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PSA Electrical Diagrams - Wiring & Symbols Codes Index

by GiveMeABreak » 09 Dec 2023, 17:48 » in Diagnostics

PSA Electrical Diagrams - Wiring & Symbols Codes Index

The following will cover most basic equipment, but will exclude later systems & Tech.

PSA Electrical Diagrams Introduction - Function and Constitution of Codes
PSA Electrical Diagrams - Coding of Functions
PSA Electrical Diagrams - Component Coding
PSA Electrical Diagrams -...

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Citroen, DS Automobiles and Peugeot Official Part Number Requests

by GiveMeABreak » 15 May 2021, 13:55 » in Citroën
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Please make all your Citroen , DS Automobiles or Peugeot Parts Requests on this thread

This thread is only for donating members who wish to request official part numbers or Parts Diagrams.

Please don't post technical queries or ask 'how to' questions here. Create a thread in one of the main Citroen / Peugeot Forums for these queries....

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Thanks Marc, youre a diamond!
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Airbag, Dashboard, Seat Belt & Airbag ECU Repairs

by GiveMeABreak » 24 Jun 2020, 17:01 » in Useful links
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Just for members to be aware that airbagteam.com based in the UK are offering a 10% discount to FCF members on any of their services.

The FCF does not endorse any company directly, but thought this would be of use to members.

Full details of their services and the discount can be found here:

Airbag, Dashboard, Seat Belt & Airbag ECU Repairs

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Re the 407 door seal issue and airbag warnings, after a few days of rain and testing with the hose, I gave up as water was still pooling on top of the bottom door seal and then running inside the car.

My solution was to put a few holes thru the seal with a leather hole punch tool which seems to allow the water to exit (the door seal gets squashed...
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07 Mar 2024, 23:42
Important Information concerning access to PSA parts data

by xantia_v6 » 19 Mar 2020, 04:19 » in Forum News, Announcements and Issues
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As some of you may already have realised, PSA (Citroen, DS Automobiles & Peugeot) have this week (from 16/03/2020) decided to close off free access to parts information.

The public version of PSA's ServiceBox, which is the official source for parts and information has had a freely accessible parts system for registered garages, and individual...

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Please note: This Thread is now Locked.

Please Make All Your Citroen or Peugeot Parts Requests Here

All parts requests from this topic have been moved there.
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14 Nov 2021, 07:21
New PSA Heritage Parts for Classic Cars

by GiveMeABreak » 11 Oct 2019, 16:18 » in Citroën

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Parts for Classic / Older Citroen, Peugeot Renault Vehicles

This may be of interest to Members with older vehicles where getting parts is a struggle and for those not already aware of the site.

PSA are embarking on a project to provide some supplies of original and re manufactured parts for older vehicles and classics, and have made it a...

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I'm trying them for anything showing up as NFP now.
Sometimes hit lucky.

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24 Jan 2020, 16:49
Revised Easydiagnostics Discount Procedure

by GiveMeABreak » 03 May 2018, 17:22 » in Forum News, Announcements and Issues

Please note that there is a new procedure in place for members wishing to take advantage of a 15% discount off products from Easydiagnostics.

The old discount code that was entered into the checkout is no longer valid, as a result of the code being propagated over the Internet.

After discussions with Jim from ED today, we have agreed a new...

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03 May 2018, 17:22
The French Car Wiki

by xantia_v6 » 18 Jul 2015, 09:54

We are very happy to announce the new French Car Wiki, bought to you by the administrators of the French Car Forum.

The French Car Wiki will provide a long term repository for user guides, how-tos and useful information of the sort that we all know is in the forum somewhere, but can never find!

What is a wiki?
A wiki is a website where the...

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Pickled Egg Quiz

by NewcastleFalcon » 29 Dec 2017, 19:06
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With the Pickled Egg jukebox having a life of its own, heres a thread that can be a receptacle for that other great bastion of entertainment....the Quiz.

Ported this over as a Starter, and here's a bonus new one to try

25 once popular cars now almost extinct in the UK 7mins to get as many as you can from the pictures.

Interactive Quizzes...

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Fa Cup

Thanks for your post Ryan. Word of the day does help with the answer...

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10 Apr 2024, 07:36
Corgi James Bond Aston Martin DB5...and other well-loved toys

by NewcastleFalcon » 24 Aug 2019, 11:05
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Have you got one, did you have one, have you still got the baddie

Here's mine 2019 over 50 years on since I first got it.

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James May's piece on it here is superb.

James May: Why the Corgi James Bond Aston Martin DB5 is the most significant car ever

It may not seem it when compared with the iPad, but by the standards of 1965...

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This is probably as comprehensive as it gets on Corgi James Bond cars. Refreshingly nerdy on the gold Aston Martin with slight differences in things like rear lights across variations of the model.

They did do a silver version in 1968 on a larger scale of the Goldfinger/Thunderball DB5 car. Only with this issue did they correct the casting to...
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09 Apr 2024, 12:19
Help Please

by c.morewood » 22 Mar 2024, 21:07

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My apologies for the “Help” hook to get you to look at this thread. This is not the usual Citroen related request for help. I’m writing this, Firstly, to offer some advice to those of us with prostates which may save your life and secondly, to ask you for a small sum for charity.

Almost a year ago I was with a friend and work colleague when he...

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Less than 1 week to go. The Grand depart is next Sunday the 14th April at Aberdeen Control Tower 0800.
Total is now almost £28k. A huge thank you to all of you.
Please pass on the web address to anyone you know www.24in24.co.uk.
Anybody near New Milton on the 21st April, Sammy Miller will be hosting the guys.
sammymiller.co.uk
The Big Tour 24 |...

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08 Apr 2024, 21:26
Insurance time again.

by qprdude » 29 Nov 2017, 14:43
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Just got the AA renewal quote for the DS5 2.0 l auto.
£346, or £321 without the AA accident cover/Assistance??? No legal cover or anything.

Last years C5 was over £100 cheaper and both cars are in the same insurance band.
So far, I have a quote of £287 for a similar policy.
My AA roadside cover is also due. £49 last year for me in any car,...

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Has anyone had any real world experience with Hagerty insurance ? Good ? Bad ? Indifferent ?
I'm just exploring the insurance market 6 weeks in advance of needing to renew. :)
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07 Apr 2024, 21:04
Toolbag Tales-Homemade and improvised tools

by NewcastleFalcon » 27 Feb 2017, 18:01
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..or alternatively what could I make out of this....

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Its a piece of Key Steel about a foot long 8mm x 8mm and by hook or by crook its going to turn into the perfect timing belt tensioner adjuster for a 2.0hdi 8 valve engine, as fitted to my Citroen Xsara Picasso.

Suggestions welcome...with the restricted space, and air...

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06 Apr 2024, 11:24
Notices..what have you spotted?

by NewcastleFalcon » 02 Aug 2017, 19:56
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I detest but also enjoy notices in equal measure, especially if a sarcastic or genuinely funny comment can be added. Might be nice to start a collection...see how it goes...they are all over the place so easy to find, and the unintended absurdities in them can be entertaining.

Here's one from me to kick it off.....spotted today...the only...

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05 Apr 2024, 22:52
Pub/Cafe Gallery and the odd hotel!

by NewcastleFalcon » 12 Dec 2022, 10:18
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There are plenty of examples from the archives on the subject but the little snippet of the Six Bells at Ruislip being the location where Jet and Hank had a ride out on their scooters and came up with the name The Shadows for their band had me thinking time for a thread to celebrate Pubs/Inns/Hostelries. They can be elevated out of their...

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Story resumed...

Even more interesting than The Trout . So where is it..is it still in existence :?: Film watching compulsory if you are curious enough to find out, an onerous 3 minutes attention span required but...

Let's do it in a few screenshots, saves that valuable time but the commentary in Mr Cholmondley-Warner style with accompanying...
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05 Apr 2024, 10:19
Parking Tales and hassles

by NewcastleFalcon » 15 Sep 2020, 09:28
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I presume we all like motoring for social domestic and pleasure purposes, maybe even some for business to, but at various points the old jalopy has to be parked. This thread is to mop up your parking tales and hassles.

Here's a starter from me
Steve's unwanted scam penalty charge was reminiscent for a similar thing which landed on my doormat a...

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That just reminded me that here in France I've seen parking meters in a shopping area which are free for a preset small period.
The moment you park the meter starts an automatic countdown which turns to red & beeps after the time is exceeded bringing it to the attention of parkee & parking flics.
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04 Apr 2024, 10:19
Driving music

by Jaine » 04 Oct 2012, 10:02
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What are your sounds when you are in the car (apart from dash squeaks, rattles & for me the K&N)?
I find I drive according to the music speed so if I put on any heavy metal I become Ayrton Senna & if it is something like Shirley Bassey I pootle along like a pensioner.
Some of my favs are: Deftones, Pink Floyd, Interpol, Radiohead, Pixies,...

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Had that LP since it came out and still like it.
I don't recognise that track though so must skip it.
Chameleon is my favourite.

Here's some driving music. At least she is driving.

Stockholm at night.
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03 Apr 2024, 10:59
How many miles in the month?

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As trailed in Start a new thread in January here it is, includes any form of transport, (planes trains and automobiles but not excluding tractors, motorbikes, JCB's, Buses, ships) including human effort like walking, running, cycling, open water swimming, swimming bath swimming literally anything. Splatter it with some visuals, favourite journey,...

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With the work on the Subaru this month the bias has moved slightly towards the MX3:

159 in MX3 Used for parts collection for the Legacy
905 in Subaru - Spent a few days off the road twice!!
0 in RX400H

Total 1064

This month's picture is one for the railway enthusiasts:...
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31 Mar 2024, 17:36
Misty Mornings with 2020 vision

by mickthemaverick » 01 Jan 2020, 07:43
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A new thread for a collection of views of our new decade, unlike POTD this thread is for pictorial views, ideally from dawn or dusk!!

To start off just before sunrise in Mallorca to bring in the new year:

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and as the sun rose: (not the greatest shot but you get the idea :-D )

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And with the arrival of spring we have the return of lovely misty mornings :D

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31 Mar 2024, 07:51
Everything's just gone white.

by Gibbo2286 » 27 Mar 2024, 14:27

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A few rumbles of thunder and the skies opened up with a huge hailstorm.

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Just the opposite here. Black clouds at one side, brilliant sunshine the other.

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27 Mar 2024, 15:10
Public and Commercial Transport

by NewcastleFalcon » 04 Dec 2019, 08:32
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Other threads have picked up opinions on the subject as an aside, but heres a thread to mop up whinges, problems, solutions and developments.

My recent journey home from Manchester gave me a little first-hand update to the state of play on public transport within the boundaries of the Northern Powerhouse .

One bus per hour here to Reading or...

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The Series 1 episode 1 of Retro Electro Workshop just keeps giving.

The Bryan Double Decker machine

Its a sort of tipping point penny falls game with two decks and the added animation of a matchbox double decker bus whizzing from side to side on a rocker arrangement for each of the decks. The game featured briefly in the episode

This is a...
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26 Mar 2024, 13:46
Pleasant insurance surprise

by daviemck2006 » 20 Mar 2024, 15:06

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In November 2018 while driving on a dark country road I had the misfortune to hit a rather large deer, which resulted in the car being an insurance write off. It was a Seat Leon which I had recently bought and it was in absolutely immaculate condition. I was going to repeat it myself, but because the car was so good it would have ruined it getting...

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You should be able to take a photo of it on your phone and send that to the bank to deposit it.

Thats done, just have to still wait for it to clear

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24 Mar 2024, 13:28
Used Renault Zoe-can a case be made to buy one?

by NewcastleFalcon » 25 Jan 2020, 09:26
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Below £10,000 if you want to buy a used electric vehicle the choice is a 24kWh Nissan Leaf, or a 22kWh Renault Zoe...................you may find a Peugeot Ion/Citroen C-Zero, Mitsubishi i-miev but more of a rarity.

The Bargain basement Electric thread covers the Leaf but have Renault effectively killed the second-hand market in the Zoe with...

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As an ignoramous in Ev tech but an engineer's outlook is it possible to retrofit fast charging capability? :)

It was an optional Extra on the Zoe Ze50 from 2019 at about £750 at the time to get the 50kW DC Rapid Charger via a CCS port.

Internet wisdom not chapter and verse but a little bit of the same question as yours here

As an engineer...
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23 Mar 2024, 09:15
Bargain Basement Motoring

by NewcastleFalcon » 03 Dec 2017, 14:46
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Six Bottles of Wine has just bought me this :!: Case of right place at right time and being cheeky enough to ask.

4-door Clio 1.2, around 38,000 miles surplus to the owner's requirements. Another example of the On my walk method of acquiring vehicles as per Gibbo!

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Well pleased

Regards Neil

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Excellent!
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19 Mar 2024, 04:34
Unusual/Interesting Engines/Motors

by NewcastleFalcon » 11 Oct 2018, 15:28
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Let us see how this goes......

Springs from a VW Golf with its bonnet up spotted today.

Yes a V5
short story here

There are plenty more which fit the category of unusual/interesting in cars/motorbikes/planes/ships/railway locomotives etc etc so here's a thread to fill up with them.....with a bit of participation...

eg Anyone know more...

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This popped up earlier
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18 Mar 2024, 15:40
10 years ago today....

by Michel » 17 Mar 2024, 23:29

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Dear old Citronut was crawling around under my Xantia V6, replacing rotten pipes between cups of tea.

The pic popped up on my Onedrive on this day wotsit..

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This pic cropped up in a random search a few years back :-D

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18 Mar 2024, 07:05
A Glue Question

by bobins » 13 Mar 2024, 19:36

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Can anyone recommend a glue that they've experience with that works well on high glass fibre content plastic ? There ws always a good one to use 'back in the day' that was good at sticking Xantia door mirrors back on - but the name escapes me :(
I've got a couple of non-structural 5-10mm dia rods that I need to stick back together.

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Whenever I've encountered high GF plastic I just use isopon resin with hardener, mix it well and use it like you would bostik :)

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13 Mar 2024, 20:05
Rusty Wrecks-Your Photos (Originals please)

by NewcastleFalcon » 13 Jul 2018, 18:39
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Idea shamelessly nicked from Practical Classics Rust in Peace feature.

Your excuse to photograph any rusting, overgrown vehicle you discover, or your favourite scrapyard photos.

Here's my starter for ten from Herefordshire

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I've posted this one before and have been watching it slowly decay for many years now... It's on one of my running routes and this morning I noticed it seems to have taken a quite sudden considerable turn for the worst with both patina and decay now in an advanced state..

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A couple of years ago it looked just about...
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13 Mar 2024, 10:22
Grandma's buggy

by Gibbo2286 » 12 Mar 2024, 10:02

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This pic posted on the Brum forum looks like an interesting bit of kit.

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Another try.

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12 Mar 2024, 12:45
Cheerful start

by Gibbo2286 » 11 Mar 2024, 13:13

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to the day, postman brought a penalty notice for £100 for overstaying in the Home Bargains car park in Monmouth.
Contacted Home Bargains, they said Don't talk to us take it up with the parking company.
As I was only doing a good deed by taking a disabled pensioner to their shop I reckon the have lost a regular customer, I won't be doing it again.

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Have a look at PePiPoo, they can sometimes help.

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11 Mar 2024, 16:20
Citroen history

by Vic Evans » 09 Mar 2024, 16:56

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Just found this on youtube comments re the DS reliabilty & found it interesting.
SOME THINGS ABOUT CITROËN YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW
I grew up amongst a succession of DS sedans and recall my dad having no problems with reliability. The bodies tended to rust out very quickly, however. The manufacturer provided inlets for oil-spraying nozzles around the...

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If there are still loads of Citroen DS on the roads of Brittany Vic, get the camera out and start filling your thread with them :-D

Citroen DS are a very rare sight on the roads of the UK. You have the pristine ones which never move, and a crop of others which trundle a few miles a year, but very few that get regular use. Rare to spot one...

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10 Mar 2024, 12:04
Electric cars, boring

by Gibbo2286 » 03 Dec 2023, 12:22

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milk floats?
Watched 'Extreme.E' on tv last night Phew!

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For a fair comparison I'd like to see him do the same towing the big lump with the equivalent BMW petrol.

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09 Mar 2024, 17:57
Ambulance

by Gibbo2286 » 07 Mar 2024, 16:39

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in the close today, builder neighbour working on his own house fell off the scaffold onto his mate and the scaffold collapsed on both of them, mate unhurt builder a big lump on his head and concussed, ambulance here for an hour, both declined hospital treatment.

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The man in my post did actually in the end go in the ambulance and x-rays at the hospital found he'd broken a bone in his back and likely to be five months of healing needed. :(
Be careful out there.

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09 Mar 2024, 10:14
Oops!

by Gibbo2286 » 08 Mar 2024, 09:19

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Look where you're going.

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Another scaffolding collapse!

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09 Mar 2024, 09:00
An interesting article.....

by Gibbo2286 » 08 Mar 2024, 08:54

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in autotorque.

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That's an interesting discussion piece. I've long thought that modern cars have no 'soul', they're not very engaging. You don't 'drive' a modern car - you pilot or navigate it to your destination.
I jump in my hairdryer and I 'm back to 'engagement' - the steering wheel is connected to the roadwheels by mechanical bits, not electrons. You can feel...

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08 Mar 2024, 10:24
Advertising makes the world go round

by NewcastleFalcon » 25 Jun 2019, 08:52
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.....Yes Danish Bacon used to advertise itself with its own name dye stamped on its product, eggs used to have a little lion logo on them, and we were encouraged to go to work on an egg . There was even radio active ready brek but whats going on in 2019...........

The Telegraph Newspaper is advertising on my plastic milk bottle!

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Came across this bit of 80's nostalgia and a tongue in cheek advert for McEwans Best Scotch quite an attractive looking pint and a staple at the time along with Newcastle Exhibition in S&N pubs across the region. When ordering it was a pint of Scotch , or a Pint of Ex .

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07 Mar 2024, 12:17
Rant Corner

by mickthemaverick » 03 Mar 2024, 10:12

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This thread is for those stupid things that genuinely don't really matter but that tend to get your back up or irritate yourself to the point of having to do something about it which nobody will care about!! :-D

To get the ball rolling, and the reason that inspired the thread, here's my issue this morning:

:rant2: I decided to read through the...

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I think this will be my second home...

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03 Mar 2024, 14:58
First day thread

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How about a new tradition, a first day of the month new thread.

So today October 1st 2020 and today only,
Can you contribute an original picture taken today, to assemble full set of Citroen cars spotted today from C1 to C5 to make it easy. :?:
C6's and C8's arent an everyday spot but bonus points if you manage to photograph one of those....

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Not wishing to overload POTD with my manipulations as well as the conventional shutter clicking I find the random patterns of simple things like sand and shells, stones, and seaweed as per POTD interesting.

March 1st patterns down at the seaside.

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01 Mar 2024, 17:42
FCF Archives: February Ferret

by NewcastleFalcon » 01 Feb 2023, 20:56
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It is my intention to mark each day of February 2023 with a visit to the FCF Archives. There is a lot of good stuff in there destined to become yesterday's chip wrappers so I think a February ferret is worth a go.

As is my usual modus operandi, from the 245 threads I have personally started on the FCF since 2009, I have used random.org to make a...

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Have to do one of these today, end of February 2024, and the 29th as a bonus.

Regardless of what topic number 1549 out of 4839 OTCL topics is about, it's getting an airing today.

Thanks Jaine for your thread Driving Music from the largely pre-youtube and pre-streaming explosion days of 2012, with respondents replying mainly in words and lists...
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29 Feb 2024, 11:45
Significant Mileage Photos...

by NewcastleFalcon » 19 Feb 2018, 08:22
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km's too of course :-D

Are the simplest threads the best? Hopefully this one is and is easy to join in with. Here it is in a nutshell when your car clicks over to a significant mileage...

Take a photo of your milometer/kilometre-o-meter
Post it up here

Course a little bit of embellishment with time/place etc is always good for comment and...

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A day early as I will be away tomorrow and will therefore not be running or cycling...

I keep no records of how far my cars travel in a month but Strava keeps an eye on my running and cycling distances...

A big run month... Running an ultra marathon helped. Will be running an even longer one in March.

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28 Feb 2024, 17:27
I found this worth

by Gibbo2286 » 23 Feb 2024, 15:36

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watching despite the Yank.

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I think the American guy weighed up the UK car industry at the time perfectly.

No doubt about that, he was spot on. I'm assuming the lady who got sick was suffereing from the smooth ride combined with the almost universal aroma of the velour!! :-D

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24 Feb 2024, 10:11
DIsabling start-stop

by MagicMark » 21 Feb 2024, 10:20
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I've had some bad experiences with automatic stop-start features, and it's just through pure luck that I've not been in an accident. However it seems to have proliferated like a virus. There should be a way to disable this nasty feature permanently, however most cars that support it only have a temporary disable button.

Do any of the modern (2010...

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Well we're hanging on to our trusty diesel for as long as possible or until we're forced into one of these wretched EVs. I see more horror stories of these very day concerning 'self-immolation', insurance hikes because of writing off the car for the smallest knock given the unknown potential battery damage issues, the resale values plummeting, the...
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22 Feb 2024, 12:28
Off the Rails. Even more off topic

by Rp0thejester » 17 Feb 2024, 19:36

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Aah! I see you have a copy of that infamous crime report too! I have one of the original A6 sized posters that appeared all over the college noticeboards in 1969!! :-D If I remember rightly Eddie Current was finally tracked down in a magnetic field where he had gone to ground. Sherriff A C Humm terminated his freedom and transformed his life by...

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18 Feb 2024, 17:50
Energy Matters:Home Solar

by NewcastleFalcon » 09 Aug 2022, 09:08
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A simple thread title, a simple thread.

Purpose to collect as much news information and experience as possible about Home Solar.

Practically....its the only established option for generating electricity at home. Tech is getting better all the time, but already good enough to seriously consider, and for those who have already plumped for it,...

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Increasingly home solar and battery are being packaged together. When you consider that you can buy a 24 kWh battery (with a car attached :-D ) for under £5,000, battery prices for much lower capacity offerings for the home solar market still have some way to come down.

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Purely for fag packet calculation purposes, very approximately -...
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15 Feb 2024, 10:19
Gaps in one's Education

by mickthemaverick » 06 Feb 2024, 10:42
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Have you ever come across something you know you should have known but didn't? :)

Such a thing happened to me this morning when a new listing appeared and showed me that a Triumph TR6 doesn't always have a steering wheel!!

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Details here

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A question that has already been addressed bobins in a thread started by Neil, you can have a read through here :-D
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09 Feb 2024, 20:26
A couple of videos

by Gibbo2286 » 06 Feb 2024, 12:51

forwarded to me by a neighbour.

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06 Feb 2024, 12:51
Scrapyards & Scrapyard purchases.

by NewcastleFalcon » 30 Oct 2018, 20:01
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..ain't what they used to be! but I did get what I wanted ...gratis too!

Had occasion to visit Thomsons at Gala today......needed a single caliper bolt.

Number 1...The general Public aren't allowed to set foot in the scrapyard.
Number 2...This particular scrapyard was full of what I would call newer cars, and empty of my vintage of vehicle ie...

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I have posted my tale about the recent purchase of a SATNAV unit here , but I thought I'd post this link to the breaker (alright, recycler! :-D ) that I used as I found them both communicative and very helpful. They do seem to work with more Asian cars than European but then many of us have an Asian car anyway! So if you are after something a bit...
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05 Feb 2024, 12:33
The Pickled Egg Library

by NewcastleFalcon » 21 Nov 2016, 09:08
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Lets try this one see how it goes. From time to time I have deposited something interesting in the Pickled Egg snug hopefully for others to enjoy. Books/magazines/newspaper articles that sort of thing. We all have our different interests but if you have come across a bit of literature which you have enjoyed, post it up here in the Pickled Egg...

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Indeed I do, not to mention the Scottish contingent, which is why I said maybe not! :-D
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02 Feb 2024, 16:12
I-Spy AA Village Signs

by NewcastleFalcon » 09 Jul 2016, 20:17
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Jim spotted this when out and about

Apparently out of 30,000 original AA Village Signs, only 65 exist in situ.

cvphm.org.uk/AAVillageSigns

From 1906 to approximately 1932,The Automobile Association erected nearly 30000 signs in villages and towns across Great Britain. Most were removed during the war when a Nazi invasion seemed highly...

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That's right, blame Mick's car :roll:

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26 Jan 2024, 15:12
1.6 HDI W16 Engine, but my car isn't "french"

by cunni » 27 Nov 2023, 13:02

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Hi all,

I'm new here but not to cars, Reason im posting here (and mod's please do move this post if its in the wrong category) is my car isn't French, I think it identifies as british... or geman now?! :S haaaa

So I've a 2008 Mini Cooper D 1.6ltd HDI which i've now had for around 4 years. It's been great, Love the engine, it just works.
I found...

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Hi Dan,
you say sensors but have you changed the actual fuel filter? It shouldn't happen these days but it sounds as though the fuel is waxing up! (agricultural life)That's all I got, sorry.
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Hi Derek,

Absolutely understand. Yeh swapped the fuel filter out twice. I've got a Citroen one, and I've recently bought the correct BOSCH filter...

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22 Jan 2024, 20:03
I've seen some things, but never...

by Michel » 11 Jan 2024, 14:41

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An XJS with a Xantia rear end grafted on to it...

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The conversion improves the car.......imho

Owner needs shooting for the white-walls however

Agreed on both points Alasdair! I think the twin exhausts really suit a Xantia rear end.

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11 Jan 2024, 23:22
Paul Breeze Roberts aka "CitroenXM"

by DHallworth » 05 Jan 2024, 13:50

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Paul Breeze-Roberts, a good friend of mine is 47 years old and was diagnosed with multiple myeloma (bone marrow) cancer in 2020.

After diagnosis, Paul spent a month away from his wife and young son at the Christie NHS Trust Cancer Treatment Centre in Manchester where he underwent a stem cell transplant after which it was hoped he’d have the all...

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Nice thing to do David....not sure what I could do to help but if anything comes to mind just shout.

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05 Jan 2024, 22:02
Buying on the never never

by mickthemaverick » 02 Jan 2024, 22:47

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Steve mentioned this on the On Your Bike thread and I thought it might produce an interesting thread. I only bought two things on the never never as well. The first was a reel to reel tape recorder from the shop where Mum worked and I had a Saturday job. It was an HMV machine which cost me 7s 6d a week for 40 weeks. At the time I had the Saturday...

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My motorcycle is on the never-never, simply to ensure that I don't chop and change every 5 mins! I got a good deal on the finance, and if the last bike I did this with is anything to go by, then I'll be quids in when I sell it or trade it in.

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05 Jan 2024, 12:46
Hedgehogs and anything to do with them!!

by mickthemaverick » 01 Jul 2023, 18:19
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Actually a picture of yesterday which I was too tired to post last night and forgot until now :-D

SWMBO has now adopted 3 of these chaps and this is the senior member

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I gave her this which is far more realistic!! :-D

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Love it 8-) :-D

Well there's alot of potential pricks there so I'm sure FCF can relate...

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31 Dec 2023, 04:59
FCF AA BOX Challenge 2019-Just Jersey left!

by NewcastleFalcon » 24 May 2016, 18:58
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How many AA Boxes are left in the Country?

Well there are 19, eight of which are grade II listed include this particularly nice one 746, which I reversed back to, got out of the car and took a photo of on our holidays!

Could there be any near you? Do you have a picture in your holiday snaps of an AA box...or is it just me? :)

Here's the...

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A proper one too. Going by the wheels, a 1.6 GTi :D The original and best ;)
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29 Dec 2023, 17:12
Did Santa bring you anything good?

by SwissTony » 26 Dec 2023, 19:40

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I have a friend. She's not from my country. She's pretty particular. In her home country, you ask your friends what they would like, and they tell you.

I refused to tell her. She got the hump and threatened to surprise me. Fine, surprise me! , said I...

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.......So much of a surprise it was, that I offered on FB to give £50 to the charity of choice to whoever guessed correctly.

No one has got it. Not even close...

A Nicholas Cage as Jesus cushion.
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You know the Infinite Monkey Theorem, whereby if you give a monkey a typewriter and an infinite amount of time,...

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26 Dec 2023, 20:04
Brain Bogglers

by mickthemaverick » 23 Dec 2023, 21:52
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I came across this video by chance but gave it a go and realised I must watch it in the morning when I'm fresh!! :-D

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I remember Henry, but he wasn't a jumper, he was an ohmless man!! :-D

Henry could be a jumper but he had some reluctance toward it...

He was indeed ohmless because he had a very complex impedance and lived in a world of imaginary numbers... His favourite letter being j ;)

I think Mick and Jim have aready entered into the Christmas spirit...
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24 Dec 2023, 15:08
Picture(s) of the Day...random review of 2023

by NewcastleFalcon » 11 Dec 2023, 15:30

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The FCF's perennial favourite thread Picture(s) of the Day gathers a wealth of interesting contributions and moves on on a daily basis. From time to time I like to dredge some of those gathering dust contributions from the archives selected by the random hand. So this is a repeat of the 2020 exercise for the current year 2023.

I like randomness...

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Random selection (month..(page ref) POTD thread)
January (639 to 646), February (646 to 653) March (653 to 663) April (663 to 673)
May (673 to 679) June (680 to 692) July (692 to 700) August (701 to 716) September (716 to 727) October (727 to 740) November (741 to 754) December (754 to 765 and continuing) . Page selected via this random number...

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22 Dec 2023, 09:22

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