Comments by "" (@EbenBransome) on "High Peak Autos" channel.

  1. These engines were designed for German servicing.
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  2. Perhaps. My wife had a Panda 4x4 for years which periodically developed a fault which came and went but nobody could diagnose it. I decided the carb needed replacing but before I did that, I took it completely to pieces myself and found the tiny piece of stone that had somehow got in the bowl. It was periodically blocking the idle jet. Once gone the fault never reappeared. Even simple things like carbs and contact breakers can develop odd faults and they don't have an ODB2 port to communicate with.
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  3. You are talking about cars where people are in a horsepower race. Regular BMWs are not bad, but as soon as the abbreviation "V8" appears you are in a world of design pain just fitting the thing in the awkward space. Constant regulations change, constant demands for cost control, at the top end engineers are expected to turn out what are essentially development specials in volume. Don't like it? Buy a sensible car with a middle of the road engine. In the old days that meant a Merc W123 or W124 with taxi engine. Mercedes is exiting the taxi business because the volume is too small to justify a special package these days.
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  4. Neighbour bought a cheap Peugeot one for his wife. The roof stuck open. It would have cost more to repair than the car would be worth (unless you could fix it yourself). It seems to be a problem with all these mechanical hardtops. Complex, expensive mechanisms. I went off the motorised sunroof on my Scorpio years ago when it stuck open in bright sunshine in France and then it snowed on the trip back to England.
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  5.  @kyojitsu1  It's also a common US problem: engines are really too big for the engine compartments.
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