November 2004
I have recently purchased a 406 1.9 td, 60,000 miles full history, have just fueled up & the car has covered 336 miles for £40 in diesel (32 mpg) i am informed it should be averaging near 40 mpg? Any advice/help would be greatly appreciated. Read more
Further to a previous post regarding joyriders hitting my girlfriends car and doing a runner, I am pleased to say that the police have caught & prosecuted the driver.
The police have been quite poor communicating this and say they will only give specifics to the insurance company.
Anyway, I was wondering how to go about recovering our uninsured losses, such as fuel, telephone calls, courtesy car insurance, general inconvenience etc?
Is there any way to quantify the inconvenience factor into £s....
We don't have the optional legal cover on the insurance - think its a waste of money.
All help will be gratefully received. Read more
Absolutely - they'll consider not the moral rights and wrongs, but whether the chance of them getting any money is worth the cost/effort - and I suspect the answer will be that it's not.
-Mark
Hi,
My son's just bought a 1991 escort but it has a central locking problem.
He is able to lock the doors from the outside but unable to unlock the car from the driver`s side door.
Looking at previous forum Q and A's I gather worn locks or keys are the reason.
He only has the one key with the car.
Is it feasible to swap the passenger door lock with the driver's door lock, this would at least save him having to run around the car every time he needs to get in?
Any suggestions would be welcome before i start tinkering.
Thanks in advance. Read more
Most ford keys from around that era would lock any Ford lock
but only unlock the right one
Yes, definately the key not fitting the lock is the problem. I think the rule about locking other Ford car's still applies, I can certainly lock my dads brand new Fiesta with my Escort keys.
It could be very possible it's a different lock in there to all the others. When mine was first bought (1989) it had to have the drivers lock changed twice and the passenger side lock changed also, hence I have 3 keys on my keyring (which I can say is for the 3 cars I own :-D ), and plenty spare that don't fit anything!
I would ask the previous owners about whether the drivers lock was ever changed. Haynes goes into some story about Ford being able to program a new lock to any combination, but that didn't happen on mine, even under warranty!
Hi folks
I M,O,Td my 2.0 omega this afternoon and it failed on emitions, they said it needs a new engine, It is idleing erraticly and blows some blue smoke, i took it to a garage this after noon and had a compression test done , they told me 2 pot have very low compression, thinking of using the engine center in stratford london, for a recon engine but dont know if i can trust them not to bump the price up.
any ideas?
Im in cambridgeshire Read more
its a 2.5 v6 cd. with 94k on the clock mot & tax. £1150. mail me at m.wright5@btinternet.com will send pics and loads of info.....
I am virtually certain that I read somewhere that from 1 October 2004 (or possibly 1 November 2004) that you are required to drive in France with head (side?) lights during daylight hours, during the winter.
I ask only because having been in France (open roads without cars - oh joy!) for the last 10 days, only about 10-20% of cars were driving with their lights on. Is this an example of the French ignoring a law that they disagree with, or a product of my over-indulgence in claret?
And whilst on the subject of foreign motoring, is it true that the E111 ceases to have effect from 1 January 2005, and is being replaced by something else? If so, does anybody have any more information?
Merci beaucoup. Read more
It definitely has been implemented: they've been handing out leaflets about it at peage booths for the last few months. Not many complying with it. I do - why give them one more excuse to pull you?
Can anyone tell me if the engine centers in exchange and mart are reliable and can they be trusted, has anyone used them? Read more
Cheers lads
I have got the inlet manifold off and am having trouble getting the exhaust manifold off at the moment , looking at the spark plugs and condition of what i have taken off so far i am more convinced it is bunt out valves rather than knackered pots or pistons. well back to work cheers any way.
hi folks , I have been searching all day for some where i can get a 2 liter engine for my omega, i brought it a month ago and it was running great but had 1 months mot so got it cheap, i tried to mot it today and it failed on emitions, it smokes a bit at start up and idles erraticly the garage told me the engine has had it , i got it compression tested this after noon and was told 2 pots have low compression, then the guy turned around and told me he would part-ex my car for £500 against any car on his fore court which sounded dodgy to me so am not sure about what he said now, i did an oil change 2 weeks ago and the oil was ok no water or coolant. have read the conversations and am thinking about the engine centre in stratford london , has any one used them and what are they like can i trust them , i live in cambridgeshire if you know any where else better, cheers, Read more
A far braver man than me. Well done!
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Espada III - well if you have a family and need a Lamborghini, what else do you drive?
Just noticed a ticking noise which seems to be coming from the ABS pump - definitely not coming from the engine - if it was it would sound like a loud tappet - any ideas? Read more
No ABS light on and it is a regular ticking - sounds like it could be an electrical type of noise - a loud version of an arching type sound - when an HT lead is arching for example
According to Ceefax p361 - The Oz drinks company have effectively taken over Jaguar F1 and will be meeting the deadline for championship entries.
Apparently, Jordan have secured Toyota engines for 2005 and will also be in the running. Read more
Apparently, Jordan have secured Toyota engines for 2005 and will also
be in the running.
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See
news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/40...m
When buying or selling car and vans or any other high value items,via internet auction etc
i had a bankers draft for £5000 sent this week that arrived in opened envolope ,that had stamps from miami usa.
This is all part of massive world-wide scam to defraud the honest punter or trader.
I had no idea what this was for so kept it to one side.
On taking advice i was told i would recieve a call or be contacted by someone in the next 24hrs.
Sure enough a very quiet sounding man rang the very next day claiming one of his customers had sent a cheque for a car.
He was pretending not to understand english and i ended the call by hanging up as he just wouldnt listen.
I contacted local trading standards who couldnt explain how the guy had my address but(i had no calls on car)theyd never heard of the scam ,great i thought!
It doesnt end there.
These people are expecting you to give them export costs as theve over paid you for the car .
They want to collect the car the next day(they dont want you to cash draft as its usually a forgery)
you think this is as good as cash hand over say £1100 for export charges by cheque ,see the car off with documents.
Go to the bank and be told up to three days later youve been robbed not only of your car but also £1100.
The police know about this and theve known people get a visit if they have reported it to the authorities.
Also they know your address have been known to break in steal the keys and documents and steal the car etc
And guess what some insurance companies are getting tough and not paying out if they feel the owner hasnt protected themselves enough!
Beware Bankers drafts are not cash ,cash them first make sure funds have cleared ,any geniune buyer will understand this . Read more
There are dozens of these scams, many of them under the Nigerian 419 label.
Used to be a similar one done by telephone by a company which had spotted your advertisement of a car for sale.
Even if you rejected their advances to further advertise it (they never did) they used an edited recording of your conversation with them to claim you had agreed.....
As I keep pointing out, where's there's money there's always a fiddle.
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Browse
I don't think that under inflated tyres or binding brakes, unless they are very bad i.e to hot to touch, or wheel alignment unless the tyres are wearing severly on one edge, is going to make that much difference. To get an accurate assesment of consumption you need to drive at a steady speed on a level motorway, you should get around 60mpg at 60 mph, if you are getting substantially less check the engine temperature and possibly the EGR valve.