September 2004
I have a 2000 A6. The rear offside door has completely jammed and will not open. The indicator button will not come up when the central locking is operated. The button will come up when the internal handle is operated, but it will not stay up and drops down the instant the handle is released.
If I try the remote, the button flicks about 1mm and then returns and it sounds like the door locks itself again.
My local independant garage has had a look but says that unless he can open the door, he cannot access the door internals.
Has anybody seen this problem before, and more to the point, any ideas as to how to open the door so it can be repaired?
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All those forum members who are still enjoying life with a Lada, Moskovitch, Gaz etc could well be interested in the following website:
www.home.no/migreg/engelsk/Links.html
which has links to other web-sites with (Soviet-)Russian cars as their topic and to sites about other Eastern European vehicles.
Read and enjoy..:-)
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I think a lot of us have had that one, Growler, but thanks for the opportunity to reprise it. ¦-)
For me, the car is HJ's black B7 though.
I have got £1800 to spend and an "L" plate 1.3 escort to part-ex.
Can anyone suggest what cars i can consider, i have only ever owned Fords, but i've finally had enough of them.
I have got to have an automatic because of medical reasons.
Am i right in staying away from the Rover 620? or any Rover for that reason.
I have been looking in the autotrader mag and site, and it appears to be the same handfull of cars for sale.
So, i thought i would post on here and ask for peoples opinions on what they have owned or own.
I have only test driven 1 car upto now an Auto Nissan Almera 4dr saloon 1.6.
Apart from not looking as nice as it's piccy in the ad, it didn't drive as well as i thought it would, it seemed under powered.
I think an auto should have at least a 2.0 litre engine.
So, if anyone could give me a few tips etc, i'd very much appreciate it.
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well, thank you all for your replies.
Plenty to go on there.
Also, i think a cavalier would be the best option insurance wise.
Thanks again.
Like many others here, I read often and post little .. and thoroughly enjoy switching on. So (if it hasn't been done before) may I nominate the Star Performers? Hardly surprise choices, but deserved of a special thread, surely.
For Discussion: the ever so readable Growler for his delightfully entertaining Letters from Thailand; and on Tech Matters: the extraordinarily knowledgable Aprilia whose detailed explanations and analyses must have saved so many BRs time and money.
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I think this thread has run its course - even if I'm not sure actually what course that was.
How on earth did the snail that was on my bonnet this morning get there? I don't park under a tree or in contact with any shrubbery, nothing. Weird - can they leap from tyre to wheel arch?
And it's not a Nissan S-Cargo either....
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You need to walk a bit quicker, Bazza
Are these standard on all new cars now?
Do they work? In that they completely eliminate the blind spot? Read more
I find any sort of "dual image" mirror to be completely
usless, espescially those stick on blind spot mirrors. Having to re-focus
your eyes from one image to the other means your eyes
are of the direction of travel for too long. Every second
at 60mph without forward vision takes you 88ft further up the
road so the less time needed to check your rear view
the better.
When driving a panel van with no windows 'blind spot mirrors' are the only way to be 95% sure, no rearview in the vans I drive either!
Anyone out there running a Nissan Terrano 2 built within the last couple of years? Do these cars still leave the factory with the front wheel geometry mis-set, needing re-alignment by the dealer to prevent horrendous and uneven front tyre wear?
I ask because I have run both a 1993 Maverick and a 1999 Terrano with this problem. I am sorely tempted to buy one of the new Terranos that are so cheap these days but don't want to go through all that hassle to get the dealer to align the front wheels. Read more
Anyone out there running a Nissan Terrano 2 built within the
last couple of years? Do these cars still leave the factory
with the front wheel geometry mis-set, needing re-alignment by the dealer
to prevent horrendous and uneven front tyre wear?
I ask because I have run both a 1993 Maverick and
a 1999 Terrano with this problem. I am sorely tempted to
buy one of the new Terranos that are so cheap these
days but don't want to go through all that hassle to
get the dealer to align the front wheels.
Really, its no big deal. Don't bother taking it the dealer. Once its settled down (couple of thousand miles) take it to a four-wheel alignment place and get them to set it up. Not expensive, and well worth it with any car.
Hi there is a knocking soound from my front suspension when pulling away, especially if the steering wheel is turned slightly. does any one know what it is likely to be?
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thanks Dynamic
Will give it a try.
Al
I need some advice about taking out insurance.
Both my wife and I have (had?) full no claims (6+ years) insurance on our individual cars (mine was a Peugeot 406, hers was a Focus). Both of us were named on each insurance, since we drive the cars interchangeably.
A few months ago, we sold the Peugeot, and obtained a new vehicle (Renault Scenic) under the motability scheme (my daughter is disabled), which also includes free insurance for the three years duration. Although my wife is the main driver, we are both named for insurance purposes.
To complicate matters further, my wife also bumped the new car on a high curb, requiring the insurers to pay for some body work.
Now....the insurance on the Focus is due for renewal!
How do we get it insured? If we insure again under my wife's name, do we have to mention the claim on the (free) insurance incident? Will it affect our premiums?
And will I lose my maximum NCD if I don't take out any new insurance in the next three years?
OR.....should I renew the Focus insurance in MY name, to retain my max NCD? And would my wife then lose HER maximum NCD?
Or in fact has her max NCD now be in jeopardy since she had an insurance claim, albeit on a DIFFERENT policy/car?
I really don't know what to do for the best, and would be extremely grateful for some advice. I guess the key questions are:
* Does someone lose their maximum NCD if they do not take out insurance for 3 years (although having free insurance provided on a different car for that period).
* Is a maximum NCD affected on one insurance policy, if a claim is made on a 'different' insurance policy and vehicle (especially since the policy/car were provided free on the motability scheme).
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Firstly, alternating the insurance policies between your name and your wife's over the next few years would eb a good idea. Its quite above board and provided you are not mis-representing who is the main user, I cannot see any difficulty. And referring to David's point, insurers typically take a very liberal view between husband and wife anyway.
Insofar as your wife's NCD is concerned, then its not so straight forward;
On the one hand, you could return to her previous insurer, obtain proof of max NCD and in practice use that with little issue. If your wife had two policies at the same time - her "own" and the motability one then the NCD would only be reduced on one of those policies.
Theoretically that should hold true, but the complication is that she does not hold her own policy and it could be argued that it had been taken into account in the Motability policy and therefore should be reduced. That "taken into account" does not neccessarily mean that someone used it as NCD, it could have been taken into account either specifically in rating your risk or in general as part of rating the portfolio.
If it was me, I would take out a policy in my wife's name while the motability policy was still in force. The argument being that any rating adjustment had been incorporated into the Motability policy (and conceptually it has been, irrespective of any re-rating or not) and therefore need not be taken into account in another policy.
However, its moving into a level of pedentry that most insurance people are not going to answer with intelligence and could actually jump either way.
I've sent you an e-mail.
On Monday, the gusting wind blew a large, empty, fertiliser bag across the road in front of me, which I promptly drove over between the front wheels. Looking in the mirror, I didn't see it again, so made a mental note to check under the car when I got home.
Of course, I didn't, as the cell phone rang just as I was parking up, and I went straight back to 'work mode'.
Yesterday, as we parked up, the missus said "What's that smell?".
"Oh, fiddlesticks", or something similar, said I.
A quick gander underneath revealled a horrible sticky mess along the V70 exhaust pipe from directly under the front seats to just before the back box. Much of the plastic has shrunk on melting, which I guess will make it tricky to remove, but the bit that made me breathe a sigh of relief is that some of it has clearly burnt, thankfully without setting light to bitumen sealer.
If you ever get a bag stuck underneath, and if it happens to me again, stop and check straight away!
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Turning it back to motoring, the powder extinguisher I bought from
LIDL recently, which resides in the boot of my car is
red ;o)
Ditto.
I picked up three of the larger ones so both cars and the workshop are properly equipped. Will probably pick up three more next time they crop up too so I can put a spare in Mrs ND's car*, one by the other exit from the workshop and put one in the trailer with all Mrs ND's garden machinery.
I could do with a fire blanket for the kitchen too, so if Lidl offer one, let me know!
I still have a blue powder extenguisher in my car that is due a refill/service. When it gets sent back they have to pressure test the cylinder and if it's ok it will get resprayed in red.
Clever bunch, these eurocrats....
(*L200 is currently on a boat wending it's way across the oceans to Southampton. ETA late October)
The outer handle seems fine. In fact, both of the handles move freely with normal spring resistance.
I will try and fish around with a straightened out coat hanger as you suggest. It would help if I could find a diagram of the door mechanism somewhere so I knew where to start.
Buster