December 2003
does anyone have any experience of a 205 leaking into the rear footwells? My girlfriends car (1991 peugeot 205 grd with the vacuum operated sunroof) has started to leak into the footwells and the metal depression where the rear seats sit (i.e. making the rear seats completely s**den). The water seems to be leaking into both footwells pretty much evenly. In addition to this after leaving the car for some time and then driving it again, the handle which operatesthe sunroof mechinism starts to drip water all over the people in the front seat. i've checked the sunroof channels using a watering can and they seem to be draining to the right place (just behind the front wheels and just behind the back wheels). des anyone have any ideas/tips for trying to locatethis very annoying leak. i cant find any obvious reason as to where the water is coming from.
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Hi guys!
Would someone kindly advise me what could be the cause of the following? On a 1985 VW T25 Transporter non-turbo 1.6 Diesel: has developed intermittent shuddering and 'misfiring' with a severe loss of power and white smoke from the exhaust when it throws a strop. Tends to be worst from start-up and gets a bit better when warms up but it can happen at any-time.
I've had a suggestion that the valve guides are worn. Whilst I'm fairly genned up on mechanics I'm not totally sure what the consequences of this are. Will it need a new cylinder head or just new valve-guide seals fitted?
Or is the problem something completely different in your opinion?? It had a life of short journeys for the past two years without much chance to warm up. It's quite an overstressed engine for the size of vehicle.
And advice would be VERY much appreciated!
Cheers, Stefan Read more
Could well be a malfunctioning fuel injector....the list is endless
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There must be a lot of you here who require overnight accommodation when on business so where do you stay which is reasonably priced? Reason I ask is because my wife and I were helping our daughter to move flats in Cambridge on Saturday and thought it would just take the day. However, by about 8 pm we realised that it would take all of Sunday as well and thought that, rather than drive 100 miles home and back again, we would stay overnight in Cambridge. Having spent many a night in France in motel type places (anything from £20 to £40 for a double room) and celebrated our 25th wedding anniversary in a wonderful chateau in a room which had a shower room, sitting room and bedroom with view over the moat and beautiful parkland for £120 a night we were somewhat taken aback (after Sleep Inn said they had no rooms left at about £50 a night) to be quoted £128 by one large chain and £160 by another. Now I realise that we may have been able to get B&B much cheaper, but at that time we didn't want to gamble and just wanted a basic room with en-suite and a decent breakfast. Most French towns would have a whole range of Formula One (rather basic), Premier, Kyriad,Etap, B&B, IBIS etc hotels all offering reasonable double rooms with en suite all for less than £50 (even in Paris). Are these not available here? We were offered Travelodge (or something) in Peterborough and other places miles away but even that seemed expensive when the choice for breakfast is McDonalds or Little Chef. In the end we drove home and then back again today.
Where do you stay when travelling and why do British hotels seem about twice as expensive as French (or German, Belgian etc?) Read more
Agree with HXJ; my parents, especially my father, are regulars there and has been for six years since I started university and now my sister's in her fourth year there.
It's more than they'd usually spend on a hotel but it's not bad value for what you get; the location is excellent, you can have a drink and a choice of restaurants, the breakfast is fantastic and the rooms are large, quiet, comfortable and well specified.
Best of all, you don't have to worry about a taxi or parking in the centre of town. If you can get the Crowne Plaza for less than about £100 it makes more sense than spending £60 on a Travelodge and then most of the difference on taxis to and from the centre if you are going out.
It is expensive, but with the university Cambridge is a conference centre, plus you get all the tourists and visitors for students - plus there's no room at all to build in the centre, so you're pretty much stuck with one of the three 4* plus hotels, or something very nearly as expensive and not as good, or something much further out.
So do you reckon this is true of the M4 J12 - 14 also? Everyone seemed to think that one was a hoax Read more
The local council/police force should post their use (speed camera van) on their web site.
Fife council only uses mobile units (not fixed cameras) to enforce speed limits. These are usually visible in the hard shoulder; doors open, with a beady red eye/camera fixed on the outside lanes.
There are usually markings on the van to indicate their purpose.
There are also mobile units operating on the M74 - I've gone under bridges with units monitoring traffic speed passing under.
I've never seen these units down South.
Who remembers the 1970 CAR magazine cover featuring the BSA Rocket 3, which they pitched against a Lotus?
I've had the rather stupid idea that I might like to save up for one.
Or perhaps I should be (slightly) more sensible and set my sights on the Z900.
Your thoughts, please? Read more
Funny this thread should resurface
Funny thing is, despite the interval, I still occasionally see myself in my mind's eye negotiating the curves and junctions of the A-road that bisects the town, astride that gleaming Hondamatic, taking bites from the breakfast muffin in my left hand...
I have bought a Rover 416Si (second hand). The heater was working although not very well but now it is not getting hot at all, just cold air. I have also noticed that with the 5 position heater blower control, only positions 4 and 5 work, no 1, 2 & 3. The "booster" works fine. Can anyone tell me how i can rectify these problems as there is no work shop manuals that cover from "P" reg upwards on this model. I have checked the coolant for oil and the engine runs sooth and does not over heat, so my guess is the head gasket is ok. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Steff. Read more
Thanks for the update.
Glad you were able to have it fixed before Crimbo!
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I,m investigating a problem on a Punto Sporting 1.2 16v(old model - 98). It starts and runs a tickover perfectly on all four cylinders. If you floor the throttle (at rest or on the move) it seems to drop to two cylinders(yes two - not three!). As soon as you back off the throttle all is then well.
Leads and plugs have been renewed, seemed to slightly improve but not cure the problem. If its damp the problem is worse, so I think it sounds like some sort of HT problem? The only thing left on the HT side is the coil pack - which interestingly looks as though its split up into pairs of cylinders. or is it the msin CPU.
Any suggestions before many GBP are invested in expensive coil packs and CPU's. Read more
Thanks for the replies,
Replacing the coil pack restored normal service!
PS The one on ErIndoor's Punto 1.216V HLX looks very different.
any one out there got any ideas on a x reg clio 16v non start.got no spark, checked engine control relay n/s/f/ inner wing, checked fuel relay, same place, fuel pressure is not good but don\'t have gauge to check, but with no spark at this stage not to bothered. Changed the crank sensor n/g is the ecu next?.
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Had this on my Polo onm Friday - needed the car Friday afternoon so it was a garage job - turned out to be the Ignition Coil. Could it be that? Sorry, but not familliar with that car.
A word of warning here.......
Be very, very wary about letting Mr Recovery Man replace ANY parts on your car in the event of a breakdown.
I speak from direct experience, last week.
Without going into too much detail, a customers 306 DT was proving difficult to start first thing....so they call the
I assume Mr 'Well-known recovery service' or an agent of theirs attends to the car at the customers home address, some 10 miles distant.
...Who promptly diagnose and replace a set of glow plugs.
Next day? No go.
On the blower to us, ranting and raving.
We get the car in, check the obvious. We assume the glow plugs are correct, remove the injectors and check them, OK, observe the glow plugs down through the open injector hole, yep, they're glowing OK.
Anyway, we spend quite some considerable time over the week doing this, checking that until I thought to myself - "Are those glowplugs correct for the car?"
Needless to say, a set of genuine (Beru!) Peugeot (Pt No 596203) glow plugs and all is well.
Do I have to say any more? Draw your own conclusions from that little story.......
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My best was when the recoverers came along when my mondeo wouldn't start on a slight slope and 'diagnosed' low fuel. OK it was quite low but it had been MUCH lower. He towed me up onto the flat and got it started and said I should go straight to a garage and fill up. He also said I'd need to get a new stop solenoid fitted as he'd 'had to break' the old one to get it off and had removed the middle so I'd have to stall the car to stop it. Made it to the petrol station and recovery man cleared off. Filled up and problem promptly came back. Rolled for ages trying to bump start it then phoned recoverers again. Different bloke turned up, slagged off the previous one for not having followed us far enough and worked out what the real problem was, then towed us home behind his transit.
Actual problem was a knackered fuel pump (could pump the hand primer all night and it didn't tension up - why the first monkey didn't spot that I don't know.) All credit to the second guy but I could have cheerfully punched the first one, who even drove away with a sarcastic comment about low fuel.
We've since changed recovery firms.
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The sky in the UK can be deceptively bright and can cause called veiling glare. This is a lighting engineers term for a condition where a bright background reduces visual acuity. It can also result at night from non-cutoff street lights. It would parallel Alan Kearn's description of the effect of cateracts in the 'Let There Be Light' thread.
I find driving much more relaxing if I keep the sun visors down day and night. I began doing this when I drove in Zambia, where the sunlight is much brighter.
Sometimes passengers automatically put the visor back up because they can?t see the sky. I tell them that I am only interested in what is down on the road, and that aeroplanes are a distraction.
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On a recent business trip to Gothenburg, I ask the cabbie
why he was driving with his sun visor down, when the
time was after midnight.
His answer was that under Swedish scamera law, the driver has
to be identified for the charge to stick, so by leaving
his visor down, it was easier to 'hide' if necessary!
Not sure whether to believe him or not, but he sounded
convincing.
SjB, your taxi driver knows his Swedish scamera law.
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havent had a chance to look at it again unfortunately. hoping to get some time over christmas. according to girlfriends dad it does appear to be both door seals. seems funny to me that they've both gone at the same time though. i'll keep you all posted. thanks again for the replies