May 2005
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I?ve got a Renault Savanna. On the boot hatch there are 11 cables plus the hose for the rear window washer, which pass from the harness inside the car body into the boot hatch door. All this is housed in a rubber ?boot? adjacent to the left hand hatch hinge. These cables flex as the door is opened and closed and several have broken. This has happened before. The cables had been repaired before I got the car and I had previously re-repaired them by soldering the cables. My repair hasn?t lasted because the solder makes the flexible cables more like a solid core cable and so much less flexible.
What is the recognised method of repairing such cable breaks? Are there thin crimp-type connectors? I?d imagine that the text-book fix is to cut out the damaged length of cable so that the joints are not within the section of cable which is subject to flexing.
The really annoying thing is that there is a similar rubber boot adjacent to the other hinge, which contains only 1 cable. Routing 6 cables through each boot would probably have required some common sense and the expenditure of several more centimes.
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I agree, Steve. I recently had to life test a loom in a machine which consisted of 9 0,5mm single strand wires.(fluorescent tube fitting type) They had to be twisted through about 120 degrees over a run of 100mm. We stopped the test after 175000 cycles. In our application that was about 25 years use.
Anyone got any experience of chipping a dCi engine. There is loads of stuff on the internet about chipping VW TDi's but not much on Renaults. A friend is very impressed with my 1.5 100bhp dCi and wondered if his Clio 80bhp could be chipped. I think my dCi has a dual vane turbo which the Clio doesn't but he may be able to increase it to 90bhp. Read more
Thanks all. Will pass info on, or better still tell him about this site.
Perhaps someone in the biz can throw some light on the following.
It seems to me that you very rarely encounter road repairs -- pot-hole patches, larger trench coverings, larger patches -- that are flush with the road surface. Hence, every journey is punctuated at random by lumps and bumps, no matter how good your car's ride is.
Is this:
* A British problem alone?
* Because of sloppy workmanship?
* Because the repair surface must be left proud of the road surface to allow for settlement?
* Because that's the way it's always been done and no-one has thought hard about it?
* Because no-one complains?
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Now it's self-service - they
dump the chippings vaguely on the road and we spray them
around all over the place
Including, for some of us, during our first ever test drive of a 911.
Have you ever seen a Porsche salesman cry?
A lucky person I know won a Ford Ka "Style", 05-plate in a competition; it's blue, to be picked up on Friday, and sold ASAP. Parker's gives '04/10,000 miles value £4685 ("Private Good"). The cost new seems to be IRO £7,500. Would £6,000 be a reasonable price to sell, I wonder? Read more
Similar thoughts to Smokie - ask the dealer what he'd give you for it - BEFORE you pick it up & put some miles on it.
VB
When activated with the remote, the boot on my car opens about an inch but doesn't swing fully open on it's own as intended. If I take the warning triangle out of the lid it swings open fine. It's as though the springs in the boot mechanism don't have enough grunt to start off the opening process. Was wondering if anyone had any ideas on a solve for this? Read more
Thank you for your advice on this.
I've fixed it now. If you pull the the top of the boot trim (by the hinges) away, it exposes the springs. There are 3 settings for the springs ranging from a light pull, to launching things into orbit! I moved the springs form the setting for least tension to the medium setting and the boot now swings open fine(with the metal warning triangle in place).
Why in this day and age do we still have to pay circa £400 to have a new car delivered to the dealer?
The last time I purchased a new car (about 8 years ago) I refused to pay it and told them I would collect the car myself rather then pay their charges, We eventually came to an agreement which meant that I basically got the delivery charge off. But why do dealers charge such a high price? I can not think of any other product where you have to pay such a charge, even white goods you have the option of collecting, yet with cars you can not? Why? Read more
If you live near the factory in some countries you can pick up your car from the factory and not pay the delivery charges.
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Charges may vary for deliveries
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Well it seems to work reasonably well in the U.S. albeit turn right on a red traffic light signal even with pedestrian crossings, but would the ability to turn left with a red light work as well over here?
i'm not sure, asking for trouble i think, but if all drivers and pedestrians were briefed properly about it maybe it could work? Read more
I might once have thought that letting people turn left on red would be a good idea.
Then I watched 5th gear on Monday and saw what happened if you don't spot the oncoming car if the signal is on a major road.
I'll wait, thanks.
Saw a Doctor driving on a green beacon today for the first time in ages.
Aside from hoping he was a better doctor than driver, I have been wondering why doctors (uniquely?) have been allocated a green emergency light?
Also, he wasn't equipped with, or at least using, any form of siren.
Even the relatively tiny and rare mountain rescue teams run on blue lights. Read more
Except in remote areas I don't think any GPs use green lights these days. Hardly any of us do our own out of hours calls and if a call comes in during the day that sounds like immediate attention is required it makes better sense to call out an ambulance, the paramedics are better equipped and carry out emergency treatment much more often than we do so are more experienced.
You cannot use a siren with a green light and since it is pretty hard for other drivers to see it is probably a waste of time in an emergency.
About to book a car rental in Europe for less than a week.
Since it is less than a week, have enough time only for either France/Netherlands/Germany or whereabouts,maybe Switzerland on the way.
Thing is Im not sure which place would qualify as the best with regard to factors like the roads/scenery/less speed cameras(Not that I intend to speed like a lunatic).
Which country would you chaps regard as being among the better ones in this regard.
The Autobahn would probably be a first choice but I might find myself seriously underpowered in a smallish rental motor!
Any other choices that you have been on/heard about , also any routes in particular?
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I think central France is great, very de-populated and great roads that get nice and twisty as you get to the Auvergne region. Had great fun in one of those sporty Clio's a couple of years back, can't remember the model but it had a 2 litre engine.
Don't tell anyone else though ;-)
Although I have to say that, having checked, I appear not to have received anymore in the last hour.