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• TV Road Tax Advert 23 Oct 2003 (Forum)
  Hi Backroomers, A couple of years ago, there was an advert on my local radio station, using a re-worded version of the Chitty Chitty Bang Bang song - 'our road tax dodging friend' or was it fiend? I e-mailed the radio station and the DVLA to inform them that Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is exempt from
• Motor May 13th 1972 8 Jan 2002 (Forum)
  Lotus bottom half engine for £50. A full page ad for a Pioneer 8-track stereo with long and medium wave radio. A mouthwatering group test of the Aston martin DBS V8, Citroen SM, Lamborghini Espada and the V12 E-type. Their conclusion was that you should make up your own mind. Having said
• Suzuki Celerio - Start Stop disable 7 Feb 2024 (Forum)
  , therefore wearing the thrust bearing over the long term or sit there with radio, lights and blowers on using just the battery.  Not to mention that I find it cannot be doing the engine any good continuously being stopped and started.  Call me old fashioned but I just do not like
• Vauxhall ... advertising campaign - A grumpy pedant 10 Aug 2019 (Forum)
  Recently I have heard (too frequently for my liking) radio advertisements for Vauxhall promoting the company as “a British company since 1903” as though that should be a major selling attraction. If the advertisement had been for cars built in Britain since 1903
• Volvo 440/460 - Battery explosion 12 Apr 2019 (Forum)
  On Saturday 6th we had a vehicle with a flat battery- so my wife fetched me a spare, recently charged battery in a wheel barrow. We connected it up and left it for 10 minutes. then I turned the ignition on and watched as all functions came up, turned off the radio, and after a wait of perhaps
• Ford Fiesta Zetec 2006 - Ford 6000 CD 6 Jan 2019 (Forum)
  Hi folks, Hope I'm posting this in the right place, if not apologies! Just replaced the battery in a Ford Fiesta 06 plate and of course the radio has now been rebooted. I don't have a code or a manual to refer to which has left me a bit stumped. Tried holding in '6
• All makes - Cloned Cars 8 Dec 2018 (Forum)
  Interesting discussion on Radio 4 consumer programme about a guy who bought a cloned car after having it checked clear from a RAC inspection. The VIN number from the windscreen was taken as reference but this had been swapped somehow. The honest John vehicle check came under
• Ford Focus - Noise after pull off 25 Aug 2016 (Forum)
  as radio is having problems. So wanted to identify this problem to tell fords to sort it at the same time.
• Mercedes C Clas 2004 - Problems following battery change 9 Mar 2016 (Forum)
  .   The battery works fine but for some reason the radio’s sort of wonky, drifting off the station – as though someone’s nicked the aerial and although I can physically lock the car with the metal bit inside the key fob, the button to lock/unlock and alarm it on the fob no longer works
• 2007 Audi A4 turbo 2.0 automatic - loud ticking sound on Audi A4 1 May 2015 (Forum)
  For the past 6 months, my audi a4 has been ticking and rattling.  I've taken it to two different repair shops and neither of them can figure out where it's coming from.  They both tell me to turn up the radio if it bothers me which is not acceptable.  The noise is getting louder
• International Driving Licence 29 Apr 2015 (Forum)
  £12 and we had to find a main post office in order to apply for this. Finally I heard a snippet on the radio news yesterday, but didn't catch the message. Any thoughts / opinions gladly received. Thanks Paul
• Renault Clio Mk II Automatic - Renault Clio intermittent starting 23 Sep 2014 (Forum)
  Once in a blue moon (ie every 2-3 months or so) my Clio automatic (O2 reg) won't start! When I turn the key I hear a relay clicking, but no starter motor action.  The dashboard lights stay lit, but the radio/central console lights go out.  Then after a couple of days or so, when I try
• Audi A6 2.7Tdi estate - Audi A6 complete engine failure 28 Jul 2014 (Forum)
  came to a complete stop.  I turned off the ignition - thankful no-one was behind me - and then on stage 1 the radio came back on - so I had power - but nothing else.  I waited for 5 minutes wondering what to do - and then tried again (as you do!) and it all came back on and I got home ok
• Grand Prix - exciting? 9 Jul 2014 (Forum)
  The Radio Times this week has a picture of the start of the British Grand Prix in 1965. http://f1.imgci.com/PICTURES/CMS/8300/8360.jpg I wasn't even born when this was taken, but I can see the sense of excitement in that picture, the noise, the smell. Yes, i know that people died
• Ford Focus - key not detected 6 May 2014 (Forum)
  on the dashboard up near the two green turn signal indicator lights started to flash intermittently, no pattern......just random flashes.....any clues? Also I noticed that once in a while the amber light/icon showing a car on slippery roads flashes Oh and the radio has started cutting out
• TP or not TP? that is the question.... 14 Jun 2013 (Forum)
  I use the TP programme on my car radio for traffic news. Increasingly I notice, between rush hours, that there is no news, only re-cycled reports from earlier problems. This only applies to BBC local stations but they are inclined to interrupt other BBC programmes at inappropriate
• Anyone driven the new Panda? 20 May 2013 (Forum)
  for my family. Only 1 airbag and no power steering though - should that bother me? I can live with the manual windows, locks, and lack of radio. Will only be doing approx 6k miles/year (second car) and I want something as new as possible, so I know what I'm getting. I plan to keep it several years
• 1994 corsa b,1.4i. 3 door hatchback. - Heater not working,and heater fan direction not re 16 Jan 2013 (Forum)
  in when it is supposed to. The heater fan works on all speeds,but when it is placed on the windscreen no air is coming out of the vents. I changed the radio on it,but the co-axial cable was very short,and slipped inside the dash, I had to pull it to get enough length to fit
• Ford Focus 2004 1.8 TDCI - Not starting - Tone from Dashboard 2 May 2012 (Forum)
  . Radio and all dashboard lights etc come on and the guage needles work. Initially I needed to turn the key 2 or three times and the engine would fire, then it got worse and started to take many more turns. After maybe 10-15 turns in quick succession I get a 1 second long tone from the dashboard
• Ford Mondeo TDCI 2.0 130 2005 - Knocking sound 28 Feb 2012 (Forum)
  Hello Any help appreciated I have a 2005 Mondeo TDCI 130 with 99k on the clock, bought in Dec 2011 wit 97k. All was good until yesterday, slowed for a traffic light, clutch in, stopped, sounded and felt like something "engaged" and a knocking started, I could hear over the radio and feel through