Hi,

I'm hoping I can fix the thermostat control on my 1995 405 GLX. It is either off or on. IE, if you set the control to the left the heater appears to be off. but if you move it just an inch to the right, the heating comes on at full heat. Moving it any further to the right makes no difference to how hot the car gets.

I happen to have another, identical 1995 405 GLX with working heating available to strip. But I don't know what to remove to get to the thermostat control or where any of the components that may be implicated actually are.

I'd appreciate any helpful tips. Thanks!

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Has anyone else noticed the increasing number of vehicles on the roads with faulty lights? I'd estimate that a good five per cent have only one headlight working, quite a few more only one rear light, and perhaps ten per cent have faulty brake lights.

Add to this the drivers who think that side lights (or as the Americans more accurately call them, parking lights) are sufficient illumination in rainy conditions or on floodlit roads, the ones who go the other way by leaving front and rear fog lamps on when visibility is clear, and those dopey few who think that metallic paint is also fluorescent so they don't need lights at all, and it's a wonder we don't get even more accidents!

In this age of relentless prosecutions for speeding, using mobiles at the wheel and throwing fag-ends out of the window, aren't the police missing out on a major source of easy revenue?

Correct me please if I'm mistaken, but in some European countries is it not mandatory to carry spare bulbs? I know Renault dealers sold them years ago, so why has this one excellent European initiative not been pursued?

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I was driving into an out of town shopping centre just outside Leicester this afternoon, and when I turned onto the access road I noticed a large plain white van parked right in the centre of the road across the chevrons that lead from the end of the centre railing. This was a long wheelbase van and so the front wheels stuck out onto the road itself as the chevrons narrowed towards the centre line. The van had hazards on, and I noticed through the back windows that there were two cameras that appeared to have three lenses each aimed at the access road.

When I'd parked I approached a police mobile unit sat in the carpark for the public to access and asked the officers if the van was anything to do with them. They said it was a traffic operation of some sort, so I asked why it was parked in such an inappropriate place and using hazards in a way that it shouldn't. One of the officers said they weren't working with that team and couldn't tell me any more, but that when they'd just driven past the van looked fine as it was. At this point somebodt with them wearing normal clothes interrupted and advised me to go and speak to the people in the van if I had a complaint. Unfortunately on the way out I checked and there didn't seem to be anyone inside.

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Thinking of of making an offer on a 06 Merc c class with low mileage.
Its priced at £17,000
Not sure how to start negotiations.
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