November 2009
Been caught out twice now. If my car has been standing for a few days and I unlock via the driver's door but open another door first, the immobiliser kicks in and I have to (fully) lock the car and wait for some sort of timer to kick in and restore my access to a running engine. Around 20-30 minutes, I guess.
This doesn't happen when I've recently used the car, say shopping & opening the back.
Any ideas round this?
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does any body know how to by pass a heater matrix for the time being? Read more
A good programme made more sense yesterday with a good and informative test on Sat Nav multi function devices including the iPhone TT app. Review of a true amphibious car and a potted history of the Mini and Beetle. Catch it on 5's website. Read more
why didnt he just put a tiller on the gas turbine in the first place with a twist grip throttle?
Because that's not gadgety enough.
BBC Reports sale is off
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8377076.stm
Who will buy it now?
Have a look at your "M" key FB - seems to be tyoing "N"s ! Read more
So presumably any new owner would have to pay GM for the right to continue to use the platform and GM could impose conditions on how it was used and withdraw permission if it felt those conditions had been broken.
In effect any new buyer places themselves in GM's pocket.
...Maybe it'll work this time....
Avant,
Well done.
Thee, like me, has now learned how to use a photo sharing site.
Someone said we'd done the 'pic of my car' thing before.
Probably have, but more than 100 replies and 6,000-odd views suggests it's gone down well in the 'room.
Thanks to everyone who took part.
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Hopefully I have done this photobucket thing right. This should be a link to the current bobbyg and Mrs bobbyg cars
tinyurl.com/yjbz2y8
tinyurl.com/yhoqr58
The above is - I hope - a link to a pic of the CC3 outside my caravan in leafy North Yorkshire.
I've posted it mainly to see if I can work the software - first time I've used one of the image hosting sites.
Would anyone else care to post a pic of their car?
I'd be curious to see the vehicles belonging to regular posters I've been reading about in the past year or so.
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Many cars now have deliberatly scruffy numberplates - that is the numberplate appears to have a stain on it. I assume this is to fool the speed cameras. Does it work and don't the police stop and warn for this offence?
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What I do with new plates, is while the protective plastic coating is on, mix up some fast setting Araldite, and run a seam of it round the plate with your finger (use gloves). This seals it up and plates last ages. It's a thin coating and it's invisible when on. Leave them overnight to dry-Bingo.
my car is in limp mode and is showing a fault ,needle lift sensor , does this mean i need a new injector ? and would this cause car to go into limpmode ? Read more
90 to 120 ohms cold and up to 20 ohms more when hot. Regards Peter
I recently changed the oil on my Pug 406 HDI, due to error on my part I assumed the recommended oil was Castrol Edge 0/30w(or similar).
Reading the castrol site this morning I realise the correct oil is 5/40.......
Should I change it or will it be ok for another couple of thousand miles?
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The Castrol web site says for most 406 HDI models:
Do not use 0W/5W/10W-30
I presume this is taken from Peugeot's recommendation.
I'd be reluctant to do any long, hard journies where the oil gets hot until I replaced it with the correct spec.
Pricey stuff as well!
Took the works van to a petrol station insnip(no naming and shamming) at 2am for full tank of diesel for a nice old jolly to skipton.
Got to station found it had a closed sign but there were taxis filling up at the pumps, so i parked the van up in line and the attendent said no fuel were empty!
Still this guy is filling up the taxi so i said either serve me or it's trading standards in the morning i got fuel but what a snip cheek.
snip
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^ ah, that makes more sense!
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it's a C reg Nova ;-)
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>>>>>>>>>>>>>>or it could be a b reg nova too ;-)