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Traction control and service light come on during a jaunt, totally randomly and then off again when the cars restarted. Doing my head in.

Just be aware that bikes on the roof can slaughter your MPG. I did a 560 mile round trip the other day with 4 mountain bikes loaded on Thule 591 racks on top of my C5 Tourer and the MPG averaged 35 as opposed to the usual 50.

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How is it your fault for pissing him off by just overtaking. Something tells me that's not quite the whole story, you didn't overtake in a crazy fashion did you? ;)

Tape measure? You got your current front bumper it won't be any wider, then measure the inside of the clio, answer provided.

Not sure I'd want to put my MTB's on top of that, they'd get ripped off pretty sharpish with that acceleration.

​Just because its cheap doesn't mean its a bag of nails, nor does paying £3k for one mean it'll be mint and trouble free.

Bearing in mind as well it has no tax/MOT and needs a service, not cheap and I've found getting a car at MOT time is risky.

£2.1k for that? Bought a good condition Monaco '53 plate 87k FSH for £1300, belts done 2 years ago (15k). Had 1 months tax and 9 months MOT, only thing Ive done to it is replaced the discs all round as they were lipped and replaced steering wheel for Snappy's one.

Thats nice, I'll have a hug.

Had an E36 328i thanks. The 320D E91 remapped was better to drive, only thing the E36 beat it on was the sound and looks imo.

Nought wrong with the 4 pot diesel making that sexy noise. It's arguable though, much cheaper tax/insurance, way more MPG and it wasn't far off in performance when I had one - it was pumping out 210 bhp and around 320 lb-ft and it certainly didn't drive like a turbo'd car the power delivery was...

320D touring with Bluefin remap > that. ​

QMH is the other sub company owned and underwritten by Aviva. Personal car insurance companies Aviva owns - Aviva Direct, Quote Me Happy and General Accident QMH is an online only company, unless you have a claim.

A well educated response, good work.

What are you jibbering on about, you've quoted something that says they've made some money (strangely enough companies aim to make profit to grow) not that they charge gazillion pounds per risk for the fun of it. I doubt the likes of Admiral and Direct Line are directly charging customers an...

It's one of the many reasons we have had such high insurance premiums so it's not about getting caught (although it is fraud and an offence) so no one should actively encourage it regardless of whether you get caught or not. Insurance companies price against risk (their own strategic risk...

OP if you want to get yourself into further sh*te then please do this, it's easily spotted these days. Or just don't do it and suck up the premium unfortunately.

Aircon isn't useful? ​It's not just about pumping out cold air.

I have absolutely no idea if my 172 has correct or incorrect timing and whether its down on power or not (sometimes I think it is) but if it was incorrect (was changed back in 2011 by prev owner) would this impact the reliability of the cambelt itself.

I do love people who recommend you should do this and do that and the price will come down quadrillion % and they'll pay you for the insurance. Insurance pricing has so many variables into the calculation it'll blow your mind, it comes down to so many factors and none of those factors are...

Yeah, it's not quite the same though is it...

Scotland is amazing, been to Fort Bill/Isle of Skye a few years ago but in a couple of weeks doing a bit of a tour myself - Edinburgh > Loch Lomond > Drumnadroicht/Inverness Envisage travelling to, around and from I'll have done circa 2k miles (it's a long way from Norfolk). Shame won't be...

I don't get the fascination, to me it implies the car breaks down so much theres no point in removing the eye.

My opinion certainly isn't in the minority. Wasn't that look all the rage during the 90's/early 00's

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Barbie Pink ​Can't make it any worse can it.

Are you registered as the main driver of the vehicle? Will you get NCD from it?

Did she start it?

Not that I want to hijack this thread but I've just changed my wheel (Snappy one, awesome quality highly recommend!) done a search can't find any answers. I reconnected the same airbag unit up, both green and orange connectors and the horn connector, the battery was disconnected for over an...