June 2005
I was going to put this in the Unusual Sightings thread, but they tend not to create much response.
Anyway on my way through Bath this morning I followed a brand new '05' reg VW camper van. Nothing unusal in that you may think, bit it wasn't a current model, it was one of the old versions circa 1978. As I drove past I managed to get a closer look, it was on hire from a company near Bristol.
I had no idea these were still made. Presumably in Brazil?
Any ideas on this? I wonder how much they cost. Read more
Took out my '72 Elan on Sunday with my youngest son for a run. Filled up with BP Ulitmate Unleaded @96P litre. Within 1 mile the car stalled at approach to major roundabout. Got started after about 5 - 10 minutes. Car then repeated the exercise 5 times in space of 1 mile. Every time I approached set of lights car would cough and stall. I have just had £1000 of work done including full serviuce and car was starting and running better than ever.
Upto now been putting in horrible Tesco petrol deceided to give it atreat with BP 98O octane. Is there a connection or am I just paranoid. Could it have been the heat?
Suggestions welcome, really dented my confidence in car and made me deeply unpopular with Reading population on a busy Sunday afternoon Read more
40DCOE18 were fine but 40DCOE31 were not as a small part of the first progression hole was on the wrong side of the butterfly when the throttle was at tickover. This caused a very rich tickover and was cured by a factory modified butterfly. I can look up the pt. no. if you require it. Secondly the pump/power jet (one to each throat) can self siphon if the anti siphon ball and weight are not seating properly, again causing a rich mixture at tickover. These jets can be viewed down the throat from the outside, they should not be dripping at tickover.
and a really daft question occurs to me:
How obvious are the speed limit signs in various European countries? Taking my own as an example, the motorways do not have a 70 sign on them. If the same is true in France, Belgium, Germany, etc. how am I supposed to know what speed I am allowed to do? Read more
If you make it to Spain beware of very rapid changes of speed limits at entrances to industrial estates and housing complexes, road junctions, etc. For example, on a normal two-lane road with 90kph limit, in very quick succession you'll get an 80kph, then 60kph sign only 50m apart. The radar cars will be on the verge, and remember its payment on demand for non-residents.
Also drink-driving limits are lower than UK.
{This follows on from Volume 1, which can be found here:}
www.honestjohn.co.uk/forum/post/index.htm?t=32780
DD
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To add to F1's woes in America, Bernie made a spectacular gaffe live on US TV during the weekend.
When asked what he thought of Danica Patrick, who had this year achieved national acclaim by becoming the first female to lead the Indy 500 before finishing fourth, he replied,
"Women should be dressed in white, like all domestic appliances"
His ready wit has has gone down like a lead balloon in the land of the free. Read more
Michelin flew those tyres in and ran tests on them, only
to find they too were unsuitable.
Oh. Now wondering if the pair of Michys on my car will be OK for the trip to the supermarket on Monday.
More than once I've checked out the rough value of a car up for auction at BCA on Autotrader only to find the self same car up for sale at a dealer. The registrations tally exactly. However, they are entered in the auction under one of the larger vehicle leasing company sales.
How can this be? Is this a speculative punt by the dealer who may obtain the car at auction or do some dealers have an arrangement with the leasing operations? If the latter, it slightly clouds the provenance of such cars. After all, there are dealer direct sales already. Have I misunderstood how the lease co's operate? Read more
Morning all, how do you and how easy is it to remove the plastic wheel arch insert ? I need to get at a dent just above the bumper and just behind the indicator.I do not want to use too much filler. Read more
Cheers dave. That's this weekends task then.
Where there's talk, applying more charges and taxes on top of we already pay for using our road network.
They should look at applying charges to those who hog empty lanes on Motorways and Dual carriageways, not moving over when space is available to allow others to pass. Whether they are travelling below or above the speed limits.
This is where tempers rise and rage where you get idiots, staying in lanes causing convoys, afraid of losing their place or don't like travelling behind someone else.
These are the ones who should pay extra. Read more
rtaylor, One of the major aids to staying safe on the road is observation. The title of this thread is "Lazy motorway lane hoggers". If you had observed this then you would not have posted about driving on the right on an empty road approaching a blind left hand bend and easily pulling back in if,as implied, something is coming.
For a period of about 13 years, up until recently, I used to cover 50000+ miles per year, all weathers, all conditions, all types of road. In that time, to be honest, I never normally found the left hand lane to be in the conditions described by several posts on here. Tyre debris, usually from hgv's doesn't tend to stay in the left hand lane only.
The position chosen by any driver, on any type of road, should be the one which maximises both their own, and other "local" road users safety.
If you chose, for your own, and others, safety, that the middle lane is safer, under the prevailing conditions, then that is your choice. If an incident happens then you have to give your reasons for your choice.
Just changed car to a 1.6 litre Fiat Multiwagon. Can't decide whether to run on premium or super unleaded. Old car, 2.4 litre Mitsubishi, ran well on Optimax. Is new engine too small to justify extra cost? Read more
Well the point, which has been done to death, is that all crude in to the refinery is within a set specification so is for all intents and purposes identical. All petrol that comes out is within a set specification and so for all intents and purposes identical and as the tanker driver says it comes out of the same tank.
The ONLY difference is these 'detergents' IF you run a high performance car or you do only short start stop journeys maybe you need these 'detergents' and maybe you don't but even if you do a quick shot of an additive like Redex now and again will do the same job much cheaper.
Nearly all my experience was upstream but I had some exposure to downstream with Mobil (and a very nice pay off thank you Exxon). The bottom line is that the oil companies have been trying to brand petrol for decades and have always failed.
306 pug interior clock works but dim light any advice thanks dave Read more
>..released from the dash to replace the 2 bulbs..<
Not sure this will be possible - may depend on age. Haynes says the bulbs can't be replaced (tho I find this unlikely). My 99T car had a dim clock (left) bulb while the temp (right) one was OK. Dim one came back to life a few months ago and is still OK, probably until the winter.
Hi,
I've just noticed that off-side outer CV gaiter has got sort of groove in it, presumably rubber has started splitting. It doesn't leak, but I wonder how long it could go for before it does split and lets all the grease out and dust in ?
I ask, cause although I will probably replace it now, a friend of mine who's got the same car had had similar condition on a CV gaiter for a year before he replaced it. It never actually split.
I'm going to phone around for quotes, but could anyone give me an idea of how much it should cost ?
Thanks
Kostic Read more
Never heard of a CV boot with a lifetime guarantee. Who makes them, Davey. Looked on the web unsuccessfully. Is it one of those which you stretch over the CV?
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Yep, made in Brazil. In addition to doctorchris's link, see also www.danburymotorcaravans.com/
We have an 'Original' 1976 VW Bay Window Type 2 Camper. :)