April 2006
Im the none to proud owner of a pug expert van ,1900 none terbo ,with the dw8 style engine.Does anyone out there know of a cheep,& i do mean cheep replacment unit,possably from a early 206.
By the way this van is a early example circa 96 so not too high tec,no ECU to worry about,so anything thats going to marry up to gear box will do
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Any views on the wisdom of using antifreeze undiluted?
And is hard water really bad for cooling systems or not worth worrying about? Read more
The rainwater butt's outlet tap is six inches from the bottom, so any particles will have either sunk to the bottom or risen to the top. There's not much acid rain from the lows that sweep in from the Atlantic!
New E class Merc - any thoughts
"Mercedes claims the updated E-Class due to go on sale this summer will be free of the reliability bugs that have affected the current model since launch in 2002. The revised car has been put through the most intensive testing schedule Mercedes has ever undertaken with a single model. It features 2000 new parts compared with the outgoing car, including five new or revised engines and improved safety aids (see separate stories). Mercedes has also been working with component suppliers to ensure uniform quality standards at every company which provides parts for the E-Class. Its target is to reduce warranty claims to a lower level than those at Toyota, a company renowned for outstanding reliability.
Electrical glitches are among the most common problems experienced by the current E-Class. Mercedes claims to have ironed these out by testing every component separately outside the car to ensure durability under all conditions.
The braking system has also been changed. The 2002 E-Class had a part-electronic mechanism that was the subject of a recall campaign, but this has been dropped. Mercedes says it can now get the same braking effectiveness by conventional means.
In all, 1000 pre-production versions of the new E-Class were tested for a total distance of nearly three million miles. This will now become the schedule for every new Mercedes".
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In all, 1000 pre-production versions of the new E-Class were tested for a total distance of nearly three million miles. This will now become the schedule for every new Mercedes".
I would hope that it would take more than 3k miles per car for them to fall apart... (I appreciate that some won't have travelled more than 10m before hitting the concrete block and the average will include cars that cancel this out, but it's not as punishing a test schedule as it sounds).
"A Dewsbury motorist is still on the road despite having 28 points on his licence and no insurance. ... has racked up £1,000 in fines and is amazed that he seems to have slipped through the system. Marketing boss xxx, 31 said 'I want to get into the Guinness book of records for having the most points on my licence. What's happening to me shows the system isn't working. My licence is about a foot long and they've still not banned me. It's now so bad that I couldn't get any insurance even if I wanted to. You can't ring an insurance firm and say you've got 28 points - they'd just laugh' xxx was caught twice in 2003 without insurance. He got 12 points but escaped a ban after telling magistrates he needed his car for work. Then a year later he got another 3 points for speeding. Another 13 points followed in 2004 for 2 speeding offences and no insurance. xxx has just received a replacement licence after losing his abroad. He has told the DVLA and has still not been banned. Magistrates are investigating"
Name removed to protect the criminally insane. Read more
"A Dewsbury motorist
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Is this a relatively easy task - i.e. one that even I could do? I have a trolley jack and a socket set :-) Any estimate how long it might take? I guess it's easier to get a whole new arm than just the bushes?
I also have Haynes for Mk3 and it doesn't look too tricky. I've searched for a guide but to no avail. Read more
Nah...not yet - I only asked last Friday!
I'll jack it up soon and take a looksee - don't want to bite off more than I can chew...
Hi,
Has anyone got an opinion on wether you should put 2 new tyres on the front or the back?
Ive still got my Vectra 1.8 LS(170k) and she's pretty well looked after me so I treated her to two new tyres Mich pilots (nice) cause the fronts were a bit baldy.
Now, I asked the garage to put the new ones on the back and my dad said "you dont wanna do that"! (as they do).
I had a golf a few years back and a mate gave me some tyres that were old but looked ok. I put them on the back and nearly wrote the car off in a spin doing 20mph round a roundabout.
So......front or back?????
One more thing thats driving me up the wall. My passenger side wiper makes screeching noises even tho I have changed both blades and the drivers side glides over silently.
It looks as if the passenger one dosn't 'flip over on the upstroke sometimes'. Back one makes a racket and all.
Thanks for any advice guys.
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All the tyre manufacturer websites I have seen which state a preference say BACK, but like you my Dad always said FRONT until I showed him. It must be something to do with the olden days.
Maybe the wiper arm is twisted, (the part you don't replace.)
I one opened the bonnet and then later lifted the wipers up, then it rained and I went inside, it carried on raining and in the evening, I went out and shut th bonnect and it was stuck, it was beding a wiper, oops, I let it go back on the windcreen, it looked OK, but didn't work well, I found the arm has twisted, and the blade was not 90 degrees to the glass, so I had to bend it back and it was OK.
As I get older I find I am more and more out of step with TV advertising. Can anyone explain why I should be impressed enough to join the AA when it apparently takes about 200 brightly-jacketed singing AA men (appearing on foot) to fix that old Toyota Previa? What does that say for their skill? Can't just a few of them turn up wearing rocket packs like the RAC? Not a tool box in sight. No patrol van to charge a dead battery or tow the car away. What does it all mean?
Hawkeye
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Well, I'm a lady (definitely not a laydee) and I find it irritating in the extreme - and also patronising. I have 3 years' free cover on my Civic which is due to expire (the AA cover, not the car) in June, and I certainly shall not be renewing with them - largely due to the amount of money they must have wasted on that ad.
Does anybody know where the lamp is that illuminates the mileage on a 306 2.0 hdi and how to change? Read more
I imagine the bulb is behind the odometer display (suprisingly) and you'll need to remove the instrument cluster to get to it. Sorry that sounds a bit vague, but something like a Haynes manual will give you better instructions.
Can anyone out there with access to tech data, please advise as to the following? On a 1993 Panda Selecta 1108, what should the autobox oil pressure be and how can it be read?
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My neighbour across the road from me objects to me parking in front of her gate. This is not a driveway but just a garden gate. It is single line parking only as the road is very narrow so I have to park across the road from my property. Sometimes there is room to park either side of her gate but not always. It does say in the Highway Code that you should not park in front of the entrance to a property but this is not law. Has she got a valid arguement or not? Considering councils put parking meters and bays in front of gates why is it still in the Highway Code today as parking is so tight everywhere? Read more
Oh don't be so ridiculous.
Firstly I doubt you would do anything of the sort, its far too easy to be brave when untested - I'm always at my most macho when hiding behind my keyboard.
Secondly if you did you would be smashing up somebody's car for parking somewhere they are legally allowed and have the right to park because you didn't like it ?
Pathetic.
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cheers lads"
knownowt