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• BMW Boxer 23 Jul 2002 (Forum)
  tidy, neither the front caliper or rear drum have seized and the clutch appears to be OK and the engine turns when rocked in gear. What I intend doing is draining the old petrol from the tank and carbs and filling up with new, and jump starting it from my car to the old knackered battery. Advice
• Lack of use problems. 5 Mar 2002 (Forum)
  Hi all, My next-door neighbour has an F reg Micra 1.2 GSX. He bought it 10 years ago with 3k on the clock, it now has 11.500. Over the last 6 months or so he has been having problems starting it. He bought a new battery and had the car serviced a few weeks ago, but today it wouldn't start. After
• Air bag light slow to extinguish 21 Dec 2001 (Forum)
  battery to no avail. Should I be concerned ? Surely the fact that it eventually goes out means it's still working OK.
• Citroen Xsara Picasso (2000 - 2010) - 04 1.6 Hdi Non-starter P0087, P1113, P1351 19 Nov 2012 (Forum)
  . A week later, tank nearly empty (87 mile range left), near home in Slough the MIL came back on, I headed for home but the engine died on the way. The starter turned the engine over quickly. The display said ?Economy mode active?. The red battery light stayed on even after removing the ignition key. Green
• Ford focus econotec diesel 2008 - Car chooses when to start - Help!! 21 Aug 2021 (Forum)
  diagnostic equipment on it and said there's fault with the battery and that is why it sometimes won't start. We told our mechanic and he said he checked the battery and it was fine. He now thinks the car issue could be with the instrument clusters - ECU's/PCM's (engine control module/power control
• 2014 Vauxhall Astra GTC J 2.0L Diesel - MPG suddenly dropped by 30-40% 3 Oct 2019 (Forum)
  (oil, air & and fuel filters) and took it for a test run to make sure it was all good and I was getting good MPG, 60-65 throughout my 20 mile run, I then parked up at Tesco and brought some bits from there. I made a phone call for an hour and a bit whilst charging my phone and battery warning
• Chrysler PT Cruiser 2004 - key will not turn all way in ignition to start eng 18 Jun 2018 (Forum)
  . Is this likely to be an immobiliser problem?  I did go back to the car with the spare, which opened the doors but dead as a doornail for starting the engine!!  Also tried new battery in the key fob - didnt make any difference.  Thought maybe flat battery to the engine. Did get home
• BMW 3 Series Coupe - 2007 320d E92 - engine shaking/ loss of power 6 Mar 2017 (Forum)
  I've got a e92 320d M Sport Auto with only 89k on the clock. I've only had the car for a couple of months now and a few weeks ago the battery decided to die only a few hours of being parked up, so it was jump started with another car and since then the car sounded like a tractor. I took it to a BMW
• '54 Fiat Punto Dynamic 1.2 S-A (Dualogic) - Good money after bad? 29 Nov 2015 (Forum)
  . Lately though, we are having lots and lots of issues with electrical systems. Engine failure warnings, airbag check warnings, max temp warnings, power steering failures... I changed the battery as it was struggling to start with all this going on. This made no difference and even with a brand new
• E46 M Sport Coupe - water in fuse box and footwell 25 Oct 2013 (Forum)
  hasn't been touched. The battery is off and garaged, so no electrics on. I've been all over the Web but no mention of water in the fuse-box. I've had the car 7 years, and have noticed that the windscreen steams up fairly easily, but assumed it was just as it was ventilation
• SEAT Leon - Please HELP!! Leon MK1 TDI (109 bhp) not starting 10 Feb 2012 (Forum)
  Hi,   I parked my car in fine working order a couple of weeks ago and a week later I tried to start it and it wouldn't turn up. There was nothing happening when I tried to turn it on, no sound, no noise. The lights on the dash were still coming on fine and battery seemed
• Citroen Xsara Picasso (2000 - 2010) - 01 2.0 Electrical Malfunction? 22 Jul 2009 (Forum)
  went to unlock the car the remote locking wouldn't work neither did the central locking off the key. The interior lights stopped working and the dash displayed 'Battery Fault'. The car started and I drove off only to find the wipers and indicators were not working. I stopped the car, switched off
• DPF-Short trips-alternative solutions 14 Aug 2008 (Forum)
  , as never before to put money into that "working tool" of the stop start , pre DPF, diesel and not let it pass out of your hands, until better solutions, such as pure battery short range cars are cheaply available. Further thoughts on solutions. Looking at our own needs, my wife`s Punto could be replaced
• FIAT Panda (2003 - ) - "Friday" Cars? 28 Jul 2008 (Forum)
  to start. The AA attended and the mechanic discovered the battery was not the one which should have been in the car. After ringing the dealer he was told they could not help and he rang round various dealers and finally drove to the nearest town and brought back a Lucas battery. There is also a continuous
• Rover 400 (1995 - 1999) - 1998. 416 model - heating issues 15 Jan 2008 (Forum)
  manifold gasket, the misterious ball bearing, various sensors, power steering pump?, e.c.u, alternator (had battery problem) and a multitude of other things, i have rave software and a passion for learing about this 16v aluminium gold. anybody able to diagnose or help me to test further to remove
• General Q's about car servicing 17 Jul 2003 (Forum)
  . A new dealership opened in TW, but not over impressed. Sooooo took the plunge and had a service (at a fraction of the cost) by the little backstreet garage who'd done my last couple of MOT's and replaced the battery for me last year. My last service (small) cost the same as the 6,000 mile one which I
• Lotus Eletre - First drive 1 Oct 2023 (Forum)
  Just had an enjoyable week in Essex driving, talking about and demonstrating the new Lotus Eletre. In a huge departure for Lotus - it’s over 5 metres long, an electric SUV with a starting price of £89,500. Dual motors with 450kW (612ps) and a 109 usable kW battery, the WLTP range is 373 miles
• Hybrid Engines when cold 6 May 2023 (Forum)
  little control over the engine revs whether it's warm or not, and we were discussing whether this would actually do damage in the long run.  For example, as I leave home I have to go up a hill and the engine operates at high revs without being warmed up because the battery/motor alone won't propel
• 2006 Ford Mondeo Ghia - Ford Mondeo Radio Code 27 Sep 2021 (Forum)
  Hi, I was wondering if anyone could help with a radio code for my Ford Mondeo, recently had the alternator and battery changed and haven't been able to find the original code in any of the paperwork.  It's a 2006 Ghia and the car has the original Sony radio/cd player that came
• Peogeot 307 diesel - The car dies when I hit the gas pedal 31 May 2021 (Forum)
  Hello. I put this out again but now on the right place,  My turbo just died so I had a replacement. And now the car won't start sometimes, when it starts it's just sit there and as fast I hit the gas pedal it dies straight away, I thought maybe the battery was a problem cuz that was broken