broker, or me the customer, who chose to get over £4k discount rather than the paltry discount offered by main dealers.
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There was a report on Radio 5 Live yesterday about a scam in the Manchester area, it is apparently getting quite common.

They interviewed a driver who had been following another car onto a roundabout with no other traffic in sight, the other car suddenly braked hard and the driver lightly bumped the back of it. The woman passenger feined a whiplash injury, details were exchanged etc. 5 mins later the driver saw the other car in a retail park, followed the couple into a sports shop and photographed the woman easiliy pulling sweatshirts on and off over her head. 24 hours later he had a solicitors letter claiming whiplash, he let his insurers have the photo evidence plus details of an independant witness who saw the 'accident', IIRC the report said the other parties were prosecuted.

I think I might have been a victim of a similar situation a few years ago, I followed a van across some traffic lights that were on green, the driver slammed his brakes on, I bumped him, my number plate was not even cracked though the rear door of the van was dented. The van driver seemed fit as a fiddle, he actually apologised saying he stopped suddenly because he thought the lights might have been on red, I too received a solicitors letter claiming injury, as I expected the claim went against me, it included a a couple of grand in medical expences and loss of earnings.

In my case I think the accident was perhaps genuine though the subsequent claim was a reflection on the "where there's a blame there's a claim" culture that exists today.



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Hi all,

I've just returned from my trip to South West Cork - very good time was had, especially enjoyed the driving :-)

I rented a car which when I collected was a brand new Nissan Almera Saloon - very comfortable drive, althouhg the ride was a tad hard for some of the roads. On the small widing roads round the coast it handled superbly.

One thing that I wasn't sure about, and wanted to ask about, was - is it normal for the headlights on this model to not really illuminate the road much past a few metres, and not really to the side? I am ashamed to say, but I had to resort to using the front fog lights for the night driving as they lit up the roads brilliantly. (I did turn the headlight adjustment button to the max but even this didn't help)

Just after others opinions on this. Read more