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Now that really IS high mileage!!!!!! Mine will have complete a mere 40,000 miles in 12 months...

Have you managed to get it to work through the car speakers? I did have an engineer's sheet from Ford showing how it was done (can't find it at the mo), however the man from Orange wouldn't do it, so I've got one of those cack speakers in the passenger footwell in mine :D

Yes!

Didn't say I recommended that solution did I ????

Here in Cumbria we have a plague of so-called "Safety Camera Vans", hence advance warning of their regular locations is highly valuable. Don't tell me that you are 100% sure that you drive at or below 32 miles per hour in a 30 limit, 100% of the time, 43 or below in a 40 limit, 54 or below in a 50, 65 or below in a 60 and 76 or below in a 70??? ALL THE TIME, WITHOUT EXCEPTION??? Even when you overtake??? I think not! I drive approximately 50,000 miles per year. I am therefore approximately 5 times more likely to be inadvertantly caught by a money generator than most normal drivers on the road. don't start me off....

The fix for this is apparently pulling the top of the door outwards yourself...

There's possibly a law in place already (or a new one approaching) which limits the % tint on front side windows. It is/will be less tint than the back side windows have as standard... Aimed at the Saxo-with-a-baked-bean-tin-for-an-exhaust-pipe-and-a-bum-where-their-face-should-be drivers.

A fair proportion of Galaxies are probably imported from Belgium or Germany anyway!! Also, reputedly one of the cars of choice for British Army soldier purchases whilst in Germany...and we all know they sell them when they get home! I read somewhere that the number sold by Ford UK was WAY, WAY below the number shown as being egistered by DVLA.

When did they introduce the roof-mounted 3-pointer in the middle row Ivor? Mine has one (regd Sept 03 but manufactured Jan 03)

It probably won't work very well except at the outer edges of the windscreen - the heater elements block the satellite signal. I've got a Viewsonic V35 with a Haicom GPS receiver and am currently running TomTom 2 (waiting for my Version 3 for 49 Euros to arrive). My Pocket PC is mounted on a suction mount flexi-arm on the RHS of the windscreen, at a height such that the bottom entry cable just touches the dashboard on a gentle radius. The Haicom receiver is sitting in the little triangular window on the driver's side, mounted on Velcro pads. I usually get 9ish satellites indicated. Out of interest, I'm also running TrafCam, which is a commercial speed camera gps-based locator.

They're devices similar to parking sensors, except they alert you to oncoming Mods and force your car to swerve into their path in order to prevent their recurrence...

The speaker grilles will all be broken! Ther only way to remove them IS destructively, as they are glued on. Don't buy your speaker grilles on Ebay for

The wipers on Ebay which STATE they are for MY2000+ Galaxies don't bear up to closer inspection. They always appear to be for PRE-2000 model when you look at the photos (ie they are normal windscreen wipers). Jolly expensive wipers for ours aren't they!

My rear pads don't appear to generate much brake dust at all, certainly nowhere near as much as the front ones. Most of my driving is done on motorway and one awful A-road (the A590). Currently got 29000 miles on the clock at 8.75 months! = 40k per year...that's low - I was expecting to do 50k this year!

Lots on Ebay! I needed some last weekend, my local Ford, VW and Seat dealers didn't have any in stock and I couldn't wait for delivery from them or an Ebay-er, so I took a deep breath and visited Halfords... Paddy Hopkirk ones...."don't keep that one here" Halfords own-brand ones...."we don't do one" Thule.... Yep, they had them AND they were on special offer, so they were actually reasonably priced, it would seem:

Wow....he has an electronic baby! Why does an electronic baby need to know the temperature of it''s room? Maybe the electronic baby is made by VW and only works 100% in the right conditions...

From a previous posting, the performance of the aircon should do this apparently (in Celsius): Ambient temp(outside the car) Output temp (from the vents) 18 8-12 20 7-11 25 6-10 30 5-9 35 4.5-8.5 That's why in REALLY hot weather, you can get the interior temperature down to icy cold levels, so that you pass out from the heat when you get out of the car! The implication of the above figures would appear to be that below about 15C, you probably won't notice that the aircon is on, other than due to the lack of condensation on the windows.

Open your tailgate. Is the radio code on a sticker inside the closing handle inside the tailgate?

Exhaust pipe/manifold leak?

IMHO, a good price for what is effectively a new car. What was it used for advertising? How on earth have they only managed to do 70 miles?

The words "reliable" and "dealer" in the same sentence.....not used very often on here!!!

Try taking the wheels off cold!

18-20000 miles seems to be fairly typical on Dunlop 2020s on the front. My 53 Reg has 28000 miles on now (eeeeeeeek!) and I'm half way through the second pair on the front. The back ones look like they'll last for at least another 28000 miles!

Check the aerial lead connection to the tilting window - it's a 9v battery connector and is prone to disconnecting itself, given that it moves every time you open the rear windows.

Errrr.... I sometimes have problems with unexpected horn, but somehow I don't think that's quite what you meant... :(