The Nice People Thread, No.16: A Universe of Niceness.

Jay101183

Can some one please tell me how I post to a forum as I can only find reply options? Thank you

Jay101183

Good morning I’m hopeful some one would be able to help me on here an save me a lot of money.

I have a 57 plate ford mondeo titanium x and the left indicator is coming on on it’s own while driving you also have to cancel it at least twice of you use and when the car is parked up and not in use the left hand side headlight turns on on it’s own.

It looks like a dear fix but was hoping some one may have some info on this to save me a lot of money.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thank you

Pyxis

Jay101183 wrote: »

Good morning I’m hopeful some one would be able to help me on here an save me a lot of money.

I have a 57 plate ford mondeo titanium x and the left indicator is coming on on it’s own while driving you also have to cancel it at least twice of you use and when the car is parked up and not in use the left hand side headlight turns on on it’s own.

It looks like a dear fix but was hoping some one may have some info on this to save me a lot of money.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thank you

Jay, if I were you, I'd post that on the Motoring thread.

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/forumdisplay.php?f=70

On each Board, you will see a button (top-ish left, above the list of threads), marked New Thread. Click on that and then you can post a question to start a new thread.

chris_m

Jay101183 wrote: »

I have a 57 plate ford mondeo titanium x and the left indicator is coming on on it’s own while driving you also have to cancel it at least twice of you use and when the car is parked up and not in use the left hand side headlight turns on on it’s own.

Sounds like simply a faulty indicator switch to me - the headlight coming on when the car's parked up is related to that, the idea being that you can park the car with the indicator stalk set one way or the other and the lights on that side are illuminated so that the car can be seen in the dark without you having to leave all the lights on.

As to cost, the Motoring forum to which Pyxis has pointed you will be more likely to elicit more info.

PasturesNew

Just pondering how dangerously I just cleaned a window.... the bathroom one. It gets full sunshine, so any smears/marks show...

It's a narrow window, with a top opener. You can open the top part fully horizontal, "handy for cleaning" you might think ... but no.

There you are, toes on the thin bath edge against the wall and one hand gripping hard on the bottom/fixed part of the frame. The window's fully open and you reach out carefully. With little arms you can't really reach to do the bottom .. and as you're trying to clean it, the window is trying to close.

One slip and you're in the bath - or are you? The sudden movement will probably have closed the window tight on your arm...

Easy to break all manner of things like that... so I did the best I could, while having 90% of my concentration focussing on what my feet were doing.

A taller person could just stand in the bath, maybe on a small footstool - not an option for shorties.

Pyxis

PasturesNew wrote: »

Just pondering how dangerously I just cleaned a window.... the bathroom one. It gets full sunshine, so any smears/marks show...

It's a narrow window, with a top opener. You can open the top part fully horizontal, "handy for cleaning" you might think ... but no.

There you are, toes on the thin bath edge against the wall and one hand gripping hard on the bottom/fixed part of the frame. The window's fully open and you reach out carefully. With little arms you can't really reach to do the bottom .. and as you're trying to clean it, the window is trying to close.

One slip and you're in the bath - or are you? The sudden movement will probably have closed the window tight on your arm...

Easy to break all manner of things like that... so I did the best I could, while having 90% of my concentration focussing on what my feet were doing.

A taller person could just stand in the bath, maybe on a small footstool - not an option for shorties.

:eek:
Sounds like a job for the pole thing.


Or a net curtain on a tension rod so you can't see the smears!

chris_m

Pyxis wrote: »

Or a net curtain on a tension rod so you can't see the smears!

Lateral thinking - perfick :rotfl::rotfl:

PasturesNew

Agents have shoved my gaff into this week's papers' page.

Bettter tidy up in case there's a sudden rush

Although, looking at the proof, it's not a full double page spread, just one of the 20 properties on one page of many agent pages... so, on reflection, no rush

PasturesNew

Pyxis wrote: »

:eek:
Sounds like a job for the pole thing.


Or a net curtain on a tension rod so you can't see the smears!

Don't get me started. I've a vast collection of those, to fit every window. Indeed, I specifically bought one to fit that window about 2 months ago .... but have I found "the ideal" bit of net that would fit in the meantime, while I've been looking? Have I heck as like.

I also have the poles, with the same intention, to "cover" the kitchen under worktop gaps.... same problem: finding the right bit of stuff to hang off the poles.

When buying material ... it needs to be the right material, right "pattern" (net, fabric, colour, pattern) - and the right width and the right drop. Harder to actually find (affordably) than you'd think! Drop is harder than width, even though drop is fairly flexible as you can put the pole where you like (Bed2 has a bit of net on a pole that's about 3cm too short... but I've "got it just about right" with putting the pole a little lower and accepting there's a 1cm gap at the bottom). I've always loved my "something on expanding poles" and been using them for about 12 years as an instant solution to many a window.

Indeed, I've had a net curtain up like that on an identically sized window in the living room for over 4 years and still never managed to find "the right bit/size" for that window, even though I stare at it every day

Poles = easy.
Something to hang from them = rocking horse p00.

I've visited Dunelm, say, about 3-4x with this in mind in the last 3-4 months ... as well as looking online often.... nothing.

GDB2222

Pastures, I assume that a ladder is a no-no? It might be a fair bit safer than what you were doing.