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!
Reference your article on electric handbrakes locking up wheels when travelling, I have a 2012 Vauxhall Meriva with an electric handbrake, and the handbook informs me that, if the handbrake lever is held on when travelling at speed, then it will cause the brakes to “progressively decelerate the car”. (I wonder what they mean by […]
Over the years, I have appreciated the advice of Diesel Car in helping to choose the right vehicles and how to maintain them. At the moment, in the family we have three Skoda Fabias, all of them with 1.9 TDI engines, and for many years I have used the recommended Millers engine oil. This is […]
Hello, I’ve just had the experience of having to replace the EGR cooler on my 60-plate, 41,000 mile SEAT Altea XL Ecomotive. It just went “phhht” and then went into limp-home mode on a dual carriageway, with no advance warning lights until the glow plug light started to flash at the moment of failure. It […]
In past times, road testers often made comments like “there’s something of a gap between third and fourth that maybe makes overtaking 50mph traffic more difficult than it should be”, and we maybe wonder how the designers and manufacturers could arrive at such ill-chosen ratios. Even now, it may sometimes be evident that sixth gear […]
We have corresponded before regarding mass-air-flow (MAF) cleaning, by revving the engine up to 2,500rpm and switching off the engine, although it was at least a couple of years ago. I am still running my Mercedes-Benz C 250 Turbodiesel Estate (delivered new in February 1997, and now past the 250,000 mile mark). It is running […]
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