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• Advice on second hand car purchase 17 May 2024 (Forum)
  Morning All, After some advice from you helpful people as I'm on a dreadful run of buying cars that let me down within a couple of years despite my best efforts into researching them! My Skoda Octavia just died after melting it's inlet manifold, it's been at the garage for a week
• Astra H 1.6 petrol - Should I have my Repairs done? 8 May 2023 (Forum)
  15,000 miles a year in it for work. A very small part of me has started to wonder if I should just cut my losses and buy a run around for £1500 with a years mot and take my chances. Just wondering what people’s thoughts are. I’ve never had a diesel so the thought buying one isn’t filling me with ease. I
• Ford Focus Mk2 - Cabin air intake vents 4 Feb 2023 (Forum)
  This is a general question about the air intake vent that runs across the top of the engine bay, just under the windscreen. My daughter's car has a slight smell inside the cabin. After driving with the blowers on for about half an hour, although I can't put my finger on the nature of the mild
• Peugeot 106 1.1 1997 - Rough idling and stalling when revs drop from high 5 Sep 2021 (Forum)
  of difference... https://youtu.be/8-nCKOwwCho I have no idea if I should notice it when running (altho' thinking about oit, it probably doesn't do the ecu any good) ps pleae ignore the tappet  noise, it's always been like that ... it the hard of breathing bit is the new
• Opel Omega 2.0 8v - Engine Performance Problem 13 Dec 2020 (Forum)
  . From researches i did, this problems might cause MAF sensor failure. But i asked some mechanics, some say spark plugs and wires, some say ignition coil, one said MAF sensor fault. I tried unplugging MAF sensor while running, idle is dropped little and started shaking. When i push the gas, popped
• Ford Focus mk1 - Speedo jumping and abs light on 9 Jul 2020 (Forum)
  to zero but it is very jumpy, usually ok at lower speeds but anything over 40 and it starts jumping. And also the abs light is still coming off and on when it pleases. So we decided to jack the car, wheels off checked abs sensor seemed fine. Decided to change gear box oil. Took the car a run and abs
• Mk1 Ford Focus - Ford Focus starting issues 4 Dec 2019 (Forum)
  and told me it could be an intermittent sticking injector, as for the time it was in the garage it would start and run fine. I suspect it was left inside the garage for the few days it was in, sheltered from the cold.  They suggested adding some fuel cleaner and running it for a week
• Vauxall Zafira 1.6 2004 - timing belt on Zafira 1.6 2004 2 Oct 2019 (Forum)
  Hi guys, i'm new to the forum and hoping for some advice please My wifes old vauxhall Zafira 1.6 2004 has been making a tapping noise for a few weeks now. car runs fine but is starting to sound like a diesel engine, RAC and mechanic whos long since retired both say the sound is coming
• Daewoo Matiz - Strange problem with ignition system 15 Aug 2019 (Forum)
  Strange problem with my Daewoo Matiz “xtra cool” (1.0 petrol manual 2004)   Got home last night and parked little Stacey as usual, turned ignition key to off position but the engine continued to run. Removed key and the engine continued to run. Put car in 4th
• Mazda 6 - Mazda 6 2.5 - thoughts? 20 May 2019 (Forum)
    Pros Top of the range models. Hence top specced interiors Powerful engine, good acceleration a bit different and unusual from the normal run of the mill cars Perhaps a BMW / more expensive car like experience, on the cheap?   Cons Higher road tax
• 2001 Primastar/Vivaro/Trafic - coil light +no power problem 9 Apr 2019 (Forum)
  and problems disappear, then the MAF is faulty. The internet is full of instances, when people disconnect their MAF and then suddenly their engine runs better. Well, funnily enough for me it was the complete opposite. when i disconnected the MAF, the motor started ok, seemed to rev fine and then when i started
• BMW 1 Series, E87, 116i - Problems with the car on a cold start 17 Dec 2018 (Forum)
  Hi, I recently purchased a '57 plate BMW 116i 4 months ago from Arnold Clark and it has 2 years mechanical warranty. Mainly used for short commutes to work and back (less than 10 miles one-way) and going about town. Occasionally take it out for longer journeys to give it a good run
• Hit and run advice 24 Nov 2018 (Forum)
  Hi all, first time on these forums I am after some advice. My wife was hit from back by a driver yesterday. At traffic lights in a city she wasn’t familiar...
• Ford Fiesta Mk5 2005 - Fiesta Mk5 cooling system 11 Jul 2018 (Forum)
  I have an elderly Fiesta as my run about in the south of France - I'm sure mechanically it's pretty much the same as UK models. This week I gave it a bit more of a challenge than its usual trips to airport/beach/supermarket by taking it up some long steep climbs on roads in the southern
• Toyota Auris Touring Sports 2014 model year. - Toyota hybrid flat battery problems 9 Jun 2017 (Forum)
  and managed to "jump start" the car.  I left it running for 10 mins. or so and drove off only to have the auto stop/start cut the engine even tho'  there was not enough power to re-start ! leaving me in a dangerous situation stalled at a near by X-roads!  To cut a long story short I managed
• Ford Fiesta (2002 - 2008) - 2003 1.4 Cutting out low idle revs 25 Mar 2017 (Forum)
  restored the car to perfect running condition and the engine light has now gone off itself. However another problem more than likely related occurred around the same time that has not gone away? It idles fine and runs fine hot and cold but if I brake with the car in gear as you do when coming
• Vauxhall Zafira A - ZAFIRA WONT START 25 Oct 2016 (Forum)
  us home last  night ,  a diagnostic by a friend today is now showing no codes !!    and now we are here  with a car  we have hardly used and no idea what the problem is    any ideas  or help  we sold our other car 4days ago and we need this running
• Vauxhall Zafira A - error codes - BDO or BDO2. 52 plate Zafira 29 Jul 2016 (Forum)
  on the gear change console and the dash also it'll go into safe mode (although I can manually change gear no problem) after running around for a while and a few ignition off and ons the lights on the gear change console sort there selves out and it starts running as normal but the Traction Control (car
• Ford Focus Titanium 2.0 petrol 2008 - Focus 2.0 duratec running issues 16 May 2016 (Forum)
  Hi to all and thank you for your time. I bought a 2008 Ford Focus titanium manual in Feb 2015 and have had nothing but trouble with it. The starts fine...
• ford focus estate tdci - plug in tuning boxes 8 Feb 2016 (Forum)
  hi all, just wondering what experience anyone has had with a plug in tuning box. I drive a Focus estate 1.8 Tdci, so im no performance junkie, but what made me sit up and take notice was the advertised 10% improvement in fuel economy and promise of smoother running, eliminating flat spots