Hi Lee,

This is not a technical response, but a complaints process one since you have a limited warranty left.

1. Write to both the dealer and Rover UK customer care about the problem before the warranty runs out..and tell them that you want it fixed under warranty. Reason: When the warranty expires they cannot fob you of with "there is no written record that you brough this to our attention before the warranty expired".

2. Get a second opinion about the noise from another Rover dealer. Get the full name of the person who makes the diagnosis.

3. Sit back and wait for the reply from your letter.

Worse case: They "fix" the problem under warranty. Problem still there. Rover dealer says "Ah! Thats a DIFFERENT problem from the first complaint! We are not going to fix that." Send letter from step 1 and diagnosis details from step 2 to your solicitor.

I employed this method with Seat UK after loadsa warranty problems..car got fixed and I never spent a penny.

Bottom line: If you want something you are going to have to be a polite but persitent pain in the b**!

By Mark Henderson, Science Correspondent September 07, 2002

THE devastating floods that struck Central Europe this summer were not a result of global warming, leading meteorologists said yesterday.

Extreme summer rainfall of the sort that led to the inundation of cities such as Prague and Dresden is out of line with the way in which climate is predicted to change as the world warms, an international conference at Reading University heard. Far from being a global warming symptom, as observers such as Gerhard Schröder, the German Chancellor, have suggested, the best models indicate that summers will get dryer, rather than wetter, over coming decades. Heavy flooding is expected to become a greater problem mainly in winter months................

From:

www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-406117,00.html


Yet more evidence that cars are being unneccessarily penalised.

Volvoman,

I don't knwo why this woudl be happening. If you can describe it in an e-mail to me, I will see what I can do.

Alternatively, e-mail me what you want your profile to say (e-mail address, person interests, real name etc.) and I'll efit it over the weekend sometime.

Looks like our leader HJ has been trumped on this one jorash.

That Cyd! His decisions in the industry must affect £multi-million sums, and he advocates buying instruments from a toyshop!

I bought a Toad keyless immobiliser from an internet store. It didn't come with installation instructions.

I rang the supplier, and a helpful Geordie told me what the colours meant, and promised he'd send me an installer manual, which he had been told would be included. Of course, it never arrived. I soldered the immobiliser in place quite happily though, and my insurers accepted the installation certificate that I filled in myself with the supplier's details.

Don't use scotchlocks to put an alarm in. An insurer will know you've done it yourself. Solder the connections, wrap in black insulation tape, and hide in the wiring loom.

Understandably, only 'approved installers' are issued with instructions, for 'security' reasons.

My Toad immobiliser colours, if any help, were

Yellow - Driver's door switch

Red - Positive supply

Orange - Ignition sense

Green x 2 - Ground wires

White x 2 - Fuel pump circuit

Blue x 2 - Starter immobilisation

Don't forget to take the coloured sleeves off when you've finished and tested it. Have fun.

Rob F