October 2006
hi all
bought a escort van with a rover r660 radio cassette player made by philips clip of security display
i have a code on the radio but one of the previous owners has replaced the alternater so the code has been lost and then re entered incorrected will it reset via the freezer trick or will it need dealer work
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Went over to France two days ago from Poole. After checking in and before loading all cars were stopped and searched by Securitas badged staff, ostensiby for weapons.
The old boy who "did" me couldn't have found a can of beans in Tesco. Didn't look under the car (no mirrors etc), didn't check the spare wheel well, nor under the rear seat. Most cursory, and by the looks of him it was his first or second day, after a 30 min training course. The others on the team had that "fresh from the Jobcentre" look about them. Their hi-viz waistcoasts were still creased from the packet.....
I'm guessing that these people are paid for by the Maritime and Coastguard agency - what a waste of time and money. Read more
I'm still quivering Westy.
Is it too early to hit the bottle?
Just something I've noticed as the weather has got damp and cooler.
The Mondeo's demister is absolutey superb if I use the air-con, the car being driveable even on a cold start within about 10-15 seconds. Trouble is, when I then turn off the air-con, the car slowly mists up again (over the space of 5 minutes or so), regardless of blower setting, temperature or air direction. The only way to clear it seems to be to turn the air-con on again (when it clears almost instantly)
This is not the first A/C equipped car I've had to suffer from this - just wondered if anyone had any idea why some A/C equipped cars seem to need the A/C on to stay demisted?
This morning (8°C) was particularly bad.
Cheers
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On the Mondeo I don't get a choice. The a/c switches
on automatically when the screen demisters are selected, and can't be
turned off until the air is routed elsewhere. >>
On mine I can direct air at the screen as well as, or instead of, the feet, face vents etc or select demist where the fans run faster and all is directed to the screen automatically, I hardly ever use the latter because the former does the job along with, if required, the heated screen.
I live in Berkshire and have to commute 4 days a week into the city of London. For several years I've battled with the hopeless public train/tube system, but now enough is enough. I've tired of waiting, standing on delayed trains, unbareable heat, body odour (other peoples!), people sneezing over me, baggage been dropped on my head, excessive prices fares, extorinate parking.... you've got the picture I'm driving in.
I've got the parking sorted, at a very reasonable price.
Has anyone got good advice for surving driving in to central London on a week day basis!!!
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What fun. I seem to remember HJ quite liked them (of course he's a car freak and finds something to like in most cars), and I believe shunting through urban and slowish A road traffic is where they are at their most economical, although hurrying down the motorway they are less so.
They are certainly very quiet from the outside. Remember pedestrians can't hear you coming. There are quite a lot about in my bit of London now.
Help!! I have a 4 year old Rover 25 turbo diesel which has done 73,000 miles. Regularly serviced and timing chain done. Suddenly lost power on the motorway and emitted copious amounts of black smoke. Limped it to work and called a well known breakdown service, who came and checked it and said it was fine. Said it could have been the exhaust gas recirculator. But it didn't get any better. Feels like the choke is permanently on. Took it to a local garage who said that the exhaust pipe was crushed and this was causing the problem. But it is still the same.
Petrol {Typo amended - DD} Diesel consumption has increased by 50%. Any ideas?? Read more
Dear Rover User,
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....according to the inventor of the common rail system, Fiats EVP of Powertrain research and technology development. He admitted that the EU wanted low consumption and CO2 so gave the engine designers time to work on other emissions and produce diesel engines with high levels of NOx etc.
Euro V in 2009 and VI in 2104 will require a drastic reduction in particulates (75%). Diesels are already 50% more costly to build than petrol and these standards will make them more expensive still.
It will be cheaper to modify petrol engines to achieve the Euro standards and also give similar torque, better emissions and only a 10% shortfall in consumption compared to diesels.
So basically to achieve the std, diesels will be much more expensive with minimal advantages.
2009 are the timescales for the new petrol engines. The complexity with these petrol engines will be in the software not the hardware.
Personally I have never been a fan of diesels because I always thought that they were stinking cancer causing lumps of environmental trouble (well more so than petrol anyway), so this is excellent news.
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Re that huge 2-stroke diesel ship engine - supercharged 2-stroke 'uniflow' diesel engines did enjoy some popularity in commercial vehicles and in locomotives.
Foden offered their FD and FE 2 strokes up until the 70's, though most of their lorries had Gardner engines. Commer used their unusual 3 cylinder opposed-piston TS3 engine while some Bedford TMs had Detroit Diesel 2-stokes.
The famous Deltic diesel loco took its name from the two Napier Deltic 18-cylinder, 36-piston, 3-crankshaft opposed piston supercharged 2-stroke engines - surely one of the most unusual engine designs ever!
The Class 59 and 60 freight locos common today have GM 2-strokes too.
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I have a Mkiv golf V5 auto engine code AGZ which is suffering from poor idling and hesitation.
I took it to a garage and it kicked up a number of faults - throttle body short to ground, mixture problems, and ecu defect. I was told to change the throttle body and that would cure it all.
After changing the throttle body, the fault was not rectified so i took it to another garage to get the codes cleared, and now the ecu reads no codes however.. the car is still juddering and shaking a lot while stationary and also while taking off.
There is a smell of burning oil from the exhaust and also a lot of fluid (not sure what) is dripping from the exhaust.
I am no car expert but just wish to get down to the bottom of this.
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I had problems with my 2001 V5 on idling and misfiring - it was the coil packs on top of the spark plugs - They are renowned for failure on 99 - 02 VAG Vehicles and VW will honour them under warranty as i had them all changed FOC - The car smelt bad as fuel was being pushed thru the exhaust and cat - Hope that helps
Has anyone bettered 71MPG on a Mondeo diesel?
Firstly I have managed to get 71 miles per gallon out of a Mondeo 2 litre diesel with 130BHP as an experiment! Amazing considering the 37 miles from Worthing to home on A27 includes roundabout on the chichester by pass. I drove at steady 56 - 60 MPH and lifted off accelerator when approaching roundabouts and accelerated very very gently as if pressing against an egg! this was done during 9pm - 10pm. I must stress I dont normally drive like this - would drive me mad!
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SWMBO takes our TDCi 130 Mondeo from Wales to Manc and back Mon - Fri and she gets 47 - 51mpg depending on delays. Very rare to get any less. The trip comp always reads over by a couple of mpg.
What do you guys think of the Vauxhall's semi-auto gearbox?
Like the one in the Signum 2.2 dti.
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I really like the semi auto. I've got the 3.2 Vectra. Around town I only use auto. But on motorways it's usually in semi mode. I haven't mastered a non-harsh kickdown on fully auto, but when you are sitting in a line of fast traffic just waiting for the guy ahead to move over it is much easier to sit in 5th then manually change down than use the kick down. Also useful for on-ramps of motorways.
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Thank you for this post, just saved my bacon
Jonty