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A friend who used to work for Jaguar reckoned the cars used for setting performance figures were often in need of some mechanical work once returned. The testers are brutal and have no mechanical sympathy. Autos were often held on the torque converter stall with a foot on the brake, manuals...

I agree, not a difficult job to lift the bonnet and the prop rod is never going to fail very.

I test drove a couple of cars before I purchased mine, one had Recaros, though they looked good I found after 30 mins I found they were not as comfortable as the standard Leather seats and of course the heating and cooling made the decision. You might be able to pick up a pair of standard seats...

In the UK our cars come with a mount already attached to the front bumper to mount the number pate on and if we removed it we would be fined up to £1000 ( $1270 ) . Our cars would also fail there annual test.

Z23 for me, they are worth it just for the brake dust reduction, with the original pads my wheels would look bad after 20 miles but with the Z23's I can do 500 miles and they still look good, as far as braking performance I find they are more progressive and if when fitting you put copper grease...

If you want a car to smell of Leather open a tin of old fashioned Boot Polish and leave it open under the seat.

I think its the materials they use to build the car, I have replaced my filter and it made no difference. I tend to notice it more if the car has been sat for a couple of days, its almost the '' new car smell'' but less noticable.

Is it possible to get an emissions test done on your car ? This will tell you if the cats need replacing. If they pass the test it means they are just contaminated and its your call if you want to replace them to get rid of the smell.

Some types of fuel can cause the smell, try a different supplier and a higher octane. If my wife uses the local supermarket for fuel her car smells sometimes but if she uses BP it is fine.

Sadly a lot of the main dealers are rubbish, a good friend had a few problems with his Focus and booked it in while still under warranty but was told it would be a month before they could look at it but it was fine as he had told them while the warranty was valid. Car went in and the work was...

See if you have any codes stored. A friend had a similar thing happen on a BMW and that ended up being the Alternator.

Interesting about the mix of metric and imperial, I have not come across that yet on the Mustang but it is the same on my other cars. Going back to JLR I think the problem is the bean counters, the design as you say on a lot of there stuff is great but they are trying to make as much profit as...

The reason my mate changed his fan himself was he was told it would be 3 months before they could do it.

Yes a friend of the wife had an I Pace, claimed range was close to 300 miles, she rarely got 150 miles before it was telling her to recharge, she handed it back early on a PCP deal and paid the surcharge because it was such a piece of crap. She reckoned in the 9 months she had it she has never...

It rarely is on modern stuff, a friend changed his heater fan on his Land Rover, it needed coding before it would work. The fan was £450 and Land Rover charged him £200 to code it and they did it while he waited .

I try and do as much as I can myself and I have only had my car car 5 months. I will be calling on them if it is something I cannot do or feel it needs an expert. I fitted new front brake pads at the weekend and mine will probably need an oil change in the next few months, all easily achievable...

There is also these and even closer https://www.modurstang.co.uk/ Not used them myself but have heard numerous good reports

The best advice I was given by a local mechanic was put in what it says on the filler cap or sticker in the engine bay, it must cost Ford something to print 5w20 on the filler cap and they would not do it for fun as they will do anything to save a penny as we know. I know on the 2004 vintage...

Fitted some Powerstop front brake pads to my car today, still had plenty of meat on the original but the brake dust was drivng me mad from the Motorcraft original pads. https://www.rockauto.com/en/moreinfo.php?pk=7132980&cc=3442762&pt=1684&jsn=6 I ordered some other bits from Rock Auto including...

Professional wheel refurb shops have a tank that strips off the old coating and corrosion, probably some sort of acid but what ever it is does not seem to touch the aluminium. I would avoid media blasting unless it is designed for aluminium as it can do a lot of damage.