March 2007
Hi all,
Discovered a slow puncture on drivers side rear. Getting it check out at a garage tomorrow but will there be any probs in using the spare. Its been in the back for a few years without use. The pressure is fine but I worry about using it after it being in storage for so long. I'm driving on motorways and can't get the tyre (slow puncture) checked out 1st thing.
Cheers
Rich Read more
I am currently fixing a head gasket on a puma 2000 1.7 engine and need to know how to set the timing and what the torc settings are when replacing it. Any help would be very much appreciated. Read more
pumapeople's website - they seem very knowledgable.
From Mondays HJ Auction Report....
The other price precedent of the day was a top bid of £24,000 for a 6k mile 06 Citroen C6 2.7V6 HDI Exclusive, but the auctioneers had Citroen on the phone and they would not let it go for that.
Is this the model featured on Top Gear, months back, when the question of depreciation & re-saleability, was mentioned to Citroen, they said not to worry, 'we'll buy it back'?
Looks like they've got this one!!
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I have quite a hankering for one of these too. We were seriously impressed when one went past us in France last year at about 95mph.
Particularly as he was towing a rather large caravan at the time.
Unfortunately they will remain above my budget for a year or so yet so I might be tempted by a 2-3 year old Vel-Satis in the meantime.
Ok well RF Junior is looking for his first car.
Insurance (for a 17 year old) is the prime mover here, Basically it means 1.1 106, 1.1 saxo, possibly polo.
He has £800 pounds to spend (1200 saved for insurance!) so we are looking at
96,97,98 Saxo 1.1's and 96, 97, 98 106 1.1's
three favours please guys,
1/ what problems do I need to look for on these (50-100k miles mark)
2/ If you see one nearby up for sale in your street , within 30 miles of woking, tip me the wink please.
3/ Tips for insuring young *male* drivers.
cheers
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TourVanMan TM < Ex RF > Read more
New Zealand still does not have compulsory insurance and you can learn to drive at 15. Similar to Australia common cars can be 4 litre Commodores or Falcons. Another common choice is a second-hand Jap import e.e. Skyline, Legacy, WRX, Lancer can be easily picked up for under $5000. Just to make things worse they are then modified. Not surprisingly NZ has a big problem with boyracers! After numerous deaths involving young drivers the police and government are currently trying to think of a solution to reduce the high accident rate. Having grown up in the UK my vote is compulsory insurance, my first car was a Volvo 343 - not really boy racer material.
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I was looking at my Dads 98 W140 S-Class. It is an auto and the ABS / ASR light is on. I read the fault codes and found that it is fitted with a Bosch ASR module MB# 018 545 47 32 HW version 46/97 SW version 18/96. Fault code C1200 brake light switch: open circuit / bad contact /plausibility.
Does anybody know where the switch is located?
I had a good shuftie around the footwell and could not seem to get the trim above the footwell off to look at the point where the brake pedal pivots. There is a load of electrical gubbins around the master cyinder and ws wondering if the switch was around there.
Thanks in advance
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The brake light switch on these is a double contact device.When the brake is appied 1 set of contacts make a circuit for the lights while at the same time the second set of contacts break a circuit to the abs/asr system.It's usually the latter set that causes the fault ,so the brake lights still work.. The switch is cheap; about £10.hth
I went on an IT course last week and as a bit of light relief the instructor set us a test. All we had to do was to watch a 40 second or so video clip of a few teenagers passing a ball between them and to count the number of times the ball was passed. He told us that the ball is passed fairly quickly and we had to concentrate. After the video clip he went round the room and we gave answers of between 20 and 50 times. He then asked "Who saw the Gorilla?" Out of 10 of us only 3 said they did. The other 7 including me wondered what he was talking about. He replayed the video and sure enough, half way through the clip a man dressed as a gorilla walked into the middle of the group of teenagers, waved directly at the camera and walked off. At first I thought it was a hoax in that the second video was not the same as the first. Turned out that it was not a hoax and that it is a well documented reaction.
I have always thought the standard response of " Sorry mate I didn't see you" to the motorcyclist lying in the road was a bit of an admission by the car driver that he wasn't paying attention. Looks like he could just have been looking too carefully for something else.
Keep upright and keep looking for motorcycles.
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was there massed UK parking problems?.........with cars parked at all angles?........why
did we need the adverts?
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They were simple times.
The men in Whitehall perceived the public had a problem. Rather than devise a new law, or get up an army of spin doctors to make misleading statements, they made a film that gave out some straight facts.
Do you ever wish we could wind the clock back?
I like to change the oil by myself on our Rover 45 TD. After a visit to a local garage found out that they didn't change the filter as promised, after a bit of argument they admited that the spotty lad on the weekend probably forgot to 'finalize' the procedure. ahee??
This has happen to me twice now (not at the same garage) so decided might as well do some diy to take me out of the house a bit.
My question wehre is the filter? The car manual don't contain any diagram to show me how to get to it.
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IIRC its between crank pulley and O/S driveshaft
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Steve
I recently bought my first car, a Peugeot 306 1994 XL 1.6, and the gear lever and linkage wobbles, both in neutral and in gear, and even when I'm driving the car. This has me worried, and was wondering if anyone knows of anyway that I can stop this, or what is wrong.
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Another possible place to check on this engine/gearbox combination is the two little nylon bushes at the end of the main gearchange rod. These are easily checked if you remove the huge air filter housing first. There is a small (10 or 11mm) through bolt, but tightening it won't help if the bushes are kaputt. I've had this problem on two 306 1.6's; the parts are really cheap and it really improves the feel of the gear selection.
I need to replace the rear silencer on this car,but although you can buy just that section,I cant see where the join is.A while ago when the car was on a lift,a mechanic told me the only way to replace that section was to either drop the axle and replace the whole thing,or cut the silencer out with a hacksaw and weld a new section in.Is he talking rubbish?I just looked now and I cant see any join between the back silencer box,and the next section further down which is like a square shaped box section.Im guessing the only other way is to hacksaw off the silencer,and then connect new one to remaining pipe with clamps.Any ideas?
Tony Read more
Many manufacturers make a one-piece factory system but supply in several pieces for service.If you buy the service parts it should be obvious where to cut and fit the new part with the connector supplied.
For the first time ever, I received one of these surveys in the post to fill out. How do they get your name? Presumably from DVLA? Read more
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It should be fine unless (possibly) it's a decade or more old. Check that it's still "rubbery" and give it the once-over for "blisters" after a trip.
I had an old Firestone tyre on a "classic" motorbike I used in the late '90s. I know for a fact that it was fitted some time before 1969. It was fine, used it at speeds up to about 75 - but eventually it wore out!