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Car Parts, bits For Sale & Wanted / Cam covers wtd
« on: 02 May 2015, 14:11:14 »
Wanted a set of cam covers to fit 3.0l no need for oil filler tower.Price please including p&p to SLady bitshorpe.
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General Discussion Area / Gardening
« on: 26 April 2015, 13:25:20 »
Done a bit of this today,weeding and planting.So now got sweet peas,fuschias and lilys in so hopefully garden should look a bit nicer than last year if/when these flower.Planted a rose a few weeks back too,but looking at that today showed some of the leaves have gone yellow and seem to be dying off,anyone know if this signifies a problem soil wise?e.g.too much/too little of something in the soil,or how to cure the problem?
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General Car Chat / Been looking
« on: 26 April 2015, 13:17:44 »
Found out earlier that plug wells are full of oil,so new cam cover gaskets needed if not new covers as well.So been looking on e-bay[I know,I know should be GM only-but money's tighter than tight at present]Vaux-world are doing them at £14.95p a set unbranded,while euro car parts are doing some at £29 odd by ehlrig.The cheaper set has four separate gaskets plus "o"rings where the dearer set just has two gaskets with a bridging piece joining each banks gasket together.Which would be right for the 3.0litre?Or is there no difference other than the joining bits at each end?
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General Discussion Area / Advert
« on: 23 March 2015, 18:14:11 »
I don't know if this product has been discussed on here before-and I'm not clever enough to find out-but I saw this advert for the first time early hours of this morning.It starts out describing symptoms of HG failure,mayo on underside of oil filler cap/rocker cover etc.etc. so do you soil your lily whites changing HG?Pay someone else to soil theirs changing it for you?Why no siree bob!What you do is buy some STEEL SEAL and chuck that in engine and hey presto your HG woes are a thing of the past and you can happily drive off for many more miles of carefree motoring in the knowledge that your HG is blown no more!
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General Discussion Area / Wsb
« on: 21 March 2015, 20:23:29 »
2nd round on tomorrow morning races kick off at 6 a.m first time in Thailand so new for every one.motoGP season starts next weekend too,so BSB not too far away either.At last something worth watching on the idiots lantern!
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General Discussion Area / Gardening Question
« on: 21 March 2015, 18:51:21 »
So I've bought a load of Sweet Pea seeds[a flower Maureen always loved]and I've read the packets about how and where to plant them what it doesn't tell me is when.What is the right time to plant these seeds out in the garden?
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General Discussion Area / Sheer stupidity
« on: 16 March 2015, 19:30:32 »
Son-in laws car was possibly written off on Saturday whilst it was parked at the roadside outside his house.It was hit in the rear by his neighbours car which had in turn been hit in the rear by another car driving along the road.According to what the car driver told police she'd come round a roundabout about half mile away at which point her mobile phone had fallen into the passenger footwell,so once on a straight bit of road[where the son-in-law lives]she'd unfastened her seatbelt and leant over to grope about the footwell to pick it up again!!!!She was shaken up,battered and bruised with a few cuts but apparently otherwise fine when they put her in ambulance for a trip to local hospital to be examined.So 3 cars wrecked,police/ambulance/hospital time taken up for the sake of stopping to pick up a mobile phone or indeed leaving it be until she got to her intended destination!What if it'd been a child or anyone else that she'd hit instead of just another car?Doesn't bear thinking about!
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General Discussion Area / Replacement
« on: 15 March 2015, 17:24:01 »
With Top Gear being suspended they've replaced it tonight with a behind the scenes programme about the Red Arrows.I don't know if this is a new one or a repeat but I don't recall seeing it so will have a look see.Might be interesting.
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General Discussion Area / Emergency repair
« on: 15 March 2015, 12:35:12 »
Just washed the pots,ran tap for hot water and then filled bowl all fine.Did pots and emptied bowl and water gushed out of cupboards below sink!Turns out the screw that goes through centre hole in the plug hole and into centre of plastic pipe below sink has rotted through so waste pipe dropped and water emptied into cupboards instead of down waste pipe.Marvellous!!So as an emergency bodge I've held it all together by putting 3 tie wraps through plug hole and round cross pieces on plastic waste pipe.Great invention those tie wraps!!!
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General Discussion Area / Housing benefit
« on: 15 March 2015, 12:28:21 »
I've applied for this,filled in the forms and enclosed a printed off copy of my tax return.Council sent a letter back wanting more detail/proof so handed this in to them,now I get a further letter telling me that benefit has been suspended as since Maureen died[and any money she had coming in-pensions and DLA-stopped]I've now mysteriously got a further £1009 a week coming into the house over and above what I earn!!!I've phoned them about this asking where it's coming from and more importantly where it's getting paid to[so I can get my hands on it!]they can't tell me either of these things and a "supervisor"will have to look into it!I just seem to be fighting burocracy all the time and it must be said I seem to keep coming out on the losing side!
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General Car Chat / Battery drain
« on: 10 March 2015, 19:06:42 »
A friend of mine has a Yreg. Audi A4 2.5V6 diesel,which until recently has proved to be very reliable for the good many years she's owned it.Now however the battery has taken to going flat for no apparent reason.She's had a brand new battery fitted but this is suffering the same problem.She's had a couple of blokes-who "used to be mechanics"-look at it but they've failed to find the cause.She tells me the horn sounds and indicators flash,which I presume is the alarm firing off,but she's not said at what point it does this.So is the horn/indicator thing caused when the battery begins to get low or if it is the alarm would it be some kind of alarm fault draining the battery?Any thing else to look at for a cause?
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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / ccr2006
« on: 07 March 2015, 20:49:16 »
My F/L elite has this unit fitted and while it works ok I was wondering if there's a plug'n'play type upgrade to a better unit?If so what would I be looking for and what sort of prices are we talking?By the way my car doesn't have the built in sat nav-colour screen or otherwise-that some have,it seems it came with the traffic master system installed instead.
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General Discussion Area / Copping out?
« on: 07 March 2015, 17:51:20 »
Firstly the background.At the end of last March Maureen took herself off to hospital on her motability scooter for her regular INR blood test to determine the doseage of wharfrin she needed.While there she reported a slight blood loss over the previous few days and was immediately admitted.Her wharfrin was stopped and she was given injections of something else so blood loss could be stopped and cause investigated.Couple of days later[April 1st]she had massive stroke and although not expected to survive she did so,eventually passed fit by stroke unit and returned home.Three days after this she was re-admitted with a huge blood loss which due to her stroke they'd not investigated.Blood loss stopped,investigation of cause revealed she had piles,eventually returned home and recovery went slowly and steadily until 14th February this year when 2nd stroke hit,again not expected to survive but she did-in fact visiting her next day you'd not have thought anything had happened the previous evening!Passed as fit to return home on the following Tuesday she returned on the Wednesday afternoon.Thursday evening 3rd stroke hit and she passed away early on the Friday.Last week I had a phone call from her own doctor who'd signed the medical certificate of death[charging £160 for this service!]asking me to tell him how she'd died!!!?Just now got another phone call from a doctor at a totally different practice saying his information was that she'd had a fall suffered a stroke and died in ambulance on way to hospital.I told him there was no fall yes a stroke and no she'd died in hospital.Then he asked if I thought there was anything untoward in her death!How do I know?she had a stroke was admitted to hospital and died a short while later.Are they covering their backs in case of a law suit which I'd never considered filing?Or is this just standard procedure? Apologies for long post.
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General Discussion Area / Dangerous driving?
« on: 07 March 2015, 14:15:56 »
While waiting in barbers I had a read of one of the papers and saw an item about someone caught for speeding.Apparently he was clocked doing 120m.p.h. on a dual carriageway and summoned to appearon a charge of dangerous driving.His solicitor is it seems challenging this saying his client will agree to a guilty plea of careless driving but not dangerous driving as speed in and of itself is not dangerous.Be interesting to find out how this one pans out!
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General Discussion Area / True or not?
« on: 05 March 2015, 22:02:53 »
This morning on GMB they showed a clip of an airliner coming in to land in a place called St.Martins.This showed the aircraft basically skimming the crowds on the beach as apparently the runway is just past this.One of the presenters was questioning the truth of the filming-was it photo shopped or something-I had to leave for work before any more was said about it,so was it true or not?