November 2007
Hello All,
Wife's 1.6 8v Clio RXE manual, drives fine (excellent actually) though idles at about 1200rpm and sometimes initially, when first coming to a stop, hunts between 1200 and 1500rpm.
CTS issues can effect idling though it starts / runs fine otherwise whether cold or hot so I dont think it is CTS related.
Had two minor idle related problems before:
1/ Around early 2002 low idle and occasional cutting out was initially diagnosed as idle control stepper motor though cured by using Shell/BP rather than Tesco fuel.
2/ Around mid 2006 lumpy idle cured by cleaning crank position sensor on top of gearbox.
Any ideas?
Many thanks.
Thanks.
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Has anybody used this company? Any comments would be great, thinking of using them.
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Thanks for your reply guys, 2003 Golf 1.6. Cheaper to take it to VW in any case and as you pointed out at least a face to deal with if it goes wrong.
We sold a 2003 Ford mondeo zetec to a departing employee in 2004 and, following an inland revenue inspection just recently, the car has been assessed as having a value of £9,700n in 2004. I cant find any site where I can confirm or deny this valuation. Can someone point me in the right direction please ?
thanks.
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I effectively bought my mid 2002 Ghia X TDCi 5 dr (around 65k miles) from my company at the end of 2003 for just under £8000.
Folks,
We're with AA, Option 200, paying £114.yr. Homestart, Relay, etc.
This has always seemed a tad expensive, but Mrs g and and I are covered for both cars.
MoreThan offered me a deal bundled with insurance renewal today, circa £35.00 for one car.
Are these "cheap deals"? It had automatic overseas cover, however.
Can anyone make any recommendations, as I want something to match AA, but not pay their prices...
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"Rupert's Trooper", "Marlot",
Many thanks for the answers. I was not just being lazy, but wondered if these benefits were tucked away somewhere and not blindingly obvious.
We are members of The Caravan Club, so will make further enquiries.
This type of cover is all the more important, as I could handle a breakdown "solo", but would find one pretty stressful with family and gin palace in tow, with the threat of a runied holiday looming.
r
I filled up with diesel last night, 104.9 per litre. This morning I went past the same filling station and the stuff was marked up at 106.9!
Now that the £1 per litre barrier has been broken without a public backlash they seem to think the sky's the limit, after nervously hovering at just under a quid for nearly a year. How long before people say enough is enough?
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"other competing businesses (TNT, BusinessPost and so on) do not like to see these subsidies being paid"
So when do we see a TNT local depot that sells newspapers, eggs and milk, provides pension money, family allowance, stamps, parcel weighing and collection, etc? Never, of course, because they only want the most profitable elements of delivery services, and because they helped cream those off, the PO is now less profitable and has to be propped up by the government that deregulated the business in the first place! As with rail and all the PFI schemes, commercial operators are only in it for the money, while the government is supposed to be in it for the common good. On the one hand, they are trying to persuade us to drive shorter distances, and on the other, they are pushing the facilities further away!
Was accelerating very hard yesterday morning, from a standing start onto the M1, up to about 130. My engine was just warmed up but I hadn't gone over about 3000rpm up to that point on the journey. I took it to redline in 2,3 and 4th, and afetr about 130mph I dropped back, however on glancing at my water temp dial noticed that it had dropped back a bit i.e. the temp had actually fallen. Never seen this before, I can only assume that as it was absolutely freezing (at about 7am), the massive acceleration and high speed forced a load of cold air onto the rads - even though the engine must have been hot due to the sudden acceleration - is this likely? Car performs absolutely fine apart from that, generally running cooler at high speed. Read more
Great thanks for the insight, I thought it was something like this, I wasn't massively concerned, just curious as to why it happened & maybe a -little- bit paranoid too (as that car has made me). And it was far more fun than the rest of the day @ work!
twice in the last few days I've encountered cars joining the motorway from the hard shoulder (after a breakdown or wheel change or ???) and they've moved straight onto lane 1 from rest. The consequential hard braking and swerving from traffic already travelling at speed luckily did not result in any crashes. Am I alone in thinking you should get up to speed on the hard shoulder and then merge with the traffic flow as if you were joining from a junction? Read more
I am very surprised at everyone in this thread being surprised and not knowing that it is part of the Highway Code! Also for those who have ever chatted to the police on the hard shoulder will know, they always advise to get up to speed before joining the carriageway.
What does annoy me a lot is on slip roads joining dual/m'ways is when you follow a car that does about 40mph in order to find a gap before getting up to speed. Leaves you flapping in the wind a bit.
Just to say I managed to pull off a bit of dreadful driving this morning on the way to work :-(
My route entails joining a fairly busy A road by turning right from a T-junction. Sometimes, traffic from the left is very slow-moving, whilst that from the right is free-flowing. This morning, someone from the left very kindly held back to allow me to join. An artic was approaching from the right, but plenty far enough away to pull out. So I did.
Halfway across the road I then saw the motorbike filtering past the queueing traffic from the left.
I instinctively stopped to avoid hitting the biker - whilst still in the path of the oncoming artic! The bike passed, I slotted into the gap left by the helpful motorist - and the artic continued on 'behind' me (don't think he was best pleased) - all somewhat simultaneously.
Had I pulled out with the artic a little closer, the outcome might have been rather different. Maybe the Grim Reaper was otherwise occupied at the time......
This has been a salutary warning that although we may offer our advice and 'sit in judgement ' on the driving of others, none of us is perfect. A single lapse of concentration is all it can take.
I can only feel relief that I did not have a serious 'accident' which would have been entirely my fault.
Take care.
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When I'm filtering I watch out for this sort of thing. Any half-competent motorcyclist would.
What he said. If someone I'm filtering up behind slows down and stops to leave a gap, so do I. I've had the odd idiot filtering behind me overtake me in such circumstances, but hey! I want to arrive at my destination.
A friend's son wants to run an imported (from Germany) VW Kombi, keeping it in the Feuerwehr livery including two blue beacons on the roof.
My guess is it'll be no problem so long as he does not use the blue lights on the road. Is there clear case/statute law on this? Read more
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Brigade is the old term for the Fire and Rescue sevice; the vehicles are properly described as tenders or appliances. The normal tender used also to be described as a 'pump escape' , the other main variation is the 'turntable' with the long, powered ladder, now usually the 'Simon snorkel' sort of hydraulic platform.
hi i am getting a fuel smell from inside the cabin ,this only happens sometimes and
varies i,e i can drive all day without any smell and then it will start,
has anybody got experience with this on e39 bmws mines is a 530 sport,
my car is 1 owner and has done 82k,
i dont know wheter i should change fuel pressure regulatars or leads as a precaution,
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Fuel smells from my 320i 6 cylinder have been caused at different times by :- Hose to injector rail, hose from fuel filter, hose bridging the 2 sections of the fuel tank where it connects to the top of the fuel pump (under the rear seat and inspection cover).
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Thanks NC, this one has been a great car, it is still great to drive, the gutsy 1.6 engine makes it punchy and the gear ratios are great so it pulls strongly in each consecutive gear, 38mpg average over 45k miles. Aircon, ABS, elec windows and elec sunroof. A local Yaris of a similar age has been much more troublesome and a local Polo also of a similar age exhbits a lot of corrosion where as there is none apparent on the Clio.