Two points, Historical interest (Not Sat Nav)

1) Ever navigated by the Sun?

2) Ever used a compass? corrected (perhaps) to true North in relation to a road map or car journey/City map?



Regarding the Sun,

Back in the early 70`s entered Glasgow (for the first time) and entered a grid pattern of streets, no road signs and rough looking men on corners burning fires on the pavements .
That was returning from the Highlands via Loch Lomond and attempting to go South.
Got out by referencing the sun in the south west and keeping it to the front of the drivers side window.

Many years later, remembered this in Barcelona and drove out without a map or using road signs.

Second point, The Compass,

Compass, corrected to true (Polar) North, instead of Canadian Magnetic? Out of the car has anyone referenced such as a navigation aid regarding road maps or on foot in an unfamiliar City?

The Stars?
I got a fix on Polaris the other night, but talk about `faint` a non starter unless in Siberia perhaps?

Post is about what `can` be done, if somewhere very unfamiliar, perhaps abroad without modern technology, regarding navigation.

Regards










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All the catches go up or down on all four doors but the passenger door wont open.
Can lift the outside but does not release door catch
Tried the key in passenger door raises and lowers catch but door wont open
What is problemand how can I fix it?
Trudi

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Hi
Can anyone help with my problem please:

My 306 was stalling when I pulled up at junctions ect and I found that my idle valve was completely closed. After browsing on the net I found that this was a common problem. I could get the car working ok by physically slowly pushing the plunger slightly into the valves body (if I went to far the engine revved too high at idle. It seemed to me like the valve was not being told to move by the ECU (or it was sticking) so I bought another one. The one I bought had the same main number as mine (B32/00) but a different "A" number underneath. I was told that the B32/00 is the important one, and the other number was not as important. When I measured the resistance of the two coils, in the new one they were about 48 ohms, whereas the old one was about 52 ohms. When I changed the motor the same problem occurred, i.e if it was set to idle low, the ECU didnt correct it. It did however show some small changes in rev speed but then after about 20 seconds it just stalled. I'm now not sure if the new valve is not quite the right one, or if the problme is not the valve, but the ECU that is not driving it properly. A few more clues - Before this idling problem developed I had an intermittant jerking (and ECU light flashing on briefly) when cruising on a motorway. On a particularly long motorway journey this happened quite a lot and when we came off the Mway the stalling problem started.

From the little I know about these systems I assume that when I put the new valve in, its actual position at that point should not have mattered because the engine would initially idle at the speed determined by the position of the valve, and then the ECU would detect that the idle RPM doesn't match the programmed value and and, after a short period, it should send drive signals to the valve to correct it (which doesn't appear to be happening)

Could a Peugot expert please tell me if, from all of the above, its likely I have a sensor problem (if so which ??) , an ECU problem or if it is still likley to be the stepper motor (and the new one is actually the wrong one). I also read that disconnecting the battery to rest the ECU may help and I will try this shortly - I'm just not confidant it will help - if it does I'll report back within the hour (its now 10.15am 27/12)

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On Christmas day of all days. Good will to all men and all that.
M8 Glasgow going east bound just by the Glasgow royal cut off. Witnessed the most dangerous/stupid driving I have ever seen in my 20 odd years of driving. A white taxi and a blue ford focus are in the outside lane. From what I seen the taxi was not pulling in quick enough for the focus. So when the taxi driver pulled into the middle lane the other driver decided to pull up beside the taxi and give the 1 or it may have been the 2 fingered salute. The next thing the two of them have there windows down and start shouting at each other. In the process the two of them have slowed down to 30 to 40 mph and forcing myself and other drivers to brake sharply. As I felt that this was an extremely dangerous situation and I did not want to be involved in any pile up due to these idiots. I indicated over to the inside lane and accelerated by them (still shouting at each other). At least another half a dozen cars had to do the same manoeuvre.

If this had been any other day I am sure there would have been a pile up. No doubt these two idiots would have carried on there journey unaware of the carnage that they may have left behind them. Read more