Happyoldgit

Sorry but unless there is an obviously life threatening situation, or there are close friends or family involved, then I'm afraid these days I just drive on by. There are just too many inexperienced, blasé, impatient, stroppy, under insured, ill equipped, arrogant, stupid, people prepared to use any opportunity to save or earn a few quid around nowadays that I tend to look after No1.

Yes please Si.

Moved to the International...

Tried starting it with your foot hard down on the clutch pedal?

You are right about the sealant bridging the gap, they tend to stick a bit of tape between the panels and then squirt a bit of sealer on before knocking the seals home. Apart from spraying a bit of WD-40 or similar around the locks and other accessible moving bits it's a job to know what else you can do without as you say removing the cards etc. TBH with my nearest dealers now 50+ miles away I'm still debating whether to keep hold of my present and sorted Puma as I just can't be bothered and don't have the time to run backward and forward getting niggly stuff like this put right.

I should think some of the origianl 110 / 90 design team are now pushing up the daises! Seriousl, yYou might get the door seal to stay put by removing it from the frame and squeezing the gripper together again. As for the door lock you really ought not to be sorting out niggles like this yourself - don't you have another dealer you can use for warranty work?

Unless you have been keeping up with an extended warranty I reckon your chances are slim. They are bad enough with newish vehicles still in warranty let alone something that has potentially been out of warranty for two years. Ashcrofts should be your second port of call, unless your local garage knows the marque they may well have missed something as simple as loose prop bolts.

If I come across someone in real distress I'll stop and offer assistance but I'm afraid I'll not stop to assist Mr average motorist who is just in a rush to get to work.

I'd send them back and request a refund.

This one?

I'm in the market again for some new worklamps. Has anyone had experience of Delta Design stuff - specifically the twin bulb Series 1117 as seen bottom right here. If so is the quality any good?

Take it back and tell them you are not happy about it.

Eyes duly peeled Deano.

Thanks for your comments, I see you have two issues: First of all you are not happy with the number of responses and secondly you are not happy with the time it has taken to approve your posts. Firstly, I'm sorry your query has not received as much attention as you had hoped. FWIW my opinion is that a bit of fine adjustment of the striker in the door B pillar would seem to be in order. Use a pencil to mark the current position and then adjust the striker outward slightly. Insert a suitably sized allen key into the striker and rotate anticlockwise to undo the striker sufficiently in order to move it. Secondly your comments regarding the time it takes to approve your posts. Well again my apologies but what with it being the Christmas and New Year period perhaps some of our moderators are not able to be at their computers quite as much as usual. I note that your last posts were submitted at 12:58 AM and 01:01 AM this morning. I very much regret not being available to approve your comments in the wee hours on New years Day and that personal commitments later this public holiday morning prevented me from approving your posts until now. I am sure we (ie the moderators and admins) will do our very best to try and arrange our personal lives better over the festive season so that you do not suffer such a troublesome inconvenience in future. Please be aware that 'paying' or donating to the forum does not buy you any preferential treatment - the terms as laid out here still stand to ALL new members.

Moved to the International for wider coverage.

Sorry but all the pages of descriptions and pics of potential vehicles and subsequent advice is no substitute for personally inspecting vehicles preferably accompanied by someone who really knows their stuff. The only way to find a good example is to get out there and look - and that includes looking and learning from the lemons too. Yes it will cost you in both time, money and frustration but in the process you will learn a LOT.

Much of this has been covered before.

I found it by using the advanced search and restricting it to the International.

Certainly is which is why the thread is now part of it!

Merry Christmas ho, ho, ho! Bah-humbug

Ditto.

You know this is indicative of the reason why I think I might hang on to my current Puma. Touch wood the thing seems to be pretty much sorted, I really neither have the time nor inclination to keep trekking back and forth to the main dealer with petty niggles on another new one - especially as there are no longer any main dealers within 100 mile round trip.

I'll see if I can confirm that number Mo - I may still have the original invoice but will need to dig fairly deep in the 'past motors' file.

Doesn't show location of No25 in this diagram...

Yes, there's a large blanking grommet fitted in there. I remember it well as I found it missing in one of my TD5's and had it replaced under warranty - I may still have the part number.