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    MV's & Tax Discs

    in I may be stupid, but......

    Posted

    Playing devils advocate here for a moment - what about if you had the scenario where a garage hened up the deliveries and had petrol pumped into the red diesel storage tanks. An MV owner then took the contaminated fuel off the garages hands and ran it in his vehicle for a show where the C&E people dipped the tank.

     

    Would he get nicked???

     

     

     

    Well a few years ago a garage near us did have Red Diesel in their white diesel tanks and it was no accident. The garage was seriously short of money and it was a last ditch attempt to stay in business.

    It wasn't found out until a lorry was stopped by VOSA at Newark which is about 60 miles from us. When they dipped his tanks they were full of red diesel. The driver then produced the receipt for near enough a full tank of white diesel purchased an hour or so earlier and his tacho showed that he was telling the truth and had come straight from the garage.

    Needless to say, the garage soon went out of business and the innocent driver went on his way without charge.

     

    Richard

    Warsaw Pact vehicles

    in Russian-Eastern block-Warsaw Pact Vehicles

    Posted

    Hi Neil,

     

    while I love the rugged simplicity of Soviet stuff , spares are the biggest problem. When I had my ZIL, quite often I had to end up getting bit's specially made for it in this country.

    I have to say I haven't been over to Richard Moores for ages ( he's only 10miles away ) ,I haven't need to since selling the ZIL, so he maybe able to get bit's easier now than he used to.

     

    One other point I would make about Soviet stuff is they are quite cramped. I'm about 6ft and not that fat ( well, I don't think at all fat ! >:( ) but I only just got comfy in the ZIL. I know someone who has some experience driving quite a few Soviet tanks and while she is tall she is very slim and she found them very uncomfortable. Apparently, you need to be about 5ft tall with 4ft arms to truly fit a Soviet tank.

     

    Saying that, I would have another Soviet MV in a flash.

     

    Richard

    what is the strangest thing you have found in your vehicle

    in Other Chatter

    Posted

    Well, after exploring some defences in Dover, i went back to my trusty little car and some little blighters had got in it and left pages of porn in the glove-box. barmans.

     

     

    Yeah yeah!! That's what they all say!! :roll:

     

     

    But getting back to morris c8 fat, did you really have someone squatting in the back of your vehicle? That's something I've always worried about happening with mine.

     

    The strangest thing I've found in one of mine, well on really, was a great big bunch of balloons. It was very strange, they were just sat on the roof of the Land Rover which was right down the field, miles from anywhere at about 11-30 at night! I never did find out were they came from. And no, they weren't helium filled so they hadn't come from a balloon release anywhere. :?

     

    Richard

     

    I wonder if someone could offer some advice

    in Other Chatter

    Posted

    Thanks Guys for all the ideas so far

     

    this is what always amazes me about this forum. How quickly replies come! :-D

    She put the same question on the Daewoo Owners forum (yes there is such a thing :wink: ) a few weeks ago but hasn't had any replies.

     

    I have to say the idea about winding it back up make the most sense! :-D

     

    Apparently it's been doing this ever since she got the car, about 2 years, but as it is more of an inconvenience she's never really bothered about it. And it always re-starts at the first turn of the key. But there's always the worry that one day it won't re-start or it will cut out just as she's crossing a busy road or junction.

     

    Regards

    Richard

     

     

    I wonder if someone could offer some advice

    in Other Chatter

    Posted

    Hello,

    Now this isn't a MV based problem but I'm sure someone will be able to help.

     

    A friend of mine has a Daewoo Matiz which has a annoying intermittent fault. Every now and then it will cut out when she is slowing down. It doesn't seem to have any real pattern. It will do it 5 or 6 times in as many miles or it will go for many weeks without problem. The only thing I have found is that when the car is ticking over and you rev it ,just as it comes back to tick-over the engine will struggle to keep running as if the revs are set to low. I tried increasing the tick-over and it solved the problem....For about 3 weeks then it started doing it again.

     

    Now thinking that it might be a problem with a temp or slow running sensor but I really don't know.

     

    Any help would be much appreciated

     

    Many Thanks

    Richard

     

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    Problem with front page

    in Tell us...!

    Posted

    You can clear all your cookies in Internet Explorer by going to the Tools menu and then select Internet Options. Then press the Clear Cookies button, in the middle of the popup.

     

     

     

    :lol: Working now. :lol: Thanks Joris

     

    Richard

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