French Car Forum

I should also of added that I still see LOADS of these driving about on the roads (even some X & Y registered ones)!

I think you'll find (a) your average police officer has little or no knowledge of the finer details of the relevant regulations (b) the paperwork is disproportionate to interest a traffic cop BUT, yes, it is a calculated risk.

However, my observation was simply that the company concerned list a red rose as an option (one of very many) - but not a...

My heart always sinks when cars like this turn up in high-end auctions: another, previously, attainable, fun, niche model reduced to investment portfolio fodder.

Yea I saw the fuel dyes wikpedia page, done a bit of research myself. I found some UV dyes as well which could work. The thing I'm up against is knowing if it's safe t chuck in. Obviously I'm not gonna trust the eBay sellers saying yea it's totally fine .

As for why not red, I've heard it does stain things so don't want to be accused in future,...

I've split the current number plate topic off here:

The Welsh have moaned constantly since the outset about the Severn Bridge tolls, now they're abolished they're moaning that the extra traffic is causing problems further along the M4 at Newport, the English on the other hand are happy that the heavies that used to travel through Gloucestershire to avoid the tolls are no longer bothering them. :-D

This just goes to show what a nonsense the MoT has become: low oil is hardly a safety issue nor, for that matter, is a CEL (which, in my experience) means absolutely nothing. 9 times out of 10, any of these lights coming on means the sensor's failed NOT the system it's monitoring!

We were still wearing puttees when I was in Egypt in 1953-55. :)

That oil does indeed say T-IV which is the same as JWS3309. So I can’t see a problem there.

I suppose it all comes down to trusting the third party manufacturer of the oil.

All been used previously bar 1 and putting the PAL player on the NTSC input gives nothing. None of the cables work with that player but all do with the other.
Doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things as one player plays everything. Irritating though.

Slightly off topic I know but one time we crossed from Poole to Cherbourg on the ferry it was announced that the french fishermen were revolting so we expected the harbour to be blocked. By the time we got there I had forgotten all about it, we docked, drove off into Cherbourg but found we couldn't get out as all the main roads were blocked and...

Thanks for the response - but can't now find the ad (on Gumtree), so have messaged the vendor & am still awaiting a reply.

We bought a new Ford Mk1 1200cc Cortina Estate in 1964. Cost £700. By 1969 it needed welding on the rear box section chassis rails.

I wonder why that car is so low at the back, not as I recall them.

I was chatting to a sales manager at Clock Garage in Birmingham, a salesman came round and said You know that immaculate Humber Sceptre...……….it isn't any more, it's been hit by a bus over on the other side of the roundabout. :(

Thanks for the tip, but I am happy to let Brian get what he can for it. He does a great service round these rural parts, everyone knows him and uses him, and he's a real character. He's done a bit of car transporting for me too.

Regards Neil

I made the move from the Nokia days, Symbian, then over to Samsung and Motorola for several years, before sticking with Blackberry for ages and then straight to Apple, which I've been with since the 4S and I still have it here - working perfectly as a backup for my 6 Plus. I won't be upgrading again though for many years to go as I think Apple...

I used to have a workshop full of televisions - but no clock.

Peter

That’s the finest thread title so far this January.

Much kudos Gibbo, Part of the FCF’s uniqueness and charm, I can fairly safely say that you won’t find a thread called Syringe my ears anywhere else on the world wide web :-D

Regards Neil

Bit of plain French from me

Bonne et Heureuse Annee

..and join in as much as you can in 2019....it makes the forum flow.

..and first topic of the year from me, dont bother giving stuff up for January, start something new

So today, I give you

Start a new thread in January month!

Regards Neil

Couldn't find it immediately on the site, but one of the fun services you used to be able to access from your telephone was dial-a-disc

Used to love Dial-A-Disc :D I have fond memories of groups of us youngsters all piling into a telephone kiosk to listen to the disc of the day :D

Happy days 💛

am sure will be back up there pretty soon!! knew i should have snapped it!!

It would be too. Took the grand kids on it a couple of years ago, I think it was our fare that paid for the new station. :shock:

Peter

Yes, best wishes Rich and a ‘trouble-free van year’ 🤞

Not so fussy about age related Nos: then.

I had a C reg '63 Beetle because it was re-registered in Northampton, which had never issued A & B prefixes.

I went to have a look at a NAS XJC but had reservations about it. Went to a Frenchman who had no such qualms, virtually bought it unseen, came over - & drove it home.

Heater remote switch works fine indoors so signal should be stronger in the car. I'm unable to test the effect of sub-zero temps on the batterys but doubt it will be much of an issue. Hopefully, it means the end of my anti-social extended cold-idling when the screen needs defrosting/demisting with the added bonus of not having to leave home to do...

I dismissed that an error - in the context of Constipation Street.

Must admit already thinking maybe I was a bit hasty. Among my e-mails are those relating to 3 unresolved disputes (although none of any real consequence), my only way of renewing my internet contract, which expires, on 31 December, but, perhaps, most importantly my $110 ticket for an event over Mayday Weekend.

Good news is, ordered a WM...

I got it! It is Volume 2, so it is quiet. Volume 1 requires specialist audio equipment just to hear it, while Volume 10 blew the speakers the moment the needle hit the record!

Yes, there’s need to repeat the post, it’s there for all to see.

In the absence of any further info that has been repeatedly asked for to try and resolve the matter, there is little point in trying to pursue it further. Do create a new post if you have a new issue, but this thread is being locked and moved out of the technical forum as it is...

I've still got and occasionally use my first digital camera, only 1.2 megapixels but still produces pretty good images, built like a brick but nevertheless went all round the world with me twice.

Priced at £1200 when it came out although I didn't pay that, it came as part of a deal with a computer.

Plenty of them offered on Ebay for about a...

I'm trying to remember back to when I was modding on a forum using phpBB and don't recollect any problems. That was a couple of software revisions ago though and might now be different.

Having said that it doesn't really matter - I was just trying to clean up the thread.

Halfrauds...... I bought a filter only one time looks ok but, the paper inside the canister is just beyond my words....

I had a C1 for a while before giving it to Robyn... I loved it and she loves it too... They are great little cars and surprisingly quick :)

I never felt it to be insubstantial at all... In fact, just the opposite...

Agree, sell complete for a car of this age with this fault.

I thought it had come up on the Forum.

Recently discovered Wheeler Dealers France on dailymotion quite a few of the episodes posted up there. By the time you watch a few you will understand more French than you ever did at school :-D Watching one now on the Quattre cents Quattre.

So what did they choose to select?

Saison 1

Episode 1 :...

Of course one reason certain models become valuable is there are so few survivors - because so many of us share those recollections/thoughts.

Yes, you made a reference to it not being what it was (bit like Eccles really) but then the correct pronunctiation (so far as anything's correctly pronounced in Northants) is all I recall of the place but, depressingly, I've been back in The Smoke for longer than I was up there.

Really? The lists I've seen of what is acceptable don't include many of those &, in fact, specifically EXCLUDE mobile phone bills. Also there are many, particularly the young, elderly & married women, who don't have any of those &, of course, increasingly, with so much being done on-line fewer & fewer people have anything with their address on...

Euro 4 is entirely arbitary e.g. my '98 STS was compliant, but the Eldo isn't, despite being identical mechanically - because it's a '96! BUT that's in Germany, the TFL take on Euro 4 is quite different AND much stricter.

The situation is complicated by resident discounts & an adjustment period after the introduction date.

As for various schemes...

Same here! My response to the store will now be dependant on what Asus tell me.

Can you mould it into the shape of a different caliper with your bare hands ? :wink:

Well topical for today this guy could

Regards neil

You've come to the right place - there's plenty of info here for the X7. :)

Have a search first for info - put any telematics queries in the telematics forums (I've moved your MyWay thread there) and the technical queries in the Citroen Forum.

I'm afraid it gets a bit muddy here as to the different technologies incorporated. For example on the C5 X7 e-HDi Stop Start the battery diagrams show the following, compared with a 308 model the same as yours:

Paul X7 Capacitor.PNG Paul 308 Capacitor.PNG
X7 Battery showing Ultracapacitor (1) and Converter Unit ECU (3) On the 308 1.6 120 Item...

Zel, your little red Bose thing is unbelievable!!!

Bose use rare earth magnets, which can grab hold of iron more ferociously than a starving crocodile grabbing hold of a wildebeest!

:rofl2: James, I love the simile - one of the best I've heard in a long time!

:lol: The Big Bang Theory is always god for a giggle and not far off the truth either....