April 2005
I drive through Epsom & Ewell on a regular basis which seems to have a policy of placing traffic lights every few yards , its absolute chaos in the rush hour. Their recent project was to make chessington road, ewell into a dual carriageway and then replace an adequate mini roundabout into a 3 phase traffic light system thereby completly negating the benefit of the dual carriageway. Since its completion the rush hour congestion has got worse, talk about a waste of money. Is this an isolated case or are there more barmy 'highway improvement projects' Read more
A thread for anyone at a loose end on Monday and wants somewhere to go.. Motoring related of course!
The annual Mayday American car show at St Cleres Golf Club (on the old A13) Stanford le Hope Essex.
Well worth a visit. I'll be there!
Any other suggestions? Read more
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Ok - I see British Car Auction at Blackbusche is still going to be held on Bank Holiday Monday.
Anyone been there before on a Bank Holiday and whats the trading like - am I right to assume more individual buyers like myself than dealers? Will this push prices slightly higher?
Cheers
Scott Read more
After a break of almost four years I am once again doing frequent night time drives (I need the brass). My area is bounded roughly, Leeds, Kendal, Derby, Sheffield, Hull so plenty of fast roads and into the cities and back street engineering works, ie a good cross section. Hang on, I'm coming to the point; which is my subjective view is that there is a much bigger percentage of vehicle lights missing than there used to be. One headlamp cars (it usually is cars) and one or no rear light cars crop up rather too frequently for my liking. The lack of road traffic police is probably a contributary factor, not to mention the difficulty in replacing bulbs in some modern cars, mine included. My ancient Volvo940 had a gadget that illuminated a warning light if one of any pair of bulbs failed; very useful. Anyway do you think I am imagining this phenomena or am I still in the real world? Read more
The XJS is renown for the "quality" of its electrics.! I seem to recall all the connections are the "bullet" type. If thats your only electrical problem then count your lucky stars!
Having replaced the wipers on my Zafira, they now will not wipe properly, they leave a smear on the up stroke, and isn't much better on the down stroke.The originals were perfect, and if i hadn't binned them i'd be putting them back on. I have cleaned the windscreen, the wipers till i'm blue in the face, but to no avail.What can the problem be, is the wiper not pressing down hard enough, how can i get them to work better please.It doesn't seem to matter if it's belting down or just misty the result is the same.
I did read somewhere about twisting the wiper blade some how, but can't for the life of me remember anymore than that.
Please help it's driving me NUTS......
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You paid list price, you should ask for the cheap price. They all will around here, and stick it on a taxi firm's cash account.
Come on guys, we know you have to fund the site from ads, but the Nissan pop up is just too annoying. Every page change its there requiring the user to close it every time. This is one forum member who wont be back until its gone see ya
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\" Keep doing the same old thing, youll get the same old thing, try something different today!\" Read more
Please read the paragragh towards the end of the following post which starts "Discussion on the pop-ups themselves...."
www.honestjohn.co.uk/forum/post/index.htm?t=30724
DD.
I have a 80 Avant 1995 (180,000 miles)and none of my paperwork for the car gives the load weights, i.e. maximum permissable. Never needed until now. Tried Web, but could only get info if buy book. Anyone help, most grateful
Xylophone Read more
Aha! one I can answer.
from 1992 instruction manual
66Kw petrol permissible front axle in kg 940 rear 1030
85 kw petrol kg 1000 rear 1030
98 kw kg 1000 rear 1030
98 kw quattro kg 1000 rear 1110
110kw kg 1050 rear 1030
110kw quattro kg 1050 rear 1110
66kw diesel kg 990 rear 1030
Hope that helps anything else, email direct : my emails in the profile
Tim{P}
Use
www.confused.com
Today my insurers have reduced my renewal premium (covering two cars) by 45% after being presented with the results of my using that site to produce a list of competitive quotations. Read more
Gotta agree it's an excellent site, but I managed to get a cheaper quote for my kid sister from Tesco than from confused - takes away a lot of the slog but there's still even better deals to be had with a bit of searching yourself!
-- Lee Having a Fabialous time.
Can anyone tell me if these figures are about right, please?
1999 Xantia 2ltr Exclusive( non climate control)
Outside air temperature 21 degrees C (vehicle sensor)
Air vent (interior) temperature 7,5 degrees C (accurate thermometer)
Engine speed 2250/2500 rpm (tacho reading)
Road speed 50/55 mph (car speedo)
Interior fan speed low.
Air vent set to fresh, non recycling.
Bright sunny day.
Is the temperature drop of approx. 14 degrees C an indication that the air con is ok? Read more
Temperature change from ambient isn't a reliable method, though it does look like yours is ok.
A better check is have the car at standstill, engine at 2000rpm, max blower, then measure the vent temp at face vents. It should still get down to 6/7 degrees within a reasonable time (less than a couple of minutes) assuming the ambient is above 20degC. This way, the system is running at full load.
Om my 1 year old metallic black civic sport bonnet I have all white small marks like paint stains and can not remove them with Mer,Autoglym or superguard.
Has any one any suggestions as to how and what to try to remove these,without damaging the painwork totally.
Thanks/Steve Read more
I don't think much of the paint on the Civic. As I said it seems thin and chips very easily, allthough the shape of the bonnet dosn't help.
The white specs on myne are chips so no polish will get them out!
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Carlisle got rid of their traffic lights at Hardwicke Circus after they failed in the January Flood, as traffic flowed much better whilst the lights were off (well it did after the water level dropped!).
Recipe to solve traffic congestion in your local town:
Take 1 busy roundabout with traffic lights.
Add water until 10 feet deep.
Leave to soak for 3 days, ensuring that the traffic light heads and controller aren't above water level at any time.
Drain slowly.
Place orange bags over heads.
Drive as normal...