May 2008
In this day & age of rising fuel costs & higher taxation i have decided to modify my car to run on a mixture of hydrogen & diesel its a simple procedure of converting tap water to hydrogen gas then fed into the engine along with your existing fuel whether it be petrol or diesel.
It Improves mpg in town, open road and motorway conditions. With correct tuning, it is possible to double a vehicle's mileage. Obviously not all vehicles, loads and driving conditions will gain the same. But standard figures show that you can expect a
20%-50% improvement in fuel economy,
It can remove carbon deposits and prevent future carbon build up. The engine steam-cleans itself every day. Reduces engine noise noticeably, with a much smoother engine operation and gear changes. Clean up emissions.
It definitely helps if the problem is unburned fuel due to inefficient combustion. MOT testing kits have shown up to a 98% reduction in harmful emissions!
Longer engine life expectancy, especially the pistons, valves, rings and bearings.
Having said all that I phone my Insurance company to tell them of of my plans and they said they would cancel my policy if i went ahead i asked them why but they cuold'nt give me a reason does this mean that all Hydrogen Hybrids are on the road Illegaly
needless to say i'll be phoning around for new insurance.
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Hi, I'm hoping someone can help me. We're in Paphos for two weeks in July/August and want to hire a car for a week during which time we'd like to visit the Turkish-occupied northern part of the isalnd. So far I've discovered that neither Budget or Hertz insure their rented cars in the north. Does anyone know if this is the same for all companies? And if it is, how can I visit the north?
Also, any other tips on car hire, where to visit gratefully received. It's been quite a long time since I've been to Cyprus.
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Many thanks, guys. I've now booked a group B car with air con for a week for £184 (with a major rental company) which seems reasonable. I think I'm left with four choices in terms of visiting the north:
- pay the extra insurance at the border
- walk over the border and hire a car for the day
- walk over the border and hire a taxi to take us around
- go on a coach excursion from the south (in our case Paphos)
Pat
My daughter is changing her Corsa Exclusive (Almost 4 years old) for a Fiesta Zetec S (I tried to talk her into a 1.4 but she did not want to know).
Dealer gave her a discount and a very good trade in value for her car - he claimed he could not find hers in in Glass's guide although it is listed on Vauxhall's "value your car". At the time she paid her deposit they were looking for a stock car but if not available the quote was 8-10 weeks for a factory order.
None in stock and Ford have pushed the build date back and the salesman is making noises about reducing the value of her trade in. If it slips too far she will also have to re-tax and MOT. SWMBO wants me to ring and speak to the salesman on daughters behalf to sort this out but I have refused saying we will do this when we go in to finalise paperwork.
The line I intend to take is that they can have the percentage reduction in the Glass price for the car for the 8-10 week period they quoted (currently zero reduction) and anything else is their problem. If it gets heated I want to be where their other potential customers can hear what is being said. If necessary have prepared daughter to ask for her deposit back.
Am I being unreasonable or am I taking the right line. After all they all swear by Glass' Guide don't they!
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Went in Saturday to sort out the paperwork. No mention of adjustment to the trade in value. Just as well as we were prepared for an argument.
Did not realise how valuable the full tank of fuel would be when she got them to throw it in.
Collected the car yesterday - delighted so far.
Hi, wonder if you could advise when the cambelt is due to be changed on this model. Its the basic 1.2 (no PAS or elec windows etc).
The 1 i am considering buying has done 57,000 miles and is 10 yrs old, but am just concerned that if I get it, will prb need to do the cambelt.
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around 72,000 miles. I have a 1999 1.2 clio. Same basic model and had the cam belt changed at 71,000.
while at work-(few weeks ago)3am--hit by a drunk driver.(got out car---swore--slurred words)
the driver then sped off.i managed to get licence plate number.police showed up within 15 mins.
from here it goes downhill for me.
i phoned police a week later asking for update.(havent contacted driver yet)(wasnt a priority that night)there goes drink/driving charges.
two--weeks later ----they get in touch--driver--no insurance.
basicly £600 damages to my taxi.my excess is £350.so basicly i with have to cover full amount to keep no claims going.
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Hi Black Taxi.
Sorry to hear you had a bad experience with the Police. I'm a Police Officer myself and it does sting us when we hear that other colleagues have let us down by not keeping the victim of a crime well updated.
However, I would like a chance to 'defend' ourselves in some way...
The Police take DD VERY seriously! However, I'm not sure what night of the week this happened or where it happened, but if they took 15 mins to get there, they were either quite a distance away from you, dealing with another job already or it was a weekend night with all the usual problems drunken revellers cause.
The problem with dealing with a DD, is what is known as 'continuity'. In other words, they need to catch the driver in the car, with the keys etc. at the time - if the driver was out of the car when they found her, it would be unlikely that they could arrest her as there is no proof she was the driver at the time. If you gave a good enough description of her, they may have arrested her and got her to give an evidential breath test back at the station. However, a good Solicitor would find the loop-holes and get her off of it plus CPS (Crown Prosecution Service) would probably instruct us to drop the case anyway.
I can't speak for the Officers involved, but I would assume they would have circulated the details of her car so that all units could look out for it that night. I would assume they would have also checked her home address too that night - assuming she was going home and not somewhere else.
Obviously, tracking her down that night did not work for whatever reason but they would still need to speak to her about the collision. The law states that a driver has 24 hours to report an accident if they are not able to report it at that time which must be a good reason too. Once that time elapses, they should then go looking for her. In my Force, we would have to do an accident book/report and these must be submitted within 24 hours of us speaking to the other driver. As I say, that is in my Force - your Force may have a different Policy.
There are certain motoring offences that we must inform the driver/suspected driver within 14 days that we intend to prosecute them but to also give them a chance to say who was driving - the registered owner may not have been the actual driver when the offence happened. Once that person is aware of this 'Notice Of Intended Prosecution', then we have six months to get the file in for it to go to Court. To be honest, a file like this takes so little time so, depending on workload, the Officer would get it done very quickly.
By the sounds of it, your local Police have contacted her within the required 14 days and will have reported her for the offence. They will have/will now be doing a file to send her to Court - so don't worry, things are still in motion!
After that, it's down to the Court to dish out the punishment. By the sounds of where you say she comes from, she won't have much money so don't hold your breath for a stiff punishment!
I would speak to your local Force and see if they do Victim Personal Statements (they should do) and whether you are eligible to gve one for this incident as sometimes, VPS's are not applicable for certain offences.
VPS's are a way of you telling the Courts how this has affected you both mentally and financially. The Courts then take this into account - whether they make her pay for all of your financial loss is another matter - but at least it will help them make their decision.
It may sound like I am defending your local Police, but a lot of people do not know how the system works, so I hope you don't mind me explaining it to you.
HOWEVER! Your local Police were wrong by not keeping you informed of their progress and wrong not to have explained things to you so you knew exactly what would happen. For that, I apologise!
No doubt your local Police are like most Police... buried under mountains of red tape documents forced upon us by the good old Government - bring back the good old days of when we could actually go out and Police rather than be glorified form fillers!
Good luck with your case - I hope you'll keep this forum updated and I'll keep an eye out as I'd be interested to see how it goes for you.
GOOD LUCK!
My VW Scirocco has a Bosch fuel injection system. A warm-up mixture control device is bolted to the side of the cylinder block. Although there appears to be little to wear out or go wrong with this unit, it does drift off optimum setting with time. Whilst to some extent this can be offset by adjusting the mixture control on the main injector control unit, a point is eventually reached where starting becomes difficult or impossible.
Replacing the warm-up mixture control unit solves the problem but these are relatively expensive and becoming increasingly difficult to find. Is there any way these units can be "Tweaked" to restore correct function?
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they can be messed around with
i think the 16v wur fits the 8v, the 16v unit can have the anti tamper cap on the rear drilled out and the warm pressure ajusted via hex key
cold pressure can be ajusted via drifting part of the internals one way or the other
id suggest you search www.clubgti.com for "wur mod" and you will need a suitable pressure gauge and co meter
Wonder if anyone can help with this - my AX has recently developed an intermittent speedometer problem. Now it seems when i have driven between 10 and 15 miles, the speedometer drops to nothing and the trip and odometer stop working. this doesn't seem to coincide with changing gear or change in speed or anything like that. It doesn't help if i stop and restart the car, but it does always seem to work from cold. the garage had a nosey but couldn't tell what the problem was. Any suggestions would be appreciated - seems like the garage want to start replacing parts until they happen to find the right one, but I would prefer to work out which part it's most likely to be and get a mate to fit it to save a few quid. Read more
Seem to have it fixed now, so just thought I'd pass on what sorted it in case anyone else has the same problem.
I got a garage to have a look and they ordered a new gearbox mounted sensor. when it arrived from the citroen dealer, this wasn't the right part, as it had different connections to those on the original part. The garage gave up, so I went to a Citroen dealer myself to ask about this.
Their lists gave this incorrect part as being the right one for an AX (this costs around £70+), but they guessed it might be a differnt part for around half the price. They fitted this for me, which was the correct part, but told me this hadn't solved the problem, and I would need the gear box stripping as the plastic cog which transmits teh motion to teh sensor wasn't doing so.
As i left the garage the speedo etc wasn't working, but about 100yards down the road I think I must have driven through a puddle of holy water as it started again, and several hunderd miles later, touch wood, it's still working perfectly. Best guess is that the plastic cogs which transmit the motion between the gear box and sensor were worn, and replacing the sensor was just enough to allow the cogs to catch and for it to work again. Not sure if this will carry on working indefinitely, but certainly seems fine for now.
2003 Focus 2.0 TDCI, engines cuts out while driving but starts up again immediately anyone have any ideas. I was told that possible fault is with on board computer. Car has only 60k miles on it and otherwise goes fine.
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Many possibilities - and you could just try a new ECU at around £800 [about a 1% chance it's that] but I'd start with getting the codes read.
This could well be a cam position sensor fault and they usually leave codes.
Does anyone know where I can buy a 2001 volkswagen passat diesel service repair manual? Read more
try ebay
My journey to Liverpool from Oxfordshire set me thinking. How much waste heat did my journey expel to the atmosphere, and could it be trapped and used?
My cunning plan involves using the waste engine heat to warm a medium in a tank - perhaps a saline solution, which on return home is then plugged into the hot water circuit of the domestic plumbing and has the heat extracted from it.
Clearly the issues include: safety, cost/return on investment, weight (and fuel penalty) as well as the space taken up, and a host of others I've yet to think of.
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Yes these last two posts were my first thought. If you get an especially well insuated garage door for integral garage, then that is probably the most effective way of transferring heat from the car to the house, simply by radiation.
I have yet to see a queue for either time share property or perpetual motion devices.