Recent content by Col711

Hi, In general there are several possibilities for the loss of oil. With respect, are you certain that you filled to the top line on the dipstick? Sometimes you can forget. I have had a car from a service with oil less than full. Have you noticed any black smoke either all the time or after...

I went to Brayley Honda to have the driver's size nozzle replaced. I was told that it is a common problem. The nozzle has a ball inside that gets stuck or something and no amount of poking with a pin will sort it. I couldn't remove it without possibly scraping the paint off. Anyway, while...

July 2019 and just under 11k miles

Thanks for the recommendation, Flashy. However, their quote was £200 more than Flux!

I think it is common knowledge that any change to a car's specification from the manufacturer's original has to be divulged to your insurance company. Now, should you have an accident and you haven't divulged all changes, even including optional extras AFAIK, then the insurance company would be...

My concern is that they will not cover me for the mods and, so, if I fitted them I would not be insured.

I am afraid they are refusing to cover my proposed mods because they would not provide me with a quote.

Well .... they cannot cover any of the mods! It looks like I'll have to try a specialist insurer. The dash cam would be ok if it isn't hard-wired. Given that there appear to be quite a few people with dash cams uploading to the police or YouTube, I wonder whether they are all just plugged in...

Thanks dessimpson, I'll ring Churchill for a price.

Hi All, I am eventually going to add a hard-wired dash cam and oil catch can to my car as well as replace the tyres with 255/35x20 covers. So with this in mind I contact my car insurer, Quotemehappy, and after a couple of days they replied that they do not cover such modifications. I cannot...

My FK8 is on 8k miles and doesn't rattle on startup, even after sitting for two weeks or more. It just settles at a tick over of 1200 rpm or so.

I don't want to scare anyone, but my old FD2 made a noise at startup if left for a few days. When started it would cold idle at 1850 rpm. There is a chance that the bearings were not properly lubricated. But it was okay if used every day. In my opinion, it was an indication that some...

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