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[scdan4]

I;m going to try and get the saab aircon working.

 

I've had a look for a can of air con recharge jollop (preferably with a leak dye in it) on ecp and gsf and neither list it as far as I can see.

 

Have I made it up - I thought you could get aerosol cans of the gas to lob in and diy at home. But maybe not.

 

Don't really want to go to a quick fit type place as I suspect they'll bang it in, it'll work (for a bit), I'll pay and then all the gas will fall out and i'll be no better off.

 

At least if I charge it at home I can have a good long crawl round inspecting the pipes to see if I can see where it is leaking from.

[Lacquer Peel]

I don't like going into park in traffic, as it means slotting the lever into reverse before park. Because I am a fud I may have accidentally selected reverse stopped at a junction.

[Eddie Honda]

My Jazz for all its stupid interlocks, allows movement between D to N and back to D without holding the gear stick button in.

 

All those "Advanced" drivers that leave it and D and stick the handbrake on must either have non-creeping CVTs, AMTs or fucking amazing handbrakes.

[Andrew353w]

My Jazz for all its stupid interlocks, allows movement between D to N and back to D without holding the gear stick button in.

 

All those "Advanced" drivers that leave it and D and stick the handbrake on must either have non-creeping CVTs, AMTs or fucking amazing handbrakes.

 

The original inventors of the C.V.T., alias the "Variomatic" were Daf. Their cars never crept at all, as the centrifugal clutch completely separated the engine from the drive at tick-over, so you could leave them in gear without any need to worry about the car creeping forward. Mind you, Dafs, particularly the early air-cooled ones, didn't have particularly good handbrakes (no hills in Holland!)

[Richard]

I asked the question on here a couple of years ago when I got the Volvo and the consensus then was handbrake and Drive.

 

I have to say I've rarely been bothered by brake lights, in fact seeing them go out is a good indication that the car in front is about to move off.

[garbaldy]

Surely the car moving is a better indication though as the driver may have decided sod it I will put the hand brake on.

[Sealtainn]

When driving old man Seals 2.9 Granada, I used to select N and use the handbrake when stopped in traffic as it was something I asked my driving instructor whilst I was learning. It used to send my Dad mad as he was firmly of the opinion that it should be in D with use of the footbrake. Then again, this was coming from someone who when entering a roundabout to go straight ahead would enter in the left hand lane indicating right till he was past the 1st exit then start indicating left to take the 2nd exit, so me entering in the left lane without indication till I had passed the 1st exit was another source of heated debate !

[Slappy]

Has anybody done well at auctions which are flogging items previously stored by the local constabulary?

 

Would like a new bike, and from what I've read these seem to be the best place to find a decent, non stolen (well not at that point) second hand bike for not much coin. I know that someone on here (NE based I think) got an ex Chief Constable Mondeo V6 for not a huge amount a while back.

[Eddie Honda]

The original inventors of the C.V.T., alias the "Variomatic" were Daf. Their cars never crept at all, as the centrifugal clutch completely separated the engine from the drive at tick-over, so you could leave them in gear without any need to worry about the car creeping forward. Mind you, Dafs, particularly the early air-cooled ones, didn't have particularly good handbrakes (no hills in Holland!)

Well up until the mid-70s the DAFs (with possibly the exception of (I think) the Swiss market model, which had some kind of clutch lock to meet local regs) were forwards for forwards and reverse for reverse and started in gear. Very late ones had a positive N position for servicing, etc. V66s and V300s have a P position and under no circumstances should they be on choke/and or revved in P as it'll toast the clutch. If in doubt, RTFM.

 

The key bit above is "at tick-over", anything more than tickover and the clutch starts to engage with Frank Spencer hilarity*.

 

Anyway, I had a courtesy car once which was a facelift K11 Micra Shape 1.0L with CVT and from memory, it didn't creep. The Jazz does creep and with the SWRA box not having a torque converter, but a wet multi-plate start clutch, it's no wonder they had a big book of warranty claims.

[Eddie Honda]

Volvo 200 series handbook, 1986: "When idling for extended periods of time, select position N to prevent unnecessary heating of the

transmission." and they were still saying it in 1993. (AW71 gearbox IIRC).

 

For two minutes at the lights, I don't see a problem with D and a decent handbrake. But it's not really a big hardship nudging a lever forward into N (unless you have a knackered/missing left arm)

[Sealtainn]

I was looking at the police confiscated auctions site yesterday, a few tools and mainly bikes for sale

http://www.bumblebeeauctions.co.uk/XcAuctionPro.asp

[skattrd]

Car data checks - I'm picking up a motor tomorrow and it costs enough that I am slightly concerned about it's history.

What's a good (cheap) data check to do?

I just want to find out if it's been written off, stolen or has outstanding finance on it. Would one of the £3 phone text checks do that?

 

I was looking at: https://www.mycarcheck.com/

[320touring]

yup they work well for written off tye hinks

[Slappy]

I was looking at the police confiscated auctions site yesterday, a few tools and mainly bikes for sale

http://www.bumblebeeauctions.co.uk/XcAuctionPro.asp

 

Yeah, I was looking at that last night. The website looked a bit 2002 though, so I wasn't sure how legit it was.

 

Hampshire uses an Auctioneers in Chichester, and their next one is this coming Wednesday, so I was thinking of popping along and hopefully nabbing a bargain.

[skattrd]

I'm hoping to pick up a bicycle at the Scottish auction meet a week on Saturday.

[FakeConcern]

I;m going to try and get the saab aircon working.

 

I've had a look for a can of air con recharge jollop (preferably with a leak dye in it) on ecp and gsf and neither list it as far as I can see.

 

Have I made it up - I thought you could get aerosol cans of the gas to lob in and diy at home. But maybe not.

 

Don't really want to go to a quick fit type place as I suspect they'll bang it in, it'll work (for a bit), I'll pay and then all the gas will fall out and i'll be no better off.

 

At least if I charge it at home I can have a good long crawl round inspecting the pipes to see if I can see where it is leaking from.

I got some of this stuff from Halfrauds a couple of years ago. It worked well until the condenser was broken by road debris.

[Urko]

Last I looked in Halfrauds getting the can plus the adapter thingy to get the contents out and into the system was nearly as much as getting it done at a "proper" place.  So I did neither. 

[Pillock]

The Halfords system only starts to save you money once you have used two or more canisters, like you say with one canister and the kit you're at the same price (or more) than a garage refill, but when you reuse the kit and buy another can you're better off.

[andrew e]

On my daily, if you hold on the foot brake in 'D' the stop-start system switches the engine off, yet if you put in 'P' it switches the engine back on! So I'd say the engineers in Stuttgart say leave it in drive.

 

However I hate the brake lights thing for following drivers, so I put it Park.

[robinmasters]

Insurance question.

For those with fleets of motors, what do you do about insurance? Multicar policy? Drive about on the 3rd party bit of their main policy?

Don't do that. The 'driving other cars' bit normally only applies to cars you don't own. If you're unlucky enough to mow down a gang of stockbrokers, the insurance company may well take your house.

[Eddie Honda]

Not if you don't have one.

[Station]

Trade Insurance -- I'm paying just over 900 a year.

[steve_earwig]

On my daily, if you hold on the foot brake in 'D' the stop-start system switches the engine off, yet if you put in 'P' it switches the engine back on! So I'd say the engineers in Stuttgart say leave it in drive.

 

However I hate the brake lights thing for following drivers, so I put it Park.

What does it do if you put the handbrake on?

 

Hold on

 

Stuttgart

Remove brake light bulbs, sorted.

[andrew e]

I never use a handbrake and feet off in park.

[62 Austin]

Anyone marking the occasion of 2015 being the 110th year since car production started at Longbridge?

[andrew e]

Pride of Longbridge?

[steve_earwig]

I never use a handbrake and feet off in park.

You should try it just to see.

[Skizzer]

If I'm stopping for more than a couple of seconds I usually put it in N. Am I weird? The Renault squeals a bit if you hold it in D.

 

I don't like holding a car on the brakes if I can avoid it, especially if they're hot. Inboard Jag brakes, anyone?

[andy18s]

I'll roll up to a junction or back of a queue and pop it into N if it looks like I'll be waiting,with a touch of handbrake if needed. Same as the the D3 but that requires a foot on brake to put it back into gear

 

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[andrew e]

You should try it just to see.

Park? I'm a berk. I meant in drive, and held on the handbrake only.