January 2006
Good Morning as i've mentioned in a previous theard (city rover) mrsmender is after a new shopping trolly.
A friend is selling a 205 Diesel question.. Did they all have power steering?
Also if we go looking at others what should i pay for the best diesels Read more
I've just seen some pictures of this on www.forddesktops.com , does anyone know when the facelifted models will be launched in the UK? Read more
I have the inside scoop on this one. Ford design team took the Peugeot 406 adds (the one with people driving toy cars), removed the Puegeot bits and as a joke sent it to management for approval as a new design concept.
It was accepted by management and the order came down from high to build them....
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TourVanMan TM < Ex RF >
On a thread in techincal, there was a comment that there was a school of thought that preferred sucking out engine oil rather than draining out via the sump plug.
I can't see the benefit to the car, as crud will settle around the bottom of the sump (where a suction device will find it hard to reach) and will drop out as the sump plug is removed. Would have though that removal of crud, is just as important as renewal of oil.
Obviously easier and cheaper for dealer to change oil this way, but is it really any better, or even no worse than the traditional method?
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Espada III - well if you have a family and need a Lamborghini, what else do you drive? Read more
This is ok if the particles of crud stay suspended in the oil,but you will not get as much removed as you would if draining out the bottom.
had a friends head gasket skimmed and fitted it back on then got them to tow me in the car to get oil to tappets, but car will still not work. any ideas Read more
Did you put the cam pulleys back on the correct cams???if not it wont start and did you put the hydraulic followers back in the holes they came out of? if not they can sometimes make it hard to start ,I always put them back where they came from as a matter of course and also let some oil go from them to ensure the valves ar shutting and allowing the engine to have compression when first starting.
What is your preferance? personaly I use an offcut of polycarbonate as this has far more scraping power than a credit card.
I have always found deeiceing sprays to ree freaze or leave a dirt atracting residue on the bonnet not to mention slower than scrapeing.
Paul Read more
Prefer a scraper. Have plenty of de-icer on standby (bought in bulk from Costco for next to nothing), but only use this on stubborn ice. Not a one for leaving the car idling, so once the cars had a brief going over with the scraper, the engine is started, blowers on max (with window cracked open sometimes), seatbelt on, and away you go!
I seem to have a partialy seized brake calliper on the rear nearside wheel of my car. The offside disc is working ok and is shiny.Do i need to change both callipers,or can i get away with changing just the faulty one?
Thanks for any advice. Read more
Crinkly Dave-Car is a Fiat Coupe of 2000w vintage {Now added to title-DD}, which i blieve is prone to rear caliper problems. The good news is it`s sorted. I cleaned the pad "runners" and fitted new pads. Now works fine. Thank you all.
Hi there.....I have a 306 s16, which is fitted with the Mi16 engine from the 405....I have a made idle problem which I think is the stepper motor...If it has one...Mr Haynes is not helping...does anyone know if the mi16 engine has a stepper motor and if so where it is...
Cheers
J Read more
You will get a fairly quick answer if you pop over to www.pughosting.co.uk/forum - lots of Mi16 knowledge and we're a friendly bunch too!
I am looking for a pda which will run sat nav, I guess Tomtom is the most popular and well known. I have narrowed down my choice to an XDA 2S (with the pull out mini keyboard)or an Ipaq, the 4700 looks well specified. I would like to use this set up with a bluetooth gps receiver to cut down on the wires etc. My preference is for the XDA as it will take a SIM card and can also be used as a phone and also has a camera, a pretty useless accessory to my mind but you never know - could be useful in the event of a shunt. The pda would be used on a sucker type windscreen mount, probably a powered one with a speaker. I have made one wrong decision and found out to my cost that my planned combination could not be made to work, at least by me. The grand plan is to get as much functionality in one box as I can in order to minimise the amount of technology I carry around with me, and it is for this reason that I dont want a standalone sat nav unit. The new Mio Mitac A201 has the gps receiver incorporated into it and does all the usual pda type things, but doesnt seem to get terribly good reviews. Any suggestions and advice very gratefully received before I once again get my wallet out.
Thanks in advance MGs Read more
My preference
is for the XDA as it will take a SIM card
and can also be used as a phone and also has
a camera, a pretty useless accessory to my mind but you
never know - could be useful in the event of a
shunt.
Previous threads in the backrom have recommended a disposable camera for use after an accident, because (if I remember correctly) a digital image is less useful as evidence. That may or may not affect your choice of PDA, but I'd prefer to have the disposable camera than to have to take my valuable PDA out of the car in a post-accident situation.
Just come back from Cuba. The TV prog 'Life on Mars' takes you back to the Seventies but Cuba takes ou back to the Fifties. The vast majority of motors are 50s U.S. and Ladas but there are a few British motors . I saw an Austin Healey with a Lada engine and a few old Fords, a Zephre 6 and a Prefect not much signs of rust but all different mechanics under the bonnet. All these old motors are belching out thick smoke making the pollution in Havana horrendous. Cubans are not permitted to buy new cars even if they could afford to so any modern vehicles you see are owned by the state. Read more
If you've got Sky digital, then keep a lookout on channel 566 (UKTV People) for repeats of Jeremy Clarkson's Motorworld. One of the episodes was from Cuba.
Most cars, regardless of make, have a Lada engine in them.
I've recently bought a 99V Peugeot 406 HDi Rapier (no CD player or climate control) with 110k miles.
Mostly the car works fine but it doesn't seem to realise when the ignition is off in that there is always a live feed to the cigarette lighter, the lights on warning buzzer never comes on and the stereo can always be switched on.
This is a problem for me because I don't want to leave my lights on accidentally, and also I have a GPS unit in the car which I only want to be charged when the car is running and not when it's left, as this could run the battery down if left long enough.
Apparently this constant live can be set by swapping around a couple of fuses, but no one I've spoken to seems to know which ones. Any ideas? Read more
Update on this - I never managed to switch off the constant live to the cigarette lighter and it doesn't bother me.
However I have noticed that the indicators are silent inside the car when I'm signalling, except maybe about 1% of the time, when they work. If they work, the lights on warning buzzer also works.
Obviously I will be checking all connections when I have the chance, but assuming that everything is plugged in the way it should be and the contacts are clean, what is likely to have failed?
Browse
I inherited an early, non-power steering 205 diesel. The basic car was excellent, refined, economical and sufficiently rapid, but the body and trim were flimsy and on that particular example the rear brakes were troublesome. Most of all, though, it really needed power steering because the unpowered steering was not only low-geared but had very strong castor action.