May 2008
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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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.
theres NO TOUGH PENALTIES for driving without insurance-----another law abiding driver gets shafted Read more
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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Tony Lee. Read more
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.
Anyone care to think about it and provide a serious critique? Read more
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.
Hi all.
Driving to work yesterday the spalshboard under the engine near the exhaust came off. It wasn't pretty as i was doing 70 at the time. Anyway I've lost the whole thing.
Question is will it be OK to not bother replacing it. I've spent quite a bit of money on the car over the few months and really can't be done with any expenses if I don't need to.
Car is a 97 406 diesel if that makes a difference. Read more
>Whisky, I didn't know there was two the one that came off does indeed appear to be under
>the oils sump as it was soaked in thick black gunge. There are no leaks though as far as I
>can see
Mines an 2002 model so maybe they are slightly different although I can't see why it would be, you should be able to tell if it had the second cover if there are 4 extra clips further back, although its quite restricted clearance that far back. Without looking under mine to check (its wet :-) ) the second cover started around the back of the front suspension. Think the front cover kind of locked into it, so the back had to come off to get the front off (IIRC thats the very reason why my back cover is in the shed).
Passes an A4 Avant (53 reg 1.9tdi) yesterday towing a two axle horse trailer with a large horse (a lot of the horse showed over the door) inside.
Would he be over-weight - it was being driven very gingerly but did have a proper matching number plate on the trailer so I guess he does it regularly. Read more
re- the plating advice, - this may help!
>>What unbraked trailer can I tow? You can tow a maximum of 750 Kg with an unbraked trailer but you cannot exceed half the kerb weight of the towing vehicle. You can tow a trailer with a Gross Weight higher than your car?s towing limit as long as you only load it up to that limit. It is illegal to exceed the car?s towing limit.>>
>>www.ntta.co.uk/law/law/identification_plates.htm<<
Billy
hi my bosses lexus has done about 149,000 miles, and its now misfiring extremely badly on the front 4 cylinders, after driving it in and out of the workshop every day for 6 months, we've put new plugs and leads on it had the inlet manifold of and nothing seems like nothing was blocked, but very coked, we thought it may be something to do with the E.G.R. valve (exhaust gas recycling), please can some one help? Read more
dubz
Does this misfire happen at idle or driving? Have you had it checked for fault-codes? [Probably only the dealers have the kit.]
What about the compressions - have they been checked for stuck valves? Could this be stuck injectors - are the plugs wet? What else has been checked or tested? Was it only the front of the inlet manifold that is coked?
around 72,000 miles. I have a 1999 1.2 clio. Same basic model and had the cam belt changed at 71,000.