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[JeeExEll]

Looks like a Corsair 2000E trim to me.

I thought 2000E Corsair or Mk4 Zeffer too. It being a 2000E Corsair.

 

Could be early 70s Sunbeam Rapier. Maybe.

 

The one next to it has bits nicked from all over the place.

Name the bits.

[twosmoke300]

The hole in the window should have a plastic guide clipped into it . Lots of people leave it out cos it's a twat to fit / forgot about it

[gm]

Cheers, I'll make sure to look and see what is missing when I'm at the scrappies

[cort16]

Can you bump start cars with new fangled start buttons? One go the lads at works 1 series wouldn't start the other day (I think the starter is humped) and we tried to bump start it but inclusion of a start button made it difficult and we couldn't get it to start.

 

I just wondered if anyone else had managed it?

[Kiltox]

Can you bump start cars with new fangled start buttons? One go the lads at works 1 series wouldn't start the other day (I think the starter is humped) and we tried to bump start it but inclusion of a start button made it difficult and we couldn't get it to start.

 

I just wondered if anyone else had managed it?

Is there a way to turn the ignition on without starting the engine? There is on Renaults with the start button.

[bub2006]

A chap near me had this issue. Couldn't bump it due to needing clutch and brake depressed before starter would engage. And thats progress!

[cort16]

Is there a way to turn the ignition on without starting the engine? There is on Renaults with the start button.

 

 

There is. There's a sequence, which gets it to the point before you'd press it to spin the starter but I'm not sure that's enough to start the car. When I bump a car with a key I always turn it all the way as if I'm trying to turn the starter when I bring the clutch up. That's not to say I've being doing it right mind you!

[Kiltox]

No need to do that in my experience

[scdan4]

Eastern bloc bikes are a bit of a nightmare with no paperwork. I had a Manet Tatran that I needed a dating certificate for. The Jawa club who seem to do most wierd bikes wouldn't even tell me if it was something they could do until I joined the club. Has it got any tags on it as factory records don't really exist on a lot of the Easter bloc stuff.

 

Think i'll avoid this one - it's nowt special and needs a good bit of work, (i.e. time). I'll wait for a tidier one and use the time to ride the thing.

 

Having had a good nose, the age paperwork should be doable - at least according to the cossackownersclub (he claims he can date them for the dvla). However, the lack of nova could be a huge pita.

 

Hippy Chrostmos

[DVee8]

Has anyone tried this make/style of wiper blades?

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Nissan-X-Trail-2001-Onwards-NEW-STYLE-HYBRID-Windscreen-Wiper-Blades-/371342005055?fits=Car+Make%3ANissan%7CModel%3AX-Trail%7CCars+Year%3A2014%7CPlat_Gen%3AT32%7CCars+Type%3A1.6+dCi+4x4&hash=item5675b5533f:g:El0AAOSwOtdYUTFY

[Guest Hooli]

No need to do that in my experience

 

Nor mine.

 

With the key in the running position the ignition is on, so it'll fire up if it's going too.

 

 

Dunno about other cars with buttons, but on the goona a stab of the button turns the ignition on without trying to start it.

[worldofceri]

If I lived on a hill I'd go out and try it in the Rofflegooner for you, but my street is flat, soz.

[Kiltox]

Has anyone tried this make/style of wiper blades?

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Nissan-X-Trail-2001-Onwards-NEW-STYLE-HYBRID-Windscreen-Wiper-Blades-/371342005055?fits=Car+Make%3ANissan%7CModel%3AX-Trail%7CCars+Year%3A2014%7CPlat_Gen%3AT32%7CCars+Type%3A1.6+dCi+4x4&hash=item5675b5533f:g:El0AAOSwOtdYUTFY

Nope.

 

Just buy Trupart brand standard blades on eBay, they're excellent.

[chaseracer]

Can anyone inform a mechanical incompetent where the OBD port is on a 2003 Blingo 2.0HDi, pliz thankyoo?

 

Cheers, etc.

 

 

(HBoL in "useless fucking doorstop" scenario...)

[Richard]

Fuse box?

[chaseracer]

That would make sense!  I'll have a look when I get back.

[bub2006]

Cubby hole at door side of steering wheel pulls out. Should be fusebox and obd.

[AMC Rebel]

Females.  Young and old

 

Why can they never fathom out central locking?

 

DO NOT PULL THE HANDLE UNTIL I`VE ACTUALLY UNLOCKED IT!

Same reason there seems to be a mental block around Heater controls -

 

Kiwi g/f used to complain about her Corsa B misting up in winter.  Even after I suggested that using the recirculation setting wasn't helping to demist it, she insisted on always using it.

 

Almost all women in family/friends and otherwise highly capable types seem to randomly mash controls and then be mystified when they don't get what they want -

 

Regularly get stuff like "can you stop that  draught on my feet/face" "can you get this mist off the windscreen"

 

I would love to understand why this happens.  Suspect it may just be total lack of interest in knowing how to use 'em.

[Guest Hooli]

If I lived on a hill I'd go out and try it in the Rofflegooner for you, but my street is flat, soz.

 

If I could be arsed I'd try it in my goona to find out.

[Tickman]

Brake pads....

 

Does anyone have a recommendation of a manufacturer of pads for my Volvo 940. Just for road use.

 

I don't know if there is much of a difference between all the 'known' makes.

Choices are:

Pagid, Brembo, Ferodo, Bosch and quite a few others which are suspiciously cheap!

 

I just want it to stop and not squeal!

[Richard]

Personally I would go for Ferodo. Bosch do rigourous quality testing and if any quality is found their name doesn't go on it.

[chaseracer]

Cubby hole at door side of steering wheel pulls out. Should be fusebox and obd.

 

And so it came to pass.  No fault codes though.  Weird.

[Tickman]

Personally I would go for Ferodo. Bosch do rigourous quality testing and if any quality is found their name doesn't go on it.

I had to read the Bosch bit more than twice to actually get the message

[Pillock]

 

 

Kiwi g/f used to complain about her Corsa B misting up in winter. Even after I suggested that using the recirculation setting wasn't helping to demist it, she insisted on always using it.

 

 

Which is weird, since on both our VW and my old Astra, if you pressed the Screen Demist button it turns ON recirculation, turns on AirCon and whaps the fan up to full.

 

I always through it would Demist quicker with the dried air being reused than pulling in damp air from outside.

[gordonbennet]

Brake pads....

 

Does anyone have a recommendation of a manufacturer of pads for my Volvo 940. Just for road use.

 

I don't know if there is much of a difference between all the 'known' makes.

Choices are:

Pagid, Brembo, Ferodo, Bosch and quite a few others which are suspiciously cheap!

 

I just want it to stop and not squeal!

 

Mintex from Premier Factors Walsall via their ebay shop will be as cheap as any, i've been using Mintex for years and no problems,  other known makes you mention, plus Apec, are equally as good, just Mintex from Premier are usually stupidly cheap for the win.

 

I used to be a Ferodo gurl for donkeys years but in the last couple of decades proved increasingly difficult to find in normal road spec, are they now back on the market if so where from?

[Asimo]

Why are these still worth money? I like the look of them and thought they would be worthless after a few years when Saab went down the pan, but they are still way out of reach.

 

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[Des]

Be wary of Ferodo, after changing all round I lost that reassuring feedback enriched feel that a British built system with it's century of refinement provides, to the wooden on or off frigidity of a German conveyance.

[gordonbennet]

Be wary of Ferodo, after changing all round I lost that reassuring feedback enriched feel that a British built system with it's century of refinement provides, to the wooden on or off frigidity of a German conveyance.

WTF they done with the things then, i must be thinking of another Ferodo (seem to remember driving past the North Wales factory week after week when they were on strike), they always had a really rough sand like finish on to clean up the discs but once that was worn off they were a soft pad that gave a light pedal and really good progressive braking, and didn't rip the arse out of discs like OE German stuff did being hard as fuck.

 

When mk2 Golf was nearly new my ex MiL had one, the bloody EO pads were hard as fuck and wore discs out quicker than pads, she could barely stop the thing, i slipped a set of Ferodo front pads on, vehicles transformed lovely soft pedal much less effort to stop, only problem was it was then prone to front wheel lock up cos no effin rear brakes, fixed by set of Ferodo rear shoes, made the car lovely to drive where it bloody horrible before.

[Tickman]

...I used to be a Ferodo gurl for donkeys years but in the last couple of decades proved increasingly difficult to find in normal road spec, are they now back on the market if so where from?

This place does them for my car at least.

 

http://car-parts.mister-auto.co.uk/

 

 

The question was because everything seems to change, also everyone has a different opinion as well but there aren't too many 940's local that I can have a shot of!

[D Spares & Tyres]

Talking of brakes, I recently changed the rear shoes and cylinders on the 306, now under heavy breaking it will lock the rear wheels up rather than the front.

 

Have I got crap pads on the front or is it possible I have fitted wheel cylinders with the wrong bore?

 

By the way there is no load valve on this model