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102001

General Discussion Area / Re: Service costs

« on: 28 July 2006, 09:45:21 »

I'd be surprised if they did more than an oil and oil filter change - plugs and other filters are major service items.

Remember, if the front shocks are changed, it will need camber reset afterwards...

102002

General Discussion Area / Re: Bigger Avatars

« on: 27 July 2006, 18:56:00 »

Are you cross posting Boiler Man  tut tut

102003

General Discussion Area / Re: Bigger Avatars

« on: 27 July 2006, 18:05:09 »

I was experimenting t'other day, and I reckoned something like 96(w) x 64(h) worked out best - too much height leads to too much blank space between posts if the posts are short...

Obviously, 96 x 64 works out awkward for some avatars without modifying them.

What do you think?

102004

General Discussion Area / Re: HPi / Data Checks

« on: 24 July 2006, 20:59:54 »

unless you 'sell' the car you're interested in, do the hpi, then cancel auction.

But we possibly couldn't condone that...

102005

General Discussion Area / Re: HPi / Data Checks

« on: 24 July 2006, 20:37:58 »

Don't ebay do a cheapie - £5 or something? Never used myself though...

102006

General Discussion Area / Re: 3 Series BMW ....not build the quality they we

« on: 27 July 2006, 18:17:07 »

Similar problems could happen on any 10yr old car, esp one that hasn't been looked after. And lets face it, BMW 3 series is a repmobile, hence probably had a hard life and no tlc for the first 3 years of its life...

My mum has a K reg 318, and it is solid as a rock, because she takes car of it.

BMW's are unreliable, with lots of warranty issues, and poor dealers, but if you look after any car, it will last...

102007

General Discussion Area / Re: Another funny thing happened at the supermarke

« on: 25 July 2006, 08:18:24 »

My Powakaddy Titanium Sport is electric powered and doesn't require me to call in at a filling station at all...so there....beat that

Just needs plugging in the mains all the time

102008

General Discussion Area / Re: Another funny thing happened at the supermarke

« on: 24 July 2006, 20:35:10 »

Thats me buggering about trying to credit it back to Ronnie (I cut and pasted from the posts that had to be deleted when we did restore)

102009

General Discussion Area / Re: Just Joined

« on: 25 July 2006, 14:37:32 »

Welcome Louis

102010

General Discussion Area / Re: '96 N Elite... its value?

« on: 26 July 2006, 18:16:18 »

water should be ok for that short distance, but change it once you get home rather than leave it standing dor days/weeks whilst you fix it...

102011

General Discussion Area / Re: '96 N Elite... its value?

« on: 26 July 2006, 08:19:03 »

Hummmm very interesting, being an plod one it would have been maintained well, oil changes ect... so quite probable its oil cooler! Well thats another possible  

With the above description of the failer, it could do what MarksDTM said to drive it back?

What do you do exactly, fill up the coolant system (to the brim?) with coolant, leave the cap off then as it uses coolant on the drive back just keep filling it up with water?

Driving on a duff oil cooler will require extensive flushing of cooling system afterwards...

102012

General Discussion Area / Re: '96 N Elite... its value?

« on: 26 July 2006, 08:18:14 »

1.8 and 1.4 seems to be worse. 1.6 seems to be a bit better..

a few gasket changes around 2000 to reduce the issue and then again when the zr came in - what year is yours Jamie?

Having said that i had a 97000 mile vi with no hgf. You pays your money...takes your chances

2000, built Feb 2000 (not that I had access to such stats  )

102013

General Discussion Area / Re: '96 N Elite... its value?

« on: 25 July 2006, 21:59:54 »

My 1.6 Rover 25 has done 62k, HG (touch wood) is OK, but not bored out as much as 1.8, so probably more gasket material...

102014

General Discussion Area / Re: '96 N Elite... its value?

« on: 25 July 2006, 21:56:53 »

Recently had a rver 25 gti drive from glasgow to cardiff with, , , youve guessed it, HGF

HG failure on a 1.8 K series? Surely not

102015

General Discussion Area / Re: '96 N Elite... its value?

« on: 25 July 2006, 20:02:32 »

not for far and not at any speed...