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I was musing rotating my tyres as I've done about 6000 miles on this set (all from new). But I keep seeing differing opinions, with a quite a few saying that for modern cars, rotation is not as needed or as useful as it used to be. Should it be as simple as (for a FWD car) fronts to the back...

I find this guy an invaluable resource regarding DPF issues. https://www.youtube.com/@ORileysAutos Unlike many garages and main dealers, he actually tries to understand the root cause of the issue by looking at the live data and problem solving. A few of his videos cover fuel dilution issues...

The old glowworm still fires up lovely https://streamable.com/6n40vn There is something reassuring about being able to see the pilot light and see/hear it roar into life.....albeit with an efficiency penalty....

One thing I have realised recently is that if you look in the service guide for most cars there are two interval types. Normal use and arduous use. What I have come to realise is that the majority of people, especially those driving modern diesels, probably come under the arduous use category...

Glowworm Spacesaver 45-60 Ironically named compared to the size of boilers these days....

I think a lot of the time it is a holdover from when they did actually provide a genuine service. But times change and people either don't realise the change or cling to known brands for fear of change. I even knew someone who did not like switching away from British Gas as an energy supplier...

I'm sorry to say, it's likely they had you over a barrel. Your situation mirrored mine. This happened about 14 years ago now, but I have seen similar reports of them doing this on Watchdog too. - BG came to do a service (sorry.....safety check), and oddly took much longer than expected. After...

It's sometimes worse than that. British gas are known to turn their safety check into fault finding in order to needlessly condemn a boiler. They tried this on with me a long while ago (I have posted about it here). I had to get another local company to re-activate the boiler after they...

Probably right, I am likely over-estimating the intelligence and competence of most drivers..... The additional issue with the X'd lanes, and I forgot this at the time, is that they also activate the speed cameras for those lanes. So if you are caught unawares and don't have time to make it to...

Highways replied to my query and stated they have to initially X all the lanes while they set out the merge. This was my expected response, and it does make sense. But It seemed the merge had been well established by the time I got there, and the lanes had been X'd a good 5 miles out from the...

Just adding to this thread again. I think I am moving forward with replacing the fortic with a unvented cylinder and separate expansion. This installer was recommended to me and i had a chance to snap their work. Work looks solid enough? My only note is that they used press fit copper...

Interesting conundrum recently regarding lane merges on motorways and poor gantry signage. Twice now I have come across a situation where lane closed X's have been shown on gantries, only for it to end up being a normal graduated merge lane closure. The older gantry I experienced above showed...

That makes a lot of sense. I am certainly in the light braking camp too.

But, I assume you would be in the same situation that when you finally did need to replace the pads, you would replace the disc too? But not due to disc thickness wear, it would be the ring of corrosion (unless you got the discs skimmed, which the cost of doing seems pointless). In my case the...

Why would the wear be different on either side though? Just chance based on positioning angle etc. ? It seems a large difference to be positioning, but I guess it could be just that.

I might need pads replacing on my C4 picasso, and i was inspecting the rear discs. I noticed the wear line is different on one side vs the other. There is no issue with braking. It looks like one side has a smaller brake pad? At first I thought it was positioning perhaps, but the inner wear...

Basically ford moved to a new engine design for efficiency, in which the cam belt (the timing belt inside the actual the engine, not the belt you can often see under the bonnet) is submerged in engine oil, rather than being dry (like the standard way of doing it is). Peugeot/Citroen have done a...

Normally services are yearly or by mileage, whichever comes first, if you want to keep your car in good condition and keep any warrantee intact. So really your car should have had 4 services by now (including this one). Most of those will have just been oil and filter changes. But by year 4 it...

yes, genuine motorcraft, direct from the ford shop. It was the full front kit. This Ka actually has vented front discs. So do most of the examples i've seen on youtube how to videos for this model. It has drums on the rear though.

My DIY learning with car servicing continues.... I have a few threads about a few different issues while leaning how to do things on this ford KA. The next thing is the front brakes. Thanks to a really good ford deal I ordered some OEM pads and discs for much cheaper then OEM equivalents at...