January 2007
Hey all,
I'm after a bit of advice as i think i have screwed up!!!
I moved to my present address in May 03 and have still not changed my driving licence to reflect this. The reasons been:
a. From 1997 - 2003 i had 3 changes of addresses due to my job (HM Forces).
b. Forgot/lazy (!)
Now i looked at this last year and noticed i have 3 points due for removal on 23 Feb 07, so i was going to send it off then and get the points removed for free when i notified them of my address change. Guess what? Yes, i got stopped the other night for 38mph in a 30mph. I now have to produce my driving licence to the police to be sent off. My questions are:
a. Am i in more trouble for not notifying the DVLA of change of address?
b. Any tips/advice on what my reasons were for not changing earlier?
c. Any tips at all on where to go from here!!!
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The front drivers electric window seems to have a mind of its own it works as per manual for a while then sudenly will exhibit the situation of stopping every few inches until the switch is activated ,then moves another inch and so on.It takes about 8 or so switch activations to close completely.I have recalibrated as per manual but still the same.Then it will resume as nothing wrong.Has any one had similar problems??I thought it just might be an intermitent switch.Thanks for any suggestions.
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About once or twice in 5 years - disconnecting the battery tends to help C5s in all sorts of ways - reboots everything!
Graeme
A few months back noticed some water in spare wheel housing, drained, looked for source, assumed via boot or rear window seal, although no signs of damage. A couple of weeks back, similar situation plus some strange messages on Multi-function display, such as "Economy Mode", but nothing electrical, like radio, left switched on, strange! Last week, left stranded, car wouldn't start, battery dead. AA discovered driver side footwell swimming in water, hence electrical probs and strange Mf display.
Can't work out if water is coming in at boot and getting to front or vice-versa. Help, any ideas? Have heard that Peugeot useless, and very expensive at "diagnosing". Read more
I have water in the rear of my 406hdi estate
My car was having windscreen misting up problems to such a point that I was having to open the windows to see, and have the windscreen demister on full blast. My aircon stopped working long ago. I thought the flap was stuck for resirculating air but that was fine. Replaced pollen filter (where flap is clearly visable with filter removed) also but the problem remained. Next I checked the outgoing vents at the rear and thats when I discovered large amounts of water in the boot area....
Costco have another of their 20% off offers again 19th Jan- 18th Feb (you need to be a member) Read more
How does that "paid membership" of theirs work? You just pay
to join or do you also have to be in some
trade or own a shop and prove it like in Macro?
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Everyone has to pay - if you're a business owner and can produce invoices etc then you can join as a trade member for £20 + VAT.
There's another class of member which allows certain employee groups to join and I think that costs something like £30 inc vat. The groups are the usual ones like , NHS, Teachers, Police, Cilil Servants etc.
A brand-new Costco has just opened up down the road from us and my wife has taken to popping in to buy cases of tangerines (which are very nice) and meat etc. So she now spends (yet another) £30-£40 a week on food - yet somehow the Sansbury's bill remains constant!!
Just thought I'd share our exprience of our C-Max bought in Nov. 06 with only 13k on clock.
Bought the car from one of the {edit by DD} large car supermarkets and was initially pleased with the car. After a week or so the wife said it was driving "like it had the hand brake on" during that day but was ok now. Put that down to her not liking the 6 speed box/woman driver.
Week later it did it to me....severe power loss but no engine management or warnings shown. Turned it off then back on and working fine but getting suspicious.
Week later wife rang me early at work to say it wouldn't start. She tried leaving it - nothing. Said car super market picked car up and fitted a new EGR valve. Picked it up. All ok.
5 days later major loss of power again just as I pulled out onto a dual carraigeway. Took it staright back to said super market to be told " nothing wrong, just needs some fuel in it " ( fuel light came on, on way there-loads still in) and the problem was air bubbles from the return diesel pipe hitting the low lying fuel and these bubbles were bieng sent to the engine hence the loss of power.( pink fluffy dice)
I responded by saying that if the problem returned I wanted it straight to Ford.
4th jan 07, just setting of towards the motor way with wife and 2 year old lad in the back, major loss of power AGAIN!!!!!! This time turning it of did nothing so we all headed straight back down to said car super market to confront the workshop manager about my "bubbles" seeing as the car hadover half a tank in it. The car showed no warnings at all but registered a " Fuel regulation" code.
After some heated words with him and his boss they finally booked it in with the local Ford Dealer. Ford found some metal filings in the filter but said it didn't warrant any thing more than a software upgrade. Now waiting to hear from supermarket.................I'll return with the next chapter soon................beware C-Max owners
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>>I had a nice trip out in my Passat to Pride Park this afternoon, very nice.
Jolly good - I just hope you aren't one of those inconsiderate fanatic types who litter Wilmorton with their car while the sheep are gamboling on the grass in Pride Park!!
Number_Cruncher
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...oh dear, the swear filter is all at sea.
Not really. The word "Font size" was added to the swearfilter to prevent overlarge text being posted after one or two members decided to get overly silly with the html tags. DD.
We're about to start looking for a mk4 Golf GT TDI PD, and although our budget is likely to limit us to the 115PS version, there are some leggier 130's in the mix as well.
Does anyone know how you identify whether the car is a 115 or 130PS version, paperwork aside? Are there any physical differences on the cars or the engines that we can look for? A lot of people are trying to pass off pre 2001 115's as 130's which is physically impossible, so I assume on the crossover cars of mid 2001, it could be hard to tell.
Not too bothered which we end up with to be honest, as I'm more concerned about condition and service history, but it would be nice to be able to tell for sure what the car we're looking at is.
Cheers
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When I was the sole driver of our 115 I got 52MPG averaged over the first 12 months (brim to brim, not half tank half guesses and not the dash readout either). The car currently gets 45MPG because it does a lot more short trips due to the fact its now her main car.
At 70K the dampers will be shot, they were'nt firm enough when new and they give a roly-poly ride at best, mine will eventually get eibach and Koni suspension when funds allow.
Some early 115s had 5 speed gearbox's and had the torque reduced to increase the life of it. Six speed boxes tend to need a little mechanical sympathy when changing from first to second from cold in the winter months, after half a mile or so you can change gear normally.
My car had a new MAF at 55K when the car would hesitate or hold back. The only other replacement has been a brake light switch, current mileage is 62K.
If I had the money to replace it I would have a struggle to find a replacement that would give the performance and the economy that the Golf currently gives, the only bug bear being the suspension.
;O)
The Accord was delviered with Pilot Premacies and managed to get the lease company to allow KwikFit to keep fitting them (two new sets of fronts and one new set of rears fitted in 87k)
Had a puncture in May and the left front was changed for a Primacy HP - was told it was the replacement.
Right front was replaced last Tuesday due to wear and has done around 500 miles.
Car now understeers far more than it used to and having checked the Tyre test links on mytyres the Premacy HP is supposed to be better. Still got Pilot Primacies on the rear but only for another couple of thousand.
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I was amazed that an independant tyre place in Warrington beat Costco's price straight off (without being told their price up front). They did however damage both the wheels they touched. :(
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BobbyG, I have also just called NTL retentions and got them to trim my bill down. Some liberal mentions of their own 3 for £30 deal, Freeview, Broadband for Orange Contract customers got them to give me 2MB Broadband for £9.99 per month, cut my £11 TV plan in half for 6 months, so now I pay less than £30 (exc call charges) for at least the next 6 months.
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Hello,
I have a late 2003 KA, that has the endra engine.
The car just started to missfire and the Engine managment light came on, so I thought I would have a look,
Looking at the car I noticed that it was only on No2 that it was misfiring, I pulled the injector multi plug off on no2 and it made no diffrence to the running. pulling any of the others of and it nearly dies. so I swapped the plugs round, and the leads. still the same .
I carried out a compression check and all was well also, I then removed the fuel rail and swapped over no 1 and no 2 injectors, still the same problem, just on no2... there is a real healthy spak on this so the coil pack looks like it is ok.
I took it to a friend and he was no 100% what the problem was, he could not get a decent reding out of the star tester, he talked to someone and they said coil pack fault can mess up the ECU, so you will need both! I have looked and tried find a part and can get a used one with a guarantee for around £60-70 and £28 for the coil pack. someone has told me that water can get into the PCM connection, on this model... but that was on 2002 versions... and was sorted with more sealer in the connection.
what about my Pats system if I change the ECU? will this need to be re done? and whats the cheapest way to go about this?
I have been out of the trade for 7 years now, is there any other tests or things to look at?
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hi
common on this model and earlier is water getting into wiring , creating a problem with ecu fix was to replace ecu and engine loom ,
check the ecu out and wiring to it
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it's a minor offence and you have a somewhat reasonable answer, to a degree......be honest and have done with it