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I'm going to be purchasing 5 tyres for my Wife's Volvo XC70 towards the end of the summer. She currently runs Uniroyal All Season Expert 2's in 235/55 R17 flavour. We are also missing a spare wheel so planning on picking up a full size spare. I'd like to run the same tyre on all 5 wheels and...

I've had tie rod play cause vibrations before now.

You have two drive modes 'D' and 'B'. In 'D' the regen braking only happens with your foot on the brake. If you weren't clue'd up you'd have no idea it was happening. In 'B' an element of regen braking happens as soon as you take your foot off the accelerator and allows for an element of 'single...

Whenever I've got myself a new car I usually rush with excitement to get a post up here, but this time was different. You see, I'm an absolute petrolhead and the idea of an EV really didn't appeal to me. I said previously on this forum that I often though I wasn't so much a car guy, but an...

Promised a final update. There was some hope. My Father in law who has a similar Duster but FWD fancied swapping for mine. I told him to have it for a week or two because they're very different beasts. The FWD Duster sits on a standard Nissan Juke / Renault Capture platform, where as the 4WD...

Does it cause disruptions to other people trying to use the internet in any way? If not, then I don't see why it would be an issue.

Hate seeing this era of Volvo getting written off/scrapped. I really do think it was the last of the best. We have a 2008 XC70 and it is such a lovely place to be and the 5 pot warble always makes me smile. That said, my Father had 2008 V50 T5 brand new for 4 years and I always found it weirdly...

Always amazed me that barcodes haven't been replaced with RFID chips so you could essentially just push your card through a big reader and it would be able to work out exactly what was in there that way. We use 'scan as you shop' a lot over here. You get a little handheld scanner so you can...

There was different versions of 0w40 ESP too. I once purchased some finding out it was the 'X3' version which didn't carry Porsche C40 approval.

We have 230v single phase or 400v three phase over here at 50Hz. In fact I think that's the standard for most of the world. It used to be 240/415v at 50Hz but it was changed to match EU countries. It's a 32A circuit, so 230v x 32A = 7,360w. That's the hope. 11kw domestic chargers are available...

Thought some of you might find this interesting as I'm across the water and our electrics are very different to yours over there. I have an EV coming tomorrow as a company car. Those who follow my Duster thread know I've made the decision to get rid of it and replace it with a company car to...

Do you have any examples? I'd be interested to see.

2015 Ford Focus Titanium 1.5TDCi 2018 Volvo V40 D3 Geartronic Inscription 2019 Volvo V40 D4 Geartronic R-Design Edition 2020 BMW 520d MHT M-Sport Touring 2021 Vauxhall Insignia Grand Sport Ultimate 1.5CDTi 2022 Dacia Duster Prestige 4WD DCi As you can see, I had a problem between 2018 and 2022...

I used it in my 'old' '21 Insignia with a 3 cylinder diesel that was rough as a badgers a*se from the day it left the factory and I think I noticed some improvement but I'm always very quick to pass everything off as a placebo. Maybe trying it in the Volvo with 150k+ on the clock would be a good...

All three very well respected brands over here that I do or have used. My only annoyance is they don't carry much in the way of approvals. Recently used Comma MVATF to service the TF80SC in my Wife's Volvo XC70.

Unfortunately, it's time to say goodbye. The Duster now has over 48k on the clock and has been a trusty sidekick for me for just over 2 years. A car I bought for financial reasons at the time, a car that was supposed to be a temporary measure has actually really grown on me and been a reliable...

Maybe it's just a population ratio. In reality, how many people do you need to keep a forum alive? In the UK there's a lot less of us. And those who enjoy cars, enjoy maintaining them, modifying them and driving them are demonized by the folly that is climate change.

Most UK based car forums are now dead, a lot of them shut down. The car-forum era is officially over and it makes me quite sad. I miss the days you'd have a handful of guys on a car specific forum who knew the car like the back of their hand, I fulfilled that roll on a few forums that are now...

My Duster supposedly has a 50 litre fuel tank but only 40 litres seem useable. That gives me a range of ~500miles, sounds a lot but when you often do over 500 miles a week and my previous diesels would get 700-800miles on a tank it makes quite a difference. I would love to fit an auxiliary...

I sometimes use WD40 to thin and 'emulsify' the oil on my hands before I wash them with soap and water. Works very well despite probably not being very good for my skin. However, doesn't mean it's going to do sod all in an engine. Modern ATF's will not clean, as stated by Molakule who is a...