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• Complacent dealers! 28 Jul 2004 (Forum)
  - and still nothing. This says to me that a lot of firms dealing in cars, new and used, must be making so much money that they have no need to go chasing after business. As someone who is self-employed I chase EVERY lead, whether or not it looks worthwhile at the outset. A valuable lesson for those
• Luddites of the world unite 23 Apr 2004 (Forum)
  leads in a low oven, setting the timing in the street, people regularly bump-starting cars down the street, overheated cars in every traffic jam, decokes at 50,000 miles, a bit of grit in the carburettor stranding me in Stoke (very personal one, I admit). Comments invited, V
• I am an idiot Legal advice... 5 Mar 2004 (Forum)
  fixed'. Imagining new leads, plugs, rotor etc. would do the trick I was inclined to agree. Being carless, and time poor I took it off his hands for £900 which was certainly generous, but I knew that, and that's OK. Of course, the problem is related to using a litre of oil every 75 miles (see thread
• Advice needed - Smokey Escort TD. 4 Jan 2004 (Forum)
  is standing, roughly the point where the turbo starts spinning up. Me thinks turbo is gone?? They are taking it back in again tomorrow, but i am seriously considering asking for my money back. Can i do it. I have owned it for just over 6 weeks and they have had it for a month of that! Im lead to believe under
• Road Users Alliance 27 Sep 2002 (Forum)
  road users" have been dismissed as absurd by leading transport and environment groups. The Road Users Alliance, which was launched today, will "highlight the importance of roads" . The Road Users’ Alliance (RUA) claims it will "provide a voice for all road-users – from
• A Challenge to Essex Police 21 Apr 2002 (Forum)
  all cameras were, there would be no camera revenue! I have attached a long list of the ways that the existence of speed cameras can affect driver behaviour adversely. Will you accept that many, if not most or even all, of these factors can indeed lead to the results we are now seeing? 5/ "Essex
• Mazda 3 - Engine check light codes 15 Jan 2024 (Forum)
  with the car's ECU. - - - - Any of the causes of the fault may put the ECU into a 'safe mode' for the air-fuel mix and lead to poor running or mpg and even possibly other faults if not fixed. Needless to say, the test drive (25 miles, 2x 12.5 mile trips within 2 hrs) did not register
• MPG Petrol & Diesel Figures/Car Economics 17 Nov 2021 (Forum)
  or model I’ll get. They are all family hatchbacks, and the following are in the running: Ford Focus, VW Golf, Seat Leon, Kia C’eed, Hyundai i30, Mazda 3, Toyota Corolla. Obviously years and mileage vary plus specs available. I’ll focus on the Golf figures, as it’s been the leading candidate, but thinking
• all makes - Antifreeze- Blue vs Orange/Red 8 Oct 2021 (Forum)
  ?   In a modern engine the cooling system works incredibly hard it contains less fluid than a decade ago and works at higher pressures. Tolerances are much finer & as little as 0.6mm of scale can reduce heat transfer by 40% often leading to overheating of the engine
• Compact SUV Possibly Hybrid - Please Clue Me Up 13 Aug 2021 (Forum)
  thread here lead me to buy a 1l Toyota Yaris with a fairly basic speck. The car stayed in the family and since 2003 it's never let us down. I've just handed that over to someone else to carry on motoring, but I've been happy driving this as needs be. In 2006 I bought a Range Rover Sports HSE
• Cataract Surgery 23 Jul 2019 (Forum)
  lead to the wrong lens being fitted if surgery was approved. Lying about the pin holes not improving vision would ensure I did not get cataract surgery since it proved that my vision loss would be macular degeneration linked which would mean surgery would not improve my vision and mean I did
• VW Passat - Scammed by (deleted) 15 Jun 2017 (Forum)
  I have decided to expose xxxx on all the forums I can, after what they did to me as CAB couldn't do anything.  I paid £2000 for a recon engine in my passat and regretted it badly, the car came back with endless problems which ultimately lead me to trade the thing in for a big
• Advice on a future used car purchase 31 Jan 2017 (Forum)
  locking is playing up and I'm concerned it may lead to a more serious, show stopping issue. I'm caught in two minds whether to buy something roughly 10 years old - petrol, FSH, maybe 1 owner, a brand/model thats generally considered reliable or go for something like a 3 year old Auris (maybe
• 2003 1.8l Mondeo Estate, 144k miles - Ford Mondeo Mk3 Hesitates and Stutters during acce 23 Apr 2015 (Forum)
  is turned over with a plug lead disconnected - they generate such a high voltage without a plug to limit it, that the internal insulation breaks down. It could also be a partial blockage in the fuel system, if changing the fuel filter disturbed some crud in the pipes. A tank of Premium unleaded
• Any - Analysis of Rechargeable Battery - Electric Cars 16 Jul 2014 (Forum)
  ' nature of this activity is ideally suited to rechargeable battery-electric propulsion. (Milk delivery floats, and golf buggy carts, commonly seen in the mid to late 20 th century even used heavy Lead-Acid batteries and yet they seemed to work satisfactorily
• ANY - Inefficiency of Rechargeable Battery-Electric Cars 12 Jul 2014 (Forum)
  ' nature of this activity is ideally suited to rechargeable battery-electric propulsion. (Milk delivery floats, and golf buggy carts, commonly seen in the mid to late 20 th century even used heavy Lead-Acid batteries and yet they seemed to work satisfactorily
• Effective Goal Setting 25 Jun 2012 (Forum)
  different ways to use a paper clip. The second group, knowing it has to meet a specific goal, usually lists 25 to 30 uses. Specific, achievable goals lead to effective goal setting. Be Specific Goals should be specific. Every year, as the end of December approaches, abounding humans boldness to lose
• Renault Clio 1 Petrol (1991 - 1998) - 93 1.2 Cat red hot, cyl 1 plug carboned, black 31 Jul 2010 (Forum)
  and others realised that the problem is probably that cylinder 1 is not firing properly, and that excessive un-burnt fuel from there is being ?burnt? in the CAT (its job). Obviously this releases a lot of heat!!!! Found distributor cover was very messed up so, replaced, plugs, leads, distributor cover
• Hit and Run Compensation 3 Jun 2010 (Forum)
  before and got away with it then, in the criminal courts as the person they hit then was a family friend and they got the case dropped.  Which leads on if the police were brave and took action first time around maybe this driver would of got the message but they let him run free which
• Mazda Mazda 6 (2002 - 2007) - 03 2.0 Engine cutting out - diesel 17 Oct 2009 (Forum)
  filter has been changed, this is why. My car had a full service history up until I bought it, but when we changed the fuel / diesel filter I found it to be very, very dirty inside and was also surprised to see it was a Denso fuel filter which lead me to believe it may never have been replaced from new