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• Anyone Know How To Drain An Astra? 28 Apr 2003 (Forum)
  Evening. I wonder whether anyone can help me. This evening I gave my Astra diesel a special Saturday treat of sixteen quid's worth of unleaded. The nice man from the RAC was duly called, and he offered me two options - an expensive one (£150-ish) involving a 24-hour garage, or a tow home
• Mazda CX-7 - Let down by Mazda customer service. 19 Jan 2016 (Forum)
  service at Mazda garage but done service regularly and I always care and look after my cars. At 90k during driving on motorway back home I started hearing knocking noise under bonnet. Pull over, been towed home. Next
• 2008 Mazda 6 2.0 Diesel - Losing Power 1yr+, Engine & DPF Light & Rising oil 28 Feb 2011 (Forum)
  the loss of power as he drove it, the towed it. It went on and off and I took it back, and back again to find no fault and in the end I got so fed up of having to have it in the garage and having a hire car, I just got used to driving like that sometimes. I also repeatedly had my airbag
• DS the early years 28 Jul 2021 (Forum)
  , refused to do anything with a broken down car. Citroen had a team of trouble shooters who would be dispatched to deal with DS problems. Cars they were unable to fix were, if possible, towed away under cover of darkness save anyone seeing the new flagship as unreliable.  But the issues
• Ford Fiesta - EAC Fail 7 May 2020 (Forum)
  on at the mileage part of the dash. Got it towed off where I got it serviced they could not do anything as the car seems to be fully immobilised so when i turn the ignition on the padlock flashes. When AA tried to fix it , I got the fault codes sent over to me as to i’m not sure how he managed to retrieve
• Volvo V50 - Charges for returning a faulty vehicle 19 Oct 2019 (Forum)
  to it being faulty and of unsatisfactory quality. Am I within my rights to report the car as abandoned so that it is towed and incurs charges payable by the owners?.... I refute ownership of the vehicle and have contacted DVLA to inform them of this already. Any advice on where I stand in of all
• Ford Focus Zetec - ECU failure not covered by warranty 21 Mar 2018 (Forum)
  in Swindon and it was transported to our home in Hindhead by the AA. The following day, when I called Ford in Guidlford to seek advice on what to do next, I was informed that this problem would “not be covered under warranty” and I could get it towed to any local garage. It was taken to Liss
• Ford Focus - 1.8 duratec- gearbox issues - differential pin 16 Apr 2016 (Forum)
  had gone and taken with it both gearbox and clutch. I had it towed to a nearby garage and was later quoted about £2.5k to fix with new hardware. Trying to source a secondhand gearbox was very hard - the first few scrap dealers I called simply wouldn't sell a gearbox for the 1.8 petrol manual
• SAAB 9-3 (2002 - 2007) - 2003 2.2 TID - loss of power 25 Feb 2014 (Forum)
  etc and seems that no fuel is getting to the fuel filter.... Put diesel straight into the filter and it seems to try and start easier, but wont actually start. Looks like the fuel pump. Any ideas on that? POST 3 - UPDATE Getting a tow to SarbKar in Liverpool on Thursday - £30 They will run
• Peugeot 307 2. 0 HDI Xsi 136 - PEUGEOT 307 HDI HOT STALLING? 25 Sep 2012 (Forum)
  with fresh fuel the car still would not start, and even after towing to attempt to bump start it still would not start. The Cat was replaced, the injectors were replaced and the DPF filter was cleaned through with a jet wash and then with DPF cleaner. The car still would not start. The EGR valve
• Ford Focus Hatchback 1.8 TDCi 2001 - Ford Focus TDCi engine seized. 7 Sep 2011 (Forum)
  not turn over.   The RAC towed the car to the dealer I bought it from as it was still under warrenty.   Having had the car for a couple of days, the dealer he has told me there is over 8 litres of oil in the car, and that there is no way it could have driven any further
• Volvo S60 (2000 - 2009) - 01 2.0 Indicator stalk replacement - Haynes manual 19 Dec 2009 (Forum)
  This is just for advice/info for others, and I suspect also applies to the V70 and S80 of similar vintage. My S60's indicator stalk was becoming intermittent, so with a guaranteed secondhand part delivered this week, set about the task this morning, with my trusty Haynes manual in tow. According
• Peugeot 1007 (2005 - ) - 08 - Persistent sliding door faults. 23 Aug 2009 (Forum)
  i brought a brand new peugeot 1007 delivery millage only, 2007 plate in nov 07 ,as i drove home it developed a fault with the electric sliding doors where they where opening as we where driving.next day had to get a tow truck to take it back to peugeot. well a week went past heard nothing from
• Most ridiculous breakdown 22 Aug 2007 (Forum)
  mile to find phone and call AA. Join over the phone at exorbitant cost. Get taken 200 miles in AA tow truck. Am told car has cracked engine block. Clueless and skint, so fix it myself with Polyfilla. Car runs another two years before being sold, and MBM 559G is apparently still on road. Have been
• When does your driving style change? 6 Jun 2007 (Forum)
  with some fantastic bends. A lot of the time you are dancing between 2nd and 3rd gears. Anyway, the sun was shining and the roof was down, and I was on my own in the car. I'd been looking forward to the trip for about a week. On the hill-climb, I got stuck behind a Landrover, towing a trailer full
• Mobilo experience 15 Jan 2007 (Forum)
  vehicle, which arrived about.... 13:45pm The car was in my garage & (being auto) left in 'park', this posed a bit of a problem as it meant the 'handbrake' was effectively on. After hitching car via tow-hook & using wooden blocks under the rear wheels to 'slip' the car backwards, it was loaded by about
• Renault's Timing Belt Recommendations 4 Nov 2006 (Forum)
  like the timing belt, so we are towed home. Puts car into the renault garage, where it has been serviced for the last 2 and a half years. (car bought second hand). Then told the timing belt has gone and it has caused £1,500 worth of damage to the engine. My husband is not happy as they timing
• Return from Val D'Isere 2 Apr 2006 (Forum)
  throttle openings in each gear and it bowled along merrily from Val to Lyon St Exupery in three hours without feeling hammered. Incidentally, this was one unlucky little motor car, leaving aside the horrible "enamel mustard" paint job. In the space of a week it pickled up a parking ticket, got towed away
• 406 Cambelt Gone - worth repairing? 10 Nov 2005 (Forum)
  comes on the dashboard, flickers once and stays on. (The "K" light). I hoped it was ECU or fuel pump.. Towed to Garage by Mr Boarhunt. He said "compression sounds like it's gone, 98% sure it's timing belt. I've been doing this for 16 years, buy a japanese model instead - only been to one in last 6
• interesting sat telegraph this week 11 Sep 2001 (Forum)
  Interesting motoring section in this weeks Saturday telegraph, interesting to see the Transport Research Group Director not towing the government line. Gatso's are nonsense But so is the wider way the roads are policed We should not just be knocking the government?s crazy way of running