I saw from an advert in the paper today that the new Transit is available in Front Wheel Drive or Rear Wheel Drive.

I have never heard of a vehicle being offered with these alternatives, has there been any others? Is this an example of how the Transit really is just a chassis that you can build whatever you want to onto in the way of engine, drive and bodystyle? Read more

Recently started having problems with the electrical supply. When I turn the ignition on the rev counter dial and speedo judder anti-clockwise from zero and the engine won't turn over, then the alarm starts, after leaving for a time, the engine just about turns over and starts.

No problems for about three months then, the fault happend again, in the morning, attempted to bump start the car down a hill, no good, called out a breakdown firm, who jump started the car battery, pulled up at my house switched off and started no problems

So, I replaced the car battery with a new Varta one, high crank output, last night, drove to work for a good hour travelling time and noticed the dash lights started to dim and the radio, switched itself on/off/on/off etc, so in the stupidity of me, I pulled over in the middle of nowhere and turned the engine off and stereo to recetify/reset the problem, turned key to start, battery flat, dash instruments filkering and alarm sounding.

Luckily left for two mins and there was enough power to start the car and drove to work.

At work got a torch to see what the battery indicator was showing (nothing) started and turned off the car three to four times no problems and the following morning, started first time?


Call anyone advise? Read more

Sorry for the lack of time to answer this but my son and I are going to look at a Clio tomorow for his first car. It is a 2002 1.2 16v with 50,000 miles. It is being sold to us at a good price as my son goes to school with the car dealers son.
Having just checked the C by C breakdown it appears that a timing belt change would probably be a good idea. The car dealer has his own garage facilities so he may offer to do it, or it may be best to keep the deal simple and have it done at a local independant.
Thanks in advance.
Alan. Read more

I have a Citroen C5 2.2 HDI 2001 Manual 74000 miles, I am sure i read somewhere that the cambelt needs changing at 100000 miles or 5 years whatever comes first, but i have called five different Citroen dealers and some said it doesn't matter about the time scale but should be changed at 100000 miles, some said it was 100000 miles or 10 years on the HDI engine and another one said best to have it changed now plus tensioners at 74000 miles. What do i do?? If the dealers don't know what chance have i got?? Please Help!! Thanks..... Read more

The new Jag's got a minor (!) problem. The airbag light is flashing an error code. A bit of internet trawling tells me it's flashing error code "19", but not what this might mean (except that on a Ford Taurus - same diagnostics possibly? it's a passenger seatbelt sensor)

Anyone on here know what this code represents or where I can find this info?

Thanks,

Vin Read more