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!
Dear Doctor, From time to time, you enthuse about Millers Diesel Power Ecomax as an antidote for mild emissions and performance problems. Our Rover 25 TD, with 93,000 miles on the clock, has been fed exclusively on a diet of standard Shell (not V-Power) diesel, plus a brew of Millers and Unicat 4 – an […]
Hello Doc. First the data: November 2005 Fiat Panda 1.3 MultiJet, and mine since May 2008. I’m covering 12,000 miles a year, and the car has now just turned 100,000 miles. More than half of these miles are in the form of 40 to 100-plus mile journeys on single carriageways. Oddity: The specification says my […]
Hi Doc, I heard from a dubious source, some time ago, that Skoda Octavia six-speed gearboxes had a longevity problem. I have now just heard from a more credible source that this is so. My brother is an expatriate living near Gibraltar and his neighbour was driving back to the UK to see family when […]
Thank you for your help with selecting the correct oil to use in our Skodas (see Issue 324). I have another similar question, as I carry out some of the servicing. Does it make a big difference which oil, air or fuel filter I use? Is it always better to use genuine Skoda parts? At […]
I have enjoyed reading your column for about twenty years and long may you continue. I found the article in Issue 322 on selective catalytic reduction typically interesting and informative. On the same page was a letter about electronic parking brakes, from which I inferred that the system uses the regular hydraulic system to apply […]
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