November 2003
I've got a jagged three-inch long scratch down a door - it's not too deep but needs sorting. The colour - for what it's worth - is dark blue metallic. Any advice on how to restore it appreciated... I'd obviously prefer to DIY. Thanks. Read more
Hope someone can help me out here. I recently replaced the complete cylinder head and head gasket on this engine 3 weeks ago. The head is totally reconditioned skimmed new valves etc. New head bolts were fitted and torqued to the specified limits. The problem is over the last fortnight a little oil seems to be coming out the left hand side of the head gasket. This is were the main oil feed and return holes are in the block. As this is the timing belt side you cannot possibly see the head and block joint because of the protective metal cover. The oil is not coming from cam seals or anywhere else it seems to me. I was wondering if maybe could i torque the head down a little more to try and seal this up. The engine is running like new. And as some may know the XUD 9 engine is almost always permantly covered in oil in all peugeots!. Any help and advice is appreciated.
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I have a J reg Citroen ZX which ocasionally cuts out on me while driving and will not restart. I have found success in restarting it if I unplug and reconnect the ignition amplifier unit on the side of the distributor. It then restarts straight away. I have replaced the amplifier and the coil and it still does this. As it only does this sometimes then I cannot take it to a garage, as they can't fix/pretend they have fixed it and I won't know till it does it again. It hasn't really done it all summer, but has started to do it again as the weather has turned a little colder.
The problem is driving me made as I can't find out whats wrong with it. Why does unclipping and reconnecting the amplifier solve the problem?
Can someone please help as I find it a bit worrying that the engine can just cut out on me whilst driving, but I can't see any way round it without it costing me a fortune at garage, to maybe not even have the problem resolved.
Any advice would be much appreciated. Read more
Thanks guys,
However I do have a few questions.
1. Would condensation in the electrics cut the car off after already driving for quite some time (over half an hour at least, would the water not have dispersed once the engine gets heated up)?
2. Can I use a stroboscope rather than sparking to check the electrics (or do I have to see that a spark is produced)?
3. Does anyone know why unplugging and reconnecting the ignition amplifier makes it start again (does this reset some kind of cut off)?
Hopefully (perhaps not) it will cut out again soon and I can test the electrics and I can let you know what happened.
Thanks
Liam
Hello all. I have a 1999 Xantia 1.9 TD which I'm having trouble starting. At the beginning of the year it was very rough on cold startups so I had the glowplugs changed. After this, all seemed well. Then recently, I've been having problems all over again. I returned it to the garage I bought it from (Peugeot main dealer) and they diagnosed a broken connection to one of the glowplugs, which they repaired free of charge for me. Again, all was well, but this morning I came to firing it up... and it wouldn't!
The symptoms are similar to those experienced when you've run out of fuel. I start to turn the car over and it turns and turns and turns for about 20 - 30 seconds before it considers firing. This is then accompanied by some smoke (hard to tell colour). Sounds like glowplugs again I know, but when checked last week, the garage said they were functioning ok. I also thought there may be air in the system somewhere, but why did it seem to be ok once the garage had seen to the offending wire, especially when I'd been having difficulty each time I started from cold? I must also point out that I doubt they're lying to me because my mum works there!
There are absolutely no problems with the motor once it's running, so I find it hard to imagine the injectors are at fault, but who knows?! Does anyone have any suggestions? Pre-heating relay perhaps?
Thanks in advance if you can help.
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FWIW we are in "dead battery season" as temperatures drop. Might be worth checking the battery if it's "mature". These machines take a lot of cranking over, especially on cold mornings.
I am keeping a close eye on my XM with its original battery which is starting "uncleanly" at the moment.
Ditto above comment on plugs. Cheap ones are expensive in the long run. My Halfords ones lasted a few months...
Digital multimeters are around a tenner from Maplin and well worth the investment.
HTH
rg
'97 XM 2.5
Can any BR tell me if the wiring for the rear speakers is in situ, on a Toyota Carina E basic XL model,or do I need to run new speaker wires to the rear. This model does not have rear speakers fitted as standard. I was told by someone that they normally run the wires,but then tuck them behind the rear trim,and only use them on the higher spec models where the rear speakers are standard. I cannot seem to locate them. Any ideas. Read more
If.which I think is usual the speaker wires are hidden in the wiring loom.not knowing the toyota cannot specify but whatever side the loom is run on the speaker wire`s should be in the loom you will need to know the code for the cables though in order to find them
If I go to court and pay a fine, who does the money go to? Read more
It would depend on the offence you were arrested for.
Having been sat in the inside lane of the motorway, watching the outside lane of traffic move slower than my lane all because the car at the front of that lane was doing 40mph, isnt it about time we introduced the legal ability to overtake on both sides?
I experienced this in Australia and it works fantastically. Traffic keeps moving, a lot less anger, and more fluid driving. Read more
and one is a buslane for
2 hours in the morning as displayed on large blue signs,
but 90% of people just see BUS LANE painted on the
floor and assume it means all the time and pip and
stick fingers up at me for passing them on the left
as they stagger over the humps.
Please do not tell the world about this. These bus lanes are one of the small enjoyments of motoring in the urban environment.
Using them always makes me smile and yes I get the same sort of responses as you.
You have an even better run at the end of the evening rush hour when the lighting is poor and the sign says 7AM to 7 PM.
And while I am smiling please do not ecourage people to read OS maps so I can navigate through the countryside around traffic jams.
Under a new technology initiative supported by the Irish government, thousands of cars in Ireland are soon to be fitted with 'black boxes', to answer Ireland's call for a comprehensive, telematics-based, automobile-crash information network. The network will improve road safety, speed emergency response, fight fraud and reduce the cost of automobile insurance through the use of customized, in-vehicle data recorders commonly known as "black boxes" in the aerospace industry.
The data recorders will do two things. Firstly they will flash both the location and severity of the crash to emergency service providers allowing emergency services depending on the type of crash to dispatch the most appropriate expertise and help to the scene of the accident. Secondly, the boxes will provide accurate and objective information about the crashes themselves data that will effectively fill a knowledge void unaddressed in Europe until now by traditional crash investigation techniques. Public agencies, investigators, policy makers and ultimately the travelling public will benefit from access to this more timely and accurate crash data. Read more
According to my local Volvo service manager Black boxes are already fitted to Volvos. They record data such as, speed, braking/ABS function, airbag deployment, engine data ie, oil, water temp and other stuff I can't remember. This data can also be used by Volvo to check the validity of certain warranty claims. The Police or insurance company can have access to the data for accident investigation purposes I believe.
So, would they need a warrant or a court order to obtain the data as surely the data would belong to the registered keeper?
On the back of the "What's so special about Mondays" thread which turned into "Why does drizzle snarl up roads?", I made an observation about the newish section of the M60 a few weekends ago.
Often do a 'circuit' of the M60 when babysitting a friends 1 year old, as baby falls asleep more easily in the car than on my shoulder.
A couple of Sundays ago it was raining very heavily. I noticed that there was a marked difference in driving conditions on different sections of the motorway, even though it was the same rain.
Between the M62 and Ashton-under-lyne, which was the last section of the ring road to go in, all the matrix signs were warning of a skid risk. I also noticed that there were fixed signs at the side of the road warning of flood risk. The rain water was just not draining away at all, and conditions were such that 30mph was the order of the day. As soon as the older section of the road was reached, the matrix signs were off, and the surface water was almost no-existant, yet the rain volume remained the same.
Seems to me to be quite a flaw in the construction of that section of the M60. Read more
the m62 - 2 miles of bumps are hardly better between birchwood and m60.
Browse
The XUD9 on my Pug 405 had an oil and gas leak from the injector side of the head for at least 50K, did not loose coolant or overheat, kept passing emissions tests, started OK, etc, etc.
It "bubbled" small amounts of gas and oil, rather like lard in a frying pan.
When I scrapped it at 251K it was due to a dead diff, worn door hinges, worn rear suspension bearings, dead sunroof, and the appeal of a one-owner FSH XM 2.5 estate. No doubt it would have run on with the same leak for many more miles.
HTH
rg