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My Ford Focus 2003 remote will lock car but will not unlock car, key in lock works OK. Do you think it's the remote battery?
After a small bump my high insurance excess meant paying for damage myself. A good bodywork job was done but the nearside indicators are inoperative. The garage checked everything (broken wires, fuses...
I bought a 2008 Laguna a year ago and the speed limiter/cruise control worked. The car is going in for its 4 year service and the garage wants to charge me £83 just to check the limiter/cruise control...
When locked, the alarm keeps going off.
When cold, the central locking only unlocks drivers side. Unlocks when driving, when it's warmed up.
I run a Vauxhall Corsa diesel 1.3 Club, 58 plate, 43,000 miles on the clock, regularly serviced. It is a driving school car. Recently, in the middle of the day, the engine suddenly faded and cut out...
I have a 2005 Vauxhall Meriva. First of all the horn started playing up and would only work occasionally, then it stopped all together. Then the wiper jets started working only now and and again, then...
All the windows of my 2009 Octavia estate open when the handbrake release is pressed.
When I switch the headlights on steering arm switch, it doesn't come and sometimes it does - I checked all fuses they are fine
The indicators stopped working whilst driving along. When I stopped, the central locking also not working, and the radio operating switch on steering wheel - and blue main beam headlights indicator lamp...
 

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