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[Disco Fever]

If I buy a car with a personal plate remaining on it, do I automatically own the plate with the car and no further shenanigans with the DVLA is required?

[stephen01]

If I buy a car with a personal plate remaining on it, do I automatically own the plate with the car and no further shenanigans with the DVLA is required?

 

Yes,

[Disco Fever]

Awesome. Cheers.

[DSdriver]

Unless the previous owner has informed you otherwise, frinstance that he is in the process of transferring it in which case the car will most likely resort to its original reg no providing that has not been reassigned.

[somewhatfoolish]

I prefer to pre-solder (tin) the wire ends, as this gives the screws something solid to clamp onto, and I then usually fill the screw block connector with Vaseline (I have a syringe full of the stuff specifically for the purpose) ..to keep moisture out.   In my experience - they are very reliable connections.

 

I have done the same before now but it is a non-kosher thing to do; the solder will flow over time and the wire becomes loose.

[MorrisItalSLX]

Something I have been wondering for a while now, What is a HBOL?

 

I have been able to decipher most of the acronyms here but I just cant get this one

 

Cheers

[Captain Furious]

Haynes Book of Lies.

[Bfg]

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I didn't realise it was specific to one publisher !  

[wuvvum]

2000 Golf Mk4 TDI 115 bhp. Running fine at town speeds but as soon as it goes over 50 it heats up (to about 110 degrees) and the heater blows cold. Plenty of water in it and doesn't seem to be using any. Possible diagnoses?

[cobblers]

Water pump impeller dropped off? I think it was common on VAG of that era.

[Sigmund Fraud]

2000 Golf Mk4 TDI 115 bhp. Running fine at town speeds but as soon as it goes over 50 it heats up (to about 110 degrees) and the heater blows cold. Plenty of water in it and doesn't seem to be using any. Possible diagnoses?

 

Do those have a plastic water pump impeller ?

 

 

Edit : great* minds think alike, cobblers !

[Guest Hooli]

Has anyone suggested the waterpump?

[DeeJay]

Is it that thing that pumps the water?

 

 

(I haven't a clue, just joining in).

[Guest Hooli]

Can't be Veeedubs are air cooled man!

[wuvvum]

I did wonder about the water pump, but it seems to be speed-dependent rather than rev-dependent - you can sit at 35 in 3rd at 2500 rpm and it's fine, but at 60 in 6th at less than 2000 rpm it heats up.

[twosmoke300]

Deffo water pump . Problem is when you take it out it will have cooled down and locked itself back on the shaft again

[DSdriver]

Pour a kettle full of hot water over it then?

[wuvvum]

OK.  Well that's probably going to render it scrap then given that the water pump is cambelt driven, so with that and the DMF being on its way out it's probably not worth doing.

 

Would it be worth bodging in one of those secondary electric water pumps that Sharans had, or are they not powerful enough to be any use?

[Sigmund Fraud]

If you're going to go into the whole trouble of bodging in a second water pump, you might as well replace the normal one. If the rest of the car is falling apart, just get a new water pump and belt, re-using tensioner and idler (unless their bearings are obviously borked). £50 (and most of a Saturday) will see you back on the road.

[wuvvum]

Only problem with that is I really don't trust myself around cambelts...

[Sigmund Fraud]

If I can do them, a demented sloth can do them.

 

Plus, it's always helpful if your first one is on a car that you can afford to scrap if things go wrong.

[Tickman]

Only problem with that is I really don't trust myself around cambelts...

 

Got to start somewhere.

If I can do them, a demented sloth can do them.

 

Plus, it's always helpful if your first one is on a car that you can afford to scrap if things go wrong.

My first and only was on a car I had just bought and done at the side of the road over the grid of doom. 

[twosmoke300]

If you do the belt have fun with getting the engine mount off !

[Bobthebeard]

The Oldsmobile is now nearing the MOT after much time and work. Lots done. Tyres though. It has four, all with plenty of tread and not cracked or perished. All brands like Nanking etc. All around 10 to 15 years old.

Am happy to take it it for the MOT with these tyres, but will driving it afterwards invite certain death?

Am no racing driver and only expect to do around 1000 miles in the next year on them. Have spent way more on the car than I wanted, so can the tyres wait?

[jonathan_dyane]

I'd see how it drives with them on. They're probably terrible mind...

[egg]

Is it worth spending £38 on a spare new genuine Ford PAS pump for my Mondeo even though it doesn't come with the relevant pulley? Umming and aarhing on this one.

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/282531734381

[tooSavvy]

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I didn't realise it was specific to one publisher !

 

New one on me too m8

 

Handbook of lies (well, likely a Haynes but other publishers available)

 

TS

[bunglebus]

2000 Golf Mk4 TDI 115 bhp. Running fine at town speeds but as soon as it goes over 50 it heats up (to about 110 degrees) and the heater blows cold. Plenty of water in it and doesn't seem to be using any. Possible diagnoses?

 

I know it's been answered but a good test is to pull the small bore return hose off the header tank and see if coolant is flowing out of it - if not, pump is FUBAR.

[bunglebus]

The Oldsmobile is now nearing the MOT after much time and work. Lots done. Tyres though. It has four, all with plenty of tread and not cracked or perished. All brands like Nanking etc. All around 10 to 15 years old.

Am happy to take it it for the MOT with these tyres, but will driving it afterwards invite certain death?

Am no racing driver and only expect to do around 1000 miles in the next year on them. Have spent way more on the car than I wanted, so can the tyres wait?

 

Take for MoT. Then perform smokey one-wheel burnouts to impress the local teenagers, rotate wheels until they're all dead, replace tyres.

[bunglebus]

Is it worth spending £38 on a spare new genuine Ford PAS pump for my Mondeo even though it doesn't come with the relevant pulley? Umming and aarhing on this one.

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/282531734381

 

Listing ended so I assume you bought it - I would have done at that price, having just paid £42 a side (discounted from £63) for genuine track rod ends from VW. Pattern shite is OK for some things, but the last pattern TRE lasted a year and caused vibration to be passed through the steering wheel as it doesn't have the rubber insulation built in. As the original lasted 18 years I'd rather buy genuine if it's reasonable enough.

Buy cheap, buy twice. This doesn't* apply to cheap old cars.