July 2007
Daughter requires new clutch for her Suzuki Swift 1.0 GLS 1996 and Dad has to pay!
The following are all-inclusive quotes:-
Suzuki Dealership £325
Independant Garage £295
Mr Clutch Autocentre £194
Mr Clutch Autocentres have branches nationwide and looks a tempting deal financially...can anyone recommend them?
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I can't help feeling he's either pretty naive on this one or he is doing it purely for the publicity.
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>> The solicitor has accused Manchester council of `greed'
Firstly it's nothing to do with the Council - they only collect the charge which is calculated by HM Gov. If he wants to appeal rates there is a way of doing so. If he wants to challenge the Finance Act his in depth knowledge of the Road Traffic Act won't get him far.
According to Wikipedia, the Highways Authority ISSUES fictitious road numbers for film and TV use.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Britain_road_numbering...s
Click on the link for the citation.
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That would probably explain the 'sports ground' near St Pauls Road in the Birmingham A-Z.
Hi
My FiL's Scenic petrol (2002) has had 6 sets of coils replaced since new. What are coils, what is their function and why are Renault coils in particular so unreliable?
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I have seen a couple that have gone bang: nothing dramatic - but miles of fine wire to untangle from everywhere in the engine bay. [And one just had to be on a TK horsebox...!]
There's about a cupful of transformer oil inside; it contains PCB, so is very nasty stuff indeed.
Oh, and getting back to the OP's post. Scenic 16valve coils sit in deep wells directly under the scuttle lip and get flooded every time it rains - another example of brilliant French design!
Still; nice little earner.
Hi, just wondered if anyone could point me in the right direction to where the crank position sensor can be found on a 1.2 renault clio 1999 shape model.
Having porblem with engine turning over but not firing, thought it coud be immobilser but been told to try this first as its a common fault ?
Had key re chipped and checked and thats fine.
The light on the dash isnt flashing quickly when i try to start, so have been told it proberbly isnt an immobilser fault.
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Am i correct in thinking the LDV pilot is rwd and uses a peugeot 1.9 diesel engine. Is this the same as in the 405, 406 etc? Leading on from this do the HDI engines now in the 406 use the same gearboxes as the old 1.9 i.e are the bellhousings the same? does this mean it would be possible to put a HDI engine in an LDV van (albeit alot of work) Read more
or alternately to use the 1.9 tdi unit. what is the height of these compared to say a zetec
Hi folks,
I used to have a trade sub for auctionview, but since giving up buying from BCA (buy from eBay these days) I have been demoted from Gold card....to Blue card..... to no card. Could some kind soul please look up a vehicle for me? I need a Seat Alhambra with TDi 115 or similar, manual, up to 4 yrs old and wondering if any coming up at BCA Bridgwater in the next few weeks.
Any help much appreciated. Thanks.
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computa say no
You think the Government is lying over road Pricing intentions...Now you know it's true.. and of course we have been lied to.. again.. (change .. open and trustworthy government... cow excrement)
"A Home Office document accidentally released suggests police should be given instant access to cameras which monitor congestion and road charging. "
"But internal documents mistakenly circulated around Westminster by the Home Office contain details of a more wide-ranging plan to track journeys throughout England and Wales.
An annotated draft of Mr McNulty's statement revealed the development of the scheme over the past few months and the opposition mounted by the Department for Transport.
Petition fears
The electronic document revealed that the controversy level of the plan was rated "high" by civil servants.
One Home Office official wrote: "Civil rights groups and privacy campaigners may condemn this as further evidence of an encroaching 'big brother' approach to policing and security, particularly in the light of the recent e-petition on road-pricing.
"Conversely, there may be surprise that the data collected by the congestion charge cameras is not already used for national security purposes and may lead to criticism that the matter is yet to be resolved."
The document noted that the Department for Transport had "expressed concern about the potential for adverse publicity relating to... plans for local roads pricing". "
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6903902.stm
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Hello
I recently had the timing belt changed on my 2000 Honda accord (2.0l vtec) along with a full service. A slight issue i now have is that at around 1500 rpm when pulling away or if i just gently blip the throttle at idle i hear a slight but noticeable whirring sound which definatley was not there before. I have rung the garage who did the work and they are going to have a listen this afternoon, but i was wondering if any backroomers might have an idea what this could be? I though perhaps overtightened belt, but would that not make a whining sound at idle all the time?
The whole lot was changed, not just the belt BTW. New pulleys,tensioner and waterpump too. Could this be the cause?
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Hi
Thanks for the reply, the noise is still there but mine does not seem to vary at all with weather or electrical load like yours norman. Makes me wonder if it isn't the auxilliary belts at all and that it definately is the timing belt "bedding in" as mentioned above. Going to keep an ear on it over the next few days and see what happens.
Car is actually slightly quieter at idle now than before the work was done, so i suspect the old belt was slightly stretched and ready to come off. It was 6.5 years/73K old.
Just back from another holiday in France. They really spend a load of money on their roads, and make the towns look all nice with proper granite cobbles and proper pavements with clear and distinctive curb stones marking the boundary between pavement and road. (better for blind people aswell as looking nice).
Their roads are smooth and quiet in town and out of town.
On the other hand we in UK have noisy ugly roads full of potholes, and noisy surfaces like concrete and gravel/tarmac composite.
A road near me (in UK) has just been scraped off (by one of those surface grinding machines) and they have resurfaced the whole road, they have nearly finished and the finished result is all bumpy. In France it would be very smooth. Read more
WDB - tax certainly has worked like that in the past. The thing on the
windscreen was a reciept for a contribution the "Road Fund" and it was called the
Road Fund Licence! Probably >>
There are a couple of threads elsewhere on the site with detail but essentially the Road Fund appeared just after the Great War and was abolished in the mid/late twenties by a chancellor called Winston Churchill!
The concept of reserving a tax to a particular class of spending has long been anathema to the UK Treasury
Browse
I am in total agreement with your advice and observations 'yorkiebar'...I approached my 'best offer of £170' independant dealer with total respect and admiration of his professional abiulity. When I eventually made arrangements for my daughter's ancient Swift to get the clutch fitted he obviously felt sorry for me and knocked another tenner off the bill!