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+1 For some reason the centre seat in a car is much smaller. A few inches more on that and less on the two outside ones would be much handier! Seat height is another thing to consider. You don't want to be doing your back in lifting the kids in and out!

In the 30kph areas i find myself referring to the speedo much much more. It's such a slow speed that i find it extremely hard to just look at the road and drive. Normally i would stick it a few kph under the limit and any variations due to undulations in the road wouldnt amount to much. But if i...

+1 Nissans (of a particular age) sometimes have to have bearings replaced in their gearboxes. They make noise in the lead up to failure and the non observant driver (or one in a car full of noisy kids!!) may miss it and wreck the gearbox. The OP should check if there may be a common fault with...

What was the oil level like in both gearboxes? A leaky seal could lower the level over time. A small leak might be missed moreso than a large leak. I bought a yaris that had high mileage and checked the oil level in its gearbox after i bought it. It was low and it didn't feel like it needed oil...

Best of luck.

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Yaay for the small diesels!! I have the 1.4d4d yaris and it will go like the clappers if i ask it to and does 800 miles to a tank! (When not driven like the clappers...) "Out of my cold dead hands!!"

I had one a few years ago. A stone got stuck in the fan, stopping it from turning and nearly toasted the engine. Just something else to look at if it's not solved yet. Good luck!

Isn't the introduction of electric cars a global thing? Don't blame the greens for this. Here is a video of a battery swap system:[broken link removed] In any case, i think electric cars have their place. They are limited in range but most people commuting up to 50 km each way will have no...

My t90 did that recently too. I disconnected the power and opened the unit. There is a circular housing on the bottom left, under the pump with a straight flat handle for unscrewing the cover. I tentatively unscrewed it, expecting some water, but none did. I found a dirty filter inside and...

I haven't but i would read a few more reviews before making my mind up. Good luck trying to get 50mpg out of it too. The way a cars mpg is calculated has been changed a while back to reflect "real world" driving. As a result it is harder to get what mpg they claim it will do.

Re: Bullet proof Toyota Cars are not unbreakable. To get 135k out of a car before injectors and flywheels fail is not too bad. Sure, it is a major pain to fix all this but it happens. Were the injectors not repairable? Were you told what was wrong with them? Did you look into getting second...

Good link. I see honda are ahead by a long shot in the reliability stakes. I had one and i must say, it was completely reliable. Right up to when i retired it at 300,000km. I had a peugeot a few years ago and it broke my heart...and my wallet due to the endless repairs, car hire etc. Never...

Hi Moneycheck. You are currently spending 1000 euro per 10,000 km on petrol. A 1.6 diesel would roughly lower this to 575 euro per 10,000km (at 5L/100k) Thats a saving of 425 euro per 10,000km at todays prices. Based on an average of 25,000km this is a saving of 1060 euro. On fuel alone. With...

Re: has anyone ever brought the county council to (the small claims) court? :-pot hol Quite simply, it's a disgrace. We've all been abroad and we know how well the roads are repaired in most western countries. I've seen council workers in NZ marking a mere scrape on the road for repair. In the...

Phone them up and ask. I'm guessing less than 2k, but you never know. Best of luck.

Here is a link to a french site talking about it:[broken link removed] And here it is translated in another place: Note the date is in 2004. This has been building for quite some time!

The children arent the first to be illegaly removed from Haiti. Their president Jean-Bertrand Aristide was removed from power twice. Apparently he had an economic program in store for his country that would develop their resources for themselves. Turns out that there are huge reserves of...

Try lifting the offending cables off the wall and re-fix them with some rubber or something that will absorb the vibrations going into your wall. You could try ask whoever installed the cables but i wouldn't hold my breath on them doing anything about it. Good luck! ollie

Er, don't drill through your firewall. Look for a rubber grommet that may or may not be carrying a wire through the firewall. There might be one left blank. You might be able to widen the hole in the grommet with a screwdriver to let your solar panel wire through. But whatever you do, don't...