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• Too polite 29 Dec 2003 (Forum)
  on motoring matters, you have a duty of care to report them to the DVLC. As for the Corsa with worn out brake pads and the eight year old Merc with a worn out autobox - why is it that so many of your readers think that their cars should last forever without maintenance? Because you are too polite to tell
• How unlucky is this? 3 Dec 2003 (Forum)
  Car went in for a service and its first MOT on Friday. Had the cambelt done, two suspension bushes replaced, new pads and steel braided brake hoses. Came to £680 plus the price of the pads and hoses. Money well spent as this car may have to last me a few years yet, although it left the current
• What should I do? 22 Sep 2003 (Forum)
  I took my gf's car to a local garage to have the brakes looked at Saturday. They told us that both front discs were corroded, warped and "excessively worn" and should be replaced. They wanted £200+VAT for the job. I thought this a little suspect as the discs and pads had been replaced not more than
• Lupo 1.4 16V - oil deposits and idle. 19 Sep 2003 (Forum)
  that there is quite a bit of oil on the \'downstream\' side of the air filter, especially around the edges and leading toward the throttle body. Is this usual, or does it indicate a problem? There is a rubber pipe leading from this section of the airbox which I had assumed was the brake servo vacuum, but could
• Bit of advice required please 21 Aug 2003 (Forum)
  Driving down the motorway yesterday minding my own business, noticed a donk in a gte doing the normal boy racer thing, tailgating, weaving in and out of traffic etc, passes me but pulls into middle lane. Cautiously I overtake and the donk pulls straight out, I hit the brakes hard and swerve
• buying advice - all comments welcome 5 Aug 2003 (Forum)
  only 3 services are detailed. The car has a mot, and has new brakes pads and discs, new mid-section exhaust. There’s no evidence to suggest the car has been neglected, quite the opposite, just it looks like someone forgot take the record book back when they took the car. mondeo is up for £5350
• Advice needed re: Dealer and 02 V40 19 Jul 2003 (Forum)
  Advice needed on how to tackle the dealer re: this problem. The Brake Fluid warning light came on last week. Opened up the bonnet and the fluid level was below MAX but above the MIN level. About at the MIN-Clutch level actually (about 1 inch about the MIN mark) anyway. I noticed the float thing
• Yaris antiroll bar bushes 20 Mar 2003 (Forum)
  How long should antiroll bar bushes be expected to last? I had the car in the National Tyres last weekend as I thought I had a problem which turned out to be just a trapped stone rubbing on the brake disc. However, while inspecting it, the chap noticed that both the bushes were perished and would
• Trip to the skidpan 11 Feb 2003 (Forum)
  never found this to be a problem and they made a fuss of it being purpose-built. The course covered various techniques, including: - thinking about ?exit routes? (e.g. mounting a clear pavement) rather than just braking; - learning to feel when the back is going to let go; - correcting rear-wheel
• Servicing BMW 318i 30 Aug 2002 (Forum)
  been changed in the last 12 months, but no mention of brake fluid. Should this be changed as a precaution? 5. Does this engine have a cam chain? 6. Anything else I ought to consider doing? Thanks in anticipation. Pat
• MX5 Woe ! 16 Apr 2002 (Forum)
  would not fit in the boot. Neither would it fit in the car with the passanger - anyway despite being only a few weeks old it was filthy (brake dust, grime and general cr*p) and certainly would have sullied the lovely interior of her car. Fortunately a knight in shining plastic found her outside his
• Shaking minibus 22 Mar 2001 (Forum)
  from side to side getting progressively worse, i was doing around 40 mph at the time. I braked gently and the shaking eased then stopped so i increased speed back up to 40. It then started again and got so bad i had to slow right down again. It then stopped shaking so i plodded back to work. I told my
• Golf MK5 2004 1.6 FSI - Golf Mk5 2004 1.6 FSI - VAG / VCDS Scan - Fault Co 24 Oct 2016 (Forum)
  :        -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------     Chassis Type: 1K (1K0) Scan: 01 03 08 09 15 16 17 19 25 42 44 46 52 56   VIN: WVWZZZ1KZ4W096975   Mileage: 171440km-106527miles   00-Steering Angle Sensor -- Status: OK 0000 01-Engine -- Status: Malfunction 0010 03-ABS Brakes -- Status
• Honda Civic - Is this car worth considering? 8 May 2019 (Forum)
  pads have been recently replaced with good quality brembo brake pads Good brand tyres all around Spare tyre in boot. One of the previous owners had purchased this as an extra.   Negatives 7 owners Current owner has only owned it from August 2019 I
• Suzuki Swift - Bought used car, having issues and need advice! 26 Jul 2018 (Forum)
  it through an MOT. Dangerous defects - Brake pads less than 1.5mm, Handbrake eff' less than 50% Major Defects - Both front suspension arm pins/bushes worn, parking break inoperative on nearside and offside rear. Work was done by the garage who MOT'd initially and then passed it once
• Mercedes-Benz SportCoupé Kompressor - Too Shiny For Me 19 Apr 2017 (Forum)
  of quote. I was thinking maybe shocks and/or suspension bushings, but it seemed OK from a bounce test, for the very little that's worth. I don't like driving other peoples shiny cars, and once they'd seen me do it (havn't driven an automatic for a long time and tended to confuse the brakes
• none - The case against electric vehicles. 3 Jan 2016 (Forum)
  ),  the  "es  tires, brakes and road wear emit almost as much as diesel
• Skoda Octavia 1.9TDi PD Ambiente - Turbo Failure VAG (VW, Audi, Seat, Skoda)1.9TDi PD 12 Aug 2012 (Forum)
  , but no engine, no brakes, no steering!!! It could have killed me! Fortunately the oncoming vehicles managed to avoid my car and eventually some people pushed me to safety. I have AA cover, so they assisted but the OBD2 laptop didn't report any engine fault codes whatsoever? The engine still
• Nissan Almera Tino (2000 - 2006) - 00 Brake light short causes light show. 20 Sep 2007 (Forum)
  > > > > * Flat backed vehicles are caught by some cameras for > > > > travelling BELOW 17mph. > > > > > > So what - they just ask for the photos and get...
• Prius Becomes Self-aware -Crashes Itself 13 Mar 2007 (Forum)
  , 2007. So what happened next surprised not only Robinson, but literally rocked the neighborhood. The car began to act strangely. He was taking it back to the dealership when suddenly the car began accelerating even though he applied the brakes and the emergency brake. "I could not stop the car