January 2009
Anyone know of such a product ? Basically I want a key ring that once a key is on it it can't be taken off. Either that or a trip to a welder. Read more
........what would it be?
I am, of course, talking in terms of motoring. Me? Well, I'd change a few things. Off the top of my head;
-Introduce variable motorway speed-limits, between 50 & 90 mph depending on conditions.
-Include car-control (skid pan) course in driving exam.
-Free manufacturers from certain suffocating safety and emissions regulations.
-Flat-rate road fund licence.
-Tougher penalties for uninsured drivers.
-Embark on a road-building programme to bring us into the 21st century.
-Replace all speed cameras with radar speed signs and traffic police.
-Bring back fixed fuel duty, abolish escalator.
-Replace all unsightly traffic calming measures with radar speed signs.
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Only one? Tricky.....but I can do it...
Increase the fine for driving without insurance to at least £2,000, confiscate the car, and after two weeks, dismantle it and use the parts for repairing cars where appropriate, otherwise crush it.
www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/01/26/dowle_p1_goes_ele.../
I guess 'affordable' is relative to other electric sub-3s 0-60 sports cars, but anyway:
Early in 2008, former McLaren and Jordan F1 designer Jim Dowle announced that his company, JJAD, would make a bespoke two-door sports car called the P1. It has now been announced that it will be an electric sports car...
Called the P1-E, the car will hit 60mph in 2.9 seconds, thunder - quietly - on to 130mph and will cost £55,000 when it goes on sale in 2012.
Other technical details include two electric motors that together put out 290kW (389bhp) and 590lb ft of torque ? all in a car weighing only 1055kg, just 145kg more than a Lotus Elise - a lithium-ion battery pack good for a 230-mile range, and four-wheel drive.
The P1-E will be made from composite body panels over a carbon fibre and aluminium chassis. Not a bad looking lump of carbon and all, if the concept designs are anything to go by. Hint of Lancia Stratos, dash of Lamborghini Gallardo, touch of Lotus Exige. Works for us.
Dowle's take on the future of the 'leccy car? ?All the electric cars produced to date have been compromised in one way or another and most have been of little attraction to the enthusiast driver," he said.
"We decided it was time to create an affordable electric sports car that combined the advantages of conventionally-engined machines with those of electric ones, without the disadvantages of either ? in short, a drivers? car for the 21st Century.? Read more
Why are these manufacturers (these and Tesla for example) concentrating on sports cars, is it because they are still incapable of making a practical car run on batteries? They just seem to be fooling around at present.
Instead of making an electric Elise, I'd be more impressed with an electric Focus or Golf. That may actually be progress.
helo... i am hoping someone can help, i have a 1993 rover metro and want to filter the air that gets sucked in from bonnet air vent so i dont have to have exhaust fumes from other cars coming inside mine.These cars have no cabin filter so i intend to buy a cabin filter for another car and cut it to fit in the box in the engine bay where the interior fan motor is. My question is if i get desperste could i use an air filter designed for the engine air intake or would it be unsafe to breathe air filtered in this manner? Obviously a cabin pollen filter would be safe but i am having trouble finding one of suitable dimensions because they tend to be the wrong shape for my square blower intake. ...many thanks for any replies
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Thanks for your reply...i will look and see if there is a rubber seal on top of the intake housing for the blower/fan motor and check its condition. If its worn it will bring in air from the engine bay i suppose and make the situation worse. I presume it should have a seal,no doubt perished by now.I do drive in a lot of heavy town traffic and am behind buses and diesels every day. Do you think a charcoal filter would filter exhaust fumes?
Ive just recently replaced my handbrake cable and also did the brake pads due to the caliper sticking and wearing the drivers side down.
I was just wondering would it be better to get mine reconditioned with a repair kit or buy a recon or 2nd hand cailer? Read more
Recon I should think. Or you might try Car Transplants ...
Hi. all
recently bought a vectra 2.0 16v with ecotec engine. the performance is quite disappointing and also there is a slight background humming sort of noise from the engine which gets louder with the engine speed. there is no eml on and the car has just passed its mot so emmissions must be ok. could there be an issue with some of the breather hoses and where is the best place to check for this.
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I don't know what the resistance should be to be honest, maybe someone else does; I tend to buy these at around the 100K mark, so I change the HT leads anyway.
I was amazed to see these figures!
UK - United Kingdom Active: Gatso 3539
UK - United Kingdom Active: Mobile 4406
UK - United Kingdom Active: Specs 279
UK - United Kingdom Active: Redlight 1001
UK - United Kingdom Active: Truvelo 354
UK - United Kingdom Active: Monitron 195
UK - United Kingdom Active: RedSpeed 41
UK - United Kingdom Pending: Mobile 781
UK - United Kingdom Temporary: Gatso 7
UK - United Kingdom Temporary: Specs 130
UK - United Kingdom Temporary: Truvelo 2
UK - United Kingdom Temporary: Monitron 5
Americas - USA Active: Gatso 10
Americas - USA Active: Mobile 5
Americas - USA Active: Redlight 1810
Americas - USA Active: RedSpeed 3
Americas - USA Pending: Mobile 19
I can't believe that the whole of USA only has 19 mobile sites, for example. Figures come from the Database of GPS Pocket world.
Whatever the exact figures are for UK, it begins to look as though the lunatics have taken over the asylum as well as the banks!
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NW you can twist words better than most.
I do not speed. I hate speed humps because they damage my car and hurt my back even at lowest speeds. I have to cross a minimum of 10,000 of them a year.
They are in my opinion a bad thing and an alternative, if required, would be my preference.
That is my personal opinion and I am entitled to it just as you are to yours.
Clear ?
I am now bored with you and this.
A customer of mine has a 70k 52 plate Golf GTi 2.0 and it has spent 5 weeks of the last 3 months in the garage and is currently in again for an ECU issue. Its already had several sensors, 5 instances of warning lights popping on and other various electrical glitches and the short warranty it came with is soon to expire.
She has had enough of it and ive spotted a main dealer 2003 Impreza GX 5dr with 44k for reasonable money - my reputation is sort of on the line as I implied it would be the polar opposite of the Golf - just had a sudden doubt in myself - was it a safe statement as id hate her to buy another dog? In general I take it they are the usual Subaru fare in terms of reliability? Read more
Hello FocusDriver, I clicked on that link and the cost it refers to is for repairs rather than servicing which might explain the difference.
Looking at that page the average age of Subarus in the sample was quite high 5.5 years as opposed to 3.0 for SAABs in the test and the annual mileage for the Subarus in the sample was a lot higher too which might explain why the costs looked higher.
I've only had to repalce one significant item - a back box on my exhaust after I grounded the car going too fast on the pot-holed track to my house and the cost of the part was a bit gruesome I seem to recall.
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I'm trying to put together information about UK VW owners' experience of VW's response to water ingress damage due to failure to clear plenum drainage.
I'm the owner of a 2003 TDi Passat that has been continually serviced by the same VW garage. The car flooded due to a blocked plenum drainage hole and the brake warning light is lit. My VW garage unblocked the plenum drainage hole and dried out car and are trying to charge me £690 for this. Having read around the issue on this site and others I?m now also concerned about the lit brake warning light (something that VW have so far done nothing about) as brake damage has been connected to such flooding. I gather from this site that replacing the servo and related parts might cost up to £980.
I?ve seen various postings on this forum relating to this. Including details of the 2008 US class action against VW regarding this design fault.
www.tradingmarkets.com/.site/news/Stock%20News/129.../
UK TSB51B8 2007 is as far as I'm aware the official UK response to this design fault - a service order to check the plenum drainage at least every other year (something that my garage has not done).
Has anyone had any luck in getting VW UK to rectify plenum related water damage on a "goodwill" basis?
I'd really appreciate any feedback on this.
Thanks
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Another car-razee video. No-one badly hurt.
I imagine if he was an atheist before, he probably wasn't as flew through the air.
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7851012.stm
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The innocent I think he means, rather than the cause of the accident who would appear to be driving too quickly for the conditions...
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Not yet - May was the target date - due to the sudden illness of a colleague/partner may soldier on for a while.