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Originally posted by Mattie:
What is Shatterpoint about? Is it part of the Star Wars genre? Yes, I'm giving Star Wars a genre of its own.

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Originally posted by seryn:
well, the other one has kind of swelled shut and is constantly leaking, It hurts and is impossible to see out of, so for the time being i'm writing it off and only acknowledging the other, co-operative one.

Oh, piraty, I'll go get my self an eyepatch!

yey!

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Originally posted by citizen:
I don't fear losing the sight in one eye.

I have already for all practical purposes.

Oh and my brand new car has broken down. The dials (speedometer, revcounter fuel gauge etc) don't work. I was driving along quite happilly at around 30mph, glanced down and noticed I was actually going 0mph at 0 revs with no fuel. Then the engine cut out.

Managed to get it home, called the AA out, they turned up and told me nothing was wrong with it.

That was Saturday night, which kinda ruined my plans, since one car didn't work and the other had a flat battery and I couldn't be bothered to push it down the hill to jump start it nor charge the battery.

So I go too it today to get to work, turn it over, engine starts, engine stops. Try again engine starts, engine stops. Try a third and final time Rooom-click-shudder-silence. But it's okay! There's nothing wrong with it, the AA said so. Fourth emergency service my lilly white arse bunch of useless... {descends into incoherent strings of insults}.

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Originally posted by citizen:
I think it's something to do with the engine management system. I't not the igintion, because the engine fires and turns over then cuts. It could be the fuel injection I suppose.

I've got a hire car now (Vauxhall Astra) and I'm getting my car taken away tommorrow. I've spent the last two hours either driving to and from hire car places in rush hour traffic (fun, especially with an unfamilliar car you haven't had the chance to setup for yourself yet) or speaking on the phone with conversations that go a little like this:
Them: "we can't get your car taken away until the 20th, could you drive it to the garage?"
Me: "The car doesn't start, so the likely hood of me being able to drive it anywhere is fairly remote."
Them: "So shall we pick it up on the 20th?"
Me: "No you can pick it up tommorrow."
Them: "We can't pick it up until the 20th."
Me: "And I can't drive my brand new car because it's broken down."
Them: "Erm we could erm, get the AA to tow it..."

So, where's the beer.

and cigarettes.

apart from that my phone broke today, and I've needed a mobile today more than I can ever remember actually needing one.

apart from that I feel good, hows everyone else?

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Originally posted by ScorpionRegent:

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Originally posted by citizen:
I think it's something to do with the engine management system. I't not the igintion, because the engine fires and turns over then cuts. It could be the fuel injection I suppose.

I've got a hire car now (Vauxhall Astra) and I'm getting my car taken away tommorrow. I've spent the last two hours either driving to and from hire car places in rush hour traffic (fun, especially with an unfamilliar car you haven't had the chance to setup for yourself yet) or speaking on the phone with conversations that go a little like this:
Them: "we can't get your car taken away until the 20th, could you drive it to the garage?"
Me: "The car doesn't start, so the likely hood of me being able to drive it anywhere is fairly remote."
Them: "So shall we pick it up on the 20th?"
Me: "No you can pick it up tommorrow."
Them: "We can't pick it up until the 20th."
Me: "And I can't drive my brand new car because it's broken down."
Them: "Erm we could erm, get the AA to tow it..."

So, where's the beer.

and cigarettes.

apart from that my phone broke today, and I've needed a mobile today more than I can ever remember actually needing one.

apart from that I feel good, hows everyone else?

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Engine management system, that goes into my list of queen's english along with lift, lorry, spanner, gudgeon pin and chemist. I believe that is what I would call the computer or the brain. Yes it could also be a fuel delivery problem which may be mechanical or controlled by the brain. IS AA the only option for transporting a disabled vehicle? In my neck of the woods there are plenty of independant tow truck drivers, I ought to know, I worked for one. On some cars the ignition is powered off the starter while the starter is triggered allowing the engine fire and run and then dies as soon as you let go of the key and try to let the engine run on it's own. The reason I suspected ignition problem is all the electrical items being dead that doesn't happen when the there is power supplied to everything, so most likely not a mechanical fuel problem. Check to see if the if all the vacuum lines, tubes, and hoses are intact on the intake manifold. If somehow air is able to leak in to the manifold in a way that the computer isn't able to measure upstream at the Manifold Absolute Pressure sensor then the fuel air ratio will be incorrect tending to cause the engine to want to die at idle speeds. This problem is reffered to as a vacuum leak in my neck of the woods and you can usually find it by listening for a whistling sound under the hood (bonnet) while the engine is running. You may need a friend to keep the engine running while you listen. Sometimes a open tube stethscope helps to isolate the sound.

I bet I could find the problem with this car in less than a hour. So you just air ship it to me, send the transport bill to the dealer and leave a case of Guiness in the boot for my trouble and I'll have it all sorted out in no time.

Scorpion Regent

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Originally posted by citizen:
I'm kinda chilled about it now. I've got a better car (though it doesn't have an mp3 player, for shame) as a hire and my cars being picked up tommorrow.

Don't worry, i'll be good.

Poing.

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The engine and dials also cut out while driving, plus apart from the dials which cut out whether the engine is running or not all other electircal systems are fine.

Makes me think that perhaps theres a loose connection for the module and the engine management, what I know about cars you can fit into a thimble, I mean I understand the theory, but in theory communism works. I'm working off of what little I do know and suggestions by people who are/were in the motor trade, like your good self.

Unfortunatly I'm stuck with the good old AA, since it's a company car and I use who they tell me to use. The car is covered by £300 a month, under the company plan with the AA/Leaseplan, my father pays £100 and gets service from the RAC that puts these clowns to shame. Go figure.

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Originally posted by citizen:
Don't just, just don't.

It's one F*** up after another at the moment...

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That too bad. Any word on your wheels?

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If you suddenly stop hearing from me, its because she and her kitty friends have waylaid me and i'm lying somewhere in a back ally being force fed catnip and having to listen to them sing.

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Originally posted by citizen:
They're working on it now, well not now, it's the bank holiday. Only took being sent to several different garrages too...

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Originally posted by seryn:
no, nothing that bad!

oh, I read there was a film coming out, kinda like Futerama, where owen wilson gets frozen and wakes up in the year 3001, and everyone is a stupid as George Bush.

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Oh, yes, I can embrace that theory, like when scientists are so busy cracking the atoms or whatever, that they need a houskeeper to force them to eat, and then can still rarely remember to put on socks.

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