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Forum hanging when posting

by xantia_v6 » 25 Sep 2026, 23:04 » in Forum News, Announcements and Issues

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As we have all noticed, the forum software has for some time had a tendency to hang, sometimes causing a Cloudflare timeout, leading to duplicate posts. I investigated this a month or so ago, but did not reach any definitive conclusion about the cause, although my main suspect is the we server package.

Early today I rolled back that package to an...

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There is something different for me since a couple of days. I’m no longer getting the ‘verify that you’re human’ check when I open a post. But all posts do not show the pictures. When I click on one of the questionmarks that show instead of the picture I then get the Cloudflare check. After passing the check, the picture loads. When I back out of...

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Takata Airbag Recall Documentary

by GiveMeABreak » 06 Mar 2025, 17:55 » in Citroën
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Given the number of 'After-sales campaign' notices concerning Takarta Airbags I have been made aware of when looking up parts from PSA for members, I thought I would post a link to the following documentary that may be informative concerning the issue with these igniters.

According to Takata, the chemicals in the airbags’ explosive charge can...

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Or it could be the 'bots' are having seizures.
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17 Sep 2026, 09:45
PSA Electrical Diagrams - Wiring & Symbols Codes Index

by GiveMeABreak » 09 Dec 2023, 17:48 » in Diagnostics

PSA Electrical Diagrams - Wiring & Symbols Codes Index

The following will cover most basic equipment, but will exclude later systems & Tech.

PSA Electrical Diagrams Introduction - Function and Constitution of Codes
PSA Electrical Diagrams - Coding of Functions
PSA Electrical Diagrams - Component Coding
PSA Electrical Diagrams -...

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09 Dec 2023, 17:48
Citroen, DS Automobiles and Peugeot Official Part Number Requests

by GiveMeABreak » 15 May 2021, 13:55 » in Citroën
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Parts Service Announcement - 21st March 2025

Please note that there is a temporary disruption to our 'Parts Service', so we will be unable to provide any official parts for members at the present time. Please refer to the Post HERE for further info

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Disruption to Parts Service

As you may be aware, the consolidation of the old PSA to the Stellantis Group systems has resulted in both a merge of data tools and a requirement to migrate PSA accounts to Stellantis Systems.

This has caused some problems for organisations like ours and the Team are currently looking at the best way forward. This...
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21 Mar 2025, 10:53
Airbag, Dashboard, Seat Belt & Airbag ECU Repairs

by GiveMeABreak » 24 Jun 2020, 17:01 » in Useful links
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Just for members to be aware that airbagteam.com based in the UK are offering a 10% discount to FCF members on any of their services.

The FCF does not endorse any company directly, but thought this would be of use to members.

Full details of their services and the discount can be found here:

Airbag, Dashboard, Seat Belt & Airbag ECU Repairs

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I I gorgot
The car is a citroeng C2 1,6L VTS 2005
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14 Sep 2026, 17:59
New PSA Heritage Parts for Classic Cars

by GiveMeABreak » 11 Oct 2019, 16:18 » in Citroën

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Parts for Classic / Older Citroen, Peugeot Renault Vehicles

This may be of interest to Members with older vehicles where getting parts is a struggle and for those not already aware of the site.

PSA are embarking on a project to provide some supplies of original and re manufactured parts for older vehicles and classics, and have made it a...

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anti-virus is blocking.......

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16 Sep 2024, 21:28
Revised Easydiagnostics Discount Procedure

by GiveMeABreak » 03 May 2018, 17:22 » in Forum News, Announcements and Issues

Please note that there is a new procedure in place for members wishing to take advantage of a 15% discount off products from Easydiagnostics.

The old discount code that was entered into the checkout is no longer valid, as a result of the code being propagated over the Internet.

After discussions with Jim from ED today, we have agreed a new...

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03 May 2018, 17:22

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Maintenance on your Lease Vehicle

by Pug_XUD_KeenAmateur » 23 Aug 2018, 16:48
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....I noticed the TV ad' for a leased Range Rover for £355 pcm.

That's odd, I thought, at the rate these things depreciate, that can't begin to cover the depreciation.

....so I went onto the website as if interested in having one, and was amazed to find in the second page, having selected my Range Rover Evoque to 'Customize Lease'

Would you...

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Lease cars? If you work for the company that makes the car? Then it it was a good experience. When I worked for Toyota in the 90's (Derby) my Dad had a lease car. The calculation was..Car new=x Car after 2 years=y...x-y divided by 24 equals the the monthly pay. But that's not what you see? Merc ( or whoever) 5000 upfront then 299 a month after 3...
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28 Aug 2018, 20:24
Identify this vehicle please!

by Southerner » 08 Aug 2018, 15:10
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Hi all, I'm a new member so be gentle with me! :-D
Could anyone identify the vehicle seen in France from the attached photo?
It's beaten me. :?
Regards to all
Doug
Citroen Dyane owner 800x600_f291d1bfd02fbc48a01b323f2a3ca52e (2).JPG

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The last one is a Peel P50. Built on the Isle of Man, it may be the smallest car ever built.....
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21 Aug 2018, 16:52
Car Insurance for New Young Drivers.

by JohnD » 09 Aug 2018, 11:23
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I’m hoping to tap into the collective knowledge of the best - (maybe I mean cheapest) - way of getting a young person onto the car insurance ladder.

Last October, on his 17th birthday, my grandson took out a provisional licence. Shortly afterwards, I went off to Spain for the winter, leaving Sam to have some driving lessons with a local driving...

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May I suggest that (if he passed his test within the last year) he seriously consider taking the 'Pass Plus' driving scheme (this can only be taken within a year of pass ing the driving test). When I did it (over fifteen years ago) it cost me £20 per module (there are six modules), but when I received my certificate my insurers at the time treated...
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21 Aug 2018, 16:16
The Dog's B*******

by white exec » 21 Aug 2018, 11:27

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To keep our golden retriever happy, we received a pack of these from Amazon this morning.
Whoever wrote the Instructions must have had a sense of humour...

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You can have hours of fun playing with your pet and their dog's balls.
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Do not leave the dog's balls unattended...
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If your dog's balls become...

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21 Aug 2018, 11:27
Diesel Emissions Scandal (VW) Diesel v Petrol

by GiveMeABreak » 27 Sep 2015, 13:29
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Could the recent VW Diesel Emissions scandal re-ignite the Petrol v Diesel debate - what do you think?

1) As a Diesel owner, would you be more likely to consider reverting back to a petrol?
2) Does the extra MPG / KMH you may get justify many of the maintenance costs of the DPF system and all the related issues and problems of those components?...

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My thoughts as well. NiCads are more difficult to obtain nowadays having been superseded by NiMH but it's still possible.
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16 Aug 2018, 14:21
Citroen at the Lakes!

by XTreme » 12 Aug 2018, 15:57

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Chatting with a couple of the guys in Intros I was telling them about where I've lived for the past 13 years.

It's a very small town called Huescar in the province of Granada in Southern Spain.

And this is what the area around me looks like! These were taken this afternoon......temps of about 36C

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It's a very small town called Huescar in the province of Granada in Southern Spain.

Nice pics the turquoise lakes remind me of a region of provence in France near St Andre les Alpes, Gorge Du Verdon, very inviting!

Gorges du Verdon Gateway , by Joseph Plotz, from Wikimedia Commons

Tribute to the region of Granada....just posted the...

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12 Aug 2018, 22:31
NPR + Parking meters

by Sloppysod » 13 Jul 2018, 23:11

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It is becoming more common now days to enter you registration number into a Car park ticket machine before it spits out a ticket to stop you giving it to someone else, but does this information also get passed to the authorities as evidence that you vehicle is on the road, so they can check MOT, insurance & tax records? #-o

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They seem to have updated them now, but I had issues with the meters in Oxford a couple of years back (would have been late 13/early 14) where they demanded you input your reg.

...sadly their genius software would only accept registration numbers in the ab12abc type format! If you had a pre 2001 car, a private plate or Irish format plate you were...

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06 Aug 2018, 20:09
CO2 Nonsense

by GiveMeABreak » 01 Jul 2018, 18:42
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So what's with all this CO2 malarky then?

Can't believe the country is being held to ransom by CO2 factories all deciding they are going to undertake maintenance at the same time! Well done the management on that score :roll: :roll: :roll:

So out shopping yesterday and no fizzy water, no lemonade, no flipping meat (and who would of thought they...

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Saw crumpets in Lidl's recently - so I suppose that particular panic about nothing is over.

Have to say though, it was a classic example of the meeja being on another planet!
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05 Aug 2018, 22:19
How modern cars would have looked if designed in the 60s / 70s!

by Timmo » 27 Jul 2018, 10:34

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A friend in the trade posted this, thought you guys may appreciate them!

I think they are Ace! Especially the cactus and 1007!

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Always liked the idea if those Volvos having a highlevel brake light - even though the brake lights were at the same height!

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05 Aug 2018, 22:06
Vintage Mobile Cinema visits.....

by NewcastleFalcon » 25 Jul 2018, 13:15

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Northumberland (Belford Festival this weekend coming), Edinburgh, and Great Yarmouth!

Yes and for all of the bus aficionardos, there used to be 7 of them, now just one

The Bedford SB chassis was fitted with coachwork by Coventry Steel Caravans (CSC), utilising cabs supplied by Plaxtons (hence their similarity to Plaxton-bodied coaches...

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Yes I am claiming a 50 pointer from big chief I-Spy, for an unusual spot. Only one of these in the entire known universe...

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Regards Neil

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28 Jul 2018, 19:19
How to send SMS messages to mobiles from PC ?

by white exec » 24 Jul 2018, 10:44

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Skype (now MS) have seemingly removed the facility to send SMS text messages to Contact List mobiles, despite one of their on-line pages saying this is possible (probably an old page). They've also managed to delete our Contacts and our Credit as part of the 'upgrade' from vn.7 to current vn.8. So not a happy bunny.

Does anyone know an...

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That's ok if you do Facebook - I don't and won't (although I appreciate WhatsApp is owned by them now). I have all the privacy options locked down, but if it ever gets too demanding I will dump it. :-D I'm quite happy using Apple's messaging, but only switched to Whatsapp for friends on Android as it works on both.

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25 Jul 2018, 20:31
It might come in useful one day......

by bobins » 25 Jul 2018, 18:33

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Much to Mrs Bobins' annoyance, I've been known to hoard a few things that 'might come in useful one day' :-D I bow to the chap who put this little winch together - that must have come about due to world class hoarding :rofl2: I could learn a lot from him :wink:
2 washing machine motors, a Fiat 500 gearbox and a Ford Anglia gearbox, and a Vespa...

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Quite a contraption.

This has been a day when my T45 Torx bit would have come in useful. It’s definitely hoarded somewhere but not next to any of its mates :-D

Regards Neil

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25 Jul 2018, 19:00
Google Maps, in black-and-white

by white exec » 18 Jul 2018, 09:13

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Sometimes I need to print out a Google Map (street plan), instead of using satnav.
Although clear enough on pc screen, Google Maps printed out in colour has always been disappointing - pale tints disappear, and fine detail (eg street names) really not clear - despite being sent to very high quality printers.

Yesterday, hit the same issue . . ....

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Thanks for the explanation.
I was just surprised how good the image was in b+w.
Sequence was as follows:
- zoom to section of Google map needed
- hit Print
Quality in colour awful; top-notch in b+w.
No other actions (such as PrntScrn, Snip, or export) needed, so quick and easy.

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18 Jul 2018, 10:41
What a day!

by Gibbo2286 » 12 Jul 2018, 22:33

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My old friend who I take shopping at Lidl weekly rang and asked if I could take her this afternoon, walking down the High Street she fell on her face on the concrete, an hour and a half for the ambulance to arrive then they took her to Gloucester hospital where we waited for three hours, they X-rayed her arm, said her elbow was fractured and they...

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As I sat there waiting and watching the way things were done I thought ' this place could do with a Henry Ford ' :)

They X-rayed her face because they thought she might have broken the bone above the eye but that was ok, the elbow they said was 'complicated' and needed a scan which they couldn't do until this morning.

Your mention of Bath RU...

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13 Jul 2018, 09:22
This is really off topic.

by Gibbo2286 » 02 Jul 2018, 11:43

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My old friend has a problem and neither she or I know what to do next.

Back in the winter she was expecting a winter fuel payment £300 (She's 81) Mine went into my bank account directly and she kept looking at her bank account to see if hers had arrived, it didn't, she enquired at the post office where she draws her pension and they told her it...

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I'm of the same age group but being in business has hardened my views and I couldn't really afford to lose that money.

Peter

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11 Jul 2018, 11:43
PSA/Renault News..

by NewcastleFalcon » 22 Jun 2018, 06:33
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Someone from PSA was on wake up to money this morning, so I thought I would see what they were up to from their news page.

Well in the race for the future of personal transportation they have achieved a remarkable accolade.

They have been awarded the International Engine of the Year 2018 and proudly boast how much they have spent on R&D to...

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The bit about mid-hybrids reminded me of the bit I read in a trade rag about not missing out on the wonderful cash cow that was alternator & starter replacements on cars with stop-start technology.

Do we really believe the oil companies will allow thmselves to be legislated out of existance? It may only be an urban myth but I grew up Detroit...
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10 Jul 2018, 07:24
Facebook, What's going on?

by Gibbo2286 » 07 Jul 2018, 12:35

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I've been logging into Facebook almost daily for a very long time using an automatic log in programme, RoboForm.

Yesterday no joy, Facebook doesn't recognise my email, username or password no matter how I try to log in.

Just got this in an email,

Upload a photo of yourself
To get back on Facebook, upload a photo that clearly shows your face....

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I found this short video last night and thought it interesting - A Panorama 30 min documentary, about the dark side of smartphones - but focussing on social media - and interestingly a lot on Facebook and the 'unscripted' key admission from a Facebook founder last year:

Getting us hooked has been the Company's key intention from the start

It...

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08 Jul 2018, 09:34
Heatwave and Gritters

by MikeT » 25 Jun 2018, 17:01
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Reading a warning from the MET about the upcoming heatwave. It goes on to state tarmac softens at 27c, and may need a sunblock so there are plans to send the gritters out to spread sand.

Also, the rail network warns of tracks possibly buckling too.

Stay safe this week, and carry lots of water if practical.

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I think that today got a bit hotter than the tarmac manufacturers had allowed for. Oh, to be a fly on the wall when the driver called his depot!
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06 Jul 2018, 19:25
Stick, Weld, or Replace?

by NewcastleFalcon » 19 Jun 2018, 20:27

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Here is the offending article (off a Vauxhall Corsa). and it is not magnetic

The proper answer is replace-obviously not from our main dealer friends, but surprisingly the internet is not full of the exact part number (90 570 200). I am sure local scrappies will have plenty of apppropriate vehicles in, although a PITA to remove from an engine...

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talking of scrappies by the way, I notice that Jones over by Caen Hill Locks, Devizes way, list a C15 in their stock.

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02 Jul 2018, 23:16
Phone scammer.

by Gibbo2286 » 03 May 2018, 09:06
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Just had a phone call, a recorded message, woman with an American accent saying This is BT technical services, your broadband line will be terminated today at ?pm, to retain your service press 1........etc.

As I'm not with BT for any service clearly some sort of scam, 1471 gives the caller's number as 01724536875.

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Sounds like €800 well spent to me (assuming of course they can prove who blew the whistle which, of course, they can't) - & as for BT, who cares?
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28 Jun 2018, 22:10
Warning - geek alert. The oscilloscope clock

by bobins » 23 Jun 2018, 15:49

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Absolutely nothing to do with French cars, but.......
I'm sure there are one or two people on here that'll be interested in this :lol:

I've absolutely no connection with the project, but it does look rather nice :-D

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I Don't know much about analogue CRT electronics, but is there ant reason you couldn't use a large CRT from a scrap TV, or do they have to be these specialized small CRT units?

There's a difference in the way in which the beam is deflected - the 'scope' CRTs are electrostatic, the TV ones electromagnetic.
It could in principle be done, but it...

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27 Jun 2018, 12:09
Another auction.

by Gibbo2286 » 26 Jun 2018, 18:11

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Look at all those racks. :shock:

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They appear to be selling off the contents of the workshop of JayGee : Quality hydraulic power steering rack, pump, and box reconditoners and suppliers .
Anyone ever used them (JayGee)?

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26 Jun 2018, 19:57
Replacement Feet

by Hell Razor5543 » 20 Jun 2016, 09:34
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As per the title, does anybody either have or know where I can get a pair of replacement feet, as my current pair are knackered? I was looking after the EPoS equipment at Royal Ascot this week (from 11th June to 18th/19th June), and on Saturday I was there from 08:00 to 02:00 Sunday morning. Anyway, here are some pictures from Royal Ascot this...

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You may have noticed that I have been a bit quiet recently. This is because I have (for the twelfth year) been looking after the EPoS equipment at Royal Ascot. I didn't take many photographs, as I was slightly busy, but I did get a few.

The EPoS Support Team, from left to right, are as follows;
Mark, Sam, Tom, Connor, Greg (otherwise known as...
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24 Jun 2018, 21:24
How safe are your roads ?

by bobins » 23 Jun 2018, 20:22

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In a recent email newsletter to me from Direct Line insurance, they had a feature on the safety of all the main roads in the UK. You can find out just how bad the roads are around you from this (little bit clunky) website:

It turns out that I'm surrounded by bad roads. Of the four roads that lead from here, only one of them is rated 'Medium...

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Ah, I see ! I was going on the background colour - the higher numbers seemed to have a red background colour, lower numbers a neutral colour.
I think you're right about the statistical relevance - it'd only take a particularly nasty single incident involving several fatalities to skew the results and make a whole county look bad. Similarly, if...

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24 Jun 2018, 11:21
Favourite place to be, come Summer

by white exec » 22 Jun 2018, 11:07

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from last year's NC500 jaunt with Davie
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from last year's NC500 jaunt with Davie
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Lovely, You've had your digital paints out Chris, but you've not quite captured the drizzle :-D

Regards Neil

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22 Jun 2018, 15:08
Big error on my new Tomtom

by JohnD » 20 Jun 2018, 10:21

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Although I have Myway satnav in my C5, I prefer using my old Tomtom. Recently, because the maps can no longer be updated, I changed it for a new Go620. Yesterday I had it programmed to take me south down the A3 to the M25 then along to the M3. A mile before the M25, Tomtom began warning me to keep to the left lane for the slip road. Then as I...

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Ah well its a bridle path anyway so we get our fair share of passers by but there is a stables at the bottom of the track and we know them. I think it has been removed on some sat navs now. We do get walkers up here but we don't mind unless they pick all our blackberries!

Peter

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21 Jun 2018, 09:20
Not French, Corsa gearbox oil leak?

by EDC5 » 19 Jun 2018, 20:49

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Not a French car but my Mum's Corsa seems to have a 'damp' gearbox:

It's a 2009 'D' Corsa 1.2i

Not easy to see but the entire of the gearbox seems to covered in a misting of oil. It's not been dripping or anything but has a later of dust on top of the oil.

Gear selector turret:

Any suggestions? I'm not sure how a leak could coat the...

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Thanks for that, I'll check that sensor out. I'll have to do some reading on these engines as I know very little about them :o

Just amazed at how small the actual gearbox is, truly a miniature engine and gearbox, looks lost in the body of the Corsa D.

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19 Jun 2018, 21:53
Car for percussionist - any ideas?

by Richard_C » 16 Jun 2018, 19:06

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Any good ideas for a second hand petrol powered big box on wheels that's affordable to buy and cheap to run?

My son graduates soon, classical percussion and timpani. Early careers are built on ad hoc performance work and some teaching. You need to be able to get around, and get around with instruments. Percussion goes from tiny to huge. Triangles...

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C4 Grand Picasso 1.8 Petrol VTR or VTR plus. He should get a decent 2008-2010 one for less than two grand. To be honest, a Berlingo Multispace Forte (no modutop taking up roof space) will be better than a Grand Picasso. Having owned both, though the capacity of the GP is bigger, the height inside the Berlingo makes it much more practical. For...

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16 Jun 2018, 22:33
Why are things so dear!!

by Sloppysod » 06 Jun 2018, 19:57
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I see this the other day and thought yes that is why Citroen want £1500+ for a steering rack!!.
The Accenture Software understands that you need it to drive your car so you will pay the price they ask, so with that knowledge they put the price up!!
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Now we know!! [-X

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I've copied the relevant posts of this topic to the Telematics NG4 sub-forum and changed the title as I've now fired off another email to HERE maps now that I have had this latest response from Citroen, so anyone else with this system can follow:

It was probably better to put this in its own thread in case I get any more response :-D
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16 Jun 2018, 13:54
Daughters dissertation survey. Male help required please

by c.morewood » 21 Jan 2018, 09:52
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With the permission of the moderators Thank you.

My daughter Robyn is in her last year of a Applied Social Sciences degree at Aberdeen Robert Gordon’s university Aberdeen.

She is currently involved in a dissertation about the psychological wellbeing of males in relation to age and body image. She has chosen this subject as it has not been...

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Hi Robyn,

thanks for your post, it is most welcome to hear from you personally and to have an update and explanation to your educational progress.
You have done exceedingly well especially with regard to the difficulties you have had to overcome. I am really pleased that it has turned out so well and best wishes for whatever you choose to...
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15 Jun 2018, 16:22
PayPal Misery Rant

by GiveMeABreak » 13 Jun 2018, 12:33
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I was going to have a rant on my 'X7 Steering Rack Again' thread about this as it concerns the rack transaction, but thought I'd stick it here as a general rant after the fiasco that is still going on. The original rack payment included a £150 refund on return of my old rack.
So:
Steering rack bought from eBay via seller, whom I have no...

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It's exactly that they benefit (interest) from holding onto the transactions.
Bank have all sped up their processing to be (largely) instant for domestic customers. Meanwhile paypal have slowed theirs down.
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14 Jun 2018, 11:36
For the steam train lovers.

by Gibbo2286 » 13 Jun 2018, 16:04

This weekend.

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13 Jun 2018, 16:04
An auction

by Gibbo2286 » 12 Jun 2018, 15:50

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with something for everyone. :) one I've attended and bought from many times.

A warning though everything is 'Sold as seen'.

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There's certainly some interesting stuff there, some Of which I have bought recently off ebay! A few of the early lots might interest Jim, although probably not to his standard.

Peter

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13 Jun 2018, 10:34
E27 LED lamp

by white exec » 09 Jun 2018, 14:34

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Disappointing to discover the claimed ultra-long life of mains LED lamps is, apparently, often not what is advertised.
Had a series fail here, brand as per photos, with a rating on the package of 40,000h. That's a cool 22 years, at 5h per day. Really? No, they managed a couple of years, then pop...pop...pop and died.

Took one apart, just to see...

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The word came into my head straight away, when I was in my last year at school I spent the whole year as assistant (bottlewasher) to the science master in the lab, he had badgered the school into funding an epidiascope for the lab. :)

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10 Jun 2018, 10:03
Kubrick's 2001

by white exec » 20 May 2018, 07:31
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I suddenly felt very old this morning, when I found out that 2001, A Space Odessy is to be re-released in cinemas, to mark its - wait for it - 50th year since release! #-o

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I think I had a dabble with those books in my very early years - and with those Foundation books by Isaac Asimov IIRC - but I never got into them enough to complete them.
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04 Jun 2018, 17:53
Xantia Colours-Pick one out....

by NewcastleFalcon » 23 May 2018, 19:48

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Simple thread, not hard to join in...

Have a look at this gallery and pick out your favourite colour

and yes there are Brown Xantias!

Regards Neil

Yes scroll down past the blurb and the pics start with the Greys

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Metallic red - definitely

Peter.

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04 Jun 2018, 10:16
Phoney BT calls

by Gibbo2286 » 01 Jun 2018, 12:26

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I've just had one of these telling me that my Broadband has a problem, I let him take me through the usual patter to go to event viewer, then he asked what I saw on the screen, I told him that it was telling me that he wasn't calling from BT, he insisted that he was, I told him it was now telling me he was a telephone scammer and rang off. :(

I...

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Of course the other thing you need to do is never give your home number out on any contracts or forms- always use a mobile.

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02 Jun 2018, 12:57
Wanna build a camper?

by Gibbo2286 » 31 May 2018, 18:49

Some ambulances here and a single deck bus.:

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31 May 2018, 18:49
LEJOG in 9h36m in an AUDI (what else?)

by NewcastleFalcon » 29 May 2018, 21:55
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Heard this on Vanessa Feltz, the driver not shy of a bit of publicity appeared on the show.

Record-breaking driver who drove length of Britain in nine hours 'should be prosecuted for speeding'

Room 101 material I think.

Regards Neil

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An entertaining enough thread I would suggest, but for more entertainment try this

Regards Neil
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31 May 2018, 18:26
A few of my Favorit things...

by NewcastleFalcon » 27 May 2018, 09:17

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The title of the winning letter in December 2017 Practical Classics Magazine...and it struck a chord with me.

Has car design really lost sight of its objective or am I just getting old? was the first line.

Whats your view? What are your design requirements for a car?

Mine concurs with the spirit of the letter.....and the Favorit bit.....after...

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needless to say, I'm not one of those people.

Neither am I! Another bit of needless technology just because they have it is stop/start. A couple of weeks ago we sat in a long queue for Border Control at Eurotunnel in Calais. Alongside side us in the next lane was a C1 with stop/start. During the fifteen minutes it took us to travel the 200 or...

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28 May 2018, 08:43
CitroJim's Amsterdam Charity Bike Ride...

by CitroJim » 22 Jan 2018, 09:45

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I'm cycling all the way from Milton Keynes to Amsterdam in June to raise money for Willen Hospice ...

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This is our local Hospice that supports all end of life care in MK and receives only a quarter of its funding from the NHS :(

It gets all the rest from charitable donations and various fundraising events throughout the...

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Not long now until I depart on this trip of a lifetime :D

Last week we had our final briefing and got our special cycling jerseys 8-)

Here am I modelling mine just before a club ride this morning...

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There is still time to sponsor me and donate to Willen Hospice by visiting my JustGiving page ;)

All donations...

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20 May 2018, 16:33
JLR opens new aftersales centre

by MikeT » 19 May 2018, 10:21

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They say it's state of the art and has no less than 29 bays with 19 ramps, including what they regard as two future-proof bays especially for electric vehicles.

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Saw a fair few red XE's on the road today - presumably they're having an open-day and people are test driving them.
Wish I'd known beforehand then maybe I would have gone down to try and blag a drive in their EV models (if available).

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19 May 2018, 17:42
Insurance for Candian visitor ? Sorted in part

by Stickyfinger » 17 May 2018, 21:56

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How easy/costly do you think it would be to put a Canadian Military Police Snr Staff Srg'nt and his British wife (still has records/active insurance on a VW Polo in the Uk) onto my 2ltrTD C5 Excslv Tourer insurance for 2 weeks ?

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I was 52p out, not bad then!

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18 May 2018, 16:34
Breakdown cover - any good ones?

by Richard_C » 14 May 2018, 18:21

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My roadside assistance/recovery cover is bundled with car insurance, but I'm changing insurer so need to choose who to go with. I want full on assistance, recovery and Europe cover so I can 'file and forget' until next year. Can do a 2 car deal if its worth it, wife's car cover expires in 4 weeks. Need to cover car, not driver, as the offspring...

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I broke down at the A30 slip road on the M5 at Exeter and they were there in about 7 minutes, mind you they do use Exeter services as a depot.

Peter

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18 May 2018, 10:36
Like photos?

by Gibbo2286 » 17 May 2018, 10:18

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Have a wander through my home town history.

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They dont show up on my equipment Gibbo (Closed group?) then again I am not a facebook user

Regards Neil

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17 May 2018, 22:42
The LNER is back!

by NewcastleFalcon » 16 May 2018, 20:26

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Bye Bye Virgin/Stagecoach, hello London and North Eastern Railway.

Yes Virgin have been relieved of their duties on the East Coast mainline like GNER before them.
Transport Secretary Chris Grayling

“I will terminate Virgin Trains East Coast's contract on June 24 2018. I plan to use a period of Operator of Last Resort control to shape the new...

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Order some coal from the valleys, fill up the water troughs, stock up the bunkers, prepare the eggs and kippers for breakfast, the Gresleys are coming back ...... oh, maybe not. Wrong kind of LNER.

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17 May 2018, 12:47
NEW MoT regs come into play this weekend chaps

by Stickyfinger » 16 May 2018, 09:00

Time to reconnect that EGR and that other stuff you chopped off the car :)

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16 May 2018, 09:00
Can there be anyone left

by Gibbo2286 » 14 May 2018, 10:01

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who hasn't checked their poxy PPI?

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That would be for the selling of finance, finance houses used to pay commission to dealers for introducing customers and often the payments depended on how high a rate the dealer could load onto the terms, some dealers made no profit on the car price but loaded the finance charges instead.

That way they could look to be very competitive on price...

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14 May 2018, 18:25
Nielsen CDG gone bust?

by EDC5 » 28 Mar 2018, 21:48

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I was just about to search for my favourite discount oils supplier when I found their website not working... ( )

Google seems to reckon that they are 'Permanently Closed' and their eBay shop is unreachable too.

If so it's a shame; as they were a good, cheap source of Total oils (Engine and LDS) :?

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Now they seem up and running I’ll email them to see if they can do something for us as the previous company did.

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10 May 2018, 21:41
SM, DS (x2), BX in Waterloo...

by 9000se » 08 May 2018, 22:14

I used to walk past the area quite regularly - obviously belongs to someone who likes Citroens. I remember seeing 2 DS Safaris on that road, this was joint by an SM about 3-4 years ago and now a BX (looks like a 16v from a distance) when I walked past again...

Does it belong to anyone here? I remember speaking to someone who was taking lots of...

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08 May 2018, 22:14

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