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I'm on the case mate 8) Now to read the handbook

It's called spin James, of the very worst kind :(

Heck, they ought to be doing all they can to encourage the use of older cars, far so-called greener than a new one. It makes me furious.

They're doing a good brainwashing job on our kids. It took a lot of work to convince my kids that running a middle-aged diesel Xantia is far greener, when...

That is a huge amount of money!!! :shock: My 1st car was a Astra 1.3 in 1992,a Y reg `83.It cost £508 tpft which i thought was a lot.
Anyway,my stereo is all wired up now.Took a 12v fused feed from the 12v battery straight to the stereo,earthed via the machine,no probsat all.What a plesure it is to R2 & FM again.
Out of interest,its stil lmy...

That take's me back. :lol:

Pura is now up to 56p a litre, there is no-where retail where you can buy it for much less than a pound, apart from Lidl. I get mine from Bookers now, it should stay cheap there for a little while longer.

Now I need to determine the make of A/C compressor.

Look at the label wrapped around the body of the compressor Mike.

If it is more or less all yellow with a green area it'll be a Delphi/Harrisow. Otherwise it'll be a Sanden.

Another way of identifying it is a Sanden is by the pully/clutch face having three threaded holes in a triangluar shape...

From another perspective, you could also check out here as this is mainly newish cars.

Go for the alphabetical reference and look particularly at Nissan Navara, Kia Carnival and anything Ford or Holden (Vauxhall in your language) for a few eyebrow raisers.
Most of the posts are from Australia, although the UK, South Africa and of course the US...

I picked up the gaskets and studs this morning, induction and exhaust is all back together again. Damn manifold to exhaust joint was blowing badly and I had to do some serious over-tightening to shut it up. As the exhaust got hot, smoke began billowing out of the bay much to my horror but I soon realised it was the plus-gas saturated downpipe just...

isn't it a sprung plastic switch, a plunger type thing, located where the boot lock hoop comes out of rear valance? I sort of know what I mean,, a very late night :(

If I press mine, the boot light goes off.. from dubious memory.. Models fitted with Hydractive suspension have a switch under there to activate the Hydractive as part of the...

Well that baby is definitely safe in your hands Jim, no doubt about it. :lol:

You've hit the nail on the head when you say that you've tested the strategy by restoring and verifying it works ok. This idea often occurs to ordinary computer users after they have been religiously backing up their work for a period, but then they find themselves in...

Jeremy, that is a hoot :lol: :lol:

Thank you for the kind reviews folks!

We've just had a summer that felt like spring up here in the tropics, yet down south where it's supposed to be milder, they've had a summer like what we usually have with temps up to the 40s.
Be interesting to see what winter brings.
Autumn at present is like your summers I expect with overnight temps around the 16 - 20 mark and hitting 30 in the...

Conventional diesel theory suggests that good mixture homogenisation is only achieved with high levels of swirl, the higher the better and in fact all diesel engines, be they DI or IDI, go all out to get as much swirl as possible :? Or are they just using a bit of bull baffles brains and a set of words that look good. A kind of spin perhaps?

I...

:D :twisted:

It seems third time lucky it was :D

We have been stable for two weeks now so this thread is moved to French Car Chat..

Please keep me informed of any further glitches please :wink:

Is the 1.4hdi from a C2 or C3, not fit in there and comes with a turbo.

I reckon expense and complexity would rule that one out.

That & no veg option.

Mike,

You already asked :roll: :wink:

I thought I had but couldn't find my original thread - did I tell you I was born blonde? :lol:

Well I'm pretty sure I must have broken every single one of those rules at some time or another.

I discovered quite a few interesting sites this afternoon. My head is spinning now, far too many hours in front of a monitor.

@ Elma, have you got a name or number for the guy in Pentraeth?

Sorry Richard, I was a long time composing my post due to the phone interupting me :twisted: and I've ended up making much the same points as you..

My apologies :oops:

OMG, OMG, hell has finally frozen :D

Thats certainly a tale with some wits 8)

Well there's a fair discount on a HDi crankshaft pulley buying it via Ebay @ £44 inc postage whereas from one of their shops its £86 :shock:

another good place to get cheap veggy is bookers .... currently 15 litres for £8.30 ........

this piccie appeared on the forum a couple of years ago (its the steering wheel that gives it away).......

anyone interested in a turbo diesel activa cabriolet? mmmm .... drifts away smiling

chaps thanks

since posting, a few others have commented on these engines spiting back a bit.
but to cause this - more likely a fire burning for a while after shutdown...

when running, the draw of air would be unlikely to allow a raging inferno..
although this clip from a couple of, how do I say, interesting lads disproves this ;)

think I...

That hose Mike, could be the main feed from the pump to the pressure regulator, one of the Power Steering ram lines or the feed from the LHM reservior to the pump. All of these are vaugely in that area. If it were a VSX or Exclusive, you'd also have the Hydractive centre sphere piping there too..

Could be simple or difficult.

Battery flat is NOT...

Hi all.. :)

Well it seems the answer to my original question is --- YES!!!! :lol:

I swapped drives again and installed WinXP onto the new drive after first unplugging the other hard drives to ensure I loaded XP to the correct drive.. :roll:

I turned off my PC, reconnected all the drives, and rebooted. I then checked to make sure that both my...

This site has vastly improved but news is slow to travel. I hope the ex-forum members will hear the good news and begin to return. Just like you won't see every Citroen owner driving the same model, neither will you ever see everyone using one site. But good on you, seems you're happy with what you found.

Thanks for this Myglaren :D Most valuable.

The reason was that previous to the new database server becoming operational, the forum was difficult at best to administer due to the very slow response from the old database server. As a result new members were taking a long time to be activated and it was not easy to find genuine new members from the...

Very deep flooding a few years back saw me pop the electric switch on my Cx Safari onto
high whilst I drove towards it and I carried on through serenely without a pause! Actually
it was very deep and at one point must have been just above the sill - the bow wave ran
midway up the car's doors on the sides... blink.gif

There'd just been a lot of...

Oh it is real....

@ Kowalski - I thought there was something like that, I'm guessing that is why he cancelled the ticket fairly easily.

Loads of Xantia's in and around Motherwell, there is two in our stree, mine and the one at the bottom of the road, three if you coun't my Sensation parked up in the drive, and most annoyinly another Mallard green 1.8LX up up on the High Street, annoying as that's the colour of my Sensation and when I got the car it was the only one that colour for...

I like :lol:

It still amuses me when a hydro Cit does it's little tricks :lol: :lol:

I still get an enormous amout of joy out of my Activa after a year in my ownershipm and only irregular use nowadays as the 2.1TD does the bulk of the work..

Straight-line performance may be nothing special by todays standards but around the twisty stuff the...

A brief update:

Work continues behind the scenes. Currently we are looking at hosting the forum database on another server and investigating the technical issues to do so without loss of data or an interruption in service. The latter worries me as a few backups I have taken in ordder to dummy run and prove the exercise have proved to be corrupt,...

yep :(

I did look at an A class but parking restrictions forbade it..

at 23 ' it's a tiddler.. still , very wide, 2.5m! lots of work needed I think

Hi Ralph.. Nah, I wish! :o Too expensive to run these days. :roll: I still have some nice photos of them though. I even found a couple of the white Triumph Stag I had. :)

The Honda's bad enough. Only does 18 mpg ish on short local runs, but manages 32 mpg ish when running around doing long runs on holiday.

I would love a BMW 525 TD SE auto 1996...

One tip, wipe away any rings left on the screen by the sucker. If low-lives see these rings they will know you have a satnav and break in to your car on the off-chance youve stashed it out of sight somewhere in the car.

Thats exactly why I run mine on a pda, I bought the one that wedges into the dashboard in front of the speedo perfectly to...

Hi Jeremy, and thanks for the info. :D

Fortunately my ZX is an Aura and already had 4 speakers installed. :)

I spoke too soon about it being finished though, dohh.. :oops: Now the hatch-lid is beginning to creep down so I need two new support arms for it.. *~#* :roll:
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I tried V power or whatever the super expensive Shell diesel is in the ZX 1.9D - and to be honest noticed no difference at all. (Thing runs on plain Shell almost exclusively)

Wonder if it would do anything for my BX TD (205,000 miles)?

The problem is not being ignored.

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