March 2007
Has anybody else experienced lengthy delays when ordering this car. I ordered mine at the end of January and haggled a 5% discount. Paid the deposit with delivery quoted as 12 weeks (end of April, early May). Called the dealer last week to get an estimated date for collection and told it's now July!. When I asked the reason for the delay the answer was "don't know, we only get dates from the factory" ie. it's tough and like it or lump it. The original salesman I ordered the car from "left the company" shortly after and my first taste of Landrover customer service after years of VW/Audi seems shocking. Read more
Hi,
lm looking at buying a 407 2ltr HDI, does anyone have any views or good/bad experiences of these cars? the car im looking at has 67000mls on a 54 plate 2005 full pug history.
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Usual recommendation here is a Mondeo but I'd expect a Focus estate or a C-Max to carry at least as much as a 407SW, with the bonus that it wouldn't look like a 407. (Does anyone else get that What were those Peugeot people thinking? feeling whenever they see one, or is that just me as well?)
Im becoming somewhat bemued lately by the apparent disregard for common sense when parking. Just 2 corneres from me is a school, the schools main entrance is on a very very busy road (one of 3 main roads into town centre), it is a standard single lane carriageway with slightly wider than average lanes, IE a bus cvould pass a cyclist if needed.
On the same side as the school are side roads, both within 50 yards of the school one either side. Immediatlay after both of these side roads is a sharp (read blind()bend in the road going the opposite way to the sided the school is on.
I live down one of these side roads.
Anyway people have taken to parking right on the corners of these side roads and all along one lane where the school is. the only place they dont park is the patrol crossing in the centre for the school. The worst offender of this parking on the corner is the crossing lady who I hate as she thinks its ok to let one car go then stop the traffic again at 8.50am when everyone is trying to get to work.
Its got to the point where I have to stop in the oncoming traffic to look down the side road before turning in as usually its been blocked down to one lane there as well so if anyone coming out I cant get in and if they want to turn in the direction Im approaching from they cant as I am blocking the lane and then when I do pull in its a lottery as to if I will hit either people just mindlessly walking out with children and push chairs or hit a car door opening etc etc.
Sorry for the rant, sure you all have similar things in your areas.
Isnt their a rule in highway code about parking within a set distance of a junction?
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>>I'm aquainted with a guy who's on a mission. He reports untaxed cars to DVLA (reg. No. and location). He reckons if he sees the same car in the same place twice, then the DVLA will probably get it.
The DVLA employ people to go out and check on untaxed vehicles. How do I know? I met one who told me that was what he did for a living. Usually they make use of BIB R&R areas, and pick up any notifications of untaxed cars.
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Roger
A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well.
I drive 2 common rail diesels and wonder if I should keep up the practice of adding a "water treatment" at the end of each winter. I have noticed that the same company makes a dry fuel additive and a cleaner which claims to "demulsify" the fuel to allow the separator to work better. Which if any would work with this sort of engine or should I just do nothing and use only top grade fuel and empty the water trap on the filter every three months?
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Silicon or silicone?
Is it worth going out and filling up with some creme de la creme diesel and Millers for the smoke test tomorrow? Read more
mazolla
no emmisions
Cooking oil (Mazola IIRC?)??
Comedian Eddie Griffiths making a unplanned stop in an Enzo... from the BBC website
http ://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/help/3681938.stm
you'll need to copy and paste the link, removing the space after the http
-- He\'s a cheeky wind-up scamster and he\'s on the radio.... Read more
Bow Wow is a kiddie rapper. I'm surprised he's old enough to drive. He was at one time the prodigy of Snoop Doggity Dogg, hence the canine reference in his name.
Wyclef Jean was in the Fugees. His contribution seemed to be saying "one time" at inappropriate moments during their songs.
Engine noises on 51 corsa c (uk)?
when the engine has warmed up , there is a strange noise which seems to be coming from the offside of the engine. When i switch it off it makes a grrr noise. If anybody has had a similar experience or knows what the noise is, any info would be appreciated or if anybody knows of any uk recalls. i suspect it could be the timing chain but i'm not sure
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mention the noise to them let them decide if it is definately the cam chain noisey and i am sure that they would love to give you a quote, and if you are a regular cusyomer then i am sure that you could negotiate a deal !
From a thread on the technical forum.
Citroen C5 Xenon headlamps are over £1000 each!
Can anyone beat this for overpricing?
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Complete interiors...
Not unknown - I once priced up an estimate for a repairer on a MK2 golf complete leather interior which had been stolen - it wrote a brand new vehicle off - IIRC parts came to over £10k.>> >> so headlights are going to be the >>
My wife was surprised that no reminder for her road fund licence has been received, as her tax expires at the end of the month. I told her she can retax it online and went to work.
Later that day she phoned to say she could not retax it online as it kept rejecting the application, but could be retaxed using a V10. I said not to worry, you can download the V10 online, to which she said there was no link. Alright I would find the link on my computer and then print it off. Everytime I tried to print the V10 it locked my computer up and I had to reboot it, after ½ hour of this I gave up.
That evening I said not to worry I would get a V10 from the local Post Office and tax it the following day. The following morning I tried to get the V10 from my friendly Post Office, only to be told they no longer stock them as they can tax a car with the correct documents.
When I returned home last night and told my wife, she was very uncomplimentary about the whole system. She had telephoned the DVLA and after being transferred several times she finally spoke to someone about the problem she was experiencing. Only to be told her car was no longer registered to her!!!!!! No explination, but hopefully they are correcting their records and sending out the correct reminder immediately.
This morning I taxed the car on her documents, so it remains tax paid for another year. The strange thing was the lady in the Post Office said that last week many people could not use the online retax facility, she thought with the impending Budget they had pulled the system so dear Gordon could charge the new rates.
If only life was a simple as ........................................
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Roger
A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well.
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Only to be told her car was no longer registered to her!!!!!!>>
Make sure that the number of previous owners is correct once this is resolved.
I am thinking about buying a 4x 4. Can anyone advise me of the best vehicle to run economically, from a fuel, parts and reliability point of view
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It'll probably surprise you that I do actually have rather a
lot of experience of towing, and had a few suggestions in
mind. But since the result last time was an alcohol-fuelled
rant, I'll give it a miss.
It doesn't surprise me at all NW, I'd already formed the idea that you had a rural upbringing and you've often shown a great deal of knowledge on the muddier/greasier end of running cars in the countryside. As for alcohol fuelled, the Rioja remark was aimed at Lud in a faux Rumpole style, hence the obsequious tone of that particular post.
It may surprise you that I have a great deal of respect for many of your views, but that doesn't mean I won't challenge dogmatic repetition of beliefs as facts. The debate is still very much alive and well in the scientific community and I see no reason why that shouldn't be replicated in the public arena.
Some of my remarks in the budget thread were provocative, but your extrapolation of the available data to form assumptions on my personal use and choice of a vehicle were equally provocative. Nevertheless it is obvious I have caused you personal offence and I wish to apologise here and now for the upset I have caused you.
That aside, it would be a shame if the OP missed out on any suggestions you might have because we fell out.
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I ordered a car a couple of years ago(not a L/R) and it was a special build-ie-not a common spec.that could be supplied from stock and the delivery date came round and no car-the dealer said to stop making any payments on my then current car and only to make payments on the new one when it arrived.I effectively got three months free.