Hi all,

I've given up on my '95 M Pug 306 DTurbo, as it seems to have given up on me! I'm pretty confident the head gasket has gone, i dont have the expertise to fix it myself, and i dont fancy the possible repurcussions of just getting that changed, so i'm looking for a buyer.

Whilst i realise i'll be making a big loss whatever happens, what should be be hoping to get for it? A mate of mine has offered £800 for it, with the intention being for him to repair it himself as a 'project'(wish i had that spare money and space for 'projects' like that!).

I'm close to accepting that, but should i hold out for better?

I've put a post in the Classifieds section just in case anyone here fancies a 'project' ;-) Read more

I have just renewed my road tax and I am intrigued with the new style display disc with the bar code. Is this just a 'smart' way of reducing theft thereof or are there more sinister 'big brother' monitoring issues? Would a roadside camera be able to read the bar code? If yes, would I be commiting an offence if I obscured just the bar code when the disc is attached to the windscreen? Perhaps I am just being paranoid. Read more

Hello there,

This is my first time posting here so please bear with me..


I have a BMW 330D E 46, X reg 2000.

After last weekends down pour of rain, i went out to find a swimming pool in the passenger footwell of the car.

I thought it must be leaves blocking the drainage points, so i cleared these out and dried the car out with hairdrier and car heater.

The following day i was greeted with the same pool of water.

Can anybody help me, it is rainwater and not coolant of any kind i have been assured.

I have been trying to get a hold of one of those rare beasts called a BMW SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE, do they really exist or are they a figment of my imagination.

PLEASE SOMEBODY URGENT HELP REQUIRED....

Thank you.
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Hi All,
Thought I'd start this thread after an incident last night. Driving down a dual carridge way, came up to "my turnoff". This turnoff has a the entrance and exit of a petrol station and the entrance for a town. The junction is sign posted for the town. Started indicating at the 200 yds marker and proceded to enter the slip road. A van came out of the petrol station and onto the sliproad and blocked my path. I had to brake hard, and as the road was damp, the wheels locked and I slid into the rear of the van.
A very dangerous junction as most people exiting the petrol station think people indicating to come off the carridge was are going to the petrol station and not to the town.
Any thoughts? Does anyone else know of more dangerous junctions?

Cheers,

OlafS Read more

While waiting at traffic lights on a roundabout a bus came up in the other lane and went through the lights just as the amber appeared They had obviously seen the lights for the other part of the roundabout change to red and knew the ones in this lane would be changing very shortly. I have no problem with anticipation but the nose of the bus was over the white line before the amber appeared. If he had slowed up more before getting to the lights I wouldn't have had a problem with it as he would have been able to stop without trouble if a light jumper had appeared or if the lights hadn't changed as anticipated he would have been able to pull up before the white line. I felt that at the speed he was travelling it he wouldn't been able to do either but as I was stationery it is quite difficult to be sure.

Is this acceptable 'making progress' or bad behaviour that needs reporting to the bus company?
teabelly Read more