August 2007
I'm being tempted to buy a Ford Fusion Zetec 1.6HDi and wonder what experience people might have of it. There's comment in road tests about the noise level, for example. What about fuel economy?
I thought the driver's seat was a bit small and lacked thigh support.... Anyone done more than 50K in one and if so, do they last well? They're doing good offers on a special edition Pursuit version at the moment, anyone got one, or seen any road tests of it?
Grateful for your insights...
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I've always been wary of women wearing religious headgear, as it is damn obviousl that their peripheral vision is shot.
These days I notice more and more Yoof wearing "hoodies" while driving - and those things have got cowls like the Grim Reaper's!
All-round vision must be reduced by 60%...
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Newspaper Report
"A COLLEGE principal who was made an MBE for her services to the police was yesterday found guilty of refusing to give a roadside breath test.
She had enjoyed "a large glass of wine" during a business meeting at a Stirling hotel before her Volkswagen Golf was pulled over on the evening of 6 March.
She was fined £200 and had four penalty points added to her driving licence."
Why no Ban?
The question that many would ask is why not banned? According to reports the sample at the Police Station was 31 (limit 35) - Did the 31 include back tracking the reading as obviously it takes time to go from the roadside to Police HQ & be tested?
Cynic might say:
If it is easy to get round not providing a roadside breath test then she could start courses @ her colleges and charge megabucks.
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A colleague's brother was out for a few jars about a year ago when noticed a group of young asian lads wobble out of the pub and start to fumble over getting into their car. He went out and argued with them about driving, even to the point of standing in front of the car and refusing to move. A couple of police officers on watch in the centre came over to ask what the fuss was about, he told them, and they requested that the driver take a breathalyser test. He (and then all of his passengers) told the officer that it was against their religion and caused quite a fuss. They decided to just let them go even though it was clear that they were incapable of driving safely.
My colleague's brother remonstrated with them (quite loudly) and was arrested for his troubles and let off the next day with a warning.
can any1 give me or tell me where i can get any wiring diagrams for my 2000 mv6
my abs/tc light is on and the speedo don't work, also I've been told that the headlight motor is controlled by this unit too as there isn't an adjuster inside the car is this true but i have another unit that can be put in but just in case its not that when fitted i want to know where the wires that lead off it go to increase 1 is damaged and needs fixing.
the vauxhall dealers are too expensive and think that they know everything where i live.
its an x traffic car so I'm wondering ,that when they took the bits they remove out they might have cut something by mistake?
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Yeah, sorry for ambiguous sentence, I was thinking about the MID rather than the levelling system itself. Apropos of nothing , but there's an ex police MV6 where I work which is the only Omega estate I've ever seen without roof bars.
Obviously as this is an ongoing matter for the police cant discuss too much, but the details so far are that a car swerved onto the pavement and hit the pram with a 2 month old baby in. Baby died later. Mother had minor physical injuries.
Snip - PG
The driver has stated his jeans got caught in the pedals.
Only reason i mention it is because my baby is almost 2 months old and wifey takes him out a lot in his pram. It hits home a bit more. Not sure how i would cope. Cant imagine how the driver must be feeling.
Terrible news.
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Yes...and a criminal investigation in progress.
Thanks.
Been on my annual 3 week tour of France. Yet again looked at the shelves for this mythical cheap PD engine oil. In around 6 large supermarkets/hypermarkets.
No luck - even the best spec diesel oil seems to meet a very old pre PD VW spec.
Talking Chevron, Elf and Shell plus supermarket own brands.
Glad I took a litre of Millers from home for top up purposes. Used 1/3 litre over a couple of thousand miles.
At least the supermarket diesel at 1.06 euros was cheap.
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Local GSF is in dodgy downtown Sheffield which I rarely venture into. I'd rather go to my local Millers dealer for the PD oil and ogle the immaculate Lister Jaguar. Driven by the late Gerry Marshall in the European historic GT championship (allegedly).
I have found out something this week that might be interesting even to the DVLA.
The reason that there are alot of cars that have no road tax, is because the owners are insuring the cars in thier own country, and with that they think that is okay to drive over here with no tax or Mot. Until there is an accident.
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The German insurance company I use insures my two German plated cars and my UK plated car without any problem.German insurance is in three parts Third part,Part,Fully Comp,and you get free unlimited green card for all EU countries and a policy printed in English so I can tax the UK based car,I must admit that I do have both a German and UK address.
But Smarttrams is correct in saying that the UK enforcement of traffic violations is the joke of Europe,having said that most of the polish I deal with their cars are properly taxed and insured as one said to me you have no chance of getting caught in the UK but crossing Germany with an unisured car is risk not worth taking and when they return to Poland any unpaid bills and fines will be waiting for them the Polish and Czech police are pretty tough and thorough by UK standards.
I recently got the sad news that my GE Money Everyday card that gives 3% cashback on fuel is being discontinued so have been hunting around for something to replace it.
Most of you may have already noticed this, but if you buy fuel at Asda and pay with an Asda credit card, you get 2p per litre off.
This isn't a huge saving for me although worth having as I often fill up there, but I thought this may be of interest to some of the higher milers on the forum, after all, wherever you are, you won't be far from an Asda!
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>>Thanks again Blue!
No problems, pleased to have helped at least a couple of fellow BRer's, sounds as though you've found a better replacement than I have, although from the sounds of things I wouldn't be able to get the Platinum as I have an existing Barclaycard that I never use, doubt they would see me as a Platinum customer! :-) Besides, my income is at the lower end of what is acceptable for most platinum cards so that would also work against me!
I found that I did really well from the GE card when I bought my MG, I bought it from a small garage that had a petrol forecourt and paid the £650 balance on the GE card, yep, I got 3% cashback on the whole amount! I also paid for my car insurance with it (£1200) and due to an error with how the card was setup, got 3% on that too! :-)
Blue
As we know the old Fiesta will need some welding before it would pass its imminent MoT test, we had more or less decided to scrap it. Friends have, however, suggested that we ought to try selling it on e-bay. I'm not sure if it would be worth the trouble, but I wonder if anyone here could advise on the likely cost of using e-bay to sell a low value car?
A failure to sell the car within the next 10 days or so will result in the expiry of its tax, MoT and insurance. After that, would it still be legally OK to tow it to the nearest scrap yard? [although I know that the safest way would be to drive it there!]
Thanks Waino
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Thanks to all who suggested eBay as a viable route to take - this proved
to be the case.>>
Apologies, chaps, I've just re-read the post. Thanks, of course, to EVERYONE who expressed an opinion on this thread.
Thought I'd post this as a separate thread rather than hijack the Wild Deer one.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6VS6qsLJeY
Excellent choice of background music as well, IMHO.
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The bloke coming towards the camera almost got a hoof to the head as well...
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They also hit team mates to the side of them that they dont see.
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