On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 at 16:38:37, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
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>It works now and just goes to show how lucky we are on this list to
>have our collective selves to help each other, especially people like
>That said, my wife bought a 3 year old BMW-Rover 25 before christmas.
>She's "owned" it for a month now, but has only had about 3 days' use
>out of it for all sorts of problems. Was I surprised to hear it needs a
>qualified computer diagnostics mechanic just to find the problem let
>alone fix it?
Gives a new meaning to a car crash (8-)#
I serviced Sarah's Golf the other day. Absolutely brilliant oil filter,
with a hex nut welded on the end. The spark plugs are equally good,
with -three- sparks and a 48000 mile life!
I was looking forward to using the LED diagnosis panel. The equivalent
on my Volvo gives a brilliant read out and also physically tests items
like injectors, cold start and so on.
"See page 39" says Haynes.
Page 39 says "This can only be connected to specialist equipment - take
it to your Volkswagen dealer" Hrmmm
This is a little like the case of a QL saying "No user serviceable parts
inside" - now that was brilliantly back ONT (8-)#
> The company which sold her the car gave her a loan car to use in the
>meantime, which had no tax disk on it so was not legal to use, so
>tempers got frayed. She faces a one hour drive to work every day so she
>can't be without a car (round here she's lucky to have work at all let
>alone close to home and public transport is either non-existent or
>nobody in their right mind would use it) and they can't even give her
>an approximate date when she'll get her car back. Meantime, she's
>started repaying the finance having had virtually no use of the car. SO
>the story goes on. So typical of daily life around here. Don't anyone
>DARE suggest me a happy new year.
... well how about 2006 (8-)#
Tony
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