April 2006
Anyone out there know where I can get some claybar at a resonable price. I bought some of the Meguires version but find that the spray will easily outlast the claybar, and do not want to waste money on buying excessive spray ?
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It amazes me how manufacturers can charge what they do for some optional extra's.
I have just looked at the Honda web site for example and they charge £1400 for Bluetooth and Sat Nav in the accord.
Compared to a Tom Tom 700 at approx £350ish from some web sites - that is a saving of £1050 for a device that offers the same functionality.
Am I correct or am I missing something that you could help me with - who would pay the extra ? Read more
No-one is forcing you to buy these 'optional' extras.
Buy nearly-new and get them for free
I tried to find a nearly-new Focus with a factory fitted optional extra sunroof. Even asking my dealer to find one for me got me nowhere.
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friend has heart set on a charade. tested one, doens't mind the loud engine noise, says mpg makes up for it (and at 93p a litre - im not surprised) as does the space.
one problem - price
dealer wont shift much from 400 quid below list.
its well known after ringing some lads in the trade that you wouldn't even consider buying one new until the dealer had a grand knocked off.
so - anyone know the cheapest place to buy a new or nearly new daihatsu charade.
not bothered about spec or the gear box type.
no part ex - total one of cash payment no finance rubbish.
so - whos doing the best deals on them?
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£400 off sounds reasonable on a £6000-£7000 car that's well specced to begin with - but the market price is what you can get one for, not what somebody tells you it should be - can any of the trade mates tell you where to buy one for £1000 off?
Broadspeed are quoting 500-600 discount and 2 week delivery for UK dealer supplied cars.
Just pondering the above 'transplant'.
What do you reckon? I don't have any plans of the engines obviously, but as the HDi itself was based on the XUD engines in places, it doesn't sound beyond the realms of possibility. Read more
It would almost certainly be more hassle than it's worth, if it's more power you are looking for the stock 90 bhp 2.0 HDi can fairly easily be tweaked to around 140 bhp and if it's big power they can be reach 190bhp whilst still being reliable and suprisingly economical.
Is it me or does anyone else notice the ammount of drivers who slam there brakes on to look at an overhead warning signs on the M25 that helpfully say things like "Dont Drink & Drive"
At peak times I have seen lots of rear end shunts around these signs especially if they are displaying a long message regarding future congestion problems. Whilst the message is helpfull I think that some drivers with slower reactions or poor eyesight are becomming dangerously distracted!
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'the stereo cd do with a head clean...'
Sounds like it's not the only thing! ;o)
As the Police force in this country continue to decline in real numbers it seems that non Police cars are starting to grow. I am of course reffering to the very large vary shiny and very new 4 by 4s that the highways agency have been given to replace er I mean assist the Police on the M25 and other motorways.
The real give away that they are not police cars is the black and yellow stripes rather than blue and yellow. However from a distance of anything over 100 meters everyone slams the anchors on and addopts the safe driving bubble of 69.9 mph as seen around police cars on the motorway.
And your point is??
What legal powers do they have?
Can they zap you for speeding?
Can they force you to stop?
Bring back real Police in real Police cars
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Thommo - enjoy
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Having just endured another 8 mile long rolling road block on the A43 between Brackley and Towcester as some idiot in a truck inches past another truck thereby cutting 0.5 seconds off his journey time I say we start a petition for trucks on dual carriageways to be confined to the inside lane only.
They have abused the situation long enough. Read more
around 80% of the trucks pulled
onto the hard shoulder to help cars, vans and pickups get
past them. Some Thai driving is atrocious, but Brit truckers could
learn a thing from Thai truckers.
I just see the traffic cops loving that one!!! "Oh it's alright officer, it works really well in Thailand!!" How exactly would we implement something similar over here then?
My wife has a Ford Focus mk II, 1600 engine. A recurrent problem is water getting into the spark plug "valley" and then when the engine has warmed up, causes one of the spark plugs to become non-operational (as opposed to mis-firing - 'cos it doesn't fire at all.)
The rubber seals around the top of the spark plug connectors would appear designed to keep water out - trouble is if water gets in, the seals prevent water/vapour from escaping. Twice I've removed this water - usually several millimetres deep - dried out the area and squirted WD40 around and inside the spark plug connectors but this solution is only temporary - until the next heavy rain. (My guess is that it is rain water getting in since there is no evidence of coolant or washer additives present.)
The local main dealers have proved useless - they couldn't even diagnose the problem which prompted me to start looking. When the water in the valley was pointed out to them, the response was (you're gonna love this) "......park the car in the garage when it rains................."
This is a lease car provided by my wife's employer so am somewhat limited by what can be done, since the supplying main dealer has to rectify any problems. (Fat chance!) Hence drilling a hole to drain the water would probably be frowned on.
So my query - has anyone else encountered this problem, and if so, do they know what the solution is? I can at least then tell dealer what to do to rectify the problem.
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it took me ages to find it when i had it.make sure you have the rubber seal at the base of the washer jet.
the blower on this climate control model fails to work through the normal control panel, yet on removal and connecting to battery works fine. It is a complex system - any ideas of the cause or further fault diagnosis? Read more
As the car has climate control,the fan speed will be controlled by an electronic regulator.It is situated in the air ducting behind glove box .(to keep it cool).Power and control voltages will need to be checked with a multi-meter.Are fuses ok?
Sources of OEM remote entry keyless blips for series 3 BMW any ideas apart from Dealers
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Try Ebay, I got one for a Honda for 9.99, was as new, a quck search on google gave me the instructions on how to programme it as well.
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I wondered about that as I used my hose to bridge the gap between my tap and the screen wash bottle the other week. I figured I could certainly argue I was within the spirit of things.