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Probably was petrol. Its unlikely (someone confirm this or not) that the fuel pickup isn't in the same place in the fuel tank as the fuel level sensor. In extreme circumstances like the one you got yourself into of parking a car with very little fuel in it on a steep hill all the fuel was done...

I'm not disagreeing with you, but the Renault manual disagrees. It says to take the battery out of the other vehicle, fit the jumper leads between that battery and the battery in your Renault, then start the Renault. What I've always done for cars is to connect the jumper leads, run the engine...

Just had that service done. $A217. Thats 87 pounds in your money. Consisted of $A157 (63 pounds) in labour and $A60 (24 punds) in materials.

Depending on where you are in Australia there'd be some question about whether a narrower wheel was legal. You can definitely go up in size, within limits. But you'd get into an argument about whether you could fit narrower ones. But if you don't care about legality, or you're willing to bet...

Understeer is bad. But oversteer is worse. So the best tyres should always go on the rear. Yes it would improve braking and grip most if they went on the front, especially on a front-heavy front-wheel-drive car. But oversteer is so nasty that preventing it over-rides other considerations. As you...

Which if you're honest you'll admit is why most men want most of the features on their new cars, and do most of the modificatioons to their cars. Not because they do anything useful, but so they can show them off to their mates who haven't got them.

When the price of crude oil went up a few months ago petrol here got up to $1-40 (60p) a litre so the government introduced a rebate of $2000 (800 pounds) to anyone who wanted to convert their car to LPG. LPG only costs 50c (20p) a litre here. But you use about 10-15% more litres than you do of...

You can't reliably detect laser. The beam is narrow and is aimed at a particular part of the car, like the number plate or headlight, and unless you have a detector right there the beam hitting your car isn't detected. Unlike radar speed devices which have a wide beam that if its hitting the car...

They are on the list of known issues with the Clio Sport. Most people won't have gearbox problems. But a significant number will. As with all areas of human endevour those do have the problem will blame factors beyond their control, like poor gearbox design, and those who don't will credit it...

Ask yourself whether if you buy the cheapest thing you can whether you'll end up with something noticeably better than you have now. If you were replacing a really crappy old system even a new cheap machine would be noticeably better. And if you were willing to spend a lot you could get...

So show me the dyno figures. And I'll show you the back to back test with and without induction kit figures done on the same dyno on the same car that show they don't. The power might be up at higher revs, but it'll be down at lower revs. Or vice versa. That's just tuning for those particular...

The writer has pointed out that since the particles in the additive are very very small even a small amount of pressure on them would cause them to be embedded in the material of the bearing shell rather than rolling like a ball. What he doesn't acknowledge is that because the particules are...

In another thread Edde justified the figure he has been quoting, about 143 bhp at the wheels, by calculating from the Clio's drag factor and the top speed the 172 gets in road tests to the amount of horsepower it'd take to do that. And I calculated in the other direction from the horsepower...

The problem with high power quartz halogen bulbs is that they put out lots more light, including more glare. That is oncoming drivers can think you haven't dipped to low beams. Including cops, who might book you for it. You can hardly say "honestly officer, I was dipped, its that I'm running...

A correction to my earlier post. I misspoke. HID globes put out more light than a quartz halogen of the same wattage. A 30-35 watt HID wouldn't produce as much light as a 100 watt quartz halogen. The advantage of HIDs is that they are near point-source of light, so they can be focussed more...

There is a problem in using the term "xenon bulbs" because that term can refer to two completely different types of bulbs. It confuses people. It tricks people. There are "quartz halogen" bulbs where the light is produced by running electricity through a tungsten filament in an atmosphere...

No. Induction kits don't produce more power. They just produce more noise. If that's what you want, go ahead, buy one.

If you fill it up until its full, what happens when the oil heats up and expands? Where does it go?

I'm as bit confused because Ford has used the "Duratec" name on a whole lot of completely different engines, and it names its models slightly differently in this country. If you're talking about the 2.5 litre Duratec it was a V6 that went in the Mondeo last time I looked. And it won't either...

If you're going to have ridiculously impractical dreams that would be prohibitively expensive to make real why not go all the way. Dream of putting a V8 in it. And, seriously, there are a couple of physically small and lightweight V8s available in Britain for track car and motorsport use that...