I appear to have a faulty coolant temperature sensor(temperature guage display sometimes dosent register although when it does temp is normal, when this happens wiggling temperature sensor restores guage) Car is Golf mk iv 1.4 litre petrol.
Re replacing local Vw suggested that it was not necessary to drain coolant providing cap on header tank was not removed. That is minimal coolant loss if cap on header tank is maintained. Can anyone explain or has anyone done this and can offer advice.
Ian Read more

Hello everyone, my sister has a Nissan Micra 1.3LX, from 1994, and it judders whilst pulling away from a junction. When we had a diagnostic check done on the car, we have been told the problem is the air flow meter, but a different garage did a diagnostic check and said it was the throttle body, please could someone help, as we cant keep paying £35 for diagnostic checks. Many thanks in advance. Read more

Hi,

Wonder if there are any Citroen Guru's out there?

My Wife's car 'Citroen Xsara 1400 Forte Regeration 2000' has just been serviced and broke down this evening as the fuel filter clip had not been done up properly.

Green Flag got it going and I think needed to use the starter a lot to get the fuel going again.

Here is the problem.

The the Rev counter and Speeometer have some how spun round and are now resting the opoisite side of the speedo stop. (Where the needle rests against the stop the needle is the wrong side)

The rev counter did this one other cold moring when trying to jump start the car (The speedo and rev needle went haywire) but then fixed its self.

Anyideas on how to correct this problem.

Thanks in advance!

Jlo Read more

A couple of times recently I've noticed houses on terraced streets, with no parking restrictions, with signs in the window regarding parking. Neither were particularly polite - one just said "No Parking", the other "You don't live here, don't park here". Both these streets were not near a town centre or somewhere where people park all day, but were near shops, where presumably people frequently park for a couple of minutes.

Whilst I appreciate that these signs are completely unenforcable, what do people think of this practice? I try to be a considerate parker and would never block a driveway etc, but I personally think this is going a bit far. These houses are on public roads with no parking restrictions and the signs are demands, not requests. I can sympathise with people who live somewhere where there are cars constantly parked outside their houses all day, but the two I have seen aren't on particularly busy roads.

I didn't park, on the basis that I didn't want to take the risk return to a scratched car. What would other people do?

Brian Read more

I drove for a while behind a Mondeo TDCi yesterday, that was blowing big puffs of black smoke out of it's exhaust for most of the time. We were not travelling particularly quickly (60 mph max) and for part of the time we were travelling through a 30 mph limit. It was smoking badly under the most gentle acceleration and it is just one of many that I have seen do this.

Is this not recognised as a widespread problem by Ford and have they tried to rectify it? I have seen it with Focus TDCis too. Read more