November 2009
Hi I am new to this I have a probelm with the ignition, the key turns fine either on or off but it does not turn the starter motor. There is no spring back from the switch when you turn the key to start it, it feels as though the ignition swicth is seized or faulty. When I turn it off and remove the key the ignition lights are still on, cannot get access to the starter motor terminals to short them out to see if the car will start. I have disconnected the battery so not to flatten the battery. I think I may need a new ignition swicth if so how do I change it. Many thanks Boxxy Read more
I appreciate that, when it was introduced, it was to protect mostly manual workers from injury or death, caused by hazards in the workplace or even the negligence of employers. This is a good thing overall.
However, it seems to me the scope in being expanded, because otherwise those employed to enforce the rules wouldn't have that much to do.
In todays's DT I found the following which I have summarised.
1. An Army veteran, selling poppies in a shopping centre in Portsmouth, was asked to leave as he had not undergone a "Risk Assessment.
2. 2 Metropolitan police officers, despite having a spare wheel and a jack in their vehicle, had to wait 2 hours for the designated contractor to turn out and do the job for them. (This may be more a contractural issue than H&S to be fair)
3. Feeling Green, and wanting save whales or chipmunks or whatever, a couple walked 400 yards to their local waste disposal centre to get rid of some rubbish. They were told that they could only come by car as there was no approved pedestrain access. Husband left his wife and the rubbish at the entrance, went home and picked up his car, drove back to the tip and put the rubbish in, drove into the centre and unloaded it.
Any thoughts? There are plenty of other recent cases which are similar and I thing BR members are aware of them. Is this law being too rigorously interpreted and applied?
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.....failing to see even a tenuous link to motoring any more - so it's locked.
Just got last months mobile phone bill ,Autotrader have recently introduced a (telesafe) system. Apparently to prevent canvas calls to advertisers on thier website. The numbers which begin 0704 and 0872 are in effect premium rate numbers .Ive only used 0704 and have been charged from my mobile at .60p a minute.in future i wont ring sellers who are using this system.
You can tell whos using telesafe by a phone graphic below the numbers .Does the seller have to pay to use the system ?
My main objection to this system is that you have to read the small print, by a link to know you are using a premium system.
Most other premium sites have a warning as you dial the number, that you are incurring increased costs .not this one.
More profit to Autotrader ?
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Ahhh, so that's why a few seller's numbers were unavailable from my work phone. I thought these were mobile numbers that had been disconnected.
I have been lurking on pprune.com (a forum for all parts of air travel) and have come to realise that here in the Back Room we are a very pleasant and civilised bunch of petrolheads. We rarely swear, don't use much bad language and most importantly are generally polite with each other even when we disagree violently.
Compared with pprune, which is a haven for loudmouthed know-it-alls who may know it all, but then tell you in a very (virtual) loud voice not to insult their intelligence.
So thank you all. After flirting with other fora, I always come back to my friends in the Back Room.
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www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/6518043/Work...l
Oh dear - it's bound to catch on.
Hi All,
I have a Focus TDDI which seems to be well down on power apart from when it is started from cold or if i switch the car off and restart it whilst moving? The power is brilliant when i turn the car off and then back on, but drops off again after a few miles, It Seems to be running on around 60-70% power normally.
regards,
escortgti
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A stuck EGR valve sounds like the cause. When stuck open it keeps feeding exhaust into the cylinders and that could explain both the smokiness as well as the loss of power. Having said that, has the onset been gradual or acute? If it has been coming slowly I'd rather suggest it's a clogged air and / or diesel filter, as well as possibly clogged injectors. If you are unsure about how the car's been serviced, I'd recommend changing air and diesel filters and a can of diesel injector cleaner of a reputable make. If you know the service schedule has been spot-on, try the injector cleaner first. If no improvement, take apart the EGR valve and clean it. To prevent this happening again, regularly load the engine by accelerating fiercely in 2nd or 3rd gear and letting go sharply. This makes the valve move in and out thus preventing sticking. Avoid driving for long at very low rpm's (< 1,500) since this generates copious amounts of soot which is also the primary cause of clogged catalytic convertors. Using high quality fuel and an octane booster every 5,000 kms also helps alot in preventing.
Back end of February this year, my wife and I had a VW Golf on hire, paid for by a third party insurance company, because they admitted fault when their customer hit our car. We had this car about 8 days.
Skip forward to today, and in the post was a parking charge for the grand total of £738. This was sent to us by the hire car company and the date on the notice was 28th October 2009/
The alledged parking violation was supposed to have taken place in Burton upon Trent on the 28th February so obviously the hire car company have sent it to us along with a letter warning us that they intend to charge my credit card with an admin fee of £35. So total charge at this point is £738 to the parking enforcement company and £35 to the hire company.
If we do not pay this immediately the parking enforcement company add £3 per day by way of "Liquidated Damages".
Of course on opening this letter my wife was in a panic and phoned me up straight away.Yes we had the car on hire with the correct registration on that date.
BUT, we have never been to Burton upon Trent and just out of interest I got out the sheet we got when we returned the car to check the mileage we had done during our hire period which was 148 miles.
Now from Google Earth, the distance from our house to the exact spot where we were supposed to be parked is 80.1 miles, so a return trip would be at least 160 miles.So if we had done this trip and adding on all the local running about, our mileage would have been greater than the 148 that is documented.
So this must be a scam, but how does it work ?
I have rung up the hire car company, and told them in no uncertain terms, not to charge my card for a £35 admin fee and to pass my details on to the Parking enforcement company for me to deal with direct, to which they agreed.
I will wait to see what turns up from the scammers.
Removed make and model and added a categoty of Legal and Motoring Advice since this is not VW Golf specific. Rob (Moderator)
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Received another "Statement" today, the total cost is now £810 and it will continue to rise at the rate of £3 per day if I don't pay it.
I wonder how high they will run it up before they threaten me with court action.
I have V reg. VW poll, done 75K miles. recently it gives a rattling noise when i press clutch to change gears especially with first and second gears, bit rough to do that. It disappears when I release the clutch or clutch is fully engaged. Nationwide says to change clutch which will be 380 pounds, already spend around 2000 pounds since i bought it 3 years ago,
Need some cheaper way of solving this issue please. Is there anything else wrong from what i said please.
Raj
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I was quoted £150 for a new clutch on my Fiesta when it burnt out. He was swearing a bit thats a big job but said it was very easy. This was a Fiesta with a hydraulic clutch and not a cable one. £380 seems a bit too much for me, surely a local indie garage will do the job a lot cheaper? I know the gearbox has to come out but this is a Polo not a truck.
Also on a car this age if you just get 30,000 miles out of the new clutch if you don't do that many miles the car will be long in the scrap yard by then anyway.
I have a 99 car and there is no way I would pay £380 for a new clutch.
I know I can vacuum my keyboard to get all the cigarette ash and so on out, but is there a way of getting the thick deposits of DNA off the edges of the lesser-used keys, and indeed the fringes of my mouse, without risking any short circuit malarkey? It's a perfectly good keyboard and I don't want to have to run another one in.
I am afraid that if this goes on my computer will become a source of new and deadly viruses. Not the electronic sort, real ones.
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email account and there is certainly a web based interface which automatically directs junk to the appropriate folder and then deletes it after a week. >>
L'escargot: As Spmcan says, check your email account by visiting your email web server at www.orange.co.uk
I think you can set spam filter settings there too.
I'm sure I have read somewhere that an 'L' driver cannot take the DSA driving test in a car fitted with an 'automatic release' electric parking brake (eg some Renaults, Citroens, etc) because of the way in which these brakes simplify a hill start. You just press the pedal and go.
I can find no reference to this on the DSA website, however. Can anyone confirm this please -- if it is so, I would apreciate chapter and verse. Read more
Are cars fitted with hill hold also unable to be used?
They would not be acceptable either.
It is probable that a test in a vehicle with an automatic handbrake would actually be conducted by an examiner, but even though a manual test had been booked only an automatic licence would be issued.
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thanks for all the advice boxxy