October 2005
Can anyone give me the ignition timing figures for a 1993 B200F engine on Jetronic LH2.4 At present I am measuring Zero at tick over 20 degrees of advance at 2000 rpm and 27 ish at 3500 rpm. Zero appears a bit odd and the tick over is normally about 800 but it is at 1050 right now. Regards Peter Read more
The fan on swmbo's car has been working when it feels like it, but has now stopped altogether.(previously a few rapid movements of the slide control would bring it back to life).
Can anyone give me any idea where to start looking.
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Without wheels, though: Nokia 6680 with "free" Navicore Satnav system (retails at £175) Given that I've been using a wired Palm system, out of the box this looks amazing. Bluetooth receiver, half the size of the telephone... And you can keep it in the glove box, or, easily, take it with you when you leave the car. I'm due to go to Chesterfield tonight, Alton Towers tomorrow, Huddersfield after that, back to Chesterfield and then back to Hull. It has currently found me in my office, and shows me where I am on the map.. I'll let you know how well it works, but, if you're willing to take out a new 'phone contract, it's a very cheap way of getting a satnav system... that also works as a 'phone! Anyone else using this system?
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"how to get camera locations"
See this thread:-
www.honestjohn.co.uk/forum/post/index.htm?f=2&t=35...6
Phil
I have a driving licence in the sense that I passed my test **years ago and haven't been disqualified. I don't have a driving licence in that I can't find the pink and green scrap of paper.
My employer is hassling me for a copy (after 12 years, they think about this?). So I guess I have to get a duplicate. I checked on the dvla website and of course I have to have a photocard licence. But because I don't have the old licence, I have to send either my passport or birth and marriage certificates. I use my passport too often to send it away for weeks so that's not an option. I have a birth certificate but not the other so I suppose I have to track down where that's held and apply for a copy.
Are there any alternatives? Short of resitting my test, that is.
And in the meantime, what would happen if I got pulled over by the police? How can I produce a licence that I don't have? Or can they tell that I have a valid licence from some magical database?
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This is a valuable source of income for your GP - a licence to print money you could say.
went to change plugs and noticed plug were nearly burried under oil is this normal Read more
thanks for that dave i changed the gasket cleaned out the breather tubes and all is now ok
Afternoon all,
Long time no see! I?ve been away for a while, but now I?m back!
My 1997 Passat has a water leakage problem. Whenever it rains heavily, water finds its way into the cabin from behind (as far as I can tell) the glovebox. This causes no end of issues as the heater blower motor is situated there, which I?d already had to replace once.
I few months ago I did have a prod and poke around the drainage hole, which I believe is around the area of the pollen filter, but the problem persists.
Please could someone tell me the exact location and procedure to check if my drainage hole is blocked?
Many thanks in advance.
DB
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Hi. just tightening the pollen filter housing won't work, If you remove the pollen filter then the three 10mm nuts holding the pollen filter housing remove the housing and you will see a foam gasket and a kind of foam/gasket type seal in a resessed appature in the pollen filter housing, this gasket splits and this is what leaks! you need to remove this gasket and replace it with a thick bead of sealant, If you go to your VW dealer they have this sealant on a roll and normally sell it for about £5 a metre this is what you replace the seal with. Make sure the join of the sealant is towards the windscreen side of the pollen filter housing e.g. the higher side of the housing. Clean the surface the pollen filter sits on then refit the housing!! and hey presto should be the end of the leak!!
A warning for those travelling abroad.
France now requires one Hi-Viz vest for every occupant of cars on the autoroute - a requirement not covered by the information pack provided by our lease company. Luckily I need them for work so we had the requisite number in the car.
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And what exaxtly is wrong with Prince 2 practitioners?
I was in the cadet force - never the army...
www.lingscars.com/quiz.php
I got 5/8.
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5/8 - Not too bad considering most were guesses!
On the way home last weekend I drove through an enormous pothole about four feet long and three feet wide. The car lurched to one side and I was very lucky not to have had a serious accident. Upon inspection, the front left tyre had blown out and the alloy wheel on my Audi had been buckled by the force of impact. I changed the wheel in the dark and walked up the road to discover the offending pothole. It was around six inches deep. The next morning I reported this ridiculously dangerous pothole to the local road safety hotline.
As a result of the appalling state of this road, my car is effectively unuseable ( the spare wheel is a spacesaver wheel), I am lucky not to have been hurt and my wheel is destroyed. I was driving at well under the permitted speed ? it was dark and I was about to descend a steep hill.
Does anyone have any advice on how I can claim for repairs to my wheel or for a new wheel to be purchased? Details of any previous experience or help would be much appreciated.
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Reevsie, you cycle 150 miles a week? I used to do about that much, and I was very fit. Long time ago, tho.
I had several wheels mulched by potholes, and I always just rebuilt them -- sometimes after straightening the rim, sometimes with a new rim. I always just took it as the luck of the draw -- a bit of skill and care helps avoid most opportunities for damage, but sometimes your luck runs out. I reckoned that if I wanted wheels which survived those bumps I could get heavy steel ones ... but that if I wanted the advantages of alloy bike wheels I shouldn't expect the council to upgrade the roads.
What if I hit a pothole and had a serious accident? I dunno. I never did have a serious accident on my bikes, but none of my friends who did get injured ever thought of sueing the council, so I guess I wouldn't. In Dublin in those days there was a compensation culture taking off, and I never had much time for it.
I find the new large moving advert on the right of the page very distracting whilst reading text. I have no problem with the small ones on the left, but I had to resize the window to remove it from my sight. Perhaps a guideline should be drawn up about the adverts that keep this site running. I personally feel this one has gone too far.
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Roger
I read frequently, but only post when I have something useful to say.
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Don't ask me why but the blue 'thing' advertising the Kia really winds me up. Who's it modelled on? Griff Rhys Jones? That stupid beard...
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