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[twosmoke300]

Tool pictures earlier is a tap wrench

[myglaren]

Thanks for the replies on the tap wrench - I was completely stumped with it.

Google image search was useless.

[bub2006]

Will hatchback xantia roof bars fit an estate? Going away soon and roof bars may come in handy for kids bikes/kids. Cheers

[Richard]

No, it's a completely different fitment.

[bub2006]

Thought as much but thanks for clarification.

[Richard]

The estate roof bars fit on a track under the rain channel. IIRC there are bits of the channel that slide open.

[bub2006]

Yes there is. But I wasn't sure if there was a way of fitting the hatch ones.

[face]

Does anyone know where I can get old new car price lists? By that I mean what the new price of a car was in, say, 2002?

 

I had a quick look and the only way I could find was on Parkers site - you don't have to sign-up or shit either.

 

Basically look up a model on their company car tax calculator and stuff in some faux details. I did one for a Citroen AX 10E and it came back at £5670 as the P11D value. The only issue is that that model was made over a number of years, which probably craps on what you need. It does let you put a reg year in, but all the P11Ds are the same value.

 

Anyhow: http://www.parkers.co.uk/company-cars/tax-calculator/citroen/ax/hatchback-1987/687/?yearplate=41&taxyear=7&taxrate=20

[saucedoctor]

Cheers, Face.

[Norbert]

Could anyone fill me in on the tell-tale signs that a diesel's fuel filter could do with a change?

 

Mine hasn't been done since I've had it, and probably not for a long time before that, so I may not have been able to notice any performance degradation etc. Any other signs?

 

Thanks!

[Richard]

Mine hasn't been done since I've had it, and probably not for a long time before that,

 

That's the tell-tale sign.

[twosmoke300]

Exactly - fuel filters can start letting water past long before they block with dirt- get it changed !

[KruJoe]

Bub / Cameron... is it likely that my A-frame will be coming back to Yorkshire this weekend?

 

There's a good chance it many have a job this Saturday...

[Rovorsche]

Is Isopon and glass matting still the right choice for mending bodywork on the cheap ?

 

Or is there some new fangled carbon fibre stuff these days that does a better job ?

 

This is to make it road worthy for an MOT or possibly two, its a mechanically reasonable A6 with creeping rot and decaying electrics that belongs to a friend.

[cort16]

It seems to be. About 40% of the wings on my p6 are made out of it.

[cort16]

Does anyone have an idea of the time and likely garage costs of getting the head gaskets on my v8 P6 Rover done?

it didn't sell, i'm not going to do it myself and I don't want to give it away for buttons.

 

I'll get it dip tested before splashing the cash but don't really know what's involved in it.

[Alan_Green]

Who was the traffic light expert?  I have a semi-interesting Youtube project in mind comparing well synchronised UK traffic lights with appallingly unsynchronised lights in a certain 3rd world country. Someone on here did it for a job. Perhaps PM me.

[Richard]

Synchronised lights in the UK? I thought that idea had been sacked off years ago.

[cort16]

With reduced drinking when you get older do you get sensible with this age and learning or just get put off by the increasingly awful hangovers ?

[bub2006]

Bub / Cameron... is it likely that my A-frame will be coming back to Yorkshire this weekend?

 

There's a good chance it many have a job this Saturday...

Pm me please, i camt message you!

[Kiltox]

Who was the traffic light expert?  I have a semi-interesting Youtube project in mind comparing well synchronised UK traffic lights with appallingly unsynchronised lights in a certain 3rd world country. Someone on here did it for a job. Perhaps PM me.

SiC knows his stuff in this regard, don't think he does it any more but will know plenty who do

[HH-R]

They seem to be deliberately unsynced here to slow you down, piss you off and make your life more irritating by the day.

[scaryoldcortina]

There are a few sets around here (all recent installs) that can see you coming, turn red out of spite then when you have stopped change back without giving the side turn a go. This is a twatty thing to do, and it can only be to slow traffic down. Problem is people are learning to ignore it and run the red, but sometimes there is traffic waiting to cross so it really is an accident waiting to happen.

[HH-R]

GR8 4 urban pollution.

[HH-R]

With reduced drinking when you get older do you get sensible with this age and learning or just get put off by the increasingly awful hangovers ?

I think the latter

[cort16]

I researched this thoroughly last night and can confirm its the later

[LC Torana]

I researched this thoroughly last night and can confirm its the later

 

You were just trying to blow your own head gasket in sympathy with your Rover.

[Matt]

Did Citroen offer the Xantia in Exclusive trim, estate shape, diesel engine with a manual box? Haven been given a lift in my sisters company Pug 307 and her MK2 Clio I've realised how god awfully tinny my Swift really is (I haven't been in anything else for ages). I'd quite like to try a Xantia and that's be my ideal one but not sure if they even exist like that. The XM has wetted my appetite for floaty French things and I think a Xantia would be a safer bet than fixing the XM.

[bub2006]

According to parkers the exclusive estate was available with 1.9 td auto, 2.1 td manual and hdi manual

[Matt]

According to parkers the exclusive estate was available with 1.9 td auto, 2.1 td manual and hdi manual

 

Neat, I'll keep an eye out for one (although it's not a prerequisite).