Hi, Apologies if this has been covered but I'm new on the site! Three or four times over the past year this has happened:- on starting the vehicle the warning bleep sounds "Check Handbook" flashes up and the steering is as solid as a rock. Fearing the worse I turn the engine off, restart and all is fine. But is it?? The only suspicion I've seen written is 'low battery' but the battery is relatively new and when the old battery was failing after 7yrs use, it didn't happen. Is there any risk of it failing whilst driving? My nearest Sub garage is 100 miles away but two garages locally have found nothing anyway!! Any advice please??

Hi all - hoping someone on here would have a view on which manufacturers of parts are worth considering and which not. I need to replace the front wishbones on my 2015 forester xt. Subaru main dealer has quoted 192 GBP per side for the parts. However, there are plenty of aftermarket parts available, and a variety of different costs. I know little to nothing about these things, so does anyone have a recommendation over which pattern part manufacturers it is worth considering, and which not? For example, Superpro look like the best option, but they are out of stock till april and i need the repair done. I'm assuming that the super cheap parts (Moog, Stark, Ridex etc) are all rubbish. However there is a middle tier of parts (Japanparts, Spidan, Ashika) that look like they might be reasonable. Any suggestions? Or just get the Subaru one.

Depends what the repair was: if it was just a patch for a puncture then I've run for 000's of miles on repaired tyres with no issues.

I never used to run on a tyre that had been repaired but was I worrying about nothing? My wife’s XV has just had a tyre repaired on the three quarter tread and I’m wondering if I need to bother with a new tyre (or two, as I like to replace both on an axle). Thoughts please ladies and gents?

I can’t of been paying much attention when I posted it in this topic. Haha