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Best selling car (not just EVs) in China, about half million, which is by far largest car market in the world. That looks very good value and would probably suit a lot of people...

Beware - some of the above info is incorrect... all Mk2 Scouts and 4x4's had DPF's, even older PD140 ones, as they were fitted with the BMM 8v engine and not the 16v one without DPF fitted to other variants.

It'll likely not be. Legal here or in a number of EU countries due to visibility issues (or lack of) as far as I can tell. It certainly wouldn't be allowed in London and I doubt many FORS operators will be interested.

When I did this on my old Nova I just used silver Hammerite... It lasted well

So just had half an hours play during lunch and new pollen filter in (old one was pretty manky), new rear wiper blade fitted (had a spare refill in the garage) and a new green auto headlight switch from Aliexpress fitted and working as it should. Wheelarch liners on the list when I have a day free...

That may be the case... But I know from someone who used to service NHS car like this that they are generally very well looked after despite potentially having a hard life... which counts for a lot too.

Maybe... Probably also a nice tax break too??

If the electrics haven't been too molested I'd go for the 2019 car. It'll have been regularly serviced and the mileage will be low enough such that there are unlikely to be issues such as prop shaft doughnuts on the way out etc.

Well he looks a complete **** and exactly the sort of person I thought might be stupid enough to have bought it... 🤣

They usually start to go at around 70k miles from my experience and the tell tale sign seems to be a heavy vibration from the rear under load at about 2300rpm, heard more in higher gears.

Ah... Ok. Thought it was the same as the bigger cars where some fuses are accessed by pulling the glovebox down on a RHD car. Presumably you've checked connectors the headlight itself and on the back of the dashboard switch?

Your tyre pressures are far too low... Hence the wear. I'd also suggest you get the tracking looked at if that wear was on the inside edge as it suggests a slightly toe out setting at the moment However, the key problem will be the pressures your using IMHO.

There are clearly some very rich fools about if they are happy to spend 40 times over the odds for something that ugly (IMHO of course)

TBH the issue sounds more like an intermittent connection or a dry solder joint either externally or internally... Presumably you've checked connectors and fuses etc as the fuse box is closed to the pollen filter you replaced so could have been disturbed? Otherwise a second hand headlight would likely be massively cheaper...

Yes .. I'd just started work at 18 as a sponsored engineering student and had moved away from home. I was renting a place with a group of mates from the same workplace. It was an old single brick skinned terraced property with no central heating, draughty single glazing and one gas fire in the living room. It also had massive draughts up through the floor from the cellar and to get to the one bathroom you had to go through one of the two upstairs bedrooms. I was downstairs in the front room facing the street. I eventually got a fan heater on a timer that I set to come on a few minutes before I got up each morning but the timer was a clockwork one and often jammed. A year or so later we were living somewhere else just as bad if not worse as it was on a main road into town and every time an artic went past the floorboards vibrated and moved so much the furniture rocked.

Places I lived in in the late 80s had ice on the inside o the windows in winter... Let alone in 1962/63...!!!

The above is something demonstrated on here fairly regularly with people boasting about free or cheap charging and using it as a stick to evangelise about EVs without any recognition of how the vast majority of the UK live life, or how they are in a completely different situation. I don't think it causes much resentment in here but it certainly annoys and frustrates due to the constant repetition and blindness to the lives and situations of others. I think the expression is probably 'tone deaf'...

On our old Fabia and Octavia's the button or a double press on the remote was all that was needed on a ferry. Try it... Double lock, leave the car for a few minutes then give the car a really good rock about from outside by pushing and pulling on the roof bars etc to see if the alarm goes off.

Double press on the remote should do both??

But thats only the same as the way petrol or diesel prices are quoted too, with the numbers often reflecting the highest prices per litre in remote rural areas, motorway services, or London which often aren't reflective of what the vast majority of people actually pay.

Ok thanks - that's useful! I'll have a feel around based on the photos I've seen and hopefully that will be enough to find them, expose them and then transfer the positions to the liners so I can drill the liners. Just slightly annoyed as it's more faffing around! (and the prices of them appear to have dropped again!)

Brill - thanks:

Evening all, We've just acquired a 2017 Citigo Colour for my daughter and, following guidance on here I've ordered wheel arch liners and fittings from Autodoc. They've just arrived and on unpacking them I've noticed that there are no holes in the arch liners for the fitting screws etc. that would allow me to find the hidden holes in the chassis... Hence is anyone able / willing to do some quick measurements for me to give me a fighting chance of finding them? I can go off the pictures in various threads on here but measurements would also help tremendously! Thanks in advance!

Right - I've just managed to look at the stuff from AutoDoc and have noticed there are no holes in the arch liners that would allow me to find the holes in the chassis... Hence is anyone able / willing to do some quick measurements for me to give me a fighting chance of finding them? I can go off the pictures in the threads linked above but measurements would also help tremendously! Thanks in advance!

Can you provide a link please..