August 2009
I see someone who killed a pedestrian by colliding into them on their cycle has been jailed for 7 months under the 19th century offence of "wanton and furious driving causing bodily harm".
Full story here: news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/dorset/8197430.stm
But he's also been banned from driving for 12 months... (so it is driving related)
Not heard of this old offence before. Read more
...what HJ's tried & tested(?) formulae was for beating-down the purchase price of a new motor was:
RRP;
less VAT (15%);
less any Registration/Admin Fee(?);
less the number you first thought of...
...also to include:
a tank of fuel;
mats;
expensive gift from the 'boutique' for Her Indoors (only joking).
Going in on Friday to (hopefully) do some serious negotiating, gulp!
Best... Read more
Might be worth checking out drivethedeal.com for best price on a new one which is often less than nearly new at dealers and often much more than 15% off.
At the time of course.
I saw a 1980 W reg one the other day and noticed:-
3 Circular heating controls
Front and rear head rests
Rear middle LED brake light
Nice thick rimmed steering wheel and well padded in them middle
Alloy wheels
When you think the Brits were still making Cortinas and Marinas in 1980!
I am just amazed at how modern design is for a 32 year old design. Read more
You have to wonder (or at least I do) why that one hasn't dissolved into
a pile of rust like all its brethren.
Bought by someone who rarely used it (typically retired), then kept garaged whilst dry and clean?
Can't think how else it can happen really.
Hi all,
More of a warning than anything else, just one of those things to look at every now again especailly if you smell petrol.
I've not long brought my second XSi, low millage full peugeot service history... that said not worth the paper its written the previous owner spent a fortune and i mean a fortune servicing and repairing the car all at a peugeot main dealer. Looking over the car im starting to find the small things that are wrong... to be honest the when the garage have done the servicing they have done the bare minimum and charged through the earth!
on saturday i could smell petrol so i had a good look round all the fuel pipes with no sign of a leak. a couple of days went past with no smell of petrol until yesterday there was a particulaly stong smell petrol i parked the car to have have a look and from under tank petrol was runnitn out like a tap had been left switched on.
had to park making sure the filler side was higher than the rest of the car to stop the leak. turned out to be a small split in rubber bend that joins the filler neck to the tank.
after temp sealing it with tape and getting it home i had to wip the pipe off my old car and swap it with the one on my new car, oh yea had a full tank so technically needed to drain it first but being in a rush with daylight running out one off one on with the petrol gushing out in to a bowl did the trick loosing only a minimal ammount.
just one of them things i dont think this is very common but if you are servicing your car or can smell petrol but cant find a leak its worth checking if it looks perished or split at all its worth replacing as it will save a lot of pain not to mention nearly half a tank of petrol i left all over hampshires roads.
{Txt talk replaced with proper words. Would be grateful if you kept txt & msn language for those applications and not here} Read more
I can't start my VW Passat 1.9TDI. It's an early TDI engine, 1995.
I think the problem is the solenoid. The relay in the fuse compartment clicks when the key is turned and the headlights DO NOT go dim. I have tried hitting the solenoid - makes no difference. One think I'm wondering is what the thin blue wire and blue connector on top of the solenoid are as its not the main power for the solenoid and obviously not the main power for the starter motor! Is it part of the engine management system? I know from past testing that if the blue connector is undone the starter doesn't work.
Any suggestions of anything else I can try before getting the car to a garage - I have one opportunity to try and bump-start the car as it's on a hill, but if it doesn't start it's stranded at bottom of hill!!! I'm saving that opportunity for if I have to go to the local garage!! Read more
Quote:....""MY starter has 2 connections, one for the thick lead from the battery, another feed from the ignition switch to the solenoid.""
Mine appear to have 3 - the thick main starter lead, a medium lead which the Haynes manual confirms is tha solenoid lead and thin blue wire which I'm assuming is something to do with the engine management system.
Not sure if this is supposed to do this, the ad for lollipop leasing has the following text:
For more information on any of the above please call the new car leasing sales team
on 0845 3881541 or email sales@lollipopleasing.com For More information and more new car leasing deals like these at www.lollipoleasing.com
the link at the end goes to dsgauto. Is this a mistake?
Can one of the mods let HJ know and delete this post. I thought it would get attention quicker for you to email HJ than me!
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Thanks, I've passed it across to the person who deals with our adverts.
DD.
tinyurl.com/pvaedw
Under £7k for a 2 yr old Z4?
Postcode now that of DVLA office in Edinburgh ;-)
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The other version of this scam is that they arrange to meet you in a car park or decluded location to do the deal, they insist on cash payment, you turn up with the bag of cash and are promptly relieved of it by force.
I noticed that My Clio appeared to have greater turbo lag than usual and seemed slightly down on power around 200rpm on a recent 3000 mile trip around France. I also noticed an increase in diesel knock. Could this be due to the proportion of bio diesel they now put in all French diesel? I usedwhat seened to be the premium fuels hoping to take advantage of the fact that this engine ( according to my main dealer ) has an anti knock sensor and should be able to benefit from an increase in cetane number. All symptoms have gone after a tankful of Shell V-Power. Any thoughts out there? Read more
I tried a fill up of Shell V Power earlier this week. 7p a litre more expensive than the cooking stuff in the same garage at 107.9p. Not the slightest improvement in fuel mileage compared to the cheaper Total Excellium I normally use. My sister tells me diesel in France is about 1?- so about 85p? Worth being a little slower for?
The finger of time draws a curtain over period where small economical diesels saved their owners a fortune in fuel bills - and... they could be used as desired without problems.
Usually weighing in at around 1,000kg - family cars with decent sized boots and fuel tanks and with full size spare wheels. Pity about the smoke. That said.
Where did the era start to end? DPF seems like the final knock on the head for the true general purpose diesel - but before that.
Rubber bonded flywheels, `electronics` on the fuel system, sensors, cats, EGR..
Some well known ruster manufacturers didn`t help themselves at the beginning - fitting skinny little cambelts into the diesels newly fitted to their little rust from new small cars
It`s all gone. Forever. The future,as we know, for general purpose (city) cars are small (and smaller) more and more powerful per litre petrol engines.
Fuel consumption is up - for multi stop start running. Pity about that.
How many have sold on that relatively new largish capacity diesel without a DPF in that almost reflex way we have in the UK with cars only a few years old? Without realizing that they would be disadvantaged by its DPF replacement.
Was there ever a better `hidden` event in the history of motoring than the DPF scandal?
Thinking back.. Maybe the cambelt when it was used on non interference engines.. but it doesn`t come close really does it?
Will the loss of the `chug a chug` general purpose (city AND continental tourer) diesel car ever be missed by the non enthusiast masses?
Maybe not - as long as it moves along the road in its grim little petrol engine way and the eye pod plugs into the radio.
Here it comes... with it`s anodyne buzzing and augmented central locking type electro magnetic inlet valves. No springs.
The next test bed for the public? Read more
Yes the first major fault might write the thing off
It's the digital/binary age: on or off, it works or it doesn't.
It seems to me that part of the reason why British Leyland suffered was because people no longer recognised the value of buying home-grown. Why, then, did this patriotic notion decline when they started to build cars that were better in relation to the competition than they ever had been? Case in point being the montego/maestro; far better cars in relation to opposition than allegro/marina but the British public refused to buy them in the same numbers. Read more
I think you might be right.
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Please no. I think we might have enough rules to be going on with. Whatever happened to the encouragement of common sense ? It's getting daft now.