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• Mitsubishi parts & pricing 15 Mar 2005 (Forum)
  change). Told that Mitsi don't sell their own coolant anymore. "What do you use then?". Reply - "Oh, just anything - the cheapest". "Erm....OK" (Scratches head and rolls eyes). 2. Ask for oil filter. Cost is £17.95!! Is this a 'Made in Japan' filter flown over from Tokyo with its own seat
• Volvo 850 performance 13 Feb 2005 (Forum)
  enough for me to immediately ease off! The car seems to have been well cared for (bought it two weeks ago) and has been regularly serviced. Would a bit of TLC make any difference do you think? i.e. new air filter, plugs, oil change etc. (i realise it wouldn't hurt!) Any advice appreciated Regards Bob
• Toyota Starlet - Value 8 Feb 2005 (Forum)
  any opinions welcome: It is a 1995 M reg Toyota Starlet Kudos 1.3 manual petrol. I would describe it's condition as "very good" to "excellent", although not "mint", after all it's nearly 10 years old. It has recently had an oil & filter change, full valet and had brand new front discs and pads
• Semi-mothballed car 9 Sep 2004 (Forum)
  in the garage, in neutral with the wheels chocked and handbrake off. What should I be doing to look after it? I'm getting it serviced next week (the 70k service is tiny, just an oil change and level checks) and new brake pads and front tyres put on. Cam belt isn't due for another 10k or 1 year according
• Corsa Diesel - Glow Plug Problem 10 Jul 2004 (Forum)
  Hi. My wife has a 1.5 Diesel Corsa (Feb 1995). It has done 67,000 miles since we bought it from new. It does 400 miles a week on the motorway and is serviced regularly, oil changes at 6,000 miles and we use Shell Diesel fuel. The problem that we have is with starting. It "eats" glow plugs. We
• Xantia HDi90/110 9 Oct 2003 (Forum)
  it a bung it on the ZX - but is that possible? Both are P reg - Xantia has done over 170 K miles and not had anything spent on it (not sure he has even ever changed the oil which probably accounts for the turbo bearings going!) He would like to retain the ZX for his son to learn to drive in but doesn't
• Master Red Key On Honda 1.8VTI 15 Sep 2003 (Forum)
  up' a master key when it was not sold with one. Anything I can do? 2) What exactly is the key needed for when it's being serviced? The most they do on a basic service is change the oil? 3) Was told by Honda dealer locally that it will cost approx £120 + VAT for the key, plus fitting??? I must have
• Toyota reliability/value for money 10 Oct 2002 (Forum)
  on it has been 4 new Michelins, one set of front pads and wiper blades. I change filter and oil (Mobil 1) 3 times a year and coolant every 18 months. Listed at £19 K, I got it from a supersite for less than £12K. Given that any local taxi firm would probably jump to give me £4K even now, I consider
• Gearbox noise in intermediate gears 6 Oct 2002 (Forum)
  changes pitch in-line with engine speed. It's not metallic, more a whistling noise and it isn't very loud (quite quiet actually). It also happens to a lesser extent when accelerating lightly in these two gears. When maintaining a constant speed, accelerating hard, accelerating above around 2000 revs or so
• Mystery 309! What is wrong? 24 Jan 2002 (Forum)
  re: the Head Gasket questions and answers posed earlier today! just spoke to the mechanic who was looking at the peugeot today. Apparantly he says its a lost cause, doesn' want to get involved becasue the motor is only running on two cylinders, is burning diesel oil (smoky exhaust) and the heater
• reluctant Xanti TD starting 15 Nov 2001 (Forum)
  specialist. I also change the oil myself in between the 6,000 service intervals. For about the last 25,000 miles it has been a bit reluctant to start. I tend to use the heater plugs twice and it always starts quite well. It never fails to start if I do this and once started it runs perfectly, but unless I do
• Hyundai i20 1.2 litre Comfort 5 dr - Gross Negligence - Annual Service and MOT 25 May 2017 (Forum)
  on the outer pads by viewing through the alloy wheel spokes whereas, surely the annual service would include removal of all the road wheels to enable a proper inspection and report to be made? As it turned out it was little more than an oil and filter change plus a wash and valet plus an on site MOT - even
• Opal Corsa B Sport 1995 - C14SE 1995 emissions 26 Mar 2014 (Forum)
  gaskets, bolts and seals following a gasket blowout between #3&4. Filter is clean. recent oil and filter change. Coolant consumption minimal, oil consumption 1L per 6,000Km Failed test on High emissions; CO 7.82% Idle CO 12.15% Idle
• Audi A4 (1995 - 2000) - Possible purchase. What do you all think? 15 Dec 2007 (Forum)
  . I´d need a new set of lights (eBay) for its TüV (MoT equiv). And I would probably change the cambelt/WP, and have heard this is a bit fiddly on the 2.6 V6 (for fiddly read expensive). Bit of wind noise where the windscreen has been incompetently replaced. Of course, any money I put in I would
• VW Inspection service lunacy 27 Jun 2003 (Forum)
  I went to my local dealer in London (SW11) yesterday to price a basic first inspection service on a 2003 petrol Passat. Quoted a hilarious GBP183 for what is essentially an oil change and check of the brakes. My dealer local to my parents (Bolton) wants GBP66 for the same service. Assuming
• Repair receipts 29 Mar 2021 (Forum)
  engine didn't fit and he needed to buy some in. I should have taken note at this point but I had a busy few months and it didn't register properly at the time. I asked for an itemised bill and received a receipt stating; Replace complete cam belt kit + water pump Oil + filter change
• B Max - Valuation 4 Dec 2017 (Forum)
  . Nor am I in a position to trade in at a dealer for a new car, so it would have to be "used low mileage" again.  Obviously they have to see the car first to make a final offer, but I have to admit, I'm tempted. The car is clean, having had oil change and new front brakes and tyres since I
• Any - What do you carry with you? 13 Sep 2017 (Forum)
  Partly a bit of silliness, partly serious.  What stuff do you always carry with you in the car? A question prompted by the fact that when I changed my car recently, I was amazed at the amount of rubbish I'd been lugging around  in the old one,  much of it only being
• Mazda Mazda 6 (2008 -) - 08 2.0d DPF problems 12 Feb 2013 (Forum)
  to the garage, where they say it needs an oil change, filter change and the DPF system regenerated (at a cost of £250+). They also said the service record computer on the car said this had happened before and a dealer had 'wiped the computer', even though I have never taken it to a dealer before. The long
• Audi A3 1.8T - Juddering, bad idle 3 Jul 2010 (Forum)
  if it means anything but it has been worse since I serviced it a week ago, I changed the oil & filter, air filter & spark plugs. Sinced the problem started I have checked the coil packs, changed the MAF sensor and the pre cat lambda sensor but still havnt cured it! Any ideas?