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artdjones Rank: Isuzu Florian

artdjones

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What is a cant rail?

It's the bit between a car's doors and the roof panel.The gutters are attached to the bottom of it on older car's.

Edit:the post is up for 6 hours then two answers in three minutes.

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Pillock Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

Pillock

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Shows what I know.

I think you probably know more than him.

 

The only reference I can find to any 4X4 ZTs or 75s are a couple of prototypes on Freelander oily bits. And the only way that would have an Eco mode is when the prop has been removed.

 

Just weird that he's made a point of saying how well it works.

barefoot Rank: Lancia Gamma

barefoot

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Edit:the post is up for 6 hours then two answers in three minutes.

 

 

Superb, thanks both.

tooSavvy Rank: Talbot Tagora

tooSavvy

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All Aldi/Beemer saloon/hatch/estate drivers have 'cants!'

 

lol

Slowsilver Rank: BL Wedge

Slowsilver

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Didn't get a V5 with Bob the Renault so applied for a duplicate and sent off my £25.

Received it a couple of weeks ago, so went online to declare it SORN.

Got an email confirmation of successful SORN.

A week later I received a letter from DVLA saying "you must tax or SORN your vehicle".

Check online and still showing as untaxed since 1993.

SORN it again online and receive another confirmation.

Send online complaint to DVLA about first failure.

Still showing as untaxed.

Received a reply yesterday:

 

It might help if I explain that on the 31 January 1998 the law changed. Keepers are now required to notify us if their vehicles are to be kept off the public road untaxed.

The scheme only applies to vehicles where the vehicle tax expired on or after 31 January 1998. As your vehicle was untaxed on this date, it does not fall into the Statutory Off Road Notification (SORN) scheme. It will only become liable to SORN if it is re-taxed and then subsequently taken off the road.

This means that even though you received confirmation of the SORN, the vehicle does not need one, you should not receive any further correspondence regarding making the vehicle SORN.

I trust this is of assistance to you.

 

But from the DVLA website:

 

You must make a SORN in any of the following situations:

  • your vehicle isn’t taxed
  • your vehicle isn’t insured (even for a short time, for example because there’s a delay renewing your policy)
  • you want to break a vehicle down for parts before you scrap it
  • you buy or receive a vehicle and want to keep it off the road (you can’t transfer a SORN from the previous keeper)

Also:

 

You must insure and tax your vehicle if you don’t have a SORN. If you don’t, you’ll automatically be fined £80 for not having a SORN. There’s also a fine for having an uninsured vehicle.

 

No mention of this not being applicable if the vehicle has not been taxed since before 1998 on the website.

If this is true why did the website allow me to apply and not tell me it was not required? 

Also, why send me a letter saying I must tax or SORN it?

I interpreted the web info to mean that, even though it has not been taxed since 1993, it needs either tax or SORN when it changes ownership, which it now has.

Although I have the email from the DVLA saying SORN is not required, knowing thier reputation I am concerned that they may still hit me with a £80 fine.

I have copies of both the email confirmations and the response from the DVLA so hopefully these will be my defence if this happens.

Does anyone on here have any previous experience of this situation?

 

dave21478 Rank: Renault 16

dave21478

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re the 4x4 Rover 75 / ZT, it will be bullshit and/or ineptitude from the seller.

 

These cars have a bad enough rep as it is with kettling and the like, if you added in the good ol seized VCU and blown transfer box from the Freelander components they would have been even more of a laughing stock and at least 4 autoshiters would own one.

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DodgeRover Rank: Talbot Tagora

DodgeRover

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Didn't get a V5 with Bob the Renault so applied for a duplicate and sent off my £25.

Received it a couple of weeks ago, so went online to declare it SORN.

Got an email confirmation of successful SORN.

A week later I received a letter from DVLA saying "you must tax or SORN your vehicle".

Check online and still showing as untaxed since 1993.

SORN it again online and receive another confirmation.

Send online complaint to DVLA about first failure.

Still showing as untaxed.

Received a reply yesterday:

 

But from the DVLA website:

Also:

 

No mention of this not being applicable if the vehicle has not been taxed since before 1998 on the website.

If this is true why did the website allow me to apply and not tell me it was not required?

Also, why send me a letter saying I must tax or SORN it?

I interpreted the web info to mean that, even though it has not been taxed since 1993, it needs either tax or SORN when it changes ownership, which it now has.

Although I have the email from the DVLA saying SORN is not required, knowing thier reputation I am concerned that they may still hit me with a £80 fine.

I have copies of both the email confirmations and the response from the DVLA so hopefully these will be my defence if this happens.

Does anyone on here have any previous experience of this situation?

They don't know their arse from their elbow, exactly the same has happened to me with a bike that been off the road pre sorn. Got logbook, knew no need to declare sorn as off road since '82. Get sorn or else letter

Ring dvla - system has changed it's now from change of keeper

Sorn online goes through normally and I screen shot it.

Another threatening letter sorn or else

Check online - untaxed since '82 again!

Declare sorn online again!

No more letters yet but I haven't checked it's still showing as sorn.

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Guest Hooli

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Mustard did the best comparison quote for me this year.

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sierraman Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

sierraman

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Not sure where the thermostat is on the Focus but I did a Mondeo a while ago with a plastic thermostat housing at the front. The parts are eyewateringly expensive. I think it was over £160 in parts plus the vat. Ford must be the most expensive manufacturer of spares now days.

Done those, a plastic electronic controlled jobbie? Reached at arms length once you've pulled the headlamp and the grill out? I just fitted a pattern one for £30. Didn't leak.

Des Rank: Renault 16

Des

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I've been extra security conscious since pikies took over a nearby carpark during the week, left dashcams running, blocking vehicles in and sharpening up the kitchen knives. This evening drove past on way to Luton and was delighted to notice a heavy Police presence as the fuckers were being put out, I caught up and passed a couple of the caravans as I joined the M1 and the bastards had Kraut No. plates, what the fuck is that about? Has Jerry worked out a better way to fuck us over than the Doodlebug?

I couldn't divert attention from whiteaudibmwmercunts to see if the the tow cars were left hookers or had reich plates also. It's a queer one, maybe they're after thieving the vans off some bosch tourists, or it's to avoid hassle of cutting off DVLA clamps. Either way, it's a shame plod didn't have them for it, but credit where it's due, sterling work in fucking the diddies out of it boys.

Simonsays Rank: Austin Maxi

Simonsays

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Car ramps and safety question if you please....

 

I have a drive long and wide enough to work on one vehicle.

 

The downside is that it slopes fairly steeply along its length. Axle stands are most certainly not a good idea. I was wondering if it would be safe to use a set of ramps at the bottom of the slope (assuming handbrake on and rear wheels well chocked. If anything, the car would be sitting more or less level when it was on the ramps and I would have thought less likely to roll than if it was on a level surface in the first place.

 

Yay or nay on the safety front?

omegod Rank: Renault 16

omegod

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I'm either incredibly stupid or just baffled, I picked up a cheap fiesta mk6 that had no drive whatsoever, you could start the fucker in gear and no wheel turnage effort at all resulted. I stripped it down and the clutch was wafer thin, Idriveshafts would turn if I spun the input shaft so I assumed all was ok with the gearbox,  new LUK clutch has been installed and it's mostly back together.....but......the driveshafts will turn either way freely.....with the bastard in gear.........I think there's summat else wrong or am I just being dim. struggling to find the motivation to put anything else back on if it's fucked 

 

Help 

twosmoke300 Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

twosmoke300

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If you lock one wheel by putting it on a block but leave the other free. Put it in 4th and see if it still spins free

omegod Rank: Renault 16

omegod

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If you lock one wheel by putting it on a block but leave the other free. Put it in 4th and see if it still spins free

 

Locked one shaft and the other wouldn't turn both ways with it in gear, I take it I'm in the clear then ?

 

This all may seem daft but my heads really a bit mashed at the mo so cheers for the answers 

omegod Rank: Renault 16

omegod

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Yep diff was doing it's diff thing

 

Well you certainly made a "difference" to my day, I was about to rip the bastard gearbox off again  :shock:  

somewhatfoolish Rank: Talbot Tagora

somewhatfoolish

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Car ramps and safety question if you please....

 

I have a drive long and wide enough to work on one vehicle.

 

The downside is that it slopes fairly steeply along its length. Axle stands are most certainly not a good idea. I was wondering if it would be safe to use a set of ramps at the bottom of the slope (assuming handbrake on and rear wheels well chocked. If anything, the car would be sitting more or less level when it was on the ramps and I would have thought less likely to roll than if it was on a level surface in the first place.

 

Yay or nay on the safety front?

Very well chocked and make sure that the ramps are stable with the car fully on(i.e. wheels up against the stop); I've seen some that will tip up if on a slope due to the somewhat shonky design.
Christine Rank: Lancia Gamma

Christine

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I saw these Billy Bargain price  tyres for me Fiesta mk1  , so how awful are winter tyres in the summer ? It won't be doing a vast mileage ....but the tyres on it now are perished . I dont recall seeing a Q rated tyre either , usually T ?

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/145-12-72Q-HANKOOK-ZOVAC-HP-W401-145-R12-72Q-BRAND-NEW-TYRE/332599504901?_trkparms=aid%3D111001%26algo%3DREC.SEED%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D51001%26meid%3D93bce567de6b424fa5182e0abaa00b3a%26pid%3D100675%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D15%26sd%3D332599504901%26itm%3D332599504901&_trksid=p2481888.c100675.m4236&_trkparms=pageci%3A1e1acdfd-4029-11e8-b9b3-74dbd18087fb%7Cparentrq%3Ac6045dba1620ad78daa7d708fff88af1%7Ciid%3A1

The Moog Rank: Talbot Tagora

The Moog

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I run winters all year - don't honestly seem to make a massive difference. But that is on slower estate cars and missus getz. Not even that much more noisy.
bub2006 Rank: Talbot Matra Rancho

bub2006

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Any auto electricians able to tell me possible reasons why my fuel gauge and temp gauge on the trike like to dance about? At idle they are a bit shaky but more pronounced at high revs. Usually from cold and empty on respective gauges to correct level and back. Occasionally they will stay steady though. No other electrical anomalies though and these two gauges are in their own pods either side of the Speedo but are the same make. Thamks

DodgeRover Rank: Talbot Tagora

DodgeRover

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There's usually a voltage stabaliser unit on the back of them, sounds like that's gone faulty.

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