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• Mondeo Duratec HE 1.8 vs 2.0 13 Jan 2006 (Forum)
  There doesn't appear to be much difference in performance on paper between these two engines. has anyone driven both & know if the 2 litre is really worth the extra insurance fuel etc? Ta
• HJ's Cmax 2.0Tdci 8 Jul 2005 (Forum)
  Hi HJ, I've been reading some of the archive posts relating to Cmax Did you get your Cmax 2.0Tdci back in March? How is it holding up? I'm particularly interested in the fuel economy it is returning and the reliability. TIA Bob
• Where's the cheapest petrol/diesel? 3 Jun 2004 (Forum)
  I live in south east london and with all this talk of price increases I thought we might be able to help each other by reporting where we can by our precious fuel as cheaply as possible,is that possible mods?
• Over a barrel, as usual? 26 Feb 2004 (Forum)
  Isn't oil paid for in US dollars? And doesn't the pound buy about 35% more dollars than it did a few weeks ago? Shouldn't our fuel prices have dropped? (ok, maybe only by 35% of 20% of the total price)
• Vauxhall Zafira B 1.6 (55 plate) - Vauxhall Zafira warm start problem. 10 Jun 2018 (Forum)
  still struggling to diagnose a warm starting problem on my Vauxhall Zafira Life 1.6 petrol (2006).  HJ suggested a fuel evaporation problem.  My mechanic thought it was the starter motor, which he checked and refitted.  The lack of diagnostic codes gives no pointers to the problem
• Meriva A CDTi 1,7 diesel - spanner light fixed it 30 Oct 2017 (Forum)
  For the last 3 or 4 years my spanner light lit up on starting my car. It went off when I had turned the engine off, removed the key, heard a 'click' from fuel pump I think, then started car and spanner light did not reappear. Annoying but it was not part of yearly MOT so I got used
• Volvo S40 - 2007 Volvo S40 1.8 Petrol - Emissions Through the 29 Oct 2017 (Forum)
  and that's fairly clean. I assume that if the fuel mixture is rich than it must be on the air side of the ratio as the car isn't putting out any black smoke which it apparently would be if the fuel was rich on the petrol side of things.  Anyway my main question is: What would be the best way
• Citroen C5 estate 1,6 Hdi (2006) - Engine cutting Out 4 Apr 2016 (Forum)
  .   However over the last few weeks, whenever i put fuel in it cuts out quite often when I try to accelerate or go round a sharp left hand corner.  This improves after a couple of days and it runs fine, until I put fuel in again
• Vauxhall Corsa 1.3 diesel - Squeaking engine 2 Apr 2015 (Forum)
  and then there was another "fluffing " type noise started- took it straight back to mechanic who immediately diagnosed it as a faulty fuel injector - checking this out and it was the case (actually two had gone) and so he put back refurbished fuel injectors and washers etc and hey presto - no more sqeak!! The sqeak noise
• 2005 VW Polo 1.2 - Running Problems 11 Sep 2014 (Forum)
  I'm having a few minor running problems with my car - I recently had the fuel filter replaced and the brake fluid renewed (and bled properly)...I'm not sure if these issues are related but they've only come about since. Car has 150k on the clock and original clutch...mainly motorway miles
• ford mondeo 2004 tdci 130 - 2004 mondeo tdci 130, fuel contamination help 21 Mar 2012 (Forum)
  the expert takes away, then sends it of to another company who stripped the injectors out and say it has water ingress in them and will need new injectors as well as inpection for the whole fuel system to see if there is any other water in system, and they have said that the water could have got there from
• Honda - CBF 1000 motorcycle - smoky, and now won't start. 27 Mar 2011 (Forum)
  not feel quiet right,like it was being restricted or holding back. when I returned home I gave the bike a good rev while idling...lo and behold I got the occasional puff of black smoke from exhaust. My first thoughts were contaminated fuel...so I emptied the tank with on of them suction pumps(the type
• Fiat Bravo 1.2 16v Trofeo - W Reg - Fiat Bravo not starting when hot 28 Apr 2010 (Forum)
  the ones mentioned on this site. Could anyone help as I am at the end of my tether now and don't want to spend huge amounts of money taking it to a garage, some people I have spoken to including a retried mechanic who has actually witnessed the problem believes possible fuel starvation
• Vauxhall Astra G Petrol (1998 - 2004) - 02 1.6 Dual Fuel LPG problems 10 Dec 2009 (Forum)
  Hello peoples, I wonder if there is anyone that could advise me please. I recently purchased a Vauxhall Astravan Dual fuel. I did buy the vehicle with a problem, and that was that it will not tickover on LPG. Runs on petrol ok but misses now and again,It starts first time every time on petrol,when
• Ford Focus (1998 - 2004) - 03 1.8 Advice/guidance needed on HUGE garage error 28 Sep 2009 (Forum)
  when changing belts over and the timing of the car had gone wrong, but would be put right at their own expense..... Now 2 weeks later the car still does not even turn over and they have told me the fuel pump is broken and I need to cough up £290 to repair it or £600 for a new one as they never touched
• Volvo S60 (2010 - ) - Direct injection petrol engine - a good idea? 17 Dec 2008 (Forum)
  From HJ's breakdown: "The engine that Volvo Cars has chosen for the Volvo S60 Concept is a four-cylinder 1.6-litre petrol unit using high-efficiency GTDi (Gasoline Turbocharged Direct Injection) technology and producing 180 horsepower. In a conventional petrol engine, fuel is injected
• Skoda Superb (2008 - ) - DSG not as efficient as was promised? 15 Sep 2008 (Forum)
  When DSG gearboxes were first available, they were claimed to be a great advance on old torque-converter automatics. Apart from faster and smoother gearchanges, the elimination of the torque converter was supposed to make them much more efficient, so that there would be no increase in fuel
• Audi A6 + RS6 (1997 - 2004) - 01 1.8T Over Fuelling ! Audi expert required. 8 Aug 2008 (Forum)
  fitted - still the same, so then had a new Mass Air Meter - Then a new Thermostat and i also had the Throttle Body cleaned - still the same problem, The EML still comes on MPG is awful and a very strong smell of fuel coming from the tail of the exhaust. How can it be running Too Lean when it is running
• Retrospective views road transport and Electricity 16 Apr 2008 (Forum)
  of adding bio fuels to regular fuel just seems so short sighted given the number of vehicles that need fueling. Once down the petroleum path, difficult to go back... But any comments or any other examples of where motoring and the road transport system could have been different to now? (It seems unlikely
• rover 416i keeps cutting out - help 26 Jan 2007 (Forum)
  had gone, which i had replaced, but when i got it back the problem still continued. some days it is fine, others it can happen several times in a single journey, it also started to kind of splutter just beofre it would cut out, as if the fuel was not getting through, i had an xr31 that had a similar