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From: SIRPip on 25 Jun 2010 12:41 SteveH wrote: > SIRPip <gingerbloke(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > Steve H wrote: > > > > > He's curse the marque. > > > > Thank you, SirTony. > > Heh. Still getting used to tying on an iPad. Especially the > autocorrect. Get K to loosen the knots a bit. -- SIRPip : B12
From: Champ on 25 Jun 2010 12:50 On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 11:41:02 +0100, Champ <news(a)champ.org.uk> wrote: >Mine did it again this morning. Fortunately, I was just across town, >so I got a lift home, got the spare key, and it started straight away. >So it's almost certainly the key. And I took it to the guys who service the car for me, and they plugged in the magic self-diagnosis box, and it said "you need a new key". Which I've ordered. At just under a 100 quid. <wince> -- Champ We declare that the splendour of the world has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed. ZX10R | Hayabusa | GPz750turbo neal at champ dot org dot uk
From: boxerboy on 25 Jun 2010 13:01 On 25 June, 08:24, Champ <n...(a)champ.org.uk> wrote: > On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 12:12:53 +0800, "Fraser Johnston" > > Are you suggesting that I'm the sort of cove who might buy a car with > an automatic gearbox? How very dare you! > -- <Shudder> Had a lunch time coffee with an old mate who has just retired after 30 years as an AA man. he claims that in about 30% of the cases if you take the key out of the ignition, lock the car, if you can, then hold the key at waist height and drop it on the floor the problem will clear on Renault, Nissan some BMWs and mercs. If not its on to the already mentioned battery lead solution. Boxerboy
From: The Older Gentleman on 25 Jun 2010 13:47 boxerboy <ianphinks(a)ukonline.co.uk> wrote: > On 25 June, 08:24, Champ <n...(a)champ.org.uk> wrote: > > On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 12:12:53 +0800, "Fraser Johnston" > > > > > Are you suggesting that I'm the sort of cove who might buy a car with > > an automatic gearbox? How very dare you! > > -- > <Shudder> > Had a lunch time coffee with an old mate who has just retired after 30 > years as an AA man. he claims that in about 30% of the cases if you > take the key out of the ignition, lock the car, if you can, then hold > the key at waist height and drop it on the floor the problem will > clear on Renault, Nissan some BMWs and mercs. > Or 'it it wiv an 'ammer? With Champ's luck the key would bounce down a drain. -- BMW K1100LT Ducati 750SS Honda CB400F Triumph Street Triple Suzuki TS250ER GN250 Damn, back to six bikes! Try Googling before asking a damn silly question. chateau dot murray at idnet dot com
From: SIRPip on 25 Jun 2010 13:51
The Older Gentleman wrote: > SteveH <italiancar(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > SIRPip <gingerbloke(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Steve H wrote: > > > > > > > He's curse the marque. > > > > > > Thank you, SirTony. > > > > Heh. Still getting used to tying on an iPad. Especially the > > autocorrect. > > > > > You should never have given Alfas the flick, see? > > > > I haven't - still own 2 of them. > > One, and a spare for when the first is off the road? Or one to drive, the other to live on the drive as a spares repository. -- SIRPip : B12 |