I was recently sitting with my son who is a learner driver. He reversed out of a parking space in a supermarket car park and stalled the car. He restarted the car and drove off. The next day the...
When I was younger I was with a group of boys who used sucessfully a Piezo gas lighter to get free credits on arcade games, how and why did this work and any chance of getting a free can of coke...
Had to swerve out of the way for a very fast, bigger car yesterday, coming up a narrow hill with a bend and smashed my lovely little rover kensington (yes metro!!) into a wall. No one was hurt, except...
Does anyone know the fines that could be received if air con gas (R134a) was deliberately released into the atmosphere? Through being used as a gas,with dye to find leaks in a car air con. system....
I heard a story the other day of a motorist being fined for pipping his horn while stationary at traffic lights because the driver infront did not move off when the lights changed. Unfortunately the...
When I turn my engine on the fans start up immediateley and run constantly whilst driving. They only go off a few seconds after stopping the engine. All the fuses are fine, anyone help?
I've just spent a very enjoyable weekend sailing with my neighbours. However, one thing that puzzled us a lot is how the "log" works. For the uninitiated, this is basically a speedometer that measures...
Hi Am I right in thinking, that if you are stood at a zebra crossing, then the car's must stop to allow you to cross? Or, do you have to have one foot on the crossing or already be walking over...
Can someone tell me why the Magpie is a protected bird? I live in a very rural area and there are so many Magpies and they are killing so many fledglings that I am not surprised the small bird...
I recently gave my old PC (pentium3 500mhz) away, but is encountering a problem. When it is first switched on instead of the normal one beep, it beeps four times and the monitor fails to...
I know I can go to the website and listen to a program that I missed. How can I record it to a cassette or CD so I can listen to it on a Walkman type machine when I have a sleepless night? I have...
My TV in my bedroom is connected to the main aerial that the other TVs in the house are connected to. For some reason the Channel 4 in my room buzzes loudly about half the time. It doesnt happen...
I've just brought a Toshiba RD-XS32 with which you should be able to record onto the hard drive or to disk (and transfer from hard drive to disc too) I can record from the TV to the...
On BBC breakfast news when they handover to the regional news and weather, are the regional news teams all given an alloted time to present? There must be about 15 odd regions, how do they all finish...
