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• Ford Fiesta (1995 - 1999) - My Fiesta - now more confused. 4 Jan 2009 (Forum)
  sympathy. It seems some of the problems with the clutch was down to my bad driving. I paid £350 for it, spent £200 on it including drive shaft gaitor, two new decent tyres, new brake fluid float switch, oil change and tow bar removal. Underneath is a little rusty but solid, I cannot see anything bad
• Had my first breakdown not nice - Clutch has gone 15 Dec 2008 (Forum)
  for £150, but I am drawing the line now, I am going to rob swap the ICV, MAF and other sensors which are working fine put them on my dads (which is not running right), then sell my car on ebay. I have already spent £200 repairing as they were safety things:- Tow bar removed general check over and oil
• 2 perplexing problems 1996 Range Rover 20 Nov 2006 (Forum)
  that has raised it?s ugly head ? heater core O rings ? when I moved the car (by towing) on the sloping driveway I noticed about a small cup of coolant pour out of the RHS footwell and sure enough there are tell-tale green drips from the bottom HEVAC vent (right on to the Nokia hands-free speaker!) Could
• HGF 150 miles from home. Fantastic! 21 Feb 2006 (Forum)
  timing. To make matters worse, it was a Saturday, at 4o?clock, and we all needed to be home in time to go to work/uni on the Monday morning. After being towed home, we (dad, me and my uncle) began a tour of every open garage, dealership and accessory shop that was still open, but the answer was all
• need Legal avivce citroen c8 12 Jan 2006 (Forum)
  Seat elect rewire F Cig lighters Fx3 Auto mirrors LOST Auto windows LOST Nav disk poor condition Alarm Fx3 Door trims R Scratches to paint Fx3 Interior cleaned Fx2 Mats R Dip stick Fx1 R R = REPLACED F = FIXED x No NUMBER OF TIMES RAC have attended road side twice, towed car once. Cars
• Thoughts from America 30 Sep 2005 (Forum)
  Hello All, I have generally been anti SUV on the basis that unless you tow a horse box or run a farm there is little justification for driving such large inefficient and dynamically poor (on the road) vehicles that offer the every day motorist very few advantages and so many disadvantages over
• Can I reject this paint job? 15 Oct 2003 (Forum)
  really blended in the new paint to the existing paint, the bonnet blending was really bad that I could see where the new paint and old paint ended and the bumper is a different colour, also no attempt was made to even blend in the wings. Then I noticed the blank for the towing eye in the bumper
• Old F*rts Thread 25 Jun 2001 (Forum)
  to catch up. So I speeded up a bit more and by now was over the limit but not by much say about 55. At this point two things happened, firstly I noticed that the truck was a plain unmarked white Mack, towing a bulk tanker semi-trailer, and secondly that it was still catching me quite quickly by straight
• Renault kadjar - Turbo failure on low mileage car Consumer rights? 16 Sep 2023 (Forum)
  My question is: I purchased my 2016 Renault Kadjar signature 1.6 TDI from a Renault dealer in July 2019 with 15535 miles on the clock for £13789. 3 weeks ago I broke down on the motorway. £144 to tow me to Renault garage. The Turbo had failed (dealer thinks its
• Ford Mondeo MK3 2.0 TDCI 2005 - What is wrong with my car? 6 Mar 2021 (Forum)
  afford the extortionate fees diesel specialists charge and every mechanic i have spoken to has told me to get it towed to a diesel specialist but this would very much exhaust all money i have to fix it before knowing what is even wrong. My question is what do you think the fault
• 2011 Peugeot 207 1.4 8v - Possible failed cambelt? 18 Feb 2019 (Forum)
  of the way and tried starting it a few times, saying he thinks the cambelt had gone. The AA then eventually turned up and tried starting it a few times and said the same thing - cambelt gone. They towed the car back to her house. The next day she had a family friend mechanic
• Vectra cdti - 150 Need help egr ecu troubles. Pulling hair out 22 Jun 2017 (Forum)
  Hello all. New to this so not sure if im posting in correct place. Any help greatly appreciated.  Here we go. All started a cuple of weeks ago when the crank pulley broke sending the alternator belt behind pulley and bang. Car stops going. After getting towed home looked and seen
• Renault Laguna - AA Breakdown Repair Cover - Dont Waste your money 24 May 2014 (Forum)
  .   My car has since then broke down again. The day before the bank holiday (17 th April) we left our home towing a caravan for a six day holiday to the forest of dean.  We didn’t get very far.  Just 45min down the road before the clutch went, or so
• Used estate/MPV - holy grail sought. 16 Mar 2013 (Forum)
  to mid-long term servicing and repairs. I suppose things could change but our annual mileage is under 5k pa and it's mainly easy town miles and the odd motorway trip. Very little stop/start driving in heavy traffic and no towing. When I bought the car there was no choice but to have the diesel and I
• Renault - hope you can give me some advice.. gutted 19 May 2012 (Forum)
  . used car 2 days later same noise. 7 days later same noise. 8 days later on motorway handbrake engaged doing 70 wouldnt release. recovered by aa towed home. took to garage had diagnostic was told several cables had snapped all electrics were faulty cam sensor had gone aircon broke etc etc etc
• MGF P Reg Coolant Overheating 9 Jun 2007 (Forum)
  first thought was HGF, so I checked the oil, no milkyness. I called out the AA, they did their pressure and chemical tests and the car was fine. They towed me to a local garage who said it WAS HGF and the head had to be sent off for the tests - ie £££. I was not convinced so I got the AA out again
• Renault Scenic DCi100 problem 2 Nov 2004 (Forum)
  , hesitating and "chugging" at a certain throttle position, accompanied by clouds of smoke from the rear of the car. The car was towed back to a Renault garage , where they diagnosed a turbo fault and two weeks (!) later a new turbo was shipped in and fitted. I took the car home, and brought
• New Vehicles After Sales Faults 19 Jun 2003 (Forum)
  towed me back to the dealer . As the service dept. is closed on Sundays we were \'greeted\' by a member of the Sales team who told us to take the car back outside and leave it on the street. I said I was not happy to leave my 3 week old car in an Industrial Estate but his response was \"Well
• Don't try this at home. 22 Apr 2003 (Forum)
  and get a tow home. My own, Dad's and fellow neighbour classic car nut all think it's a head gasket failure. But it's used all its oil and the water isn't too depleted but it's below min on the expansion tank. As for the mayonnaise on the oil cap, nothing. The exhaust has no sooty water, just lots
• 2003 Peugeot 307 gxl auto h/b petrol - social financial emotional affects of car repairs 19 Feb 2019 (Forum)
    Three weeks ago I had my 2003 Peugeot 307 gxl h/b petrol towed to a nearby garage because it wouldn't fire up. The garage owner replaced fuel pump and sensor in a matter of a week, car still refused to start. The second week I telephoned, mentioned I was concerned about