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• Steering pulling to nearside 12 Dec 2001 (Forum)
  be detected on (for example) braking. I've had this on other cars, and it's been due to misalignment, tyre pressures etc. I admit I was surprised to hear that 'they all do it'. Can this be true?? (By the way, it's a Merc C240) Puzzled...
• Kids these days 2 Dec 2001 (Forum)
  Driving into Nottingham today going on a quite busy A road max speed 50mph, I saw three kids aged approx 12 years , I was doing about 45mph, why do children always do it they seem to purposly walk slow accross the road making you hit the brakes, just as you are getting near to them they walk out
• What a grand place this is 14 Sep 2001 (Forum)
  to make of me razzing up Hardknott Pass, brakes aflame, in a 2lt two ton van remains to be seen, but if it burnishes up the discs so be it. Thanks again fellas and happy motoring Colin Standing
• Vauxhall Zafira Tourer 2015 - Two interim services in a row 21 Oct 2021 (Forum)
  for the last 2 years. The service record looks like this. Interim service on 15/11/2016 @ 7417 miles- nothing changed. Vauxhall repairer   Main service on 28/11/2017 @ 14323 miles - pollen filter and brake fluid changed. Vauxhall repairer  Interim service on 8/10/2018
• MINI Hatch 5-door '57 reg - Return or reject? 10 Nov 2014 (Forum)
  the dealer), engine started smoking, and had to be recovered. Took to my local garage, who said it could be head gasket or water pump failure. The garage also advised me that the brake discs were shot (literally could pick rust away) and 2 x tyres had a large gouge in them - making them illegal
• Vauxhall Movano - Brake Failure - Whos Liability? 6 Jun 2011 (Forum)
  and that the hazards didn't work (should have been picked up in service?).  Dealer agreed to replace hazard switch which he did. In the last 10 days I have driven approx 1000 miles in the vehicle and then two days ago noticed a grinding sound when braking just before coming to a stop. I have
• Free vauxhall health check - Impressed 13 Oct 2009 (Forum)
  They found a lot wrong with it but its all silly things and stuff I have suspected anyway here is the jist of it 1) Brake noise caused by new pads being too big for the old discs which is rusted on the outside, they said no need to change yet as they are working fine but they should really
• Great Daihatsu main dealer service 17 Jun 2009 (Forum)
  Just a positive mention of Westaway Motors who yet again have come through for me with a free fix of an annoying problem on my Charade. Back in November I think it was, I had, one of the the other, my front brakes get very sticky. I had my local indy free them up but I still wasnt happy as I felt
• My scariest motoring experience to date 4 Jan 2006 (Forum)
  , despite remembering something which Sir Jackie Stewart saying about one of his sons stuffing a car on a snowy slope because he didn't know about putting the car into "2" instead of "D" in such conditions. After much wheel twirling, pushing the brakes to the floor (you do this with and ABS-equipped car
• Small earthquake in Chile: no casualties 25 Jan 2005 (Forum)
  vehicles in the vicinity. When I first saw it, I would say that the distance between me and the on-coming car was about the same distance that I would start to brake if it were stationary, or less than that: it was round a blind bend. Looking back, not from a hospital bed (thankfully), this driving
• Fifteen New Middle East Driving Regs 13 Jan 2004 (Forum)
  to a complete stop at a stop sign. No one expects it and it will result in your being rear-ended. 5. Never get in the way of an older car that needs extensive bodywork . With no insurance, the other operator has nothing to lose. 6. Braking is to be done as hard and late as possible to ensure that your ABS
• Dynamic indicators 17 Mar 2024 (Forum)
  with plain old flashing indicators. I am assuming Audi were the first manufacturer to use these in the uk but I may be wrong. Also, I am aware that there were similar indicators and brake lights used in the US decades ago but these used filament lamps. I am really referring to the current LED type.  
• Illegal E bikes 9 Oct 2023 (Forum)
   Cardiff has had a recent purge on e-bikes using its pedestrian shopping centre,  These are e-bikes with throttles capable of exceeding the speed limit imposed by law.  They confiscated 17 bikes many with faulty brakes worth some £22k. This was part of an operation whereby
• n/a - Tyre wear pollution 1,000 times worse than exhaust 8 Jun 2023 (Forum)
  Pollution from tyre wear can be 1,000 times worse than what comes out of a car’s exhaust, Emissions Analytics has found. Harmful particle matter from tyres – and also brakes – is a very serious and growing environmental problem, one that is being exacerbated by the increasing popularity of large
• The early days of motor racing 26 Dec 2022 (Forum)
  bicycles, braking would be primitive at best, ineffectual, and quite possibly only on the rear wheels!.   
• Motoring quirks and bloopers in films 31 Oct 2021 (Forum)
  No car in any film i've ever seen has had ABS, i can see why as it's much more dramatic! Recently watched 'How it ends' (it's on netflix) and a relatively modern saloon screeches along a tarmac bridge when he jams on the brakes...  Or the big american v8s in Narcos Mexico that have
• Vauxhall Astra - 5th gear questio 25 Jan 2021 (Forum)
  Apologise if in wrong thread Car:Vauxhall Astra 2010 (diesel, 6 gears) Ive just bought the car and noticed when i put it into 5th and let the speed decline on its own or if i brake and end up at 30mph the car will try and speed its self back up to 40 without me touching the pedals. Is this normal
• Scrappage schemes and Bangernomics 23 Sep 2018 (Forum)
  We have a 16 year old car that only does a couple of thousand miles a year but is very handy for runiing to the tip and carting grubby grandchildren about.  It is one owner and never failed an MoT but has just cost me £500 for brakes and an electrical sensor too. On the one hand
• Nissan Micra K12 2004 - Strange Indicator fault 18 Apr 2016 (Forum)
  I have a 04 Nissan Micra and have noticed that my right indicator quite often blinks faster than normal, this especially happens whilst using the brake at the same time. Also, when I am entering a motorway and building up speed the car starts to loose power when I switch on the right indicator
• Ford Mondeo ST220 - Idle / tick over speed 28 Jun 2015 (Forum)
  Mondeo ST220 - idle speed normally 800 revs, however during quickish use, tick-over speed can vary between 1000 - 1500 revs. Car continues to run @ this tick over rate as if on cruise control so for example, you cannot do 30 mph in 6th gear without constant braking. Temporary solution is to pull