June 2009
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www.honestjohn.co.uk/news/item.htm?id=6408
Must be quite a logisitcs exercise getting 1100 cars from a factory, onto a boat and over to here and on to a dealer? Any guesses how many times each individual car will be started and moved in that process? (obviously all on cold engines!)
I am guessing:
factory to pound
pound to transporter
transporter to pound
pound to ship
ship to pound
pound to transporter
transporter to other pound?
pound to transporter
transporter to dealer
Am I missing more? Wonder how many people are used to load and unload the boat? Maybe GordonBennett can shed some light on this?
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Whilst visiting my local chippy the other day (not the carpentry variety), I noticed a 03 plate BMW Mini, sitting in a corner of a driveway, gathering moss, with a variety of maturing weeds and plantlife growing up around its wheels and body work.
It has obviously not been used in well over a year (maybe two), and is being allowed (scandalously) to rot.
Now, it may have some expensive fault or other, but surely if the owner intends not to fix it then they would be better off selling it as a fixer-upper rather than have it sit going to seed, rotting away in to the ground? Even as a fixer-upper it must be worth thousands.
Has anyone else seen a newer or more valuable car than this being allowed to decay? Read more
Not far from home, an ordinary 30s semi...for a long, long time there were, in the drive under a tarpaulin, a 1930s Cord convertable, supercharged, in white and rust. In the garage a pre WW1 Le Zebre acting as shelves for paint cans, etc !
Both there 40 yrs to my knowledge.
Ted
Hi
I just bought a 55 reg Espace with panoramic roof. The automatic sunblind on the inside has a problem where it does not open fully and when you close it, it hits the front and then goes back 9 inches or so. This was not a problem until I took it into a dealer to have the faulty ESP fixed. It was returned with this problem. Any suggestions would be gratefully received. Chris Read more
Hi All,
Now it's my Mazda 323's turn to play up! - I've noticed that gears are getting harder to select, they work fine, I can select them all, but moving between gears isn't as slick as it usually is. Playing with changing the gears when the car's off and there are audible sounds when changing. It's a manual gearbox, btw. Anyone know if this is likely to be the beginning of the end for the gearbox - or simply a low level of gearbox oil - and, if so, is it likely that damage has already been done?
Apart from that, and considering it's in its 10th year, it's doing OK - but a big bill will probably exceed the value of the car!
Any thoughts greatly appreciated.
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RU sure it is the gearbox - has the clutch been given a clean bill of health?
A clutch on its way out can make the gear change difficult!
"So how about a ban on nice summers in order to save lives...?"
There's drivel and there's Mr X's drivel.
The way I read Mr X's 'drivel', is - no matter how many laws you pass, some things will never change'
ie, ban nice summers, they will still come...
I will be making several trips to France and Italy over the coming few months and am considering buying an annual car hire excess insurance policy. Internet quotes start at around £30 with most companies around the £40 mark. Does anyone have any particular recommendations? Has anyone had problems claiming from companies offering particularly cheap premiums?
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I have only called on this type of cover once. Hire via Holiday Auto who I believe pass on this to a company mentioned already. My hire car was a right off and I paid nothing apart from the differences in Exchange rate. I paid initially and claimed back.
If it is not your fault and you then get the money back from the hire company (I did) you then have to repay Holiday Auto or whoever.
Hi all,
I have been offered the following on a Freelander 2 GSe 2.2 Man - brand new unregistered :
Discount price to £22728
PX Allowance £12000 (2007 07 Focus ST3 - 17,000 Miles)
0% Finance for 2 years.
Seems to be a decent deal - several dealers I tried just wouldn't budge on price ! Read more
I know someone with a new Freelander. It's been ok apart from a water leak into the car from the high-level brake light and a rattle from the drivers door. Both were fixed but a little disappointing.
somebody was talking about early fords with the airflow ventilation the other week (i cant find a link) and mentioned a mk1 cortina,i noted at the time that the consul which was only out for about a year i believe didnt have airflow and ive found one
if you look at the photo of the dash you will note the holes for the air dont exist
www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C72759/#
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Aha, i stand firmly corrected :-)
Thanks for digging that out DD :-), I now know for sure but I would never use the vents for hot air anyway, and I parted from my cav many, many years ago so I could not correctly recall
Can you guys tell me what I need to do regarding transfer and costs and getting another number for the car if I get a buyer for my Plate.
I plan to put it on E-bay.
I would let the car go with it too and wouldn't expect to get much for it either (the car that is) Merc E320 straight 6 petrol. 'N' reg 70k w210 not brilliant though, but back to the plate scenario if you would be so kind.
Very best regards.........Martin Read more
www.dvla.gov.uk
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My car has just had new front brake pads and discs (73000 miles) fitted, when driving it home it started making a sort of rubbing noise, when accelerating slowly. On the passenger side, sort of in time with the turning of the wheel. Does anyone know what this might be?
Thanks
{amended year from 20 to 2004 - found via a forum search} Read more
Browse
slightly different tack - a road was resurfaced at the local MB dealership last week - no more than 5 feet from rows of shiny new motors - and some customers cars being serviced. Do you think any of those cars were moved or covered whilst the navvies did their thing ?
'course not , it was a hot day and I imagine the cars were getting caked - no thought at all there - pure idiots , and their labour charge is £125 p.h + VAT