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• Farewell faithful VW 13 Apr 2007 (Forum)
  to my shop where it was used as a 'mobile warehouse' and I changed the oil every 6k miles, but it was as reliable as my old Westie. It has now gone to a good home and I am left with my recently acquired 12 year old Defender 90. With a spare set of wheels and Vredestein M & S tyres we had some real
• Breathing problem?! Golf Mk4 9 Feb 2006 (Forum)
  Hi I have a Golf Mk4 1.6 SE which has hesitation problem which I have posted on here recently. I have now changed the air filter. When I changed the Air filter I had a look around the engine area and check the new throttle body VW had fitted. I notice that the small pipe that comes from
• Garages - am I being paranoid? 15 Mar 2005 (Forum)
  Wife took car into main dealers for scheduled servicing on the Wednesday. On the previous Sunday I went around checking the car, marking the oil filter etc, checking wiper blades front and rear which were all in perfect condition. Wife phones me and says garage say the rear blade (a favourite
• Ford Mondeo - Rant about blatant lies from second hand dealer 10 Sep 2015 (Forum)
  was the most alarming obviously... Unforunately, being a diesel when I dipped the oil it was already black so I have no way of knowing if it was actually changed. I rang the guy to ask him how he could stamp a service book after leaving the brake fluid so low and whether he actually lifted the bonnet
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  What should I have checked and replaced on my 13-year-old BMW 520i? 11 Mar 2012 (Ask HJ)
  I have a 13-year-old BMW 520i SE auto saloon that now has 106,500 miles on the clock. It has served me well over the eight year period l've owned it, and...
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  Let us pay? 15 Aug 2011 (Ask HJ)
  I recently took my Octavia 1.9TDI into my local Skoda dealership (Progress of Letchworth) for a service prior to its first MoT and asked for a couple of...
• Audi A3-2007 - Shock absorber £replacement -AUDI A3 23 Jan 2018 (Forum)
    My MOT is coming up very soon--and I see on the 2017 Test Certificate that the 2 front shock absorbers --and one rear are noted(advisory) as having "light misting of oil". I may or may not change the car this year-but I want it to pass it's 2018 MOT test, which i suspect
• insignia elite ecoflex 2.0 160bhp - Insignia knock 5 Sep 2016 (Forum)
   its not there, no fault codes or warning lights have ever shown up,  The car is mostly used with shell diesel, engine oil and filter changed recently as it was happening before I changed it. Not done
• Dodge Nitro 2.8 CRD 2007 - Cold Start Problems 3 Feb 2015 (Forum)
  Hi, and help My car is not starting in the cold weather. I've changed the Oil, Fuel Filter and the Glow Plugs. Still not starting. I've taken the plugs out and checked the glow plugs when I turn the ignition on - no glow. They are 4.4v Glow plugs. When I check
• astra mk4 p0340 problems with camshaft sensor 29 May 2012 (Forum)
  hi has anyone found a good solution for 340 code. ive changed camshaft sensor for a used 1, changed air intake valve air mass sensor spark plugs and oil and still the problem persists. when you start the car from cold it runs ok until idle settles down and then the engine revs dip but does
• Engine worry? 18 Sep 2009 (Forum)
  with regular oil changes and sensible driving the actual engine will go for mega miles.
• Mercedes Benz C-Class W203 (2000 - 2007) - 03 270 Noise / loose cabling or wiring 23 Jul 2009 (Forum)
  or solved in routine servicing - one specialist talked of having it in for a day or 2 to examine it. Any ideas or experience of this gratefully received I changed the radiator because of fault noted in HJ's text re leaking into gearbox oil matrix. Should I have the auto gearbox fluid checked or changed ?
• Vauxhall Corsa B (1993 - 2000) - 00 1.6 smokey when warm 27 Jun 2009 (Forum)
  does any body know why my corsa 1.6 sport (x16xe) is developing a smokey habbit, ive recently had every single gasket changed i mean evry one, ive recently changed the valve stem oil seels but stil no look, its fine when its cold but after say 20 minutes when it gets slightly warm its booting out
• Mazda 323 (1998 - 2003) - 99 1.3 Manual gearbox problem? 25 Jun 2009 (Forum)
  Hi All, Now it's my Mazda 323's turn to play up! - I've noticed that gears are getting harder to select, they work fine, I can select them all, but moving between gears isn't as slick as it usually is. Playing with changing the gears when the car's off and there are audible sounds when changing
• Vauxhall Corsa B (1993 - 2000) - 99 1.2 ECU Light comes on on long fast journeys 4 Mar 2009 (Forum)
  When my girlfriend drives her V reg Corsa on the motorway for some time, the ECU light comes on for a few minutes then goes out. It doesn't do it on short low speed journeys though. This has been happening for several weeks now. I have given it a mini service....changed plugs, air filter and oil
• Volvo S80 (1998 - 2006) - rough diesel engine on s80 2.5d (yr 1999) 12 Oct 2007 (Forum)
  a new injection belt fitted, had an oil change and a compression test all of which reveal nothing. On a strange note if at some speed I turn right the engine goes completely smooth and silent and then i can feel the vibrations and noise coming back as i straighten up again. Any suggestions much
• polo sump problem 24 Feb 2003 (Forum)
  When I had my 98 VW Polo 1.4 serviced last year at a VW dealer they stripped the sump thread when changing the oil.They repaired the sump with a Heli-Coil.I have recently changed the oil myself and found that they had put in the original sump plug which had about 3 good turns of thread left
• Clio Auto Warning Light 9 Sep 2002 (Forum)
  time later). There is no pattern to when the light comes on, it can be almost immediately on starting the car or after any number of miles. The coolant and gearbox oil have been changed and there is nothing wrong with the gearbox (in that it seems to be changing up and down as expected
• Volkswagen Passat (2001 - 2005) - 02 1.9 Oil from boost pipe.Imminent turbo failure? 21 Oct 2009 (Forum)
  the engine area I noticed a great deal of oil 'sweat' under a boost pipe connection. It's the pipe under the PAS Bottle and above some sort of chassis member. That's exactly where the join in the pipe is. There is a top layer of fresh oil on top of the 'sweat' and by the looks of it, it has been
• Vauxhall Vectra B facelift (1999 - 2002) - Vectra engine management light 18 Aug 2007 (Forum)
  quid and lasts about two days! Whats the point in fault codes if you can't figure out what causes them? I change the oil and filter every 10,000 miles and have changed the cam belt with tensioners every 40,000, the car drives fine. Shall I just live with it or is there anything that I might try