January 2007
Today we went to look round the general household goods auction preview day in Christchurch. In the room with next weeks junk, sitting in all their glory, were two beautiful immaculate old Daimlers, I think from the 50's, plus one outside in the yard. All are according to the staff, in full working order .They are, sadly, being sold by an executor.
Usually if they have a car or van it is from a bankruptcy and go for peanuts - wonder what will happen to these beauties. Read more
Hi,
My dad has a 2002 Vectra 1.8. The windsreen washer isn't working. It's not blocked, as there is no sound from the motor when you try to use it. I have suggested it may be the fuse, but even after consulting the user manual, I can't find which is the correct fuse. It simply isn't listed in the manual ???
Can anyone help ?
Cheers
JR
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Will get it checked Dave. Cheers
hi i have a f plate mk2 16 valve , and a h plate 16 valve , i want to change the old brakediscs and callipers on the f plate (earlier type) for the ones on my h plate (later type, because they are bigger) do i need to change the whole hub ,do the bigger calipers bolt straight on ?? any help would be apreaciated , hgolf mk2 16valve :)
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Early cars have the hub / calliper carrier casting in one piece. To go from 239mm to 256mm you will need to fit the bottom ball joint, the hub and the calliper and carrier. Most 14 inch wheels (and larger) will clear the callipers.
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I collected my car this morning from my local garage, where it was having a MOT retest, a new coil spring and some welding done (to pass the MOT). As I got to the end of the road and braked there was an alarming clicking noise, banging etc from what I imagine was the ABS system. The brake pedal felt odd but I was only driving slowly so took the car round the block and it did this at every stop. (No warning light on the dash.)
I took the car straight back to the garage who asked me to leave it with them to have a look. Now, not being especially technical minded does anyone have an idea what may have gone wrong? Would the garage have to take apart the brakes to access the front nearside coil spring? Could they have damaged a sensor?
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it is possible that by dismantling the suspension that the abs sensor or stator ring on the driveshaft have been damaged.Also if the cable to the sensor has been tugged without disconnection from main harness plug under wing/wheelarch.
After travelling for 80 miles this morning i stopped in a carpark anyway i noticed that when i revved the engine to 2000rpm when the vehicle was stationary i noticed that the engine rattled or tapped from the engine bay on the drivers side. The vehicle was only serviced and mot'd 2 weeks ago and nothing was picked up then also the car has only done 63k its a year 2000 w regcan anyone enlighten me as to the problem. Read more
The way to check the bottom pulley is to time the engine up as for a cambelt change, if all the timing marks line up apart from the bottom pulley you then 100% know it needs replacing.
Would like to know about the merits and disadvantages of Autogas Read more
A friend of mine runs an older Omega 2 litre auto with an LPG conversion (40p per litre from his local Morrisons). He says it runs perfectly and the difference in performance between petrol and LPG is zero (altho' a 2 litre Omega auto isn't exactly a driver's car, lets face it). He says no problems in over 4 years.
Suits him for his 60 miles per day commute as it's halved his fuel costs, paid for the conversion in well under two years running.
Just reading though the HJ story on Warranty Direct's survey - certainly surprised me - Citroen/Peugoet trounes all (but one - Mini) the European car makers for reliability judged via WD's claim stats. Also surprising to see Skoda in a lowly 32nd place, behind Jaguar - weren't Skoda the new wunderkinds just a couple years ago?
Some of that positions though, it must be said, are separated by fractions of 1% e.g. positions 10-14 within 1% point
The Japanese/Koreans, are, not surprisingly , in the medal positions.
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MB 190s and W124s used to have some sort of eccentric pivot to push the wiper tip further into the corner, but even that was only *almost* as good as a two-wiper design, and I note that new MBs (and Jaguar XJs, and Citroens - even the CX-esque C6, I think) have dropped the single wiper for a proper pair.
Interestingly, although on Mercs (C-classes at least) the 2-wiper design still has the lefthand wiper on an eccentric cam , the righthand
wiper is 'normal' - they give an excellent & quiet wipe btw, right to the edge with none of that annoying click-clack sound.
1995 I.8 Monotronic ABD engine Golf, Recnetly at idle the the engine is very slightly rough, runs well, new leads plugs, cap rotor, fuel cleaner. The same. So I am down to an air leak. Just spent 2 hours chaecking all the pipe work, operation of the purge valve and Carbon can an can find a leak anywhere. Purge valve resistance is 43 ohms and appying 12 volts it operates and opens the valve allowing air through the can into the inlet manifold. small ridged black pipe allows air in one direction i.e. you can blow but not suck, and the click sounds healthy and the feed pipe down to the can when applying suction clunks closed with no leaks. Had to give up as I am outside today and it's started to snow.. Any ideas, the other clue it only does it when the engine is hot until it is reasonable warm you would not detect the proplem. Regards Peter Read more
have you checked the coolant temp sender? not just resistance between the terminals, but also leakage ohms to the block/coolant?
Now this is proper vehicle overloading!!
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Thing is the mule looks quite used to it happening! Read more
The animal itself didn't looked distressed methinks, i would think the RSPCA might take a frown to it though if it happened over here.
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Its not what you drive, its how you drive it! :-)
Not sure whether 'technical' topic or not but ----------
Since i've been using a portable SatNav system I've noticed that there is about an 8% error (fast) in my speedometer. i.e. SatNav says 70 but speedo reads 76! SatNav must be dead accurate I assume.
Is there likely to be same error in the mileometer? i.e. an 8% over recording - if so at 68k does that mean the car has done abot 5.5k less than the recorded milelage? -- Now there's a new advertising gimmick!
You can see it now ---- '1 owner, FSH, 68k recorded miles but hey really only 63k due to over recording.'
I admit I'm sure how this works but as far as I know there is no mechanical link and its all done by electronics.
Sorry If I'm being a bit thick on this but I've often wondered about this when on the 'boring' uni runs! (sad I know)
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Both electronic nowdays, would have thought that they would be similarly inaccurate, rather similarly accurate.
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Thanks for the info
Nick