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• Scooter and motabilty car - Whiplash scam best way forward advice needed 2 Jan 2013 (Forum)
  telephone records for evidence of timing of the accident. Our daughter was driving a small scooter she is 16 has done her CBT and is a confident rider. She braked in relatively slow moving traffic after the car in front of her made a sudden stop, she lost grip, skidded, and collided into the rear left hand
• Citroen C4 Picasso 5-st (2007 - ) - Quick review (well, rant) 28 Mar 2009 (Forum)
  - a fault with the system and not with the basic functioning of the car. Parked literally at the top of a mountain today and pulled the (P) button to engage the handbrake. It whirred and the light came on, then as I took my foot of the brake pedal, the car started to roll backwards and I noticed it had
• Peugeot 206 hatchback (1998 - 2006) - High mile. What to do, keep or replace? 22 Jan 2009 (Forum)
  and despite its full service history, life is catching up. It?s just had a service from a local garage, and their advice was that it?s probably got about 40k left in it, but it is going to start costing money. Specifically, it needs a new exhaust soon, it requires a new brake servo, the clutch while still ok
• Hyundai i30 (2007 - ) - Review 20 Apr 2008 (Forum)
  wishing to chance their arm and licence. The gear change is still a bit notchy. The four-wheel disc brakes seem powerful to me but I had never driven a car with four to date. I do mostly medium and long journeys, keep mostly to speed limits, use block changes wherever feasible, have the aircon more
• Subaru Legacy - improving handling info 25 Jul 2007 (Forum)
  configuration, but the car will corner flatter and feel less 'nose heavy' with less understeer than previously. Drive the car around for a week or two to get used to it and how it feels in corners. Try and drive the car 'balanced' through the corner, brake firmly before the corner and then ease of as you
• What tools are really used for.... 19 Nov 2005 (Forum)
  an automobile to the ground after you have installed your new brake shoes, trapping the jack handle firmly under the bumper. EIGHT-FOOT LONG DOUGLAS FIR 2X4: Used for levering an automobile upward off a hydraulic jack handle. TWEEZERS: A tool for removing wood splinters. PHONE: Tool for calling your
• Automotive: The Right Tool for the Job 4 Nov 2005 (Forum)
  of old age, but it also works great for drilling rollbar mounting holes in the floor of a sports car just above the brake line that goes to the rear axle. Hacksaw: One of a family of cutting tools built on the Ouija board principle. It transforms human energy into a crooked, unpredictable motion
• But for the Grace of God.... 6 Oct 2005 (Forum)
  brakes on the truck and got our to stretch my legs. Other truck drivers did the same, and at one point there were 5 of us standing there by my truck, complaining. Sitting right beside me in the left lane, were two elderly people in a Silverado pick up truck, which was loaded quite well. The man, (Joe
• Letter from the Colonies Vol.9 11 Aug 2005 (Forum)
  , wherever, regardless. Can be disturbing when you are following it in the fast lane at 80kph and it doesn't have working brake lights. Ally this to the Filipino disposition which regards any and every law, rule and regulation as a challenge to be circumvented by whatever means and you have serious
• A popular car in Iraq... 24 Sep 2003 (Forum)
  in at 3,520 kg empty so the suspension, brakes, tyres, rims and various body items are beefed up. For instance, a door is, on average during the life cycle of the vehicle, opened and closed 50,000 times. Obviously the standard hinges are not up to the job when the door is so much heavier and they are replaced
• seat leon mk3 1.6tdi - Seat leon electrical gremlins - anyone any thought 6 May 2021 (Forum)
  Type: 5F-SE37 (5Q0) Scan: 01 03 08 09 15 16 17 19 42 44 52 55 5F VIN: VSSZZZ5FZGR009866 Mileage: 108266km-67273miles 01-Engine -- Status: Malfunction 0010 03-ABS Brakes -- Status: Malfunction 0010 08-Auto HVAC -- Status: Malfunction 0010 09-Cent
• Cheaper than cycling - Recommended to Merc owner 27 Apr 2013 (Forum)
  is an engine to make it go, brakes to make it stop and windows to keep draughts out. Trivia nerds will note that the actual glass is common across all Dacia models. It’s one of they ways they can afford to sell their cars so cheaply. The interior plastics are grey and stark, the doors are big
• Aisin (Japanese) Carb-equipped - The Snake Pit : Stripping a Late 80's Carburettor 16 May 2016 (Forum)
  can are indicated, although it might not have been done for 30 years.    Its had regular squirts of carb cleaner down the intake, but I've never been very convinced by carb cleaner.For this job I've been using brake fluid for cleaning, which (touch wood) seems to be quite a lot
• Micra automatic 1.3 1998 - My Micra won't start; Please help !!!!! 8 Feb 2011 (Forum)
  a bit louder, but a new problem has arisen; When the car has been driven for a while, say on the motorway, and then driven on a normal road and parked, at the time of slowing down before parking, (this seems to happen when the foot brake is applied), the car makes a very loud slipping screech sound
• Mercedes Benz CLK W208 (1997 - 2002) - Advice on dealin with bad service from dealer 9 Jun 2008 (Forum)
  the steering I am really happy with the car, though I have though reported some other (minor) issues to be looked at. 1. Parking brake is ineffectual ? cable probably just needs tightening 2. Electric controls for front passenger seat stopped working and seat doesn?t slide forward when backrest is tilted
• Priu$ Worse Than Hummer 22 Mar 2007 (Forum)
  is recharged through the braking system, as well as when the gasoline engine takes over anywhere north of 30mph. It seems like a great energy efficient and environmentally sound car, right? You would be right if you went by the old government EPA estimates, which netted the Prius an incredible 60 miles per
• Postcard from Moscow 29 Jun 2005 (Forum)
  conducted with binary approach to throttle and brake, and at great speed along what were once impressive (and still are for sheer scale) boulevards. The masses of locally built cars and a reasonably smattering of mass market cars that we would recognize serve merely as mobile chicanes. Our Rover was being
• Tools 10 Feb 2002 (Forum)
  for drilling rollbar mounting holes in the floor of a sports car just above the brake line that goes to the rear axle. MOLE-GRIPS: Used to round off bolt heads. If nothing else is available, they can also be used to transfer intense welding heat to the palm of your hand. OXY-ACETYLENE TORCH: Used almost
• from Catherine about my motorbike course 30 Apr 2004 (Forum)
  . Better you work it out yourself, that way it sticks in the mind. Then we did some foot up riding round traffic cones (easy, except Leni fell off hehe!) and practiced panic stops. We learned the back brake for steadying the bike not for panic stops and that the bike weight goes on the front wheel so use
• Ford Focus 1.8 TDCi - Intermittant judder problems 40-60mph range 6 Aug 2022 (Forum)
  leave the accelerator, let alone move to the brake pedal