second Troutwrestler on the screen wash. Use it neat.

love em.

Sensible answer:
Probably will be OK. Yes its **** cold at the moment, but there is little surface water, and its so cold that black ice isn’t forming.
I have driven in similar temps in Yorkshire in the past few weeks and to be honest its fine. Normal precautions remain…roads with little traffic may be sketchy.

STW answer:
If you drive you will die, and probably kill an innocent badger family. Why don’t you cycle (some lovely panniers available for the presents) or even better use pubic transport (freudian slip intended).

Not sure I agree that graph is linear. Should be a reverse hockey stick, gentle gradient at first, and then a steep drop off when you realise that you have zero traction but would really like to brake/change direction.

The fear is anything but linear.

No one is replying because they are all out at the shops panic buying!

Mastiles, you will have the particularly virulent “Harrogate Strain”.
More than half of Yorkshires favourite tea company have been hit by this, its awful. Currently getting over it myself.

Can’t be bothered with CRC anymore. The sods change the prices more often than I can keep track of. Give me the surly simplicity of Merlin anytime.

bump for the evening mob.

Problem is, people like security guards (and police) often have very little understanding of the Law regarding photography

Fixed it properly.

Happy birthday!

Had one once (till it was stolen with my Orange Vit T2).
Looks pretty, no functional advantage that I could discern.

Have a post here:
http://www.volvoforums.org.uk/forumdisplay.php?f=17

Good forum and one that I use a lot (same user name).

I doubt the car is knackered. Normally major symptoms that are intermittent are not that hard to fix once the cause is found.

While you are at it, put some silicone spray on the flap in the airbox. Mine used to stick. If it sticks and keeps letting warm air in then you have a massive loss of power. The plunger that operates the flap gets tired with age too, I think mine is on its way out as sometimes the flap is not closing off the warm air properly.
Have you had any other problems with the V40? Had mine 8 years so have fixed most things on it (not that much goes wrong with these!) I guess yours is a 1.6 then?

In that case the damaged hose is warm air inlet, same as mine, but different routing.
If you want to check it’s this then unclip the four clips that hold the air filter housing lid on (you might need to undo the big jubilee clip on the ribbed black hose). Remove the air filter. At the bottom of the air filter housing there is a flap that adjusts for cold/warm air. The damaged hose should feed into the warm side.

Hi, I have a 1998 2.0 V40 so am quite familiar with these cars.
Don’t think my car has the hose that yours does. Is yours a turbo by any chance, or a std 1.6 engine?
Just had a flick through Haynes manual and there are no pics that look like that hose in the book.
I think the hose is EITHER an air inlet hose or air intake for turbo (if fitted).
The main air intake box is to the right of your picture, thats the big chunky ribbed hose that comes out of it. There is a temp sensor on that hose, right on the bend. Does the hose with the blue tape on go anywhere near joining onto that?

Loose air hoses make cars go mental, so that may be all it is.

Holler if you need more help.

CHB

Nearly all gone in Leeds.

Graduates earn more money (typically).
Non-graduates earning more than £50,000 probably have graduates working for them.
Having the right graduates benefits the country. Many of those benefits go to high earners. Therefore why not have free education for the graduates and have higher tax for high earners? Would another few % on higher rate of tax cover the cost of good tertiary education?

I am lucky I was at Uni in the early 1990’s and had it free.
Current poor sods will have massive debts and have to work till 70.

Don’t expect post men and receptionists to fund my education, but I do think that high earners could be taxed more to cover this cost, harder to avoid and doesn’t just crap on the current teenage generation like current scheme will do.

Just bought a bottle of the 12 year old, very nice and very rich in flavour (and colour).
There is also an 18 year old one, anyone tried that?

I turned on just after he said it at 0759 and assumed it was a coughing fit. Very funny!

It WASN’T Paul Bremer:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._Paul_Bremer

Though he could have said the reverse.

junk with poor coffee choice. Yes I had one.

vulcan death grip?

Netbooks are rubbish.
I bought an acer timeline laptop. Slim, light, 6 hour battery and only £400 last year. 15″ screen, much better than a netbook.

I do like the look of those macbook airs though…13″ for me!

yes the screens are brillian for reading text.
After a few years of using touch screen devices, I must admit it felt odd going back to pressing buttons.

oh, if buying the actual kindle get the £149 one. The cool thing about this is that it uses mobile phone network to download books. There is no contract or additional cost to the user for this, amazon have signed a deal worldwide that they pay the data charges. My mate has a kindle and was downloading books while on holiday in egypt.

Either kindle, ipad with kindle software or free kindle software on your laptop. The sony ones are crap.

Richersounds had some nice NAD amps in with massive reductions when I looked earlier in the week….just looked all gone now!
I like NAD amps and have 3 of them of various vintages.

Big fan of Garmin personally.
Tom Tom are good too. Would avoid other brands.

Not common, unless winning bidder has low feedback. In which case VERY common. Very little problem normally with ebay purchases/sales. Less than 5% need any chasing/follow up.

Sounds like you were lucky. I had a similar (but less severe) thing on the A1 near Wetherby four years ago. Hit a lump of wood, bounced around underneath the car and took out half the rear bumper.
Nice malt whisky and hope the insurance covers it enough.

Best of luck.

just bought some of these too. TA!

Us XC90 drivers are a considerate bunch. For christ sake dont cycle tomorrow. Its going to be black ice all over. Minus 8 in Leeds tonight. Not looking forward to commute to Harrogate tomorrow.

Thanks for that, just bought a pair for my wife and daughter.

For me I would always buy an older car from a prestige brand. They tend to be better looked after and the quality of components is generally much higher, so they break less often.
They cost more to fix when they do break, but I do most of my own maintenance and save money this way. Also by keeping an eye on the car mechanically, I can spot any problems that may need a garage before they cause damage to the car.
Get the V50 😉

£199 from JS.
And I would hope a good fishing rod cost more than that!

;-0

j_me, you don’t need both. You can get a perfectly usable sharp edge (ie chops onions, carrots and meat with no effort) using just a steel.
I agree that if you want a razor sharp blade then you need to use a whetstone to finish off. If I was a batchelor then I would do this, however I have to share knives with MrsHB and it would result in divorce when I see her cutting onto a ceramic plate if I had spent 30 mins sharpening the knife the evening before!

It amazes me how most people use the most horrible blunt knives. My son got a swiss army knife for Xmas, and I spent a couple of hours showing him how to use a whetstone. He really takes pride in it.

Anyhoo, for the OP: Wait till the snow clears and get to TK maxx.

Since the knives in our house are used by more than me (ie its only me that sharpens them and I can’t be certain that they havn’t been used and abused since last time I used them)I use ones that are servicable rather than hugely expensive.
TK maxx have some great knives for £10-25 a knife. I use a separate sharpening steel, like the ones butchers use. I know that a whetstone is better, but I can get a blunt knife back to very sharp in a couple of minutes on the steel.

£600-£700

I use spookys method. Never had any tea complaints.

Just gone out. Minus 6 two miles from Tons house too!!