A lot of people on this forum give their time and excellent advice with no thought of thanks. However, I've noticed lately that there seems to be rather fewer advice recipients bothering to thank the people that helped them. Not only that, but feedback on whether a problem has been fixed is very useful to other members. Sorry about the sour note of this posting but this has been bugging me for some time. Read more

Hi,

I've done a search to see if I can find a similar question but unfortunately..haven't seen any answers.

I have a Rover and over the last couple of months it's been getting through a LOT of water. I top up constantly (with an anti-freeze mix).. it's not boiled up on me and I can't see any leaks.

I'm taking it to a garage tomorrow to be looked at but know that Rovers are notorious for the head gasket going.

Are there any tips to minimise the damage that could already have been done and any way of proving what's wrong with it?

As a woman...I'm frightened of getting to the garage..them saying it's the HG and charging me a fortune.

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'We will beat any price in town' ran the advertisement. So having called round every other exhaust supplier in the yell.com results for Ipswich for a new cat, I call them.

'Gosh it's expensive,' he says. 'I know.'

'#400 + VAT' he says, 'Have you had other quotations?'. 'Try less than half that,' I respond.

'#190 +VAT.' 'Try about #170 including VAT.'

'Oh. I'll see what I can do, call back tomorrow.'

I do. And get a different bloke. 'You were getting me a price.'

'I'll just check for you.' Taps on his computer

'#210 +VAT'

'Err it was #190 + VAT yesterday and you were trying to get the price down.'

Becomes abusive 'You didn't tell me you already had a price. [He didn't ask & I assumed that giving him my reg. number would enable his computer to find me.] Cannot give you a quotation before seeing the car anyway. And I'll need cash up front deposit.'

'I beg your pardon. You're not interested in providing a competitive price, then?'

'Blah Blah Blah!'


Only goes towards proving my theory that anybody advertising as 'beating any price in town' probably won't.
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just put my little run around in the classifieds sections
it will be a great car for someone Read more

In another thread, Stuartli said "...could/will result in a penalty if it is witnessed by a police officer."

Well, in this morning's Telegraph, in an article about drink driving, the comment was made that independent figures out yesterday show thatthe number of traffic Police has declined by one third over the past 8 years as road policing has moved towards camera based enforcement. (I'm quoting from memory, so that's just the gist).

Well, this raises a few questions.

1. I thought that we were sold cameras partly on the basis that they would allow the police to spend their time on other issues than speeding. That's not going to happen if their numbers are declining.

2. Increasing the penalty for using a mobile while driving is going to have no effect at all if there's no-one to see it.

3. With fewer traffic officers about, there MUST be fewer spot checks catching untaxed, uninsured drivers (who often turn out to be criminals in other aspects of their lives)

4. What are the chances of being seen doing something damned stupid in your car if there are fewer coppers to see it?

This is another of those little erosions of services that no-one seems to notice and that will turn out to have a major impact. I think that in this case we have sown the wind...

V


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