September 2007
Not sure if this is the Daily Mail stirring this up, but apparantly, a secret 'Big Brother' operation is allowing officials to pinpoint the exact location of thousands of vehicles with Trafficmaster's Smartnav satellite navigation systems
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Hello,
Post on behalf of internet shy friend.
Friend wants a new Mondeo and local dealer is offering to throw in a suspension pack (guess this is the Zetec Sports Pack of sports suspension, 17? alloys, rear spoiler (Zetec) £500 - taken from recent HJ roadtest ) .
Friend is concerned this will make the ride too hard and crashy, but like the appeal of the bigger wheels and the spoiler - standard dilemma!
Has anyone driven the new Mondeo with and without the sports suspension and can comment?
Thanks
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If you have the Zetec sports pack then declare to insurer. It may cost nothing extra but at least you're covered. If it does then it probably is not much.
Replacing wheels with larger ones than the standard model, even if doen at the dealer, is still a modification.
we have speed cameras and red light cameras but are there any down the wrong end of one way streets? now that would be a money spinner especially where i live Read more
They're common in London to enforce turn restrictions and yellow box offences which are subject ot civil enforcement by the LBC. I would hope that breach of a noe way restriction is serious enough to waarant a trip to the mags ct and risk of points.
I had to drive on the M4 ON Monday and was shocked at the poor state of it between junc 15-14, it seems as though non colour matching surface was used to repair it very badly. It's uneven and the mixture of colours, almost dazzling. Any idea what happened there.
Also it seems that the local council around Weybridge and Walton, they've bought a job lot of to "Dress" the road surface, it seems every road has been done Read more
I had to drive on the M4 ON Monday and was shocked at the poor state of it ....
When we had all the floods and huge rainfall a couple of months ago, parts of the M4 just ripped away from the surface. Between J14 and J15 was probably the worst hit area if I recall.
I guess that what you are seeing is the emergency repairs that were implemted with the full repairs to be scheduled at a later date.
I travel this section of road every day and don;t even notice it now.
Are we being realistic to expect £1500 from the private sale of my daughter's Ford Fiesta 1.25LX, Oct 1999, full MOT and in excellent condition?
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Earlier this year I
was advertising an R Reg Punto 1.1 that had done 116000 miles with stacks of
SH and invoices (all the common failure items had been rectified at someone elses expense)
for just £695. I could not give it away so ended up selling to another
trader who had a pitch sell it from. The only small car that I find
I can still sell at 6 figure mileages is the Polo. I have today sold
an N reg 1.3CL 5dr (2 owners FSH 6 mnths test) that has done 109000
miles for £1050 and have had a few calls on it as well.
Nowt so strange as folk.
Nothing remarkable about the Polo -- I'd have been far more inclined to offer £500 for the Fiat than spend more than double that on an older car. Indeed if the car had full test and was in good order that's cheap IMO.
when driving my 95 405 i am getting a fast ticking noise from the steering column,/indicator stalk.
but if i use the indicator left or right it works normally then will go of intermiterntly afterwards.
any advice would be appreciated.
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thanks for the info i will give it a try tonight see what happens!!
From another thread I note that Ford car prices are due to rise in October.
Please can someone tell me the date on which the new prices come into force?
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What will this price rise mean for the customer?
What drives list prices, and discounts?
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Torque means nothing without RPM
I witnessed the most incredible display of lazyness and bad manners today in an Asda car park. A fairly respectable looking woman filled her 4x4 boot with shopping from the trolley, closed the tailgate, realising that she could just drive forward through the parking space in front, she just left the empty trolley there to be blown around by the wind or to block her old space from any new shoppers. What is wrong with people these days, can they not even do the most basic things out of good manners, that make life a bit more bearable for the rest of us ? Read more
........ she just left the empty trolley there to be blown around by the
wind ......
Must have either been one of those new-fangled places where you don't have to insert a coin into the trolley, or she was rich enough (4x4 owner) to leave the coin in the trolley.
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Hello all,
I hope someone can help me. I parked my pickup near where I was working on a factory overall, which included other personnel spraying external fittings. The wind must have carried their spray as the pickup is covered in a clear 'gritty' substance like varnish. I managed to clear the windscreen with thinners, with some difficulty. I am concerned about the paint work. I tried some 'hand glaze' paint cleaner without success and also tried some thinners on a small section and this seemed to help to a degree. Is it safe to use thinners on the paint work? Is there anything else I could use?
Any help much appreciated.
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I had the same problem (cheap respary of door & wing). I used clay bar with excellent results. I had to do it twice though, but took off every bit of the overspray. If you havent used it before look it up on google, theres plenty of tips out there - main one ,as mentioned above, is use plenty of lubricant.
Do people carrying out roadworks have any duty to minimise the delays they cause or to set up appropriate diversions? The reason I ask this is that I have been severely delayed on two occasions in the past week.
The first was when half a road was dug up on my side and the traffic going in my direction had to wait for a gap in the traffic or for someone displaying a degree of courtesy. There was no attempt at traffic control and to rub salt in the wound an apology with the added comment 'due to essential works'. I do not imagine there are non-essential works unless people feel bored and decide to dig up a road!
The second occured when I left home to go to a specialist shop at the weekend. It is a twenty mile round trip and there was an hour before the shop closed. A road on route was closed and a diversion signposted. The problem was that the diversion lead to a right turn onto a busy road. This resulted in a horrendous tailback. I eventually gave up as there was no way I was going to make it.
This type of thing seems to be getting worse as if the delay is irrelevant as we are only motorists!
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Some countries have local databases where ALL service details are kept: details and drawing sof power lines tec...
Here most are so incompetent even the utility suppliers do not know....
(after all when BR was privatised it had no idea what it owned...).
How can you manage anything efficiently like that? Answer: you cannot
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So eventually it'll get to a stage where we physically won't be able to speed.
The car will limit itself to 30 in a 30 and 70 in a 70??