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My first Imp. the first one sold by the local Rootes dealer had all the Imp cooling issues and seizing kingpins etc and I traded it after a year and the second one was trouble free. Then after a Cortina interlude a Sunbeam Stiletto with a Webasto sunroof fitted at the huge Rootes Ladbrook Grove...

You can but it will cost you £40. DIY fitting job.

The only way to stop such a runaway engine is to cut off its air supply. Open bonnet and hand / lump of rag over the engine air filter intake. Easier said than done !!!:(

Re the service plan. If you sell the car you do get the unused balance returned.

The far end of one Tesco car park in Ashford is usually lightly used and those of us who care about our cars tend to park there well out of the way of the cut and thrust nearer the store entrance. Of late I have noticed that some driving schools are using this area for their pupils to practice...

[ Not unusual for the M26. Where is Plod when this happens, someone must be seeing it on camera.

In another world, SBC stood for Sheer Bloody Carelessness. Just about sums up that feature.

Quote "I was driving on this route, cruise control set to 70mph, and EVERY SINGLE car flew past me.... however on PistonHeads posts from a few years ago seem to talk of the M4 as being littered with vans, I, however, have never seen one ever in the last few months although I am not particularly...

Petrol floats on top of diesel so continue topping the tank at the halfway mark for a month or two.

Years ago the alarm on my W124 230TE used to set and go off when passing Popham? airfield just off the M3 on the A303 when going west . Never did it going east and could be cancelled with the remote.

A stretch of the M25 clockwise just before the M26 has Deer Warning Signs. Surely if that is the case it should be fenced?

The user manual for a diesel car that I had some years ago actually said that it was permissible to add X% petrol in cold weather - must have been a Merc as only petrol till then.

Is switching the dipped beam for driving on the right really a dealer job as the manual suggests?

Don't fancy a trip to the Black Forest with only a bottle of glue and a pump in the boot. Any recommendations ?

Set of four genuine MB alloys with winter tyres. 7mm of rubber on all. Please note, will not fit W205 due to lack of brake caliper clearance. £400, collect from near Ashford, Kent