When I did mine, I first connected a cable with eyelets at one end to the battery clamps, and plugged the other end's banana plugs into a mains-powered 13.8VDC power supply unit, avoiding any problems with the accessory socket and ignition switch position.
TF
I can't argue with that, but I know a woman that couldn't get her 09 plate BMW off a flat car park for days on end.
Dave
A lot of automotive approved cpus already have inbuilt flash and e2
As for the other - reset button?
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Scott M saying something like:
The later one probably stops kids/dogs/small goats getting strangled.
Stroo.
I suspect that I wouldn't be able to find my way into a TVR since having to knock on the door while holding one's nose and standing in a bucket of salt water wouldn't be the first thing that would occur to me when I couldn't find a door handle. And I don't think Bristol let riff-raff like me past their doors.
Add the Mk1 Mazda MX5 to that. And they're not that fussy about who drives them!
My wife drives one and complained the other day that the accelerator pedal had disappeared (fortunately the moment she got it into the garage).. Investigation, you need to be small to that, showed that the bracket carrying the pedal had sheered through with a stress fracture
- she-who-drives-it was not amused by my explaining to all and sundry that she has a very heavy right foot. Seemingly it's a common failure on that model which is surprising when you look at the apparant sturdiness of a new one. Incidentally I got it along to the garage ( I was not going to go crawling under there!) by attaching a cord to the pedal and driving it as a handle throttle.
They do move eventually ...
Tell him that only main-dealers should do jump-starts.
Me neither. Besides, I think they're dead ugly.
Me neither. But the other day I was able to pull away on an up-slope and drive right around the BMW that was stuck in the middle of the roundabout on flat ground. BMWs do seem to have more trouble than most. Perhaps its connected with the lack of indicators?
I didn't want to stop and help when there was a 32-ton truck pulling away from the junction at the same time.
Andy
My 08 Citroen C4 seems a lot worse that the Rover 45 I had before that. But perhaps its just the tyres.
Not as ugly as the Dodge Caliber. Stopped next to one at the lights the other day. I'd not seen one before and was curious as to who had unleashed such a monstrosity on British roads. Then I saw it's American, which explained it all - the land of ugly cars.
Interesting review of the Bristol Blenheim Speedster in an Italian car magazine "Styling: evokes memories of a time that is now past, Performance: evokes memories of a time that is now past , Handling: evokes memories of a time that is now past."
Bloke out the back of our house thrashing the ice hard on Christmas Eve. Gave up after ten minutes - probably quite annoyed at the neighbour who got into her car beside his and calmly drove off.
Oddly his was a BMW, too.
Fiat.
I drove one as a hire car in Italy. One of the worst hire cars ever IMO. The turbodiesel engine is sourced from VW so it's not bad. The transmission is, however, some dreadful lashup and it has terrible torque steer. General build quality as you would expect, rubbish.
Badly thought out interior, it pretends to be an SUV-lite but the seating and luggage arrangements don't live up to the idea.
Well duh!
Yes
That doesn't change the fact that, unless you have two good 12v batteries, at some point you need to finesse the transfer of live connector, i.e. removing the jumper connection to the battery while attaching the battery lead.
In message , Skipweasel wrote
I've noted that in the past few weeks that BMWs seem to be having the most problems in icy conditions, They seem to have major problems pulling away from traffic lights even on flat ground. Surely they cannot be really this bad in their country of origin where the roads during an average winter must be much worse than ours?
There was something in a news item t'other day that mentioned the many 'accidents' on German roads. Looking at BBC news this morning, the clip on the weather in USoA gave a good lesson in how to drive at half the speed and get there 100 times sooner.
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Oh, dear.
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