November 2006
Hello,
I guess I am not the first to ask this question on here but hope that maybe someone can advise......
A friend wants to buy a '98 Transit crew-cab tipper and is trying to find a web-site that will give a realistic value/price guide on it. He looked in the Glasses-Guide site but they wanted some money for it!
So can anyone recommend somewhere else?
many thanks
Jim Read more
Since retiring and moving house the bulk of my driving has changed from being on major roads to being on minor country roads. Does driving on bumpy roads significantly shorten the life of suspension and steering items? I currently do 10k/pa, mostly on the speed limit when out of town ~ well, I'm not going to admit on a public forum to breaking the law by speeding am I?
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L\'escargot. Read more
not the Xantia I saw about 3 weeks ago driving up the A11.......you could see it moving up and down, almost bouncing, from 400-500 yards away........don't know how the chap driving it didn't feel seasick
Quick question - now that BabyBarchetta is in a forward-facing car seat, can he go in the front passenger seat with its (non-switchable) airbag, or does he have to stay in the back?
Cheers all,
Barchettaman Read more
Many thanks for posting that link DVD.
Barchettaman
Does anyone know if a mk-2, year 2000, 1.5 cdx accent would use rolling codes for its remote central locking /alarm system.
It uses an etacs unit to receive signals from the fob, I need a new fob & the universal fobs I've seen advertised don't work with rolling codes.
Thanks for any help Dave G. Read more
My wife has a Rover 214 which has done 95,000 miles. The cambelt was last changed at 40,000 miles in 2002. So I'm guessing it is due a replacement - am I right? Does anyone know when they should be replaced??
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I'd replace it now, better safe than sorry. Always better to replace before it snaps and Better safe than sorry.
I watched ?The Real Hustle?on (I think) BBC4 yesterday evening- very enlightening, especially the item about valet parking. One of the tame con.-men from the programme dressed up in a high-vis. jacket, and waited just inside a parking compound. In drives a gentleman with his Audi. .hands over his car(and house) keys to the fake attendant, takes a receipt (also fake) and the con.-man drives off?it then transpired that there was a sat.nav unit in the glove compartment, with the driver?s home address loaded.
When the man returned for his car, and his ?receipt? was revealed as fake, he was flabbergasted, and the presenter handed back his keys, pointing out that if the hustle had been in earnest, he would probably have lost the contents of his house as well as the Audi.
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There was another car con in this series.
A VW Polo was advertised and only a mobile number was listed. They broke into a house and Jess told a prospective buyer the address and she would only accept cash. He looked at the car on the drive and decided to buy it. They went into the kitchen where the buyer paid over the money and received the V5.
Then there was a knock on the front door and in came 2 plain clothes police and flashed a warrant card and search warrant. Seized the cash and V5, arrested Jess and told the man to stay seated in the kitchen or he would be arrested. The policemen then took Jess outside and all of them drove away in the car.
It took about 20 minutes before the buyer moved from his chair and when he went outside his face was a picture when he realised the car and everyone had gone.
Just imagine being in someone's house and being arrested for breaking and entering, plus loosing a bundle of cash. It could easily happen.
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Roger
I read frequently, but only post when I have something useful to say.
Am driving from the New Forest to Towcester tomorrow morning (Monday) planning to use the A34/M40 and wonder if anyone knows any major hold-ups at the moment - for a funeral so don't want to be late!! Planning to leave home around 9 am and leaving 3 hours for journey. Read more
Well, most of the journey was great - until the A34 was closed when a lorry jack-knifed and lost its load!! Fortunately we had built in time for lunch so we did without. Used the alternative to the M40, a real pleasure after sitting in traffic for hours - thanks again for that suggestion. Journey to Brighton - left about 5 - and then home were really good, Home not quite so good as young man had driven off road in the lane so have been trying to extricate his car for the past hour - have now left it to the professionals as his father arrived with his credit card.
I keep getting water dripping on me through sun roof (the type that tilts up at the back). I've removed it and cleaned rubber seal and glass but still same problem. Can't seem to see a drain pipe like my Nissan had on this ? Does it have one? Any ideas how to cure this?
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If it is like a mid 90's fiesta design, there is a flat metal or plastic plate which is held on by screws through holes in the glass and connects to the tilt mechanism. These screws and the plate sometimes have washers which disintegrate with time...Maybe worth checking all screws holding glass are tight (but not too tight otherwise you may shatter glass)...Drain pipes are often tiny holes in the corner of the car roof where it meets sunroof. However if these are blocked should be water sloshing around the tiny lip between sunroof and the car body...
Also some rubber seals often have tiny hairs/bristles around them - on my old 405 , when these fell off with age, sunroof leaked making roof lining soggy rather than drips into cabin....but be careful when cleaning rubber seals you do not rub off all the bristles....
S.
Hi all, I'm new so don't shout!
A friend said great things about Mr Clutch. I'm thinking of having mine changed (2001 Passat 130 diesel), I've had 145,000 problem-free miles on the original, but it's almost all the way up before it bites now. I've a job where breaking down might cost me hundreds, so I'm considering getting it done now. My nearest branch is Bristol. Up to now, I've had everything done at VW main dealer in Weston-super-Mare, they've been excellent but I dread to think what a clutch costs. Any advice greatly appreciated. Read more
>>its not unusual for 'independents' to sub-out a clutch change
Absolutely! If someone brings in some rubbish like a Renault 5 Turbo with a worn clutch, and you (sensibly) don't want the job, you can obtain a quote from one of these places, and add a sum onto the quote for your trouble. If you get the job, send it away to them to be done, and you make some profit with no real effort - if you don't get the job, then you are (very!) happy too!
The risk you take is that their work becomes your responsibility, but there's always an element of risk in taking any work on at all.
Number_Cruncher
Or am I *old school* these days in not using the rev limiter
in this way.
www.fiatforum.com/punto-grande-punto/84394-engine-...l Read more
Heh, yeah, like the screaming engine wasn't a giveaway.
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Anything that old and that obscure is what the seller wants and the buyer is willing to pay.