December 2004
Can anyone advise change interval please. Car is 3 1/2 years old - £56k miles, twin ohc. Read more
I shall be driving past Blackbushe that morning and as the whole world will be shut down anyway a bacon sarnie and an hour or so watching the bidding would seem like fun.
Anyone else there who wishes to say hello I will be wearing a Northampton Saints scarf which is green black and gold and looks like a university scarf, I myself went to the University of St James (this is a Northampton joke).
Thommo.
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I shall be on a flight myself on the 13th.
Will do a quick report if anything interesting is around.
FURY AT LENIENCY
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REBECCA SHERDLEY LEGAL AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT
12:00 - 24 December 2004
Road safety campaigners have criticised the sentence handed to a learner driver who killed her sister in a crash.
Mother-of-three Mandy Rawlinson, of Station Road, Carlton, was given a 15-month sentence, suspended for two years, at Nottingham Crown Court yesterday. She was banned from driving for four years.
As the Post reported Judge Jonathan Teare spared Rawlinson from prison after he heard it may result in two of her children going into care.
And he said he was satisfied 35-year-old Rawlinson was stricken with grief and remorse by the accident.
She admitted causing death by dangerous driving and driving with no licence or insurance when she crashed into an oncoming car. Her sister, Angela Rawlinson, died.
A family friend also in the car was in a coma for two weeks and two of Rawlinson's children were injured seriously. All have
since recovered.
After yesterday's sentencing hearing, Geoff Pay, from Astral Grove, Hucknall, who lost his daughter Kirsty Pay in 2002 after she was killed in a 'death trap' car, said he was furious.
"We show continuous leniency towards these offenders. She showed total disregard for the law. Why does society have to allow for this because she showed remorse?"
His daughter Kirsty, 18, was a back-seat passenger in a Ford Escort XR3i when it smashed into another vehicle - splitting the car in two and flinging her body into a field. The car had no MOT and had been up for sale for spare parts and advertised in a supermarket for just £100.
Wendy Carter, for road safety charity Brake, said Rawlinson had to live with what she had done for the rest of her life.
"I hope people will hear about this and think carefully before driving. The sentence is very lenient, but she does have a life sentence for dealing with it."
The court heard Rawlinson, who had no previous convictions for driving offences, had been in a Ford Mondeo on December 18 last year when she crashed on the A611 between Hucknall and Newstead Village.
Rawlinson turned right in the path of a four-door Vauxhall Cavalier. The impact, on the front-seat passenger door, killed Angela, 32, from Newstead.
Vanessa Marshall, defending, called for the exceptional course. "This was an incident that arose out of a momentary lapse of error," she said.
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So, if..... The rest is of no use whatsoever to anyone.
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Thommo
Just to reply, your response sits comfortably with me. The use of the word 'trollish' may have been inapropriate, and thus I would be prepared to substitute this for the term 'unnecessarily emotive'.
Having been a contributor for some time now and seen how unnecessary areguements are started, I tend to reword emotive posts that I feel could draw out such an arguement between backroomers, thus hopefully avoiding the need for even more moderating later.
Your post was obviously written in good faith but we don't need any possible bandwagons etc at the moment.
I hope you would agree that the essence of your post is still present and the point you have made is still explicit.
I have now amended my edit of your post to reflect the above.
Oh, and it's not my website but HJ's unfortunately ;) We just try to keep things ticking along nicely.
Cheers
Hugo - BR moderator
It has been decreed that new car time is rapidly approaching, so I am trying to find the best place to buy a three-ish year old Picasso.
Ten years ago there was a definite price advantage in favour of the auctions (taking into account risk, no test drives, hassle etc) but now I get the impression that the big sites are pretty close on prices - are auctions worth bothering with for the private buyer?
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done 11K in 5 months and today was reminded by the car to check the oil. Did so and found it was black and about on min. Added the free litre they gave me and it now reads max and still black. It it time to visit the main dealer. The sticker on the windscreen says longlife servicing. Read more
When my Passat had it's first service, the service guy asked me how many miles I wanted to have put on the computer for the next "variable" service.
Borasport20 says the computer allegedly messures the acidity of the oil, I think he is right to be suspicious.
I think the variable service interval on VWs is just guesswork, fancy leaving oil in a new car for 31000 miles, it is cruelty and madness.
My car has done 25000 miles, and I have had the oil changed twice, using SLX11. I would change it myself but I can't find the filter.
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Following on from Richy's thread, which is now locked ( www.honestjohn.co.uk/forum/post/index.htm?t=22643 ) can anyone beat this?
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SWMBO does have her uses, and denies all responsibility for the - ahem 'reindeer damage'
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"Reason for sale is forced by number 6 child"
OK, so how did he get him, the wife and 5 children in it then? ;)
Muta OK? Conditions not looking good in Southern TH.
Nothing here in PH, just a few rumbles and we're used to them.
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A tribute needs to be paid to the Reporters out there. Watched the ITV special yesterday, which was riviting. John Irvine (a vetran of the Northen Ireland troubles) was brilliant a credit to his profession which is usually much malinged. Without them raising the public awareness of the scope of the disaster would we have (as a nation) contributed so much.
Further to my thread in "I have a question" where I reckon my Jabra bluetooth has died, I see that Aldi have one for £19.99 starting tomorrow.
uk.aldi.com/
Anyone else got one of these that could recommend it for in car use (motoring link!).
As usual with Aldi, I reckon if I don't get it by 9am tomorrow morning they will all be gone!
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i recommand you this one, www.chinazrh.com/wholesale-bluetooth-stereo-headse...l
it is very good bluetooth headset
Today, 3*C in Scotland (it's heating up!).Put my passenger front window down.It moved fine.On the way up it started sticking,made a few funny noises then a "clunk" and the window completely stuck.You can now move the glass by hand.The motor still moves with the switch (although very rough).Is it likely that the motor is on its way and the window has came out of the mechanism?Is it worthwhile to try to repair myself with a new motor or will it be a "nightmare" duw to the fit of the door panels?.Thanks in advance. Read more
had this happen on my vw polo and also looks like my audi A6 rear window is doin the same. regulators on VAG's are a running problem. had my polo done by local garage - was 95 quid. you can buy the part from vw yourself for 85 quid and do it yourself buts its very tricky.
note if its just the clips that have gone then dont operate the window and you will save yourself a big bill.
on my polo the metal pulley cord became chewed up and it was a big hassle fixing it. both window regulators went within a two month period.
Hmmm - 2001 Saab 9-5, found a puncture (#12 screw through the tread of the tyre - not subtle!). Okey-doke, I thought, off with the wheel, on with the spacesaver and off to the local tyre depot for a repair. Wheel nuts came off fine, but I cannot shift the wheel off the car whatever I try. Don't want to be too brutal (it's a soft pretty alloy) so haven't tried slegdehammer yet. But does any one know:
1. Am I missing a simple trick to free it?
2. If I call in the mobile pros (the only aternative I can think of) what are they going to do, and will my alloy survive it?
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Most interested in this thread as I have got my first car with alloy wheels,was thinking of asking for all four wheels to be freed off as part of the annual service to avoid getting caught out,has anyone tried this and is it thought to be worthwhile.
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