August 2008
Hi all
the car im looking to buy is a 2001 `y` and hasnt had a belt change , the seller is saying she thinks it needs doing at 100k , im dubious , can anyone confirm ??
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Hi!
I've spent the last 2 years in Australia and have 1 more year to go. In this time I have not owned a car. I was previously insured with Direct Line and, as long as I re-insure with them I will keep my 12 years no claims that i had accumulated as they 'hold' your no claims for 3 years.
The problem is that the 3 years runs out in March 2009. I won't be back in the country and the owner of a car again (can't wait!) until August 2009. As far as I can see I have 3 options:
1) Lose the no claims bonus.
2) Get dad to organise the purchase and insurance of a car on my behalf before the 3 years is up and have it sitting in my parents driveway (with a SORN?) for 5 months before i come home and start using it.
3) Buy a complete bomb, insure that and have it sitting in my parents driveway (with a SORN?) for 5 months . When I get home, sell the bomb and buy a decent car.
Does anyone have any other suggestions? What difference does 12 years no claims make when insuring a car...do you get much money off your insurance?
All suggestions/advice greatly received!
Cheers!
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I'd disagree BP depends what sort of car Jane is likely to buy upon her
return
Of course there are a few variables, but my 21yr old daughter got 50% discount on her first insurance from several comapnies and ended up paying £500 for her new Colt.
With 12 yrs NCB the OP is obviously a little over 21 :-) so on any reasonable car, in a reasonable area, the insurance should be relatively trivial compared to the hassle and cost of finding, insuring, storing and then disposing of a vehicle.
Who knows what the next 12mths will bring - Jane might decide to stay in Oz!
I run a 1986 Ford USA F250 truck with a 6.9 Diesel V8. The truck already has 2 separate diesel tanks and is not of course common rail. It is therefore suitable for a Veg Oil ' conversion ' , however had a company doing these telling me that I cannot convert whilst on the factory issue ' Stanadyne ' Injection Pump , I would need another make like a Bosch or others .
My question is : How can I find a compatible injection pump , where to start looking ? I have free veg oil and space to filter it .
Any ideas out there ?
slt to include model details - is this a tech question ?
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Try using raptor high pressure vegetable oil pump with 150gph flow rate. That works really well in my ford excursion 7.3L. Or you might as well try the 100gph flow rate if the former isn't compatible working for your fleet.
Hi folks, On trying my soft top it would not open fully, it got stuck 1/4
to 1/2 way, and wouldn't then close by the switch, had to use the release key to close, it's never happened before, but has not been used for a few months due to our rubbish weather. any ideas, does it need some lubrication somewhere, don't fancy an Audi garage ripping me off. Read more
Thanks for that, looks like a visit to the garage, to many electronic glitches for my liking!
No cars outside today, just the occasional crawling and bedecked pantechnicon or double-decker, but plenty of peds and more noise than usual shaking the windows and doors in their frames.
In the last hour I have seen a man in a 12ft wide crinoline with, strapped to his chest, the front end of a wickerwork galleon complete with foremast, fore-topmast and fore-topgallant mast, with furled sails on their yards, and what looks like a New York fireman in silver glitter strapped to the masthead, and a crowd of 100 or so nippers bopping past with a forest of tall feathers shaking above them.
Yes, it's that time of year again. But my mind is much on the death in Baghdad two days ago of a friend, the brother of a close friend, a very brave and dedicated human being who had chosen to go and help his country out of its dark night of the intellect by bringing a bit of reason to the upper reaches of the civil service, not for ground-floor opportunist big American money but a bit later, out of principle, for peanuts. Big, big bummer. I don't know yet whether that child of the Enlightenment, educated in an advanced, progressive and almost democratic pre-Saddam Iraq, and in voluntary political exile in Europe for much of the time since then, was targeted or just the random victim of one of the big bangs beloved of the obscurantist forces. Whatever the circumstances he is a loss to humanity. Saw him a couple of months ago and he said things were looking up a bit in Baghdad, he was optimistic. Read more
Whatever the circumstances
I know what they were now. His car was stopped on a bridge by three carloads of people who shot him dead with automatic weapons gangland style. His ministry driver, who would have been armed - he had no other bodyguard that day -, is in hospital with three or four bullet wounds, and has been receiving threatening letters and messages. I am told 'the Americans' had recently issued a warning that death squads trained in Iran were prowling around with lists of intellectuals to kill on behalf of major Shia Islamist organisations, the biggest coherent political forces in Iraq.
His brother told me he had known for four years that this would happen one day. Of course the real possibility was lost on no one, and many ingenious reasons for hanging about in Europe had been advanced over the years, to no avail.
To go from the sinister and horrible to something else you may not see in the papers, but that is altogether more ridiculous, bottles and other dangerous missiles were hurled at police in riot gear in my block last night in the closing stages of Carnival, and the road was taped off for half a mile for a good couple of hours. Plod had been making an officious nuisance of himself en masse all day, and in the end got his comeuppance, although not on a very impressive scale. They need to purge the twit in charge of carnival plod for the last couple of years. Haven't seen brickbats being hurled since the early eighties, but the sensible commanders who ran carnival for the subsequent decade and a half have obviously retired and there are pompous hostile ignorant twits in their place. Of course I don't blame the front-line plodlet, overtime or no, because he has the grace sometimes to quite like carnival and sometimes to look ashamed when he has been used stupidly.
Hi,
I have been out of the country for one month and returned to find that my car immobiliser has switched itself off. I had this problem before I left and it was fixed by a VW specialist.
I don't have the user manual or remote central locking (or spare key). Can anybody please advise me on how I can get my car started again?
Thank you
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Hi everybody, I have a problem with my BMW 318ci, the horn does not appear to be working, have checked the relay which appears to click everytime the button is pressed and the fuses appear to be alright.
Went to my mechanic who seems to think it is the horn, and asked to replace it, however the car has two horn's, surely they cannot both have become faulty. One other thing the last time I used it, it died a slow death!!! meaning that it was like someone was turning the volume/amplitude down.
Thanks in advance.
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Check for a feed to the horn/horns use a bulb tester & get somebody to press the horn does it light up?
Might be a simple dirty connection or earth.
When is the citreon berlingo new van shape going to transfer to the multispace?
Maybe this shape will get people over the aesthetics that people love to hate or can ignore because of the value?
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The Berlingo is/was the slowest depreciating Citroen - so don't expect any 50% off after a year type prices.
Now that ECUs can put a car into "limp mode" should a defect be detected, could the service indicator be added to the "defect list" in the future? A delay of say 2,000 miles or 2 months could be applied and the manufacturers would probably claim "emmissions check" or some other green reason for this feature. It would also add ECU reset to the service cost. Read more
If the car goes into "limp mode" because of whatever defect and can only be
driven at low revs how do you know it's in limp mode and therefore ok
to drive?
My car has an engine warning light. Book says "If it flashes reduce speed immediately, avoid heavy acceleration, and seek expert help." It also has an engine systems warning light. Book says "Stop immediately switch off engine and and seek expert help." This car does not have a service light. Previous cars have had service warning lights, the users manual could say words to th effect, "If service light on and performance reduced seek expert help asap".
I have been looking at the Peugeot 307 1.4 HDI as a family car about 2002/3, but they do not seem to be that common. Could anyone suggest a good alternative, either on the low tax rate or next group up? With good economy.
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I'd second the Octavia, I think the OPs 307 1.4 is Band B, but I'm sure most of the diesel Octavias are C
Also very under-rated is the Fabia Estate - can fit 5 people, more comfortable with 4, but the boot is bigger than the 307's! (H/B version, that is!!)
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Dan
In normal driving conditions; Pug say 80,000.