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• Motoring Joke 8 Dec 2002 (Forum)
  him a pencil-necked n***. He glared at me and started writing another ticket for having worn tyres! So I called him a piece of horse s**t. He finished the second ticket and put it on the windshield with the first. Then he started writing a third ticket for a cracked windshield. This went
• Ford remote locking keys 29 Nov 2002 (Forum)
  I have now done.Unfortunately it still doesn`t work. How can I prove whether it is the key or the car that is faulty? Does anything need "reprogramming to make it work again? Can anyone explain in layman`s terms how this remote system works? If it is the key that is faulty , how do I obtain
• White line fever 14 Nov 2002 (Forum)
  Interesting story in today\'s http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/11/13/nline13.xml&sSheet=/news/2002/11/13/ixhome.html about an experiment in reverse psychology conducted by Wiltshire County Council. Apparently, whenever stretches of road are resurfaced the white lines
• 306 D Turbo - again! 1 Nov 2002 (Forum)
  Hi all, A while ago I posted on here about my woes with my 306. When cornering and travelling at low speed across rough ground, I can hear a creaking/banging type sound coming from the O/S front wheel area. The general opinion was that the arb droplinks needed replacing. Well I replaced them
• Volvo S60 T5 SE v 2.4T SE 1 Nov 2002 (Forum)
  powerhouse it is. Browsing the web however, most motoring Journos appear to prefer the 2.4T, saying that it's 200 bhp is more useable than the T5's 250 bhp in everyday driving, with less turbo lag and a better torque curve. I well know however the difference between briefly road testing a car
• LED Lighting eg Range Rover 5 Oct 2002 (Forum)
  , cost of vehicle off road and so on. So wondered when this technology was going to filter down onto normal cars and get rid of the high frequency we all see of cars diving round with light(s) out. Seen quite a few of the new Range Rover, but yesterday was the first time I'd followed one. LED rear
• Old shape BMW 7 series 22 Jun 2002 (Forum)
  I'm seriously considering getting a second hand 7 series on an S or T plate. I cover about 25k a year, including a couple of trips to Austria/Switzerland, and the idea of a car like this for under £15,000 appeals to me. Am I being a complete fool? If so, you'd better talk me out of it. I really
• MOT failure points? Newbie query. 11 Jun 2002 (Forum)
  How badly corroded do brake disks have to be in order to fail the MOT? Is there somewhere on the net that has photos of what would fail and what would pass? I have just bought a car which was MOT\'d on Saturday and I have noticed that the rear driver\'s side disk has quote corroded, worse than
• VW parts near Yeovil (Calling Guy Lacey?) 13 Apr 2002 (Forum)
  of the fast fit places to put another tissue paper box on with a 13 month rust through guarantee. Does anywhere near Yeovil sell Ernst (or similar good quality) exhausts? I know G&S in Bristol do, but it's a bit far away. Or are there any decent exhaust suppliers around here? I'm not afraid to crawl
• Driven Tonight 31 Mar 2002 (Forum)
  In the absence of the regulation thread on Driven I?ll start one. The comparison between the S class Merc and 7 series BMW IMHO set new a new low even by the standards of this programme. For those who didn?t watch, it consisted of Jason switching off the electronic traction devices. He then drove
• ABS Awareness! 23 Nov 2001 (Forum)
  Overheard by my work colleague's wife in school recently shortly after our first winter snows in Aberdeenshire. Three teachers (ladies) talking about ABS; they were aware that their car(s) were fitted with ABS, but one individual, describing what happened when she braked in the prevailing
• Sorry- it's byke advice I need 31 Oct 2001 (Forum)
  of it, knows where I can follow up or any other info. Many thanks in advance - I appreciate the topic's not strictly within bounds - can't see Top Gear doing an in depth on it. Colin S
• Mondeo woes again 9 Oct 2001 (Forum)
  gone and that was what they fitted and all ok, but you have two more, one for each bank of cylinders (2.5V6). It would appear that one of these has now gone. I understand that the newer V6's have only one. Is it possible to fit some spool pieces in way of the smaller cats and remove them totally
• Price guides 21 Aug 2001 (Forum)
  How accurate are price guides such as Parkers or What Car? According to the current issues a Fiat Ulysse 1.9 TD S 97 on a P plate from a dealers in good nick and mileage would go for about 6.8k to just over 7k depending on which guide you look at. A local dealer to me has one on at 8.5k - no air
• What Car? 19 Jun 2001 (Forum)
  I?ve just returned from a meeting with a personal tax client who was wrestling with an interesting car choice dilemma. He?s resigned a senior management post that came with a company XJ8, to work on a self employed basis helping set up a new venture in financial services, so he needs to buy some
• Ford Focus brakes 16 Mar 2001 (Forum)
  sometimes when getting into the car . The two local Ford dealers say there is nothing wrong and that lots of cars do it. My son' s doesn't nor does my sister- in -law's or the man to whom I sold my Sierra. Neither have any of the Fords I have owned over the past 35 years. I wrote to Mr McAllister the MD
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  Should I replace my 2015 Renault Twingo with a newer car? 19 Apr 2022 (Ask HJ)
  I currently own a 2015 Renault Twingo Dynamique S with 35,000 miles on the clock. I have owned the car from new and it has always been serviced by a Renault...
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  Starting problems on a Ford S-MAX. What's causing it? 20 Jan 2015 (Ask HJ)
  Our car, an S-Max 2L petrol (2009), seems to have developed a fault but the garage’s diagnostics are far from clear. About 2 months ago the engine warning...
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  I replaced my diesel Octavia with a petrol Avensis and have saved a lot of money. 16 Jun 2012 (Ask HJ)
  I was interested in your correspondent RY of Peterborough's comments about diesel engines. After 10 years of driving new and nearly new Volkswagen Group...
• nissan micra s auto 2001 - advice on what to get sorted? 23 Nov 2024 (Forum)
  paid for itself in a way. It has showed it's s*** side a couple times whilst I've had it though; it broke down slap bang in the middle of the road from the old battery going bad, it also cut out being put from park to drive on a dual carriageway (pulling off from a layby) however sprang