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• Bring back the Motorshow 13 Aug 2020 (Forum)
  Looking through the pages of old car mags I’m finding myself reminiscing over the glamour from the Motor Shows which were common throughout the country in the 80’s and 90’s and the UK national show which died in 2008. My dad bought several cars off stand at the local car show in Ayr, the pinnacle
• What to do with a damaged/repairable van 3 Jan 2018 (Forum)
  . The parts needed are a front bumper, n/s headlamp, n/s front wing, inner wing liner, wheel arch trim and lower support beam for the radiator. All of these, including the wing, are bolted or screwed on, so not really that much work. The only actual work needed is where the front wing is attatched
• Renaultsport Clio 200 - Renault paint issues 10 Oct 2012 (Forum)
  June 2012 and the paint finish was dreadful. I explained I wasn't happy and an the dealership arranged for an independent bodyshop to look over the car. The outcome was that, the paint finish was poor and both front wings would need spraying along with the rear o/s quarter to get the car back
• Land Rover Discovery drivers - 25%! 4 Feb 2012 (Forum)
  Percentage of owners with speeding offence(s
• Jaguar S-Type - Mystery Engine Seizure 23 Aug 2010 (Forum)
  Recovery garage (in Dubai and not the Jaguar dealer) is claiming I have a seized engine - I am astonished since car was running perfectly - I had done...
• Honda Civic UK (2001 - 2005) - 05 1.6 Electrical fault(s) on Sport 4 Nov 2009 (Forum)
  Hello Wonder if anyone can help or offer any advice, I've started getting some strange electrical faults today (apologies if it is long winded but I wanted...
• Farewell chug a chug Diesels - you served us well. 13 Aug 2009 (Forum)
  themselves at the beginning - fitting skinny little cambelts into the diesels newly fitted to their little rust from new small cars It`s all gone. Forever. The future,as we know, for general purpose (city) cars are small (and smaller) more and more powerful per litre petrol engines. Fuel consumption is up
• I Have a Question - Volume 298 [Read Only] 11 Jul 2009 (Forum)
  case - it`s `only` £10 and fortunately not the Sat Nav itself. IF it doesn`t arrive on the latest specified date what would you do next. In particular with reference to Amazon `claims` it seems you are limited to five lifetime claims from them. Given that I`m making much bigger purchases from them
• The £6 Car Wash - hand valet - good value 25 May 2009 (Forum)
  . It seems almost all the local cars go through here - at the point in the pic the Punto has had it`s soapy pressure spray and is waiting for the Gentlemen in the picture (washing the car in front) to hand wash it - then around the bend are a team of three - two men and a woman, who leathered it off
• Route advice please - Calais to Lot-et- Garonne 24 Apr 2009 (Forum)
  of Paris until I reach the A10 then overnight at Orleans in the Novotel (now 90Eu!)and onto the A71 and onto the free A20 and exiting somewhere around Brive depending on where we are staying.. It?s usually quite straightforward. However the tolls are creeping up along with the cost of fuel (petrol Mazda
• New or Old shape Volvo V70 ? 9 Aug 2006 (Forum)
  Thinking about a a vovlo V70 Need an estate car, and something that will tow a BIG 4berth caravan..... Article in Car Mechanics s Magazine about the new shape V70, how low spec ones are gettin down toward £4K ( I don't think I'd buy one that cheap though) I am prob wanting to spend £6-7K
• Sweet justice 21 Nov 2005 (Forum)
  of the Avensis forward of the firewall and the Merc was in a similar condition but I was most surprised by the truck which had been completely devastated at the front, it?s wheels were pushed right back and it was leaning into a ditch. Clearly, nobody had walked away from that one and won?t be walking for many
• Golf Lost Steering Servo 24 Oct 2004 (Forum)
  I returned to my car, MkIII Golf, on Friday and noticed the O/S/F wheel was in a puddle but assumed it was water. No such luck, as soon as I pulled away I realised I had no power steering so parked up and looked underneath. Yep a perforated high pressure pipe from the steering box to the N/S rack
• Potholes and Road Safety 29 Mar 2004 (Forum)
  , had been available before the accident? It makes you think: is it due to lack of funds that these thing s don\'t get sorted out or the can\'t-be\'bothered factor?\' And this article followed: \'One way to help out with the pothole situation is to notify the council. This will achieve two things: 1
• Don't buy a Toyota - sorry ! 29 Oct 2003 (Forum)
  at it under warranty, all claimed it was fine, and refused to do anything. At 95K miles the car started making a sound like a load of nails from the front. Into Toyota Cambridge - a very helpful dealer, BTW, unlike the others I used, and they diagnosed a gearbox fault - probably worn bearing/s. Cost - £300
• Peugeot 406 Executive Turbo 22 May 2003 (Forum)
  at auction? 99T perhaps? I've seen S reg ones on Autotrader for as little as £3k. I'm told Peugeots figures are unreliable. Where can I find accurate, indepedant performance figures for the 406 range? Is it worth considering or should I just go back to the predictable but safe idea of a 1.9TD Xantia SX
• Just done CBT! 18 May 2003 (Forum)
  . I had my CBT booked for today, as the weather had improved sufficiently (well, it was last week!). Of course, s**'s law dictates that it had to throw it down today, but that didn't spoil the fun. Despite the fact that it threw it down, and that I was wobbly as a weeble at low speeds, nothing could
• Disciplinary action - advice sought 31 Jan 2003 (Forum)
  and proceeded to the next. Suddenly the first customer started shouting and complaining about my wife\'s failure to pack her bag. My wife had never been told that bag packing was compulsory and had already started serving another customer. The truth is she panicked and didn\'t know what to do. Whatever she
• Any economists out there?! 26 Oct 2001 (Forum)
  There has been a number of recent emails highlighting the collapse in used car prices and I am grappling with this conundrum as to where it is all going to end?!!! 1. HJ?s comment that a lady looking at an £3k N reg 80k clio could have a had an 80k w reg at auctions 2. Mr GTI looking for £7k plus
• Skoda Yeti - My Yeti(s) 25 Mar 2018 (Forum)
  long. Other than the Bolero being slow to load / read MP3's the car was otherwise faultless.   2012: I ran a petrol Octavia for another 18 months, before realising how much I missed driving a Yeti. I didn't particularly rate the 1.2 TSi engine and so this time opted