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I traded my rcz 200gt in for my current vrs tsi ,no room in back and i realized i was starting to roll out of it rather than step out of it haha

My first car at 18 years old, Celica 1600 ST, obviously I was shy so it had an Eagle on the bonnet and huge Pioneer speakers.

Another excuse to post this (1980) - self, Cortina and Dillon:

And another, well nearly. Mine was a Singer Chamois - a dreadful little thing that I keep for only two weeks! Bought me a Triumph 1300 (FWD) which was absolute luxury by comparison. I later upgraded to an 1850cc Dolomite, for which, at the age of 19, the insurance cost more than the car! Learnt to drive in a Triumph Toledo 1300 (RWD) as the driving school decided a Mini would be too small (well, I am 6' 5" tall, but the funny thing is after the Dolomite I bought a Mini Clubman). Got some extra practice in my Dad's Volvo 145 (and I still aspire to a large Volvo Estate but can't really justify the extra ££££). Three generations of car owners (photo from early 1976). Reg number of my Grandfathers Morris Minor always seemed quite appropriate - Poor Old Joe 😂

I am guessing this is about 30 + years ago on my much loved Fiat Strada. Alcohol might have been taken at the Aberfeldy Raft race to have me practicing my surfing on the bonnet with my C&A specials shirt & shorts.

Can I just say that I’m really happy it didn’t cause any major problems mate, would also like to say that the time wasters who commented on this (roottoot) can apologise to the OP for your copy and pasting rubbish and time wasting and actually probably taking him further away from sorting the problem out

Guess I best get the chicken soup in and board myself up in my bedroom 🤪

The tuning garage found damaged wiring & broken plug part that connects to the coilpack so it's sorted now, it was strange how I noticed the issue a lot more with less fuel in so probably the subject heading is misleading now. All good reading but the key to solving is finding a good garage / mechanic. As well as all the other potential causes listed by members on here I am not as hands on as most, so thanks 🙂

Nah, single carb. Wasn't it the 1300GT that had twin SU's? Sadly, I was 16 & 17 years old when I had it. In my youthful exuberance, the difference between what I knew about cars, and what I thought I knew about cars was a gaping chasm, but it was a good learning curve. I learned things like you can get a floor pan through an MOT by pop riveting a plate from a galvanised water tank onto it, then using P.38 crafted to look like welding under underseal. I also put some heavy duty driving lights on (can't remember what they were - possibly KC Daylighters) and learned the value of relays, instead of melting multi-column switches. I filled the dash-pot with Red-ex because someone told me it was a good idea, and like an idiot I believed them, which is why it needed weekly topping up. I broke the rear subframe 'jumping' over the railway bridge at Doleham Halt, just outside of Westfield 🙄 It was used and abused. Felt like I had it years, but in reality I had a Mk3 Cortina by the time I was 18, so didn't have it much more than a year. Gaz

The advertising slogan for the Fiat Strada at the time was ''Hand Built By Robots.'' The Not The Nine O'clock News comedy show did a skit on that slogan only they used the BL Ambassador as the car and changed the slogan to ''Hand Built By Roberts'' .... And the proper advert....

@nta16I would think i am thinking 'if i hop off of here i will be going to A&E so best sit down and slide off!'

In the second photo is that you giving a sultry look to the camera or you trying to work out where you are and why you are standing on the bonnet of your car.

he he - Austin 1100s and 1300s - we had two in the family - a dark blue 1100 and, following that, a dark green 1300 that was eventually replaced by an Allegro, all of which were my mum's. They were all good cars and reliable for their time - but boy did they rust - i remember spending hours with my dad with filler and aluminium mesh fixing holes in them - in fact we nearly set the green one on fire one cold day as my dad, in his wisdom, decided to use a candle underneath the car to try and help get some filler to cure... which set the underseal on fire!

Here we are. Probably worth a few quid now to someone? I've just noticed the garage name and address on the box; Ipswich. Probably somewhere known to FordFan (RIP) as that's where he was located.

Ive had an Audi with Matrix lights and the wife has them the last 5 years,my company also has a 2020 RS which has had zero problems but you rock on making assumptions on people and cars you know nothing about!! 🤡🤡

You're so young you won't know about the reels and machine the chap from the Rugby club would lend or hire out, simpler and more innocent times (relatively anyway).

Owned this Civic Type R in the mid 90s for 5 years. Fantastic car, great handling, but you had to get that V-Tec high revs to get any speed out of them.

We had two in the family - my sister had an early one with the sunken headlights, a 1.3 GL in red with a tartan red interior and I had a later 1.3L with flush headlights that was mushy pea green with an interior that was a similar shade... to which i added some pinstripes, speakers and a new stereo. It was fine for tooling back and forth to work in Cheltenham from home in Sheffield but got a bit 'floaty' on the A38 at close to 70mph so the natural cruising speed was 60- 65. I'll try and dig out some photos at some point!

I did something similar trying to fit foglights on a Chevette... got them wired in via a separate switch and decided to try them only to be greeted with a smell of burning and smoke from under the bonnet as the wiring overheated! I learnt my lesson though and didn't make the same mistake when fitting big driving lights to my Nova and foglights to my Mitsubishi Colt! In fact I've still got the driving lights and the bumper over-riders they fitted on off the Nova in the garage - I seem to recall they were rebranded Hella lights and were great on a country road, the only trouble being that after you switched them off you were temporarily blind until your eyes readjusted to the low power of the standard dipped beams.

Took another shot for the local photography competition. Thats my two submissions for the doors theme done. Now just have to wait for the anal retentives to criticise them 😆

😜 You paid how much??? 😆🤣 Didn't anyone tell you its only a Skoda 🤪

Oh right, thanks, I've shown my ignorance of youth again. I will put my hands up and say clearly - I have used their products in the past, perhaps a self-help group could be established here for ex-users.

It's not the same product, there's no Teflon in it any more, it's just another generic product making outrageous hard-to-disprove claims using chemicals that will already be in the additive pack in your oil. Because moar is betterer.

What makes you think it was withdrawn from sale. Halfords - Slick 50 High Performance Synthetic Engine Treatment 750ml - https://www.halfords.com/motoring/engine-oils-and-fluids/fuel-and-oil-additives/slick-50-high-performance-synthetic-engine-treatment-750ml-114371.html Halfords - Slick 50 Engine Treatment 750ml - https://www.halfords.com/motoring/engine-oils-and-fluids/fuel-and-oil-additives/slick-50-engine-treatment-750ml-289280.html You can order online if you want to try it again. You can buy a (IIRC PTFE) oil additive and just put a little in with your engine oil, a German product too IIRC, so if they paid VW I'm sure it'd possibly be approved for use in "VAG Group" vehicles if it helps to get their products through to the end of extended warranties. 😁

Fair enough, I wouldn't have taken the slightest notice of the make of a headlamp back then, if it worked ok that was good enough, as I put I can't remember thinking they were particularly dull. ETA: I always think of the advert and sketch too, a real classic. PPS: the proper advert is even more a proper classic, all the elements of inventiveness and talent to turn such a boring subject into something entertaining.

Mind you, I do have some purple grease, it's Silkolene waterproof stuff and it smells a bit like Germolene used to.

Bright purple with lime green spots is a no-no.

@skomaz I remember dropping it off and getting £700 cash and going and buying a Fiat 132 Auto Twin Cam that i ran for quite a while then getting a Fiat Punto Speedgear. If someone has one in a barn best look after it.

Of course, just bear in mind it won't like steep hills and could stall under heavy load.

As I always say at worst these things are just a waste of money, they generally don't do any harm @Stewartasb so as long as you're happy then I'm happy.

IMHO checking a cam belt at 5 years is pointless! CHANGE IT! and rollers, tensioner and for the an engine with a cam belt driven water pump that as well for what little extra cost it is. At best a visual check will only let you see if the belt is contaminated with engine oil or maybe fuel. If its got visible damage then it's not likely to last much longer. To check the condition of the water pump, rollers, cam belt tensioner the cam belt has to be taken off to be able to check for float in the bearings and spun to try and hear if there is any bearing noise in any of those parts. But it's not an infallible check. Unless you're capabale of doing such work yourself by the time you've paid a garage to do a complete check you might as well get the cam belt and all the other parts that go with it changed at the end of the day it's a serviceable item . Last November it cost me £70.0 for a Gates cam belt kit with water pump, 2 rollers, cam belt tensioner, new nuts, bolts & studs for my MK2 Superb 2.0 TDi which is a very similar engine to one that's the subject of this thread. For that sort of money change it and hopefully you'll have at least 4 years peace of mind.

Blimey - a Fiat Strada - I'd completely forgotten about those!! I always thought they were really distinctive at the time!

Some companies will sell ANYTHING they can make a buck on, hence my comment about fools and their money. You forget I'm old school, so I remember the days when some additives were actually useful and K&N filters really did make your car faster. Nowadays engines are actually built to such close tolerances that even the laborious blueprinting process of yore no longer yield measurable improvements.

A coughing fit maybe, modern oils already have complex additive packs, they didn't used to so additive manufacturers sprang up to fill the void, and their pockets. In the bad old days oils were terrible, engines were strangled by bad design and the aftermarket had a real role, nowadays notsomuch. In what world do you imagine that the R&D laboratories of multinational oil companies are somehow inferior to the snake oil merchants who actually spend all their money on MARKETING and not research!

I was wrong looks like it might have caused hyperventilating.

Man finds cider. Man gets tipsy enough to make stupid purchases. Man buys 2001 Sony Mavica. Man takes Mavica and takes some photographs. I'm still getting to grips with it since I've only had it since this morning as I rescued it from the sorting office, but I know that the first one could have done with some exposure tweaking since it is underexposed.

Also make sure you swop out the bump stops while doing this as will guarantee they are perished as sep said above and as I did replace the lot while its stripped down.

From memory those sealed beam units were Lucas ones and lived up to the Prince of Darkness jokes!

That is still strange to read since i think the matrix lights are one of the best things in new octavia.

Only if you think a 45W/40W sealed beam tungsten candle was a "reasonable headlight". My Dad bought a Cortina with them, and after a wet trip down Loch Lomond, replaced them with Wipac Quadoptic 60W/55W halogens.

I'd be tempted to prioritise the compression test, in view of the coilpack swapping result, but if you do want a new servo pipe, this seems to be a cheaper source: Volkswagen / Seat / Skoda Vacuum Pipe With<Br>Non-Return Valve 6Q2612041AL - LLLParts PR-T70 is the 3-cylinder 12-valve engine.

Talking from experience... To have me on my Mum's policy for the Dacia Duster 1.0 it was £650 with a telematics box as a learner. For me to cover that car itself as the main driver it was £300 without a box. It was £251 for me to be covered as the main driver for the Fabia with my Mum and Granda as named drivers, also without a box. Try Collingwood, that's who I was with. Hope this helps.

There are so many real world variables. I can tell weight doesn’t make much difference as I’ve done the same journeys with just me or with 3 adult passengers and a full boot and the range achieved was practically the same. If you get a long downhill section it will barely use any energy to maintain 70, and with some regen you can go miles with range not dropping at all. One thing I always try and do is preheat or precool it 30 minutes before a long journey while plugged in. What I won’t do is drive slowly or tailgate lorries. I leave the Aircon on auto all year round.

Hi Matt... Just done this for my daughter who's 17 and learning and did her as a named driver on the swift. Went with the post office as it was cheaper than the renewal offered by others without her. For a laugh I asked about putting her on the Kodiaq with GA... £135 for me and SWMBO only... £1350 with my daughter added!!!

I've had my vRS a couple of weeks and they work alot better than the lights on my old A4. I was always getting flashed with the A4 lights, but the vRS lights seem to just dance around the cars around me and no flashes so far. It was ready interesting to see them working in the fog.

i have drove my sons car with matrix headlights down england then down from northern spain and back and i think i only got flashed 1ot 2 times so not bad for over 2000 miles.

1972 Austin 1300 Van Den Plas - my first car: Gaz