November 2006
Hi everyone,
Having just started traveling to the North of the UK and Scotland in addition to the rest of the UK I feel that I need to bite the bullet and get a Sat Nav unit.
As I still have yet to work out the video at home, what I am looking for (I think) is pretty basic.
I want to be able to:
1, Type in postcode onto the screen and then be directed to my destination.
2, Transfer the unit from one car to another as we may share it in the office for journeys to customers we have not visited before (unless they are really cheap).
3, It needs to do mainland Europe pretty well (France, The Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and Switzerland) - I managed to take the wrong route roung Brussels 3 times yesterday.
4, Do they charge from a 12V socket in the car or are they just rechargeable-at-home AA batteries?
5, If it covered speed camera locations this would be a bonus.
A recognised brand is preferable (Tom Tom, Garmin, Navman?). A key issue is price. The cheaper the better. Can I get all of the above for £200?
If so, what model do you recommend and where should I buy it from?
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Hi,
Driving down the road in 5th gear, happy as larry, we came to a roundabout. Tried to change down gear, but nothing happened. It's jammed in 5th gear and won't budge :(
The gear lever itself is sat over to the left as if it's in 1st.... does this point to the linkage being at fault or is the gearbox kaputt?
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Hi,
we disconnected the shaft from the gearbox and tried moving it at the gearbox, but no joy, it's stuck solid.
Ah well, looks like it's "spares or repairs" for this old car.
Following on from last postings had the car fixed, the battery was re charge. This made me lose the use of my radio. Does anybody know the factory code for a peugeot 306 1.4 lx 2000 w reg. Or know where i can get it de-coded cheaply. For all those who suggested an earth fault you were correct and thank you.
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Check-out Ebay - loads of sellers offering to email you the correct code for older models. You may need to remove your radio to get access to its serial number. The Ebay service does work - and for a couple of quid!
Tried to drain the coolant in my wife?s diesel 405 TD ?96 today. However, nothing will come out ? not even a drop! Coolant is clearly there in expansion chamber ? have opened bleed valve, left expansion chamber top off and even run engine to try and pump the old coolant out. The rad is fairly new, so I?m sure it?s not bunged up with sludge. This one?s stumped me ?. Ideas, suggestions and thoughts welcomed ? as always. Thanks in anticipation.
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Thanks AndyT - will get the car on a ramp and see whether the wire thing works. I blame the neighbours for twiddling all the knobs. Have run the engine until hot and the fans all kick-in accordingly, so assume coolant is doing its job. I guess I'll have to sort asap or, in theory, the coolant could starting spewing out on the next long journey.
I have to recommend this site, the forum is a bit more "brutish" than the BR but the For Sale/Wanted site is brilliant. Buyer and seller work in total harmony on this, you can pick up some real bargains on it if you're after GS bits. Far more freindly than Fleabay. (ooh and cheaper) Read more
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Couple of nice motors for sale as well including an 850mile V/W Golf Turbo.
I appear to have a leak from the metal pipe work going from the Header to the rack. Hoewever this pipe costs £85+ vat. Has ontone repaired these as it is not under pressure. Using steel pipes was never a good ideal. Regards Peter Read more
Peter its very easy to fit ordinary hydraulic pipes,any tractor dealer will make them to size if you take the old one in to see which ends to put on,if it does not have pressure in it as in a return pipe you could cut the leaking bit out and replace it with a piece of reinforced hydraulic hose slipped over the ends and held with hose clips
Apologies if someone's already posted a link to these pics, but, heck!
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The car body shell that guy's carrying on his bike. Surely
it's not a Metro, is it?
I think it's a Suzuki Alto, which is locally produced in India as well.
Great pictures, the little kid in the washing basket must feel secure!
I've never had good FM reception in my car, and no reception on MW / LW. I recently changed my headunit, and doing so noticed that the plug on the aerial wire was broken, so I put a new one on from Maplins
I can now get FM radio stations, but the signal is not great, but still get no MW reception - all i hear are strange noises.
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If you are not using a Golf oe headunit you will need a small aerial inline amp which needs a 12 volt supply, you can obtain it from VW. MW/LW reception will never be very good, the aerial seems to be biased towards FM reception.
The common formula of :
Eldery person + automatic car + wrong pedal = accident
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This one was spectacular, with petrol pumps smashed at a filling station
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My last remark directed at Cliff not Phil.
An earlier thread talks of a cheap Signum, which reminds me how silly some of the car reviews can be. A Vectra gets loads of stars, particularly the estate, yet the Signum is damned simply because UK 'execs' don't like hatchbacks', apparently. The build, engines etc are almost certainly identical. So, if I'm happy with a hatchback, does that give it an extra star or two?
Elsewhere, I've seen reviews (e.g. Subaru) saying the range lacks a diesel. Interesting fact, but irrelevant to a particular car you might be thinking of buying. Jaguar was praised for adding an estate to its range, but, again, that's only an issue for Jaguar salesmen, not to a car buyer. Why don't they simply review/rate the car for us consumers, rather than thinking of things from the producers' viewpoint? Rant over. Read more
Not much wrong with a pushrod Ford Ka, a bit clattery
though a torquey motor for it's size, entertaining handling, not galvanised
so corrosion can be an issue, real VFM when new and
VFM as a second hand buy.
I've only driven one Ka, it was the OHC engine, and it's quite honestly the worst car I've driven - the handling would've been good if the engine had any guts to use it with! And that's 10bhp up on the 1960s-based OHV engine, which sounds like a tractor and rusts your sparkplugs into the head. And then the whole car turns to rust after 10 years. I often wonder if people who recommend a Ka have actually driven one. Anyone who buys one new at the moment is mad - get a Citroen C1 with the Toyota VVTi engine.
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Don't forget you have to pay another £60-70 for the traffic add-on for the Navman units if you think you might want that, although like all TMC based satnavs at present, it's patchy at best.