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• Volkswagen Passat (2001 - 2005) - 04 1.9 Aux drive belt idler pulley or viscous fan 27 Jan 2010 (Forum)
  . With an engine stethascope it is not clear whether the noise is coming from the drive belt idler pulley (the plastic one) or the viscous fan one. Neither feels loose when levered with a bar. Local garage advice (I live in South West France) is to leave the noise insulation cover off the engine and closely
• Day Trip to Calais - Summary 11 Nov 2009 (Forum)
  in France with a full tank. For those who care about these things it is not possible to buy tobacco products at and super or hyper market, only available thru local 'Tabac' shops in towns and cities. One lady declined to sell us any because it was Saturday, so far as my limited French goes but we got what
• Renault Megane II (2002 - 2008) - 2004 - over reving & accelerating itself 8 May 2009 (Forum)
  needed a new wiring loom which they quoted me at £1987 to replace as they said they had to order it from France. First the had misdiognised the car and charged me now they are telling me its something totally different. Has anyone ha dthe same problem with thier renualt? {Header given a more
• Alpine pass experience 9 Dec 2008 (Forum)
  Just got back from a tour of France in our MK7 Transit Motorhome during which we drove over the highest pass in Europe at Resterfond (9200 feet). Some observations of this run were that, firstly the change in pressure from start, at about 3000 feet to the top meant that the gas turned
• Driving in Europe - Questions 8 Nov 2008 (Forum)
  in France/Holland depending on whether we cross from Hull-Rotterdam or the Calais routes (we live in Leeds, incidentally). It will be after the winter (we're not going for the skiing). Also, incidentally, I have driven on the right before in America but with a left hand drive hire car. I have never driven
• chipped 2.0 Jaguar/Ford turbo diesel 31 Jul 2006 (Forum)
  speed, as i don't need that necessarily either. I'd like a bit more oomph 50-70 etc, for those overtakes...... (that seemingly you can only do in Scotland or Cornwall nowadays...or even France, where they seem to expect you to do it and help you on your way). Please don't tell me we should have bought
• Driving a Foreign Car in Britain 27 Mar 2005 (Forum)
  . Presumably I need the direction changed? But I can't do that until I arrive in England as I need to drive through France. If I arrive in the evening or night will a copper nab me on the way out of the Ferry port? Instead of going to a mechanic (how much in England?) can I change the direction using headlight
• mondeo TDCi Vibration under load 18 Aug 2004 (Forum)
  the clutch at a junction, or sometimes when stopping, a friend in Ford Service told me there is a new design of bolt that gets fitted to Mondeo's with this fault, but wait for the service. Since then, while in France the last few weeks an irritating resinance/vibration has made its self known between 1500
• Dumb drivers 17 May 2004 (Forum)
  Have just returned from a coach trip holiday to Italy. We-ell, it is what some of we masochists do. We stopped at a motorway pit stop in France for breakfast after which we rejoined the coach, which then began to pull away and head for the slip road to access the motorway. I just happened
• Disintegrating Renault Megane - advice?! 23 Sep 2003 (Forum)
  - their website has an email form to fill in (which I'm not happy with - I want to send a registered letter), or an address in France. Anyone have any ideas where I can get a UK address form?
• Towing as part of the running-in process 3 Jul 2003 (Forum)
  Just had the (formerly !) trusty R reg Xantia 2.1TD checked over prior to a month in France with the caravan, departing on the 19th. Turns out that the heater matrix has gone, there's an as yet undiganosed fault on the engine management system and the a/c needs re-gassing. It's only done 105k
• Life flashed before my eyes! 17 Apr 2003 (Forum)
  Driving back on a lovely stretch of route national from Lyon to Grenoble, France yesterday (it\'s 26C here, not that I want to rub it in or anything), I was costing downhill past a procession of lorries crawling up on the opposite side. My speed was about 100Kmh, the opposite side traffic
• Turning a British Car into a French Car 10 Apr 2003 (Forum)
  Hi. Pushing the boat out on this one and asking for some serious backroomer help. I have just had a Controle Technique (MOT) on my VW Passat CDTDI (which is British) in order to get new French licence plates as I now live in France full time. However, at the MOT the passat failed on hand brake
• Petrol, diesel, hybrid? (No EVs please) - Advice on car for retirement 2 Aug 2022 (Forum)
  down south up to Scotland recently after my dad took ill and it was staggeringly good on the motorways, fast and comfortable. It doesn't do a huge mileage locally but I always go driving holidays so it's done Wales, the West Country, France, Germany, Spain, and many such trips up north. The down
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  What is going to happen with commercial vehicles after 2030 as they are all diesel-powered at present? 18 Nov 2020 (Ask HJ)
  Is this new 2030 ruling for the UK only? If so, what is the rest of the world doing on this? Also, as the majority of our cars are now made outside of...
• SEAT Alhambra - sunroof exploded 23 Nov 2018 (Forum)
  for weeks because of this and unable to do any meaningful activities which further exacerbated my mental health conditions. We were due to go on holiday to France a few weeks after this incident. Tickets had been booked under my vehicles' details. However, we were unable to order a vignette
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  I want a bit of 1980s nostalgia - what do you suggest? 20 Jun 2018 (Ask HJ)
  I grew up in the 1980s in France and am now really keen to grab a piece of motoring nostalia from this era. I'd love a convertible ideally. I'm not a motoring...
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  Why won't my Range Rover Sport's stop-start work on the parking brake? 7 Dec 2013 (Ask HJ)
  I have a new model Range Rover Sport 3.0d HSE Dynamic. I have to say I love it. I traded a Discovery 4 (amazing residual after three years) and recently...
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  Is it ok to drive my Mercedes-Benz SLK280 on a repaired tyre? 28 Sep 2013 (Ask HJ)
  On a recent trip to France in my 17,000 mile 2007 Mercedes-Benz SLK280, I had the misfortune to get a puncture in the rear nearside tyre. The tyres are...
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  What are these Mondeo fault codes? 17 Sep 2012 (Ask HJ)
  Engine fault codes P0251, P1211, P2288 showed up when my Mondeo diesel 2.0TDCI cut out a couple of months ago, three times within a mile after I had left...