Handyman

Most common servo's operate on differential air pressure. To test (this type) if it's ok, run the engine for a few minutes, switch it off and then apply the brake pedal several times. It should not "harden up" before the brake has been applied for less than three times. If you hear a continual hiss when switching off the engine, then either the internal diaphragm is split or a none return valve is faulty. It is not a practical proposition to repair a modern servo, although I have repaired the much older types. I don't know for sure which type your car has.

What took you so long?

Steorn is an "intellectual property" (IP) company. They invent new processes to combat such things as credit card fraud. Whilst researching new ways of powering remote video camera's they stumbled on what they saw then as an anomaly in their measuring instruments. Their "Orbo" technology, as they said. "Fell out of that" With regard to radio, Nikola Tesla discovered/invented the technology. Marconi got the credit, until the 1940's when the powers that be aknowledged that Tesla was the first. Tesla died soon after. Incidentally, it was Tesla that made our modern lifestyle possible by inventing the three phase generating system that powers all of our lights, tv, computers, and the like.

Got to agree with that!

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Soggy seat? A wet or dry vacuum cleaner in wet mode will take most of that out. If you insist on removing the seat, they are usually secured with four small bolts or setscrews, that is if you can't slide it off the runners,most have some kind of stop. If that can be removed then it might slide off if there is room.

Couldn't agree more, and where are Leicester City? Only sitting at the top of their league. Just waiting for them to pass us going up as we go down. Shame, but poetic justice!

With the shambles at St Marys I'm beginning not to care, but then it looks like I'm not the only one.

I usually get three quotes on car spares. Heres two more numbers for your battery Saint Stevo. 02380863900 German and Swedish (Just outside Totton.) 02380331381 Partco Freemantle (just down the road from the old labour exchange)

Europarts millbrook. Picked up a battery for a vw that could cost over £90 for £36. 02380783855

With the nearest star (sun) being 4.3 lightyears away, we won't be going there anytime soon.

St Landrew's no racist.

Old people don't become less able on purpose, it just happens to them. Just remember, all of you will be old one day. If your lucky!

Makes a living out of behaving like an idiot,

If Ken Clarke had been voted in as Tory Leader, Labour would have been quaking in their boots!

I forgot to mention ,that if the cover face proves not to be flat, ie. warped or irregular in some way, there are methods to correct this by hand or machine. I won't go into these unless you require that advice. If too bad it would require a replacement cover. Not being familiar with the Saxo, I dont know what kind of crankcase (engine) ventilation system is fitted, but it would be advisable to check and clean any potentially blocked oil strainer/retainer fitted. If this system has built up enough sludge or carbon to restrict or block it, the resultant overpressuring of the crankcase will enable the oil to blow out anywhere that there is the slightest weakness in gaskets, oilseals and the like.

I would clean the mating faces, then put the cover on without a gasket. Holding the cover down squarely and firmly by hand check all round the periphrery with a very thin feeler gauge (1.5 to 2 thou) to see if the cover has any slight gaps. If ok, obtain a sheet of cork of the correct thickness, and after smearing the cover faces with grease (or engineers blue if you have it) press the cover down very firmly onto the cork backed up with a good flat surface (a thick sheet of glass would be perfect} Then all you have to do is cut carefully round the image created on the cork sheet by the grease, and there's your gasket. There is a company(whose name escapes me for the moment) on the millbrook industrial estate that deals with all kinds of jointing materials.

3D sound switched to maximum by accident.

Yes, and the earth is flat, the sun goes round the earth, and man has never set foot on the moon!!! Anyway that was just an add on to the main object of my post.

Wheel trims are usually on the car when you buy it.

If 30,000 fans bought 200 shares each = 6,000,000. shares. Would that make a difference? or am I being totally niave. I know nothing of these things. Not my field at all.

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Haven't some members the royal family suffered from it in the past? "Mad" King George and all that, poor chap.

Shouldn't come adrift if properly fitted and in good condition, but if you are worried that they might then a few plastic cable ties completely solves the problem. The white ones hardly notice and a potential thief tends not to bother and go on to the next victim.

Ponty is right, but my solution is not to have them in the first place. Wheel trims are more easily replaced and are cheaper. Only works if you have steel wheels to start with of course. Moral of the story? Don't buy unecessary and expensive add on's. Motoring is dear enough as it is. One thing that used to infuriate me was car owners spending huge amounts of money on such things and then complaining that they could not afford to have their car repaired or maintained properly.