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Cars for Sale & wanted / Re: 2002 MV6 for sale
« on: 31 October 2024, 17:14:13 »
Interested in price please, what's the current condition, does it still look that good / good rear arches?
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General Car Chat / Re: Another Year - Another MOT (PASS)
« on: 31 October 2024, 16:52:49 »
Congrats on the pass 
but 13k on the same oil, you must be tighter than Uncle STEMO 
Every 3k, especially if short mileages
but 13k on the same oil, you must be tighter than Uncle STEMO Every 3k, especially if short mileages
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General Car Chat / Re: Car Tax Doubling?
« on: 31 October 2024, 16:46:10 »
Although I'm thinking perhaps not:
5.85 2025-26 Vehicle Excise Duty rates for cars, vans and motorcycles – The
government will uprate standard Vehicle Excise Duty (VED) rates for cars, vans and
motorcycles, excluding first year rates for cars, in line with the RPI from 1 April 2025.
5.85 2025-26 Vehicle Excise Duty rates for cars, vans and motorcycles – The
government will uprate standard Vehicle Excise Duty (VED) rates for cars, vans and
motorcycles, excluding first year rates for cars, in line with the RPI from 1 April 2025.
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General Car Chat / Car Tax Doubling?
« on: 31 October 2024, 16:45:00 »
I've just spotted this, in the "budget". I cannot quite work out, does this doubling of car tax apply to older vehicles / all cars - or just new cars sold from now? Below pasted from gov UK website.
Many thanks
5.86 VED First Year Rates – The government will change the VED First Year Rates
for new cars registered on or after 1 April 2025 to strengthen incentives to purchase
zero emission and electric cars, by widening the differentials between zero
emission, hybrid and internal combustion engine (ICE) cars.
• Zero emission cars will pay the lowest first year rate at £10 until 2029-30.
• Rates for cars emitting 1-50 g/km of CO2, including hybrid vehicles, will increase
to £110 for 2025-26.
• Rates for cars emitting 51-75 g/km of CO2, including hybrid vehicles, will
increase to £130 for 2025-26.
• All other rates for cars emitting 76 g/km of CO2
and above will double from
their current level for 2025-26.
Autumn Budget 2024 133
These changes will apply from 1 April 2025
Many thanks
5.86 VED First Year Rates – The government will change the VED First Year Rates
for new cars registered on or after 1 April 2025 to strengthen incentives to purchase
zero emission and electric cars, by widening the differentials between zero
emission, hybrid and internal combustion engine (ICE) cars.
• Zero emission cars will pay the lowest first year rate at £10 until 2029-30.
• Rates for cars emitting 1-50 g/km of CO2, including hybrid vehicles, will increase
to £110 for 2025-26.
• Rates for cars emitting 51-75 g/km of CO2, including hybrid vehicles, will
increase to £130 for 2025-26.
• All other rates for cars emitting 76 g/km of CO2
and above will double from
their current level for 2025-26.
Autumn Budget 2024 133
These changes will apply from 1 April 2025
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Omega General Help / Re: Auxilliary belt length ?
« on: 13 October 2024, 09:31:14 »
Where abouts are you in the world?
I’ve always maintained 6PK2020 puts too much strain on the tensioner pulley and requires all of its travel, I fit a 2040 to my cars, the extra 2cm puts the tensioner bang in the middle of its travel which seems ideal
But 2020 should still go on easily enough. Happy to peek if you’re semi local
I’ve always maintained 6PK2020 puts too much strain on the tensioner pulley and requires all of its travel, I fit a 2040 to my cars, the extra 2cm puts the tensioner bang in the middle of its travel which seems ideal
But 2020 should still go on easily enough. Happy to peek if you’re semi local
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General Car Chat / Re: Peugeot 5008 *Please* help!
« on: 20 September 2024, 22:41:26 »
I have not long landed in sunny Spain and dragged my bag of bits off the baggage belt.
Radio removal pins
New class 10 microsd card (stipulated by pug forum)
Firmware CD from the dealer themselves rather than an image
Staying in a hotel in Torrevieja tonight because it’s late and I need a few beers, but will be at their villa for a couple of days after tonight, tinkering with le frog mobile
Will keep you posted (or shout with any worries)
Radio removal pins
New class 10 microsd card (stipulated by pug forum)
Firmware CD from the dealer themselves rather than an image
Staying in a hotel in Torrevieja tonight because it’s late and I need a few beers, but will be at their villa for a couple of days after tonight, tinkering with le frog mobile
Will keep you posted (or shout with any worries
)
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General Car Chat / Re: Cheapish oil
« on: 13 September 2024, 02:30:28 »Used to ask my friendly garage if they would give me 5 litres out of their big drum of oil for a tenner. I had to pump it out obviously, that was in the days before everyone went all officious and now refuse you to even walk about in their workshops for "insurance purposes" (Every car in the uk used to run on garage big oil drum oil. That was in the days when tolerances were measured in inches not nanometres.so you can't watch them poking holes in your car at MOT time)!
All but one of the oil changes I did on my Omega used semi-synthetic 10w40 out of the 200litre drum at work. All my other cars got the same stuff too, including the Avenger, 2.9 Capri, 525, Legnum, Morris 1300 and anything else that came my way. Before that, I used whatever we ordered for the fleet of Transits.
There needs to be a good reason to obsess about oil beyond the suggested grades, and most engines don't justify it. I certainly wouldn't be carting several cans of an odd grade back from Spain just because it was cheap....
I don’t think 5/40 fully synth is that odd a grade … and why not if there is boot space and it’s a fraction of UK price? Am only talking a few cans not a truck load.
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General Car Chat / Re: Peugeot 5008 *Please* help!
« on: 11 September 2024, 17:05:10 »
This is looking up. I've read this great article online for how to access the motherboard and replace the internal SD:
https://frenchcarforum.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=63227
Rather than download an ISO though (I've heard a lot of people have had issues with the updates not finishing when doing this) I have ordered the firmware CD from the genuine Peugeot Stealer for the very acceptable sum of just over £17. Parts chap was very helpful and will text me when it arrives.
Think we might be on for a cheap repair!
https://frenchcarforum.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=63227
Rather than download an ISO though (I've heard a lot of people have had issues with the updates not finishing when doing this) I have ordered the firmware CD from the genuine Peugeot Stealer for the very acceptable sum of just over £17. Parts chap was very helpful and will text me when it arrives.
Think we might be on for a cheap repair!
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General Car Chat / Re: Cheapish oil
« on: 11 September 2024, 16:53:37 »
Right, 5w40 going in for the next change then, no balls no glory, thanks chaps
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General Car Chat / Re: Cheapish oil
« on: 09 September 2024, 19:49:04 »
I know 10/40 is recommended, but that some run on 5w30. So, a 5/40 seems logically like it'd be ok?
It's somewhat of a rhetorical question, because ran back from Cartegena to England on it
It's somewhat of a rhetorical question, because ran back from Cartegena to England on it
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General Car Chat / Re: Cheapish oil
« on: 09 September 2024, 19:47:19 »
Thanks for the heads up
As an aside, is there any reason I can't run 5w40 fully synth in the Mig, particularly in summer months? It was 18 euros for a 5L can at the Cepsa in Gibraltar, I put a few in the boot!!
As an aside, is there any reason I can't run 5w40 fully synth in the Mig, particularly in summer months? It was 18 euros for a 5L can at the Cepsa in Gibraltar, I put a few in the boot!!
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General Car Chat / Re: Peugeot 5008 *Please* help!
« on: 05 September 2024, 22:21:17 »Response from the 'cheese eating surrender monkey' is that it has an internal card so needs the unit removing to get at it, he thinks its around an 8GB part from memory. You should then be able to find a CD image online which you need to burn from a PC to a blank disc. Inserting the CD should recover the SW to the unit.
He says its been a while but, in the error state, the BIOS goes looking for the recovery image on the CD player and hence the noise you can here repeating. He recalls the unit being a Conti sourced part
He also added that his company one suffered an external combustion issue on the engine so there is hope of an insurance claim
Thank you so so much
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General Car Chat / Re: Peugeot 5008 *Please* help!
« on: 04 September 2024, 10:29:41 »Had a chat with a frog college who is ex PSA, apparently the symptoms point to a dead flash card internally (apparently they hammer the flash and it burns out.....bad design.....he recalls it being a micro SD).
His suggestion is to do a google as he seemed to think there are a few videos on YouTube giving info (its a pretty common head unit used across loads of the range including the DS's) as to how to get to the unit, change the part, and force a re-flash
He did also suggest torching it or run it a bit longer and it may well do that itself for you
Thanks v much Mark
Is the SD card replaceable or is it too late by then?
I notice some of the older models have an external SD slot but this one doesn’t
I’ve also seen a USB port in the centre console and have read it can be flashed from there?
I desperately don’t want to brick the car completely, she’d kill me
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General Car Chat / Re: Peugeot 5008 *Please* help!
« on: 03 September 2024, 17:52:07 »Can you get a head unit from ebay or a breakers here for a reasonable price to take with you?
£500 plus and can’t work out if it’s coded to the car or not. Also there appear to be loads of different models. Worried I may have to take the old one out to get a P/N
