Recent content by rds60h

As others have said even the oldest caravans will usually have a strong chassis that will far outlast the flooring of the caravan. Some caravan floors have been known to "blow" in less than 5 years (The floors are plywood and unless perfectly made the ply layers can separate making the floor...

The only thing that will confirm the date that any vehicle was built is the chassis number which is on the VIN Plate (Vehicle Identity Plate) the manufacturing year is usually easy to identify but to identify the date any closer you will have to contact the vehicle maker or try a vehicle owners...

Done my apprenticeship at the Luton Vauxhall Plant back in the 1970's so remember all of the Cavalier models being built and introduced. The garage I have used for my MOTs since I was 17 done the MOTs for all of the Vauxhall Heritage cars dating back to 1900 (The MOTs were done to confirm safety...

The pixels on the screen have gone, judging by the shape as others have said most likely caused by impact damage.

Get a bottle of Peppermint Oil off of E-Bay then soak 5 or 6 Cotton Balls with the oil and leave the Cotton Balls in areas where you know the rats use, repeat again after about a week and that should be the end of having rats. Apparently it is not safe to use the Peppermint Oil if you have cats.

Just a little bit of info, if You like Champion Spark Plugs then you can also use AC Delco Spark Plugs. The AC stands for Arthur Champion and they are in fact the same spark plug.

This reminds me of the time my brother who was a tool-maker decided to play a trick on his foreman; he got a tobacco tin, cut a hole in the bottom large enough to put his finger through then lined the tin (and around his finger) with cotton wool and squirted tomato sauce around the area where...

I'm pretty sure they only tighten nuts !

If the Referendum is not enough to allow us to leave the EU how come a Referendum was enough for us to join ? Does that mean we are illegally members of the EU ? In which case we should remove ourselves from the EU immediately.

It might sound daft but numerous electrical faults occur when the ignition coil pack is on the way out and once the coil pack is replaced the other problems disappear.

Try replacing the ignition coil rail pack, this often causes starting problems and seems to fool the ECU into thinking there are gearbox problems. (The semi-automatic/tiptronic/easytronic is just a manual gearbox with an electronic gear selector bolted on top and that may be what confuses the ECU).

I wore "onesies" at work for years, they were called Overalls !

If it were a diesel then the vehicle name on the back would show a D to denote Diesel. For example Corsa CDi, if there is not a C then it is a petrol.

The unfortunate thing about HMRC is that they work out of numerous offices throughout the country, they also have postal interceptors (Royal Mail Offices that collect all HMRC replies, irrespective of what office they are addressed to) but none of the offices communicate with each other. The...