December 2009
Hi
Citroen c5 hdi will not start and it says that license 4759747 has expired (traffic master) What does that mean. Every thing goes dead all accesories including power windows. the radio, aircon, etc. And if at all it start and run the engine, everything comes back to life, like magic. Ive checked all Fuses on both fuseboxes. what to do? Read more
Please be aware that if you buy a vehicle with a tracker and do not register with in 7 days they will not activate the system, just had my range rover stolen, only had 11 days willing to pay but they would not activate. Read more
Just a quick note paid £500 car found in leicester in about 4hrs
Result! Pleased to hear that you got it back, even if it did set you back £500!
What are the legals to using your mobile in the car with either handsfree,bluetooth etc? Read more
I've seen a couple of CDs describe a wonderful arc as they fly out of the driver's window :-)
Hi, Just wondering if anyone as info on getting a used HDI Turbo for my 90bhp 307
would a 110bhp turbo fit my car?
what sort of price would i be looking at?
thanks alot Gary
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My 04 110 Hdi certainly had an intercooler; that's the main source of the extra poer over the 90
Driving home last night and went to change gear, the clutch pedal suddeenly seemed a lot heavier and very reluctant to return. Slipping my foot under the pedal to get it to come back up provoked amuffled click or crack from somewhere, but the pedal still feels very heavy.
A quick look around the pedal box area when I got home shows nothing obviously amiss - I was expecting to see a return spring hanging down or something.
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Clutch started to slip on the way across the m62 this am - booked in tomorrow
on another thread here it was suggested to me that i could get someone to source and buy a vehicle for me on commission.
as an inexperienced buyer (and being spectacularly geographically isolated) i think this is worth looking in to, and wondered if anyone could point me in the direction of such a service in scotland (and also in the north of england - choice from the car supermarkets in manchester etc seem to offer very good choice / value)?
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Salty,
www.auctioncarbuyer.co.uk/AuctionCarBuyer-Home.htm
Joe Dowd is regarded, as I understand it, as the doyen of such service providers.
His company is based down south, but mention is made on the website of buying at auctions in Manchester and Yorkshire.
I wonder if your budget might be too small for such a service, but it's certainly worth asking - Joe invites inquiries from private customers by email.
In my work i visit various docks collecting imported vehicles and delivering new for export-the balance as expected.
I'm seeing ever increasing volumes of decent looking used vehicles waiting at the quaysides to be exported.
Ranging from Mondeo's to Volvos' to Landcruisers and Shoguns etc...say P reg to 02 ish.
Not so many small cars.
Are used buyers including dealers noticing a shortage of decent *sizeable* used cars and will this outflow affect supply in a big way i wonder. Read more
>> So they can drive themselves to the bus depot to take the buses out
to take nurses to work ...
Then they can use a pushbike like lots of workers used to - shouldn't live
so far away ... :-)
Easier to park too ...
Practice what you preach..............................
We're heading for cars for the use of the rich and privileged, ie stepping back a 100 years
It has always struck me that the euphemistically termed cherished registration plate can mark a car out. When it contains the distinctive acronym for your employer all the more so perhaps ?
On Berkshire Way, Bracknell today, between two roundabouts I saw such a top of the range 5.0l black vehicle with a cherished registration (containing the initials of a car company who's UK headquarters are in close proximity) driven in a very exuberant fashion (euphemism very much intended here), possibly floored it and managed to get beyond the legal limit in the short 1/2 mile stretch before standing on the brakes to insert itself behind a lorry and turn left towards the aforementioned headquarters - nearside lane was pretty much empty btw.
Net result, drivers of cars from that manufacturer even at a corporate level can appear to conform to their apparent stereotype.... (and I drive one of their excellent machines too). Or perhaps the boss was late for an important meeting ?
Perhaps better to go for a low key standard reg if you're going to drive "ostentatiously" ?
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Ubu. Or Umberto.
OK, so I was turning right onto a main road today (Green Lanes in London). Good visibility and not too busy, but a lack of gaps on both sides of the road at the same time, fair queue gathering behind me.
So, with a good gap from my right and a gap coming up from the left, I pull across so that I am over the lane with the front of my car touching the middle line.
The last car goes past from the left so I start to turn into the lane, when a guy coming from the right decides to cross over the carriageway and cross in front of me (would have smacked into me doing at least the, 30 mph, speed limit) followed my a woman (speaking on a mobile). Luckily I had not started moving quickly, and was able to stop.
Now, arguably I had pulled over the carriageway so as to block the traffic, but if he had slowed down just slightly I could have easily cleared the lane and he could then easily have passed behind me (when I initially pulled out he was a good way down the road).
My observation of other drivers is that getting out into the first lane is fairly common, or it is almost impossible to get out (I have often seen people completely blocking lanes and holding up a queue of cars), and get honked if I don't pull out.
I have tried edging out onto the same road, but they just come blasting past in front of me anyway. But when I am right across, it seems that they will cross the carriageway to get in front of me anyway.
From a legal point of view, perhaps I would strictly have been at fault for blocking the traffic coming from the right (albeit just causing them to marginally slow down), but those drivers surely don't have the right to go onto the other carriageway just to get past me (it didn't seem to be an evasive manoever, and they should have seen me from a long way out).
Legalities aside, does it sound as if my actions were unreasonable? Does it sound as if the other drivers' actions were reasonable? (of course, you only have my description to go on, but I think it is fairly accurate).
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...Meeting drivers who think its funny to put the washers on full blast when being tailed by a person in an open top car?...
But since I'm such a good driver and always leave a decent gap, you wouldn't get me unless you had a Karcher under the bonnet. :)
Incidentally, the car's own washers don't spray into the cabin, although I thought they would.
Hello all,
Your knowledge and advice is desperately needed here.
My sons 1997 306 1.9 TD only blows cold air. There are no leaks anywhere that I can find, and the vents do not let out any steam which I understand can sometimes happen should the matrix be leaking.
We have bled the system several times to no avail. The in and out pipes for the matrix are hot ( The "in" slightly hotter than the "out" ) We have flushed the matrix both ways which has dislodged a few bits and pieces but again to no avail. We have followed the cable from the rotary temperature dial to underneath the lower centre dash section and it does appear to be moving a red plastic lever down there. Whether that lever is actually turning anything or not, we don't know. How do we find out ? One peculiar thing is that when the air is directed to face it is just a little warm ( and I mean a little! ) When it is re-directed to screen it instantly becomes cold again.
Urgent advice or help needed on this please as I am concerned about visibility and frosting up now that winter is upon us. Thank you. John. Read more
Hello Simon,
Thanks for your reply. There's no way of getting to the matrix on these without removing the entire dash I'm afraid. So, no easy way of feeling the matrix for temperature.
The valves in the ducting are the next thing to look at before going for the matrix.
I think when they were building these 306's, the first item to come down the assembly line was a matrix. The rest of the car was then built around it.
Nightmare !!
Thanks again, John
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