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[Guest Hooli]

Today's stupid question is "Can buggered dmf cause rough running?"

 

 

I'd have thought so yes. It'll be clanking around & affecting the speed the engine is running at.

[Rover414]

Has anyone here had any experience of taking a registration plate of one vehicle for another? I'm talking about just a registration it was assigned new, looking through the DVLA pages it looks like you just use the V317 form to do this but will the vehicle the number is coming off be issued another number in the process?

[DodgeRover]

Yes age related

[doobietoo]

Rover 25 in turbo diesel flavour looming out of the dawn's pale glow covered in the first frost of winter refused to start. 

 

How much a pain is it to swap all 4 glow plugs assuming their threads were dipped in coppraslip when fitted last?  Is it a lunchtime job or a day off job?   HBOL ordered but not arrived yet.

 

Put a set of jump leads on it first as these motors draw really big currents when starting and an even slightly smaller than spec or reduced power battery will cause the non starting you mention...a battery is much easier to change than glow plugs... nobody ever changes the plug behind the pump so much so that the later cars probably including yours didn't even have one and made do with 3 plugs .......

[barefoot]

TRUMP Sticker - in a moment of drunken foolishness some weeks ago, I bought a Trump/Sense bumper sticker from the ebays, thinking it might be an amusing idea to add to my stickerbombed bay window, possibly upside down for added hysteria. Since then the fucker has only gone & won and the world is a different place. 

 

Should I still stick it on?

Should I stick it on upside down?

Am I likely to get a kicking from blokes with Confederate flags?

Etc.

[xtriple]

Where can I get someone who will organise my life, make me sort out (some of) my health issues, find me somewhere nice to live, get my Mazda out of the garage and into a nice warm MOT bay, do my hovering and dusting and generally sort out my life so it's almost worth living?

 

Do Russian hookers offer those kinds of services? Would I be better off looking around for a different eastern block hooker? These are the sort of question that no amount of 'Googleing' answers!

[Des]

Don't bother with Toms, Thai bride is the traditional answer but expensive, I think the Autoshite way would be to harbour an illegal.

[barefoot]

Don't bother with Toms, Thai bride is the traditional answer but expensive, I think the Autoshite way would be to harbour an illegal.

 

 

Mate of mine found a young teenage girl lost and wandering at Santa Pod.

He did the decent thing and took her home and kept her in his airing cupboard until she was 18.

He's a senior policeman now.

[The Moog]

Where can I get someone who will organise my life, make me sort out (some of) my health issues, find me somewhere nice to live, get my Mazda out of the garage and into a nice warm MOT bay, do my hovering and dusting and generally sort out my life so it's almost worth living?

 

 

 

His name will be Trevor and he likes a nice comfy polyester slack.  In return you must give him weak orange juice, access to the internet twice a week and free tickets to any superhero movie that comes out. 

[Tickman]

I am looking for front shock absorbers for my 940 low pressure turbo as the current ones are a bit wet, would these be the same as they are for a turbo!

http://www.demon-tweeks.co.uk/performance/shock-absorbers/car/volvo/940/1997/2-3-turbo/bilstein-b4-gas-shock-absorber-front

 

Also while it is apart is there anything else worth changing while I am there?  Car has done 135,000 miles and it is the original set on the front.

[320touring]

I am looking for front shock absorbers for my 940 low pressure turbo as the current ones are a bit wet, would these be the same as they are for a turbo!

http://www.demon-tweeks.co.uk/performance/shock-absorbers/car/volvo/940/1997/2-3-turbo/bilstein-b4-gas-shock-absorber-front

 

Also while it is apart is there anything else worth changing while I am there? Car has done 135,000 miles and it is the original set on the front.

My immediate advice would be to search the part numbers on eBay and buy from demon tweeks on there-free delivery;)

 

I'd also consider top mounts/bumpstops and possibly a front arm refresh as it'll all be apart.

[hairymel]

What cars have hydraulic power steering with an electrically driven pump?

Just need to know as I am looking for a cheap electric hydraulic pump for a project.

also saxo i believe

[The Moog]

Try Mick's garage online. I looked at suspension bits for the starlet. Then left and my next banner ad was offering 10% with the code ELF10

[Snipes]

Is there a way to get the reg number of a car listed on eBay by extracting it from the page code? I'm sure there is but can't recall how.

[scaryoldcortina]

Yeah, click on "vehicle status report" in the description (won't work if it's not there). It takes you to another page, find the bit in the URL of that page that says vrm= and paste that into a base-64 decoder to find the reg without paying for the report.

[Jerzy Woking]

I always wonder why I still see cars on the M11 motorway doing 60 mph when it is almost deserted, and then, for absolutely no apparent reason, braking. Anyone care to let me know what i've missed?

 

And over the last month yet another phenominum has hit the M11. When traffic is moving slowly in queues in all three lanes, why are more than a few drivers leaving massive gaps between the car in front and themselves? Often 200 yards, or, as I saw this morning, about 400 yards. Again, what am I missing?

[DeeJay]

Where can I get someone who will organise my life, make me sort out (some of) my health issues, find me somewhere nice to live, get my Mazda out of the garage and into a nice warm MOT bay, do my hovering and dusting and generally sort out my life so it's almost worth living?

 

Do Russian hookers offer those kinds of services? Would I be better off looking around for a different eastern block hooker? These are the sort of question that no amount of 'Googleing' answers!

Get married.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Guest Hooli]

I always wonder why I still see cars on the M11 motorway doing 60 mph when it is almost deserted, and then, for absolutely no apparent reason, braking. Anyone care to let me know what i've missed?

 

And over the last month yet another phenominum has hit the M11. When traffic is moving slowly in queues in all three lanes, why are more than a few drivers leaving massive gaps between the car in front and themselves? Often 200 yards, or, as I saw this morning, about 400 yards. Again, what am I missing?

 

It's not you missing owt, it's them missing basic intelligence.

[The Moog]

And over the last month yet another phenominum has hit the M11. When traffic is moving slowly in queues in all three lanes, why are more than a few drivers leaving massive gaps between the car in front and themselves? Often 200 yards, or, as I saw this morning, about 400 yards. Again, what am I missing?

 

Often I leave a gap so I dont do the speed up then slow down thing, you can go at a constant pace - that is until someone decides you have left a gap and must fill it. 

[dave21478]

If everyone left a gap and just trudged along in second gear or whatever speed instead of constantly starting and stopping 4 feet behind the car in front, most traffic jams would vanish.

[saucedoctor]

After going to look at, and deciding against, a slightly  very fucked Focus RS, I did the next logical thing and bought a Kuga. This has a DW10C engine, 163 BHP. I assume it won't run on OMGVEG? Cheers.

[AMC Rebel]

TRUMP Sticker - in a moment of drunken foolishness some weeks ago, I bought a Trump/Sense bumper sticker from the ebays, thinking it might be an amusing idea to add to my stickerbombed bay window, possibly upside down for added hysteria. Since then the fucker has only gone & won and the world is a different place. 

 

Should I still stick it on?

Should I stick it on upside down?

Am I likely to get a kicking from blokes with Confederate flags?

Etc.

 

 

I dunno the answer - but similarly, some months ago I bought a Trump Tower mug(oddly enough made in England)  from the second hand shop for 50p for a laugh.  I've been keeping the fecker out of sight since he won.

[AMC Rebel]

What cars have hydraulic power steering with an electrically driven pump?

Just need to know as I am looking for a cheap electric hydraulic pump for a project.

Pug 307 - I know a bloke who has the pump and rack fitted to his 1970s AMC Javelin.

 

https://www.telega.co.uk/listing/peugeot-307-electric-power-steering-pump-9648347680/28216?gclid=COyI0YG34tACFeGd7QodgoIJWA

 

https://www.telega.co.uk/listing/peugeot-307-electric-power-steering-pump-9648347680/28216?gclid=COyI0YG34tACFeGd7QodgoIJWA

[Bfg]

I always wonder why I still see cars on the M11 motorway doing 60 mph when it is almost deserted, and then, for absolutely no apparent reason, braking. Anyone care to let me know what i've missed?

 

And over the last month yet another phenominum has hit the M11. When traffic is moving slowly in queues in all three lanes, why are more than a few drivers leaving massive gaps between the car in front and themselves? Often 200 yards, or, as I saw this morning, about 400 yards. Again, what am I missing?

 

Yeah,  if it's like the prat (is that expression still used ?) who over took me yesterday, pulled in and slowed down.. He was reading and then two-thumb-typing a reply to a text.  

 

We'll have cameras soon that look through the windows to catch the like of these.. and others - whatever they're doing - that not associated with being 'in safe control of a mota veHicle'

[DodgeRover]

I like to leave a nice big gap between me and the car in front so I've got a chance to avoid a collision should they suddenly decide an emergency stop is appropriate and it saves on speed up slow down types as well

Same with traffic lights never drive right up behind the car in front when stationary as it leaves you no room to manouver and no space to build momentum.

[jonathan_dyane]

I have a LPG kit off a Volvo I got from Lankytim ages ago and a BLOS mixer lying around. Why shouldn't I just plumb it into my Primera and if I did would the fact that it was open loop fuck up the cat/make it fail the MOT?

[Richard]

If you test on gas the limits are the same as for non cat cars as far as I know, that's certainly how it worked when I had the C5.

[scaryoldcortina]

The limits are different for gas, there is an equivalence factor because the HC emission will be propane not hexane. The emission testing machine does this automatically if you select "gas" as fuel type.

 

You still have to pass a cat test if the car would need one.

[DodgeRover]

The limits are different for gas, there is an equivalence factor because the HC emission will be propane not hexane. The emission testing machine does this automatically if you select "gas" as fuel type.

 

You still have to pass a cat test if the car would need one.

 

But you can get away with removing the cat as the decat can be considered part of the LPG conversion, unless the MOT rules have changed or my initial understanding was flawed.

[DodgeRover]

I have a LPG kit off a Volvo I got from Lankytim ages ago and a BLOS mixer lying around. Why shouldn't I just plumb it into my Primera and if I did would the fact that it was open loop fuck up the cat/make it fail the MOT?

Actually are you interested in selling the kit? What tank is it?