My car's been tending to stall when I put the headlights on, so I
investigated and found the earth terminal on the wiring connector that
attaches to one of the bulbs was partly melted.
The earth appears to be OK, it has the same resistance to battery negative

The very good looking alternator from the scrappy on my MK2 Golf turns out
to be rubbish. It looks a month or two old, but it's not charging until
you're doing about 2000 revs, making driving in traffic an absolute pain.
Any ideas? I'm tempted to just send it off for a refurb now ...

Tomorrow morning Aldi have some cheap battery chargers in. £13 a piece and
it looks like they'll manage trickle charging etc. for cars that are laid
up, which is nice, as usually these things are hilariously overpriced. Just
don't get there before I manage to buy myself two :).

Will be ripping my Mondeo TD apart tomorrow to do a few bits on it.
Its a 94 so would that be cable clutch not hyd? Not had chance to do
anything on it yet aside from put a ticket on it.
Anyone know a good source for spares as well? Need a decent bonnet for

As title, was wondering if this engine is 'safe' in terms of cambelt
failure.
Yes it's broken and yes i should have changed it ages ago.
I just need to make the decision whether to chuck it in the bin or get it

A broken bottle pushed into her f.cking ugly face, the whore.
I sure hope she likes it.

Has anyone got experiance of these, what they are generally like to live
with?
Guy is swopping his, for my bimmer, hes off to Berlin a couple of weeks to
drive it back.

I've completed my HG change, thanks for the tips to questions in
previous posts.  I've taken it out for a spin and it's running better
than ever, including fixing a long standing irregular idle issue (the
very early signs of HG going perhaps?).  Thought I might post a few bits

Right - this is the car I found by chance at a local garage who'd taken it
in part-ex and just wanted rid. It was ideal and cheap enough to take a punt
at even if not all the bits I wanted were good. Mine had a leaking
Hydractive II gizmo-doobris and a leaking front hydraulic ram ...

As I walked back to the car (93 Rover 218SD (1900 Pug)) earlier I
noticed what looked like some water under the car (only a cup full).
It had been raining so could have been there before I parked 10 mins
earlier and / or run off a ledge etc.

What is the consensus generally on budget tyres?.
I've always been of the opinion 'expensive is usually better', but is there
really anything to be concerned about in regards to 'cheap' tyres. Surely
they all come up to current safely legislation so is buying cheap worth it?.

OK, I know I'm one more post off being either that MI5 or Mohamed xx
bloke tonight.
Assuming that I'd known I was going to be working on a potentially rusty
seized bolt and had been spraying it for several days with WD40, gave it

does anyone know how accurate the speed indication on a satnav unit is
I am getting a 10% difference between my satnav and my speedo and would like
to know which one to trust as i pass through the new speed cameras on my way
to work

Just pondering this one today.  When the HGs went on both my Puntos they
 both did the following:
- A week or two of the engine misfiring a little when idle, getting
gradually worse.

Is changing the battery on an X reg Renault Megane a DIY job? I`ve
heard it`s got to go to a dealer to be done!! This can`t be true! can
it???! TIA