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Thanks Colin. Both reversing lights are working - looks like I have some dismantling ahead! Pete

As previously posted, my rear blind is stuck in the 'up' position. Can anyone tell me where the motor is located please? Does anyone have a link to any schematic/parts manual that might show the components in situ? Cheers, Pete

I spilled white spirit all over a pair of jeans a while ago. Then I washed them. Then both the jeans and the washer smelled of white spirit! :tsktsk: So, at the suggestion of my dear old mum, who knows stuff, I washed them again in lots of white vinegar....twice, just to make sure. Result! Smell not quite gone from the washer immediately, but the day after it was fine. The jeans? Sorted! So....well worth getting a big bottle of the stuff and giving it a whirl....much cheaper than a new part! (Apparently, bicarbonate of soda works too). Pete

As per my post no. 11....the Sealey VS7112 definitely fits, is priced very keenly, and is man enough for the job.Pete

Hi Gary. Well, that's the 2 of us on here then! :D The only Harleys I've been astride were a Dyna Wide Glide Sport (I think....!), and a V-Rod.....talk about chalk and cheese! I did like the V-Rod, amazingly fast bike, I only rode it for a few hours though, in a 'back-to-back' road test for a work magazine article. The other one was way, way too vibey for my tastes! I do like the CB1300 too, a proper modern classic. I know just what you mean regarding sanity! B) Pete

My housing was also ultra-tight - a friend used a bar and brute strength to get it undone, I really thought it wasn't going to come off. As an alternative to the Laser one, the Sealey VS7112 is also on Amazon at £9.28 including delivery - or is that the not very substantial one?! Its cast aluminium anyway, and it did the job! Pete

Read this out to Mrs Baxlin (45+ years driving). Her reply??"And your point is?" Its not difficult. Big car.....smallish gap.....'it'll never fit'....it did.....ergo more than likely older, more experienced drivers don't need newfangled 'driver aids'. But I bet your Mrs worked out what I meant without me explaining it! :D Pete

Thanks Steve. Do you know where the motor is exactly? Pete

There's usually a reason for the way in which articles are written - reckon you've hit the nail on the head there! Pete

Its badly-researched nonsense. Expect to see it on the front page of the Daily Mail soon. :D Pete

The rear blind on my 250 has stopped working! Its in the 'up' position, so I'm not overly bothered (until I want to clean the inside of the rear screen....!), but wondered if anyone had any pointers. If I press the switch, I can hear a click in the rear....I assume the fuse is OK as other things on the same fuse are fine. Pete

......in the boot of my IS250? Pete

No problem for me either. I'd have thought any such problems are more likely to be down to the device being used - I don't see how the site could have any effect on, for example, the typing issues you mention. Pete

My 9-5 Aero developed creaking noises from the dash and the console around the gearchange area. Careful use of a silicone lubricant spray from Halfords - I fitted the small extension tube provided with the aerosol - sorted the problem in a jiffy. I did the same thing on our Renault Espace dash with the same result. Just be careful you don't get any on glass....or anywhere you don't want to be permanently slippery! :) Pete

I think you missed it then Mike - its there in the second sentence of the first paragraph, and it was there at 9am when I read it! :) Pete

I think you'll find that 4 is the highest gear it will select...so, when you're stationary in 'S', although the display shows '4', the gearbox will have selected '1' and will then go up as far as '4'.....unless you instruct it differently while stationary via the paddles. Pete

Its all about what you like, wouldn't do for us all to like the same stuff! :) Pete

Not that long ago I had an ultra-low miles Rover 75 Connoisseur - it came with these.... Bone china, very nice. :) Pete

I've just had a nicely spirited blast in my 250. The paddles don't do anything when the gearstick's in 'D', as expected....but they sure make for a fun drive in 'S' with 'ECT PWR' switched on! Pete

Sounds about right that! :D At the other end of the scale, I was at my wife's shop earlier today....one parking space outside, between two other cars. A lady well into her 70s in a newish VW Transporter minibus drew alongside the front car and started to reverse into the space. 'Never in a million years' I think to myself. B****r me, she did it in one, and it was absolutely parallel to the kerb. I wanted to go outside and clap, but I think it would've been wrong on many levels....! Pete

The system in respect of speeding fines and points needs updating - it was conceived many moons ago when speeding was enforced by people, not machines, and convictions were relatively low in number. My feeling is that a two-tier system of 'ticket' punishment should be introduced. It wouldn't need new legislation, just an adjustment to existing stuff. 'Minor' offences, say up to 7/8 mph over a given limit, should only attract 1 or 2 penalty points, 'moderate' ones 3 to 5 points, and stupid speeds, as now, dealt with by the Court system. Of course, BRAKE and the usual suspects would bleat about any perceived 'softening' of enforcement policy, and, as our masters tend to bow down to most minority pressure groups, it'll never happen! Pete

I saw a Smart car thing today.....with rear parking sensors. I did wonder......WHY????!!!!...considering its bodywork stops at the back of the driver's head! Then I realised it was more a reflection of driving standards today than anything else. My brother's car can park itself - he doesn't let it though as he has some pride! :D Pete

"........In a 250 the paddle isn't directly instructing a gear change, it's setting the highest gear allowed parameter". But surely the paddle does instruct a change when you request a lower gear? It changes down to it immediately, very handy in 'spirited' driving on twisty bits I find! Pete

No doubt there are some (many?) still driving despite having accumulated 12+ points who probably should be banned - but for every one of those, there'll be an awful lot more who have, quite rightly, had discretion applied to their circumstances by the Courts. The press tend to pick up on the more 'dramatic' cases (think 'Dangerous and drunken driver beats 36 point ban' sort of thing), which is fair enough, and does need publicising if only to broadcast the fact that some Courts get totally taken in by bleating defence solicitors claiming that their client is now a good boy/has got a job/his girlfriend's pregnant again sort of thing. What you never read about is the, quite possibly, few hundred more who 'beat' a 12-point ban for slightly less headline-grabbing reasons - think along the lines of someone who is, say, 2 weeks short of 3 points dropping off his licence...should he really be banned, is it proportionate, is justice properly served by a ban? And there's an awful lot of people who've picked up points for 'minor' speeding, not anything stupid, just a few mph over a limit 4 times in 3 years. Some would say that the recidivist speeder deserves a ban. Rigid enforcement of speed limits seems to annoy people (quite rightly in my opinion), so perhaps we should extend that irritation to the rigid application of discretionary bans from driving (after all, if we don't, then they're not discretionary!). Pete