September 2006
Shell garage on A417 near Fairford, Gloucestershire is down to 84.9 for unleaded and 90.9 for diesel. Seems nuts to put supermarket fuel in your tank when this Shell outlet can price match. Visit outside rush-hour when the queues have gone. Read more
My 05 C-max 2.0 TDI has begun playing up i.e failing to start, starting but engine revs will not advance from a tick-over, cured by switching off and restarting. More worrying recently I was overtaking a bus when the engine died to a tick-over (v. hairy). Dealer has looked at it on several occasions but his diagnostics are unable to find any fault. It can run perfectly for a week or more. This car is dangerous in its present state. Would welcome any pointers as to the reason for this fault and how it may be found/demonstrated for the enlightenment of the dealer. Many thanks
Militaryprovost
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Sometimes it shows a fault, sometimes it doesn't. I guess if the potentiometer fails giving readings out of range it will log it, if its dropping to zero or whatever the base value is then it may not.
www.betterdrivingplease.com
From my local rag "Motorists can name and shame bad drivers on an Oxfordshire man's new website. Drivers and pedestrians can report bad driving to www.betterdrivingplease.com - complete with the errant motorist's licence plate number - in the latest example of cyber-policing.
Andrew McGavin, from Burford, hopes the website will make roads safer. Offences are rated on a traffic light system, with the worst getting a red light and a more minor incident receiving an amber light."
Seems like a lotal waste of time to me, but still. Read more
There´s still time RF, and lots of other buses to total. Keep going.
I have just been perusing the ebay website and came across some very dodgy sales where cars look to have been dramatically underpriced.
I was wondering why people do this? All the adds are of the same format, so I suspect some kind of organistion? The adds all have an email adress to contact and notes at the top only pre-approved bidders are entitled to bid.
A short list of adverts follows.
cgi.ebay.co.uk/2002-Renault-Clio-Sport-172-Monaco-...m
cgi.ebay.co.uk/2005-55-Mercedes-SLK-200-Kompressor...m
If you want to look for some more there are plenty of others. Sorry moderators I have yet to learn how to use tiny ULs.
Other than some kind of criminal activity I can't see the sense of these adverts, prehapps someone would enlighten me? Read more
Anyone else notice the 'seller' has listed the SLK and Mini Convertible as 4-wheel drive in the safety features?
I have some fine scratches in the front windscreen that refuse to be removed by such products as T Cut & Autoglym paint restorer.
Can anyone recommend a product for removing them? Read more
Can anyone recommend a product for removing them?
Previous posts have suggested that brasso or jewellers rouge is good at getting rid of scratches in glass.
A quick forum search reveals:-
www.honestjohn.co.uk/forum/post/index.htm?t=19994
www.honestjohn.co.uk/forum/post/index.htm?t=18054
www.honestjohn.co.uk/forum/post/index.htm?t=10809
www.honestjohn.co.uk/forum/post/index.htm?v=i&t=769
www.honestjohn.co.uk/forum/post/index.htm?t=7295
etc, etc. ;o)
I was wondering if I'm alone (probably not) in thinking that the Mini is not the most handsomest of cars? There is now, of course, a revamped Mini about to enter the scene and from the photos in the magazines it looks to me as ugly as it was before. Certain aspects of the interior have been tweaked but I can honestly say that I would never buy any car that persists in placing, no matter how large, a speedometer in the centre of the fascia!
This particular instrument, in modern day motoring, needs constant scanning and attention if one is to avoid exceeding too many of the multitudinous speed limits out there.
It is hard enough, nowadays, keeping to these limits when modern cars, with their instant throttle response, smoothness, quietness and excellent performance make it difficult for any driver to adhere to whatever speed limit is currently in force.
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The alarm flashing red light is at the end of the stalk on those cars with the factory fit alarm!
-- You know, it\'s not like changing toothpaste
Hello
Chatting to a mate the other night, we were trying to list all the 2WD pick-ups available in the UK new.
We came up with these.
Mitsubishi L200
Ford Ranger
Mazda B2000
Nissan Pick-up
Proton Jimbuck
Are there any others? they must be the lower 2WD versions, not double cab 4x4 ones.
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Thanks GWS, but it's the type as in the list above we are trying to identify.
I'm pretty sure that's them all.
Can anyone tell me in what year the original long, floppy gearstick on minis was changed for the factory remote one?
I really should remember as I had an early 850, originally raced by Christobel Carlyle Reg. CMC77, but she kept that plate! Sshe moved onto a big Healey, I think it was, and had a big moment at Silverstone when she hit a marshall's post just before the starting straight.. I think there was a fatality and she retired from the sport.
I later traded it for a 1071S, in which I fooled about in a few club races, after converting it to a 970 to get into the under 100cc class.
Ah! Happy days of a foolish youth!
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My father bought an Austin Mini in 1960; with it he also got a matching luggage set - a 'shopping bag' for the rear side bin and 2 lockable, long, thin cases (like school steamed pudding tins), which fitted exactly in the cubby holes under the rear seats...
How many times in winter on a freezing salty motorway do I wish that cars still had separate windscreen washers that weren't linked to the wipers.
I don't know where to begin on the utter pointlessness of this excercise.
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/5384278.stm
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Sorry - bad choice of words.
GFs Ka just had it's 3 year service. There's a note that the NSF lower arm bush is split on the service report, and there is a load creak from the suspension if you go over speed humps etc. How urgent is it to get this changed? Is it a big job?
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good post dp can i just add the 'pinch bolt' and nut needs changing ive seen these come out (cost the garage plenty to sort as well) these nuts and bolts are only a £1 at the dealer or any good trade outlet.
The dyno results links nicely to MichaelR's thread and PUs comments - the BMW will run OK on 95 RON, but will 'learn' and retard the ignition to do so - conversely it will extract more from a more knock resistant fuel when available.