May 2019
Hi All
I have rented a garage from the council for a long time now.
On March 27, the council send to all garage tenants an increase letter. From £11/week to £30/week.
Most tenant, according to the staff returned their garage keys.
I have returned my keys but my neighbour, after returning his keys kept his car in his garage.
Now he is panicking on what to do next.
No letter was send to him, nor any sticker on the door to contact the council.
He made a double of the key but the lock has been changed without let him it knows.
It's been 5 weeks now and no news.
Through a small gap at the top of the garage, one can see the car. So we he knows it's still there.
What are the powers and obligations [if any] of the council in that case?... Read more
Friend looking for £5k runabout to keep in France. Buy left hooker here and pay ?lots to change number plate to a French one, or buy one from local garage there, where rumour has it they are more expensive? Thinking of something like a Fiesta, Pug 206, Skoda Fabia, Hyundai i20..... I'd be grateful for opinions..... Read more
"Secondly French bureaucracy is legendary. You have to jump through hoops to get anything done. Habitation tax, motor tax, parking permits etc etc. If you can avoid the French civil service (Functionaries) then do so. Also if you get an interfering local Mayor(Marie) then avoid them too"
Having lived in France for nine+ years I have to say that it's not quite as bad as you state....
My brother is looking for a vehicle thats upto £2000 that can carry 6ft house doors with the seats down but carry 4 passengers plus luggage to the airport twice a year.
Key points - reliability, space, not worried if petrol or diesel, comfortable drivers seat. Any thing else is fine he is not a boy racer and not bothered about looks more practically and reliability and length to get occasional doors in being a carpenter.
I suggested a Toyota avensis estate or a petrol mondeo estate.
Any other or better suggestions? Thanks Read more
Update to all - He brought a 2 owner 2.0 litre tdci 6 speed 60 plate Ford Mondeo Estate Diesel for £925 with a years mot. I helped him clean and polish it up and apart from a few scrapes its came up very well. Petrol would of been better but like he says at £925 if it does a year and he throws it its a cheap old barge. I had a drive of it today and have to say it drove very well and was very quick. Thanks for those who contributed, he found it very helpful.
Blooming good price - I presume that must have been from an auction at that price? Now spend another £200 changing all fluids - including brake fluid (to reduce internal ABS module corrosion) then an oil and filter change at least annually thereafter - it may soldier on for years. Simply brilliant cars - decent ride - good handling, above average reliability....
I’ve had a very exciting bank holiday sorting out insurance for our three cars (Logan, Yaris Hybrid and MX5). The renewal came through from Admiral Multicar for £1053, very close to last years premium (£14 more).
That didn’t sound too bad, but £300 for the Mazda seemed a bit much. So I phoned Lancaster Insurance and have now got it on a classic policy (although without an agreed value) for £115!
And a quick trip to the Aviva website and the Logan and Yaris are now insured for £566 (£217 for the Logan and £349 for the Yaris, which is my wife’s car). My wife did an online comparison just for her and the cheapest came out at £550.
It’s amazing what you get when you shop around! Companies must assume lots of people will simply renew. Read more
Slightly off topic...
...The C*** robbed my m-in-l for years re: buildings & home contents insurance (by charging her for two seperate policies – 1 for B, 1 for HC) until I eventually got involved!...
We bought this car one year ago from Arnold Clarke in Inverness. The warranty expired in December. Yesterday without any warning as I was getting onto the motorway the engine just turned off. There have never been any check light engines on, absolutely no warning the car has been driving fine. We have RAC coverage so they came out and ran a diagnostic test and determined it was a broken camshaft.
I take it this is a very costly repair? The vehicle only has 30,000 miles and we have kept all the services up to date. Is there any way our insurance will cover this? The dealer or manufacturer? I just feel like this should not have happened on such a new, well kept vehicle. Read more
<< " a rubber piece he pulled to the side " sounds like an inspection port cover to me. I have one giving access to the timing marks on the flywheel. Little oblong rubber plug. >>
If you are looking at the timing marks on a flywheel you won't see much of any damage to the camshaft. I don't think the cambelt cover on a 206 has any sighting apertures, but I may be wrong. The 205 doesn't, and the engine is much the same.
Do you have to treat them like old credit cards, i.e. cut them in half and send one half to the local tip and put the other out for the dustman? Or is it more involved than that, such as (heaven forfend) you have to take them to your nearest DVLA office for ritual sacrifice? Read more
These were spare plates from trailers, bike holders (rear mounted) etc.... Plus, with my personalised plates, the fixing holes never seem to line up car-to-car so rather than drill more holes in the new car I buy a new set.
I sent a NIP back a few weeks ago as, although I'm the registered owner, my daughter was driving. So I correctly "shopped" her in Part 2 of section 172. I judge the issuing authority would have received it back earliest 12th April, latest probably 16th (I posted it back 1st class on 10th or 11th). Does the 14-day rule re-start when the NIP was received back? I ask because it turned up in the post today (4th May) which is outside 14 days even assuming latest receipt date of 16th April by the authority. Of course, I cannot determine when the authority received it, but then how do issuing authorities know when NIP's they send out are received? Read more
All the above is very interesting. But bear in mind that courses are only normally offered up to (Limit + 10% + 9mph).
Took my mk6 Honda for MOT this week, overall it passed, but examiner said that he doubt it will pass next year on account of failing the Fast Idle Test.
Co was measured as 0.41 % vol , (Limits max are 0.2)... Read more
Second the "warm it up first", take it out for an hours worth of "Italian tune". Failure to hit Lambda (apart from the sensor failing) could also be a symptom of a blowing silencer or other part of the exhaust that may not have been detected by your MOT station. This happened last year with Mrs Surreydrivers Jazz.
Why are pump numbers so difficult to "find" whilst either you are filling up or heading off to pay a cashier.... Read more
They'd be a lot more readable if the ludicrous decimal place was removed, or agreements reached to round the price up universally for exterior signage purposes even if they wish to actually charge 'only' 130.9 at the pump itself, is anyone normal actually conned into thinking 130.9 isn't really 131?
Well, it is actually 130.9. I nearly always buy an exact number of litres (to simplify MPG calculations), usually 10 or 20, and the bill would be 13.09 or 26.18 in this example. The price is set by key-input and the calculator does the rest. As some stores are moving towards dropping the traditional xx.99 kind of pricing, perhaps rounding up may happen at filling stations - but I guess the psychological effect of making things look cheaper will continue....
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The GCV series of Honda engines use a conventional float chamber type carburettor - no diaphragm, you are thinking of the GX 25/35 series.
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