Car Maintenance

OT North West London to M3. Which Route ?

Any opinions for a Car Route from North West London (Finchley Central) to joining the M3 traveling South West. Looking...

13 comments posted 6yrs

posted by mail.invalid456

13 comments posted 6yrs posted by mail.invalid456

There's a hole in my bucket...

Alternator on the old car is playing up. Output low - only reading 13.1v instead of the usual 13.8v, engine running. Ba...

10 comments posted 6yrs

posted by dave

10 comments posted 6yrs posted by dave

The van has done it again

Need I say any more? AA took 57 minutes to turn up, my longest ever wait. A very simple breakdown but they just did not...

19 comments posted 6yrs

posted by adamwadsworth

19 comments posted 6yrs posted by adamwadsworth

Starter saga.

Some may remember the saga of this a few weeks ago, but here's a summary and update. Ish. Old Rover went into a local g...

4 comments posted 6yrs

posted by dave

4 comments posted 6yrs posted by dave

List of Chevrolets from the 1940s

On an idle whim, I?m trying to remember what car my parents owned when we lived in the USA many years ago. They had a b...

3 comments posted 6yrs

posted by tim.downie

3 comments posted 6yrs posted by tim.downie

SOT - car computer functions

I have a Jazz just over 4 years old. Like many modern cars, it can "sense" speed signs and show the limit on a dash dis...

1 comments posted 6yrs

posted by JMLayman

1 comments posted 6yrs posted by JMLayman

OT: bloody W10 and networked printer.

Trying to print a couple of pages to a networked laser (Brother HL) from my desktop, I must have mis-keyed and accident...

1 comments posted 6yrs

posted by newshound

1 comments posted 6yrs posted by newshound

Flooded Cars?..

Seeing a great number of cars in water recently, some just up to the sills some to the roof bars. IN this day of lots o...

28 comments posted 6yrs

posted by tony

28 comments posted 6yrs posted by tony

Glow plug timer relay

This seems to be misbehaving on my ATV (this has a 3 cylinder diesel, badged Caterpillar but presumably Japanese, and h...

4 comments posted 6yrs

posted by newshound

4 comments posted 6yrs posted by newshound

PowerLite starter motor.

Anyone had one of these apart? They're aftermarket types often used to replace early series wound Lucas types. They use...

11 comments posted 6yrs

posted by dave

11 comments posted 6yrs posted by dave

'Piggyback' Fuses

Hi all, Anyone know if there's such a thing that you can plug into an existing blade-type fuse slot that enables you to...

2 comments posted 6yrs

posted by marty889

2 comments posted 6yrs posted by marty889

Cat thief crushed by car

Oh dear. Is this an example of schadenfreude ? https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/18197902.thief-crushed-death-car...

0 comments posted 6yrs

posted by Andrew97d-junk

0 comments posted 6yrs posted by Andrew97d-junk

Electric cars and low loaders

There was an odd comment in the Times a couple of days ago (on the dangers of ?smart? motorways) about how electric car...

3 comments posted 6yrs

posted by tim.downie

3 comments posted 6yrs posted by tim.downie

MOT's cancelled in NI!!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-51273872

2 comments posted 6yrs

posted by tony

2 comments posted 6yrs posted by tony

Picasso 2004 2.0 hdi, high miles

What oil spec should I go for? I?m in france, so summers can get pr etty hot, but the motor doesn?t do long or hard trip...

1 comments posted 6yrs

posted by lmmcams

1 comments posted 6yrs posted by lmmcams