September 2006
What's the best stuff to use?
I spilled a bit of (used) engine oil when I serviced the Mondeo the other week. I put some sand down to mop up the oil which worked a treat, but it's left an unsightly stain about 8" x 3" which I would like to get rid of or at least fade a bit.
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DP Read more
210,000 miles in a toyota corolla for me! Read more
227,000 in an Imprezza Turbo and NOTHING ever went wrong with it - NOTHING: utterly amazing. Until someone borrowed it and drove into a brick wall, almost the saddest day of my life.
And then whatever happend to Subaru? Crazy.
Could anyone recommend a product that will clean some patches of diesel that have leaked onto my block-pave drive from my car - I have seen the following product but dont know if this is any good on block-paving.
www.diytools.co.uk/diy/Main/Product.asp?iProductID...5
Any tips gratefully recieved;
Rgds
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thanks for all ideas - off to buy:
Cat litter
Washing Powder
Soda Crystals
If all fails - onto
Jizer
First of all I know the answer is Yes but what I want to know is, will they work afterwards?
I have silver BMW316 and Im looking to paint the door and bumper mouldings to match the colour of the car. The only problem is the rear bumber moulding has the 4 black PDC senors fitted. I dont imagine a few coats of primer and paint will do them any good?
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I have done them before, just use the minimum amount of paint required to colour them.
Hi,
I have seen something called wheelspacers on ebay. They are not expensive and sell for around £10-£15.
I dont really know what they do :)
Do you place them behind you alloy wheel , before you refit the alloy. Are the designed to giv the car a "wide wheels" look?
I think they would make a car look awesome with a proper wide stance if thats what they supposed to do
Has any of you used them? Are they safe?
cheers
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You can probably fit 'nice alloys' that are slightly wider
than standard Polo wheels anyway, but without the excessive offset created
by spacers. They would give the more road-hugging look you're
after, front and rear. Best forget about spacers!
This is the soundest advice you will get here handsome. Wheels cost more but they're real and won't cause secondary problems. Forget spacers.
Is it possible to check/top up the gearbox oil on my 2003 Focus 1.6 Zetec, or is the gearbox sealed for life ? Read more
except haynes can spell! (plus i didn't read the OP properly it was actually about topping up Doh!)
When I retired 18 months ago I bought a one year old Rover 75 2.0 CDT with 12000 miles on the clock. The oil was changed by the dealer before collection. I've now done close to 24,000 miles and according to the service interval display ( which also takes driving style i.e. fuel consumption into account) it's soon due for an 'inspection'. This is more or less in line with the handbook which, If I read the correctly, specifies oil changes every 30,000 miles and 'inspections' every other 15,000 miles. Does this sound right? My recent experience with 'modern' diesel cars (a company Peugeot 406 etc) was that they needed an oil change about every 12,000 miles.
What does an 'inspection' entail? Is it just a case of checking levels and tyre pressures? With older family cars I normally manage the routine oil /filter/ brake pad changes myself but the handbook gives no clue to what is required and, surprisingly, there seems to be no Haynes manual published for this car. The car seems to performing faultlessly and I am loathe to spend needless money for the dealer ( I think about £250) just to oil the hinges. Read more
Hi could you send me a copy of the service sheet if you have it thanks
comley764@btinternet.com
The little yellow warning light (triangle with a circle around it) is intermittently coming on. It usually goes off at next start up but has come on now every other day for the past week.
I'm not keen to rush to the VW dealer for obvious reasons and just wondered if anyone knew what might be causing this please. Read more
Have you tried checking your brake fluid level? Maybe do a fluid change.
Auto Express this week express their annoyance that the new Kia Carens has it's indicator stalk on the right of the steering wheel. They had been very pleased previously to see that the new model had them on the left, in European models. Apparently, this 'far-eastern'; habit of putting the stalk on the right has been a source of frustration to 'generations of British drivers'.
It's one thing for most manufacturers to have standardised indicators on the left due to cost efficiencies when the vast majority of European-built cars are LHD; it's quite another for a British magazine to make out that having indicators on the right in RHD cars is some bizarre quirk invented in the far-east!
I'm sure most 'older' forum members will recall when many cars had the stalks in the correct place for RHD, I particularly remember Toyotas before they started building them over here. I'm sure all the old British built stuff up to the 70s/80s(?) would have done too, although I'm not entirely sure when this cost-cutting measure (put 'em all on the left!) was introduced.
It's a small thing, but ill-informed/researched comments like that from a magazine do wind me up! Read more
JDM cars (cars made for Japanese Domestic Market) have the stalk on the right,
We have a Yaris in the family and for the last two weeks I have been driving a new Corolla rhd SALOON which has identical stalks but on the proper side.
Very strange, driving the Corolla yesterday and the Yaris this morning ( with the stalks on the WRONG side)
Oh the Corolla saloon was in South Africa.
As title really, I have a 2005 Honda FR-V and have just bought an Ipod connector cable which has to plugged into the CD changer socket on the back of the radio/cd head unit.
I can't see how the head unit comes out of the dash, there are no holes or slots into which a release tool could be pushed in.
Does anyone know how to do it ???
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There are various options to connect to the CD Changer/ Aux in port on the pack of the radio. I connected a simple aux line in box to the CD changer socket. The box was about £30 from connects2 PN CTVHOX001. I can plug an mp3 player or a phone and play mp3s or whatever from it using simple 1/4in jack. You could probably hook up something more elaborate. There may be more elegant solutions that can connect to the aux/cd changer input to allow better control, i notice they also sell a more expensive box for use with iPod so may include digital control. I don’t know as the line in was good enough for me. I did attempt to fit myself but it is too complicated to remove the dash and part of hand brake to get to the back of the radio. In the end just gave £70 to Honda to fit the gadget which they did in about half an hour. (sadly they still charge for an hours work). Any other car you could probably fit it yourself but not the frv. The end result is a lead that comes out of the glove box that you can blug into anything with a line out or headphone out. You switch to CD changer and the box pretends to be CD1 and plays through whatever you give it. I notice that connects2 dosent list honda frv but I believe all hondas pretty much had the same radio or at least the same connections as maybe just give them a email/call to confirm.
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Years ago, I had the same problem with a Peugeot 106 diesel leaking a few drops of oil a day on my dads drive. I used a cheap brand of cola ( make sure its still fizzy) and a wire brush, seemed to work very well.