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Hello chaps .... I know I've been away for ages and ages. Had lots of horrible stuff going on and its meant among other things that the poor old car's been a bit neglected so I've been in hibernation :sad: Anyway, after being told off on several occasions by Ant for not logging in for bloody ages I ...

Blimey thanks everyone. I'm at work at the mo so can't try any of these things til tonight so I'll try to answer all the questions so far and see if anything sheds any more light: Kirade/water01 - I'm not on a wireless router. I'm attached to the phone line (BT) via cable and modem .... I do get chu...

I just did a speed test on http://www.broadbandwatchdog.co.uk/speed-test.php and its saying download 408kbps and upload 332kbps.

Just did another one and upload is down to 168kbps. Surely hat's never right is it?

The icon in the tray says Local Area Connection 2 - speed 3.6mbps status connected.

My PC is relatively new... I'm on broadband, AOL, usually averages at about 3-3.5meg. Up until the other day I never had any trouble watching videos on youtube etc and I watched the first episode of Heroes the other day on iPlayer. I haven't gone on any sites that I don't usually in the interim, hav...

really?? Hmmmmm

We did only connect the new battery just the once. As ever I pessimistically thought that if we disconnected it again it may be tempting fate to make nothing come back.

I'll give it a go before we go whipping clocks out.

Ta Gaz

cheers everyone - sorry - i've been off the forum for a bit with either car depression and/or loss of household pets depression so I've been in hibernation. @ Shed - virtual hug gratefully accepted @ Mocco - I hate Sods Law :cry: @ Matto - with a new battery, everything has come back on the dash apa...

Cheers everyone :D useful to know about the GSF bearings and also the thing about the front bearings. My mate Carl who thankfully knows what he's doing checked it all over and said there's absolutely nothing wrong with my discs (it was only the front ones the garage said needed replacing) so he stuc...

Never was it more apt to say it never rains but it pours! -The other week I was rescued by the RAC for what was thought to be a dodgy fuel pump relay but infact turned out to be nothing more than a melted fuse. - O/S brakelight which worked intermittently gave up altogether recently ... its not a do...

if you want to have a go yourself. Ade Probably not a wise idea Ade lol .... and no idea if its front or rear. I think rear :? He's going in for new discs and pads a week on Tuesday so I may as well get them to sort the bearing(s) while he's got his wheels off! Is it the sort of thing that its best...

lee1 wrote: in this instance it was a woman hence the title but fair comment

This I know.... I saw the title

haha yay! well done Rob

I've always found in my experience that you generally get different kinds of bad driving from men and women - as a woman driver it gauls me to say this but I find that most incidents to do with being oblivious to anything else going around them tends to be women drivers. I suspect its to do with wom...

I noticed the other day when i got up to about 65/70 on the motorway I had a (difficult to describe) "whirring" noise that increases with speed. Its not a noise that only occurs when braking and its not coming from the engine.... it definitiely sounds to me like wheel noise. The combinatio...

Hi all, If anyone's interested I've set up a UKPassats Fantasy Football League on http://fantasy.premierleague.com/ Its free to join and you can auto-complete a random team for now, until you decide a final team in time for the start of the season. First match is this Saturday... apologies its a bit...

Oh no Bob!!

Any nearer to being sorted?

madrob6 wrote:I am a bad bad man.

bit of a mixed bag! First there was the 'Tina - 1976 1600 XL http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g112/eddilowe/ukpassats%20stuff/cortina1.jpg Still sat in storage, too rotten to ever drive again but a good donor for another one one day. Then an F-Reg Mk3 Escort that I don't have a picture of but was a...

ive got one but might be best to post a pic, as there are several very similar patterns! If mine arnt the same, then eddi (ERL72) has also got a pale grey set but in a different pattern. Mine are still lurking I think. My ex was hanging onto my old interior for me at his unit because I had nowhere ...

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Very greedy having 2! lol

a slightly belated hello and welcome along

Always think that blue sets off the chrome-type bits really well 8)

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nice pics 8)

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