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• Banger, £3k or 3 year old? 25 Nov 2003 (Forum)
  - with 1 year warranty a requirement 3.A 1.6 Escort, S reg 75000miles with a few toys 4.Some dirt cheap old banger with standard 3 months warranty 5.Or push the boat out and somehow afford a 3 yearold something Considerations: 20 year-old male, so Pug group 5 insurance looks good over Escort group 7
• Mondeo unless you know better. 18 Nov 2003 (Forum)
  posted on this site plus it?s a poor second to the Mondeo in driver satisfaction. I?ve been to Blackbushe and watched countless cars go through at prices quite a bit less than anything in Autotrader. So, 2 questions please? Mondeo or something else and secondly auction or trader? All feedback really
• Criteria for a Motorway Patrol Car 20 Oct 2003 (Forum)
  is the justification for running a 4X4 as a motorway patrol car over say a Vx 3.0 Omega estate or a Volvo T5 V70 for example? I would imagine both the latter would be much better high speed pursuit vehicles and be able to carry pretty much the same equipment/load as most of the above mentioned 4X4's and be equally
• Airbag fault. Who is responsible? 8 Sep 2003 (Forum)
  My brother had another car run into the back of his car in July, his car being an ?X? reg Nissan Primera. There was no damage to the other party?s car although there was damage to the boot, bumper and under floor on the Primera. It was repaired three weeks later, and when he picked it up from
• rover 420 GSI (high Emissions) 6 Sep 2003 (Forum)
  Can anyone help. I have a 1995 Rover 420 GSI, using the mems engine management system. The has just failed it\'s mot due to emission being well over the top like a base idle CO 2 being 9.9% Now I found a useful site on the web giving sensor values, for this system. Check Coolant Temp sens, OK
• messing about with engine air intake 21 Apr 2003 (Forum)
  when the engine itself is hot. If the air is warm the engine is very nice, quiet and much more smooth. However when the air is cold, it sounds like a tractor engine, and is as smooth as an elephant?s backside. This lead me to think whether if I `heated? the air, or at least part of it, going
• Renault Safrane 2.2 What to do? 11 Apr 2003 (Forum)
  Renault Safrane 2.2 What to do? I have a poorly Renault Safrane 2.2 on an M plate.It?s got all the toys and leather interior. 3 months ago it had a new head gasket fitted by a Renault Dealer. Shortly after that the cam shaft broke, because of distortion. (In the cylinder or the cylinder head I
• PLEASE HELP Second hand gearbox problem 26 Jan 2003 (Forum)
  and this might explain why the car was revving so highly. Could anyone here suggest what the problem with the car might be then perhaps I can go back to the mechanic with a bit more knowledge and challenge him. At the moment I don?t really know what?s wrong Thanks in advance for your help people
• Traffic Census 8 Dec 2002 (Forum)
  annoyed me was the reduction from two lanes to one in order facilitate the census. This caused a traffic jam to back up to, and snarl up, a roundabout which connects three main roads and a High Street. Just what everyone needs at rush hour on their way to work! I guess I have to follow the policeman?s
• Squeaky noise 30 Nov 2002 (Forum)
  , very much like the noise I remember from when people\'s fan-belts were about to fail. Have been trying to establish exactly when and why this happens, at first it seemed to be at low speed and when I changed gear or applied brakes. Now it seem to be happening a lot more, but I can\'t really
• Galant UnGalant behaviour 28 May 2002 (Forum)
  is £900 on a new ECU. Has anyone experienced the same fault(s)? Can anyone suggest a cure? Should I keep going until it stops completely making diagnosis easier? Richard
• Buying 4x4 for export to Sri Lanka 23 Apr 2002 (Forum)
  budget Japanese 4x4, as originally intended. After careful thought, he instead chose to spend more cash, and purchase a Mercedes 180 automatic, 'S' reg, 16,000 miles, clean HPI, and a genereral air of being an honest motor (John!) His reasons? The price was right. A relatively simple car, though
• This is getting serious: £28K serious 13 Feb 2002 (Forum)
  to boring boxes - she'll just have to lump it. Leasing is apparently the choice. Pithy and deadly serious questions she should ask before committing please. That way dad will get street cred too vicariously. And, as usual, I will be very grateful for any comments. Cheers Colin S
• Polo diesel poor starting 31 Jan 2002 (Forum)
  plugs were u/s, so they fitted a new set and all was OK, until this winter. Starting from cold is a bit slow and noisy (more than normal for a diesel) and runs a bit rough when it starts. This seems to be helped if I turn the key off when the glow-plug light goes off, then back on again and put some
• Running diesels on Gas (Update) 14 Dec 2001 (Forum)
  Following on from previous questions about using LPG in diesel engines I saw the following today in 'Professional Engineering'. Referes to natural gas,...
• To LPG or not to LPG... 2 Nov 2001 (Forum)
  wanted a good motorway cruiser). Having moved North, I now have a 1 hour each way commute over about 25 miles to work every day. Although pretty efficient, the car uses a lot of £'s worth of petrol now and so my question is should I: a) Keep the Cavalier and get it converted to LPG, bearing in mind
• Aggressive lane shifting 21 Oct 2001 (Forum)
  closer than I would have liked - and shoots off past the lorries, which I also overtook a minute later. I watched him/her repeat this procedure two or three times over the next few miles before s/he disappeared over the horizon. And thought "What a wally." But maybe Passat driver thinks the same of me
• E-Class/5 Series or A6 - Advice Please 7 Oct 2001 (Forum)
  of mpg would you expect out ofthe E300TD (some books give low 30's others 40+). Many thanks in advance for your help Ian
• Car for missus 8 Jul 2001 (Forum)
  The missus is after a new car to replace an aged, but still in very nice nick, Cinqecento. She wants a sporty car, preferably a Mazda MX 5. Budget is reasonably flexible but I think £8000 to £12000 is in the ball park. So, is it worth getting the 1.8i 'S' over the base model? It's got an LSD
• Hyundai i40 tourer 1.7 active 115ps - Reliability/Economy/Maintenance 3 Jan 2018 (Forum)
  , and in the case of the tank, free from condensation/moisture/bacteria. On fuel economy, the car consistently returns low-50's mpg, which I am more than happy with, and occaisionally reaches low 60's. An interesting point being that my best fuel return on a work