Recent content by JonnyG

hi otherclive.. its not going to go out of business car prices are still brilliant and comparable to calais heck just booked last weekend its also popular with freight which as you might be aware of DFDS has a background in.so 12 or 13 metres of car caravan each way £200 an hgv £300 ....more...

how fickle we are...or are we..a decade and an half back road tax was £180 a year ok 17 years or something back pre the CO rating system ... logically road tax should be nearer £300 a year .yes i am well aware some do pay that i'm merely doing the average by that i mean the average car .ive...

unless something has changed and i have not seen any evidence to that fact ,i have for the last decade or so taken one of my bikes to the mot station for a pre booked mot every 2 years .which means they have been rode there without an mot and on 2 occasions rode back home still without an MOT...

to quote ...the most common complaint was mpg and less power" i believe i mentioned right at the start if the so called 40% included this as a problem or breakdown. so let stick to actual facts this isnt something that can be fixed nor is anything broken .the fact of the matter whatever the...

ummm small tolerance? i will chuck in wheels and tyres with so many cars coming with a range of wheel sizes and tyres to suit as standard or optional ie 16 17 18 inch wheels this itself can make an added difference .set up can vary by plus or minus 1.5%.in tyre circumference which then has the...

its not all bad news my 78 Yamaha may not need moting ever again.. its about time they did something although some of the changes are pointless ie my old mondeo reversing light never worked but if i had it now that would be a failure. eml is now a failure which concerns me from the point of...

true except the figures i gave are official ,now i fully understand not everyone has complained who can but less than 1 percent have and somebody is claiming 40% thats a huge huge discrepancy ,also just because somebody complains does not make it a fact especially as these type of events brings...

3 million cars updated . vw claims 17000 have needed extra repairs..umm thats thats just over half a percent!! 40% would be 1.3 million!!! whilst i'm sure some are having issues as is normal the figures dont stack up .

again.. 40%, of what? if a numerical value is going to be used it has to be used in a context and frankly however it is used surely only VAG could say exactly what percentage of cars had this problem as they would be the only people who could confirm how many cars have had the cheat device fix...

40% ? 40% of what? .. is that to say 4 out of every 10 cars that have had the cheat device fix are reporting problems? if so exactly who is stating this 40% figure and does this include figures for those claiming worse mpg and indeed less power than before? as these last 2 were always an...

ummm how longs a piece of string after all all things being equal wouldn't the electric car run out of power first ,followed by the petrol car and lastly the diesel ? so you could say maybe diesel is the only way forward .very few modern diesel engines need to be manually primed

i am not trying to be negative here i'd like to read my concerns are groundless and not merely being side tracked by eloquent speeches. firstly reliability all well and good saying they should be more reliable and so far have proven to be but have they? there numbers are too small they do not...

i suppose the same things were being said about combustion engined carriages 110 years ago .. high maintenance unreliable no infrastructure short range ,so nothings changed. alas the nothings change has 2 meanings when talking about electric cars. the first meaning is clearly in the paragraph...

just had a quick play on that site and its gotten better than i remember with proper advice on gears performance [towing wise] and info on stability of car, it seems to be a pro active site too changing your bhp and torque info or weight data [as you can]has the site changing its verdict on the...

or maybe merely a heavier car? which as i dont follow car trends these days might mean looking at 4x4 as you state .