February 2010
hi ive just bought A 1995 21.TD espace when i turn on the heaters i can hear a click form the relay but the motor does does work or even try to, please could someone tell me how to check it, where the live would be and what colour the wire is. or anything else i should check for.
many thanks
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I am on the road everyday in my line of work ,and get annoyed by the seemingly endless
stream of parked cars on a lot of roads,which means i am forever stopping for oncoming
traffic,we have an old chap who parks his car on the road outside his house on the corner as you turn in to the estate from the main road and have seen people nearly drive in to it
many times,still its up to him and just one of the frustrating things about driving,one of the
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True b308 i think i need a copy of that HC243 for a few round here its just
plain dangerous apart from anything else.
Right, there have been recent debates on the longevity or otherwise of car models.
It seems to me that the whole thing is a circular argument: you bring up the Daewoo Matiz, for example, and it doesn't matter how many times the like of WorkshopTech point out how robust these cars actually are in his experience, there will always be some who dismiss the car out of hand (RF).
Plenty of other examples litter the thread, to the point where apparently unreliable French cars become paragons of reliability when they hit their seventh birthday, and Kias are implied as disposable *because* they have a seven year warranty.
It occurs to me that there is an answer to this one though, and I am quite prepared to write a script that will work it all out.
What I require is a list of which cars sold how many each year, going back as far as say 1990.
We have an MOT list. This, coming from VOSA is fairly infallible. I don't think it's unreasonable to assume that one MOT pass = one car still on the road.
All we need is a list of what sold what in each year, vs how many of them were still around in the latest set of stats, and we have a % still on the road for each year.
Prejudice then goes in the bin. Skewed results because of people not noticing as many old cars that sold 1000 vs another model that sold 100,000 go in the bin. Large-scale anecdotes from HJ are rendered redundant. We have a simple list of which cars go to the crusher fastest, and when.
So, anyone know where I can get this crucial piece of info? Read more
Come again? Placebo effect?
You mean if you gave genuine VW Golfs to a sample of people and vehicles
that looked just like VW Golfs but weren't to another sample but didn't tell them
which was which most of the people could not tell the difference?
Maybe not so much placebo effect as self-fulfilling prophecy. If a particular model is perceived as having good longevity, then that will make it depreciate slower, so owners of that model will spend more money keeping them on the road towards the end of their life, so they stay around longer, so they get a reputation for longevity.
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No idea kid where the fuse is try looking for it under the dash or the bonnet.
As for the switch for the heaters it may pry out to get to the wires or remove some trim the fault finding is common to all makes not just yours.