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Archive for January, 2007
How I fixed the power steering in the clio
Jan 28th
Stop! First read the previous post.
Ok, now that’s sorted you probably realise that putting screen wash in the power steering was a pretty stupid thing to do, I have my excuses and it could happen to anyone. Tiredness and poor labelling are my excuses. Take my ford, every user serviceable part is yellow and has pictures AND words. The Clio has 3 items in yellow; the one that isn’t yellow has a black lid and black picture and is the screenwash tank. The power steering cap has a rectangle and a steering wheel, so to my sleep numbed brain it looked like a picture of the windscreen with a little wheel behind it. So I fill it with screen wash. Expecting it not to overflow so quickly I released what I did pretty quickly. The AA said sorry pal that’s not a roadside fix (yeah ok fair enough) you need to get it towed by the garage and get them to fix it (so the AA don’t tow you to a garage now?).
I spoke to my brother-in-law who was a service manager and now is a lead technician for a car firm and he said he’d help. Thing is that More >
How not to fill up a Clio’s Screenwash
Jan 28th
Take one brain, addled by sleep loss and stress, having a child in neonatal unit will suffice for this.
Take one wife who is trying to get back to hospital late at night.
Take one empty screen wash bottle in wife’s car
Add pinch of piss poor labelling on Renault’s behalf.
Add Dark.
Add screenwash.
To powersteering.
e-Petitions
Jan 10th
It seems that the government have released a new “beta” service for creating e-Petitions. The first I heard of it was a petition to scrap parts of the new travel policy (a lot to do with road pricing) Details here. But its really worth taking a look at some of the other petitions that have been submitted that you too can sign up to.
This one in particular caught my eye.