February 2018
Can anyone help with my sony radio code please it's a 2007 Galaxy 2.0 TDCi Ghia serial No. V027238, many thanks Ed. Read more
Police on patrol in the Dordogne are planning to pull over several drivers today and give them a €50 voucher as a reward for good driving!
Officers in unmarked cars will offer the vouchers - which can be used to pay for fuel - to four drivers who drove courteously, stayed within the speed limits, use their indicators correctly.... Read more
Rest assured "les flics" will recoup the notes much faster than they are being doled out!
My reading of the report (correct reading quite possibly lost in translation!) was not that the €50 would come out of police budgets, but probably funded by the local radio station who were sending a journalist to get cheap copy....
My wife's Corsa insurance renewal from More Than has just come in at £270, up from £214 last year with no change of circumstances. She's been with them for 7 years, full NCD.
We got online quotes to consider our options. Among lots of well-known companies, More Than come in at £198 and LV ( my insurer £173) and Saga £127.
Armed with these she went back to More Than but they still wouldn't go below £230. I tried LV for a multi car price but it was still £173.
So Saga looks by far the cheapest option at £127. That price looks just too cheap and I would dismiss it if it were an unknown company. No doubt it will go up at renewal next year. Has anyone here got recent experience of Saga insurance? Read more
I was with Saga until January when I switched back to Direct Line as their quote was £40 cheaper than Saga.
During the year I had two windscreen replacements which were handled by Saga's preferred company - Auto Windscreens. No problems with the first claim on the A3. A few minor issues with the arrangements to have the C-HR's camera recalibrated on the second claim.
There I am sitting patiently in a queue at some temporary three way traffic lights on a narrow road, long delay on light changes with no traffic moving either way as the third controlled sideroad is very quiet.
I was about five cars from the lights and at least fifteen cars behind me, cold morning so exhaust vapour clearly visible from cars in the queue and most likely plenty of brake lights lit up, eventually vehicles start to come through the roadworks and promptly stop along side me, looked in my mirror and a lorry had overtaken the queue of cars and met the oncoming traffic now coming through the roadworks.... Read more
Especially while making phone calls
It`s getting worse, more drivers than ever seem to be using the phone to their ears now,and a few close shaves with lorries turning with certain drivers not giving room for them to make the turn,idiots
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Anyone had any experiences with the Ford Edge? My local dealer has a 66 plate sport model with loads of toys inc heated front and rear seats , leather, f and r camera pan roof, radar cruise control. 210ps
2.0 TDCi looks quite tempting.... Read more
Have to admit, on the few occasions I did use the "S" or Sport mode, it worked well. Clearly it's designed to change gear automatically if you push the revs too high in manual mode, but being a fairly conservative driver I never took it that far. Something like that in a less complex box would no doubt be a useful addition.
My megane is very noisy over 35mph. The noise sounds rather like the noise from a RWD gearbox and is present even when the car is in neutral.
However the sound disappears when going round a left hand bend.... Read more
Rear wheel bearing changed. Noise gone. Many thanks.
A 2p drop in price is hardly "slashing", more like a tentative trim. Read more
Two Tesco 12 miles apart by motorway. Usually 1p per litre difference. Strange?
Crying out loud! Are the admins of this site so incompetent that they cannot post Part 1 with the correct link? Seems to happen quite frequently that the link to HJ Agony Column does not work then they say 'Oh but it does' agter the fact.
EDIT, Whey hey! They fixed it at around 9.30pm! Read more
Re :Ampstead Garden Suburb,
The requirements for overnight charging of electric vehicles is one of the reasons cited for the introduction of "smart meters" in the home. They will allow the load on the National Grid to be better balanced. I will leave whether such meters are a good thing to the dedicated websites, but it suggests that the introduction, which will not be overnight (excuse the pun), of widespread electric vehicles is achievable.
Like the US, much of Canada will still use overhead calling for electricity supply, which may be at the root of the issues your correspondent highlights.
Hi Guys.
Is there anyone who can advise of a possible radio code for a Ford KA 2008; serial Number V012539.
Many Thanks Read more
Thanks for the code Eleckie, it worked
I had to use the arrow buttons!!??
Anyway thank you very much
More than 1,000 children aged 16 and under were banned from driving last year.
Some of them were as young as 12, according to DVLA figures Read more
No doubt poor parenting plays a part in all this. Where that can be proven by someone with the relevant practical experience of working in the yoof crime sector, and not merely by some talking head who has read a few books and passed an exam, I'm all for some of the burden of the youngster's lawbreaking to be borne by the parents. It doesn't have to be a financial penalty, and indeed on many occasions that would have no effect anyhow because they will be claiming benefits and would pay any fine at a quid a week. Rather by naming and shaming in the local paper, or being pelted in the stocks with unmentionables until they sign an affydavit and promise that their darlings will behave.
Some irony there, admittedly, but basically the parents should take some of the blame for their lack of control. Because time and time again we hear of teenagers who get into crime because they are allowed to do what they like, when they like, their parents being incapable of exercising even the most basic supervision.
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Many thanks, Ed.