Ask a Shiter

[DodgeRover]

In reality they probably want to avoid somebody turning up expecting to drive something away and deciding they don't want it when they can't.

[cort1977]

Insure in UK by phone on vin number enjoy wafting round Le France, Gauloises etc. drive back to UK, load onto trailer when you get off ferry for journey home.

UK license holders are not legally permitted to drive a foreign regd vehicle within the uk

 

I imported a modern in to the UK a few years ago and insured it on the VIN while going for SVA and all that boring stuff.   Insurance co. knew what I was doing, that was the point of the insurance after all.  

 

That insurance guide says that UK nationals can't use a foreign registered vehicle on the roads, such vehicles must be immediately registered with the DVLA.   That's fair enough but seems aimed at people driving polish cars for months on end, not eccentrics importing old renners.   Similar to a pre-booked MOT I think you would be spectacularly unlucky to get in any strife driving a French car back from the ferry with it insured on the VIN.  

 

But I live on The Limit, Vyvyan. The Limit. Because I'm a Rider at the Gates of Dawn and I take no prisoners.

 

[HH-R]

Watch out, Norman Tebbit!

[Volksy]

Unfortunately it is, I borrowed a Polish regd car to nip to the shops about 1/4 of a mile away in and got a warning not to do it again from the Police who were in the same shop when they realised I was English and I had to get the owner to drive it back. Incidentally his insurance covered anybody to drive the car.

 

Bit of info here:

 

http://www.hughesguides.com/foreignvehicles.pdf

 

Is this a recent thing? As I used to drive a US registered VW around for ages, and also a French registered Hire van on more than one occasion.

 

I got pulled in the VW for running a red light, and given the subsiquent 3 points, but the rozzers had no issue with me driving a vehicle registered in another country.

[DodgeRover]

I don't know, that was about 8 years ago, looking on the net there are quite a few reports of ex pats getting into trouble returning with a French regd vehicle. Maybe there has been a crackdown on it or a bulletin issued?

[rainagain]

I need to insure another car as well as my own for about two months. Is there a cheap way of doing this? Day insurance only covers up to 28 days, I looked at pay as you go insurance through these guys computerquoteinsurance.com but as they won't let me use my no claims it works out at just short of £100 a month!

 

I won't be using it for going anywhere I just need it insured so buyers can test drive it.

[dougiefourspeed]

Is this a recent thing? As I used to drive a US registered VW around for ages, and also a French registered Hire van on more than one occasion.

 

I got pulled in the VW for running a red light, and given the subsiquent 3 points, but the rozzers had no issue with me driving a vehicle registered in another country.

 

This all sounds a bit weird to me. I've been driving French registered vehicles in the UK on a UK licence for many years now and never had an issue when stopped on a couple of occasions. I have had the carte grise in the car and the insurance paperwork, but under the French system as far as I am aware its the vehicle that is insured rather than the driver being insured to drive the vehicle in question. All the paperwork was in order Traffic plod seemed perfectly happy with that and let me on my way. 

[artdjones]

Just because a police officer says something is illegal doesn't make it so.

[puddlethumper]

Insure in UK by phone on vin number enjoy wafting round Le France, Gauloises etc. drive back to UK, load onto trailer when you get off ferry for journey home.

UK license holders are not legally permitted to drive a foreign regd vehicle within the uk

As someone who has lived in Europe a lot I think the difference might be the UK licence bit. As far as I know if you have an EU licence its ok whether your a Brit or not. I've driven foreign motors here, there and, erm, inbetween, and never had a problem. What about all the ex patriots, bloody traitors, coming to brexitland with, for example, Spanish wagons. You don't have to change to a Spanish licence, because its that Europe land innit.

[rainagain]

I need to insure another car as well as my own for about two months. Is there a cheap way of doing this? Day insurance only covers up to 28 days, I looked at pay as you go insurance through these guys computerquoteinsurance.com but as they won't let me use my no claims it works out at just short of £100 a month!

 

I won't be using it for going anywhere I just need it insured so buyers can test drive it.

Ignore this I've sorted it through my current insurer but only for 30 days.

[Cavcraft]

Anyone on here an ADR tanker driver? Got a few questions I'd like to ask via PM if so. TIA, and all that caper.

[andy18s]

Anyone on here an ADR tanker driver? Got a few questions I'd like to ask via PM if so. TIA, and all that caper.

Career move Billy?

I worked nights in a Shell station back in the late 80's and got chatting to he drivers when they delivered

1 guy drove a Bandit Trans Am as a daily and raced a Mustang at Oulten Park

Claimed he was on around 45-50k at the time which sounded nice

Doubt they get that now but who knows....

[DVee8]

Anyone know if I can get a obd scanner for my1.6dci X-trail.The ones i have looked at on ebay say not compatible with my vehicle.

[bub2006]

Scam? Thought so.

[Kiltox]

Definitely. Don't click that link!

[bub2006]

Me no silly

[tooSavvy]

I think they do get good money. Apparently it's only them and car transporter drivers that still do.

IIRC a driver, on here, was observing that one of the really big 'contract movers' (we will supply the whole logistics you need - Mr International petrol supplier) had secured the gig .. and was offering work to fuel drivers... [As they were being 'laid off'].

 

Race to the bottom.. ??

 

 

TS

[spike60]

How sensitive are the tyre pressure sensors on a 2017 Toyota? Lady friend called in on her way to work with lights on but all pressures were 28/29/30psi. Will 2psi variance bring the light on? She was in a rush and I didn't know what they should be  so left alone.

[stephen01]

How sensitive are the tyre pressure sensors on a 2017 Toyota? Lady friend called in on her way to work with lights on but all pressures were 28/29/30psi. Will 2psi variance bring the light on? She was in a rush and I didn't know what they should be  so left alone.

 

our hire car we had after our bump had TPS and the driver said they just whack them all up to 34-37 psi to turn them off. 

 

​I asked why all tyre pressures were so high as it showed you on one menu screen 

[Pillock]

TPS will have triggered if one was at 35 and the rest 30, and then they're all 30.

 

Typically you run a reset which saves the pressures, and it monitors from there. So if the initial pressures are wrong and it gets reset, that can happen.

 

Check manually at some point soon, either with an airline or by looking at it and saying to yourself "seems alright"

[spike60]

The 28/29/30psi figs I got were done manually, I don't know anything about the dash system and neither does she! Company car.

[Stanky]

Headlight bulbs.

 

I would like to try changing the H7 dipped beam bulbs in my Saab 9-3 to make them more yellow (lower kelvin), like older continental cars had. Ebay lists loads of yellow H7 bulbs between 2000 and 3000 kelvin but they are are 100w jobbies which melt the wiring and blind everyone.

 

A few stupid questions:

 

Rather than paint the headlight lenses, which is a bit 'no going back' can I get a set of H7 bulbs and lacquer them with amber lacquer to make them more yellow so I can change the bulbs out for normal ones if required, such as for MOTs?

 

if I do, will they catch fire?

 

If they don't catch fire will I be sent to prison for a hundred years

 

if they don't catch fire and I don't get sent to prison will I actually be able to see anything?

 

If they don't catch fire, I don't go to prison and can actually see, will I blind or otherwise inconvenience other oncoming drivers

[tooSavvy]

^^^ stick lucozade cellophane over the glass m8

 

Sorted

 

 

TS

[Jazoli]

Headlight bulbs.

 

I would like to try changing the H7 dipped beam bulbs in my Saab 9-3 to make them more yellow (lower kelvin), like older continental cars had. Ebay lists loads of yellow H7 bulbs between 2000 and 3000 kelvin but they are are 100w jobbies which melt the wiring and blind everyone.

 

A few stupid questions:

 

Rather than paint the headlight lenses, which is a bit 'no going back' can I get a set of H7 bulbs and lacquer them with amber lacquer to make them more yellow so I can change the bulbs out for normal ones if required, such as for MOTs?

 

if I do, will they catch fire?

 

If they don't catch fire will I be sent to prison for a hundred years

 

if they don't catch fire and I don't get sent to prison will I actually be able to see anything?

 

If they don't catch fire, I don't go to prison and can actually see, will I blind or otherwise inconvenience other oncoming drivers

 

Easy solution, don't, just get get some philips vision plus or osram nightbreakers and enjoy being able to see where you are going at night, whether you think that them looking yellow is cool is moot really, surely whats more important is being able to see where you are going?

[SiC]

Headlight bulbs.

 

I would like to try changing the H7 dipped beam bulbs in my Saab 9-3 to make them more yellow (lower kelvin), like older continental cars had. Ebay lists loads of yellow H7 bulbs between 2000 and 3000 kelvin but they are are 100w jobbies which melt the wiring and blind everyone.

 

A few stupid questions:

 

Rather than paint the headlight lenses, which is a bit 'no going back' can I get a set of H7 bulbs and lacquer them with amber lacquer to make them more yellow so I can change the bulbs out for normal ones if required, such as for MOTs?

 

if I do, will they catch fire?

 

If they don't catch fire will I be sent to prison for a hundred years

 

if they don't catch fire and I don't get sent to prison will I actually be able to see anything?

 

If they don't catch fire, I don't go to prison and can actually see, will I blind or otherwise inconvenience other oncoming drivers

Firstly you can't run 100w on a 9-3. If you do, you'll get a warning pop up on the SID and it'll refuse to light them. This is to prevent wiring and light fixture damage.

 

Secondly, you know that yellow headlights actually decrease visibility?

 

[Video]

 

Thirdly, I and many others have found that the stock 9-3 headlight beam height is really low out of the factory. You can get away with winding them up a fair bit and still be ok to MOT spec.

[Stanky]

Firstly you can't run 100w on a 9-3. If you do, you'll get a warning pop up on the SID and it'll refuse to light them. This is to prevent wiring and light fixture damage.

 

Secondly, you know that yellow headlights actually decrease visibility?

 

[Video]

 

Thirdly, I and many others have found that the stock 9-3 headlight beam height is really low out of the factory. You can get away with winding them up a fair bit and still be ok to MOT spec.

 

Sorry badly explained - I mean if I took some 55w bulbs and painted them with yellow lacquer - I have no intention of ever putting 100w bulbs in anything ever!

 

Yes, shorter distance but better contrast so things can be seen more clearly, but only at closer range (vs 'bluer' light).

 

Interesting re the third point - how do you go about angling the beam height up? I know there is the switch to point them further down for towing, which when you aren't towing basically points the beam directly at the floor. How do you point the beam further skywards?

 

The illumination (presumably due to beam height) on dipped beam is crap it has to be said.

[Guest Hooli]

You aim them up by turning the adjuster on the light unit, under the bonnet.

 

 

As to dull yellow lights, just loosen all the earths & let them rust a bit...

[Cheggers]

Bad misfire,no power and rotten eggs/burning smell. What could it be?

Gastroenteritis (yes, It's a month late, no I've not spent the whole time thinking of a witty* riposte )

 

Sent from my SM-A310F using Tapatalk

[gordonbennet]

I think they do get good money. Apparently it's only them and car transporter drivers that still do.

 

I'm not ADR i drive a powder pressure tanker.

 

Drove car transporters for 20 years before morphing onto tankers.

 

Yes the money is good, however on the cars the work is much much harder than one might imagine and the hours involved will be high...the problem being the vehicles cost a kings ransom both to buy and look after, and the nature of the work doesn't really lead to double shifting the vehicles, therefore the usually one allocated driver has to work long hours to make the job pay, his pay is geared to encourage that.,,the best paying job in the country on transporters is at Fords, dead mans shoes.

 

Tankers are another case, yes the work is specialised but its not hard work, pay depends where you work, direct own account is best, the haulage companies now increasingly doing the tanker work do not pay nearly as well,  long hours and weird shift patterns are involved in order to maximise the use of the vehicles.

 

Those original contracts where direct employed petrol tanker drivers were on £45k salaries in the 80's are now history.

 

Lorry driving generally is nearing the end of its race to the bottom, the results of which are plain for all to see on the roads every day.

[egg]

What's the best way to flush a radiator of rust if you can't run the engine?