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Just an update in case anyone is interested. When the garage tried to disconect the sensor the wire came away from the spade connector apparantly just one strand of wire in contact. A new spade connector crimped on and all seems ok hopefully

Thanks for that. My local garage is ordering a new sensor just in case it is that and needs replacing after checking wiring etc tomorrow. I will get them to check the thermostat out while they are at it . since the snag showed up I havn't warmed her up just parked outside last night, but she normall...

Last night on my way home the coolant temp guage dropped down to close to zero then gradually over a couple of miles rose to normal where it stayed for about 15 miles near to home it dropped down again and pretty much stayed there. The coolant levels look normal and a new water pump was fitted a few...

Anyone coming to the Wadebridge area on holiday. There is a new lpg station on the Trenant industrial estate in Wadebridge behind the VW Live garage. They have taken over from the Jet station on the Padstow road which has closed. Instead of heading towards Newquay on the Wadebridge by pass head into...

As in my earlier thread, my 30amp fuse between the split charge relay and the battery blew and I didnt know it had gone, so my leisure battery was very very flat after a weeks wild camping. When I found out about the fuse and replaced it, I drove home about 20 miles with that very flat battery now c...

After spending a week camping near a windy and cold Padstow with a flat leisure battery (30amp fuse blown between split charge relay and battery) now I know where to look won't be a problem again!! :oops: I would like to keep an eye on the leisure battery. Has anyone tried one of these http://www.tc...

Thanks for the replies guys all seems ok at the moment I tried the heater a few times and the pump works fine first time and the heater does what it should. I just wondered if the problem of the pump not kicking in just that one time was the death knell of the pump. I understand the pumps are expens...

I know there have been loads of questions about these heaters but a search produced no results so sorry in advance if this has been dealt with before. My erberspacher petrol heater wouldnt work last week the usual problem used to be battery but I now have a new 110amp hour and pluged into a charger ...

Headley18 wrote: This site is brilliant http://stations.gpl.online.fr/appli/index.php Plus it give you an idea of prices before you leave.

If only I had found that site before leaving a right little gem, thanks for the link

Maybe I shouldnt bother sharing some handy hints and usefull info, from my 4.5 years of living there and traveling accross the country... a lot... :run Dont you dare stop sharing the hints they're invaluable and thanks. No GPS here though I'd love one (gaget freak) 8) but the map reading keeps my w...

If you are going to France or elsewhere in the Eurozone in the near future pray the Euro returns to somwhere near its old value against the pound, I have just been over there and paid 74cents PL on the motorway and 69cents at a service station on a main road, for cents read pence at the moment! Unle...

, she could have left you at the side of the road a really long way from home! Regards, Nigel. Nigel I will have nightmares about that happening for years! The English green flag boys said the French charged 500 euros just to tow a vehicle onto the ferry their side, and if the breakdown had been fu...

Dear John as far as I could tell from the garage owner the thrust bearing had pretty well disintergrated. When he explained the bad conditions it has to work in (no oil, dust from the clutch etc) and the work it has done over 19 years I was amazed it hadnt gone earlier. The gear change is a lot bett...

Thanks for that Fritz you are dead right, the garage has just phoned to say the thrust bearing was the problem and are fitting a new clutch "kit" and we should be back on the road by midday tomorrow. I didnt dare ask how much!!!

After a 1500 mile trip to France during the last fortnight my 1990 2.1 Petrol/LPG Syncro arrived at its parking spot on the Norfolk Line ferry (Thank God It happened on the boat), on the return trip to Dover, and the clutch packed up.The pedal would not depress. After being pushed towed off the ferr...