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General Car Chat / LPG and Insurance.

« on: 25 November 2009, 16:35:32 »

I just got off the phone to my insurers, Liverpool Victoria to tell them re the change to the vehicle. I said it was now dual fuel, converted to run on LPG, and I had the full safety check report. They were quite happy, didn't want to see any paperwork, updated the policy, no increase and that's it.

It seems more and more companies are getting  switched on to LPG and don't mind provided its safe. Either that or they don't want to loose the business.

Ken

92

General Car Chat / Stag LPG kit at good price

« on: 16 November 2009, 15:19:29 »

For anyone considering LPG, there is a 4 pot Stag kit on ebay for £175. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/LPG-autogas-conversion-injection-kit-AC-STAG-4-300_W0QQitemZ250531207168QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM?hash=item3a54d2d800

I think this is the kit used by several people on here. Obiously you need to get a tank, etc  but there are enough of them floating around.

Ken

93

General Car Chat / Cooking with gas, at last !

« on: 14 November 2009, 13:48:32 »

I finally got round to progressing my LPG install, and got to the testing stage a couple of days ago. Lack of funds ment I took the cheap option and bought a 2nd Bigas Sgis N hand kit. I would agree with comments in the other thread about problems, eg damaged and broken wires and damaged fittings, however the basic guts were OK, plus it had a unique advantage. It came from a 2.2 Omega, and included the inlet manifold complete with fitted nozzles, pipes the right size etc so saved a load of hastle, just clean, do the breathers and fit.

I had trouble getting the filler to seal to the feed pipe, it didn't "feel right". This was shown up when I went to put in gas for the first time. I plugged in the gas nozzle and was greated with a stream of gas from the filler/feed pipe join. This was traced down to a slightly damaged filler, a dent on one side of the mating face was preventing a gas tight seal. However on the way home, I pressed the changeover button and the car ran on gas !. Only for half a mile, there must have been enough vapour in the tank, but a great feeling after all that lying on your back under the car drilling holes etc. A replacement filler cured this, I stuck in a couple of litres and sucessfully leak tested everything.

There is a missfire on one plug at low revs, plus no pulling off torque, but it hasn't been set up at all so not surprising. Once at 50ish it runs OK.

Instantaneous fuel consumption looks very close to petrol, so nearly there.

I took it for a COP 11 check. The guy failed it on a couple of points; it seems they have changed the pipe/exhaust spacing again to 150mm, plus I fed mine under the O/S suspension arm mount as there seemed to be more space than next to the petrol pipes which are right next to an exhaust box. He said the suspension arm was only 3mm away from it; I'm sure it is better than that, but if I want the paperwork........

 He also charged £75+vat for about 30mins work. Ouch

Oh yes, many thanks to Lazy Docker for answering my queries 

Ken

94

General Car Chat / anyone after an LPG system for a 2.2 ?.

« on: 21 September 2009, 16:24:53 »

I just noticed that this chap is breaking a facelift 2.2 which appears to have an LPG filler on the O/S wing.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/vauxhall-omega-breaking-all-parts-available-07779169495_W0QQitemZ270456336695QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM?hash=item3ef8743137&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14

perhaps he has the whole system for a reasonable price 

ken

95

General Discussion Area / how to tell chinaman that he can't count ?.

« on: 07 August 2011, 22:36:32 »

I bought some servo's of fleabay for a model I am working on. The auction was for 6 servos but only 5 arrived. I told him about this, and the reply was

"hi my friend,thanks for your letter, sorry to hear that, could you show us a photo about the problem of the product(***@hotmail.com),then pls inform me by ebay message, we will try our best to help you,thanks for your help in advance,best regards "

How do you, diplomatically so as not to offend his ethnic origins, explain that he has short changed me ?

Ken

96

General Discussion Area / Bloomin Chinese can't copy properly

« on: 05 May 2011, 21:57:57 »

I just bought an emergency Stop switch for a new lathe. Normally these things, well if your clothing gets caught, you hit the button and it stops the machine dead until you reset the button, but these clowns sent one that is non latching.  So you get caught in the machine, you hit the button, the machine stops temporarily, you move your hand to free yourself and the damn machine restarts and strangles you.

Why can't they copy things properly.

Ken

97

General Discussion Area / unreliable seagate products

« on: 30 March 2011, 23:52:24 »

I bought an external 1TB drive to back up videos. I chose seagate cause you think they are the best, however... I left it on overnight backing up stuff, so it had been on for about 15hrs straight, and then there was a loud bang, scorch marks on the Power supply near the input pins plus it took out a 13A fuse. And the hard drive case is swollen up in the middle. I can still access the drive, so its not dead , but you wonder about reliability. So I went to the seagate website, and there was a support facility to have live chat. I duly filled in the form only to be told it would cost me £28 for support. They are having a laugh, this is crap, the once great seagate reduced to selling unreliable rubbish. I also heard that there are a fair number of power supplies failing on these seagate drives, so its a known problem. 

Yet another well known brand reduced to selling c**p.

Ken

98

General Discussion Area / some people don't understand plain words

« on: 22 March 2011, 23:10:58 »

Like a lot of you, I get a fair amount of spam. Occasionally I respond with helpful messages like "s*d off" to encourage them not to contact me again. One such spam was from Lombard somebody or other offering me no doubt  amazin' things to do with my money.

I replied "Dear Sirs, S*d Off", and guess what I got a call from my natwest business manager this morning asking me what the message meant  How do you tell these people just to go away and not bother you again, can't they take the hint ?.


They pay people to do this,


Ken

99

General Discussion Area / how fast can you get a replacement passport ?

« on: 21 March 2011, 23:51:35 »

The classic, my missis is off in a couple of days for a short well deserved break, but we just discovered her passport has run out. Now the fast track, one day service (for which you pay nearly double) sounds fine, but that is one day processing after you get an appointment which can be several weeks 

Anyone know how long we can expect to wait before getting an appointment ?.

Ken

100

General Discussion Area / waste of packing

« on: 27 February 2011, 16:19:09 »

I recently ordered some IC's at work, most arrived but 2 were to be sent on later.

They arrived last week,

Yes, that's right, 2 small IC's in a long tube, vacuum packed, in a box, then inside another box with lots of further packaging. Its all going to waste, the boxes plus packing go into the skip.  Have they never heard of Jiffy Bags ?.

Ken

101

General Discussion Area / A spare engine for a TSR2

« on: 19 December 2010, 13:12:21 »

Just found this on fleabay,

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/BAC-TSR2-RAF-Aircraft-Olympus-320-Jet-Engine-TSR-2-/140483508066?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item20b5783762

Shame its not in an airframe where it belongs.

Anyone got a spare 2 million ?.

Ken

102

General Discussion Area / a novel way of getting through snow

« on: 04 December 2010, 17:21:47 »

I was brousing after watching Lizzie's train snow clearance and came across this :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBjlSJf4274

The Fordson Snow machine. It looks great fun would probably suit farmers with hills very well.

Ken

103

General Discussion Area / advice on buying a high mileage Corsa ?

« on: 02 October 2010, 11:34:28 »

I've just seen an 07 1.3CDTi Corsa for £4200. This looks good but the mileage is high 97,000.

What do you guys think ?. do the diesel engine's last, or are we likely to have bits wearing out like the turbo ?. I can't find any obvious faults on google, are there anything to look out for ?.

Also, I am not used to dealing with car dealers, how do you negotiate a good price ?. I need haggling instructions !.

Cheers Ken

104

General Discussion Area / Ah, so that's what those car names mean

« on: 01 August 2010, 23:25:15 »

This explains a lot about the reasoning behind some cars http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Worst_100_Cars_of_All-Time

Ken

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General Discussion Area / Insurance and LPG

« on: 24 February 2010, 23:20:04 »

Just a thought, I LPG'd my car a few months back and told the insurance, but haven't yet told DVLA. My insurance renewal just came through at £206 ( L & V), so I tried checking around, however when I tick the modified box and say LPG, quotes jump up. I have the feeling that if I told DVLA and it was recorded as Dual Fuel, then it wouldn't be classified as modified and quotes would be lower. Some quotes are absolutely stupid, over £600  .

and there's nothing wrong with driving for 3hrs each day on the M62, they are basically nice drivers, shame their cars don't have indicators, steering that changes lanes every few secs, and light that don't work, or are permanently stuck on fog lights


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