September 2006
Should the ABS light, illuminate and the go off, when ignition is on. And remain OFF when car is started?
or should it come on with the ignition and remain ON, and swich off AFTER the engine is started Read more
I'm a contractor that works several months in Europe.
I would like to take my car over on more than the usual 1-3 months allowance on UK insurance.
Does anyone know if there are specialist insurers in the UK that will offer longer term cover when abroad.
Do any of the regular insures offer more generous terms.
The car would only be used for Social and Domestic and need only be third pary.
I really don't want to go the route of taking out insurance in other countries.
Neil Read more
Discussed at length previously several times!
www.honestjohn.co.uk/forum/post/index.htm?v=e&t=39...5
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pmh (was peter)
Ford are planning to cut a further 14000 jobs in the USA & Canada which is very tragic news for those effected.
The reason I mention this sad news though is that I read so many times on this forum that "robots build cars" and I want to make people realise that robots do not build cars - people do.
Robots weld cars then after that they are hand built.
Ford are not scrapping 14000 robots.
That is why it is so improtant to invest in proper process engineering as the Japanese do and the others are copying. Read more
BB & madf - I agree totally with both of you!
A driver who was involved in a fatal smash that killed a father-to-be who was riding a child's motorbike has been fined £500. {info added so people have half a clue before deciding on whether it is worth clicking on the link or not! DD}
www.thisisbradford.co.uk/display.var.922724.0.driv...p
In my opinion, take to the road on such a vehicle and get involved in an accident with a law abiding motorist it's tough. I live near a similar idiot, whose aged about 14, he regularly runs around the area on a small motorbike. I live on quite a busy road and he happily shoots out of side roads, screams up and down a nice straight back road behind our house, flies up and down pavements. No helmet, no leathers, no insurance, no licence, no MOT etc etc. If he should run in to me and I am judged to have 'cut a corner' which leads to his death or injury I would be well hacked off.
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been around a long time. Most tend to have long whip aerial with flag on top to help shortsighted motorists to see them.
Phil I
Hi
Another query regarding my fathers 2.4 litre camry. Basically, I am aware that the conservation or protection underneath the car has not been done by toyota. The car is a cmary right hand drive, but it is made in Japan. It looks like they did not do the protection needed.
How can I contact toyota to ask why this hadn't been done, and maybe getting costs towards this. It is a 2002 car by the way, and was bought second hand.
Thanks
Greg Read more
Isn't a square number plate the usual give away for a
Jap import?
no but the fog light held on with a 4 inch nail is.................
Can anyone tell me where on the engine my turbo is?
I have a Rover 400 D. I've lost the power from my turbo and had a look around. I found a slight split on a pipe at the back of the engine on a a part which has got a rod going to it and a small pipe running to the front of the fuel pump ( think it's the fuel pump).
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looking from the bottom of the car find the exhaust front pipe and follow it up you should see something like a half circle thats your turbo maybe a heatshield covering from the top?
Whilst browsing through a popular online car selling website I saw an ex Thames Valley Police unmarked Vauxhall Omega for sale, 03 plate 3.2 V6 Special 54,000 miles, £3995.
On looking at the photo in the ad the registration number rung a bell from a recent WOMA police auction.
I referred back to my scribbles from that day and found that the vehicle in question was sold for less than £1000 as an insurance total loss, with some quite substantial offside front damage from what I can remember, it certainly wasn't driveable.
The ad on the website states that the car is in absolutely excellent condition and is clear on HPi.
Maybe one of our resident traders can whizz this through their HPi check out of curiosity?
I'd be very surprised if Thames Valley Police haven't recorded it on the register.
How do these traders get away with it?? Read more
A lot of S/R have quite a bit of damage - thieves are not generally sympathetic drivers (as in 'drive it like you stole it').
Once coolant has passed it's two year life,how does it start to deteriate.Is it the cooling properties,the antifreezingproperties,or the corrosion inhibiter.I ask this question because the coolant in my car stiil has the ideal concentrate,but is about three years old.Many thanks Read more
Some cars are prone to headgasket problems if the coolant isn't changed every 2 years.
A company vehicle which is essentially used as a pool car does not have a current tax disc. Employee tasked with putting new disc in car managed to lose it . I looked on the DVLA site which shows that the tax was renewed but is it legal to drive the car whilst waiting for a new disc to come through from head office. I do not fancy getting fined etc for failing to display tax disc. Does anyone know the position on this? Read more
If it's all on the dvla computer why should we need to display them?
In Colorado Red. Where would I get one?
Thanks
Adam
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He got one from that place Rover25 suggested for around 30 quid apparently. Because the coloured part is interchangable, he just swapped that over and hey presto, he has a new wing mirrir...door mirror - whatever(!) again!
Thanks very much for all the help,
Adam
No matter what car it is - its a MOT Requirment, that the Light comes ON - and then goes OFF, if its stays on then its faliure, if it doesnt come and at all this is also a faliure