kevin the chicken

Does it get harder to start the longer you leave it? If its worse the next day rather than three or four hours that probably points to fuel draining back. As the others have said check the choke first to make sure it is operating. An electric fuel pump will make things easier in this case as well as saving wear and tear on starter and battery. Although I have twin 45s on mine I just turn the ignition on whilst I am putting my seatbelt on and I know that the fuel is in the carbs after about ten seconds and I am ready for action!

My series 7 has the number engraved on the top rail of the chassis on the passenger side. Things were a lot more lenient then with Sva or iva, hopefully yours is ok. Mine was but it came with the v5 and loads of bills and the original build book. Does the stamped number show up on the hpi check?

Car builder solutions sell one of these, the manufacturers name escapes me at the moment. I tried to use it on my kit before realising that the sender was not working. They also can provide another small pcb that slots in to the unit to allow you to fit a low fuel warning light.

Working. Gutted

She may be getting on a bit but there's life in the old girl yet. The range rover that is not the wife!

This is definitely sounding like a good day now. My wife is keen to go, she might take the range rover for a drag if the the heated seats are fixed!

Tazz you have to come because of your positive attitude! I think if was going to Santa pod I would trailer my car there with my range rover in case of breakdown. There you've started me off, range rover might break down anyway

Either or both sounds like a good idea. Santa pod is not to far from me but I've never been there,it is on this years to do list anyway. I am sure that they would get a good reception as they are about as central as you can get. My only problem would be that I work Saturday's so unless it was on a Sunday my chances of making it would be limited. You can't accommodate everyone though.

I used silicone hose throughout with joiners if I couldn't get the exact bend I needed. I felt it was better to have a joiner than a hose that wasn't exactly the right angle. The joiners look ok if you get good ones with quality hose clips and you almost never have trouble with leaks as silicone is so pliable and supple. I did have trouble with one of those so called bendy spiral wire hoses and soon ditched it in favour of silicone,maybe I was asking to much of it.

Well done him. I had a plan that my two were going out to work to pay for me to go karting but I fear that may not happen as they are both still grovelling. In the Lego box at the moment

At least you are much safer from infection at home! Too cold to be out under a car anyway. Think my winter mods are all going to be spring ones.

Been thinking of spring and summer already and this year I would like to be able to take my six year old son out in my car for a ride. As he is still small he is not able to utilise the harness seat belts and his normal car seat is too wide to fit in my car. Has anybody used a booster seat that is narrow enough to fit in the bucket type seats that are fitted in these cars. Most of the ones listed on eBay don't actually say how big they are, I'm hoping that someone else has had the same problem and overcome it.

I have webers on my red top. My rolling road man says that there is nothing to choose between them on a race car but that dellortos are better for the road, staying in tune a little bit better. Mine just seem to go out of balance every now and then for no reason at all. A quick fiddle with the screwdriver and they are fine again.

Halfords did a set for me with a certificate of insurance and a utility bill to prove that I was the insured person. Did have a bit of a disagreement with matey behind the counter as to whether I was entitled to them or not but I was only following the instructions on their website. He was that close to me getting the misses out of the car as she was the one who had looked it up. Didn't know how lucky he was. Plates were damn expensive though, normally get mine done on eBay for about six quid each, these were twice that but I needed them that day.

Welcome to the rhocar caravan club. You will not believe how much easier it is with a caravan. Now that we are used to it we can pack up our five berth van, awning, toys,,food, clothes and all the other paraphernalia and be on the road in under an hour.

Nothing wrong with a q plate, just that some people don't like them. When it comes to the emissions test at mot time and my tester only looks briefly to see there is visible smoke and nothing else then I am very happy with mine!

You don't have to spend a great deal of money to get a good van, my wife wanted a particular layout which was not the most popular and we picked one up for a grand. We could have moved in and gone on holiday straight away. It came with a telly,hook up lead,awning,pots and pans,crockery,water containers in fact everything we needed plus some we sold on. Sometimes family circumstances or space becomes an issue and people need to move stuff on in a hurry. We did use it once or twice then had it serviced and last year we probably went away in it seven or eight times including a trip to Devon. If its a few years old then expect little things to need replacing now and then but there are plenty of parts available cheaply on the Internet. As with everything else you get what you pay for and I don't have large amounts of money available to sit around the garden while the children are bashing stuff against everything. Spare money is for kits!

Changed my 14 inch alloys for 15 as there was virtually nothing available ithat size. There is plenty of choice and they are cheaper than the less common sizes. I got four federal 595 rsr for less than 70 quid each delivered and they came from holland!

The duck is right, you may get one that is close to the weight but that is before you put anything in it. Do some research on model weights and then work out what the stuff you will put in it will weigh. I know only too well how much clutter two small children demand. On a positive note our 5 berth was a lot lighter than we expected and came in under mam and obviously under gross train weight but above all is safe and stable to tow

Whoops. I meant vivaro, the peugots are low roof but long wheelbase and are called expert I think

Avoid fiat, royal mail bought hundreds of them and they may be economical but they spend a lot of time in the garage. One of ours had a problem with the brakes and the workshop have found so many things loose and out of alignment that they are insisting it has been in an accident . The Peugeot that has replaced it is less economical and seems gutless for a brand new modern vehicle. There is a lot of roaring from under the bonnet but not a lot happens at the speedo. The best van we have is the vauxhall movano as in earlier posts. Nothing has fallen off, it has a good payload and goes well. I couldn't say anything about mpg as it does a lot of stop start motoring but it seems reasonable

Does it have a separate ecu or control module other than the one that controls the engine? The range rover mark 2 (land rovers fastest depreciating model ever!) suffers a similar problem due to the body electrical module not hibernating or even being woken up by Bluetooth, phone signals or other radio waves. It is a cause of battery drain and a flat battery causes fault codes on things that are ok, mine was showing gearbox fault the other day. I plan to leave a trickle charger on it all the time when I get an outside socket installed. Maybe this is a route your son in law will have to go down too.

We bought our two rechargeable remote control helicopters designed for indoors and they are brilliant! It says for 14 years and up on the box but my two at ten and six are really good with them, managing to land them wherever they want.

Strange because the private plate on the motor I have just bought was transferred over in less than two weeks and when I posted off my slip from the log book it was less than two weeks before I got the new log book back. When you factor in the time it has spent in the post that's not bad service. Credit where credits due! It is frustrating when you can't use a vehicle because you are waiting for paperwork though. Mind you today is not a good day to be on the road around here, I have already been out on the fire engine to three accidents passing a further one on the way and having a rather large opposite lock moment ourselves on black ice on a road we shouldn't have been on due to an incorrect address being given.

Might be easier to pop a v8 in than mess about with electrics!