French Car Forum

hi all, I don't know much about computers, but have an oldish desktop here.

I would like to occasionally upgrade it cheaply if possible..

I seem to be using most of my RAM a lot of the time.

At the moment I have 6 RAM slots, 4 are similar sized and 2 are larger, the 4 have a 1GB stick in each (2 pairs of 2 different manufactures / DDR2 but...

No, not that list :lol: (well it can be if you want!)

The list of things to do if the weather is kind and you can escape the famliy for a few hours...

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Required for MOT:
OSF spring and stut top bearing and drop link
NSR wheel bearing and damper
Possibly required for MOT:
Both front wishbones (which requires dismantling most of the front...

I've had the Citroen workshop stuff on my computer now for several year in a virtual machine set up, trying to get there this morning I get this pop up.
Any suggestions, it might be to do with the huge Windows 10 update I loaded over the weekend.

Borrowed from the BHF forum.......again.

Looking up the history of a car shown on the BHF site I dropped on this:

Something to keep you occupied for a while.

Is anyone able to advise the location of this Railway Tunnel?

Its somewhere on the Fort William to Mallaig Line and I suspect it's likely to be prior to the Glenfinnan Viaduct. I believe the train was travelling West.

I was watching the new Channel 4 series Coastal Railways with Julie Walters (it aired yesterday I think)

....and thought it'd...

Cross posting this on behalf of someone on another forum I use regularly as I figure the more eyes open for this the better. Hopefully the moderating staff won't mind. I know the folks over there would do the same if it was one of our motors that had gone missing.

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Hello all, not sure if this is the right part of the forum to...

My father has one of these in his loft in mint boxed condition - I will be round at his probably this Sunday (he used to have it fitted to his Austin 1300, then he fitted it to his Mk 1 Metro - it was still working when he took it off and boxed it up).
Will attempt to photograph all the bits and scan you the instruction book.
you need a sensor...

I dont know if this has worked. If it has, could someone look at this and let me know if it would be suitable for the xantia and pug 407? Ive picked this one because it has the laptop too, which is a thing I do not possess.
Thanks guys.

Warning, this video may upset and cause distress...

Sent to me as I have lived near where this incident may have happened...

There is a strong belief it may be staged...

Don't blame me if it really upsets you. It did me :evil:

this is the same-ish as the vauxhall viavaro and renault traffic but does anyone know who made the engines? were they all made by the same make or were they all made indiviually, ie vuaxhall. nissan and and renault?

I been a bit ill recently so watching too much television and I noticed some odd things. Adverts for computer games often say not actual game footage when they show images and this seems odd to me. I also saw an ad for shampoo that said 87% of 111 women agreed this stuff is great or words to that effect. My math says this statistic is...

Went with my eldest daughter to pick up this rather smart Pug 207

We are not far from having fibre internet installed in our street, and I needed to check some details on our ISPs web site, somewhere I try not to go as it is an awful site, which seems to have the only purpose of selling phone upgrades. The ISP is a well known global company.

I sat looking at the login screen for a few seconds, and realised that...

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Been running my Xantia 1.9TD on different ratios of WVO, WHO and diesel. It's been running now for 2 years and within I covered about 40kkm. Only mods that I've done is coolant heat exchanger and heated fuel filter (from a Golf MK1 :-D ). I change my engine oil every 10kkm and so far I didn't notice any polymerization...

In the last few...

Borrowed this from the Birmingham History Forum:
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Not me....... electronics. :)

My television, a 42 flat screen job I bought in a bankruptcy sale about ten years ago, started to have problems, took a long time to get going, it always had a fault from the time I bought it a single black line down the centre of the picture which I just lived with.

Last week that line suddenly became 3 wide then...

Does anyone else think the Renault names for the new crossover cars Captur, Kadjar, and Koleos are irritating names for what seem like very good cars?

My Grand Picasso has a few light scratches on it, as you'd expect with a 9 year old vehicle. If it were metal, I'd not hesitate on polishing them out with Farcela or T-cut, but they're on the front left and rear right wings, which are plastic.

Can I do the same sort of thing on plastic? Do I need a special compound or material to do it ? I...

as we are about to apply for another Blue Badge exemption i thought i'd pass them on.........even if you don't use them often hopefully some of yoiu can save a bit and stick it to de Man :)

Not everyone is aware but free Road Fund Licence is available for main vehicle, possibly also if you can prove your car is main one used by Badge...

This is (as per the title) a rant about youth of today. My reasons will follow. Moderators, if you feel that this needs to be deleted or locked I will NOT be offended.

I have a godson in his mid teens. He has been unable to go out unaccompanied for several months now. This is not because he is a nuisance but because creditable threats have been...

I used to use sunflower oil in my Xantia back in the day without any problems. Was usually a 50/50 mix but on the day I traded it in, I was low on fuel so stopped at Safeway and bought a couple of litres of sunflower oil, enough to get me to the Citroen dealership. Those where the days when a litre of sunflower oil was 43p and diesel was 89p so...

This is a couple of youtube videos that might be of interest to some. (not French)

Been a few threads on Dash Cams, but today has seen the profile of them raised sufficiently to become the subject of radio phone-ins.

Operation Snap, pioneered in North Wales, is likely to be copied, or rolled-out along similar lines to a police force near you!

Not the best put together video you'll see, but fair enough as a starter for 10....

Title says it all. My 22yr old xantia is up and running again and since going into the indy for welding and a host of other repairs my breakdown insurance has lapsed. I never expected to see her again! So, is there a decent low cost service out there who would attend to a car of that age without any hassle as i'm not as confident of her longevity...

Hmm, I hesitate to ask this here, but I'm getting nowhere fast any other way.....

....anyone know what the oil change interval is on a 2011 Nissan Micra (K13), 1.2 Petrol?

Mum-in-Law's new Nissan comes (cheap) with no Service History worth mentioning, no pre-printed intervals in the nearly empty Service History log (you write them in.......

A year or so ago, I built another pair of hi-fi speakers, this time a small-ish pair for the lounge, to mate up with a new 4k Sony tv, via a small 12+12W rms amp.

Had previously put together one or two speaker pairs making use of piezo tweeters - often poo-poo'd on grounds of quality - and this time I took the trouble to calculate enclosure...

I want to cut some fairly intricate shapes in large c. 1mm mild steel sheet, including some inside curves. I don't need engineering style precision, its for artwork.

Tin snips are OK, but hard work, don't really do inside curves too well and distort the edges a bit (but not so bad it cant be dressed back). My old Goscut is hard work and...

There are some truly nasty looking pics on this site: of broken injectors and glowplugs. Quite a lot of inventive, if abortive, efforts to remove them. The guys that run this place must have lots of kit, and lots of patience!

Do I need to be worried that I found it very interesting and looked through the pics for ages.... :roll: :twisted: Nurse!...

If you're thinking about getting one of these....

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...don't forget you'll need one of these...

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... for the owner's manual

I was just looking at the latest developments over the water... 'Magic Body Control', 'Active Body Control', Crosswind Stabilisation', 'Magic Vision Control', blah, blah, blah, and all we want is...

I was just checking on PSA Group's site for some info and I see they have now finally incorporated GM's European operations into the branding - God help us all:

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Those GM mottos will simply have to be the first things to go... Isn't life Brilliant - The Future is Everyone's

I think whoever thought those up are now out of a job.

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Came across this in Caen, en route to the ferry to Portsmouth.
Tram - on rubber tyres - overhead power - and a single central guide rail.
Preculiarly French? - and not dissimilar to the Paris Metro, where I remember trains arriving with little more than a rubbery swish.

head scratch moment.... did anyone else see this and think WTF, that's some kind of 'Reverse Psychology Advertising'

I'm referring to the Mercedes Me ad', as seen at the end of the Doc Martin ad breaks, where the driver of a red Merc has to employ a gadget to remotely drag it out of its space, it being hemmed in by other vehicles sufficiently for...

Funny quiz tells you what you should drive.

I got fiat 500/ off road panda despite it saying on page one it's a girl's car and question one being my gender!

Hogwarts Express rescues family stranded in Highlands
BBC News 50 minutes ago

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The very train that Davie and I caught up with at Mallaig station!
A lovely good-news story.

Hi Guy's
What do you all use to stay awake on a really long drive. Has you all know with the aid of a new credit card I am now able to do my trip down to Spain and around France next week.
Car been serviced and passed MOT with flying colours. ???????

With the MOT regulations changing from May next year to increase the MOT age limit exemption from pre-1960 cars to a rolling 40 year exemption, what nice French cars will this allow to be driven both MOT and road fund licence expempt ? What would you get ? :)
A bit of explanation - From May next year the DfT will allow pre-1978 cars to be driven...

How about this

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Don't know if there's a section for dishing out thank your but here's one for MikeT for today's lexia session to sort my radio and a few other problems. :clap:

in the course of modifying a Sack Truck, yesterday's 'small project', I was wondering whether there 'd be any interest in an 'Off Topic' 'Small Hobbies' post.

What are you up to?

Details of this one: as usual, designed by idiots. Grr !!
Due to the front face of the wheels being approx 12mm forward of the back of the load bed, anything wider...

Well Guy's
I am writing this to you all from my hotel room in Andorra while we wait to go down for dinner. well the car is drinking diesel as if it is going out of fashion most of my speed's have been 100 plus . Dare I say the gear box is running just fine. I am disappointed that we have not seen an old DS yet. There goes the gong for dinner. Let...

Driving to Salford on Wed....anybody need anything shipped back south , the C5 estate will be empty for the return ?

So, straw poll

1/ What car clubs are you in ?
2/ What Car forums are you a member of
3/ What FaceBook groups are you a part of

4/ Which format of Car membership offers the most to your every day driving life
(as in, what choice of the above is most beneficial, such as technical support, parts re-manufacture, events, insurance discounts,...

Can anyone collect some parts from a place in Chatham for me. Just don't have the time to collect from here in West Yorkshire but they are too good to pass up.

Would need them collected this week and then work out how to get them closer.

I saw an interesting youtube yesterday about the poisons emitted by those sweet smelling candles the ladies love about the house, it seems they're more harmful to people indoors than the air pollution created by motor cars outside.

I don't have a link but a 'candles v diesels' search might pop it up.

Just spent the weekend at this event and had a very good time, spotted a few things of interest to me, especially this, anyone know who's it is?it was for sale at £1200, Perfect paint and a generally very tidy example of the TZD.
Isle of Wight classic car show 2017 by Deanxm , on Flickr
Plus some other favourites of mine
Isle of Wight classic...

Trying to use them in earnest is a frustrating process for me (no surprise there, I hear you say! :oops: ).

I can find zero reference to wire colours. I know from solving my Xantia cooling fan issues that wire numbers (printed in dot-matrix micro numerals along the wire length) is the preferred method. As the wires come pre-pigmented, is there...

A different one - in Czechoslovakia

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Radio station operator making his own valves.