May 2008
Hi All,
i hope some of yous can help me, my escort has a broken front bumper, i have tried nearly every car dismantler to try and find a coulor coded one in panther black but no joy,
After speaking to a sprayer to get quotes on spraying a new bumper he told me to buy an insurance approved pattern bumper as they fit nearly as good as an original, what i would like to know is does any one know any companys that do insurance approved parts. any help is greatly appreciated.
Regards,
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i have a 99 diesal sharan with air con. I have just replaced the reciever drier and gassed the system but the compresor wont kick in when i press the switch in the car. The fans come on but thats it. I have tested the compresor by putting live to it when the engine is running and the system works and cools. There is no power out of the plug to the compresor when switch is activated. any ideas??? Is there a fuse that runs the system or maybe a relay. Read more
BBC are broadcasting a programme on BBC2W (their Welsh branch). Just watched a brilliant programme on the mapmaker John Ogilvy. What makes this very special is that Monty Python's Terry Jones is trying to follow the Welsh maps in present day Wales via Sat-Nav. This is what the BBC is best at. We watch it on some obscure Sky Channel that SWMBO has found but also we've found it on iPlayer.
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here.
Brilliant - car related history, this is what makes the Beeb special.
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Terry Jones gives it a particular spin - and none the worse for that, I think Palin would have been a little too serious.
I tried to hire a car in Orkney recently. I am over the 76 year-old limit but the hire company said I would be covered under their policy (cost included in the hire price) so long as I could produce my insurance certificate. But my insurers, Equity Red Star, said they never insured for hire cars. They did not say why, just that they never did it. The hire company were baffled, as I am. Is this general policy? Read more
I assume its Equity Red Star - a venerable and much respected insurance company.
Having owned two of the brutes (and about to sell my much loved Defender) CAR magazine has a beautiful little supplement tracking the history of the brand. Something you can read in the bath - who said that t'internet had killed the car mag ! Read more
my brother went to a garage and bought a 04 plate vauxhall corsa. The car was up for £4500, he has got £550 px for his. MY brother signed a credit agreement for 30%apr. He no longer wants it (he is young and stupid for signing up inthe first place) He has not collected the car yet (ment to be today) and has not given in his car yet. We have rang the garage and the finance company and they are saying tuff , you have to take the car and the finance.
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im happy and i think my brother is too. I think he feels a bit of a fool for going through with it in the first place. but we are all happy, but i am just glad the dealer has not made him go through with the deal -because i believe he was well within his right to make him have the car.
Now my brother is the proud owner of a 52 plate Renault clio DCI courtesy of my other half!!
I have recently become interested in basic diagnostics of modern cars. Years ago (Ok decades...;) I used to work on engines, full strip downs etc as a hobby. Now I still do all our servicing except anything to do with modern electronics, sensors and so on..
However I find I am becoming interested in learning more about the modern stuff so have been looking into EOBD and its history.
This culminated in buying the basic Gendan code reader
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It reads our 02 and 04 Punto diesels and I thought this a very basic foray into a complex area. However with lots of free time on my hands i`m reading more all the time, out of sheer technical interest.
Is anyone else doing the same? and what code readers and diagnostic equipment do you have, as amateurs that is?
(With a respectful nod to the Professional techs on the Forum who no doubt quite rightly consider code reader intervention in this area to be less than complete given their own equipment)
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I suppose my question is: which reader is the best for Toyota vehicles. Car mechanics mentioned one reader that worked especially well with Toyota's and the likes, but I cannot be entirely sure.
Started the car this morning from cold (outside temp 18C) and noticed the oil pressure light took about 1 second after the engine started to go out. Drove about ten miles parked up for about 30 minutes came back to warm engine and started again, again about 1 second for the oil pressure light to go out.
The car has covered less than 44k miles from new, been serviced by Volvo from new and since we bought it at 25k miles had oil changes every 6k miles - always using the recommended 5/30 fully synthetic oil.
Is this the start of a sludging issue or should I start by looking at the oil pressure switch ? Read more
Thanks to all above for replies and peace of mind if nothing else.
To cure the smoke on startup I found if I take out the air filter and give it a good clean or replace the element the smoking goes away. I usually have to do this at 6k intervals between services.
In the 'news' on the right
would I be alone in being totally unaware of 'Mr Brightside' by the Killers ? ;-)
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Lud,
I can think of some places in the capital where you might be wise to skip the 'my ding-a-ling' track if you're in the habit of keeping the windows open and playing it too loud.. as some do...:-)
Hi anyone know a good scratch remover i have used t-cut scratch but did not do the job the scratch is quite deep on a silver car and where to purchase such a product.
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Scratch removal products merely reduce the level of the adjacent paint to the same level (and beyond) of the scratch. I don't think that anything else you buy will give you a different outcome than the one you're experiencing now.
If your scratch is deeper than the top lacquer coat and colour coat no amount of rubbing will remove it - in fact you'll end up with the whole area that you've been rubbing a different shade than the rest of the car.
thanks for all your replies, my sprayer could of sprayed a different couloured one but he was going to charge me £200 but he said he could spray a primed one for £80 which i thought was a good price.
thanks for the link galaxy that sites really helpful, they will supply and spray for £94 i think i might just go for that.
Regards,
escortgti