Recent content by Muzzy76

I don't panic. Once my fuel is gone I put more in. If I was bothered about fuel economy I wouldn't be running 3 cars, 2 of which are V6's.

I've put £280 in my car in just over 3 weeks. Glad I'm using the "economical" Clio and not my vectra at the moment.

209500 on my 172.

Put the window down just now while driving and there was a snapping sound then the window just fell into the door. Tried the window switch again (stupidly) and the window hasn't moved but the mechanism has come up out of the door. What's involved in sorting this and fixing it? Easy job or...

Anyone shed any light on the O2 faults? Car is de catted if that makes any difference.

Wish people would stop worrying about cold air feeds etc. It's been proven that they make zero difference.

I'll be coming to this. See you there.

Battery clamps are tight as a ducks arse. It's the pressing on the fuse box to correct the fault that's puzzling me. Any other ideas?

Every so often I turn the key to start my car and all the electrics just completely die. Open the bonnet, press down on the fuse box, indicators flash, needles dance and everything works again (although it does reset the clock, stereo settings and mileage info etc). It was a once in a while...

Quite annoying waiting for 3 to show their prices. Hopefully they'll have a better selection than with previous models too. Only ever gone up to 16Gb versions which is no good.

^^^^this^^^^. You lose the ability to flash your lights if you have them fitted to main beam and the constant on/off burns the bulbs out quicker.

It was on eBay yesterday.

Ok thanks for the help.

Re: Bit a boulder, gears are stiff and emission light on. Easy fix if it's damaged?

Just got back in from work, on the way home there was a rather large rock in the road that I didn't see due to the car in front of me. Went straight over it and it's smacked something under the car really hard. Now, it's difficult and stiff to change gear (although all gears are still...