December 2002
Can anyone help with my Passat wiper parking problem? They only park when in 'intermittent' mode, or being pulled in 'screenwash' mode. When switching off from slow or high speed they just stop immediately no matter where they are on the windscreen. I would be grateful for any ideas...... Read more
Am I alone in resenting the existense of large 4 wheel drive wagons patrolling our roads, especially those ferrying the kids to school?
I suppose living in an area of West Sussex where the pavements can be as high as 4 inches does provide a reason for some of them ;-) but I am sure I would feel a lot less aggrieved if these monsters paid for the inconvenience they cause (taking up extra road space, causing obstructions, being difficult to see past, dazzling with high mounted headlights) if their drivers had to pay an extra road fund licence; I'm thinking of something like £500 for a Freelander up to £1,500 for a Land Cruiser.
If the people who buy these monsters can afford to run the darn things, they can afford the extra.
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Frankly I am surprised that a Freelander is either fast enough, or reliable enough, to catch up with a Pedestrian to hit them in the first place.
Or did the survey include pedestrians and joggers running into Freelanders broken down in unusual places ?
I do hope someone can help me with this question, as it has been a long ongoing saga...
I've got a Rover 216si (P Reg 1996). From day one (it was bought second hand from dealer two years ago) the engine cooling fan has always come on within minutes of starting the engine.
I took it to a Rover Dealer to have a look at and they said that it was the "secondary fan" that I could hear which was supposed to be on contunually. Well I was surprised by this as I've never heard another Rover 200 series drive past me with the fan running contuinally. So I took it to another Rover Dealer (Premier Motors) and they said either the thermostat was gone on the EMS was incorrectly tuned.
After 6 months I took it in for its service (to Lex) and mentioned the fan. As the car was under warranty, they changed the thermostat and checked the engine management system. The fan still came on.
Since this time I've had the water pump changed, the head gasket changed, and many other things (all under the warranty) and the fan still comes on.
Does anyone know if it IS supposed to be on continually and if not... what the hell is wrong!
I doesn't stop anything working, but you can hear my car ticking over from 50o yards away cos the fan is quite loud. All my friends know when I am outside their house!
Merry Christmas all. x
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That's how the 25 and 45 cooling fans are actuated nowadays
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Hello I am on the waiting list for a new Smart Roadster which will be delivered in April. The RHD model doesn't come out until July and I'm wondering if I am making a mistake getting the LHD version.
Is insurance for LHD smarts more expensive?
How much of a hit will I take by getting LHD when I come to selling it?
Is it a bad idea getting the LHD?
Have I overlooked anything when it comes to LHD cars?
Your comments are appreciated.
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With rhd ones on the market a lhd will be difficult to shift when you come to sell it. So buy rhd.
Direct Line is offering me the best price on insurance. Anyone have happy or unhappy experience with the company when claiming? More generally, other than requesting two quotes for accident repairs, am I legally obliged, under any insurance policy, to take my car to a repair centre of the Insurance company's choosing? Read more
I don't understand why you should have to pay for a courtesy car.
After my accident I took the Fiesta to a local place that had courtesy cars, and I got one for free, don't think they billed DL for it either. Plus it was a Mercedes. :)
Blue
Hi Guys,
This morning I had a flat tyre. Changed and now it is in the boot. Took it to the Tyre shop for puncture repair. Shock! It cannot be repaired as it is to the edge and so needs new tyre. The puncture tyre has good tread and should atleast last a year. Is he taking me for a ride?
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Our circumferential expressway the C-5, connects the southern part of Metro Manila with the North.
One stretch has about 10 vulcanizer shops along its length. Travel the C-5 at night and you may well encounter the nails and screws they deliberately strew on the road surface just to make sure their revenue line makes budget. (Note, if you do get a flat and you're a foreigner, do not stop under any circs :-)
Happened to me twice and I always carry an inflating can of that stuff from the US called "Slime?" for instant flat repair. One tire on my hack Honda m/cycle has been running 12 months on the stuff without losing more than usual pressure.
In October the heater fan on my Wifes Ka would only work in the 4th Maximum position. I duly bought a new fan switch and tried this and it worked on all 4 blower positions. Now two months down the line the same problem has occurred and I took the switch back to Fords and was given a new one, thinking the switch was faulty. However even with the new switch it will only work in the 4th maximum position, do you think it is faulty resistors on the fan motor itself which don't have to work in the maximum postion??? Any advice please.
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Ah, the power of the HJ search engine! I've got to change the resistor pack in my cousin's Ka, eerily enough in Royston(!), tomorrow, and I wondered if it was behind the glovebox like the Mondeo one.
After 2 years of trouble free motoring in my Primera SRi I need a larger load carrier as a result of 2 small children.
I want a large, well made, reliable, cheap to run estate/MPV. It also has to be as good to drive as the Primera and as quick.
Max budget 5K plus trade-in.
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Skoda Octavia Tdi estate?
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A totally horrible journey to Portsmouth and back this morning on the A3M. Heavy rain, low cloud, standing water, spray.. and cretins appearing from the murk overtaking at 80+MPH, wipers thrashing away at full speed, and not a glimmer of a light showing..
Isn't it about time that manufacturers fitted a device that caused continuous wiper operation to operate dipped headlights?
Any thoughts on the idea?
P.
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Almost all cars built between the late 80s and mid 90s were fitted with dim-dip. The Highway Code recommends using it when appropriate. Now no cars have it. I think there may have been some form of EU ruling against it.
We all know what a popular and trendy little car the MINI is and how clever the marketing people are with all the super trendy 'must have'options packages that people fork out extra cash for and how good the MINI/BMW dealers are at sorting out any problems.Overall a major success story.But....can you imagine the disaster if BMW had not been involved and the Rover boys with their special band of dealers had been left to their own devices."oh yes sir,the A-series engine is very retro and trendy,and the Harvest Gold with brown plastic interior is just the thing".Build problems? we might get those sorted in about 15 years time,then again we probably won't. Read more
I was in the market for a Mini, just the bog standard One, as the chance to stretch the Cooper engine in Kens London is minimal. Looking at it coldly and logically, its a good and fair sized engine in what would appear to be a BMW small car shell. Any similarity to the original is purely cosmetic. The inside not only looks toylike however, it has the feel of the handle of plastic kids swords.
Anyhoo, the classifieds in the Standard are full of Minis at a significant premium. One last month had the new Cooper for £20000, and I've seen the One advertised at £16k, a full £6k premium. I've even seen one with 14000 miles advertised at 30% over new.
Unfortunately its a buyers market, and there lots of people with more money than me! Back to the drawing board. Now, a new CLio for £6200......
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In spite of John F's vote of confidence, I have to concede that Andy T is right. I've now had a look at the Haynes wiring diagram for a 94 Golf (near enough).
The wiper motor is as I described it - all the mechanical and electrical bits for the self-wiping mechanism are built into the motor and the self-wiping mechanism has its own power supply direct from the fuse. BUT (and it's a big BUT) the 12v self-parking supply enters the motor on pin 1/53A and then immediately leaves again on pin 3/53E to follow a tortuous route through the wiper switch and the relay/timer to re-enter the wiper motor on pin 4/53.
This is wired up so that the (self-parking) 12v is only delivered along this route when the switch is in either the intermittent or off position, AND the intermittent timer (in the relay) is not asking for another wipe.
So a fault in the motor, the switch or the timer/relay could affect self-parking. But you say your system does self-park when used in the intermittent mode, so on balance, I now think the switch is the most likely candidate - the switch not making good contact when returned to its off position and therefore not forwarding the self-parking 12v back to the motor.
Ian