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• Company Car opt-out and the industry 22 Dec 2005 (Forum)
  In the last couple of years huge swathes of former company car drivers have opted out and now run their own cars. This is in part due to subtle persuasion by the government and also by companies such as my own. My question for discussion is as follows, is this harming the sale of high-spec luxury
• problems with FireFox and Kia 27 Aug 2005 (Forum)
  Is anyone else having a problem with the Kia Pop up ad locking up Firefox. I have tried it on 2 different PC's, One running XP the other running W2000Pro, And I have the same problem on both. When I have Clicked on the Kia Popup (either by accident or on purpose) a new window appears
• astra d 22 Aug 2005 (Forum)
  ok here we go, astra 1700 none turbo gm engine, 1994, car starts ok, runs for 20 seconds, stops then wont start. turn it over for 20 minutes, on and off, then it might start, then it will run all day. i have tried removing the solonoid spring and bullet, makes no difference. tried putting pipe
• Optimax Dream Car promotion 26 May 2005 (Forum)
  Only yesterday did I become aware of the new Dream Car promotion run by Shell and the Sunday Times, via sales of Optimax. It has been running since 5 May and goes on until 6 July, but my regular filling station gave me no cards until yesterday. Note that no purchase is necessary and that cards can
• Spare Wheels 3 May 2005 (Forum)
  I am asking this question purely out of curiosity. Many early cars that I have seen in films etc, either had the spare wheel mounted on the outside of the boot, or occasionally on the side "running board". At what stage did it become norm for these to come inside the car into the boot and what
• citroen ax '92' ignition light problems 18 Nov 2004 (Forum)
  fine....Took the car for a drive came home half an hour later and wouldn't start again. I then bought a new battery as I the one I had was very old and had been run flat many a time after replacing it the car ran fine no probs.....but now 3 weeks on the ignition light is playing up...It either doesn't
• Hit & Run Nightmare 4 Oct 2004 (Forum)
  Hi everyone, Last night, returning from the cinema we took the usual short cut along a fairly narrow twisty stretch of road, from Scunthorpe towards the...
• Trading down car sizes. 25 May 2004 (Forum)
  As much as I love my Rover 75 CDTi I kind of need to make a hand over heart decision that is difficult but for reasons I can't explain (yet) is probably financially the right thing to do. So I'm thinking of buying something smaller and a bit cheaper to run towards the end of the year as the 75
• Cavalier 16V Ecotec Failed MOT Emissions 1 Apr 2004 (Forum)
  My 2.0 Cavalier SRI 16V (Ecotec X20XEV) just failed the MOT due to high CO reading. The CO reading was 0.59% in the high-revs test (around 4000rpm I think) compared with the pass limit of 0.3%. On the other hand the CO drops to around 0.3% at tickover. The guy tried his best by running fast
• Fiesta automatic choke problems 4 Dec 2003 (Forum)
  Please can someone help me! I'm a student and have been running a 1.1 mk3 (L reg) fiesta on a shoestring but i think I've finally met my match. Basicly whenever I try and start the car using the "cold start" procedure or otherwise it floods the engine. The engine turns and ALMOST fires, but doesn't
• Mk I Mondeo Roof Bars 16 Sep 2003 (Forum)
  Has anyone got any experience of fitting original Ford roof rails (the ones running running from front to back) on a secondhand estate. All the aftermarket ones look pretty weedy & don't have a large enough distance apart (front to back) to give me chance of carrying large timber sheets etc. I
• AC - Cross threaded spark plug 17 Jul 2003 (Forum)
  Can anyone help? I have a 1992 Astra and have found that a spark plug (second from distributor cap) has been cross threaded. The car appears to run fine because it was not until yesterday I found this out when I went to change the plugs. The plug in question goes in about two thirds of the way
• HELP!! Ford Escort 17 Jun 2003 (Forum)
  and keep your foot on the accelerator. At this point it appears to be running on 3 cylinders, and some black smoke is comming out of the exhaust. After about 5-7 mins of high-ish revs, i get a puff of blackish smoke, the revs increase and the car then runs smoothly!! I have changed the spark plugs, HT
• The Back Room Poll 16 May 2003 (Forum)
  hiccups) we\'ll be running a poll (kindly supplied free of charge by http://www.alxnet.com ). Wowbagger\'s suggestions included \"How long is it since you last read the Highway Code?\", so that will be the subject of the first poll, but if anyone else has suggestions for subsequent polls, post them here
• Rover 820 Oil Loss 3 May 2003 (Forum)
  it (not at idle...). My immediate reaction was to take the spark plugs out assuming the worst on one of the cylinders but apart from being slightly sooty from running a little overrich, they were fine and not "wet" or clogged/sooted up from oil as I would expect with this kind of oil loss. The car also runs
• Mini charging problem 5 Mar 2003 (Forum)
  First thanks to everyone who contributed to my running on problen I seem to have it sorted out, I bet i have spoken too soon now but at least if it returns i know how to deal with it. What is more of concern/annoyance is my charging problem. I'm terrible with electrics, the alternator when
• Cheap Motoring 28 Nov 2002 (Forum)
  Hello Back Roomers I have to travel 60 miles each way to get to work and to do this, I bought a 94 Montego diesel Countryman (£500). I roughly average about 42 mpg and this costs me around £50 a week in fuel. However, while the engine is still running like brand new (well running anyway
• Hit and Run follow up 8 Sep 2002 (Forum)
  Following a road accident near Bishop Auckland, Co. Durham on 1.4.2002 when the driver of a motor car ran over and fatally injured a 6 year old child,...
• Baa Codes. 17 Mar 2002 (Forum)
  sitting there as patient as anything. The "pulse" of opposing traffic died out and still we waited, waited and waited. Anyway the passanger of the car in front got out, I thought "strange" only to run back, get in and the driver to pull out past the bus, I of course followed to find ourselves short
• Ford diesel 1600 problem 3 Jan 2002 (Forum)
  I have an old 1985/86 Ford diesel estate car which I use for running my dogs around in. I have driven it for over 2 yrs. without experiencing any problems whatsoever. However when I tried to start it the other morning it would not start. Since then my boyfriend has checked the glow plugs