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• BMW 3-Series E30 (1983 - 1991) - E30 316 M10 1988 Instrument Cluster 13 Feb 2008 (Forum)
  Hi, I took the PC Board out from behind my dashboard to have a look at possibly why my fuel consumption gauge per 100 km doesn't work, only to find out that the batteries on the PC board have never been changed and so had leaked out onto the board and caused some damage to it's components
• Ford Escort (1993 - 2000) - 1998 1.8TD Glow plug warning light 23 Jan 2008 (Forum)
  weakly when attemptng to start the car but at the first attempt the engine won't turn over, but turning the ignition off and on again enabled the engine to start. new glow plugs were fitted a year ago and a new battery was installed november 2007, after replacing the battery the fault stopped for aroud 2
• Austin (Rover) Mini (1972 - 2001) - 94 1275 Mini, Cutting out intermittently 30 Dec 2007 (Forum)
  ... BUT.. today and once a few weeks ago this was a diffferent story when we went to crank it over there was minimal power in the battery... disallowing the starter moter to turn... after a bump start and driving 500 yds to a carpark and leaving the car for 30 mins and going into shops... it started fine
• Peugeot 306 (1993 - 2001) - V Reg HDi - Electrical problems 6 Dec 2007 (Forum)
  Hi, I wonder if you can help regarding a friend?s car. She has a Pug 306 HDi (V reg). The rear wiper has always been temperamental, sometimes it does a full sweep, sometimes not but it?s never been a really huge problem. Over the weekend, she put on the rear wiper and the battery light came
• VW Polo starting problem 15 Apr 2007 (Forum)
  I've got a very strange starting problem with my Mrs' P plate Polo. Couple of months ago the starter motor started playing up so I got another one from scrapyard from a VW Golf fitted it and the car started without any problem. Then few days ago the battery went totally flat and had to jump start
• Helpful Main Dealer - Shock 5 Dec 2006 (Forum)
  The Peugeot barely turned over on the starter and wouldn't start yesterday morning. The logical thing to do was to think about the battery and maybe charge it up. Before anything else I knew that one day I'd need the radio code if and when the battery was disconnected and unfortunately I didn't get
• Rover 414 alarm woes 17 Nov 2006 (Forum)
  OK.......... I primed alarm with key fob, then took off the battery so I could work on replacing head gasket. Two days later put on battery alarm kept on going off. Tried using fob to turn it off....nothing. tried re-synching fob with alarm...........nothing. Tried yesterday morning....now alarm
• Immobiliser on Mercedes S-class W140 24 Oct 2006 (Forum)
  on and the car won't start. The only way round is to disconnect the car battery for TWO days. This then makes the car lose its settings and then it starts. Andy Gayle said put some new batteries in the remote, which I've done, but the remote was indicating a full charge. I'm not sure if it'll happen again
• Rover 45 2.0 TDi starting problems 4 Jan 2006 (Forum)
  before trying to start it, but the only thing which seems to eventually work is to pump the accelerator until it eventually catches. The car has covered 74,000 miles and although the battery appears to be the original the cranking speed seems fine and the battery condition indicator has always been green
• Mondeo TD Electrical problem 29 Nov 2005 (Forum)
  stuggled to turn over and the lights were dimming heavily. Even as we stood beside the car with the hazards flashing you could see the interior light dimming every time the flashed, this leads us to the probable conlcusion that the battery has died. But, there were no warnings of any problems
• Galaxy ABS warning light 17 Nov 2004 (Forum)
  We replaced a worn-out battery on our V reg 92,000 mile Galaxy 2.3 Ghia X last week, after which we noticed that the ABS warning light came on. We phoned our local Ford dealership who said that this could be as a result of having disconnected the battery, and that we should run the car for about
• Vauxhall Vectra Fuse/Relay Help 14 Nov 2004 (Forum)
  Hi, I have a 1997 Vauxhall Vectra V6 SRi, yesterday when i turned the radio on and off very quickly the dash display froze, I had to disconnect the battery to get it to go off. On reconnecting the battery the instrument panel is not working, no speed, fuel gauge, also no indicators, no electric
• More b****y Mondeo woes 19 Oct 2001 (Forum)
  on the Blackbird, so thought take the Mondeo it'll be ok for 5 mins. Battery so flat the clock doesnt even work. Kids wont take no for an answer, so root out the old battery I kept when I scrapped the Passat months ago. On with the jump leads and it starts first time. Well done Passat. I wish I had sold
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• seat ibiza - disable car alarm ? 13 May 2020 (Forum)
  I have a 2003 seat ibiza  is it possible to turn off the car alarm ? with lock down, it has drained my car battery   thanks in advance
• Ford Fusion - Ford kw2000 code 29 Feb 2020 (Forum)
  Hello the battery has died in my ford fusion and the raido is now locked  Model: kw2000 S/N:M029603 Can anyone help please
• Ford Ka - radio code 11 Sep 2019 (Forum)
  I have a ka that didn't come with a code for the radio. I have just had a new battery in it the serial number is v001037, can anyone help, thank you.
• Ford Fiesta - Radio code 4500 RDS EON 17 Oct 2017 (Forum)
  Hi would it be possible to find out the radio code for our Fiesta - new battery fitted and no code! M198396 Thanks
• m083874 - Ford fiesta Finesse 5 May 2016 (Forum)
  Taken my battery out to charge it as it died and on load up it asked me for a code m083874 is the model of the Radio  can anyone please help me out with a code?