December 2003
surely a situation even more irritating than the boys who drive around with there fog lights on (at least you can see 'em)
its the morons who drive on dual carrigeways and motorways in driving rain and spray with no headlights at all!!!
it must be high time for a law that states when you have your wipers on your light go on too?
forget the mobile phone law sting each and every one with a thirty quider..
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Hiya..
Polo's boot lock is stuck and wont turn. I managed to get it to go the other day by ramming the key in really hard, and then it worked fine, but I'm guessing this is no good for the lock or the key.
I'm thinking it could be just dirt in the lock... what's the best way to sort it out?
Thank you!
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Just don't forget to follow it up a few days later with some spray white grease or in a few weeks you'll be back to square one.
Hi Guys,
The drivers mirror on my Pug 406 (1999) does not defrost. I suspect a wire coming off but wondered if anyone out there had experience in removing the glass without breaking it- or how to get at the wires on the rear of the class.
Thanks
Robin
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Hiya...
As described in two very long and old threads ('think I've seen the last of my car' 1 and 2), I've had my polo back for about 6 weeks now. Initially (3rd time I rejected it) the driver's door hadn't been refitted properly so it wouldn't always open from the inside and was chipping away paint in the bottom corner of the frame. They fixed it, but subsequently scratched the door and had to take it off again to respray.
The door seemed fine when I finally accepted the car back at the beginning of November, but within a couple of weeks it was up to its old tricks again and I mentioned this to the area manager for the insurance company, who said it sounded like an intermittent fault but that if it got any worse I shouldn't be worried about taking it back to the bodyshop, even though the manager had been so rude and aggressive to me.
It has got a bit worse, in that the door fails every day or so...and the paint is being chipped off again. But I really don't want to take it back there again because they will either scratch or damage my car deliberately or through incompetence.
I know with kitchen cupboards (bear with me!), you can adjust the doors slightly if they don't quite fit, and wonder if the same applies to Polos? Is it some screw that I could just adjust myself or does it really need to be taken to a professional? If so (because I'm not taking it back there), how much should I be looking at just to adjust a door?
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Hopefully that's it sorted. How nice to get a satisfactory conclusion. Trust there was a good Chrissy present for Dad!
Do enjoy what's left of Christmas and New Year.
Graeme
I would really appreciate some advice please, chaps and chapesses..
SWMBO has had a letter from Broxbourne Council requiring her to declare the driver and address for a parking infringement at the end of october. I know she wasn't in Cheshunt, Herts at the time of the offence since she was leaving for work at the time from Leighton Buzzard towards Aylesbury, Bucks.
Although, they have quoted the correct number plate they offer no car description so it is not obvious if the reg number was mistaken or it has been cloned (I assume anyone cloning the number would ensure that his/her make and colour corresponded to the cloned vehicle).
I suppose I would be best approaching the council first and ask for a further description of the vehicle, stating her case and perhaps enquiring if there was any CCTV coverage and so be able to compare it to her car.
Councils will be pretty hard to budge over this situation I can imagine and the time of the offence was 7.56am, a tricky time to prove she was elsewhere due to the fact that she would have been driving at the time.
Does anyone have any experience with the situation and/or care to offer some advice. Is it worth consulting the CAB/other solicitor at this stage?
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Well, thanks for all your advice. She rung the office today and the car description was a blue BMW not her blue alfa. So now she's got to ring the DVLA, they passed her to the police and the police passed her onto someone else.
Anyhow, panic over, it doesn't seem to be a problem now!!
The council seem convinced that her plate has been cloned, no chance one of their operativces has mispressed a key!!
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Anyone else see Top Gear tonight?
I didn't, because some PFD at the BBC decided to put it on at 7pm rather than 8pm.
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Yes, true on motorways, but how does that work on single
carriageway roads?
For example when i drive in europe, in my own car,
i am on the 'wrong' side to be able to see
ahead for overtaking etc as to wander out for a little
look ahead involves using almost all of the other side of
the road!
Same problem with LHD in the UK surely
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Funnily enough single carriageways aren't really a problem either. Bends in the road mean that you can always see down one side or the other and if you can't see past on the straights you're too close. Often though it's not even worth overtaking on single carriageways, you only get to the next obstruction quicker.
The only real problem I've encountered was an artic parked (illegaly) on a gentle left-hand bend with a tall hedge down the LHS. I couldn't see down the inside of him because of the hedge so I was totally blind. Luckily I've only come across this situation once and I had my wife in the passenger seat who could call the shots. Even RHD vehicles were having problems with this one.
Kevin...
I realise that, to some people, this will seem pretty trivial, but it still sometimes comes back to haunt me after several decades:-
Driving down what was then a nsl country lane at around 35-40mph, I rounded a sweeping left-hand bend and spotted a family of four walking on the raised grass bank on my offside. What I could not see was their lovely old spaniel exploring the ditch amongst the long grass on the nearside.
From the way he emerged I would guess someone instinctively called him without thinking, but it gave me no chance to avoid him - I simply managed to miss him with my wheels and he went under the centre of the car.
I just wanted to get away from the scene, so I promised the tearful family I would phone the police for assistance for the dog, and headed for the nearest phonebox.
It never crossed my mind to look at my car until hours later when I spotted a severely dented valance. Even if I had seen it at the time, I could never have contemplated claiming against the dog owners.
It couldn't have been worse if I had run over one of their kids....... which I suppose is what I did, in a sense.
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\"work\" should read \"woke\" of course....
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I've got a 1998 registered Fiat Marea Weekend HLX 2.0L 20v. It needs a cambelt change but unfortunately it involves removing the entire engine. The cost I've been quoted is £800 which is approximately 70% of the current value of the car!
Does anyone know of a garage in the North West who will do it for substantially less?
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Give HJ credit here, it is already mentioned in the Car-by-Car Breakdown.
This is the most ghastly bit of engineering design, and one that would cause me to advise never buying one of these used...ever, at any price.
There are going to be loads floating about where the owner hasn't bothered with the belt...or they think they have but the garage has kept the thing in the workshop and just charged for the work but in reality not done it.
Trust me it'll happen.
M.M
My wife came home from WI and said she couldn`t get in the car! I discovered (by unlocking the driver`s door with the key) that as well as the driver door the opposite rear won`t unlock either. Also the windows no longer open, the wing mirrors don`t respond and the filler cap won`t unlock. Has anyone out there had experience of this? The Audi Centre said "Well it`s driveable". Until it needs diesel that is. Read more
Got my A2 back today. Quote from bill "Rectified poor connection on central control unit". Cost me £209.24!
I run a fairly new Renault and am looking without much success for a replacement bulb for a front fog lamp ( no rush cos they only get used abou twice a year ). The bulb is quoted in the owners handbook as H10 which is what is stamped on the plastic bayonet fitting integral with the bulb. I have tried the uaual outlets for a bulb with no success - even my local Lucas branch say they have no such bulb on their lists. It looks very similar to a 9006 type. Is this another main dealer job or can I get one of these bulbs somewhere else ?
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I\'m off to France tomorrow - back on Monday - would be willing to have a look if you wanted me to.
Would the mods be able to pass on my email address? {Done. DD}
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And those with only one headlight, foglight, or those who use their rear fogs 'cos they haven't got around to replacing the dead bulbs in their back lights. Or the ones carrying a heavy load who don't know what a headlight adjuster in the cab is for, yes you, the Avensis driver on Thursday!
While I'm grinding my teeth down, why in this day and age do I have to take my life in my hands to overtake a lorry in the wet, don't they have mudguards? I think if a few of the worst offenders had to park up until the rain went off they'd soon find an answer.