August 2009
1.3gx auto 5dr '99
I will be selling this at some point after I obtain a larger vehicle.
However it has a different colour tailgate to the original (sourced from a breakers yard) but nonetheless looks rather spiffy as it is metallic blue on a metallic silver car.
I have had compliments on it from people of all ages not just boy racers ;)
Realising that selling and buying is a leverage operation, I'm not so optimisitc about the impact on value, I was wondering how much this will this effect the resale or trade in value as a percentage?
It wasn't in a shunt and the the body and fitting points are completely unwarped and undamaged
I can respray it silver if push comes to shove, but time is in short supply at the moment
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330 Ci Convertible soft-top. Stereo randomly pops and then switches off. Does this a few times then fault goes away. Today when I was driving it popped and the whole stereo unit turned off and won't come back on. I've taken the unit out and apart and replaced it and it came back on for a split second before popping and completely dying again. Any advice as to what this could be???
Also if it helps I have an intermittant light on the drivers display which is a headlight symbol on the passenger side lighting up in red sometimes when I start the car. Either it goes away or after turn off and on, it disappears. Maybe these two occasional (up until today) faults are connected.
Maybe my car just dislikes that it's raining in August and wants me to take it to spain or something, but failing that any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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No, not the results of a recent curry engorgement but another story in the Manchester Evening News.
5 year old girl walked off the kerb in her own road and smack into the side of a Prius running on electric. Fortunately it was only doing about 10 mph as it was a council 'patrol ' car looking for ASB etc.
Little girl received cut and grazes, presumably from the tarmac and told her mum and police that she didn't hear a car coming.
Refreshingly, the mother attached no blame to the driver and, for a change, it seems no pound signs lit up in her eyes.....unlike so many others !
A slight niggle in my mind is why a 5 year old is allowed to cross the road on her own....but I don't know the road so I can't judge.
Just glad she was ok.
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I think we had them in Manchester until 68 on the routes to Ashton under Lyne. I think the ones in London with the headlight in the middle were nicknamed the 'Diddlers'...or was that something else ?
Ted
Did a really stupid thing in trying to jump start this car from another whose engine was running. I attached the jump leads in the wrong sense on the Clio and didn't realise until the leads got hot. After this the Clio won't start ! There is now a near short on the chubbyish cable which runs from the battery + back in towards the dashboard. The short (4.5 Ohms) appears when the ignition key is turned to first stop.
Two questions:
1. What is the most vulnerable component on that cable after the ignition switch ?
2. Where can I get a reasonable free circuit diagram - in English ?
Any assistance in getting me out of this ka-ka (I'm in France) would be very gratefully received. Read more
Your welcome. Regards Peter
This speed trap detector @ 145, as mentioned on this site?
I've looked hard, but can't see.
Can you see it and if yes, what do you think? (Btw, direct me to it please)
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Hey paul2007
Just to let you know the 3Zero does exsist and I found a link to it here:
www.snooperuk.com/products/3zero/index.html
Hope this helps.
Col
hi can any one help my rad fans done not work if i pull off the brown conector next to the temp sender they will run at low speed have checked all the fues my car has air con as well and it does not run as well any help would be nice thanks ps it is a turbo phase two diesel Read more
Could be a faulty temp sensor.
Was passed by a most unusual small car today, it had a very curved bonnet and boot lid both of which were corrugated, not sure how many corrugations on the bonnet but the bootlid had 3 i think.
The rear window was reverse sloping like a Ford Anglia, the car appeared smallish, it seemed to be a sort of updated 2CV.
It was in black, seemed quite new and as best i could read the badge on the boot it was called a WILL V1..i think.
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Maybe it's just my imagination but I see an echo of the 1930 Burney streamlined car - also made by Crossley. Google it if you're too young to know what I'm talking about!
while i was greasing the digger this morning i came to me.
is there a production car intended for the uk market that still has grease nipples?
not counting trucks which i know have them.
what with the use of nylon, teflon and other sealed for life units i can't think of any.
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The MG TF is based on two Metro front sub-frames stuck together so it probably has grease nipples.
As far as I know its still in production, but only just.
The HT lead to the front passenger side spark plug on my 2.5 v6 is breaking down and I want to replace.
Although I have done other work on the car including replacing the spark plugs and cam cover gaskets I have no experience of DIS ignition systems. So bear with my simple question.
Does the old HT lead pull off the dis unit and is the new lead a push fit and just pushed on similarily to the lead being pushed on to the spark plug .
I plan to take off the scuttle will this let me see the dis unit.
Any other advice appreciated.
Ps I can see the and hear the lead breaking down.
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sorry assumed that you were talking about the cyl lay out, no easy way just lay over top of engine and do it by feel, i know moneys tight but you would be wise to change the set as you have found out not much fun to do and you would not want to do it six times !!,Regards TB
Am I just lucky, or is tailgating getting less common?
It seems to me that people are, in general, hanging back until I move over, then overtaking, rather than sitting halfway up my exhaust.
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Not so really SS although that is certainly the intuitive view.
I thought slip streaming benefited the vehicles behind the leader. Don't cyclists take it in turns to be the leader and hence the one doing the most work?
Browse
I bought a Citroen ZX diesel estate off Ebay a couple of years back. It was dark metallic green and had a dark red tailgate/ no damage to car so don't know reason. I thought it looked quite nice. Buy it now price £180 with a bit of ticket. Was for my SIL who'd just scrapped one. It gave 1st class service for over a year until the head gasket killed it.
A good case of Bangernomics !
Ted