philgor

i am a mot tester, the most common failure on anyautomatic car is the handbrake not working. the last owner of my car didin't use the hand brake and it sezied up and stopped working, it needed 2 caliper's, disk's and pad's to get it working again, so treat the car as a manual when paring it up and you shouldn't have any problem's. overdrive, it is only fitted on 4th gear, it used when crusing at 50mph plus, (it's not an overdrive gear as such, it ''lock's'' the gearbox up), so the car get's slightly better mpg.

depend's on the value of the wheel's to you and a would be thief, is an extra 20 quid on a 5/600 set of wheel's an extra burden?

nice to see another auto' about, they are real flyer's arn't they, remember to check the autobox oil level as well, as it help's with shifting and also droping in to overdrive. also use your hand brake as you would in a manual car, as it help's stoppign the cailper's sezing up.

cheers ive actually got some just needing some tyres then i might put them on just remember to get some wheel nut's as well, as the one's on the car have a coller on them to hold the wheel trim on

what the bulge'd de-cat might be for is, the MOT test, http://www.civic5.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=8973&p=95686#p95686, a load of new failure's came in on the 01/01/12 and some more in spring. i think the idea of the bulge, is to fool the tester in to thinking that the cat is present, and that it is not a de-cat.

got to also remember that the civic andthe jazz are 2 very different vehicles, the civic's are a low and sleek saloon style hatch back where as the jazz is a short stumpy and tall super mini. also the angle of the washer jet outlet, to the angle of the bonnet, to the angle of the wind screen, will be so different from the civic to the jazz. (mentioned it when i first joned, the mg/rover forum like'd the citroen c3 washer jet's)

live in a nice little place in the country don't I? living near a good motorway network help's with journey time's. around here it's all single carrageway road's, with little or no overtaking spot's. for example the a1 is 45minuites away from us on a good day (bad day it can be 1hr plus), and when i went over to dynodaze last year, the first bit of duel carrage way i hit was near leicester it's self, (A607 going on to the A46) what sort of noise was it making?

i'm here, (come's skidding in shoe's in fire......) and mot hat on... blah blah... aslong as the tyre size's are the same ACROSS the axle, you can run what you want front to rear. so you can run 175/80/13 on the front axle and 205/55/16 on the back axle, which would be ok from an mot view point as for abs, on an older car like our's, as long as it is getting a signal and it's simerler to the other 3 signals, it's ok. as for modern car's, the abs sensors are also used for traction control and the speedo signal, (newer citroen's are good for this one). so if one of the wheel's was a space saver, and the rest 19" with brand new tyre's on, that would more than likley put the abs/esp light's on. blah blah.... fade's in to silence...... cheer's philip

glad your getting it sorted, and as hickster has said, d-series engine's don't like budget fuel, mine's a 1.6, i used supermarket fuel at first, but found it didn't like cold start's. after a couple of month's, i switched to shell. i was paying about 1ppl more from supermarket fuel to shell. my mpg jumped after a couple week's, from high 20's to low/mid 30's. and once i changed all of the filter's the performance improved again. as well you not that far from hinckley, i'm about 2 1/2 hrs away (80 miles), and your 3hrs away (180 miles), work that out lol

humming, usualy wheel bearing, when driving, and you can here the humming do a lane change when you steer one way it should go and the other it should stay. roughness on the pedal's you need to explane a little bit more about that.

just ticked over 110000 miles the other day, still plenty of life in the old girl yet . and still below average mileage, .

i dont have a vtis. (yet), but it's brilliant to see that we have accounted for over a 1/5th of all of the vtis's built, now let's go out and find the other 400 out there i bet dave thought that we as a forum would track down over 100 vtis's, when he started this register back in 2009.....

you need that as your signture, the shopping cart that's capable of going round the ring.... this is why i want a vti deck that picture sum's the whole car (and the reason why i want one!!) up, if only honda promoted the deck more

very rare i look in this fourm, if they do do them, look for rover/mg one's as well as honda

at 101339 miles at this time

compaired to some my 96 mb1, has only just done it's ran in, it ticked over to 100000 miles on the way home from work, it's about due for its first service now isn't it?

95000

what the hell may as well enter mine too

p reg LS 1.6 @ 94227 other cars vauxhall astra mk3, 1.4 8v 114000 written off citren zx sx, 74k and going up