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• Volkswagen Polo III (1994 - 1999) - Rear wheel bearing - lose hub 14 Oct 2007 (Forum)
  performing an oil change) to jack the rear of the car up and examine each wheel for any play or 'grumbling' and was shocked to find that the drivers side rear had massive play e.g. I could rock it quite far - approx 1 or 2 cms - more than just slight movement. I whipped the wheel and brake drum off to find
• 96(N) Escort 1.8 Zetec Idle Speed 29 Jun 2005 (Forum)
  when i got it (approx 18 months ago) including cambelt, oil change, plugs, fuel filter, air filter but it made no difference. It's done 117,000 miles, and i don't really want to start buying parts to guess what the problem may be. Does anyone know if replacing any of the following might cure
• Peugeot 306 1.8 XT Juddering/idle probs 21 Jul 2004 (Forum)
  bad. I have changed all the sparkplugs, oil etc. Once thing I have noticed is when i turn the engine off the rev counters goes down to about 200-400 revs and not zero. When you turn he engine on it goes upto the correct revs about 1000. Could this cause a problem? I have de-greased all the engine so
• D'oh, why me? 3 Mar 2004 (Forum)
  in house, changed into "muckys", went back out to car, popped bonnet, checked m/cylinder... full of yellowy stuff, checked power steering... full of red stuff, oil and water o.k. decided to check underneath, so gets humongous tree stump out of shed, lugs it round house to car, jacks front of car up
• Citroen XM advice 18 Jul 2003 (Forum)
  is to get 2 years of usage out of the car minimum - about 15k a year if that. Am capabable of basic servicing but always (for ease) get my oil changed at a fast fit outfit. Am I being stupid looking at these cars? Is their reputation one of those undeserved "myths"? Said specialist would be quite
• New user looking for some omega advice 20 Sep 2002 (Forum)
  "diesel" like, especially on start up when compared to my old cavalier 8V 2L. Is this normal and if not, what could be the cause? It sounds a little clattery to me, not too serious but not silky smooth as I would expect. Next up is the auto box. Is it a good idea to get the oil changed
• Death of my Xantia 11 Aug 2002 (Forum)
  planned to keep it for two more. I looked after it and servicing was carried by me (well regular oil changes) and the more technical bits by a moonlighting Citroen mechanic which kept the bills down.The car always delivered over 45 mpg and more with careful driving. About 3 weeks ago I was tail ending
• Pug lion is a duck 7 Apr 2002 (Forum)
  After owning an R 98 306 TD estate for 51K over 32 months without a murmer, i decided to change to another. This time an X 00 306 HDI Meridian in lush moonstone blue. BAD MOVE. I really like the estate and thought i could get around 3 years trouble free motoring from it. With only 18K showing, its
• Please give me a bus pass - not! 6 Jul 2001 (Forum)
  distinctly sparse due to road layout and opposing traffic even at bus tops. This in itself was not a problem but the other factors were. The bus was one of those ancient Leylands that kick out a tone of particulates every time they pull away. It was R reg, ie 23/24 years old. eg ABC 123R It was puking oil
• Vauxhall Corsa C 1.7 DI GLS - Lack of Power/Gutless 18 Oct 2011 (Forum)
  ! 1. Engine flushed and new oil air and fuel filters, removed the pick-up unit in the fuel tank and cleaned the plastic gauze (although not dirty and the bottom of the fuel tank was clean) siphoned fuel out at the filter head to confirm clear fuel feed to filter. 2. Took
• Subaru Forester - First 2 months and 2,000 miles of ownership 27 Aug 2020 (Forum)
  , changing paired phones etc and there is no keypad to input numbers directly, but the sound system is excellent. There's a separate screen in the dash which when not used for the camera shows ICE info, or any other number of readouts including oil temp, fuel useage, stop start system useage including
• SEAT Alhambra 2011 1.4 TSi - Car purchase help 24 Oct 2020 (Forum)
  delivery) and is being sold by a Seat approved used dealer. It comes with 12 month warranty, mot protection etc.  But it's the MOTs past emmisson issue (I'm hoping a new exhaust would have solved this?) and repeated oil leaks which are causing me concern...  The sales guy told me
• Micra automatic 1.3 1998 - My Micra won't start; Please help !!!!! 8 Feb 2011 (Forum)
  , their answer was to pay £140 to have the transmission oil changed "to see if there is any metal in the oil" and offered not a hint as to what might be wrong with it. Needless to say I did not have the oil changed, but did buy some and topped it up, as it was very slightly low. Lately, it has got
• Ford Focus Estate - My dreadful experience with an Rac car dealer 1 Oct 2018 (Forum)
  no. 1 !!!  6 weeks later my gears were not quite right so I took it to an rac approved garage and unfortunately they found a serious oil leak from the gearbox area , the car was advertised with a new clutch (Nov. 2017)and it would take 5 hours to diagnose the fault although the mechanic
• VW Crafter CR35 2.5TDI - DPF!!! As usual. 20 Nov 2016 (Forum)
  every 5,500 miles (which we do in about 3-4 months) and they mention the DPF light coming on is not a fault....i agree, its not - but we have this light come on every approx 4-7 days with the oil levels rising and a huge loss in MPG including when we regen the light does not turn off
• Ford Fiesta (1995 - 1999) - My Fiesta - now more confused. 4 Jan 2009 (Forum)
  sympathy. It seems some of the problems with the clutch was down to my bad driving. I paid £350 for it, spent £200 on it including drive shaft gaitor, two new decent tyres, new brake fluid float switch, oil change and tow bar removal. Underneath is a little rusty but solid, I cannot see anything bad
• Vectra cdti - 150 Need help egr ecu troubles. Pulling hair out 22 Jun 2017 (Forum)
  changing head instead with second hand one in good condition.  While I had the head off I cleaned out EGR and throttle body. Split intake manifold and cleaned that out aswell. On doing the manifold I noticed the dreaded swirl flaps where knackered. So I took them out and used the caps off
• VW TDI crankshaft problems 10 Sep 2003 (Forum)
  mileage always taken in to VW dealers for service (prior to service interval dates) always run on premium Mobil one oil etc etc. taken into dealer for 60k cambelt change (at 56k - early)got car back - all seemed above board etc. Over the next 20k noticed car not quite a \'sharp\' as used tobe but put
• Peugeot 106 1.5d 1995 - Peugeot 106 1.5d 1995 starts, runs but cuts out? 12 Sep 2019 (Forum)
  and revs vary up and down. Changed the glow plugs for Beru ones (never been done during those 10 years & 75k) and has improved matters but it has cut out twice in exactly the same place two mornings running ... does 3 miles, stands for 2 mins running when drop the wife off at work, turn the corner
• RAV4 vs Outlander 19 Aug 2016 (Forum)
  no issue with that as I am fastidious with servicing and do an interim oil change at 6k myself so I'd expect long life from them. I do around 17k miles a year mainly motorway with weekly return trips to Cumbria from Manchester so no likely issues with DPFs etc (I hope). The draw with the RAV