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General Car Chat / Re: parcels
« on: 29 April 2020, 10:31:29 »
Herpes must be one of the wort courier firms, I think one in three only ever turns up with them, can`t beat DPD at the moment though DX are pretty good too.
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General Car Chat / Re: Fake DVLA notices via e mail
« on: 29 April 2020, 10:28:01 »Phishing scam, SWMBO has had two, despite the direct debit going out of her account.Hello, Gav, finished your stretch at the castle?
IIRC you get one e-mail per year from the DVLA confirming your next twelve months payments.
I think the e-mail address looked dodgy too with the gov being in capitals.
Told you to pay that parking fine.
Hi Stemo, hope you`re keeping well 
I never heard another thing about the parking charge, after all I was parked on a public road and they had no right to desecrate my Datsun like that
It also helped when the head of parking for York City Council got involved and sent them an e-mail stating as such
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General Car Chat / Re: Fake DVLA notices via e mail
« on: 23 April 2020, 15:11:46 »
Phishing scam, SWMBO has had two, despite the direct debit going out of her account.
IIRC you get one e-mail per year from the DVLA confirming your next twelve months payments.
I think the e-mail address looked dodgy too with the gov being in capitals.
IIRC you get one e-mail per year from the DVLA confirming your next twelve months payments.
I think the e-mail address looked dodgy too with the gov being in capitals.
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Omega General Help / Re: In the Major Service deep end again
« on: 08 October 2018, 11:46:03 »I have that wonderful feeling of achievement again!!!
Today I got the sixth new spark plug in, ....
6 plugs on an Omega are easy
To change them on my Smart Roadster you need to remove the back end panels first clicky
Serves you right for buying a Smart
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General Car Chat / Re: F1,superbike,F16,electric car drag race
« on: 24 September 2018, 09:23:15 »
That is the first time I`ve seen the Tesla beaten in a drag race, but it was up against some stiff opposition this time
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General Car Chat / Re: New Nissan GT-R50 at Spa
« on: 21 September 2018, 12:54:50 »710 bhp nice
Radiator grille like a fishes mouth and highlighted in brown in case you didnt notice it at first. Not so nice.
Nissan have a website where you can register your interest in being one of the fifty owners.
It`s actually gold, it makes it looks like some cheap tat that the tasteless one known as Khan would have come out with.
Tasteless. Who would actually spend almost £800,000 on a car such as this?
I don`t know, none of the guys on the Nissan forum I go on like it either.
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General Car Chat / Re: New Nissan GT-R50 at Spa
« on: 21 September 2018, 11:48:01 »710 bhp nice
Radiator grille like a fishes mouth and highlighted in brown in case you didnt notice it at first. Not so nice.
Nissan have a website where you can register your interest in being one of the fifty owners.
It`s actually gold, it makes it looks like some cheap tat that the tasteless one known as Khan would have come out with.
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General Car Chat / Re: New Nissan GT-R50 at Spa
« on: 21 September 2018, 10:26:09 »710 bhp niceThe colour scheme is horrendous and at £795k I wouldn`t but it if I won tonights Euromillions.
Radiator grille like a fishes mouth and highlighted in brown in case you didnt notice it at first. Not so nice.
Nissan have a website where you can register your interest in being one of the fifty owners.
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General Car Chat / Re: That was dreadful !
« on: 19 September 2018, 11:36:40 »
Sounds like it`s not a bad idea then, I was assuming that the V6 would be a fair bit heavier.
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General Car Chat / Re: That was dreadful !
« on: 19 September 2018, 11:15:33 »
I would also wonder if adding a bigger lump to the MX5 would spoil it`s handling a bit as you will be adding a few Kg`s to the front of the car.
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Omega General Help / Re: Engine running OK but feels 'flat', I think the vacuum powered flaps not working
« on: 20 August 2018, 13:07:48 »Evening all & Terry!
Right - I've just spent an hour of so looking that the problem.
First of all, I swapped the in and out of the vacuum box around - as you said Terry, little change! Put it back to normal.
Next I got SWMBO to sit in the driving seat and do the pedals. We tried all the rev ranges, nothing at all happened with any of the valves, nothing!
So, removed the pipe section and sucked/blew into the vacuum box... Then I sucked on the 'in' port no vacuum was presented at the 'out' port. It's dead.
Trying something different, I put everything back to together and totally bypassed the vacuum box... Tick over was much better!
Got SWMBO to dance on the pedals again, and this time the resonance valve at the back worked as expected, but the front intake valve didn't move at all.
I've ordered a vacuum box, should I expect the intake valve to work better with a working box in line? If not, anyone know the part number of the intake valve vacuum control - or anyone have one for sale?
Thanks guys.
If you can`t get vacuum reservoir then you could try a one way non return valve, the type used in fish tanks, I did this on my Senator when the vacuum box packed up and they were NLS.
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General Car Chat / Re: Some old car pics from Portugal
« on: 18 August 2018, 17:55:35 »
Lovely quattro 