Probably motoring's equivalent of Geoff Boycott! He hates factual inaccuracy and avoidance of the fundamental facts of anything. Cars are meant to fulfil a purpose of getting from A-to-B, hopefully enjoyably, comfortably, and elegantly, not to serve as mobile communications and entertainment centres!
The subject of tyre noise is often raised in your words Doctor, and in Diesel Car road tests and long-term test car reports. Can you offer any general information regarding the situation, such as to why some tyres are actually significantly noisier than others, how to interpret the EC tyre noise ratings, and why the […]
A question for you regarding automatic transmissions Doctor. I have had some experience with driving twin-clutch automatics (not owned by myself) and I can’t say that I am totally impressed with them, in terms of their smoothness of operation, and I know that there have been some reliability issues. What I think that I want […]
Hello Doc I’m sure that you’re as concerned as I am to have read phrases in the press recently like ìall diesels are illegalî and the like. I know that this is related to the real world tests that are going to be involved soon in testing for nitrogen oxide emissions, and I think that […]
As I am sure you will recall, I wrote to you recently regarding my Mercedes-Benz C-Class and I told you that I had acquired a transmission fluid filling tool for my 7G-Tronic automatic transmission. I thought that perhaps some of the readers might be interested in making such a purchase. The oil filling pump is […]
I shall shortly be shopping for a new car (maybe I should have said ìweî), and it will need to be something pretty functional, like an estate car or an SUV that will cater for a growing family of two very young kids (no more planned!) and a small dog that usually comes with us […]
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