September 2007
maybe Enzo was right when he was selective about who could buy a Ferrari but then again I'd love a go...
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My 1999 LWB Frontera alarm has been going off pretty much all the time for about a week. Last night i had a look at it and narrowed it down to a dodgy connection on the connector which is on the rear window. It's the one which is actually connected to the glass. It looks like it was soldered on in the factory but when i poked it the thing fell off completely.
Does anyone have any advice on how I can re-attach this? I have a soldering iron and hot air gun but i'm concerned about smashing the window with the excessive heat.
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hi i have a problem with my frontera alarm keeps going off seam to have a mind of its own goes off for no reason if its locked or unlocked
sometimes it will cancel by button on key fob
sometimes start engine it stops sometimes you have to start engine pess alarm button on dash
im totally fed up with my car recently bought it great 4 x 4 got snow and my car is a good decoration but thats it the only time it dont go off is if the engine is running have to keep taking battery off
can anyone help
also this subject which window are we you on about the tail boot window also were is the conectors your not an about the rear heated lines are you are they alarm as well
please help
I would very much like to think there is another side to this story. If it was indeed as told in the article then it's quite shocking.
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Sounds to me like the copper in question is a right so and so. I guess it only takes one idiot to make them all look like idiots. I bet he is getting his leg pulled by his colleagues and some comments about painting a small pedestrian symbol on the side of this car. Let's hope the force do the right thing (assuming of course that the story is as presented in the link).
I will be driving from Reading to Duxford tomorrow. It's many years since I've been there and I remember the A505 as a great road in the right car. Is that still the case? Or is it subject to 40 and 50 mph speed limits so taking away the pleasure so making the motorway the better journey? Read more
From the M25 I always use the A1(M) and the A505 to Duxford.
The new Baldock bypass is a great bit of road.
Beware Gatsos on the A505.
Driving up the M1 yesterday I saw a nice black AMG Mercedes carrying the registration SIDDIK. Clearly it had been 'messed about' but what would it have been issued as. I don't think S 10 DIK would have been issued - for obvious reasons! Any ideas? I am too dim to work it out myself!
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Well sorted Jase! If some foreigner wants to drive around in a car with a silly number plate I'll leave him to it!
Very tempted to replace the C Max with a new Mondeo 2.O TdCi Zetec estate. Just wondering if anyone has had a prolonged experience of the car and would it be a better buy than the equivalent S Max. I don't need 7 seats and the new C Max doesn't ring my bell. Just thought a new Mondeo estate in black with chrome roof rails, privacy glass and 18" alloys looks a nice change.
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Plenty of big cars look as if they ought to
be wide enough for three boosters abreast but I've yet to find (admittedly in a
rather small sample) a non-MPV that will actually take them. You really don't know till
you try.
We had a C3 courtesy car the other day, and got 3 child seats in the back!! It can be done. The seats we have are Volvo child seats where the backrests can be detached when the child grows and only needs a booster. The seats are only as wide as they need to be, unlike many on the market.
Just bought the above for junior. Basic in the extreme.... no battery (kick start) so lights and electrics run from alternator. Bought Peugeot indicator kit: instructions laughably brief. Doing fairly well, but three wires to connect to the relay: two purple, one green. No indication on relay as to what goes where! If I get the sequence wrong, will I fry the relay? I feel like a clueless bomb disposal expert...
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Sorted. Starting with front and rear flashing opposite sides, moved to right flashing on left switch and vice versa, and, having got it wrong every possible way, switched indicators over to get it right! Thanks SL.
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Hi there, I'm hoping someone might have an idea what is wrong with my 97 megane. It's recently started to cut out on me as I slow down to stop. Just before it cuts out I hear a squealing sound like the brakes. It starts up again straight away. Any ideas? Thanks.
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wash out throttle body & idle valve , disconnect battery & leave for ten minutes & reconnect & allow to idle for a few minutes before driving, Unless you have an air leak it should solve it. Done loads of these in the past
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Nick Freeman busy again who argued: the case was "fatally flawed" as Alfa Romeo only had details of who the car was loaned to, not who the driver was.
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I can only assume they made it 50mph to slow things down further in advance
of the narrowing to 2 lanes at Northolt.
I often wonder why they set a particular limit. I obey non motorway speed limits on the grounds that I do not know what hazards are present. But some of the limits on local reads I know well are plain daft (low in the safe parts and high in the dangerous parts) and make me wonder if there is not a tiny little flaw in this grand scheme to make roads safe.
It would not surprise me if solicitors and barristers were hired as consultants when drafting road regulations.
This is volume 2 of a 100 post thread.
Volume 1 can be found here.
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Someone tell the Journo' it ain't spelt AXEL.
Dispair (sic) MD.