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• Alfa - Cambelt Woes 18 Mar 2005 (Forum)
  if necessary). Does anyone have (or know of) an official Alfa document number or id that proves this one way or the other. Am I right to expect Alfa or the deale rto meet a good proportion of the cost above (car is 3.5 years old). bit of a long first post so thanks for bearing with me. cheers.
• Renault Modus 17 Oct 2004 (Forum)
  Anyone bought a Modus yet? In this month's 'Diesel Car' magazine it is very well written up. For 10K this seems a cracking little car and certainly it felt thoroughly well built when I went to the dealer today. It seems to have the charm and character of the old Renault Five but obviously better
• Sitting with clutch depressed - good? 5 Dec 2003 (Forum)
  is, am I damaging something somewhere? Surely I must be stretching or wearing something doing this? On my old car, depressing the clutch in used to stop an annoying rattling; I think someone mentioned it might have been an "idler gear" ? I guess it's been habbit since then....
• Mondeo TDCi 24 Sep 2003 (Forum)
  I have a Mondeo TDCi 15 months old with 26000 miles.Since May it has spent some considerable time at the dealers with a reoccurring fault.ie. Management light comes on and shuts down to "limp home mode". Cold starting is not good with rough running and smoke.The car went in last week for three days
• Hard to value 30 Aug 2003 (Forum)
  Well these two certainly were. The Great Trade Centre is well known for shifting highish mileage, mainstream cars from 1 to 4 years old. Anything else and it doesn't really know what to do with them. So what was it doing with these in stock: A 96P Polo 1.4 Harlequin (the one with the body
• VW Golf battery going flat 28 Mar 2003 (Forum)
  I have a 20 month old Halfords HCB063 "heavy duty" battery in my 1999 Golf GTI (the VW battery lasted 30 months). After parking the car for 4 days there's only enough in the battery to turnover the engine for a fraction of a second. The car lives on a daily diet of two 14 mile, 1/2 hour runs a day
• Well fancy that.. 26 Nov 2002 (Forum)
  The largest bill for fictious work carried out on a woman's car by garage mechanics was on of £6322.88 by ********** of Stevenage. Calling in for a routine service on her 1 year old Peugeout 305 Mrs June ***** agreed to pay for amongst other things: new trumpets (£752), cracked Gangle Pin (£1785
• Renault Clio alternator 1 Oct 2002 (Forum)
  is, "the alternator is miss aligned". Renault are prepared to pay %40 of the cost of the part. As the car is only 2 1/2 years old and it has only done 15000 miles I feel a little miffed. Has any one else had similar problems the car has a 1400cc 16v engine and was registered in 2000 Hwyl
• Speedo digits ......... 15 Sep 2002 (Forum)
  the service history and the car had been serviced @ 39204 miles - so the displayed milage was probably genuine. It is less than 3 years old, so no MOT's to veryify it. Is this anything to worry about? Its a Vauxhall Omega BTW. Any hints comments? Regards ........ Robert
• Golf V6- 4 Motion / 1.8 T 10 Sep 2002 (Forum)
  I have been a Golf fan for many years and currently own a 95 VR6. I am in the process of changing my motor for a newer model before things start going downhill on my 7 year old bundle of joy. I have heard many varied reports about the new V6, and indeed the Gti Turbo saying that it is no longer
• kids and cars! -advice needed 5 Jul 2002 (Forum)
  As I don\'t like to waste a good worry, could anyone out there manage to assuage my slight concern as to whether a flattish, triangular-shaped sea shell approximately 10p sized that was flicked by a young 8 year-old lad of my acquaintance (god bless his banjaxed ears) from the back seat of my
• Lexus and cats 7 Jan 2002 (Forum)
  I would like to buy an old Lexus LS400. What terrifies me is catalytic converters. I have never owned a car that had one and don't want to. I think that all Lexus's had them from new as standard even before the legislation that made them compulsory. Here are the questions: 1) Were Lexus's
• Automec brake fluid 5 Feb 2001 (Forum)
  ". Contacting stockists left me much less enthusiastic! Feedback ranged from "don't stock it anymore mate - no demand" to "it's allright for old cars but not so sure about moderns" - and they are selling it!! What's going on? Is it really OK to use on cars with ABS, ASP etc? I was intending to use it on our
• Advice on replacing my car in UK - sellers market? 11 Jun 2024 (Forum)
  Like most people I know I was hanging on to my 10 year old diesel KIA as long as possible having heard how bad the UK car market is today.   Sadly someone driving on wrong side of road hit me head on writing the car off and nearly killing me just before Christmas.  4 months
• Have I gone mad? 11 Apr 2012 (Forum)
  Now, I need (no, I MUST have) a car that is totally 100% reliable, as I'm the kitchen manager for Meals On Wheels, and I work 7 days a work (hence the new car - as I do upwards of 15000 miles per year) So, why am I looking at a ten year old car, that will no doubt fall apart on me ASAP, as I will run
• The Old uns of today! 30 Jul 2006 (Forum)
  case annoyed) me and Mrs Daveyjp. The car was parked in the Mouseman's small car park and I decided to move it to the square. There was a Focus already parked nose in facing the pub (no bays marked) so I decided to park next to it, leaving a decent gap as we have the car seat to get in the car
• Life story of a car - Polo C 1985 23 Apr 2010 (Forum)
  and there was a whiff of petrol on draining so I used to fill it to minimum and find it halfway up the dipstick mark a year later on changing. I put that down to the fact that the old Man was running on choke all the time on those short runs - but years after the car was gone - I got a sudden flash of insight
• ford ka2 1.3 99 V reg - ford ka2 power steering rack leaking... 16 May 2022 (Forum)
  Brought my better half a ford ka last year, first car and shes not passed her test yet.a while ago noticed the powersteering fluid was leaking. Had the rack replaced yesterday however new rack is leaking from pipe unions (this is not where the old rack was leaking from, it was the seals
• Any - Would The Rust Fairy be A Felon? 6 May 2024 (Forum)
  Suppose, hypothetically, that you had been passing a very scruffy old Datsun pickup truck parked in one of those soon-to-be developed areas where parking restrictions are not enforced, which tend to collect old and possibly abandoned vehicles. (I parked my truck somewhere like this near
• Kia picanto - Is there a good reason for mileage discrepanc 26 Mar 2024 (Forum)
  I'm looking for a first car for my 18 year old son and have seen a possible option in Cargiant. It's a 2018 model. However the HPI check shows a 380 mile reduction when it was a year old. It looks like the mileage was entered correctly, then increased for some reason on the same day