May 2007
I heard a story today about a £300 Renault clutch slave cylinder. Apparently the master, slave and intermediate pipe are one-piece with no bleed screw.
Do other BRs know about this, or is it another rumour to put me off PSA? Read more
My son complained about his fiesta brakes not feeling quiet"right"
I took the car for a drive ......any hard braking is causing the front near side wheel to skid violently?????????
Are we talking a seized o/s caliper or something more serious?
Have not the time to look at it yet , but any help much appreciated. Read more
If the cause is not obvious then run it down to local MoT station and pay them £10 to drive it onto the brake tester - that should help diagnose the problem.
Hmmm. Thinking of one of these but not sure it look much different from the current one :-(
I am sure the 'spy' shots last year showed a more glamorous body.
Renault playing too safe IMO :-(
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I think Pugs are even worse, that gaping maw. Ugh!
Having advertised my car on autotrader I included my email address to be helpful. Within a few hours I received an email asking for some more details. Having answered I got this reply.
Hello
Am so excited you could find to e-mail me back concerning the car you listed for sale and i will love to purchase the car from you .
Main look at the pic at the site it's very lovely car and the condition you stated for me, someone may conclude the car is very good.
Really this kind of car have been looking for some days now.
Am trying to purchase the Car for myself used .
I will be glad if you can sell the Car to me.
I believe by now Car is SOLD to me .
Now i want you to remove the advert so that other buyer will not bother you over this Car .
Really i want you to please send pics of the Car if available .
Also concerning you asking price am okay with it ( £5,250) for the Car.
Please as for the shipment i will handle that myself i shall contact my private shipping company to handle the shipment from you location to mine.
Likewise,the payment will come inform of (UK BANKDRAFT) which i
believe is okay.
Me paying you with UK bank draft am not requiring any bank details of yours from you cause is not good to give out bank details on internet.
The payment uk (bankdraft) will take 2 to3 working days for the payment to FULLY CLEARED and CONFIRM the money is your bank account, pls get back to me today so that we could conclude on the payment.
I reside in Canada and i will be glad if i can purchase the Car from you ..Please remember that i have committed myself to purchase the Car for self used .
Thanks awaiting your e-mail today..
Regards
What a nutter. I know this is a scam and will end up in me wiring several thousand pounds to pay for some sort of shipping costs and a rubber cheque, but do people seriously fall for this?
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It's probably one of those foreign types.
I have lost the link to a French website that explained GPS only devices were legal. Can anyone help?
Will my Road Angel work anyway in France?
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I wasna fu but just had plenty. Read more
nor with country registration sticker!
But we are wandering off the subject here
This is reproduced from my local newspaper from this week - it makes for interesting reading.
"Flatulent cows, burping chickens and belching sheep have been blamed for increasing global warming emissions by 20 per cent in a United Nations report.
"The finger of blame is pointed at intensive agriculture practiced in Britain and other rich nations, where meat is now eaten in vast quantities.
"Euro MP Chris Davies says there is nothing natural about animal emissions on such a scale.
"In the UK alone there are now 10m cattle, 36m sheep, 5m pigs and 145m chickens.
"Never before have the numbers been so great, with the majority of animals kept indoors throughout their short lives and treated just as units in a factory production line."
"The UN report identifies the world's rapidly growing herds of cattle as the greatest threat to climate, forests and wildlife.
"Mr Davies said: "The simple answer is for people to eat less meat."
In case you haven't noticed, there is absolutely no mention about cars' and various forms of public transport emissions rivalling the claimed threat from animals.....:-)
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What's for you won't pass you by Read more
Second highest cost of living in the world ?? !!
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Free enterprise is the basis of western democracy.
In the paper today,
A car clamper accused of intimidating motorists is set to be the first in Britain to get an ASBO.
Hundreds of drivers have complained over several years about the methods used by the Carstoppers clamping firm at the beauty spot of Haworth, West Yorkshire.
The firm once immobilised a car while the driver was asleep inside and clamped a minibus taking special needs pupils on a country ride. Carstoppers once won the Dick Turpin award for being the country's worst clampers.
Now one of the company's employees George McDicken, 38, of Ling Park Approach, Wilsden, near Bradford is facing an interim ASBO order.
He is accused of "intimidating and aggressive" behaviour by the authorities seeking the order. The application is due to be heard at Leeds Magistrates Court today (FRI).
The move follows hundreds of complaints to police and Bradford Council about Carstoppers. Traders in Haworth have long complained that over-zealous clamping is affecting the Bronte village's tourist trade.
A Bradford Council spokesman said: "The ASBO application has been brought following numerous complaints to the police and ourselves over a long period of time.
"The case is not actually against clamping, which is legal, it is the behaviour that goes with it."
A West Yorkshire Police spokesman said: "The application comes as a result of complaints against the man in relation to his activities as a wheel clamper in the Haworth area."
Nobody from Carstoppers was available for comment. Read more
If it's private land then there is no penalty charge. There might be an invoice, but they can generally be "managed". Punitive invoices cannot be enforced in law, the invoice must reflect the loss suffered by the owner of the land. It's the clamp that shifts the balance of power. Most signage is flawed.
Call me stupid, but actually I can't see any advantage for contract hire (eg. lingscars.com)
You pay the monthly premium in a same way you would have paid if you bought it yourself.
You pay for maintenance for the car.
You are responsible for any damage on the car.
You have to get your own insurance!
You pay extra for excess mileage!
You never own the car!
You can't cancel the lease in midway (probably need to pay hefty fine if you do so)
How it differs form buying a new car with a loan and pay monthly?
After 3 years you can always sell the car to get rid of it!
Or there is some real advantage?
PS: The only advantage I see that after 3 years, if your car depreciates too much, you may lose more money if selling the car privately rather than returning to lease company. Read more
I've just had my third car delivered through lingscars.com. I'm self employed and do about 20,000 miles a year, and like having a new car every so often, but don't like the idea of having a depreciating asset sitting on my drive haemorrhaging my money.
My current deal is for a car worth £28,700 list, which costs me under £400 a month for 3 years. A loan would probably mean repayments of double that per month, tying up my money for 3 years then hoping to get a trade in or private sale of £10-12 grand....
Hi
Girlfriends Fiest 1993 L reg driver door wont shut, cam looks as if will not retract, taken cover off, there appears to be a pair of contacts, if you short these with screwdriver retracts, all other aspects of central locking work ok and other doors as well.
Any ideas how to fix
Andy Read more
Thanks everyone
Went round about 3 scrapyards, turns out hers is an early 1993, they changed them later in the year and the only one I could find. Got one, wiring is similar but blows 20a fuse when operates. So solenoid wiring must be internally different although the 4 wire colours are the same
Its the spring in the cam thats gone, guess I will have to buy a new one Lol.
Andy
Hi all.
I have a problem with a Mk4 ('96, 1.25l 16v Zetec engine) Fiesta. The front passenger tyre is wearing quite badly just on the inside of the tyre. I've twice bumped into a kerb with the tyre (one pretty hideously, and one in the snow; both times destroying the actual wheel). After the first time I had it tracked, and after the second time I took it in again after I noticed the tyre wear. Thee guy at the garage said the tracking was bob on.
It's about, say, 1" worth of the tyre around the inside that wears down to bald.
There is also a constant wobble present on the wheel, especially when you turn to the left or right ever so slightly, as pressure is applied to the steering system. The steering wheel used to shake quite badly on the motorway, but the wheels needed balancing.
I've since swapped the front and back wheels, and the motorway steering shake has disappeared (both of the wheels are balanced), but this new wobble is there.
With the tracking bob on, and both wheels balanced, is it likely that I've bent something?
Cheers. Read more
Karlbbb - Take your car to a nearest Rapid-Fit or Quicks Ford, (not the Ford Main Dealer) and ask them to have a look and see what they says, they don't over charge on Labour cost or parts.
HTH.
New Transits and Iveco vans have similar one piece systems, the Transit still has to be bled though.