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• MINI Cooper and Cooper S - Insured but no legal cover serious accident 18 Feb 2015 (Forum)
  My grandson 19 was hit when he was turning right into side road by a carcoming from behind and overtaking several vehicles. He and his passenger (his...
• Ford zetec S - Car juddering creak noise will it ruin car/transmi 24 Sep 2014 (Forum)
  If  car judders if it was about to stall by making a creak noise will it ruin the clutch,transmission,gearbox in this situation? I drive a manual...
• Ford Focus Mk1 - Ford Focus Mk1 or Mk2, Zetec.. Or ST170 24 Aug 2014 (Forum)
  probably opt for the 1.6..But should I be considering buying a car this age? Is it false economy if it needs constant repairs etc.,    I see no end of Mk1's on the road which is a good advert  to the quality, but my gut feeling is to hold on until I might be able to afford
• Vauxhall Omega 2.5 td gls auto 1998 - ignition 26 Nov 2013 (Forum)
  just bought a vauxhall omega 2.5 td gls automatic s reg 1998 can anyone tell me if they are a reliable motor? there is a problem that i am trying to sort out but can not seem to get any where recently i at to change the clocks in the car as the rev counter needle and the speedo clock needle
• Mazda 6 petrol - smelly exhaust 6 Jul 2012 (Forum)
  o2 sensor was lazy. Changed the cat and front o2 sensor which is a 5 wire 2 plug  with second hand one,s which i was told was working fine on car they came off but the egg smell is still there. Engine starts fine, drives fine, plenty of power does low 30's around town,on motorway
• Megane dynamique + 2.0 ltr IDE convertible 2001 - Non Runing Megane 10 Sep 2011 (Forum)
  . Does any have any wiring diragam for this please?? 3, The b***** thing`s will not start as well any help would be great. 4, It open/closes on the remote, the engine turns over fine just will not fire up the fault codes are as follows DF054 Ring supply DF055
• Ford Fiesta Saloon Zetec S 55 Reg - Passenger airbag deployment/dash section 8 May 2011 (Forum)
  Hi there, First of all I would like to apologise for my distinct lack of car knowledge, it's basically zero, so please excuse me if I have to ask anybody...
• ford c-MAX 2.0 tdci iv ghia - soot and oil on caravan 24 Aug 2010 (Forum)
  of the car.  Also when you look at the exhaust compared to two other 2.0 tdci mondeos I drive the end of the exhaust is much blacker. Another observation about the car is that the normal fuel consumption has gradually gone from the high 30's to the low 30's.  When you touch the material
• Drugs bust imminent - firework warning 20 Jul 2010 (Forum)
  I was taliking about this to a PCO, in the City this Morning - and he said the `fireworks` were a likely warning of a drugs bust in the area. Last night at 9.30pm - the previous night at 10.00pm. It`s a gigantic firework that puts five coloured booming, airbursts up to around 300ft
• Enduring bodges - the oilcan 2 Jun 2010 (Forum)
  the handle off. I`d only bought it a few weeks back - so found a bit of malleable sc*** and twisted it around the two parts of the handle with a mole wrench. Yeah, I remember - hot as it is today and the heat on your back and gratitude that you could still use the oilcan although it`s handle was now
• Volkswagen Golf III (1992 - 1997) - 95 1.8 High exhaust emissions at high idle. 12 Feb 2010 (Forum)
  on the car. If anybody has any other suggestions / ideas please fire away. Thanks, S
• Suzuki Baleno (1995 - 2002 ) - 01 1.6 not working after service/new battery-Cam S 3 Dec 2009 (Forum)
  I have a Suzuki Baleno that had never been very happy in cold/damp weather. I had a couple of days where it took a lot of willpower and persuasion to...
• Do the VED bands mean the end of the petrol V6? 11 Nov 2009 (Forum)
  Both the cars in my household have V6 petrol engines with automatic transmission. One is a 2000 Jag S type with 3 litre engine and the other is a 1999 MB W202 with 2.4 litre engine. At the moment I'm still paying the old-style VED because both cars are pre-2001. But both are well over 100,000
• Secondhand parts posted/received - returns? 24 Apr 2009 (Forum)
  . They sent another component when I told them. This was the correct one, but unserviceable. Not I have two parts, one incorrect but OK, one correct but U/S. I have now decided to buy a new component, rather than wait about for more wrong/US ones to be sent. I want to return the one(s) they have already
• Mazda - Mazda Website- Test participants wanted. 22 Apr 2009 (Forum)
  My name is Peter van Lanschot and I am a user experience designer. I work for a company called Syzygy, where we build Mazda's websites. We?re testing a new web site we?re currently working on at the moment for Mazda so we can see what it?s like for actual people to use it. I need a total of 6 test
• Ford Fiesta (1995 - 1999) - 97 1.3 Cabin light problem & 'lights on' warning s 12 Feb 2009 (Forum)
  Hi all, Just picked up a P reg Fiesta 1.3 - glad to see that the few 'quirks' that I have experienced with the car mostly seem to be simple, common &...
• Ford Fiesta (1995 - 1999) - 1998 1.3 Engine noise - loose air duct ? 30 Oct 2008 (Forum)
  for at my friendly local Ford parts desk? Is it just a new foam washer I need, or is there something else that holds the duct in place that has fallen off? Here are some pictures: http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=16898uh&s=4 http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=zl3fpl&s=4 Thanks
• Best kept motoring or car based `secrets` 26 May 2008 (Forum)
  Back in the early 1980`s I was working with young TWOC-ers and was once in a `place`being shown a ledger book with page after page of registration numbers, all of the same make and model. Unbelievable really, but it was reckoned that just about every car of that type in the town and surrounding
• Fuel consumption figures 16 Mar 2008 (Forum)
  miles\" or some other such inter-galactic distance. Yeah, right. Underlying the official figures lists is a fun, intra-industry game in which one firm\'s boffins try to outsmart another\'s by ECU tweaks and other arcane manoeuvres. Intellectually satisfying to them, results in league-table positioning
• Dual Mass Flywheel Problems - RAV 4 25 Jun 2007 (Forum)
  I would appreciate if someone could tell me if DMF`s were introduced specifically to cope with the increased torque outputs of modern diesel engines, or are they also now fitted to petrol units. I ask because I am considering buying a 2005/2006 (old model) 2.0 litre petrol RAV 4, and have been