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• Great road safety ideas from other countries 27 Jun 2020 (Forum)
  petrol and brake pads, although Greek drivers still tend to overshoot the stop line to the extent that they can't see when the red light has changed to green! 2. Spain still has radar-activated red lights in the approach to many towns and villages: exceed the speed limit and you get
• Ford Focus II (2004 - 2007) - 05 1.6 Engine System Failure on 115PS 12 Jan 2020 (Forum)
  Hi folks, Have had intimitent what I would call "stutters" on my Focus occasionally during the 13 months I have had it. (one previous owner, bought at 2.5 year old, 25,000 on clock, now done 42,000). Power loss is similar to someone lightly dabbing the brake, hardly detectable to a passenger
• £72k Renault Megane? 5 Dec 2019 (Forum)
  in question is the Megane Trophy R, which as 'standard' costs £51k, but if you add the carbon wheels (£12k) and carbon ceramic brakes (£9k), the price is £72k!. Here is a link to Autocar's online review, https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-review/renault/megane-rs-trophy-r
• VW Polo 2004 1.4L - 54 Plate VW Polo randomly cutting out 26 Oct 2019 (Forum)
  200 yards down the road, it happened again - this time I was just driving at about 30mph, it was when I pressed the brake to slow in traffic that it cut out. I called my recovery company who asked me to try and turn it over, I did but it just started then died immediately after - it did this 2 or 3
• A generation of cars - 33yrs and 696,900 miles family motoring costs 30 Nov 2018 (Forum)
  own maintenance (cars never had a ‘service’ apart from the MoT – I did simple stuff like oil changes and brakes).  It made sense to buy good used cars (none were new) and keep them a long time so that car cost was kept well below fuel cost.   After 1993 the TR7
• Servicing and MOTs done on the same day or not 20 Nov 2017 (Forum)
  in its history), and I did have the part replaced as well as some work done on the brakes not long after. I was wondering, given the age of the car (though it has only done about 63k miles), is there any worth in me bringing the annual service forward to early December, in case any potential MOT
• Audi A3 - Second hand car troubles - rights? 1 Aug 2017 (Forum)
  & 4 misfiring. This morning when driving the car myself the ABS light has come on along with a large exclamation mark on the dash and the warning 'BRAKES'. My question is what shall I do and what legal rights do i have for having the car repaired? The door damage I'm happy to cover myself and I've
• Ford focus 1.6 tdci - Focus 1.6 tdci 2006 engine systems fault/cluster 17 May 2017 (Forum)
  about the brake light then reduced acceleration.  This can happen at any point after starting.  So Friday it played up during the heavy rain.  Didn't use Saturday,  Sunday not a thing wrong, Monday am fine then it rained and the fault came back. Today fine again am and played up
• overtaking competently, a lost art? 18 Apr 2016 (Forum)
  the other way brakes hard too, matey in the car just manages to slip in between us with a hard swerve left and right and luckily for all of us gets away with it unscathed, closest i've nearly been involved with for a long time. All over, but i noticed the chap in the Golf behind which was the second
• Car with no luck 28 Jan 2015 (Forum)
  ownership is Skoda Octavia Estate (61 Reg), now this car is so far the unluckiest car I have owned. In the last 2 years, I have had Windscreen Replaced x1, A/C Compressor Replaced x1, Hand brake issue x1, Car Park Incident x3(All hit and run victim
• FIAT 500 - Fait 500 clutch problem 5 Aug 2013 (Forum)
  by that distinctive brake/clutch burning smell. Neither my wife or I 'ride' the clutch, I've 40 years driving experience and have never had a clutch burn out in any of the cars, trucks or vans I've driven or owned. I don't know how bad a driver you'd have to be to burn out a new clutch in 43 miles. I now
• Ford Focus II - Please recommend best garage in/near north London 21 May 2013 (Forum)
  (2006 06 reg).  Recently the car has begun to stall frequently when idle (e.g. at traffic lights) and the rev counter (tachometer) keeps dropping below 1000 rpm.  (Also when driving it sometimes feels as if something is exerting a 'braking force
• BMW 535/Honda CRV/Volvo 40 - Acquiring a fleet of cars - need to let one go 14 Nov 2012 (Forum)
  , but refuses to use CRV/Volvo as feels they are less comfortable for her bad back than the Golf)   Here are the motors: (1)Honda CRV (2002) 85K miles (so due a timing belt change at next service), full year's MOT left, driving well though occasionally front offside brake mildly binding
• Citroen Saxo (1997 - 2003) - 98 1.1 (petrol) Engine stalls/spontaneously revs 28 Jan 2012 (Forum)
  -sucking and suggested it's something to do with an "air box" (?associated with the carb?), and indicated that it's likely to be an expensive fix. If nothing else, I'd like to know a little more about what this might be, and perhaps some pointers if anyone's got any ideas. FWIW, the brakes are terrible
• Help please with bump in work car park...girl claiming more damage than i caused. 5 Aug 2010 (Forum)
  Hi. I had an unfortunate incident yesturday in my work car park. My car wouldnt start so had to push it back to get start leads to the engine. When i pushed it back my abs wouldnt work as the engine was off so no brakes. As a result i bumped into some girls car and dented her front left side
• Torx T30's and phlips head screws rounding 15 Nov 2009 (Forum)
  of the philips head Screws that holds the brake disk to the hub it was clearly rounded by somebody previous to myself as it was damn near imposible to get off and on i changed out the pads and disks and i had to put it back on because i didnt have the appropreate screw to replace it (i learnded a lesson here) i
• Renault Espace (2002 - ) - 04 2.2 acceleration probs again - sell? 15 Oct 2009 (Forum)
  not unlike a Boeing 747 about to take off (the cooling system?) which seems to be going into hyper-mode. I have had the battery, turbo-charger, brake discs and pads replaced on this car, and now I'm told (by Renault) that I may spontaneously combust any day unless I replace the cam belt (as standard
• Chrysler Sebring Saloon (2007 - ) - It is worse than I expected 6 Sep 2009 (Forum)
  ). Everytime we went over the a bump at even 20mph it seems to travel accross the entire chassis like it would in a Fiesta MK3. He is not a kean driver but does a lot of milleage and I asked him what it was lke to drive expecting him to say it ok his answer was "it leaves a lot to be desiered". The brakes
• Vauxhall Vectra B facelift (1999 - 2002) - 00 1.8 rumble noise, differential? 1 Apr 2009 (Forum)
  , with balls, outer and inner races crunching togather. the rumble is gone with clutch dipped and in neutral the other noise is a chaffing and only notice-able in deceleration. sounds like chaf, chaf, chaf, like a brake disc may when distorted at one part of its revolution. this noise is not always notice
• Stupid driving 8 Jan 2009 (Forum)
  smoke absolutely floored it. This caused me to brake firmly which I would have preferred not to have done but it was no big deal. Vectraman had by this time lane hopped into lane 3. Our hirsute librarian then undertakes Vectraman at speed and then forces his way in front of him into a gap which really