March 2008
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Will the budget vehicle licence change affect my neighbour's 1995 Ford Explorer (?) 4.0 V8? Its a great big thing so might not be an Explorer! Used weekly to ferry a heavy boat a a few mileshe is panicking. I told him not to panic as its pre 2001. Am I right? Read more
Got a call last night from our au-pair saying he's on the hard shoulder of the m-way having had a blow-out driving back from a day out with his friends.
Oh well I thought, there's £50 gone for a new tyre.
He gets home and the tyre which is newish - maybe 6 months has blown out along its length, with a long flap of now hanging like a tongue off the tyre, with all the metal strands showing along the tear.
The flap has simply destroyed the rear bumper at its edge where it curves ound to meet the wheel arch and even taken out the rear light cluster which on a yaris is about the top of my thigh.
Anyone had a blow-out like this? It would have been a different matter on a front wheel - I'm pleased to say everyone safe just a wee bit shaken.
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Interesting. Would delaminating rip through the metal strands though and odd that it stopped after about 20 inches.
For the last few days the water temp is lower than usual. Its normally 90 degrees, but it now sits between 75 - 80. I am guessing its a broken thermostat, which looks easy enough to replace.
But I wont be able to sort it out until next week - will the car be OK if I continue to drive it with the low water temperature? Read more
Yes it will be fine if drops any lower temp ie: stuck open then the heater may be a little cooler.
I reasonably regularly drive overnight to, or indeed from, Italy. Usually alone so music is very important. As most continental night time radio stations are fairly poor I take my own. I don't want you to think I'm doing a "Clarkson" in some transcontinental supercar, in fact it is mainly in my trusty old Mondeo estate ! However, in the dark even in such a workaday car there is still something quite exciting about making such a journey on largely empty and well cared for roads. I have a very wide taste in music but am currently favouring Goldfrapp, Winehouse, David Jordan and Nickleback among many others. At the other end of the scale I am cheesy enough to occasionally revert to Matt Monro in the Alps as in the "Italian job" ! Pink Floyd gets me through the wee small hours and somehow Mozart always seems appropriate as dawn breaks.
If you had all night to listen to your favourite music on a long but pleasant journey, what sort of things would you choose? I think I need some fresh ideas!
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"the other interesting thing is iTunes remembers how many times you listen to stuff"
Great feature, I haven't checked mine for a few months. In first place on mine with 235 plays and beating the second place by more than 100 is The Who's Behind Blue Eyes (my 5-year old girl loves it so it gets played to death on the school run). The other positions are just what I'd expect, Abbey Road pops up various times in the top 30, so does Ian Brown but I was surprised by number 5 with 145 plays - Glen Campbell's Wichita Lineman. Don't remember playing it so much.
Does a song have to finish to register as "one play" cos I often restart a tune a few seconds before it finishes.
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Hi,
Can anyone help?
The drivers side door on my mgzr wont open from inside or from the outside!!! i can hear the door lock and unlock using the fob but if i pull the outer or inner handle the door wont open.
I have managed to get the interior door card off enough to see into the lock mech and can see that the rods are connected and moving the arms attatched to the lock inside the door. What i really need is a way of getting the door open so i can get at the mechanism properly so does any one know how i can do it??? is there some kind of release catch i can use inside the door for this kind of problem?
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hi i have the same problem have you found a solution yet
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Have you had any further incidents of this, similar to what you reported at the start of Feb, like a loss of power?
Reason I ask is, just had a "stutter" on my new Mondeo, as if I had dipped the clutch sharply then re-engaged it, while at medium rpm on a dual carriageway, the engine note was also different and a bit more dieselly / "boomier" for a short time afterwards.
It was all fine and as normal on the journey home.
I'm wondering if the ECU ordered a DPF regeneration, and the stutter / new exhaust note was due to the regen happening.
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Mine hasn't done it since - fingers crossed. Now around 8400 miles on the clock.
What I don't understand is why my previous Mondeo 130PS TDCi was able to be Euro IV complaint with lower emissions of CO2 without resorting to DPF? Okay I know the Mazda6 is 143PS but I've heard the Mondeo was closer to around 147PS in the later models.
I can see why DPF might be needed for EuroV and later though.
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You want to be careful how much polish you put onto polished wood. Too much and it becomes smeary.
Surely you're not talking about a car, are you?
Hi, i took my 93 405 DT to a garage today because it has a knocking noise, the mechanic says the o/s bottom ball joint needs replacing. He has told me that the ball joint is part of the wishbone on the 405 and the whole unit will need to be replaced at a cost of £130. Does this sound right? I have never used this garage before as my mate always did work on my car but he emmigrated to Australia in january, so now i have to use a garage.
cheers
Jon
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No, but the ball joint is on the bottom of the strut assembly. Usually an air chisel shifts them (if you don''t have the tool) and a pair of stillsons tightens them up after coating the threads with threadlock.
Is it me or is this car unbelievable cheap. Or has it got something to do with the fact that it is going to cost a fortune to run on petrol and road tax? If I could afford it then I think I would be tempted.
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2.8V6s are prone iirc to very expensive headwork.
The car market reminds me of 1972-74. (or rather it will go that way). Jaguar nearly went bust as sales halved and big cars were unsaleable as petrol prices doubled.
When you look at the cost of 4 new tyres on a quattro etc. You can be sure at £500 all maintenance costing over £5 will have been omitted or bodged.. probbly running on remoulds etc.
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Why doesn't he keep it; sure the road tax is going up £15, but that can't be significant in relation to the amount of fuel tax it pays a year...?