May 2009
My journey to work is made up of five or six miles chugging through town, 30mph limit and several junctions, followed by five or six miles easy run on a 50mph dual carraigeway.
Am I likely to use more fuel going to work - when I do the poor economy part of the journey from cold, or going home, when the car is much warmer when it reaches the stop/start section?
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An oil change perhaps? Maybe you`re going on a motoring holiday?
What`s in store for your car then?
A shock for it perhaps? washing last winters salt of the nether regions.. What salt?
;-)
Tell us about it, in a lighthearted way that lifts the human thingy, above all nastiness - which may or may not be elsewhere - but not here.
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Twickenham on Saturday for the Sevens Rugby - letting the train take the strain. Essex for a family dinner Sunday overnight. Steve Allen The Angina Monolgues at Hornchurch Bank Hol Monday afternoon with no doubt a traffic free M25 jaunt home early evening. Hmm.
You know how it`s often said that `manufacturer knows best` - despite turning out cars with known issues where it turns out the owner is doing the final stage of deevelopment.
What have you found? and more to the point. What have you done to the motor - as a modification to improve on the manufacturers development?
I fitted a finer mesh on the front grill (Praised by the dealer - yes, the marque main dealer) to avoid objects the size of golf balls being able to go straight through into the radiator.
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I fitted a full set of seats from a Mini Mayfair circa '85 to my Reliant Rialto - the seats are literally bolted through the glassfibre floor by way of a plate either side of the floor to brace it.
The guy who bought it off me thought it was fantastic as seat comfort with the original seats is rather limited - Mini seats were luxury by comparison!
It did involve also cutting the moulded doorbins from the plastic doorcards and making new ones which were much narrower and allow for the greater width of the Mini seats.
Id do it again if I had another Rialto - oh and my home modification DID pass an MOT
:-)
We wouldn`t want `standard cars` of course (would we?) but what components of a car could - to benefit of owner and manufacturer - be standardized?
Think of all those mobile phone chargers you have each with a different connector.. when the round Nokia one can just be slipped in - eyes closed.
Wiper blade connectors would surely be a start.. or light bulbs perhaps?
What`s your biggest gripe in this area?
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?You might think the driver could be relied on to brake hard in this situation
? says Ivarsson. ?But our research shows about 50% of drivers don?t brake at all
before a crash ? perhaps because they are paralysed by fear or simply distracted.
Yes, I know 2 people who told me about driving into the back of someone in traffic because they were distracted by conversing with their kids. I'm not sure that giving such people an excuse not to concentrate on their driving is really the way forward.
I have a problem with the windscreen and headlamp washers, which are inoperative. The REAR washer works fine.
I have a workshop manual for a Nissan Terrano which has proven very accurate in the past, but the fuse box layout shown bears no relation to the one in my Maverick! In any case, I have checked all these fuses (none of which is labelled for the washers anyway) but none blown. So...
Any ideas where the fuse(s) for the windscreen and headlamp washers would be? Any other thoughts on what could be causing this problem? Doubt it's connections at the pumps as neither functions.
As a secondary point, does anyone know where I can get some accurate electrical diagrams for this model?
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Since loading the latest database onto my inforad unit, it has decided to notify (and alarm if I'm going too fast) where there are no cameras at all.
For those people that don't know, Inforad notifies of fixed camera locations via GPS in exactly the same way a Sat Nav points of interest works.
The only thing I can think is that the latest update now includes possible mobile camera locations as well.
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I have had exactly the same problem but with the Snooper Syrius S2000 Proline that I use.
Not sure if they use the same Navteq database?
Hey guys new to the site
Found ya by doing a search on google
Any way i am looking for some advise. I am looking to start a carrer in automotive electrics. I have a job lined up but the condition is i get a basic cert in the electronics of cars ie fuse boxes and such. i can aleady fit steroes amps and basic stuff. It would be a shame to pass an appotunaty like this.
What i am after is a home learning course tha may help me out in getting the needed qualifacations.
cheers guys geordie
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Give this a go ~ careersadvice-findacourse1.direct.gov.uk/pls/hot_c...5
Type the word 'Automotive' and enter your postcode.
hi,please help.damn astra working sweet as a nut,parks on my drive for an hour ,goes to start up won't turn over.starter o.k.,fuses o.k.,can't hear fuel pump in situ had it out to check works fine.any ideas many thanks.ps its got petrol in tank. Read more
hi folks,car now fixed.it was connection on fuel pump,rusted and just a mess really.thanks everybody for your help.
Talking to my inside informant at vosa this week and he was telling me about the new powers vosa were given from the beginning of this month in relation to hgv"s,
these consist of fixed penalty fines and points up to a maximum fine of 900 pounds, above this and it has to go to court
Vosa are also allowed to make a british driving licence up for any foreign driver who obviously doesnt hold such a thing and vosa have access to full back up of fingerprint technology and all the facilities that the police use to confirm whether the driver they now stop should be driving if hes been caught before.
The interesting thing is the telegrapgh mentioned most of this in their motoring section yesterday but i trawled both vosa and the dvla last friday and there is absolutely nothing on either of their sites about it.
10/10 again to the dt
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Mr X - The Police do not need reasonable cause to stop a vehicle. No reason whatsoever is required but having no reason whatsoever doesn't make for an easy start to the conversation!
My daughter has asked me to remove the dual controls from her car as she is no longer working as a driving instructor. Before I say "yes" and get her to bring the car, does anyone know how easy or difficult the job is, or if any special tools are likely to be needed?
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Daughter brought car round. It looked easy to disconnect, not so easy to remove entirely. Insurance company insisted on removal.
So took car to local independant. After removal he said it was difficult and would never do one again. (The control manufacturer is Bestway - for those of you who may know the easy and the difficult ones). I an not always good at making correct decisions but I think I got this one right.
In answer to SA she had 5 years as an instructor and took the opportunity of a house move to look for something more involving, and now is a Road Safety Officer with the local county council. The history of getting this job is somewhere on this site. She loves it.
Try driving to Spain and back - you'll use about ten gallons more on the return trip - uphill, see?