December 2009
If you have your car serviced at an Inchcape main dealer it may be worth buying some of their shares - they give 15% off for servicing and parts.
You need 1000 shares, at about 28p each plus buying costs (ie. about £300). Note that you could potentially lose all your £300 if something happened to the company.
I'll leave you to work out whether its worthwhile for you, but I reckon it works for me.
The full rules are here: www.inchcape.com/investorrelations/shareholderinfo.../ Read more
Hi all
My saxo keeps cutting out. There seems to be no pattern It can happen when warm or cold. I can be at 70 on the motorway or at idle at a junction. It will simply stop. It will then start again on the turn of the key or if travelling faster pick up again after a couple of seconds.
I know this is very vague. has any body heard of this before? Or give me any clues as to where I might start? Inertia switch? pump (LP or HP)?
Thanks in advance for any ideas
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At the beginning of 2009 a prosecution lawyer was found in her car - she had drunk alcohol. The keys were on the floor on the passenger side. She was found not guilty of DUI as her lawyer argued that she did not intend to drive but was merely sitting in the car.
Roll on to mid-summer and the said prosecutor crashed her car, resigned her job and yesterday was banned - full sentence at a later date.
She is now attending alcohol classes and the crash awoke her to her problems....................she is now unemployed and on benefits.
www.thecourier.co.uk/output/2009/12/17/newsstory14...p
Did the 1st lawyer do her overall cause any good or would she have been better off pleading guilty on the 1st occasion (she was found not guilty remember)
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;-) Apparently she crashed in to a "stationery car". I wonder if it was delivering to a branch of WH Smith, tobacconist and stationers?
p.s. On her first arrest, apparently it was important and relevant for us, the public, to be informed that she was in a BMW!
("She had parked her BMW in Ferry Road and drunk a quarter-bottle of vodka, before calling her brother on her mobile to ask him to come and pick her up.
She told the court she deliberately placed the keys in the car’s footwell to make it clear she had no plans to move the vehicle.").
Where are Back Roomers off to for the festive season and what journeys will be involved?
I started a similar thread last year which produced some interesting replies, so let's hear what your are up to for Christmas, 2009.
I'll be finishing work around normal time on Christmas Eve and driving the 40-odd miles down the A1(M) to my caravan in leafy North Yorkshire.
Christmas Day it's across to Southport - about 100 miles from the 'van - to meet family in a hotel for an evening meal.
Looks like my Christmas lunch will be a cheese sandwich and a bag of crisps in a layby somewhere on the way.
Stopping at the hotel for two nights, then it's back to Ifithelps Towers in time to return to work the next day.
So Christmas for me will be a long weekend including a 300-mile round trip.
What will you be up to?
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Of course you can Pu.
We need help with our baggage...KLM confirmed our hold allowance (because we booked in July) is 46kg each, so approx 20kg in CDM, Whole Nut, F & Nut, Orkney oatcakes, Bassetts Liquorice Allsorts and lots and lots of hide chews for mine hosts dogs. Far better than paying for our accommodation! The colonials, I mean friends, have strange tastes.
Could someone help, both dip headlights have stopped working on my KA, all other lights working fine, Main and sides, is this a fuse problem, if so which fuse is it, as there is no ID panel for the fuse box.
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You will probably find that the dip filaments in both bulbs have blown. One possibly went a few days/weeks ago and not been noticed. replacing these is not an easy job on a Ka.
Forgive me if this has been discussed before but I can't remember where but I thought it might have been here. However, my question is, what is the minimum outside temperature below which a car's aircon system won't engage or operate as it would be useful for it to be 'on' when the outside temp. is, say, 0 celsius in order to remove interior condensation. However I'm sure that it won't work under these conditions. Read more
I tried to get the same point across in the other thread IC, but your way of putting it is much more concise :-)
Does it remind anyone else of the Allegro Vanden Plas? Read more
Further my post above...
I wonder if Aston Martin will throw in a discounted, or even a free Cygnet when you buy your DB9 or whatever. ...
Now I probably know the answer to this, but I thought I would throw it open to you guys.
Friends girlfriend has a 97 Fiesta, and it is blowing cold air when the fan is switched on, however the temp gauge goes up at the same time.
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Problem now sorted. It was the control valve, and my mates girlfriend is now all toasty.
Took him all of half an hour to fix, and got the valve new from the local motor factors for £25. Guy says he keeps them in stock, as he gets lots of sales from them.
Cushty.
The clutch on my 2003 Mondeo TDCi (130) 6-spd estate failed over the weekend and I have just got it back after having the clutch, DMF and slave cylinder replaced along with a major service.
The garage, when handing the car back said "Do you know that your 3rd gear syncro is weak?" and went on to explain to me what the symptoms were.....when engaging 3rd gear during normal driving it "crunches" - the other 5 forward gears are fine as is reverse (though I believe it doesn't have syncromesh).
Now, I only got the car back early evening today and haven't had a chance to drive more than 2-3 miles but the problem is very obvious and wasn't present before the clutch failure......
An ideas what might be the cause?
The garage (perhaps honestly though rather conveniently) put it down to an existing problem.......though now having driven it home, I know it wasn't.
I'll have a chat with them tomorrow but would like to know a bit more about what I'm talking about....
A quick 'tinternet serach provides links to mis-aligned gear linkages, dragging clutches and top-up of clutch hydraulic/gearbox fluid.
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Thanks to everyone that responded.
I'll get in touch with the garage and get them to change the oil and also have a look at the gear change cable and reverse light switch etc.
Cheers,
With reference to HJ's thread above.
Might it please be possible for Stephen to tweak the site so that each post is automatically numbered for easy quoting and finding by readers as can be seen here:
forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=596...5
Posters could then simply refer to 'Post No.xx above'. Read more
Do what we do on DigitalSpy and that is quote the whole ruddy lot. No one makes a fuss there!
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Hi guys
The plot has thickened?! IUt now wont start at all. The keypad immobiliser is now showing both red and green lights on at the same time? Usually switch ignition on and only the red light shows. Punch in code and green light comes on and red goes out. The two lights now come on together when I turn the ignition on and if I punch in code nothing changes.
Is this a job for a main dealer of is there something simple that I can do to try to correct it.
Thanks for any advice
Jason