Masked Marauder

Things that make blokes proud of themselves! 1. OPENING JARS - She's struggling. You take it from her hands, open it effortlessly and pretend she loosened it for you. She didn't. Jars are men's work. 2. CALLING SOMEONE 'SON' - Especially policeman but even saying it to kids makes you the man. 3. DOING A PROPER SLIDE TACKLE - Beckham free kicks - camp. A Stuart Pearce tackle is the pinnacle of the game, simultaneously winning the ball and crippling the man. Magic. 4. SHARPENING A PENCIL WITH A STANLEY KNIFE - Blunt, is it? Hand it here love. No, I don't need a sharpener, I've got a knife thanks! 5. GOING TO THE TIP - A manly act which combines driving, lifting and- as you thrillingly drop your rubbish into another huge pile of other rubbish - noisy destruction. 6. DRINKING UP - Specifically, rising from the table, slinging your coat on and downing two thirds of a pint in one fluid movement. Then nodding towards the door, saying, "Let's go" and striding out while everyone else struggles to catch up with you. You're hard. 7. HAVING A THIN BIT OF WOOD - in the shed, solely to stir paint with. 8. HAVING A SCAR - Ideally it'll be a facial knife wound, but even an iron burn on the wrist is good. "Ooh, did it hurt". "Nah". 9. HAVING A HANGOVER AND THICK STUBBLE - When birds have been partying they just whinge. You on the other hand have physical evidence of your hardness, sprouting from your face. "Big night?" Grr, what does it look like. 10. NODDING AT COPPERS - A moment's eye contact is all it takes for you to share the unspoken bond. "We've not seen eye to eye in the past",it says, "but someone's got to keep the little scrotes in line". 11. USING POWER TOOLS - Slightly more powerful than you need or can safely handle. Pneumatic drilling while smoking a fag? Superb. 12. KICKING A FOOTY AGAINST A GARAGE DOOR - Clang-g-g-g-g-g-! Stick that Becks, I kick so hard I set off car alarms. 13. ARRIVING IN A PUB LATE - And everyone cheers you. It doesn't mean you're popular, it just means your mates are pissed. However, the rest of the pub doesn't know that. 14. NOT WATCHING YOUR WEIGHT - Fat is a feminist issue, apparently. Brilliant. Pass the pork scratchings. 15. CARVING THE ROAST - And saying "are you a leg or breast man?" to the blokes and "do you want stuffing?" to the women. Congratulations, you are now your dad. 16. WINKING - Turns women to putty. Doesn't it? 17. TEST SWINGING HAMMERS - Ideally, B&Q would have little changing rooms with mirrors so you could see how rugged you look with any DIY item. Until then, we'll make do with the aisles. 18. TAKING OUT

Wihtout a shadow of a doubt, but how deep they got is another matter, it may have just been an exploit that they used to change the front page.

Jim and Edna were both patients in a mental hospital. One day while they were walking past the hospital swimming pool, Jim suddenly jumped into the deep end. He sank to the bottom of the pool and stayed there. Edna promptly jumped in to save him. She swam to the bottom and pulled Jim out. When the hospital director became aware of Edna's heroic act she immediately ordered that Edna be discharged from the hospital because she now considered Edna to be mentally stable. The director went to Edna and said, "I have some good news and some bad news. The good news is that you're being discharged because you responded so rationally to a crisis by jumping in the pool to save the life of another patient. Your action displays sound mindedness. The bad news is that Jim, the patient you saved, hung himself in the bathroom with his bathrobe belt right after you saved him. I am so sorry, but he's dead." Edna replied, "He didn't hang himself. I put him there to dry."

It is Portuguese and makes reference to the love of five elephants with small yellow balls and wanting a Citroen Picasso.....

It certainly looks like it has.

I will just get my official stamp out....... http://www.gibb-laboranten.ch/bilder/Congratulations.gif

Pedant!

Short of that a mobile tyre fitter will whip them all off with a reverse helix socket in so few seconds you will wonder if it is worth having them in the first place! Which it is though! Halfords ones are very very good and quite cheap too if you need replacements.

In the UK there are now 3 main types of Numberplate, of which two types are relevant to the Galaxy. First is the PREFIX type, where a letter designating the year is the first thing on the plate. Some letters are not used as they could be confused with other letters or numbers. http://www.arbo14.dsl.pipex.com/Plate1.gif N 01 August 1995 to 31 July 1996 P 01 August 1996 to 31 July 1997 R01 August 1997 to 31 July 1998 Now this is where it gets more confusing... We went from a letter showing a 12 month period to a letter showin a six month period! S 01 August 1998 to 28 February 1999 T 01 March 1999 to 31 July 1999 V 01 August 1999 to 28 February 2000 W 01 March 2000 to 31 July 2000 X 01 August 2000 to 28 February 2001 Y 01 March 2001 to 31 July 2001 When we got to Y we had to have a new system as we had exhausted the letters, so a "less confusing" system of numbers was introduced: http://www.arbo14.dsl.pipex.com/Plate2.gif The number is made up by having the year of registration forming the second number and the first number indicating what half of the year, with 0 being March to August and 5 indicating September to February. So 51 indicates the car was first registered in the second 5 half of 2001 In March 2010 the numbers will be xx10 xxx and in September 2010 it will be xx60 xx. March 2011 will be xx11 xxx and September 2011 will be xx61 xxx then 12 then 62, 13, 63, 14, 64 etc forever...... So thats simple then.....

Relay 30?

Wow, that pump is so like the one Vauxhall use on the V6 engines. You might want to get a price from there, the only difference looks like it is the connector, the Vauxhall one has wires coming out so could easy be fitted into the system.

How do you know the turbo has stopped working? As said though, loss of vacuum to the turbo would cause this.

Over the past couple of weeks a few users have been causing friction and disruption in the forum. I am no kill-joy, but the forum is not here to allow people a place to wind other people up. As a public forum it will of course draw in people from all walks of life. No one expects that everyone will get on with everyone else, that would not happen elsewhere in life, and it is not going to happen here. People will come, people will go, just as they do in the real world. So is it too much to ask that we treat people the same as we would in the real world, in that we tolerate others and try to get on? Whilst that includes putting up with the odd fruit-case or two, it does not mean we can do as we like, there are written rules for the forum and as in everyday life there is etiquette, but unlike everyday life where we pick it up from birth as we go along, we have to learn it from new, because much of the signals we get from others are visual and we don't have that here. Nor do we have to face the person we are talking to, and some seem to think that means we can wind people up or do as we wish without worrying about the outcome as the worst that can happen is you get banned from the group. Which brings us back to unacceptable behavior and what we can do about it. As an established member of this forum I will not hesitate in emailing Gteuk asking for one of the newer users accounts to be nuked if he carries on, and I am sure if we all do it then he will do so. This forum has been self-moderating for some time and I am not willing to see it die because someone has come on and started hacking people off simply because they can. I don't want a moderator coming in here and imposing their views and censorship on us, so lets just stop this now please. If someone is pissing people off then don't bite at the bait, just ignore them. That is not to adult too ask now, is it? So lets keep threads on topic in future and keep chat to chat threads. Thanks for reading, and I hope, cooperating in making this forum a peaceful and happy place once again. Trevor.

Mine is a 1989 model and has a solid intake pipe.

Well if there are no airlocks then a lot of the coolant must have stayed in the block. Is the header tank still on the MAX line? If so and all is well then what would concern me most would be the anti-freeze strenghth, you may want to drop a couple of liters back out and top up with neat anti-freeze. How much water did you put in when you flushed it?

hardy har har!

Yes it does....... You'll pay a lot more getting repairs done by VW :) You would sooner have the front of your car hacked off though.....

Well the VW repair manual says radiator out and condenser out through the engine compartment. Which I think says more about Ford than VW. If I did mine at home I would carfully cut the fiberglass out though, not attack it!

Well that pipe goes to the EGR I think. I will check the diagrams in ElsaWin presently.

It goes to one of the vacuum servos on the buklhead IIRC.

They must put right the damage, that goes without saying. As for compensation then I would have been on to Ford already, never mind threaten them with it to get a better deal....

I have just checked with a friend and looked at the CPS guidelines. It does not border on Criminal Damage. No, it clearly IS criminal damage as defined by The Criminal Damage Act 1971 as there clearly is no lawful reason for it happening.

Oh my, that is an absolute disgrace. You should drain the cooling system and remove the rad and fans to get the condenser out. Rather than that they have smashed the fiberglass so it will come out through the front. OK, if I was to do it at home I would carefully cut the fiberglass away, but on a customers car that is a sacking offence in my opinion. That borders on Criminal Damage.

WD40 etc, but I prefer spray grease or spray-on motorbike chain oil as it won't wash off with the roadspray.

http://www.reviewcentre.com/reviews55592.html http://www.ciao.co.uk/Motorpoint__Review_5332044 As with any public review, remember the the angry few shout out loud, whilst the satisfied majority tend to say nothing! Looks like them watch-word is beware of hidden add-ons like valeting charges on new cars!