(11-01-17, 07:05 PM)BBROWN1664 link Wrote: :agree
Your thoughts about the French process are not too far off. The deposit is variable but once an offer is accepted it is binding. The downside to the French process is it takes about 4 months even as a cash buyer to complete. Depends on what region you are buying in and how lazy the Notaire is, my first place was 6 weeks in the Aude region and here in the lot et Garonne 3 months.
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Today I have mostly been ranting to myself (no one else would listen) about the amount of lazy bastards who can't be arsed fixing their faulty headlights, so they just put their fog lights on.
It's not foccing foggy, stop being so idle and maintain your vehicle. :wall
(12-01-17, 07:26 PM)Freck link Wrote: Today I have mostly been ranting to myself (no one else would listen) about the amount of lazy bastards who can't be arsed fixing their faulty headlights, so they just put their fog lights on.
It's not foccing foggy, stop being so idle and maintain your vehicle. :wall You are very hopeful-I know quite a few drivers who never bother to check tyres(condition& pressure),fluid levels etc, so to expect them to check their lights are working is a bit optimistic.Manufacturers dont help by making it nigh on impossible to access said bulbs -some cars are particularly bad in this respect requiring removal of all sorts of stuff.
Was riding in fog/misty conditions last Sunday & lost count of the dickheads without adequate lights showing(DRLs give an illumination to dashboard on some cars). Then you get the idiots who put their high intensity rear foglights on at the first drop of rain!
Agree with the previous post concerning the difficulty of replacing bulbs. I have a Renault Captur (ok no jokes) it is a cracking wee car. My dear wife 9sic)noticed as I attempted to reverse over her that the reversing light was not working.
Tried to change it , Well how is this for clever engineering consulted the owners manual, Take car to dealers it more or less says. I did doit myself in the end as the dealer wanted £55.00 for labour costs as they have to remove the rear panels and bumper to access the light fittings. Feck that did it myself in the end and it did take me over an hour to do, okay now I know what is involved could do it in 1/2 the time but what a stupid design.
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I think that's a feature on all modern Renault. The old shape Megan was famous for having the hardest to replace headlight bulbs of any road going car. They blamed it on Euro Ncap safety saying their cars were designed to be safer rather than easy to work on.
Funny seeing as the VW golf managed the same safety rating and all you had to do was pop the bonnet and unscrew the bulb from rear of the headlight.
Bludy French haha
The 2002 Renoooo Laguna had the following steps to change a headlight bulb
1. Jack up BOTH front wheels
2. Remove BOTH front wheels
3. Remove BOTH wheel arch liners
4. Remove front bumper
5 remove headlight
6 change bulb
7. put it all back together again.
No wonder people never change them.
Another ex-Fazer rider that is a foccer again
(13-01-17, 11:47 AM)BBROWN1664 link Wrote: The 2002 Renoooo Laguna had the following steps to change a headlight bulb
1. Jack up BOTH front wheels
2. Remove BOTH front wheels
3. Remove BOTH wheel arch liners
4. Remove front bumper
5 remove headlight
6 change bulb
7. put it all back together again.
No wonder people never change them.
2003 diesel Laguna you only have to remove the battery for the nearside bulb. But when you replace the battery you have to enter the radio code and calibrate the electric windows.
Malc
Old enough to know better.
It's always worth a look on youtube to see if there's an easy way to carry out car maitenance tasks. It certainly helped me out in ths summer when a dipped beam needed changing on my Vectra.
Whizz kid sitting pretty on his two wheeled stallion.
Speaking about headlights and what gets my goat - I was at my squash club yesterday, went on my Honda, rode there in the light and by the time I'd played it was dark. Started bike and ...... no headlight. It's about 15 minutes to ride home mostly B roads then a couple of miles of A. So dilema, I could ride it or I could push it or I could walk back and collect it the next day. Club is a bit out in the sticks so bus is not an option. Decided to ride it. That's all well and good but pretty much every driver flashed their lights at me and yes, it did get my goat! It's not for want of maintenance, my bikes and van are extremely carefully looked after, it just decided to give up for that journey.
I know I know, I shouldn't have ridden home but, realistically, what would you have done?
Frustratingly I've checked headlight, fuses, relay and switch today and can't find the fault!
is it clean enough?
(15-01-17, 09:50 PM)bludclot link Wrote: Speaking about headlights and what gets my goat - I was at my squash club yesterday, went on my Honda, rode there in the light and by the time I'd played it was dark. Started bike and ...... no headlight. It's about 15 minutes to ride home mostly B roads then a couple of miles of A. So dilema, I could ride it or I could push it or I could walk back and collect it the next day. Club is a bit out in the sticks so bus is not an option. Decided to ride it. That's all well and good but pretty much every driver flashed their lights at me and yes, it did get my goat! It's not for want of maintenance, my bikes and van are extremely carefully looked after, it just decided to give up for that journey.
I know I know, I shouldn't have ridden home but, realistically, what would you have done?
Frustratingly I've checked headlight, fuses, relay and switch today and can't find the fault! So was it he bulb - in which case it would not of been both filaments so you could of ridden home on full beam
I don't do rain or threat there of. dry rider only with no shame.
(13-01-17, 02:39 PM)robbo link Wrote: It's always worth a look on youtube to see if there's an easy way to carry out car maitenance tasks. It certainly helped me out in ths summer when a dipped beam needed changing on my Vectra.
:agree
I've looked up loads of really helpful youtube instructional videos.
I now can't believe I used to take watch bracelets in to the shop and pay to have links removed after finding how easy it was to do at home without any special tools from a youtube vid.
Quote:Funny seeing as the VW golf managed the same safety rating and all you had to do was pop the bonnet and unscrew the bulb from rear of the headlight.
Yes but being a VW you could only do that on a testing rolling road under laboratory conditions :rolleyes
(17-01-17, 12:18 AM)mtread link Wrote: Quote:Funny seeing as the VW golf managed the same safety rating and all you had to do was pop the bonnet and unscrew the bulb from rear of the headlight.
Yes but being a VW you could only do that on a testing rolling road under laboratory conditions :rolleyes
:rollin
Red Heads - Slowly taking over the world!!!
Fukcing Lambda sensors! WTF! I swear the more advanced vehicles get, the less you can fix yourself . . .
Treat everything in life the way a dog would- if you can't eat it or foc it, forget it.
(28-01-17, 09:33 PM)celticdog link Wrote: Fukcing Lambda sensors! WTF! I swear the more advanced vehicles get, the less you can fix yourself . . .
Think of the polar bears , the cat converter needs it to make your nasty emissions into farm fresh exhaust gases.
But know what you mean had one go on my car a while back put me into safe mode couldn't go over 45mph and accelerate like moped
(28-01-17, 09:44 PM)Graham53 link Wrote: [quote author=celticdog link=topic=17546.msg251054#msg251054 date=1485635586]
Fukcing Lambda sensors! WTF! I swear the more advanced vehicles get, the less you can fix yourself . . .
Think of the polar bears , the cat converter needs it to make your nasty emissions into farm fresh exhaust gases.
But know what you mean had one go on my car a while back put me into safe mode couldn't go over 45mph and accelerate like moped
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I had one go in a Peugeot 307 I bought for £300, it behaved completely normally, i.e. Crap.
Was that the 307 or a new CAT for £300 lol you get what you pay for.
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The £300 307 was a 2003 model 1.6 petrol 5 speed, leccy windows and working air con with 103000 miles on it, oh yes and 12 months MOT. It drove perfectly apart from it being a Peugeot, but it had an emissions warning on the display. It never made any difference to the drive. I paid more than £300 for a car that was in a lot worse state 30 years ago. We only bought it as a temporary car while we were finding the wifes new car. Sold the Peugeot after 6 weeks for £300 to a very grateful buyer.
As much as I hate the more modern Peugeots, I couldn't believe the value for money, I mean, a reliable car with a full MOT and working air con for £300.
My mrs just picked up a 1996 Toyota Corolla 31k on the clock full Toyota service history every year from new 1 owner from new absolutely mint inside ( like a time capsule ) years mot, air con , leccy sun roof ,windows, mirrors, mot til sept 17 for the outrageous sum of £100
A lorry wrote off her 110k mileage Clio in Dec and she got weighed in a grand off the insurance less £250 Excess and got a £28 refund off the remaining on her insurance premium as this one is cheaper to insure.
The owners were emigrating and just wanted the money donated to charity.
Now that's what I call a bargain :lol
Bloody hell, that should last her a while!
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