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General Discussion Area / Re: Tar spots & shampoo

« on: 21 May 2007, 08:13:59 »

Wife's CDX was COVERED in tar spots a few months ago, I had one of those autoglym gift packs in the garage,

Had 'Intensive Tar Remover' in it, had a go spot treating with that, came off fine, realised this was silly and basically used it over the entire car, all came off, car looked cleaner than ever, then gave it a bloody good wash, all fine. Highly reccommended

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General Discussion Area / Re: Terrible news.

« on: 16 May 2007, 10:46:01 »

Hope you get it all sorted ok soon and not too sore.
Cant be good news, you have only had it a few weeks, I hope it was safe when bought!  If not, are there legal implications for the seller?
It must be bad if even Ronnie thinks it is beyond repair!

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General Discussion Area / Re: instrument panel

« on: 16 May 2007, 12:16:55 »

Try a gentle push on the dash, ensure it is fully 'home' may not have been tightened properly if previously removed.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Vectra Keys

« on: 10 May 2007, 12:41:11 »

Cheers, I wasn't far off then.

Least I just need to obtain a new blade now as have a remote and transponder.

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General Discussion Area / Vectra Keys

« on: 10 May 2007, 10:04:24 »

Father in law has just bought a 2.2 51 Reg Vectra CDX Estate, nice car.

Only got 1 key with it, and wants a spare.

Got the garage to give us another vectra key they had 'lying around and didnt know what it was for'

So, am I right in thinking I can buy a new blade from Ebay etc, then get it cut to match.
Then present a 'tech2 owner' with car, car pass(being sourced) and the new (old) key, and it can be reprogrammed to the car.
(or do both keys get reprogrammed together?  I know they do on mazda's)

Cheers

And if we just have a blade cut, what can that do,
Open a door?  I Think yes
Open a deadlocked door?  I Think no
Start Car / Disable Alarm & Immob? I Think no.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Whats in your boot

« on: 09 May 2007, 12:54:16 »

- A gallon drum of screenwash because my screenwash reservoir has a leak and I have to top it up every few hours on long journeys.
 - A large bottle of oil because my cars eats it like it is petrol.
 - A large bottle of water, for two reasons.  One, to dilute concentrated screenwash if needed. Two, just in case it overheats.  I have had the car 6 months and it hasn't yet, but with everything else on it going wrong, i expect it will do soon.
 - The lock assembly for the boot, because it keeps falling out.
 - Bits of the rear wiper, which gave up a while back and I cannot seem to get around to fixing.
 - Part of the passenger door lining which fell off.

And, because my current car is a Punto, the boot is just about full.

I wish it would do the decent thing and stop working altogether.......

......damned thing even passed its MOT a few weeks ago. That was going to be my exucse for buying an Omega.  Now I need another one.

Well if you drive a Fiat, you expect these challenges....

Oh and stop replacing the oil. That will get it to stop working soon enough!

Or top up the oil with the water and pretend its your HG

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General Discussion Area / Re: Whats in your boot

« on: 09 May 2007, 12:06:23 »

2 Baby buggies,
Baby Changing kit
Waterproof's etc for 2
Camera Tripod
Spare shoes
Few Rags
Breakdown kit, rope, leads, pump etc
Maglite, the torch that can be used in self defence
picnic rug
mini toolkit
plastacine mini socket set


Ohh hang on, thats the normal load, probably 1/2 the engine at the mo while my coolant leak is fixed

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General Discussion Area / Re: Slough

« on: 10 May 2007, 10:12:45 »

Watch out for the tramp who lives under the bridge on the road in to slough from the marriot hotel to centre.

You will know who I mean if you see him, usual tramp dirty mac, with an autotrader in the pocket.

Havent been for a few years, but whenever I (or anyone else from work) went, there he was!

probably dead by now though.

No help on the B & B's though, always stayed in the above hotel on expenses

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General Discussion Area / Re: Embarrassing( & worrying) moment

« on: 10 May 2007, 10:09:53 »

LMAO

If only somone recorded that for youve been framed!

would love to have been a bystander

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General Discussion Area / Re: FTAO people who have bought chips off us...

« on: 27 April 2007, 19:49:11 »

Ok, we have established lots of us want them, but dont want to pay.

So, why not have a oof chip raffle.

if you want a go, paypal a fiver or sommat, and pick winner(S) at random, be a 1 in 32 chance, i'd have a go.

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General Discussion Area / Re: where are you from and.....

« on: 23 April 2007, 09:22:50 »

Born & Bred in Chester, now live 2 miles away just over the Welsh Border with my wife and 2 boys.
My work is Automating Mainframe Computers for a large Bank.

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General Discussion Area / Re: the 3 things that wind me up the most!

« on: 08 May 2007, 09:53:25 »

Number 1 is not dangerous at all.
The only dangerous thing there is driving TOO CLOSE in the first place.
If you have left sufficient stopping distance this cannot happen.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Digital Tyre Guages

« on: 09 May 2007, 08:47:23 »

Pressure varies with both altitude and temperature.

IIFC that is why they fill tyres with nitrogen in some (hot) countries

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General Discussion Area / Re: V Power £1 ltr

« on: 09 May 2007, 13:05:08 »

110 mile round trip, think you would need to fill a few jerry cans each time to make it worthwhile.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Ive just done...........................

« on: 05 May 2007, 19:07:59 »

Well Done!