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My wife has an Audi Q5 3.0 S line March 2010 with 50k miles with FASH. The car started having a fault where it would try to lurch forward against the brakes when stopping at traffic lights. My local Audi...

Audi quattro A3 3.2 DSG 2006. Car languishing with no-one knowing what to do? Free wheeled to a stop. no crunching. Now all 4 wheels locked. The car lost transmission power going up hill, Engine revved....

My wife's Mercedes-Benz SLK 230 occasionally refuses to change up into 4th gear and yet the next time it is used it works fine. Any ideas what's wrong?

Five months ago I bought a 2003 MINI Cooper from a dealer. The car was sold with 12 months warranty and last week the gearbox failed. The dealer isn't interested in paying for the repairs and says it's...

My Toyota Verso keeps jumping out of gear. The car is a manual diesel and it usually pops out of fifth gear. How can I fix this? Is it likely to be an expensive fault?

I own a 1998 Volkswagen Golf. Last week, while changing gear, the car has started to make a whining noise. Any ideas what this could be?

I've owned a 2009 Audi A3 from new. It has been serviced by Audi every year and has never given me any problems, with 47,000 miles on the clock. Recently it developed a horrible grating noise.
I took...

I bought a Nissan Note 1.2 petrol manual for my wife six months ago with 1500 miles on the clock. Having now done 7000 miles a ticking noise developed when taking my foot off the throttle. After some pressure...

I've got a problem with the fifth gear in my Ford Focus (2003 model) 1.6 Petrol. It keeps sticking in gear when travelling for approx 20 mins or more. The problem seems to rectify itself when I pull over...

I find that sometimes it's difficult to change gear in my Fiat Grande Punto (2008). Either I can't push the lever into the next gear - especially third to second - or it crunches on third to fourth.
My...