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• bought off ebay- was the car good or bad 19 Mar 2007 (Forum)
  and a service, which i deem to be satisfatory on a 10 year old motor. i was pretty peeeeeeed of with having to change the brakes straight after i had bought it, but i take it as a lesson learned, and i still have the car now. its got leather, aircon and cruise control and i love driving it, so i dont moan
• Overtaking and speeding 5 Jan 2007 (Forum)
  to speeding during an overtaking manoeuvre? The A5 has plenty of opportunities where you can get past people safely with a good line of sight, as long as you put your foot down . Several times, I floored it in 3rd at about 40, changed up at about 70 and pulled back into my lane and onto the brakes
• Driving through a flood 1 Dec 2006 (Forum)
  ? Close behind someone else or let them completely through and the waves die down first? I'm sure I've read something about not driving turbo diesels through water, but I am totally expecting to have dreamt it. Do you still have to test your brakes or is that a bit of an old fashioned notion these days
• Stereotype bites the dust... 7 Nov 2006 (Forum)
  consider myself to be a rapid but safe driver (don?t we all?) and used to rally and autocross a mini, but I didn?t get within three hundred yards of that Metro. The lady used the road superbly, taking an economical line through the corners, braking early and accelerating out. By the time we joined the main
• Merc E320 CDI possible purchase 4 Oct 2006 (Forum)
  Had a loan 180k miles C250 diesel the other day, and apart from the non existent accelleration quite liked the solid feel of it. Just seen this car, would I be mad? Its at the top of my budget but comes with a new mot - private sale - and the brake pipes mentioned in the car by car breakdown have
• Car transfer jitters - advice please 23 Aug 2006 (Forum)
  to the local church. It reached the princely sum of £60 but I gave an honest and frank descrption of the car including the above and that it did not possess an MOT and that is probably needed new brake discs (at least). I also advised that it would be best 'trailered away' as it needed a service. The car sold
• Nissan Almera 1.4 knocking 18 Jul 2006 (Forum)
  is audible at lower speeds when accelerating or under engine braking in the first two gears upto 2500 rpm. When over 2500 rpm the knocking starts to ?balance out? and becomes a rumble, in the higher gears there may be a rumble but road, wind and engine noise are more predominant. In hot weather the problem
• Garages and servicing schedules 14 Apr 2006 (Forum)
  ? I ask this question because our C5 has just been for it's annual service and the garage concerned didn't change the brake fluid, which is required to be changed every two years, and this was last done, by them, in January 2004. Now, my wife would never have noticed this and I forgot about it until
• Reverse Crunching - Renault Scenic 15 Feb 2006 (Forum)
  that it was like the brake and needed to be depressed before it had any effect. If it is a problem with the teeth of the automatic clutch adjuster can this be fixed easily. Don't worry guys - your safe on the roads - I'm in OZ and am using this website because it looked very informative. Thanks the Aussie
• Snow my goodness! 1 Dec 2005 (Forum)
  a few patches of black ice so seeing several white vans going straight on with their front wheel flailing left and right was a sight to behold. I tried to test the ABS by getting up to a massive 20 mph and braking firmly and the car made a noise like something fell off into the road....which
• New car needed for a friend - advice ple 31 Oct 2005 (Forum)
  with supposedly a full history, new brakes, and a recent Turbo. It's got 8 months test but no tax and is up for £500 no offers. Obviously we're aware that the tax takes the car up to nearly £600. I've read the CBC breakdown and it seems reasonably favourable, but there wasn't much mention of the 2.0 Turbo model
• Peugeot 205 2 Jun 2005 (Forum)
  is in the barn on axle stands having some new brake disks fitted. I had no choice but to use the old 205. I was amazed at how good these old 205's still are. By modern standards the 1.8 engine is modest in power output, there being no turbo on this model. But it purred along very comfortably at or near
• Buying mk4 VW Golf 30 Apr 2005 (Forum)
  (Maybe just over) person? (My knees touch the steering wheel in Fiesta when I brake. How adjustable is the seat? How much is a T reg 1.6, with 100,000 miles worth? Apparently it's still on the original timing belt, so that'll be due up. Are there any other horrendous costs? I don't have a spec
• Coy parts websites 23 Jan 2005 (Forum)
  might undercut them by a pound or so on a gearbox or brake disc? It really is about time some of them were a little more up-front about this, after all this internet thing has been around for a while now and people like to shop using it. Is it just some great plot to try and stop us shopping around
• Kerbing damage - a pity really 2 Nov 2004 (Forum)
  that. Braking hard, nothing. Even took a country road back and he said there were no problems whatsoever. My question is, if all of those checks turned out alright, has he been lucky and gotten away with just kerbing the alloy (I've pointed him to a place which did a cracking job on mine for 30 quid)? I said
• Insurance for test drives 31 Oct 2004 (Forum)
  liability for any damage that occurred, or would that be OTT? I'm particularly paranoid about this, because it's a very nice car (4 yr old 5 series) that might attract, how shall I put it, interest of the wrong kind. Also it's an automatic, and I've read all the warnings about left foot braking
• Wrong place, wrong time! 23 Oct 2004 (Forum)
  it too late a ploughs straight into the side of the R-R with a squeal of brakes and a lot of blue smoke. Policeman in front shakes his head quite a bit more, puts on his blue lights a pulls over, probably already licking his pencil. I've seen the MGF do this little trick several times before, today he
• Accident (again) 2 Feb 2004 (Forum)
  is an auto in D and I was sitting on the brakes to stop is it rolling forward. They did not want to give me details, they were aggressive and one of them sworn and verbally assaulted me. I called 999 as I was scared and locked myself and my friend in the car. The police arrived and took details
• How to reduce motoring stress... 24 Dec 2003 (Forum)
  - if the lane to your nearside is clear , then MOVE OVER! You don't need to sit in the outside or middle lane if lanes 2 and/or 1 are empty. 2.Lights - if its dark or raining , then use them.Check ALL of them each week (including your brake lights)to see that they actually work! Fog lights are only to be used
• The Expected Life of a Punto 1 Dec 2003 (Forum)
  an additional collar was required and they had to get one of those. We never got our old exhaust back - I wonder why? We now need rear brake shoes for the forth coming MOT, where do we get these from and will they fit? Bearing in mind the inevitable head gasket or cracked cylinder head which will happen any