Thanks for all of your replies.

The Aygo is a nice little car. Very basic and clearly built to a price, but much better than the equivalents I had to put up with when I was 25. It is an ex-demo and saved about £3k of list for 1,200 miles from new and 6 months old, so 4.5 years of warranty left.

Bit sad that the touch screen seems to mirror Andriod Phones but not Apple ones.

Also surprised to see Sat Nav is an extra cost even though the car has a touch screen. A GPS receiver chip is about £10 from RS Components so I wonder what the true cost of implementing it in to a car which already has a touch screen would be for the manufacturer?

(I guess a more powerful CPU for the touch screen, some more memory - if TOMTOM can sell one retail at £100 it can't be much difference considering one of the most expensive components - the screen - is already in the car.)

Edited by James2018 on 18/06/2018 at 00:08

I wonder if any damage can occur when the timing goes out i.e. where the timing belt is tensioned by a spring loaded idler.

No damage. Timing would not be altered.

It would take a very steep hill and heavy car to turn over a modern high compression engine in first gear. Experimental results from those with one in three (approx 33%) driveways, please.

Diesel engined vehicles are better for staying where they are they are but even they will creep on an incline but much more slowly as the compression is much higher. The reason that much older diesels would be left in first or reverse depending on the direction the vehicle was facing, was that they had a mechanical fuel shut of device which released after stopping meaning that the engine could start if being turned in the right direction.

All manual cars should be left in first or reverse when parked, don't rely on the handbrake.

Edited by Peter.N. on 19/06/2018 at 12:13