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There is a distance limit - an A frame is for recovery purposes to the nearest safe place - ie if you are on the motorway it will be to the next services only at best. You are then supposed to transfer the vehicle to a proper trailer or recovery truck.

It just so happens I have a low milage, FSH, 04/TD4 which will be going on Autotrader this weekend once I have given it a polish. Just serviced, 12 months tax and 12 months MOT. It has been reliable - previous owner said it only ever needed its routine service, and I have not needed to spend any...

I think all these England jokes and comments are unfair. It is wrong to make fun of people who cannot defend themselves.

I can only echo what is said above - Fridges are very sensitive to voltage drop. On the instructions on my fridge, it has warnings about the fridge freeezing everything in it if it is used on 12V for more thn a couple of hours, on the grounds that the 12V element has as much power as the 240V...

Thank you very much for that. I am sure that one reason why I achieved such an improvement is that the aerodynamics of my van are really rather poor as they are, compared to the modern ones you describe. It is quite likely that the car/van combination I had was one that stood to benifit the...

Thanks very much for that. I did try the Met office web site, but could not work out how to navigate to the info I wanted. Tried the search facility with no luck etc.

So there we have it. Identical wind conditions too, just as I remembered it. There is absolutely no two ways about it, the deflector definately improved mpg. You will not get a more representative or conclusive test than that.

The wind speed on both runs was so low it was not noticable. In fact I had a go at trying to find historic data for the two days in question - Saturday 16th May 2009 and Saturday 17th May 2010, Midlands towards London at about 07:30 am. Not as easy as I thought despite the internet. Suffice to...

Thats exactly what I thought. So rather than waste money on something that did not work, I made one myself out of a scrap piece of plywood for the sole purpose of doing an accurate test to finally prove it one way or another, with no financial outlay. On two identical runs, the ONLY difference...

I can only echo what was said above. With all the differences of opinions, and especially taking account of what Lutz was saying, I did not want to spend any money only to find out the damn thing did not make the slightest difference. So I made my own out of materials I had spare in my garage...

Fortunately, in this case there were no strong winds on either of the runs, so that theory can be discounted.

So tell me, in what way is an 18% improvement in fuel consumption, in carefully controlled conditions, an unconvincing result? It most certainly has worked!!

That is certainly true. I think the main reasons why I saw such an improvement is: 1. My outfit was particularly poor aerodynamically to start with, therefore there was the greatest scope for improvement. 2. I had the advantage of being able to place the deflector at the very rear of the car...

Wind conditions were the same. As far as tests goes this is as accurate as it gets. Identical route, identical loading, virtually identical weather conditions - it was even done on the same weekend at the same time of day as the previous year, so that even the traffic conditions were as near...

Wind conditions were the same. As far as tests goes this is as accurate as it gets. Identical route, identical loading, virtually identical weather conditions - it was even done on the same weekend at the same time of day as the previous year, so that even the traffic conditions were as near...