nickguzzi

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Have a look on their site. They are sponsors here so their www is in that section. They also can do it remotely via an STS device if there is no one near by. You will really enjoy the results - even if you have to drive to Mansfield. You will certainly enjoy the drive home. Add brakes and decent handling and you will have transformed your car.

My local garage charged 1/2 hr labour and I think about £15 per foamy thing last year.

There are quite a few options to choose from when pointing the finger for blue smoke, and as Radders said blue would tend to indicate oil being burnt. Rings and valve stem seals would also be in my line up, as well as the PCV. It would seem pointless putting any sort of bigger turbo on an engine with suspicions hanging over its reliability and durability as more boost will stress it even more. You allude to "possibly from the turbo seals due to a previous experience". Tell more. If you want the best diagnosis we can muster, then we need to know EVERYTHING!

Doubtful. But the bare viscosity numbers do not in reality tell you much - they are certainly no guide to the substantive quality of the oil in your hand.

That sort of use will be hell on parts like the air con pump, exhaust, tyres, brakes etc. The 10 mile trip up the bypass can be worse than not, creating condensation which sits in all the places it would be better it wasn't. Mine was bought as a ex leasing car at 60,000 mile. I've nearly doubled that with no problems. I was shown the entire service history, and it drove like a brand new car. Apart from the drivers seat it probably was brand new. One of the most durable cars I've owned did my 50 mile commute without complaint for a decade. It was still willing to take me to Frankfurt 4 or 5 times a year - a 600+mile blatt at 80/90+, as quick and non stop as I could make it. While many responders are maybe a little wary, none of us know, so it could be your best purchase ever. Good Luck.

There was a similar thread very recently. Apparantly the perforations can be so small they cant be seen, even with the dye. A charge with another gas is needed to find the leak.

Erm, mine's a bit short too. A bit of screwdriver action and it usually pops off.

According to the never wrong intertubes, it is danish for poo. Me, I'd never heard of it let alone misunderstood it. Found "Meh" too.

But it still gets dirty and chipped as much as any other finish. I did use proper spraying equipment btw. I can get a decent finish with a rattle can, its not hard, and it is only a wheel... On a car. To drive around in. On roads. In rain, mud, snow and slush. It will get dirty. WHEN it gets chipped, a bit of masking, a quick blow in, and jobs done. No heartache.

I can't be the only one who has been to some stupid traning seminar or conference... Management speak, get real! Gibberish is not restricted to low end tv.

Gene pool is a bit of a misnomer. Puddle more like.

If you have the user guide/manual then sometimes there is a sticker with all the option codes in that. (not in mine though). Failing that, adjacent to the spare wheel well. Mine is quite hard to read now, so maybe a photograph which you can enlarge on your computer.

Have you seen the damage done to the underside of a car by residual brick ends? Then add the cost of recovery because the guy couldn't get the vehicle off the ground enough to get the wheel on, turned out the hub was damaged. Nowadays this is called risk assessment. We called it common sense.

+1 on the use of bricks, blocks or stone. Definitely considered bad practice. Wood will at least creak and groan before it breaks, and remind you how dangerous it all is - just imagine the car falling on your head or legs. And unlike a garage, it is unlikely to be anyone around to get it off you. Jack Stands - cheap cheap cheap in comparison.

Long before any companies were around doing this, we would just clean them, mask and spray. In the 70's lots of wheels were two tone (think Rostyle), I did that by hand. I found an ebony or charcoal looked better than straight black. We even tried powdercoating, but should it get curbed, then it's hard to match up. Point is why pay £££ for something you could do yourself for less than £20 over a weekend?

Phil's right, you need a given amount of power to reach any particular speed to over come the various dargs and resistances. With a Diesel if you can back off the pedal and deliver less fuel yet still produce the required amount of power then road speed is maintained but you will use less fuel. Remember, Diesels don't have throttles, power is dependant solely on the fuel delivery, air is unrestricted ish. As mentioned, these are 3d maps so the extra power is not just from more fuel, but injection timing and boost being optimised too. Yup, using all the performance will tend to compromise fuel economy. This is my understanding anyway.

Have a read of the link in my post above. It is still a proposal. Amounts mentioned are €100+ OR the option for tourist/transit for a shorter stay. In Switzerland you only have the option of a whole year, and they really don't like you not paying and are very uncooperative with road signs to traverse on normal roads.

When we go off on a coastal walk, I like to try and get near to Cley Next (occasionally under) the Sea. Either on the walk or driving to or from. There is a very good smoke house there to get some kippers. They also do lots of other local sea sourced fresh or smoked comestibles. Cley also lays claim to an excellent deli, a fine restaurant, and an upmarket B&B. The recently reopened George is nice too, they serve decent coffee and tea in case you're not in a beer mood, ie half way through a bitingly cold but bracing winter walk. I prefer the un-dyed kippers, but that is just personal preference. I mostly do them jugged, drop them in a jug and pour boiling water in. Leave for 3 to 5 minutes depending on how fat they are. The jug means the house doesn't smell of kippers for the next decade. To be eaten with a big knob of butter, freshly grated horseradish and plentiful supplies of newly baked HMB.

Sad to hear about your friend. Sounds like there are lots of us who have been in that situation and knowing that doesn't make it any easier. Making their grave in one of their favourite spots with tears streaming, and then having to actually refill the hole, that was so hard. Makes me quivery to remember. My stepson lost his rotty just before xmas, and Tito the lab is still sad. They are looking for another dog for him to play with, but are finding it hard.

They probably do. France has very expensive toll roads, as does Italy and Spain. Switzerland and Austria have the Vignette. UK barely has sufficient roads in good condition to charge for, and all the foreign trucks are bringing or taking stuff from here. Germany is one of the major European transit routes. Traffic which brings nothing but cost and aggravation to them for someone elses benefit.

Road Tolls in BDR proposed for 2016. http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/10/30/uk-germany-politics-toll-idUKKBN0IJ2BR20141030 Not certain as yet, and may be thrown out by either the Reichstag or Brussels - who knows? It will likely be popular with Germans. As proposed, it looks much more like the Austrian system where you can buy, in this case, 10 day or monthly as well as the annual ticket. But will it also be called the Vignette?

When I bought my scooter - just for popping the few miles into town - the previous owner had kindly fitted new, unknown, tyres for the MOT. The first time out was very scary. However, once I had scrubbed them in they now grip reasonably well. As mentioned, the mould release will be the first problem to overcome, then scrubbed to profile, then they may not be too bad for gentle use. Once the warmer weather arrives, maybe that will improve them too. I'd try them on the front, which will scrub them in quicker, and if you can stand to continue using them, will wear out quicker.

The umweltplakette: You only need one in designated areas, city centres most likely. The area covered in Frankfurt for example, is quite small, you could easily walk across. My sister lives outside the designated area. It is a 10 mins walk into the town centre. Where there is no parking anyway, so why would you go? You can get one online as per Phil's reference, or there are several others. The eligibility is done as part of your vehicle's homolgation. You don't have to prove or demonstrate anything. You can just take your V5 down to any TUV centre and ask for one. They look at the documents and take €5 (I think) and give you the plakette. Its not a tax or a punishment, after all its not UK. They are issued for the life of the vehicle. I have not checked for ages, but drivers did have to carry all their documents all the time, insurance, licence, TUV and registration/proof of ownership. If that is still the case then you will have everything you need to get one over there. TUV=Technischer Überwachungsverein. As far as vehicles are concerned, they are independent test stations. Ask a friend, colleague or the tourist info or at your hotel/campsite, even someone in the street, they'll know. They are not garages, although any car place will also be able to direct you.

There used to be a house painter in Leicester who hand painted his Austin 1100. Immaculate job, hard to tell even from close up. He was one of those guys who could work all day, make no mess and his overalls were still pristine at the end. I worked with a guy who had trained at a bodybuilders as a coach painter. He could paint a double decker bus faster than a two man team of sprayers and his work was always great as well.