August 2004
Catterick Garrison has recently been given some bicycle lanes. They are covered in smart green aggregate and are marked with bicycle line drawings in white paint - very professional. Yesterday I was intrigued to see two young mums with pushchairs accompanied by a 5-year-old (I guess) riding a tiny motorised replica faired motor-bike in the cycle lane. The child seemed to have the machine well under control but had no head protection of any kind. I wondered what the licencing position was or whether these small bikes are exempt, and whether they were allowed/encouraged to use cycle lanes.
PS this is not a rant, I'm just curious.
Hawkeye
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I am currently wanging around in a C reg Nissan Silva 1.8 auto. I love in to death but realise that I must sell it soon or I will die. If you know anything about these cars you will understand, winter is not an option with these things.
Plus I am in funds at present plus I need to get something more presentable to my increasing client list.
On this front I have been vaguely looking at dull cars with a twist for example Mondeo ST24\'s that sort of thing.
It seems to me that private buyers currently have over optomistic expectations of what cars can be sold for. In some cases wildly over-optomistic. I had a conversation with one guy who quoted me an absolutely mad price on a Vectra and when I pointed this out, refering to similar cars on Autotrader he said and I quote \'that is what the car owes me\'.
Would others agree?
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Thanks. Understand now. Not knowing anything about accounting, i did not know if you were talking about making a contribution to something else i did not know about.
I have a relativley old peugot 306xr 209000ks on it, but runs really well the majoritei of the time. I have expereinceing many strange things and am wondering if there is hope for it.
firstly ater driving for while an hour or more the speedo will start jumping around and then finally give up completely, after which It will start to stall completley as soon as the clutch is pushed in no matter the speed Im doing. also during idle atleast for 1-2 minutes at a set of lights the engine light will come on, whic according to peugot was a oxygen sensor au$500 which lasted two months and when taken back to peugot it would cost me again to have the computer looked at roughly $90 to reveal the same problem with which they shrugged their shoulders and said they cant garauntee it wont happen again if replaced, I think all these problems are associated and their is or was nothing wrong to the oxygen sensor. any insight would be much appreciated, as taking my car to anyone else resorts to them apologising and saying I have to take it to a dealer to have the computer checked.
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sorry, I meant rev counter.
In yesterday's Telegraph, HJ wrote the following in response to a question about jump starting:
'Connect the starter car's positive battery terminal to that of the stricken vehicle, then attach the former's negative terminal to a metal earthing point on the latter. Linking both cables battery to battery might cause ECU damage.'
Does this rule apply to all modern cars? Is the positive/negative earth thing irrelevant now as all cars are the same? Is it still OK to attach battery charger leads directly to the battery terminals, or do similar rules as for jump starting apply?
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St & A
Yes I accept that. A good point. I had momentarily lost site of the duff battery situation.
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Motoring please.