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• Slippery road: Cause, effect, liability? 6 Feb 2006 (Forum)
  having braked as I saw the accident happening. The driver was the only person in the car, he got himself out, he had a cut on the back of his head and was shaken though I reckon he came off lightly in the circumstances. This was only 100 meters from where I had stopped one evening last week to assist
• Rear Fog Light- On or Off? 3 Feb 2006 (Forum)
  MUST NOT use front or rear fog lights unless visibility is seriously reduced (see Rule 201) as they dazzle other road users and can obscure your brake lights. You MUST switch them off when visibility improves. Law RVLR regs 25 & 27 ########################## A colleague complained he was dazzled when
• Tales of motoring stupidity 20 Jan 2006 (Forum)
  car had needed to pass, not holding the rozzers up at all. But her brain seemed to engage "nnnggghhhh" mode and she just stomped on the brake and sat there. It was only when the drivers who had pulled over previously realised what she was doing and pulled up onto the pavement that the cops could get
• Renault madness 10 Jan 2006 (Forum)
  We bought a Renault Grand Scenic (7 seater) Last year...Nice looking car, great features, okay to drive. I was only concerned about two things. 1. It has an automatic parking brake. (A kind of fly-by-wire device)... French....Bound to go wrong. It did. Not only is is a complete pain to use when
• irresponsible OLD drivers! 30 Dec 2005 (Forum)
  there are none and causing other cars to swerve or brake sharply. Eventually, SWMBO rang the police who said they would monitor and at the next service station a cop car was waiting at the slip road with lights on. He pulls out and gently follows porker for several miles during which time we all overtake
• Volvo 850 t5 ABS pump leaking 4 Nov 2005 (Forum)
  . Finding a part has been particularly difficult, as I believe the unit I require was only on the '94 year cars. If it were my car, I would be inclined to try to sell it as it is. The leak is only minor (if a brake fluid leak ever can be). This brings me to ask what would be the best means of disposal
• Chavs!!!! Why Bovva!! 30 Oct 2005 (Forum)
  . Bearing in mind we were only doing about 25mph he still managed to cut from lane 3 to lane 2 so close that I could not see his rear screen, this caused me to hit the brakes HARD, and I was sure I must have hit him, after a blast on the extremley loud set of air horns ;o) I had they got all upset
• repairs 16 Oct 2005 (Forum)
  , with 130mph on the straight. When he did an emergency stop to show off its brakes my step father blacked out !!. Glen
• Are vehicles more reliable? 8 Sep 2005 (Forum)
  the rising warranty costs and claims is the increasing complexity of vehicles. Today, nearly 40 percent of the value in an average vehicle is tied up in its software and electrical systems. A single car may have as many as 70 different processors, controlling everything from anti-lock brakes and automatic
• Unmarked Police Car - possibly? 11 Aug 2005 (Forum)
  , undertakes 1st car in lane 2 at a differential of 20-30mph then swings out behind me as he is unable to undertake the 2nd car in lane 2 due to the car in lane 1. He is now closer than 10m behind me at 85mph. I have a choice : pull into lane 2 and brake hard to avoid the next car which is now < 50m away
• Mitsubishi Galant - suspension noises 3 Aug 2005 (Forum)
  Hi there I have a 1998 Mitsubishi Galant V6-24 Auto. I recently had new brake disks and pads on all wheels (don't know if this is related or not) but since then it seems to have developed a sort-of clonk or rattle when going over small bumps at lowish speeds. The problem seems to occur on tiny
• Wife a victim of road rage 15 Jun 2005 (Forum)
  girlfriend is hanging out the window screaming and bawling horrible obscenities at her, with Mr Chav gesticulating wildly from the drivers seat. Next thing, the idiot accelerates past, swings wildly in front of her and in doing so claps on his brakes forcing her to do a full blown emergency stop. She had
• ABS and Tradesmen's Vans 29 Sep 2004 (Forum)
  had been travelling at a normal speed for the situation. Are ABS brakes fitted to tradesmen?s vans ?
• Last night's journey home 10 Aug 2004 (Forum)
  a police car, it was a motorway patrol. So there was no need for you all to slam your brakes on and have a look was there? Hats off to one of the other patrols who was moving people over into the empty inside lane on the M42 as well. A special mention for that caravan driver that decided to share my lane
• Omega noise 9 Aug 2004 (Forum)
  to me seems to emanate from the front, probably o/s. There is also a small amount of judder noticable very occassionally , which is magnified sometimes when braking gently at slow speeds. The noise is hard to describe. It isn't a harsh noise, more a kind of "resonance" noise (I mean by that the kind
• Was it worth it? 9 Aug 2004 (Forum)
  level with me as we approached the next blind corner and carried on! He then slammed on filled the gap between me and the Landrover and proceeded to sit on the Landy's bumper for the next few miles, brake lights coming on every few seconds. We then came to a straight section, because I left a decent
• Astra 1.4 H reg - fuel pipe cut 3 May 2004 (Forum)
  Hello My Astra 1.4 (H reg)has had its fuel piping cut with a stanley knife and all the fuel from my petrol tank has disappeared. The piping runs under the car on the driver side next to the brake cable. It is obviously a robbery of petrol from my car and I was completely flabbergasterred when I
• Vectra handbrake and welding 25 Mar 2004 (Forum)
  this with Vectras? (The dealer said that \"this can happen after long journeys when the brakes get hot, then as they cool they shrink, thus releasing the handbrake\". It was at that point that I wondered whether this was a car dealer or a dealer in exotic substances...) This happened in January and the car
• Best Car - Worst Car 23 Mar 2004 (Forum)
  why the hand brake would never work. I had to keep adjusting the 'self adjusters'. It failed nearly every MOT on the handbrake. It never passed an MOT first time. It had the charisma of a trench block. It leaked rainwater when I first had it due to a manufacturing defect in the bodyshell. Spares were
• VR6 bearing probs - VW dealer negligent? 30 Nov 2003 (Forum)
  In July of this year, I had the front wheel bearings and brakes replaced at a VW dealer , on my 1996 Golf VR6. The cost was nearly £400. Today, I have taken the car to the National Autocentre near where I work on the Isle of Wight for an MOT. It has failed due to the front near side bearing