December 2006
Good day guys, i have a Pug 306 on a Y plate and i am having probelms with my central locking on the rear doors, sometimes they work sometimes they don't.
One think i have noticed is when they are not working the interior light does not light when the door is opened.
I'm thinking the door sensor switches may need locking at, anyone know where they are or how it senses whether the door is open or not??
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I see in Saturday's Telegraph HJ is advocating removing governors from HGVs. I know he's anti speed-hump (mmm...) and anti speed cameras (getting dafter) - but has he taken leave of his senses completely?
I don't want to be on wet roads with 40 ton artics jack-knifing at 90mph - we waste enough time in HGV-instigated hold-ups on the A14 as it is!
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"The answer is for governors to allow up to ten minutes unrestricted speed every hour, so permitting safer and shorter overtaking."
And the end result would be ten minutes of madness followed by 50 minutes of exactly the behaviour that is being complained about in here. Human nature would take its course, I think.
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I hears rumours of a Captain Gatso who was going round disabling speed cameras but have no details. Is he alive and well? Was he a ficticious character? Please enlighten. Read more
There was also an anti-clamping 'hero' who went around un-clamping cars - haven't heard of him lately either
I'll sign it.
Reduce motoring taxes, increase Income Tax to compensate, that'll suit me nicely! Read more
SIGNED.........
I need to find a mid sized car for a disabled friend - max budget 2k.My thinking is a mid-late nineties Corolla or similar.Please post your thoughts on dependable autoboxes as I have little experience of them. Thanks. Read more
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The 'dot' was another way of bumping the message back up the list, but quite why the OP has done this after announcing he's found a car....
Well, over the past 12 months or so we have all read many posts about Common Rail Diesel engines being ticking time bombs. Mr Aprillia wouldnt touch one; and that scares me.
Im sitting here wonedring when my 03 plate HDI is going to trash its fuel system and leave me with a bill for £2500. One of the main reasons for opting for a diesel is the expected reliabilty and longevity. The suggestion now seems to be that we can expect neither. And we pay a significant premium for the privilege of this uncertainty. There are hundreds of thousands of us driving around in these HDI / TDI / PD /TDCI / Multijet thingies, so to try to calm my nerves i would like to ask all common rail backroomers a question or three......who amoungst us has actually has their engine / fuel system trash itself? what went wrong, at what mileage did it happen and how much did it cost to rectify? Then we can make a judgement on the magnitude of the problem.
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Before I bought my A4 130 TDi with the PD engine, I had a Rover 75 with just over 225,000 when I traded it in. It suffered fuel pump failure near the engine (think it was the high pressure pump) and along with the ecu suspecing problems was going to cost over £2000 to fix. Shame really as the engine and especially the car was fine otherwise and used no oil and was as sweet as a nut.
This wasnt the first time there were fuelling problems and the guy who owned it beforehand had 2 pumps replaced in the tank at over £600 each and one in the engine bay. I am hoping the PD system will be more reliable and expect from research it will be.
The garage said that common rail units dont like being run too low on fuel and to keep the tank above 1/4 full at all times to avoid problems (this wasnt rover 75 specific!). My Dad owned my Audi before me and rarely filled up until the car bleeped at him to say it needed filling and 113,000 later it is fine.
I will run another common rail but not in the near future, the PD unit is far more economical and has more torque than any commonrail I have driven or been driven in.
I'm thinking about it... But according to the blurb on a retention certificate I've got, my deal is with the Sec of State, and it isn't transferable to anyone else. Which sounds like 'You've bought it, but once you don't want it it reverts to me, the S of S".
I guess I can sell the mark if it's on a car. Is that the only way I can do it? I feel a call to the DVLA coming on... but can anyone shed a bit of light before I do? (It might help me understand a bit more what they say.)
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If its on retension, it can be transfered or sold surely?
I have just put a deposit on a 2 year old scenic 1.9 dci - it drives beautifully but first to second there is a distinctive clunk. Can anyone tell me if this is normal on the scenic or should I worry? It doesnn't cluk when changing down from third.
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Hi, intermittent starting problem with my '95 Passat TD. Turning the starter sometimes it will start instantly, other times symptoms of completely flat battery. Starter clicks, dashboard lights go hay-wire, clock & trip meter reset to zero & electric windows start to come down!! Suspect poor earth somewhere ? Battery OK, have removed and cleaned battery leads and all obvious earth connections around engine bay. (electric sunroof and interior light also inoperative- though fuses OK) Have read on this forum that later Passats had a junction box under passenger seat that could play up, Is there something similar on this model, hidden out of the way somewhere, that could produce these symptoms?
Have also just replaced starter motor with new unit- so assume to be OK?
All advice appreciated? Many thanks. Read more
Eventually tracked down chaffed insulation on a live feed going into the loom on the inner wing, presumably causing intermittent short, hence symptoms. Suspect there may be another short somewhere. Have picked up a very low voltage ( c.0.3v) between battery earth and front bonnet shut panel. Presume this should be Zero ?
I had a drive last night in my mate's new company motor, a nice shiny black 56 reg Skoda Fabia vRS, and was impressed. A lot.
If you want a small, economical car that's a bit of a laugh, do not buy anything without test driving one of these. The combination of the 130PS VAG PD engine and the tiny Fabia bodyshell works brilliantly. I have never driven another car whose engine just flings it so effortlessly up the road whatever gear it is in. It's really nicely put together as well with good quality interior plastics, and lovely sports seats.
Performance, particularly in the higher gears just had me laughing out loud. 4th is particularly amusing, taking you from 30 mph to illegal speeds in one great big wallop of torque. I can't remember the last time a £12k car actually made me smile, never mind laugh. Performance feels on a par with the Alfa 156 2.4 JTD M-Jet I drove a year or two ago, which is claimed to hit 60 in 8 seconds, not the 9.3 Skoda claim for the vRS. One of the manufacturers is miles out, and if my butt-o-meter is even half accurate, I suspect it's not Alfa Romeo.
Steering is typical VAG overassisted numbness, but the handling is taut and precise with a firm ride and good body control that never seems to overstep the mark into discomfort or crashiness. Build quality looks flawless with decent quality plastics and nice even panel gaps. For the money, it's an amazing car.
If someone had told me 10 years ago that I would be excited over a Skoda diesel, I would never have believed them. It's the only affordable car I've tried recently that has been truly memorable.
I want one!
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I was torn between this and a Golf Tdi Sport earlier this year. The vRS is great fun to drive and it will have you smiling all the way to the diesel pump...
But...
It's an old model now and I was looking for something to keep for the duration of a four year lease.
The plastics inside were old and blocky, and not as well fitted as in the Golf (says she, who has just pulled her gear lever top off).
There were a lot of rattles and squeaks, even on a test drive, and serious road noise on the one I tested.
The seats were nasty and the leather option ridiculously expensive.
Couldn't fault the customer service though, much better than I've had from VW.
If it was my own money, I'd have had a Skoda in black, definitely. Because someone else was paying and I had to keep it a while, the better specced Golf just swung it. And the end to that story is....I'm already bored of the Golf!
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Moves question across to Technical Matters - DD