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• More 2nd Hand Vehicle after sales faults 25 Jan 2003 (Forum)
  into the fuel system, due to corroded fuel lines and fuel tank leaking. Is there any comeback, the Vauxhall dealer says that it couldn't have legally passed its MOT with this corrosion. The Vauxhall dealer said contact trading standards etc. All advise welcome
• Alfa 146 Fuel Injection Problem 21 Oct 2002 (Forum)
  Hi I've got a Alfa 146ti on a P plate, on sunday evening the fuel injection warning light came on, I cant get it down a garage for at least 2 weeks. Does anybody know what the problem could be, i put some wynns in it yesterday but theres no change yet (how quick does that stuff work?, if it does
• Vectra 2.0 Di fuel pump 8 Mar 2002 (Forum)
  I wrote a while ago with the problem of a vectra that ran sluggish from cold every now and then. Well the time has come where it's not running at all and on quick inspection they think it's the fuel pump and the none official price quote was very high indeed. Does anyone know how long these units
• Have BP or shell admitted to not enough detergent? 1 Feb 2018 (Forum)
  Hey all, First time poster, a question I posed to HJ but which I hope someone here may also be able to answer. Is there an instance anywhere of a BP or Shell representative stating that their standard fuels do not have sufficient levels of detergent or cleaning properties to keep
• Vauxhall Zafira A - fuel pump 25 Jul 2015 (Forum)
  beforehand.  after a lot of investigation it was narrowed down to a fault on the fuel pump/ ecu. My car is currently off the road being repaired.     Today I used my husbands car for work. A 2004 1.9 dci Renault megane. Started fine then all of a sudden wouldn't start,  had
• Focus / CMax 1600ccTDCi - fuel issue / limp home 6 Sep 2014 (Forum)
  Hi I have read about a possible issue with the fuel filter becoming  easily blocked with emulsion, and the car going into limp home mode.  This happened to me and with a fuel error coming up on the diagnostic,  we changed the filter and all has been OK. But a later
• 1993 VW POLO mk3. - FUEL or SPARKS 25 Feb 2013 (Forum)
  At 20 years old and 140,000 miles (10 years / 70k in my ownership) this car owes me NOTHING!  It currently drives fine for anything between 8-15 miles then the engine cuts out with symptoms like fuel starvation.  It might start a few minutes later but it'll die just as quickly
• 55 Ford Focus 1.8 tdci - 55 Focus tdci Bad Fuel Economy 4 Feb 2011 (Forum)
  I used to get around 550 miles to a full tank although I have noticed over the last month or two it seems to be drinking fuel. I now seem to be getting around 400 to 450 miles out of a full tank even though around 90% of my driving is on the motorway I have dropped my speed down to 55 - 60 mph
• Renault Clio 1 Petrol (1991 - 1998) - 94 1.4 hi fuel consumption 23 Nov 2008 (Forum)
  ... i took the air filter off and ran it, i can see lots of fuel coming from the single injector into the throttle body, i know visually there is too much fuel going in but i dont know the cause.. i'm told the lambda sensor would cause this but im not sure if im testing it right, putting the multi-meter
• Peugeot 405 Diesel (1988 - 1996) - 1994 1.9TD Fuel problem 24 Oct 2008 (Forum)
  In May i left my 405 1.9 TD sat for a week while i was away. When i came back it would not start, the engine turned over fine but it wasn't even trying to fire up. I primed the fuel system using the squidgy rubber pump and it fired up no problem. The car hasn't been left more than a couple of days
• 306 1.9TD changed the fuel pump-Problems 24 Jan 2006 (Forum)
  I recently tried to 'turn up' my 1998 306 Td by messing with the maximum fuel settings and boost settings. There is a black grommit on the lucas fuel pump that has to be removed so to 'turn it up'. But i broke the grommit, and had to buy a second hand pump, as grommits can not be bought for love
• Fuel pumps? 11 May 2005 (Forum)
  Okay, I accept this is going to make me seem really dumb, but anyway...recently I've noticed that the fuel pumps at Sainsbury's have been sort of 'snapping back' a lot (I don't know the technical term, but when you pull the release trigger, and it jsut doesn't let you have nething till you ease off
• need help ,convert manual fuel pump 21 May 2003 (Forum)
  hi all , ok i have just got hold of a 1990 ford fiesta 1100 got this very cheap hence the age and the engine had died,i have now put a second hand ford fiesta 1300 engine in, problem is guess this engine must of been a 1300 cfi engine as there is no place for a manual fuel pump to go(not even
• Ford 1.8D Start Problem (Again!!!!) 24 Mar 2003 (Forum)
  Hi to group - My wifes fiesta 1.8D has had poor starting since the first frost. The car eventually starts after a lot of cranking then runs fine all day long, until the next frost - so I replaced the glow plugs. No improvement. I changed the fuel filter. No improvement - in fact the problem has
• Computed fuel consumption 11 Mar 2003 (Forum)
  is 40-42. I can rationalise this as follows. The car measures miles within 2%, but has no accurate idea of fuel quantities - it can only guess on the basis of the float in the tank, and those are notoriously vague. Whether by accident or design, gauges tend to be pessimistic in the lower half (i.e
• Fuel Efficient Family Hatch Recommendation 23 May 2022 (Forum)
  Hi guys  Looking for car recommendations (petrol or hybrid). I want to buy a family hatch. Priorities are MPG, reliability, nice looking and something...
• Incorrect fuel - remedy the old fashioned way 7 Nov 2019 (Forum)
  Neither SWMBO nor I have fuelled wrongly yet, despite having a diesel and a petrol car between us, tho that is largely because she always drives the diesel. ...
• 8 Sep 2019 (Forum)
  Modern engines are not optimised for 99 Octane fuel. They have to have anti-knock sensors that can dynamically advance the timing until pinking occurs and them slacken it off a bit. If they were indeed optimised for 99, they would pink like crazy on 95 and burn holes in the pistons as well as being
• Very golf plus 2006 - Central locking windows and mirror control doesn't 27 Sep 2015 (Forum)
  I've checked fuse board and they all seem fine. Mirrors, fuel cap, windows and central locking don't work. I need fuel soon and beginning to panic.
• 2.2 hid - Citroen c8 16 Jan 2013 (Forum)
  After a short run (under 5 miles) when switched off the car is whiring underneath,I believe this to be burning off excess fuel. Does anyone know if this is necessary , could it be disabled .this must waste quite an amount of fuel over the year. Thanks.