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• Just another manic Monday..... 29 Mar 2005 (Forum)
  all her details. When she rang back yesterday, she was so nervous, she was rambling ?please don?t shout, you wont shout at me will you?? Looking at the damage to the car, she?s hit it quite hard. She managed to punt the car 4 foot up the road, empty the coins out the cubby holes and remove
• Backroom Meet - Sunday 7th September 8 Sep 2003 (Forum)
  the depths of the home counties, N,S,E or W, or even further afield can get here relatively easily. Feel free to respond to this thread if you think you may be coming or need any extra information. Regarding locating the HJ lot - hmm... Am sure a large family innocently out for the afternoon would welcome
• Ah, the true banger. 28 May 2021 (Forum)
  people and wise to the utter waste of money the things are. Good conversation was had and an easy sale done if the car was reasonable plus you knew they weren’t coming back to haunt you in most cases. I’d refuse to sell to anyone I regarded as unrealistic. In those days (late 90’s) cars a decade or so
• Cadillac innovations 19 Aug 2018 (Forum)
  a starting handle. This led to Leyland pushing for an alternative and safer means of starting a car. 1929, Syncromesh gears. Sometime in the mid 20's a man called Earl A Thompson turned up at Cadillac HQ in Detroit having driven from Oregon with his brother, a dealer, in a Cadillac which he had fitted
• Mikuni - Carburettor Question(s) 15 Oct 2016 (Forum)
  Stripping a very gunged-up Mikuni carburettor, off a neglected 133cc Yahamaha RZR 2-stroke. Despite its sorry state, its a welcome relief from the concurrent...
• MINI Cooper and Cooper S - How safe are our Classic Cars? 11 Dec 2015 (Forum)
  I thought I might share with you some of my concerns about the quality of spare parts that are currently being procured to support the continued use...
• Vauxhall Vectra B facelift (1999 - 2002) - 00 1.8 EM light/ECU? 17 Feb 2014 (Forum)
  Howdo. My first post after a long time gleaning all the excellent info on these pages and other forums too. Well here?s my story. I have a vectra 1.8 petrol estate on an x plate (2000 I believe) with an ecotec engine. About 3 months ago it started with the EM light coming on permanently followed
• Sports & Performance Used Car Dealers 9 May 2012 (Forum)
  - £19300 LG09 TXE Mini Cooper S Convertible, Midnight Blue, Cream Leather, Chili Pack, 11710 Miles - £13400 OY61 GXN X6 xDrive40d, Black on Black, 9341 Miles - £42700 OV59 VXT 530d M Sport Saloon, Grey on Black, Sat Nav, 17973 Miles - £21600 BJ57 WKS M3 Coupe
• Ford Focus (1998 - 2004) - 2000/xreg 2.0 Ghia fuel pump/fuse 20 Feb 2011 (Forum)
  it in to have a look, (labour charge of quite a lot). Could it be the actual fuel pump or do you think it?s the wiring of something else. Would using a 20 amp or 30 amp fuse (like Green Flag did) instead of the 15 amp be ok (i doubt it). When the car is moving it runs perfectly and always has, it's a great car
• Renault Clio 1 Petrol (1991 - 1998) - 93 1.2 Cat red hot, cyl 1 plug carboned, black 31 Jul 2010 (Forum)
  , rotor arm, and air filter. AND oxygen sensor (in the exhaust manifold) the old one was rather carboned up. Spark good on all cylinders. So after less than ten minutes running the CAT still gets red hot. Since it?s not taxed I can?t drive it far? even if I dared with the CAT like that. However
• Mercedes Benz S-Class W220 (1999 - 2005) - Removing Car from Finance Register Nightmare 17 Mar 2008 (Forum)
  I bought a Mercedes from BCA Blackbushe and it came up as owing finance as its previous cherished plate now sits on another car which was bought on finance....
• Modern traditional - who does it well? 25 May 2007 (Forum)
  no room inside, so the current model is taller to correct that. But the marketing department didn't dare change the basic shape, so the car now wanders around with its tail in the air. The S-type is just awful - a blatant attempt to cash in on Inspector Morse's 60s Jaguar that starts with a grille
• 2 perplexing problems 1996 Range Rover 20 Nov 2006 (Forum)
  that has raised it?s ugly head ? heater core O rings ? when I moved the car (by towing) on the sloping driveway I noticed about a small cup of coolant pour out of the RHS footwell and sure enough there are tell-tale green drips from the bottom HEVAC vent (right on to the Nokia hands-free speaker!) Could
• Mileages and misconceptions? 25 Sep 2006 (Forum)
  doesn?t want an unreliable car). The other group prefer to buy old and cheap, and get the maximum use out of the car for minimum money. Bangeromics is the term I think. As far as I can see, for low mileage drivers these are probably the two sensible options available to them. It?s a sliding scale
• Reducing the cost Personal Injury claims 14 Dec 2005 (Forum)
  The following is a copy on an article in today?s Sunday Telegraph by Teresa Hunter in the Money and Jobs section. It is not available online, so I have retyped it for the Backroom. The cost of motor cover and other insurance will fall under radical plans to overhaul the personal injury claims
• Thoughts from America 30 Sep 2005 (Forum)
  the "tiptronic" type auto transmission allows low gears to be held at higher speeds though not high gears to be held at lower speeds, i.e. selecting "2" in fact allows the transmission to use either "1" or "2", selecting "3" allows the transmission to use either "1" "2" or "3" etc, hence one cannot use the V8's
• Nearly new car running very badly 12 May 2005 (Forum)
  to move on to 'don't put up with it' support and away from the actual problem, and while I'm grateful, believe me if there is any way I can get this sorted, I will! If I had cast-iron, 'always there' problems I'd be fine, but its s**'s law that the car always works when in the garage! Many thanks
• Discovering the joys of diesel 14 Jul 2004 (Forum)
  , NEVER PAY FOR ONE.) At this point I decided I'd had enough, the Beemer had to go. Deciding to go from one end of the spectrum to the other (and the car I had before the 528 was a Jap import 220bhp Prelude Type-S) - I traded the 528 in against a '99 Peugeot 106 1.5 diesel, well, I say traded
• A dilemma 21 Jan 2004 (Forum)
  , probably driving forward in 3rd or 5th gear. She starts to reverse into the space behind me. I say to my wife, quick, let?s get out of here before she hits us - but I can't go forward because of the car parked in front of me. And the old dear is getting closer and closer behind! I hop out of the car
• Doing it yourself!! 10 Jul 2003 (Forum)
  at an acceptable level of reliability then it is the Stag. Suffice it to say that this fella is pretty handy with the spanners. Another car in his family?s stable is a VW Passat and it began to play up. The problem was a distinct loss of power either when the engine was cold, or at high speed. He did all