Last year my Lambda sensor had a reading of 1.0. At this year's MOT it was 1.28, just below the 1.3 maximum limit.

Is my Lambda sensor on the way out or is there something else that could have caused the change in reading? Read more

I've been racking my brain, but couldn't come up with a witty title for this - so over to you.

tinyurl.com/6jdfvn (links to an article on Sky News)

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ole cruiser,

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Am just posting here after getting in seething from an altercation with an arrogant London cabbie.

Just interested in views of BRs.

I am a cyclist and approached a junction near to home. Junction is quite complicated so will do best to explain. There are three lanes all turning right into a road with three lanes too. Furthest left lane is a bus lane on both roads. once you've turned into the main road the three lanes run parrallel for 100m before the left and middle lane peel off at an angle to the left. At this point the right hand lane continues straight on and just before the parting it then widens to become 2 lanes going straight on. At that very last point a cycle lane on the left hand side of this pair appears for all of 10 metres until a set of lights.

Anyhow I approach junction on my bike, if traffic behind me is clear I signal and get right over into the furthest right lane to go through the junction. I then cycle down the right hand side of the left lane marker for the right lane all the way until i get to the cycle lane and the traffic light.

Anyhow tonight I set off as per the above round the corner onto the main road to sense flashing lights and horn tooting from a London cabbie behind...anyhow he then moves left into the "wrong lane" for straight ahead...goes around me while yelling "you can't cycle there" and anyhow at the lights he winds his window down and I ask him what he was doing. he says you can't do what you're doing you'll get yourself killed. I pointed out the continuation of the whole lane straight through to the lights and that i have as much right to be there as him. he said I should be in the other lane (or I think really as most cabbies think not on the road at all). I think i was in the right and he both was being aggressive to save all of a second or two waiting until the road widened and also was in the wrong for crossing into an inside lane to go around me on the inside and then pull back in front of me and stop.

It just got my blood boiling although there was another cyclist backing me up at the same time.

What do car drivers think? my side or his? if his where am I supposed to cycle on that junction given that cycling on the kerb is 2 "wrong" lanes away from where I need to be and the more I go along the kerb the more I run out of time to cross back to the right hand lane?

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My sons 110hp Toledo has started to play up a little.
It seems after about 15 minutes running that the temperature starts to rise and the heater goes cold.
He grabbed a thermostat today to exclude that, and as we speak he is trying to find where the thing goes.
I have a sneaky feeling that the water pump may be playing up, i wonder if this could be one of the plastic impeller jobbies.

The car has done about 115K i believe maybe more, and according to service history cam belt was changed at 70K ish, but we don't know if the water pump was upgraded at the time.

My question is, would the cambelt and water pump renewal be a reasonable job for the likes of me and he, i suppose we need to get a kit to lock the various moving parts.
We don't have a haynes for the car, but even if there isn't one for the Toledo, would one for a Leon do?

He was quoted about £350 for cambelt/pump/idler renewal by a well regarded indy, is that reasonable and would the knowledgable chaps here recommend us having a go instead?

Any thoughts please gentlemen? Read more