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• what new car??? 10 Jun 2003 (Forum)
  I need some advice over what car to get next, have been looking at a few but can't decide..........mazda mx5, honda civic type R, mini cooper S, peoguot 206cc, im looking to spend roughly 14-17k. I always thought i'd always have VW's until i owned my troublesome bug and now i can't decide
• Liquid air fresheners - warning 7 Apr 2003 (Forum)
  plastic and switch rendered inoperative (stuck). The air freshener manufacturers warn against the aggressive effects of these oils - believe them. Cost £££'s to replace the switch assembly. :-( Oz (as was)
• Starter motor prob? 6 Apr 2003 (Forum)
  I am not sure if I should be concerned or not so would appreciate any advice that you might have. My wife\'s Golf Mk3 1.6 is to my untechnical mind being a bit funny. When you turn the ignition, everything seems a bit asmatic and doesn\'t seem to know whether it wants to fire up (or rather turn
• Do they ever get caught? 13 Mar 2003 (Forum)
  I witnessed some suicidally reckless driving on the M25 this morning, literally a whisker away from causing carnage. As the perpetrator sped from the...
• front wheel alignement 4 Feb 2003 (Forum)
  Recently had the tracking done on my wife?s car and as often happens the steering wheel has become slightly misaligned. To correct this in the past I adjust the trackrod ends exactly the same on each end. I do this by marking it in relation to its rod and then adjusting one clockwise and one anti
• Is gentle driving bad for an engine? 13 Dec 2002 (Forum)
  In a similar vein to Mark(RLBS)'s thread on 'mollycoddling' cars, does anyone know if continually driving in a restrained manner can actually damage your car's engine? I vaguely remember reading somewhere that failure to 'exercise' the engine into the upper rev range can cause problems. Can
• Was he? Or Wasn't he? 19 Nov 2002 (Forum)
  Reported in The Times. A well known celebrity chef get's pulled for driving the wrong way up a one way street - fails a breath test. Further report a...
• X5 mad! 29 Sep 2002 (Forum)
  From what HJ's news report says, people are spending crazy money on X5's. Not the type of car I like myself but it looks like people really don't care if the car is imported or not so long as it has the toys (and from Holland, you generally get more toys as standard than youdo in the UK
• Kia Sportage 30 Aug 2002 (Forum)
  Hi Guys and Girls I own a Kia Sportage (S Reg) and I must say I love it! A few questions you good people might help me with:- 1) Do you know where I can buy a back cover to hide the boot space ( You can see whats in it from the window) 2) Do you know where you can buy roof racsk for it ( It has
• Attn:R.ASPINAL re MINI 20 Aug 2002 (Forum)
  Just found an old thread in the Archive that I think I've got a solution for. If you're still getting a low speed clunk when setting off in the MINI, the unofficial MINI website explains it : http://www.mini2.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=6733 Basically, it could be the ABS self testing
• Audi & Castrol SLX OIl 26 Jun 2002 (Forum)
  I see in the latest Audi Magazine that they are now suggesting oil change intervals (even with P.D. Diesel engines) of 30,000 miles using Castrol`s fully synthetic oil - SLX, and after initial trials have found no measurable wear on mechanicals. From personable experience with an Audi A4 2.8 V6
• En route 15 Apr 2002 (Forum)
  national. After years of 'just a bit further and we'll find the camp site' we've decided to go for a night's stop and a bit less pressure. Cheers and thanks in advance Colin S
• Subaru Forester PX Berlingo/Kangoo 12 Mar 2002 (Forum)
  I have a new client who needs a Berlingo/Kangoo type utility vehicle for a new business venture. They have a 99T Subaru Forester S Turbo to dispose of. The new venture is top priority so they have very little time to ?shop around? or dispose of the Subaru privately, so they are looking for a part
• Hoarding 11 Mar 2002 (Forum)
  gauges, Whitworth spanners, micrometers, engineer?s blue ? 6v car bulbs. Is there anything more redundant than a slide rule? Is it a gender thing, do all men hoard? BobH
• Able to drive? 24 Feb 2002 (Forum)
  Are there any physical conditions, other than blindness and simple inability to handle the controls, that preclude a person,s roight to drive? For example, I have met drivers who are blind in one eye, another profoundly deaf, others with diabetes and several with angina. All of these either affect
• Personal registration 28 Jan 2002 (Forum)
  I have been offered S2 NNM (my initials) today by junk mail from a company called Alpha One, Amersham, Bucks for the apparently very reasonable price of £360 plus VAT and DOT assignment fee of £80. I very much fancy this registration for my S reg Rover 600. Does anyone have any experience
• Summer Toy Suggestions 23 Jan 2002 (Forum)
  about £5K and could be turned into a winter resto' project later in the year. Up for consideration were : A '60's American ragtop A Frogeye Sprite or MG Any other suggestions or recommendations ? Kevin...
• New Corolla 8 Jan 2002 (Forum)
  Had a tour around the new Toyota Corolla the other day. Very impressed! Beautiful fit & finish, especially in the cabin, whith nice plastics and a very 'German' ambience. I've owned two Corollas before (a s/hand F reg 1.6 exec hatch - nice, and a K reg saloon - bland and boring, but both totally
• Car Reviews and advertising 5 Jan 2002 (Forum)
  An interesting article in today?s Telegraph when ?Motormouth?(Mike Rutherford) resisted the advances of high powered Ford PR men and wrote a pretty damning article on the new Fiesta. Admittedly a subjective view, but there seems to be a correlation between the amount of advertising manufacturers
• Who needs it? 10 Oct 2001 (Forum)
  In an unrelated thread last week, a comment about manufacturers adding new bits just to make us change to a new model caught my eye. Yes, yes. So, let's hear it........... Which new modification(s) in recent years have been wholly superfluous ... or worse, just a darned nuisance? I'll