December 2004
Does anyone know if Mercedes have made a recall on the E220CDI,for an injector fault?
A friend of mine has an 04 plate one,and has rung Mercedes after hearing a story,but Mercedes are keeping their cards close to their chest,and he can't seem to get the required information.
The car seems quite sluggish under acceleration,and he has tried various makes of diesel fuel to see if that could have been the problem,but to no avail.
We need to know as a matter of urgency.
Ken. Read more
I'm in the process of replacing the bashed in headlamp on my 95 K11 Nissan Micra. [See front end shunt repairs].
I have obtained a headlamp assembly from a scrapyard (£20).
I am attempting to remove the existing headlamp assembly.
I have removed 2 x retaining screws at the top and bottom of the headlamp.
There remain 2 x retaining bolts. But the nuts are rusted on these.
Tips please for removing rusted on bolts/nuts? I am not an experienced home mechanic and do not have many tools. But I seem to have the correct size (no. 10) spanner. And a hacksaw.
Use the hacksaw to cut through the old nut/bolt and try to replace with similar size nuts/bolts?
One I get these 2 bolts out, its just a matter of removing electrical connectors then the new headlamp assembly should just slot in.
Tips please. I am going to do this in my lunch hour, before darkness falls!
Mike Read more
I started a discussion last week on Road Angel which appears to have vanished, I did buy the Road Angel from eBay. The unit arrived on Monday (ordered Friday) and is working well, all parts where included in price.
However I have found this link today and altough it states that GPS devices like the Road Angel will not be banned laser/radar detectors will be.
From this does anyone know what the stance will be one the New Road Angel as from the info I have found it has a laser detector build in which will be banned.
Would this mean that the old road angel is a better buy as you remove the laser detector??
Does anyone know more about this???????
www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/articles/15019158?sour...d Read more
I started a discussion last week on Road Angel which appears
to have vanished,
It got moved to one of the speed related threads, as the subject didn't take long to turn into one.
www.honestjohn.co.uk/forum/post/index.htm?t=25930&...e
Yesterdays lesson on the roads was as above - cycling home on a 40mph stretch of a fairly wide A road through town yesterday evening, of course being passed by all the other traffic. I was about a foot from the kerb which just gives me clearance from the drain covers and doing about 10mph.
You learn to listen for the traffic coming up behind you as any buses can blow you off course a bit, and I could hear a big diesel engine which sounded like a truck. The tractor unit went past giving me about 3 feet of space - a little bit tight for such a big vehicle, especially when he could have gone wider without crossing the (dashed) white lines. It turned out to be a full size articulated lorry, and I was a little concerned when he started to pull in when only half the trailer was past me. Not as concerned as a second later when he kept on pulling in until the tractor units wheels were less than a foot from the kerb.
I didn't want to brake as I still had half the trailer unit next to me and after the briefest of mental discussions it wasn't the time to wobble about under hard braking so I dived off the bike and onto the grass verge separating the road from the pavement. Just before would have been a good time to check for roadside furniture like street lamps but luckily I was clear. A second or two of sliding along the grass and I was back on my feet and pretty much on my way again.
I don't know why the truck driver pulled in so sharply but on the ride in this morning I was more aware of escape routes just in case. Maybe I'm getting too old for this? Read more
You sound like Growler, Pat.
I have currently done the head gasket and the stem seals and decoke, but when i have timed the engine up it appears now to puff clouds of black smoke, could the timing be out a tooth, i remember i had an astra td with this, and it turned our it was a cuple of teeth out, would it produce all the smoke, another thing is on the fuel pump there are 3 holes in which a bolt can be screwed into to lock the camshaft which one do i use left right or middle? Read more
The XUD engine is one of the nest/easiest for belt/cam timing, three 8*50 M* bolts required plus the flywheel pin.
I'm sure Kyle would have got that correct.
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groups.msn.com/honestjohn - Pictures say a thousand words.....
A UK exam board is offering a qualification in wheel clamping.
Clampers will be able to take a two-unit course, which will lead to a vocational BTec qualification in "vehicle immobilisation".
And frustrated motorists will be reassured to know that "conflict management" is part of the course work.
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/4055651.stm
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Imagine that on your CV. Qualified Wheel Clamper with 3 years' experience. Well-developed human relations skills.......
What was that saying? The whole world is mad save thee and me and even thee's a little queer?
(Since that's an adjective and not a noun it's OK to say it).
Perhaps I am of simple mind but what is the purpose of clamping anyway? Why prevent someone from moving their car from a place you didn't want them to put it in in the first place?
Logic clearly has no part in the process so it must be simple malice (allied of course to getting into your wallet, which was probably what it was all about in the first place).
Last year I parked outside my hotel in Tunbridge Wells not knowing I had unwittingly occupied a parking space "belonging" to a company in the next building. I was duly clamped. Or the car was, I should say.
On finding this out I eventually managed to locate Cromagnon Man in a security uniform who said "you're taking up one of our parking spaces so that's why we clamped you mate".
Duh!!!
Moved from the Aldi Sat Nav Thread. DD
[lurch to 21st century]
On David's recommendation I have a Nokia 6600 on trial for a fortnight from those lovely people at Orange. For another #160 I can get hold of TomTom Mobile (from an online ordering place called iirc Dabs).
But, before I do that I was trying to have a go on some of the trial versions of the apparently pre-uploaded software listed at tinyurl.com/622eu but I'm blowed if I can find them on my telephone. Can anybody help me? (Odd to think that a telephone has 32,000 times as much computing power as my ZX81! and 64% of the memory of the laptop I'm using just now.)
You won't be surprised to learn that the people in the Orange shop cannot help ('we can tell you about Orange features, but not about Nokia. You wouldn't expect us to know about nokia, would you - we're not a Nokia shop...')
Thanks as ever!
[/lurch to 21st century - back to mediaeval times] Read more
I suppose that, as long as you are understood, in the end it doesn't really matter. In the same way that as long as you cover your vitals it doesn't really matter how you dress for a new job interview. So, next time, wear your tattiest old jeans and a smelly t-shirt, or even just a pair of underpants and a vest. You should still get the job.
Hi to No Do$h,
I totally agree with every word you said about wagon driving, i too am also a artic driver (heavy haulage up to 80 tonnes) with a few moans about your average car driver who do not realise what is involved with driving a artic. I think that the car test should have a Lgv realisation module added to the test, so that some car drivers will have half a clue as to positioning on a roundabout when approaching a artic.
As you said in your rant about accelaration, what about braking ?, you can see it now, Blondie with the two kids on the way to school in a 4x4 not out of place in the middle of the Rockies, "Oh that big beastly lorry thing, it has lots of wheels so it must have lots brakes, so can stop faster, i,ll just nip in front of him", this view is apparant everyday.
We just have to bite our tongues, put the primus on for another brew and behave like the lone musketeer, "All for one, sod the rest".
Keep it safe and keep em spinning.
Pastyman... Read more
Agree wholeheartedly pastyman, although the words were those of Rob K. As one of the moderators on the site I was able to post it to the top of the page to remind people of the need to think from the trucker's perspective.
Probably a good idea for me to keep quiet about my plans to purchase a 4x4..... ;o)
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I would suggest Plusgas and time. Soak the nuts 2/3 times a day (and especially overnight) for 3 days. I know this seems a long time, but in my experience it will work, if you have patience. On reassembly use coppergrease on everything for next time.