April 2005
Apart from welding ,what is the best M2M Adhesive available over the counter. I am milling/lathing then tapping a bit of Stainless to fit into a handlebar and through it will be secure a grip bar end. I,m thinking Araldite rapid however anyone else used anything else with good results and if so where can i get it.The bar ends weigh about 2 OZ ( rough guess) each. Read more
Somewhere in the forum there is a discussion about this problem in a VW Golf. Taking hints from there, I have followed the procedure to look into the vetilation and fan chamber under the windscreen seal panel. I have been unable to find any drainage holes or any pollen filter. The chamber has lip wall around it, making it impossible for the water to get in anyway. Removing the glove box for further examination from inside did not shed any light as to where the water could be coming in from. Apar from dismantlig the the whole fan orifice, I cant see how and where the problem lies. I would be grateful if anybody with the knowledge or experience could help. the water drips in from the extreme corner of passeger footwel behind the computer box, impossible to access. Its bewildering.
Dean
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I have seen on a honda site in New Zealand(!) and the cowling which covers the heater air inlet can be the problem. It can be taken off and resealed. The old integra suffered from this problem, but in their case the water ran into the heater fan, so I guess it could be a lot worse!
Whilst the weather is dry I am going to attempt to run some sealant over the joints in this area. I have some black gutter sealant which is quite flexible and will not be seen anyway. Get the watering can out and run water over the joints without getting near the windscreen if that's possible. Then see what happens.
So took SWMBO's Jazz for a service and they rang me mid-morning to say the wipers were "on the split" and would I like them replaced? No, I haemoglobin-well would not at their prices.
So I went down to Halfords to see my friend Pat.
Now, to explain, "on the split" means the mechanic gives the edge of the blade a gentle tug and when it is a couple of years old it splits, so when you pick up the car you have to replace the wretched things.
Pat tells me that these days Halfords find it difficult to match up wiper blades for many modern cars as the manufacturers specify odd fitments that mean that only the dealers stock them. She was unable to find a match for me, so I took away their replacement blade kits and with a bit of jiggery-pokery they worked fine at about one third of Honda's cost to replace.
So, low cost to run cars are not so cheap to run as they would have us believe.
Can I put in a good word for Pat here, can talk with me for hours about cars, much more interesting than most of the blokes I know. Read more
I never gave it a thought when I bought them - but the sweeps are different, the spindles are on the left hand side on LHD and the blades are different lengths so wouldn't fit.
Mine's a bit obvious really, I find the idea of an Italian supercar which can seat four people in comfort, something of interest and I want one.
What's the reason for your BR name.
Can make some guesses: -
Pugugly - you are or use used to drive one;
perleman - presumably a big nosed humourist with initials S J?
Anyone care to spill the beans or have a guess?
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Espada III - well if you have a family and need a Lamborghini, what else do you drive? Read more
Couldn't think of a funny handle at the time, and thaught "lets keep things simple", and so used my surname. How original.
I had never thaught of using a school nickname, but they arn't that imaginative (Robo, Robocop and ...er....Roberson)
Morning all, it's been a while since my last post.I need a bit of advice regarding the battery in a Ford diesel van.
My Dad's Ford Escort diesel van has just failed its MOT in a big way so looks like it will be on its way to the scrap yard very soon. I will be removing the battery as it was new just before Christmas. My question is:
Will I be able to use this battery in my Mum's Fiat Motorhome - 2.0 litre petrol - as the battery in it is dead? The motorhome is due its MOT new week so need to get it sorted over the weekend.
thanks in advance.
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Good analogy, if 617 squadron came along you would have a massive flow, but not for long!
{This question follows on from Volume 50. DD}
Thanks for all your help (except RF - computer is now in a real sulk with me as a result of my e-friends' lack of tact in the face of computer's lack of modernity!)
I ran the crucial system, which said it didn't know. Then I ran the Belarc Advisor (sic) which told me:
Sys Model Via Technologies Inc VT82C694X
Main circuit board 694X - 686A
BIOS - award software International Inc 6.00PG 05/12/00
Memory: 64MB installed. Slot 0 64MB, slots 1, 2, 3 empty.
So then back to the crucial website & I'm no wiser at all.
Anybody decipher this gobbledegook?
Many thanks, as ever!
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Hello ChrisR
I was in a similar situation recently with an old HP laser that worked fine but the toner cartridges are becoming more difficult to source. HP wanted £70.00, Staples had refilled ones at £19.00 but were out of stock. Then decided to check ebay. I bought 3 new HP cartridges @ £4.95 each plus postage! Until then I was going to buy a new printer.
Sorry cannot answer your connection queries.
Hello all,
Not so much a question just a story. Get in the car before, drive off out of the estate and I think to myself, "running a little rough today". Get onto a main road, open her up....nothing. Second gear, running like a tractor. Very odd. Carry on for 10 seconds and as the road inclines, the car...declines. Pull over, turn the engine off and checked for any fault codes. None. Start up, save thing. Really rough, rev and the entire car shakes. "This can't be good Adam" says I - but I can't stay where I am because I'm on a main road.
I initially think, Cam belt but then realise the car woulnd't go at all. So I turn into a side street, turn off again, no warning lights. Check engine temp, fine. I know all the fluids were ok as I checked them just yesterday. Give Dad a ring and ask, should I take it home? He says yes, so I crawled home at little more than 20 mph, sounding like the engine out of a Massey Ferguson and back into the drive with the car shaking like mad. Get out and can instantly smell rotten eggs. "The Cat!" I think. Nothing seems out of place so I rev the engine slightly and you can hear a rattle when you rev it.
Dad gets home and confirms my suspicions about the cat so the car is now parked on the drive, undriveable until we sort a cat out tomorrow. A shame as I'd done a full valet on it the other day!
Has anyone heard of the cats going so early on Focuses...Foci? Is it really that early or is 66k normal?
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Thanks, Aprilia, I thought I had read something about the constant current system somewhere, hence rpm is a little irrelevant.
Hi
I've just driven to work this morning and the drivers window has stopped working. It went down now it won't go back up. I've pulled the window up 3/4 of the way and jemmy'd the window to keep it up.
Car is a 2000 W 306 2.0 Cabriolet.
Am I looking at a new window? Or am I looking at a motor and door runner replacement? What sort of money am I looking at?
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
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306 2.0 SE Cabriolet Read more
If you can find the green plastic peg in the bottom of the door, it is repairable. I fixed ours by removing the door trim, carefully cutting a hole in the plastic membrane with a stanley knife and removing the window regulator. I removed the plastic bit which rides up and down the track and re attached the peg with a self tapping screw through the back. The peg has a hole in it already which makes a nice pilot hole for the screw. I coated the screw with epoxy adhesive as well to make sire it won't come apart Now as they say in the manuals, reassembly is the reverse of the above.
I sealed the cut in the plastic membrane with some duct tape.
{This debate continues from Volume 32, which was entirely on the subject of the forthcoming M4 speed camera protest. DD}
I think the protest is a very good idea.It is not about speed limits.We are fed up with the over proliferation of cameras.Whilst they are a good idea in certain built up areas and/or near schools.They are spreading everywhere and they dont catch dangerous/reckless/drunk/untaxed/un-insured drivers.When was the last time you saw a camera just before a blind bend or dangerous curve?.
How many times have you driven through an unfamiliar town and spend more time looking out for speed cameras and concentrating on your speedo than paying attention to the road in front.I know i do. Read more
This is the conclusion of a liverpool university report into accident blackspots and speed cameras according to the Mail on Sunday on the Safespeed site
www.safespeed.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2678
They did mention about a reduction in minor accidents but didn't mention whether they took account of other road engineering done at the same time or whether they had accounted for differing traffic levels. They also mentioned RTTM but didn't say whether their claim of reduction in minor accidents also took this into account.
teabelly
I have this wretched Kawasaki that can't speak English.
Its tyre pressures front and rear are supposed to be 200 KpA. Can anyone translate that for me into real money, i/e PSI?
TIA.
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Ah, thanks again: a "kilopascal" no less. My education advances apace. Sounds like a Belgian hairdresser.
If it's 29 psi why can't they say so? I suppose it would deprive all those empty suits of reasons for warming their seats until inflation-proof pensionable age if they talked in terms Joe Six-Pack chaps like me could understand.
Now then, where's that 7/16" wrench? I know I put it somewhere.
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I'd just wind the bolts out and take them with the 'wings' to someone with a welder (of any type) a matter of moments to weld them together.
p.s. Loctite 660 'quick metal' is good for repairing broken bits. ISTR it was designed to repair damaged keyways and has been sucesfully used to repair chewed up crank keyways on early mx5's where the bolt has stretched or come loose and the cambelt pulley has rattled around.