April 2007
Here's a question I hope some of you may be able to help me with. If any of you recognise me as working at your company from the below, I will buy you any drink of your choice not to grass me up!!!
I am currently working in the motoring industry, and due to a combination of factors: itchy feet/boredom, desire to do something before I get old/earlyish midlife crisis, simple desire to earn more money in a different culture, I am looking at jobs abroad.
A favourite, as an emerging economic power and also having travelled it widely; is China. Dubai is up there, although I have a feeling it would be a "bit much" for me, but I have friends who work there who love it. Europe as well obviously; I speak French and German, I am degree-educated and currently a Customer Manager and also have some Marcomms experience. The car industry is the obvious choice as I love it as well as work in it, and have done for 7 years.
Any advice/tips/suggestions from experience?
Just thinking aloud really and you lot always seem to have sage advice on most things, even when I go off on one of my rants! Read more
Please can anyone give me some advice :
I need to be in London - Borough Market area - on Saturday week at around lunchtime. I'll be driving up from Gloucestershire on the M4 and intend to find somewhere reasonably safe and secure to park up and easily access a tube station to proceed on to London Bridge station. Or possibly I could get to London Bridge via a Thameslink train if any of the stations on that line are more convenient.
I'm thinking initially of Uxbridge (Metropolitan line) or possibly one of the stations around Hounslow (on the line that runs to Heathrow)...............but I've no idea which stations have parking in or around the immediate area.
It doesn't really matter where I park as long as it :
a. is easily accessed from the M4/M25/M40 without hitting too much congestion around 10-12.00 on a Saturday morning
b. is somewhere where I can park close to a station cheaply (or free) and is reasonably safe/secure to leave my car for the day - until 8-9 pm.
Many thanks in anticipation of some useful advice from "locals".
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>>if the advertised prices on the back of National Express coaches you'll have less stress
Travelling by coach, with the dregs of society who also travel by coach? Less stress?
hi guys the light on my clock on my pug stdt blow i replaced it but still dont light up the clock still works but dont come on when the lights turned on any ideas where to go to next ?? Read more
Hi all...
Does anyone know a rough price to get your Crank oil seals replaced at a garage?
I wouldnt mind all the oil seals changing, is this possible and does anyone have a rough cost for this too?
Thanks guys !
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Can I bump this....
The seal that seams to be the one is not on the gear box side, its the drivers side.. the bottom 'wheel'
Ta
ive got a pug 205 stdt the seats are nacked ive been offered a real nice set of leather ones front and back from a 306 3 door wonder if any one knows if they will fit ??
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Oh and I forgot - you might just possibly fit the front seats, but not the rears. The 306 is wider.
In the past few weeks every car in the Epsom, Surrey, area seems to be collecting vast quantities of a very fine dust quite quickly.
Where is this coming from?
It is similar to the sort of dust we get when the news carries stories of sandstorms from the Sahara blowing our way, but the previaling weather recently has been more from the north, the east and west - never from the south. There has been no mention of anything untoward in the media either.
Until about two months ago this had not been a problem. Since then it is almost non stop. It isn't particularly local either - my parents are having the same problem three miles away, so I assume the local building sites can be ruled out as a source.
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I washed the dust off my car on Tuesday evening and it hasn't returned. It occurred to me too late that I should have taken a sample and tried to borrow a microscope to see if it was pollen. It was more brown than yellow, though, so I suspect it was something else.
Hi. Can someone tell me?? If theres new model of a car due out soon, will dealers start offering big discounts to try and shift current stock? e.g. new Mercedes C-class out in July. Should there be good deals on current version in next couple of months?? Thanks Read more
>>..the saloon is built in SA but maybe the estate is built in Germany which should mean marginally better build quality.
The estate is built in Germany and UK versions of the new saloon will be built there too.
Just heard on the news that someone is going to make a legal challenge on the practice of meters not giving change. I did not hear all the facts, maybe someone can elaborate. Could be an interesting outcome. Read more
DJP - I defer to your superior knowledge of local government funding! It is still too expensive for the service provided and I bet it isn't run as a cost-neutral service, except in Knighton (see above).
Mondeo passed its MOT today, same station as before though a different tester. The tester listed three advisories, two relating to two seperate very minor windscreen chips and one to slight play in the steering rack, with regard to the latter he said to me verbally during the test that this is quite normal, very minor and nothing to worry about however on the advisory sheet it says simply "slight play in the steering rack".
As it is "quite normal, very minor and nothing to worry about" I would rather not have it on the advisory, could effect the value if I were to sell it.
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Yes agreed-but an aeroplane might if it wasn’t properly maintained
I brought a Saxo 1.6 VTR P reg 65,000 miles 2 weeks ago. Today The indicators stopped working and the battery light has come on. The electirc windows work intermittantly. The steering is heavy for a short distance then it returns to normal, at this point the radio and heaters also start to work.
I took it to a garage and they said the electic ignition switch needs replacing (at first the said the alternator), at a cost of around £250. Does this sound right or could anyone help? Has anyone else had this problem, if so any idea how this can be fixed without costing this much money?
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Unless it was one of the Maxi fuses, that feeds the whole ignition switch, that went; then it's not the switch causing the fuse to blow. Which fuse was it and what stopped working when it blew again? The short will need finding before anything else is done.
The two ignition circuits on these are very "Citroen" in that it's totally unfathomable as to why they did them in such a stupid, Heath Robinson, way. Never have so many components been used - to so little effect.
Unless your garage can easily cope with a complex wiring diagram, then the convoluted ign circuit KK2 will fry their brains.
The ignition/steering lock barrel and the electric switch are indeed one piece. Not sure where the "spare locks" come in? Talk to your local Citroen [or Peugeot] parts dept about built-to-order lock assemblies.
Swapping them isn't a bad job when you know how it all goes; not really a car to learn on though. Do you have a manual that explains how to swap an ignition lock?
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If you work for the company in your profile, and depending on what you actually do, enquire about working abroad for them???
I know one of the IT service managers there (he works for my employer now) and he has told me many interesting tales based on him moving around years earlier, e.g.
- Very rich American walks into a Rolls-Royce dealer in the USA with a big ribbon tied as a bow. Asks "have you got anything to fit this". He bought (for cash) a RR, and his minder came back with the bow to fit it, have it loaded onto a low loader and take it away. It was a present for his wife.
- RR/Bentley used to have (and might still do) have a dealer in the far east (could well have been Dubai) to service the vehicles of one of the royalty. He was the only customer!
In fact they used to rotate staff through the operation in the middle east. And there must be more. May have changed under VW though.