November 2009
Hi just wondering if any one can help my zafira has just started crakling through the speakers even with the stereo swithched of after a while it does stop but is very annoying and does make u jump every now and then when it gives off a very load whine or crackle. It even carrys on for a while when the ignition is turned off . any advice would be most welcome
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Hi! Just wanted some advice. Got my 2006 x trail in March and in August noticed that the ESP off indicator kept coming on - so effectively it was switching itself off. Took it back to dealer who fixed this and everything has been fine. However, it has started doing the same thing again. What do you think is causing the problem - warranty is up in mid March and obviously I don't want this to continue past that as It will cost me. Do you think this is a major fault or are they simply just patching up the problem rather than really fixing it? Many thanks
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Wayne Rooney's dad had his £40,000 sports car stolen... after leaving the keys in the ignition - stopped at a petrol station in Liverpool yesterday morning to fill up the black Mercedes. But as he paid for the fuel, a man got into his car and drove off.
Furious Mr Rooney called the police straightaway and they are now scouring CCTV footage to try to identify the thief and track him down. A police source said: "Unsurprisingly Mr Rooney wasn't too delighted that his flash car had been taken. But to leave the keys in the ignition probably wasn't the wisest thing to do."
A spokesman for Merseyside Police said: "We can confirm we are investigating the theft of a black Mercedes sports car.
"The incident occurred at a petrol station in Queens Drive, Liverpool, at about 7.15am.
"The male driver of the vehicle was not in his car at the time. He was not subjected to any threats or violence or receive any injury.
"We are pursuing all lines of inquiry, including CCTV."
Perhaps this will assist trying to get the message into a few thick skulls ?
I love the police statement re Mr Rooney was not best pleased.
Another high priority investigation?
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...still makes me blood run cold....wasn't you Rattie was it?
Might have been me, though !
I was called out to collect a stolen Victor in Collyhurst. The place was surrounded by 10 to 13 yrs old kids. They swarmed all over the trailer and kept interfering. I got the thing going and got in to drive it on when the engine stopped...they'd ripped all the HT leads off and thrown them up the road. I winched it on, secured it and drove away with about 6 of them hanging on the back of the trailer..... The curse of central locking...I was walking back to the car in the village when a young lady started walking by me and started chatting. She asked where I was going...I just said ' home '
She wouldn't go away, I walked up to the car and used the remote as I got to it. I forgot that it opened all the doors. She got in the passenger seat and started making rude suggestions and trying to touch me up, etc..............she was actually quite nice, but it wasn't a situation I wanted to be in......I eventually gave her a pound for a cuppa and chucked her out to try her luck elsewhere.
I keep going back, but she's never there...:-)
Ted
Hi, my corsa has the standard radio cassette and I want to put in a cd tuner . On the back of the standard radio are three plugs ,bottom one speakers middle power, top dont know, does it go to the dash top display? My question is can I fit a non vauxhall radio ignoring the top plug. Ive seen on ebay vauxhall cd tuners that would fit straight in but they are fetching nearly as much as a new non vauxhall one and are probably years old. I have heard someone mention running problems from doing this but I dont see how. Many thanks for your responses. Read more
I always stick my cheapo CD/USB WMA playing radio in my succession of bangernomics Vauxhalls, it rarely takes more than 15 minutes to fit, trickiest bit tends to be getting the new radio in without snagging the ISO connectors on the insides of the dash. If fitting a 3rd party radio you will need to remove the Vauxhall mouting cage ( which has the ISO connectors clipped in the back) and replace it with the one for your radio.
I was reading a review of the A5 sport back yesterday and it struck me that in a bid to try and fill every niche possible by BMW and Audi - Audi have recreated the old Saab 900 / 93 model with 4 doors and a hatchback. It does seem ironic that IMO Saab's failure was partly due to the fact that it decided to ditch this model and try and create a copy of the BMW 3 and A4. Now in a bid to increase sales Audi have gone to this format with the A5.
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Except Audi have made hatchbacks before.
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The original Audi 100 Avant was a hatchback and based on the Audi 100 saloon.
You're right! I'd completely forgotten about the original Audi 100 Avant which looked like a contemporary VW Passat only bigger.
Of course Audi have made smaller hatchbacks i.e the Golf which was known as an Audi 50.
Not quite, the Audi 50 mutated into the original VW Polo, the Golf was a completely new design. Though without Audi/ NSU front wheel drive knowhow it's doubtful whether VW would ever have been able to build the original Golf.
I stalled the car after coming to an abrupt stop.The car was in gear at the time.The car will not start.It is getting fuel to the injectors.Any help would be much appreciated. Read more
Thanks for the suggestion but it is the injector pump at fault apparently.
Not seen any discussion for a while about running diesels on veg oil. I would of thought that with the current prices of diesel more people would be doing this.
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Does anyone have first hand experience of these systems?
www.dieselveg.com/
How have you ever manged without this
Amazon punters go mad for 'Laptop Steering Wheel Desk'
> www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/20/steering_wheel_de.../
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My dad had a car ( might have been the Wolseley ) which had a fold down wooden veneered tray thing which held whisky tumblers and a small decanter in case a mid journey snifter was urgently required. He wouldn't have liked MacDonalds.
As in
To lamp the stupid folks in front
Who sit with their foot on the brake pedal
Instead of using the handbrake, whilst sitting stationary in a queue of traffic
And lamp sods like me behind who suffer from poor night vision
The third level high intensity brake light is the absolute worst invention
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I'm with dieseldogg on this one.
I don't think my night vision is other than normal.
There's a T junction near me which has a constant uphill approach for a good quarter of a mile, and it's very busy. At rush hour you will queue the full length of it, moving a car length about every 20 seconds. (It doesn't have traffic lights, and most vehicles are turning right. Hellish on clutches too.)
Fortunately I don't have to use this stretch very often, but I can tell you, when it's dark, it is absolutely no fun at all to be behind someone all that time who never uses the handbrake.
By the time I finally get out of the junction and am moving steadily again, I find have have significant green splurges all across my vision for ooh, a minute? Which is not a tiny distance at 30 mph.
Passengers complain too, so it's not just me.
IIRC, I read that the petrol engine on the Honda Insight, in the course of its stop-start thing at traffic lights etc, will only switch off and stay off if you keep your foot on the footbrake. Argghh!!
My daughter is looking for a smallish (for parking) "traditional" automatic to buy for about £6k. She does quite a lot of long distance motorway drives, and currently has a 9 year old Toyota Yaris, which has been excellent. We had a test drive with a 3 year old Mitsubishi Colt diesel automatic, but the auto lurched from gear to gear, ? had no torque converter unlike her current Yaris. We are now thinking of a 1.6 Nissan Note automatic, she has driven one of these as a hire car and it drove well, but she would like something a bit less "utilitarian" and more chic. She would like something a bit different, no Fords, Renaults or Peugeots? Anyone have any ideas? Read more
A bit more chic?
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Alternatively
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at least you will never go hungry,
dont forget the salt though ;-)