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General Discussion Area / Re: 8000 Houses!

« on: 28 January 2018, 18:30:01 »

I'll kick my autistic, depressive son out on the streets, then, and wait for him to be given a house? 

Ron.

If that's how 8000 people became homeless then who's fault is that?

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General Discussion Area / Re: 8000 Houses!

« on: 28 January 2018, 17:48:45 »

Sick of supporting these people, up at 6 in the morning 5 days a week to support breakless cant be bothered types wanting everything handed to them on a plate. Time to tell them they need to get a job like everyone else.

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General Discussion Area / Re: One For Ron - Road Use Charging

« on: 26 January 2018, 10:42:46 »

There is no Utopian solution.

But tax on fuel seems a pretty good compromise.

Although there is already 2 taxes on it vat and fuel tax, no mention of where they are spent

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Omega General Help / Re: Exhaust removal back section what usually gives grief?

« on: 25 January 2018, 07:54:39 »

They're M8. About 25mm long should be enough to go through both flanges and washers. Plain nuts are good enough.


You need 2 per side.


That's about £1 worth of hardware if you buy it individually.

Thanks, think i've a pile of new ones lying in my garage. what other nut should i be using, nut and washer not suitable?

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Omega General Help / Re: Exhaust removal back section what usually gives grief?

« on: 24 January 2018, 22:32:54 »

What size/length of nuts/bolts we looking at if i need them, and is that 3 per side, 6 in total?

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General Car Chat / Re: Putting a pre-cat engine into a cat car - mot emissions test update

« on: 24 January 2018, 22:17:29 »

Just drop it in, and crack on, don't bother with all the faffing around, as long as it passes the not, why bother.

If I pretend it is a 1.8 but go in with a non-cat 2.0 under the hood bonnet there is every chance it might not pass.

FTFY!      

Thanks, I couldn't be bothered myself

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General Car Chat / Re: Putting a pre-cat engine into a cat car - mot emissions test update

« on: 24 January 2018, 17:25:25 »

Just drop it in, and crack on, don't bother with all the faffing around, as long as it passes the not, why bother.

If I pretend it is a 1.8 but go in with a non-cat 2.0 under the hood there is every chance it might not pass.

No, it won't pass as it will be listed as cat equipped. You either need to swap the engine management onto the new engine and run it with a cat or obtain evidence that the engine is old enough not to need a cat.

Unless DVLA has been notified of the engine change and they have proof from VX the engine is pre-cat they then update the car details so that when the MOT comes and they put reg in the machine it says no cat test required, or something along those lines. This is what I had read and wanted to check if anyone had actually done this.

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General Car Chat / Re: VX parts prices up due to VX takeover

« on: 24 January 2018, 17:22:56 »

Autovaux are a bloody awful company,  general advise is avoid them as they talk complete BS and don’t send you genuine parts.

Got quite a lot of parts off of them it is usually only GM parts anyway, I generally don't buy aftermarket stuff from them as I can get that anywhere.

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General Car Chat / Re: Putting a pre-cat engine into a cat car - mot emissions test update

« on: 24 January 2018, 06:44:50 »

Just drop it in, and crack on, don't bother with all the faffing around, as long as it passes the not, why bother.

If I pretend it is a 1.8 but go in with a non-cat 2.0 under the hood there is every chance it might not pass.

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General Car Chat / Putting a pre-cat engine into a cat car - mot emissions test update

« on: 23 January 2018, 21:49:32 »

Got an old cavy with the 1.8 rice pudding skin non-puller in it. I'm wanting to change this over to a SRI 130 engine I got from a pre-cat model. I've read up on various sites about updating the car details with DVLA regarding emission testing but I'm still not clear on it.

From what I gather, I can change the engine over, tell DVLA that the car has this new engine, have to get a confirmation from VX using engine number that it is pre-cat, give this to DVLA and they will update their system so that when I go to MOT and they put car reg in it will say no cat test required. Has anyone any knowledge if this can be done like this?

I'm kind of half doing this because had all sorts of probs with emissions (car runs fine) but it just happened that this engine was the only one available in my area at the time, complete engine, box and loom with ECU, not to be sniffed at out of an SRI 130.

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General Car Chat / VX parts prices up due to VX takeover

« on: 23 January 2018, 21:23:22 »

Just been ordering parts from autovaux, parts that I'd been quoted for a couple of weeks ago, they told me the parts price had went up due to the VX takeover by Spewgeot! Beware if you are thinking of buying anything the price quoted might go up. Not be long till they start discontinuing all the old parts still available.

Glad I own a pre-spewgeot vx!

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General Discussion Area / Re: Responsibility of councils to fix potholes

« on: 23 January 2018, 10:40:44 »

Would say i'm paying well enough tax as it is 😄 other countries seem to provide proper public services with similar tax rates. Nearly 1/3 of my wages are gone on direct tax, that's before all taxes on food, fuel, insurance and the list goes on.

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General Discussion Area / Responsibility of councils to fix potholes

« on: 23 January 2018, 07:25:27 »

Our Local Council just doesn't seem to be repairing potholes and if they do it's about the worst possible repair you could imagine, and it's only the very worst ones they "fix". Been reporting them dor ages now and they seem to be getting worse. Seems they also have a penchant for retarring bits of roads that don't really need it.

I kniw there is some measurement that classifies a pothole, which i had heard was increased, so they could get away with deeper holes without repairing them, but there doesn't seem to be any standards they have to adhere to for road surface repair. I noticed now councils are using this really cheap way of resurfacing that involves sort of roughing up the old surface and laying this really thin layer on top, rather than removing old surface, relaying foundation and rollering a proper layer on top. Seems to lift off and break up after weeks. They done it on my folks road, there is tons of little stones and one of the workers actually admitted they let cars flatten it out rather than rolling it flat.

What if any are the standards councils must go by when maintaining roads?

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General Discussion Area / Re: Snowing in north Essex...

« on: 21 January 2018, 23:19:49 »

Had a pile of it up here in kilt land, well over a foot in some area, was on m74 friday night, hit black ice at about 70, me thinking oh they will have gritted it, nup, managed to gently let car slow down freewheeling so it never spun. Ended up in 20mph convoy of trucks, with the usual audi swooshing by as always, oblivious to the danger, couple of cars spun out and 18 wheeler jacked into barrier. Really sharpend up my snow driving skills the last couple of days!

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Omega General Help / Re: Exhaust removal back section what usually gives grief?

« on: 17 January 2018, 10:47:04 »

Cool thanks for advice, will check cat to centre section bolts for rot and give some penetrating fluid. Got a loan of a ramp to do job so want to make sure i dont end up with a problem while doing it.