Recent content by MarkC

Just fitted a set of the new Avons on my 2014 Outlander, wasn't impressed that the original toyo's had only done 26000. The Avons are really quiet and good in the wet. Cheaper than the Pirelli's I was going to fit until an old boy at Lodge Tyres recommmended the Avons.

As regards being slow off the mark, I recently pulled up at a two lane traffic light and the guy sitting in the right hand lane (why would you be there on an empty road) decided to race me to the single lane ahead in his Mondeo. He got very upset (tooting horn etc.) when he lost big time because...

I can't quite figure out the logic behind how the flappy paddles work. It appears that the same dyslexic person that designed the drive knob (push it forward to go backwards and backwards to go forward!!) also must have had some design input on the breaking too. The left paddle on my car is...

I learned to drive many years ago and see no sense in being in the wrong gear for the road spead, an automatic would change down so why shouldn't you. I always remind people of the day that I approached an island, ( had gone down the box to second), when I looked in my mirror again I saw an...

My 2014 Outlander has this mould as well. The reason for it is quite obvious, the light cluster is not sealed at its edge, it is sealed a little further in. This leaves a nice little greenhouse around the edge of the light. A bit of traffic film remover and a quick pressure wash shifts the...