road handling and acelaration is great, sticks to the roads like shit, interior is great, its just the mechanics but if you can do that the battle has been won,massive garage bills if you dont have a clue,its just they have cramped so much into a small engine bay you cant get down inside to do anything so you have to remove everythingIts just I took my Renault in last week for brake pads -I jokingly apologised for buying French and he pointed to a MINI in the yard and ( for a guy who doesn't normally swear ) he said " don't ever buy one of them cunts they are fucking shite compared with yours" - I took that as sage advice lol
road handling and acelaration is great, sticks to the roads like shit, interior is great, its just the mechanics but if you can do that the battle has been won,massive garage bills if you dont have a clue,its just they have cramped so much into a small engine bay you cant get down inside to do anything so you have to remove everything
I drive the wifes C Max and every time i get in it i tell it to fuck off. ''Your seat belts not on, door is open, fuel is low, remote battery running low, not connected for emergency assistance,'' all before i've gone anywhere.Many, many things under this heading but at the moment its lights. The Mrs has a Hyundai - recently had a brake light out - no probs says I - change the bulb. Did it but only by dismantling a ton of plastic boot lining.
I had a Scenic for a while - headlight out - change the bulb by taking the the wheel arch liner out to access the back of the unit to fit a bulb. Bastard of a job.
Have another Scenic now and side light is out....I can guess the procedure.
Are modern cars just too awkward and to clever for their own good?
I drive the wifes C Max and every time i get in it i tell it to fuck off. ''Your seat belts not on, door is open, fuel is low, remote battery running low, not connected for emergency assistance,'' all before i've gone anywhere.
Dreading getting a puncture because there's some strange looking contraption where the jack and spare wheel's supposed to be.
As for the lights, took me ten minutes to work out how to get foglights on yesterday. Also gotta remove and dismantle whole lighting housing to change a bulb.
Where's me hammer.....
Thanks for more carefree driving...I had one of those shit boxes - got a puncture on the A1 near Peterborough in a blizzard. The "puncture repair kit" is more like an I.E.D. when you look at the pictogram instructions it seems so hazardous and in any event it only works if the tyre is going down not when its flat and come off the rim. Took me 7 hrs to get home courtesy of the AA and 3 flat bed trucks but thats another story.
End result - never had a Ford since - don't like 'em and AA membership cancelled.
Jamie Carragher drives one that appears to make a high pitched whining noise, punctuated by the sound of gobbing.I can't remember the manufacturer involved, maybe BMW or Jaguar, but whoever it was, spent an awful lot of time and money trying to agree an artificial noise for electric cars. Eventually, they came up with a "Whirring" sound but when they tested it out on the roads, people started looking up to the sky.
After this epic failure, someone came up with a sound "Like a car"
Brick windows, torch it etcVolvo's immobiliser has stopped the car from starting, any ideas or anyone approved on here willing to come round and have a look?
Volvo's immobiliser has stopped the car from starting, any ideas or anyone approved on here willing to come round and have a look?