I’d be more worried about the extra stress on the headtube ripping the thing off tbh.

Another quality fox part :roll:

May look nice but under the hood they are the cheapest of cheap materials. The same engine/box and chasis on several cars as mentioned, done several clutches on them. The most recent was a 57 plate with 13K on the clock, the clutch pressure plate broke in two. Exhausts on them are terrible too, last a few years before the support brackets rust off.

They don’t have any arch liners either so will become rust buckets with british weather.

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Says delivered within 3 days.

90% of it is as a buyer but the 10% that is as a seller is 100% positive.

Does your mate have a sore face ?

Ace.

Cheers.

Great. So what do i put down as the reason for return ?

With this collect plus i take it to the nearest place that does it and just hand it over ?

Just to muck it all up :D I’ve had a set of Carbon/Ti Quartz fitted to my bike since 2008 ish – put some proper miles on them and they are still going. Slight bit of play in one bearing but i won’t be doing anything to them anytime soon.

Proper setup is key with them.

They have changed the design with them though – the new ones have a third bar in them to make them engage harder etc.

You’ll need to spend a fortune to get one that’s actually accurate.

I have a snap on one i use at work, it was £320 and it’s still not 100% accurate.

For range 1-10Nm would cover everything but the crank arms.

I just use common sense instead now.

[/quote]Coolant runs through the hater matrix constantly,cabin temperature is controlled by a flap in the heater box

The hater matrix ? :lol:

Aren’t the 2002’s known for the flap sticking ? sorted with a torx 25 IIRC ?

On what cars ?

Everything i’ve ever worked on has a temp sensor in the thermostat housing, or on the head and sometimes another in the radiator inlet pipe. As the coolant temp increases the gauge will increase in either:

The needle going up on a traditional setup.
Increase in bars on digital type setups.

Some cars don’t have any gauge at all, Astra 05 + and Ka’s have nothing just a red light that comes on if too hot.

A mk3 mondeo definetly has a normal temp gauge, bottom left of the dash.

How can it not have heater valves ?

It can be either, depends what setting it was on when it failed. I’ve seen them with the pipes clean broken off too, the housing is just plastic.

From the OP’s description it sounds like the vavle. If the car is getting up to temp normally, not running too cool then it won’t be the thermostat.

“As from your door there will be the some total of nowt. “

Not true. Local highlights include neds torching cars, roaming gangs, murdering druggies…

Shotts as in Shotts Scotland ?

I doubt it’s a stuck thermostat.

If the thermostat was stuck open, it would take an age for the engine to get up to temp, most of the time it wouldn’t even get to normal temp the needle would sit a bit to the left of the centre.

I very much doubt it’s a coolant leak, with the milage you have covered you’d have run out of coolant by now, when the car is running the coolant system is pressurized and any small leak will result in the level dropping fairly quickly.

It won’t be the headgasket either, the engines in those cars are terrible (no offence) but they vary rarely do the gasket even when run without coolant.

I’d put my money on the heater control valve. It’ll be bolted to the bulk head at the rear of the engine bay with two rubber hoses going into it – these hoses dissappear as they go inside the car into the heater matrix. The valves are a common failure on Fords.

Ross.
Mechanic.

Bit of an update.

I tried forcing the single bolt clamp on (not the matchmaker clamp) and it went on but i still can’t get the brake lever body to line up in the clamp correctly.

It appears the bars being .15 too big in diameter is what is limiting how far the clamp will shut.

Spoke with Easton and they assure me the current range of bars are 22.2mm but it’s an expensive mistake to buy some and find out they aren’t.

Cheap tyres tend to last a long time actually. They are made of brick hard rubber which offers next to zero grip but on the upside the rubber is so hard they last ages.

Regarding the £25 tyres, they are either A: remoulds or B: Part worns. The budget tyres i sell at work even in the smallest sizes like 14 cost us around £25, so for a company to be selling them at £25 fitted they must be buying them in at £10-£15 each which just isn’t going to happen.

yeah i had Avids with the two bolt clamp before and they fitted fine.

The new XX brakes have a single bolt clamp which wraps half way round, insert the brake lever body which forms the other half of the clamp and stick the bolt in.

But i cant even get the clamp onto the bars hence the problem.

Can’t bend the clamp, the lever body forms half of the clamp.

Druidh was that the single bolt type or the two bolt type clamp ?

same, i’ve only ever used Avids and never had a problem but the clamp on the XX brakes is really small so i guess the bars have to be perfect.

Well you’d think.

Im having a major headace getting my avid brakes to fit my bars. Sram sent me some info saying they only fit bars that are 21-22.2mm in diameter and my Easton EC70’s are 22.35mm which is why they won’t fit.

Granted they are 5 years old so i don’t mind replacing them like for like, just want to make sure the current ones are gonna work.

Anymore ? Need a new front mech and CRC have them in stock.

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Got it.

Cheers :lol:

Getting there….

Ive got grids but only on the first 3 lines where i have text entered – how do i get it to do a whole a4 sheet of grid ?

go to keeptube.com

Ticket entry for the pubs ? As in you need a street party ticket to get in ?

Commited now, got it arranged heading in at 4.30 i imagine i shall be very drunk by midnight.

100,000 in the amber rose, now that would be impressive :lol:

If im in the pub for 6pm will we get a seat ?

Better get there early then eh :lol:

well the pub is on the end of rose street (amber rose) if you step out onto the road and look south towards the castle you are smack bang in front of it.

So looks like we can drink in rose street and watch the fireworks from the side street at midnight…

I shagged my boss who was head of the department at a christmas do a few years back. She was nice and a real looker but terrible at the job. After the events she didn't show up for two weeks then left so it was a win win situation.

None from Edinburgh – no suprise there.

Righto, shall visit the shop on the way home tomorrow.

Thankingyou :wink:

Right Ok – so transfer of files im sure he can handle the 30 second extra :)

As for it's use yes it will have movies on it but the files will be transfered to his laptop first which should then be ok correct ? His laptop has a dinky HDD hence the need for something external (plus it means it can be plugged into ships computer etc)

It's just for taking all his music and some films with him when he is away etc.