July 2009
The engines gone, the springs went bang
sitting in a tin can
Planet Wales is blue and the Corsa`s got the flue
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This is Earth control to major Rattle
get on the web and send some tittle tattle
`My mechanic` sends godspeed on to you...
And sorry for fixing your wheels on with glue
This is major Rattle in the asteroid belt
the sills have rust and clearly can be felt
and the stars shine brightly here tonight
the camchains gone the tension was too tight
Sitting in a tin can... far far away..
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Out of contract at Newcastle and only being offered a pay per game deal with Man United, the injury prone former England striker is down on his uppers and being forced to sell his motor. Anyone with £150,000 under the matress can snap this little beauty up -
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It's a BMW 6 series.
When did you last give up, turn off, or back and do something else? Were you philosophical?
We set of in the old suck, gasp, but no blow - diesel this morning heading for the east coast - Bridlington.
Wheezed up onto the motorway sucking and gasping and putting out smoke (to enable a future for black winged moths) and got up to 50mph on entering the carriageway.
You really long for the blower at this point - BOOST. But too late you remember just how slow up to cruising speed the 1.9 D actually is.
Came off the Motorway at Howden and behind two much more powerful cars who were in turn following two caravans, who in turn were following an old truck.
Mile after mile the two caravan and the truck stuck together like glue, doing 40 mph - on 60 limited but `naturally` much faster roads. Long straight roads..
Twenty miles later and no change.. caravans stuck together like copulating snails glued on the bumper of the old truck. Two powerful cars playing close tag on the convoy.
Plenty of places for these guys to pull over - but no. No.
Possibly I might have got through them with the turbo job - but I have never missed the old bike more - for that slight twist of the grip and the rocket ride past.
Turned off. Gave up. Pub lunch instead.
Came back - want a bike.
Then a tropical downpour... mmm
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Last year set off from home in Sussex to go to Croydon at seven in the evening and I live four miles from end of M23 , normal journey time 50 minutes maximum.
Took me five minutes to get to bottom of M23 at Pease Pottage.
M23 was closed due to accident - diverted onto A23 through Crawley, One and a half hours later I had travelled less than two miles and could not get off the A23 even if I had wanted to as it was jammed solid both ways althoough the police and ambulance managed to force a way through ...
I eventually managed to turn off and head back home arriving back at just after nine pm having covered the approx two miles from Pease Pottage to Cheals roundabout on the A23 in two hours .
I should not have had that last cup of tea before leaving home.....it was not chundering that was worrying me....
I understand that because of roadworks on the A614 you can't (at the moment) get from Bawtry directly onto the A1(M) northbound at Blyth roundabout. What is the diversion route? Read more
Blyth has a power station and nearby Ellington was the last deep coalmine in the North East.
The OP is referring to Blyth in Nottinghamshire not Blyth in the North East....
I am having problem with the light staying on for Traction Control whilst driving on a skoda octavia 1.9 03 plate diesel. I changed the MAF but still had no luck. Fault code comes up as 17568 P1160 Manifold Temp.Sensor Circ. Short to Ground. The car seems to lack in power lately, any ideas? I have read on this forum that people have changed MAF but it didnt seem to work for me.
Will this pass MOT?
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You need to get the fault memory read for the ABS controller. The engine controller will only give codes for, naturally enough, the engine unless the fault on another controller has a direct effect on the engine.
The code you have shows the temp sensor in the manifold may have a fault, nothing to do with the MAF as this only measures intake air temp.
VW want £231 +labour to fit a 13pin socket to my Golf. I want to be able to fit a light board when I use my bike rack.
Anyone know where/how it could be done more reasonably priced? As far as this sort of work is concerned my skills are nil.
Although I see a lot of cars with bike racks without light boards, I don't want to risk a tug in bandit country (Essex) or in France where "Les Ros'bifs" may be considered fair game for "Le Plerd"
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I paid Skoda to do mine - which wasn't much cheaper. I didn't want later problems with the CANbus system ( I was told on here that they are a minefield - especially on VAG cars) without some come back on VAG. I intended to keep the roomie much longer than I did and figured the cost was justified.
Edit: Just remembered Skoda wanted that much for a full towbar and electrics.
hope someone can help
i have got a problem with my 1.8 cabby 16 petrol engine
on cold start or if the car has been parked for several hours, when i start the engine the car will not tick over until its been driven several yards, any ideas would be appreciated?? Read more
Most likely to be the idle speed control valve. Its on the inlet manifold between manifold and engine near the starter. You could try to remove it and clean it but usually needs replacing.
Also clean the throttle butterfly area with a little petrol on an old toothbrush and a rag.
With apologies to recent 'highest mileage thread. There can be an element of 'great grandfather's old fork' [tines replaced 20yrs ago, handle replaced 10yrs ago']. Please do not bother to add if the head or sump have been off for any reason. Please also do not bother if less than 200,000m.
Our old 'school-run' VW Passat Est 2.0 GL did 242,000 with no attention to the engine apart from regular oil and filter changes every 10,000 and a few sets of spark plugs. Only the cambelt tensioner pulley was replaced [by me] - but not even the cambelt. Oh, and the HT leads once. No coolant change, apart from an early water pump failure at around 60,000.
Should be a short thread - will most be German, French, Swedish or Japanese?
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Our company had an Escort diesel(60ps.) with 500,000+ with only belt and clutch changes;still complied easily with smoke/emission requirements.Not much left of the body tho'.
I've got a query that I believe some of you good folk could well be able to help me with ......
It's my intention to purchase a "used" family estate car in September of this year, when hopefully there'll be some value to be had from trade-ins against the new 59 plates.
My issue relates to the amount of space that I'll need across the backseat for the offspring. All things being well, we'll have a new addition to the family in January of next year, to vie for space with an 8 year old and a 2 year old.
The 8 year old is on the cusp of being tall enough to do without his booster seat shortly, the 2 year old has an all-singing car seat.
Come January, then, I'm anticipating the purchased car needing to host, in some combination from left to right, two car seats and a fidgety 8 year old too (who will no doubt crave a position next to the window rather than sandwiched between his siblings.
Can you please help in focussing my used car hunting ..... at the moment my draft list extends to ..... Volvo XC90 & V70, Mercedes E Class Estate, BMW 5 Series Touring, VW Passat Estate. I'm working to a budget of £18k max and in light of the number of messy children would have leather seating as a prerequisite to help the cleaning-up process.
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Currently driving a Escort estate with a 3 point belt fitted to the middle seat (inertia reel is in the boot near the o/s wheelarch) as I am quite tall there isn't much legroom at the drivers side which is why our eldest now sits at the passenger side.
Previously had a renault 19 which had better rear legroom so eldest sat behind me.
The Escort is starting to rust now so will be looking for a replacement soon, either a saloon so fitting an extra seatbelt is a bit tidier, or an estate with 5 factory fitted 3 point belts as these don't run accross the boot AFAIK.
Wife's car has started to have the above. On Tuesday, car was fine until having parked. Then a 1/2 hour later, tried to start car then but after pushing button, would not tick over or fire up at all, stop would come on with electrical fault message. Further attemtps to start car were fruitless. Left car for 3-4 hours then starts no problem. Same thing happended again Wednesday having parked and then trying to re-start a few moments later.
I've take the car into a renault accredited service centre to undertake a diagnostic but my bet is it will not tell them anything. Having trawled this forum and the internet it seems that renaults are famed for electrical problems. I've seen anything from change a fuse to changing the ECU which appears to be a costly job.
I know it is difficult for anyone to give an opinion on this but someone may have an idea should the service centre come back with nothing or want to change the ECU. Both days have been very hot as you all know so I don't know whether this will have anything to do with it. I asked the wife and no other warning lights were on at the time of the warning message. I haven't seen the problem first hand so I cannot give any more details.
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i have seen that some of the electronic fobs can be faulty even if the battery in the fob is not fully charged....happened on a motor bike i owned.
it might be an idea as you say to eliminate..weather. try to start in warm condition and cold later at night. in the spot it was parked was the car in direct sun?
intermintent faults are the hardest to find although if there was error codes these are stored and can be retirieved from the data with tools....
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i love wales but find anglesey so flat and undulating its boring
bring on tregaron for me and the wonderful mountain road from it----------
pure heaven