October 2009
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Sounds good and seems to have significant abilities
Chick magnet? Certainly has some pulling power at the end of the video :-)) Read more
the garage has told me that my car rover 400 needs a new gearbox ,and has quoted me £800 cant afford that and is it really worth it , car good and low mileage 4000 . it makes strange sounds when i take my foot of the accellerator no problem with gears apart from reverse sometimes , any ideas would be grateful Read more
......... purely so that I can suppport my local Post Office. Use it or lose it. I've just received my reminder. Read more
Thats why I'm flogging the "Focus".
Love
Herman. ;-)
Had an email checking if my car was still available yesterday. Replied today saying it was.
Just now got this email back (note i have removed part of the link to disable it):
Hello,
I am interested to buy your car but I am a bit confused because I have seen same car with the same photos on www.autotrader.co.uk, but at another seller and price.
Here is the link where you can see it: h://autotrrader-co-uk.110mb.com/www.autotrader.co.uk/www/
Awaiting your response
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I clicked the link and it came up with an autotrader login window. Blindly and rather stupidly i entered the details. Immediately on doing this i realised it was a phishing link and i had just been a muppet. Normally good at spotting this sort of thing. Failed miserably today :(
within 30 seconds had changed my password.
Just to make everyone aware - i thought i was too clever to get caught by this sort of thing, but because i had the qualifier email yesterday, i was blinded.
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yes, forwarded on all the details.
I still keep kicking myself about this, whenever its on the news about phishing scams I always think to myself "what sort of numpty gives out their details?" Me i suppose.
The only question mark is what could they gain by getting access to the account? Maybe I will find my way onto a suckers list now.
I go into a thread, and it comes up pretty quickly, but within a second or 2 Firefox 'locks up' for a number of seconds - between 5 and 10 I would guess. This isn't every time - I haven't spotted a pattern, but it's often enough for me to have noticed it and for it to be annoying. It only seems to have started happening recently, perhaps this week.
I'm running FF 3.0.14 under Linux (CentOS 5) - I know there's a FF 3.5, but I'm on a work laptop and if I want support from the IT department I can only install official CentOS updates; 3.0.14 is the current release.
During the lock-up, the top command shows that Firefox is using >90% of the CPU (hence the apparent lock-up), although I don't know what it's doing. The status bar just says 'Done' - nothing about loading an advert etc.
I've also been seeing this when posting a reply - I hit the 'quote original message' (or whatever it's called) button, then start deleting part of the quoted message, and it locks up.
Anyone else experiencing this, either on FF/Linux or anything else? Read more
But is anyone seeing Shockwave Flash ads in the forum at the moment.... I suspect not.
EDIT: And I'm seeing page load times of up to 10 seconds. Without the Shockwave Flash adverts.
My Renault 2.0 litre petrol Grand Scenic (55 plate) has an autobox which I believe may be by Nissan. There is no torque converter -- it's a robotised manual -- and no Lock or Hold. If manual intervention is called for, you shove the lever to the left and it becomes a flip-lever manual box.
I do not normally use kickdown, but if a bit of urge is needed I just move the lever into manual and flip it to drop a gear, afterwards moving back to auto.
Another driver (with me in the passenger seat) drove it over the weekend. He used kickdown and we both observed that although the car responds OK there is a rather long delay, after backing off the throttle again, before it engages a higher gear. The effect is similar to a slightly sticking throttle cable (which it isn't, but you get the idea).
The main agent who supplied the car tells me that this is normal with, and that this a frequently-asked question from those accustomed to older auto-boxes. Apparently the 'smart' box waits to be sure that the driver really does want to use kickdown, and is not just having a temporary burst of speed, and that additionally it is a matter of the box adapting to the driver's style -- if you don't normally use kickdown then it will wait to check. Hmm . . .
Now to be fair, I may not have got this quite right. The chap I spoke to was no doubt a very good technician -- he certainly knew these boxes well -- but did not express things too clearly, so I may have misunderstood something.
What is the Back Room's experience of these boxes , please? Read more
Many thanks -- that figures. Do you know if this is in fact a Nissan box? First registered September 2005.
hi i have a petrol ibiza sport 1.2 i have problems when i refuel it wont start again when i do get it started it wont always rev properly and my temp gage does not move even though the engin is hot i then it runs fine again till i put petrol in again help
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i have a petrol ibiza sport 1.2 i have problems when i refuel it wont start again when i do get it started it wont always rev properly and my temp gage does not move even though the engin is hot i then it runs fine again till i put petrol in again help
{I've moved the replies to Linda's other post here, as it's still discussing the same problem with the same car. Also, it saves me having to edit the vague subject header for a 2nd time to include a brief summary of the question being asked!}
Morning all,
Next Thursday I have got to be at Heathrow for around 0830 to meet a friend coming in from the USA.
Plan is to leave home about 0530 but which route do I take?
Preferred route is A11, A505 to Baldock, A1, A404, M25. What are the roadworks like at the Hatfield Tunnel?
Other (boring) router is M11/M25.
I know either can stop me if there is an accident, but forget them, whats the normal traffic like?
Thanks in Advance
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I fly overseas about six times a year from Manchester - usually going east.
The cheapest flights usually go via Heathrow, but there is no way we will do that. It is so congested, there are so many delays of flights arriving, planes stuck in limbo on the ground waiting for a parking space.
We usually spend a little bit more and fly via Amsterdam, Frankfurt or Zurich which are pleasant enviroments. Also, the time spent hanging around in these airports is far less than at Heathrow where for one of our regular routes, the stop over time at Heathrow is about 5 hours (and I can fly the whole route via Zurich in 6 hours and 40 mins).
Hope this is in the correct place as it is my first post. I have the above vehicle (grand voyager but option not given) which has an electric tailgate. The problem is I am constantly setting off and forgetting to press the button to close the tailgate. Unlike the doors there is no warning alarm to tell you the tailgate is open. I was wondering if it would be possible to wire it into the existing open door alarm system, or fit a stand alone alarm? If anyone has any advice I would be very grateful. Read more
Why is the Uk the only country that does not turn its traffic lights off at night?
Also why does it not allow left turns when lights are on red? Read more
As already stated up thread pedestrians have right of way at a junction once they
are in the road
I did also say "except at certain cossing points" which you had cut from my post... but in general they don't have right of way... unless FT knows different?
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Meant to say the first and cheapest thing to do is check the oil level in the box.