The 2012 Ford Focus Wagon as the new C-car platform from Ford is unveiling at the 2010 Geneva Motor Show. The Focus Wagon getting versatile funky five-door...
im selling my scouty due to passing my car test.it is in good overall condition apart from a crack in the front bumper which has been repaired but not...
Hi this is my first post here so please bear eith me.I have a Ligier diesel that suddenly wont go any faster than 15mph. I changed the belt not long ago and on...
Hi Eddie. The only "sudden" loss of speed I have experienced was dragging brakes. If this is the case then the heat from the wheel would show which brake is ...
Hi thankyou John for the quick reply, but i know its not the brakes at fault, it runs freely on a slight incline, i think it could be to do with the cvt but im...
The concept of Porsche 918 Spyder appears at 2010 Geneva Auto Show with plenty green of 3.4-liter V-8 and three electric motors to gets over 700 horsepower...
My experience is with an Aixam but some suggestions. Get someone to put a foot on the accelerator peddle in neutral while u watch the CVT, it should ramp up...
Hello out there. I am just getting to the end of my little microcar engine upgrade and I am starting my most hated of jobs, Electrics. I don't mind doing them,...
I've just fitted what I thought was a good gearbox to a Microcar Virgo. I now have 3 knackered gearboxes which either won't go into reverse or jump out of gear...
Thanks Jon, I think you might be right, I watch the belt ramping up to about half way as the engine is rev'ed in neutral, it looks like the bottom cvt pulley...
Hi Gavin, Mine is exactly the same - When the engine is cold the tickover is slightly slower and out of balance, hence more vibration. If the tickover is...
Hi Dave, I have improved mine by fitting draught excluder around the lip of the glovebox. Mine didn't come with a spare wheel or jack just to reinflator can. ...
sounds awfully like the circlip groove is worn. Eventually they wear through the alloy and simply drop off. It might be reclaimed by machining or maybe fitting...
Correct me if I'm wrong but I was always under the impression that M'cars hadn't been properly tested for emissions as they were quad's and consequently did...
Microcars as a brand and a genre are exempt from emissions testing for MOT purposes because they are a Quad (More correctly a light quadricycle) as a specific...
Dave, Below I have reproduced the Tax bands from the DVLA website. 0.328 g/km seems incredibly low to me, and if that were the case I would be lobbying VOSA...
Hi Martin, Thanks for the in depth and concise breakdown and workings of excise duty payable on motor vehicles. You are quite correct that the governments...
Those look like the poisonous/smog pollutants emissions - the sort of things the MOT would be interested in, if quads were emissions tested. The tax band would...
Yes JJ your quite right - I was getting confused with pollutant emissions and and CO2 greenhouse gas. Although they are all bad it is only the CO2 that gets...
Kim, Yes it is exempt from emissions test and also exempt from the requirement to have side repeater indicators - some ill informed MOT testers have been known...
I didn't realise that was the case? My Ligier Ambra was failed at 2 local stations for not having side repeaters which I thought was odd since the vehicle (a...
For Kim and the benefit of all others, The MOT tester works to a manual supplied by VOSA, which used to be a bit of a black art, closely guarded from the mere...
Further to the previous comments and the desire to reduce road tax on quadricycles, it should be easy for MOT examiners to test these vehicles correctly by...
Ho all, Have now done 200 miles in the new M-GO and have it booked in next week for it's 250 mile service. A problem that started today is that when the engine...
Hi Gavin, Sorry you are having difficulties. I'm just approaching 1400 miles and the take off is extremely smooth when compared with previous Microcars.I've...
