Car Maintenance

What tools to ££££ on?

I want to set up a minimal cost but top quality set of hand tools for a sec ond garage, usual jobs are routine maintena...

1 comments posted 7yrs

posted by lmmcams

1 comments posted 7yrs posted by lmmcams

The embiggening of cars...

...can be a bit of an embuggerance. Thought I was hiring a ?medium? sized car on holiday (a Citroen Berlingo) but it se...

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posted by tim.downie

9 comments posted 7yrs posted by tim.downie

Halfords prices

I just saw a bill for a service and MoT from Halfords, the car a plain low mileage Astra petrol: Service and MoT includ...

35 comments posted 7yrs

posted by g.odonnell35

35 comments posted 7yrs posted by g.odonnell35

Mini Cooper S jumping out of first gear

Just happens occasionally. Should I set it on fire, trade it in or get it repaired? I?m guessing it?s a gearbox out job...

5 comments posted 7yrs

posted by tim.downie

5 comments posted 7yrs posted by tim.downie

Renault Captur service and repair cost?

Just wondered if anyone might have an opinion on this at all?. Daughter has one of the above now 5 years old. Put it in...

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posted by tony

5 comments posted 7yrs posted by tony

Workshop Manuals

How do these work nowadays, with I'd guess most being available electronically? I've given up buying proper manuals now...

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posted by patchmoney

9 comments posted 7yrs posted by patchmoney

Strange noise from me old Fiesta.

I've a 2003 Fiesta Zetec 1.4 petrol. For the last week, it's started making a strange noise, which sounds like it's com...

10 comments posted 7yrs

posted by no

10 comments posted 7yrs posted by no

New Toyota Corolla hybrid

Neighbour has just bought one of these, but Toyota don't have any printed handbooks yet. I was sitting in the passenger...

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posted by Andrew97d-junk

4 comments posted 7yrs posted by Andrew97d-junk

Cobwebs in a Toyota engine

A long time it was suggested to me that since my motoring was just doodling around town, that i should occasionally blo...

2 comments posted 7yrs

posted by mail.invalid456

2 comments posted 7yrs posted by mail.invalid456

Broken Cars - Copart

I watch a few youtube vids of Americans fliping their cars, basically fixing wrecks, and occasionally a company 'Copart...

10 comments posted 7yrs

posted by email

10 comments posted 7yrs posted by email

Ford Mondeo MK4 radio aerial

Hello, Does anyone know how to fit a new FM radio aerial to a mk4 Mondeo? (I understand cars with DAB or satnavs have d...

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posted by reply

0 comments posted 7yrs posted by reply

Strange BMW

Yesterday, I passed a BMW that looked, at first frontal sight, like a Lamborghini or Ferrari, or other Supercar. It was...

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posted by davey

26 comments posted 7yrs posted by davey

DVLA at their finest

Trying to change tax class on my old viva, Post Office could not, so sent to DVLA, letter back asking me to upload or p...

1 comments posted 7yrs

posted by g.odonnell35

1 comments posted 7yrs posted by g.odonnell35

Jaguar/Land Rover recall

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-47564225 So how are they going to fix this? Just de-tune all their engines? Can the...

2 comments posted 7yrs

posted by tim.downie

2 comments posted 7yrs posted by tim.downie

Amazon question

As a purchaser of a cheap anaylyser a couple of years ago, I was just asked this question: "Will this work on my 308 pe...

1 comments posted 7yrs

posted by davey

1 comments posted 7yrs posted by davey