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• 2005 Nissan Micra automatic - How can I get into my Micra? 24 Mar 2018 (Forum)
  How can I get into the driver's door or bonnet of a 2005 (K12) Nissan Micra automatic? Its battery has been removed for charging and its nearside is close to a house wall. I can move the bonnet safety catch with a screwdriver but as far as I can tell it will not release
• MK5 Golf - 1.9 tdi sounds really rough start from cold 13 May 2016 (Forum)
  , so I let it sit for a few mins once the person had left.  I then went to rev it and it sounded normal again, I took it out for a spin and just drove like it normally did. The car has been sitting in my garage for a few days so I put it down to the battery being weak, but just got
• Ford fiesta 1.3 1998 5 speed - Ford manual gear box 3 vertical mounting bolts 17 Dec 2015 (Forum)
  Hello I have just bought a ford fiesta 1998 and I am very happy with it but I discovered under the boney just under the battery on top of the small part of the gear box I can see three bolt holes where I believe the top of the gearbox mounts to the engine bay and where these three holes
• clio dci - Clio 1.5 dci wierd starting problem 30 Apr 2015 (Forum)
  different batteries on the car but the same results???????  i have had a loud squeal from (i think) the alternator on start up which subsides after a few minutes,i suspect its coming from the alternator...(pulley??)  i keep thinking ...replace the alternator......replace the battery
• zafira 2004 gas petrol duel fuel - zafira 2004 wont start 23 Nov 2014 (Forum)
  hi i bought a zafira about a month ago. Today it wont start. the engine is not trying to tick over. when u turn the key there is nothing apart from the time display going out. The dashboard lights which remain on are the oil, battery, handbrake and engine light and the petrol light
• Ford Focus MK1 - Ford Focus MK1 cutting out 3 Nov 2014 (Forum)
    battery   output is low. (Brand new
• Mazda Tribute - Alarm reset 10 Apr 2012 (Forum)
  Vehicle laid up over Xmas and New Year (3months) unfortunately battery was flat when we went to restart the car, recharged battery and everything was back to normal except the alarm which goes off everytime we lock the vehicle. On checking the manual Mazda suggest that the vehicle be taken
• FIAT Punto II (1999 - 2006) - 00 1.2 engine cutting out 16 Feb 2012 (Forum)
  This morning on my way to work - whilst stopped in traffic - I went to move off to find the engine had cut off. the battery and oil lights were on as if i has stalled it. at first i thought i must have stalled it but i didn't feel it the car judder as you would if it had stalled. luckily the car
• Ford focus 2007 - Loss of power when braking 14 Dec 2011 (Forum)
  isn't all the way down, when it is), sometimes the revs will drop and the battery light will flash on, and on a few occasions the revs have dropped and engine has completely cut out. Ford garage can't find any faults with it and haven't been able to replicate the fault. I managed to film the battery
• Ford Escort 1.8 diesel van - Ford Escort Immobiliser 20 Nov 2011 (Forum)
  the van wont start. I checked the battery with a multi meter, thats fine. All the lights come on on the dash and everything but the motor wont turn over at all. The key moves all the way into position.  I suspect that the problem is something to do with the immobiliser.....  I removed
• Toyota Avensis 2.4 TSpirit Auto (2004) - Toyota Satnav tns300 19 Aug 2011 (Forum)
  Having reconnected the battery after doing some unrelated work I had to reset the satnav to UK and English language.   When you set to English you are offered Km or Miles and I selected Miles.  The setting for the satnav was changed correctly and guidance was displayed in miles
• Peugeot 307 SW - Starting problem 15 Dec 2010 (Forum)
  I have an intermittent fault with my 2005 307. My key stopped working after a new battery was put in (could not unlock/lock
• Vauxhall Astra H (2004 - 2009) - 05 1.6 warning light and radio code problem 5 Dec 2009 (Forum)
  advised to disconnect the battery for 4 hours and this will extinguish the light. A couple of questions: 1. Is the garage talking pink fluffy dice about the 4 hour thing? 2. Is there any other way of getting rid of the light ie ignition turns, sticker over the light etc..... 3. If we do
• Peugeot 306 (1993 - 2001) - 98 1.6 wont start 24 Oct 2009 (Forum)
  had a look at my friends 306 as the electric windows wernt working, i disconnected the battery and began to search for the problem, i noticed a fuse had blown and a few wires had broken, i put in a new fuse and reconnected the wires and the windows worked fine. i then reconnected the battery
• Mazda MX5 (1998-2005) - Putting laid-up car back on the road 19 Jan 2009 (Forum)
  or brake fluid before it was parked up. I disconnected the battery, pumped the tyres to around 45PSI and sprayed around with WD40 as a rodent deterrent as recommended here. I checked it around Christmas and put the battery on charge overnight. I didn't attempt to start it. The discs looked particularly
• Strange happenings: connected? 31 Jan 2008 (Forum)
  oddly and needed to be reset by removing and replacing the batteries. My C8 wouldn't lock or unlock itself and I only restored normality after disconnecting the battery for an hour. Since then the engine characteristics have changed and it seems to have had 20bhp added to it. Later on Saturday, Mrs H's
• Renault Clio - Alarm keeps going off 27 Jan 2007 (Forum)
  My Clio seems to have an alarm/immobiliser problem. Last week, since the battery was dead (not having used the car for 2 months) I removed it and recharged it and reconnected it today. Everything seemed to be fine until after about a minute after opening the door, the alarm went off. I tried
• Vectra Alarm/Fob advice needed please 21 Jan 2007 (Forum)
  ...I have replaced battery and its not that...Local vauxhall dealer looked at it and said they had fixed it (never thought to ask exactly what they did but they never charged me so im assuming they just changed battery and got lucky)...It worked fine for the rest of the day then when i went to get
• 2003 Mondeo TDCi Dashboard 12 May 2006 (Forum)
  I got in my car today at lunchtime and started the engine and everything was fine. About 2 minutes down the road, I noticed that both my LCD temp display and LCD Odometer display were both just a series of dashes. On top of that I had a gearbox light on frost warning light on and a battery light
• 95 Mondeo TD Starting Probs 12 Jan 2006 (Forum)
  My 95 Mondeo TD recently had problems with an air leak in the fuel system which meant it had starting problems and therefore the starter motor and battery took a hammering, this is now fixed thanks to suggestions from this forum :-) thanks (fuel primer diaphram leak) and has been working fine for 2