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!
I am a bit suspicious about my local main dealer that has always serviced my car since new. How can I make sure that they are doing all the maintenance work that should be done for each type of service, and which they say they are doing on the check sheets? Are there things on […]
Can you help with some thoughts I’ve been having with regard to my next (diesel) car, which I shall plan to keep for quite a few years, during which I expect to be driving around 110 miles a day, five days a week, in the course of my job managing a number of company branches, […]
I sometimes see a fairly new diesel car near where I live belching out black smoke. Aren’t diesels supposed to be all cleaned up these days? What could be causing it? And what’s the difference between black smoke, blue smoke, and white smoke from a diesel exhaust? Bob Hill, Staines Well Bob, your neighbourhood rogue […]
I hope that this message gets to you, as a somewhat belated reply to your response to my enquiry about using biodiesel, back in September 2010! I have been running several Skodas over the years since, and my current car is a 2010 Octavia Scout 2.0 TDI. I’m still making biodiesel from used chip oil, […]
As promised, here is an update on my project to breathe new life into my old Renault Avantime (see Issue 341). Firstly, as far as I know, the Avantime was never sold new in Poland, where I now live and where I bought it, so it definitely wasn’t Uncle Lech’s cast off presidential vehicle! (As […]
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