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Originally posted by Asura View PostReally I think electric cars won't take off in the way they want until they're made municipal; i.e. a city owns the fleet of cars and you call/use them in a manner reminiscent of Uber.
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My Dad had a bad incident last night. Both parents are driving locally as he's dropping my Mum off at a friends, there's an uneven part of the road they're on and as they come off it they can hear rattling. He pulls onto the main road and drives towards the next junction lights and as the traffic lights change to red he goes to brake and.... nothing. The car keeps on at full pelt, not accelerating but the brakes have completely gone on the car.
He manages to drop its gears and as he sails through the red pulls the car towards the side of the road using the handbrake to bring the car to a halt, thankfully not driving at high speed in the first place. My Mum gets picked up by her friend from there and my Dad immediately, but carefully drives the car slowly to the nearby garage where the car had been in having some work done at the weekend.
Car's fixed now, turns out there was no mechanical failure. The guy working on the car at the weekend hadn't screwed in the bolts on the brakes tight and the rattling and shook them loose. Funny how quick they were to fix that problem...
Helps make me extra conscious that ours is going in for its brake pads on Saturday. Not at the same garage mind
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Christ that's scary. I've had a similar experience in an old Mini coming up to busy roundabout at 60 only to find I've no gears other than 4th.... Really need quick thinking. For me the pin at the base of the gear stick had snapped and fallen out so it was no longer connected.
On that note I've just bought two new cars since getting back to the UK. A 2014 Mini Cooper SD 3dr hatch for my commute and a 2017 Peugeot 5008 as the family tank. Expecting our third kid in April so the tank was necessary.
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Originally posted by Superman Falls View PostMy Dad had a bad incident last night. Both parents are driving locally as he's dropping my Mum off at a friends, there's an uneven part of the road they're on and as they come off it they can hear rattling. He pulls onto the main road and drives towards the next junction lights and as the traffic lights change to red he goes to brake and.... nothing. The car keeps on at full pelt, not accelerating but the brakes have completely gone on the car.
He manages to drop its gears and as he sails through the red pulls the car towards the side of the road using the handbrake to bring the car to a halt, thankfully not driving at high speed in the first place. My Mum gets picked up by her friend from there and my Dad immediately, but carefully drives the car slowly to the nearby garage where the car had been in having some work done at the weekend.
Car's fixed now, turns out there was no mechanical failure. The guy working on the car at the weekend hadn't screwed in the bolts on the brakes tight and the rattling and shook them loose. Funny how quick they were to fix that problem...
Helps make me extra conscious that ours is going in for its brake pads on Saturday. Not at the same garage mind
Unacceptable.
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My piece of **** Kia C'eed has broken down. Engine just cut out. Restarted and dragged it to work but the rev counter is fixed at zero.
My list of faults are now:
Both front suspension coils have snapped and been replaced.
Car doors auto lock when moving, but do not unlock unless you whip the key out in a particular way.
passenger window doesn't wind down all the way.
Headlight bulbs blow at any time, so far replaced twice.
Hatchback boot doesn't open all the way.
Never buy a kia.
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