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[Pete-M]

What is all this twin air bollocks about?

 

It's bloody clever, and hopefully it'll get rid of diesels.

 

[myglaren]

What is all this twin air bollocks about?

 

It's bloody clever, and hopefully it'll get rid of diesels.

 

 

Didn't get much from that other than it is an engine with four cylinders missing

[Morgan84]

"flash" function not tested, Main and dip must work though (with a warning light for main)

 

My question - was the VOSA main computer down today, or was it just us? Spent half the morning in a world of fallback/SAT/ET pain (I had to read section N of the scheme guide, it wasn't fun!) and couldn't get through to the help desk either.

 

Yes,the main server went on strike for about 90 minutes,but was back to normal about 12.35. Quite annoying as I had a test on the go,and had to wait it out,as the service desk and even our local office was engaged all the time.Nice how they can have problems,and we have to be patient,but if a station has a problem,its zero tollerance !!!

The biggest stinker is the rising costs of testing,such as equipment updates of Gas analysers and DSM's not to mention the sting of having to pay for toner cartridges for the new printers,plus we will end up having to supply all the damned paper as well I'm sure !

[RoadworkUK]

What is all this twin air bollocks about?

 

It's bloody clever, and hopefully it'll get rid of diesels.

 

 

I really, really want to try one of these.

[eddyramrod]

A neighbour in my new village has a 98 Daewoo Leganza 2.0, which his wife really loves; however it recently lunched the engine. He's pretty sure a replacement will be required, as the car is way too good to scrap (he says, I haven't seen it yet). I seem to remember these used Vauxhall technology, so is the engine the same as the 2.0 Cavalier from the mid 90s? Or if not, is it interchangeable with anything else?

[trigger]

Does anyone know what the white car is?, i thought it was a Hyundai Pony but someone else says it's a Alfa Romeo Arna?.

 

1989 Car Park with Honda Accord and 1980 Hyundai Pony by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

[scaryoldcortina]

It's a pony. Looks nowt like an arna.

 

eddy - I confidently predict that a cavalier engine will ALMOST bolt into the daewoo. I'd recommend a V8 instead.

[Volksy]

I think it's a Cherry Europe, dat/nissans version of the arna, but with a bodykit on. Defo not a pony.

[eddyramrod]

It's either an Arna or a Cherry with some kind of body kit...

[scaryoldcortina]

having remebered that the board crops the RHS off all pictures I used "view image"

 

It's an Arna (or at least it has arna SL wheels on it)

[eddyramrod]

eddy - I confidently predict that a cavalier engine will ALMOST bolt into the daewoo. I'd recommend a V8 instead.

 

Thanks for that; however over here we have rules about transplanting, all designed to make life more and more difficult of course. V8 is off the shopping list I'm afraid. You didn't see the raft of paperwork just because my Granada has a replacement engine, and that's to original spec!

[trigger]

it's an Arna (or at least it has arna SL wheels on it)

 

That's answered that then!, Thanks!

[Cavcraft]

Is it correct that any MOT station should give you a replacement certificate (at £10 or whatever it is) regardless of whether you had the car tested there or not?

I'm sure someone told me garages cannot refuse to give you a replacement regardless of where the MOT was carried out, and that if they do refuse you can report them to VOSA?

[Pete-M]

Is it correct that any MOT station should give you a replacement certificate (at £10 or whatever it is) regardless of whether you had the car tested there or not?

I'm sure someone told me garages cannot refuse to give you a replacement regardless of where the MOT was carried out, and that if they do refuse you can report them to VOSA?

 

You'll need the old MOT number or the V5C reference number to get it but you should be able to get one at any MOT station.

 

If they're logged on doing another MOT they can't log off to print you a replacement MOT but if you're prepared to wait for anything up to an hour they'll normally sort it out for you. If they won't, they're just being arsey.

 

It's no skin off their nose (other than they're getting £10 for two minutes work instead of £35 for an hour). The tester isn't signing anything to say he tested the car, because he's not done. All he's signing is that he's issued a replacement.

[Cavcraft]

Thanks Pete. I'm going to test that theory this week with a garage I cannot abide. If thye refuse me a duplicate cert I shall take great pleasure in bubbling them to VOSA. I have the car, the keys (obv) and the V5 and will take them all to the testing station and see what happens.

[loserone]

Did you get your cert?

 

Background: friend's workmate bought a car unseen from our favourite auction site. Failed to get it home, as there were some mysterious electrical problems (We think it was missing the pineapple), and eventually got it towed.

 

He's tried to get the ownership changed by sending off the V5C (I think), and those kind folk in Swansea have asked him to fill in a questionaire to verify the vehicles ID. It seems that the reg plate refers to a different make of car entirely, and the V5 refers to a different shape of the same model. I'm not sure what the VINs relate to, we haven't got that far.

 

Anyway, the question I have - how insane is he for shredding his DVLA letters, and stripping the car for parts on the bay? I'm assuming he'd be better off approaching the police with details of the chap he bought it off &c. &c.? (I have already suggested this, but he can be a little naive.)

 

I trust this question properly falls into the category stated in the topic subject.

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

not a car-related thing, but there are lots of e-bay experts here. Would you buy this?

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HTC-HD7-Black ... 500wt_1156

 

Obviously occasional user only- 3 transactions within the past year. Is it easy to get your money back from Gaypal in case he does a runner?

[Cavcraft]

MOT obtained today from a handy/decent local garage!

[Formula Autos]

Stupid door questions:

 

1) How many cars use 'those' doors (off of the Maxi/Landcrab/3 litre). Some kit cars (Panther?) did, didn't they? And didn't some of BL's overses operations use them?

 

2) Did the Mk 2 Cortina 4 door and estate share the same doors as the Mk 4 Zephyr? They look as if they could be the same, with possibly just a different pressing for the door skin.

 

3) Ditto Morris Minors and the '48 on Oxfords - or was it the same basic styling just scaled up for the Oxford, with no interchangability?

 

4) Were any 'foreign' makes as stingy as BMC/BL, using doors over and over again on different models?

 

5) Do I spend too much time staring at car doors, wondering wistfully where else I may have seen them?

[RoadworkUK]

Can anybody explain the current resurgence in popularity of previous generation Mercedes-Benz V-Class and Vitos?

 

 

This kind? In Cornwall I noticed dozens of the bastards, a lot of which were lowered onto AMG wheels, or other "expensive" rimmage, typically with heavily tinted glass, etc.

 

I know all about Euro Scene and all that bollocks, but has everybody forgotten about these things being unreliable, hideous to drive pieces of shit that rust in front of your very eyes? Or is it all about the irony these days?

 

(...which, incidentally, is how I justify my Rover. I'm, like, making an ironic statement about driving. Or sommat)

[Cavcraft]

Tell you what it's a bloody brave person who owns a Mercedes Vito and lives within 70 miles of sea air.

[scaryoldcortina]

Stupid door questions:

 

1) How many cars use 'those' doors (off of the Maxi/Landcrab/3 litre). Some kit cars (Panther?) did, didn't they? And didn't some of BL's overses operations use them?

 

2) Did the Mk 2 Cortina 4 door and estate share the same doors as the Mk 4 Zephyr? They look as if they could be the same, with possibly just a different pressing for the door skin.

 

3) Ditto Morris Minors and the '48 on Oxfords - or was it the same basic styling just scaled up for the Oxford, with no interchangability?

 

4) Were any 'foreign' makes as stingy as BMC/BL, using doors over and over again on different models?

 

5) Do I spend too much time staring at car doors, wondering wistfully where else I may have seen them?

 

1) I don't know. Maybe/

2) No, absolutely not. I have both cars in the yard at the moment and the zeph is almost 50% bigger all round!

3) just styling. However, A40 somersets and A70 herefords share the same doors.

4) I don't think so.. could be wrong.

5) No, absolutely not. You would love my Ginetta G26

[CIH]

Stupid door questions:

 

1) How many cars use 'those' doors (off of the Maxi/Landcrab/3 litre). Some kit cars (Panther?) did, didn't they? And didn't some of BL's overses operations use them?

 

2) Did the Mk 2 Cortina 4 door and estate share the same doors as the Mk 4 Zephyr? They look as if they could be the same, with possibly just a different pressing for the door skin.

 

3) Ditto Morris Minors and the '48 on Oxfords - or was it the same basic styling just scaled up for the Oxford, with no interchangability?

 

4) Were any 'foreign' makes as stingy as BMC/BL, using doors over and over again on different models?

 

5) Do I spend too much time staring at car doors, wondering wistfully where else I may have seen them?

 

1) I don't know. Maybe/

2) No, absolutely not. I have both cars in the yard at the moment and the zeph is almost 50% bigger all round!

3) just styling. However, A40 somersets and A70 herefords share the same doors.

4) I don't think so.. could be wrong.

5) No, absolutely not. You would love my Ginetta G26

 

mk2 fiesta...POW!

[TimothyClaypole]

Tell you what it's a bloody brave person who owns a Mercedes Vito and lives within 70 miles of sea air.

 

They look cheaper than the equivalent T4 so the peasants who can't afford a T4 that's done 164K and is rusty but is lowered and fitted with some unsuitable wheels

have started looking for cheaper alternatives.

[dollywobbler]

Tell you what it's a bloody brave person who owns a Mercedes Vito and lives within 70 miles of sea air.

 

They look cheaper than the equivalent T4 so the peasants who can't afford a T4 that's done 164K and is rusty but is lowered and fitted with some unsuitable wheels

have started looking for cheaper alternatives.

 

I think the V-Class/Vito look bloody excellent compared to what followed as well...

[CIH]

I hate modern Mercedes. Horrible, spiteful, nasty, contrived, cheap pieces of shit that literally fall to pieces when they have to come apart (often).

 

Tell you what it's a bloody brave person who owns a Mercedes Vito and lives within 70 miles of sea air.

 

They look cheaper than the equivalent T4 so the peasants who can't afford a T4 that's done 164K and is rusty but is lowered and fitted with some unsuitable wheels

have started looking for cheaper alternatives.

 

I think the V-Class/Vito look bloody excellent compared to what followed as well...

 

I did a brief stint in insurance and people where inputting V-Class as Vitos. Turns-out Vs are a really high insurance group and they were masivily under-quoted. True story.

[eddyramrod]

Mercedes Vito ... look cheaper than the equivalent T4

 

Der Fuhrer's People's Car racing ahead of Mercedes on price?????? The world is indeed topsy-turvy...

 

I used to drive a Vito. It wasn't as bad as I expected it to be (that's fulsome praise, coming from me!) but it was replaced by a Fiat Scudo, superior in every way.

[Guest Len H]

 

4) Were any 'foreign' makes as stingy as BMC/BL, using doors over and over again on different models?

 

Most of the 'Type 4' platform cars have the same doors, apart from the Alfa Romeo 164.

[Albert Ross]

It's a water heater style device just above the gearbox flange. Made of brittle plastic.... I have three under my bench off high mile sub three year old cars with no warranty..... just in case we need a buggered one.

[barefoot]

Tax dodge question;

 

I'm doing a London to Brighton run at the end of the month in my T2

Down to London on Friday the 30th

London to Brighton on Saturday the 1st

& back home on Sunday the 2nd.

 

I will be legal,

 

My friend wishes to sorn his vehicle after the event & wonders if the few days of leeway

that you're given on tax renewal will enable him to get away with simply not re-taxing

until he gets home & then sorning it?

Or will he be horribly punished?