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• Mini one 1.4 auto - Engine oil 26 Mar 2013 (Forum)
  My wife has a 2007 Mini One 1.4 auto with 25000 miles on the clock (purchased by us 2 years ago with around 21000 miles on the clock). She covers about 150 miles every month - mostly town driving. It does get a run down the motorway every couple of weeks. It has a full BMW service history. I have
• 2002 Ford Focus TDCi 115 - Lumpy idle after injector recode 22 Mar 2013 (Forum)
  Last week car was running fine, then glowplug light came on during a journey.  Went into limp mode and next day car wouldn't start.  Local garage took it to local diesel specialist who diagnosed that the injectors needed recoding.  He said he used brand new codes and he also wipe
• VW Golf Mk5 - Gunk in the expansion tank 27 Nov 2012 (Forum)
  and the coolant level rising rapidly (even though the car had been sat for several hours), although this pressure build up has dissapeared in the last 4 months.  On starting the car and then checking the tank level (once the car was up to running temp) the coolant level was then low again. First thing
• ford focus 1.8 Tdci 2003 - Poor restart lack of power 20 Nov 2012 (Forum)
  I have a focus 1.8TDCI 2003 and I am having problems with start up and loss of power. What happens is the car starts fine from cold and runs perfectly normal, goes for a good long run and the engine gets up to temp. Then if I where to stop at a shop say and come back to the car and restart
• Volkswagen Golf IV - Golf Mk4 2.0 8v - Emissions Fail - Advice Please 23 Jul 2012 (Forum)
  I suspect this is going to be a head off fix and not economicaly worth while.  Would really apprechiate some advice... 177K on the clock, always been quite heavy on oil.  Took for a hard run a few days before MOT (nice black cloud at first acceleration - it's mainly doen city
• peugeot 306 1.9 dt - differential/gearbox or shaft 28 Jun 2012 (Forum)
  and all bushes were changed on arms about a year ago with no play apon checking after reading many posts saying drive shafts (not possible) cvs have been checked no noises at all on full lock so have had the car in the air running and in gear anyone who is going to do this safety first (dont want to get
• Peugeot 206 Grand Tourisme - Gear trouble help needed please 24 May 2012 (Forum)
  I hope someone can give me a bit of advice here please. Every so often my ca\r will not go into 1st and reverse gear while the engine is running, I have to turn engine off, put the car in gear and off I go, the rest of teh gears are a bit of a struggle. Clutch peddle is down to the floor
• Mitsubishi ASX - Head or Heart. Diesel or petrol 4 Feb 2012 (Forum)
  I am looking at buying a new Mitsubishi ASX. I would like the level 4 model with leather seats etc but I can not decide on petrol or diesel. All my instincts say diesel especially as it has twice the torque and gives more mpg but my question is which is really the cheaper to run? Is the 1.6
• Renault Megane II - Periodic start up problems 24 Dec 2011 (Forum)
  stoke!) and dies again after a few seconds. To actually get the car going I need to start it several times, or gun the engine hard after which it idles and runs normally. The problem seems more prevalent during damp weather, but this occurred this morning (glorious day) and I suspect the problem
• Swapping two seats for four (or five) 24 Nov 2011 (Forum)
  Afternoon folks, Found out a few weeks back that the wife and I are going to leave our mark on the world in June in the form of a little one in June next year... Fortunately the lease on our Smart ForTwo runs out in March so obviously time to swap "fun" with practicality. So I need
• Hyundai ix35 - Ecomony Figures 23 Apr 2011 (Forum)
  I bought a new IX35 Premium Diesel about 3 weeks ago. The quoted mpg figures from the brochure are as follows : Urban 40.4, Extra Urban 54.3 & Combined 47.9 The car had 10 miles on the clock when I bought it, and so I fully expected the engine would need to be run-in. The first 100
• Renault Megane Coupe Dynamiqu + 1.6 16v - engine management light was showing on his dash 11 Apr 2011 (Forum)
  "><*********="1" color="#0000ff">2- door Renault Megane Coupe Dynamique + 1.6 litre - 16 valve'   My friends car was running
• Land Rover Discovery II - Repair Problems 7 Mar 2011 (Forum)
  fitted. Motor was returned end of October in time for our holiday we did 1100 miles or so during the holiday no problem and the car was returned to the garage for first service and the LPG setting up (engine supplier had advised not to use LPG for the first 1000 miles). It run fine
• Vauxhall Corsa C (2005) 1.2 SXI - EML on and loosing power! HELP PLEASE? 30 Jan 2011 (Forum)
  tank, airflow meter, throttle body and the throttle pedal. The car is running and running better obviously thanks to all the lovely new parts it has on it but, it is still doing the original problem, just on a less severe scale!?!? Please Help?? this has cost me well over a grand now and I can't
• Peugeot 106 - 1997 Peugeot 106 1.5 Diesel Suspected Air Leak 29 Jan 2011 (Forum)
  Hi All, I'm after some advice on the poor starting on my Pug 106 1.5 Diesel.  The car has 163,000 miles on it (nicely run in!!) and it has recently developed a cold start issue.  When it has been stood overnight it will turn over firing on 1 cylinder and one by one
• Nissan Micra (2003 - 2010) - 2004 1.2 intermitant engine fault 14 Jan 2011 (Forum)
  on the motorway I had to pull over and then when started up again it would run perfect. I had a full service new plugs etc. The fault continued so I took it to a garage and after leaving it with them for 3 days I was told it was a coil so it was replaced. The following day the car continued to run the same
• Vauxhall Astra Estate Dual fuel - Gas leak 28 Dec 2010 (Forum)
  Vauxhall Astra Estate LS1600i 8V Dual Fuel. Registered 01.10.2003. DG53 OKT. Approx. mileage 80000.Chassis No. WOLOGTF 3532291236. Engine No. Z16SE 02PR8135. Works well on both petrol and gas. I have a gas leak under the bonnet which I smelt when running the engine to defrost the car
• Renault Clio 1.5 DCI mk 2 2002 - Oil in coolant, what is wrong with my car! 21 Aug 2010 (Forum)
  . This all happened within a matter of minutes. The car was towed home and left for a couple of weeks as we were going on holiday. Three weeks later, the car starts first time and the engine seems to run fine. I am told that the oil has come up through the coolant. There appears to be no coolant
• Vauxhall Vectra B - Vectra ECU/Engine fault 23 Jul 2010 (Forum)
  The ecu light is on the dash (engine symbol) of my 2000 vectra 1.8 16v and it runs pretty badly. I have read all the bumff i can find and believe it is fitted with a Siemens simtec 56.5 ECU with the diagnostics plug under the cover by the handbrake. I have tried to read the codes and my car
• iPhone 4 - Review - problems with antenna? 20 Jul 2010 (Forum)
  on hard surfaces on which the phone may be placed. Harder glass means, in general, easier to shatter too - if dropped. I wasn`t sure whether it could multi task. But it seemed unable. For example, could it run Skype minimised in the background, while polling IMAP  email in the background