August 2009
An earlier thread asked the question ?who, on here, has a bike?? Sadly, I couldn?t respond because I had just sold my Suzuki in a fit of pique after forgetting to declare SORN whilst the bike was laid up in the garage over winter. I didn?t mention that our garage housed my 1958 Triumph T21 ? last ridden in 1976, and my son?s SORNed 1988 Yamaha RXS100.
When I suggested to a bike-mad friend that I would sell the Triumph, he was adamant that we should get it going again (this will no doubt appear on another thread at some time in the future!), but agreed that it would take much less work to get the little Yamaha back on the road.
After a few weeks work, the Yamaha has passed its MoT and it is ready for the road ? however, could someone clarify the correct order of doing thing now, in order to retax the bike from its SORNed state? Would it be possible to do it on-line?
Cheers Waino
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A friend. let's call him Don, has a Renault Modus petrol automatic. At random, he will come out to it in the morning and find the battery flat or virtually flat; won't turn the starter motor anyway.
A jumplead start and it will go, and be fine again for days/weeks. The alternator and battery have been checked by both the AA and the Renault dealer, but deemed fine. The only fault code logged was to do with the Radio/CD, which the dealer said was a known potential cause of such an issue. They offered to replace it, for £450, or disconnect it. It got disconnected.
Don also got a new battery fitted, just in case it was a weird intermittent cell fault. That was at the end of May, and the car had been fine, until it did the same thing again this weekend. The AA man jumplead started it again, and Don *believes* he said that the issue with the Radio/CD draining the battery can still occur if it has not been disconnected "properly" (?). Don didn't indicate that the AA man had checked if it was disconnected properly, or done anything further.
Bit of a pooper though, never knowing whether your battery's going to be flat when you come to the car, even after it's been okay for 2 months. Equally, extremely difficult to determine exactly what component is draining it.
Just wondered if anybody else had encountered this problem on a Modus / knows of the solution?
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I find it incredible people still buy Renaults when a modicum of simple searching will show they are are prone to weird electrical faults for the past 10 years or more..
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Having recently bought a classic car, it looks as though I will have to get used to the idea of my hands getting dirty.
Or not - as the case may be! Where can I buy surgical type gloves to keep my hands clean? Read more
Glad you like them.
I use mine for anything where you might get noxious chemicals on the skin like painting the shed with spirit based preservative, cleaning drains, handling oily parts e.t.c...
Any advice please.
Following on from my recent post 'Extortionate recovery charges' the Ka is now in a friends builders yard, having been successsfully SORN'ed online. It still has a current MOT, but the tax ran out on 31/July, and the insurance has been switched to a replacement vehicle (lucky, lucky DiL!!).
Reading todays Motoring DT section, I am confused (easily done) by the article stating that I cannot transfer the reg to a retention certificate unless the car is taxed. The reg is worth around £700 which will seriously help Mum's financial situation given the tale of woe. Can anyone please advise me what action I should take in the circumstances.
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We did it with the wife's number when her Audi was written off. Car was sorned and stood in the Audi repairer's yard.
Only issue we had was that the guilty party's insurer wanted the V5 but we would not release it until we had one with the new (non personal) number on.
So i went to a kwik fit garage to get my tracking sorted as the car was pulling to the left. They completed this without a hitch but when i was driving it around after it was still pulling to the left. I went back and they stated that the wheel alignment was not the problem then, and it must be something else.
I was wondering if anyone else can provide an explanation for the pulling to one side? ive also checked the tyre pressure and its all good Read more
if you check the posts of Felics you will note he bought the car a
few weeks ago and now it wont start so its not pulling to one side
while parked up his drive
Ah well that's fixed the problem then...heh
a good case of buying from a dealer is a good idea i would say
Well I don't really trust dealers either, caveat emptor when buying a car. There are a high percentage of crap cars out there and I don't know many people who say.....I'll bend over and be rogered, they normally try to sell it on and roger someone else.
I see cases of bad driving in all makes of cars, and I am sometimes guilty myself. However it seems to me that X5's are more likely to be driven badly than any other model of car. This incident happened today.
I was a passenger in SWMBO's car at the junction of the A1 & M25 and stopped at the lights. Ahead of us was an Alfa, and behind us a long queue of cars. A Black BMW X5 drew up inside us, in the "must turn left" lane to the service area.
As the lights changed, the BMW moved off sharply and, instead of turning left as was compulsory, swerved in front of the Alfa. Obviously the X5 driver had seen the queue and thought that he was far to important to wait his turn and had barged in very dangerously. The only reason that there wasn't an accident is that the Alfa backed off. No doubt the BMW driver felt that he had "won".
Before the incident, I mentioned casually to SWMBO that I expected something like it to happen. I am no Sherlock Holmes, but the car was the full cliche of the "pleased-with-himself" X5 driver i.e. Private number beginning with the letters "X5" which were illegally spaced , Privacy Glass rear AND front (also illegal), and the obligatory black exterior colour.
I frequently notice X5's being driven like this, or an inch from your bumper, or diving from the outside land of the motorway into the exit lanes, or joining the motorway and going straight to the outside lane.
Why is it that X5's seem to be more prone to this sort of bad behavour than other cars?
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The Mercedes Sprinter van that passed me on the M25 a while back must have been doing 95 because I was ' making progress '. I got out of its way smartish.
I have only been in an X5 once in Doha, Qatar where it seemed to fit in with all the other 4 x 4's , the Cayennes and most of all the Toyota Land Cruisers, Hummers and anything else that looks like a truck on wheels.
I have seen some frightening driving there , much more so than in the UK and I do not scare easily.
Large slow lorries with oil equipment and Macho Arab drivers racing everywhere do not mix well.
It may be coincidental to the number of 4 x 4 's in the country but according FCO guide for travellers you are 30 times more likely to die in a road accident in Qatar than in the UK.
Mrs Nsar, despite two speed awareness courses, seems impervious to their message and just got a new NIP for 37 in a 30.
I loathe sat navs as is well documented here, but which is best at warning of the location of cameras, as this seems the only way to avoid any more.
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less than 50p per litre
Ten bob a litre!
We all had kittens when it looked as if juice might one day reach ten bob a gallon, like in France...
Hi,
Got an email from hmrc.gov advising I have tax refund (I fill in on-line) of about £350.
I click the link in the email to an hmrc.gov address it asks me to click the logo of my bank, which I do and it goes to the nat west on-line log-in page, but something about the look of wasn't quite right and I noticed the url is something like go-electrician.ro etc..
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Well all 16 new doors (yes 16) have now been painted - in the event they were given two coats of Dulux undercoat and then a double top-coat of Dulux Satinwood - expertly applied by brush by professionals. They look really good now.
Hi, my friend purchased a 2006 vectra diesel automatic with 100000 miles recently, after 2 months the gearbox has developed a fault & will not change gear, vauxhall have quoted £3000 to replace it.
The independant dealer gave her 3 months warranty & they have said they will pay the maximum £1000 as the warranty is limited, but she has to pay the rest her self.
The dealer is rufusing to pay the whole amount as when she bought it she was told she would be covered upt £1000 per claim on the major partslabour. The dealer said the fault was not present when she bought it & they have a 3 page reportchecklist on the vehicle condition etc (down by themselves) whcih confirms the car was all good
What can she do? any ideas?
thank you.
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oldnotbold is correct..
2 months and failed gearbox = money back or FREE repair.
Period. No argument. It's the law.
What are the pros and cons of each and overall which do you reckon is the best on 2002-2006/7 models? Read more
Just to add that the last 2 recalls which were quite a while ago now !! the car came back valeted with £10 fuel added to the fuel tank !! and the next time valeted with a bottle of champagne to compensate for the inconvenience
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Thanks again. Looks as though I'll be able to do it with the new registration certificate as soon as the new insurance cover note arrives.