February 2007
My FIL's Polo hatchback has a blown number plate light bulb. Does anyone know which bulbs these are and how I remove the light fitting please, so I can go forearmed! Cheers. Read more
hi, i have a 1999 citroen berlingo multispace 1.9 diesel it has developed a fault. you can't lift your foot off the clutch pedal with the engine running! because of a loud grinding/screeching sound coming from the gearbox, but you can still get the gears ok,, any suggestions please as i hope this is not going to cost me an arm and a leg thanks!! Read more
Hi Can anyone help me or offer advice with a problem I have with my Focus?
Its a 99 T plate 1.6 Zetec with 51k on the clock. Recently the dashboard instruments have started behaving oddly when I turn the ignition on to start the car. When the ignition key is turned to start the engine, all of the dials (temp, revs, speedo & fuel guage) spin round to their maximum points, before returning to their normal positions, as if they are resetting themselves, also the digital tripometer resets to zero (the total mileage indicator stays as it is though). I have had no electrical work done to the car recently & the car drives fine, with no misfiring, flat spots or stalling, & all other electrical components (radio, windows etc) are operating as normal. I dont know if anyone has had the same thing happen to them?
Any thought or advice is gratefully received.
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i need help or advice on removing the drives from the gearbox on my subaru 97, its a japeneese import(excuse the spellin) thanx btw it has to be done asap Read more
I've paid someone to do a clutch change on one of my scoobies. I got to the place whilst they were still putting it back together so i know that they didn't take the engine out. I do know there there's a lot of other parts that do need removing including some of the suspension.
'Sorry that I can't offer any more advice other than to say that you're very brave tryign this yourself if you need the car back on teh road quickly.
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Don't know whether this is the right place to ask, but does anyone know if there are any (trackside) parking areas for handicapped drivers at Le Mans? I've mailed the ACO, but no reply so far and I see the official car parks are filling up fast. Be grateful for any advice on the best direction to drive in from on race day too, there were a lot of new roads being built last time I was there in 2000. Many thanks for all replies to my previous postings too.
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You drive in according to instructions;all the car parks are signposted from the Le Mans ring-road with police on all junctions waving at you to go faster.Similar on the way-out.Silverstone-please copy..
I know that nearly always in the event of a rear end shunt it's the driver behind who's to blame as they should have been able to stop in time, but is this still the case if the brake lights of the car in front are defective? I was shunted from behind at a give way onto a roundabout where the driver behind thought I had joined the roundabout but I had in fact only moved forward in the queue to the give way line and there is a possibility that the rear brake lights did not work (I find they are not working now 3 weeks later but whether they were defective at the time, I'm unsure). Is this one case where I could be to blame assuming my lights were defective, or should the driver behind always legally be able to stop despite my car not giving a brake light signal at the give way line to say I was coming to a stop not continuing onto the roundabout. Many thanks in anticipation.
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>>Is this one case where I could be to blame assuming my lights were defective
To all intents and purposes - no.
>>should the driver behind always legally be able to stop
Yes. The driver behind should be able to stop without hitting you even if you hit a brick wall and stopped dead with no warning.
My friend has an M-reg Mondeo which, after heavy rain, has water ingress in the front passenger footwell. There aren't huge puddles or anything but he likened it to someone that had been sitting there with wet shoes! I assume therefore the water is falling from above, i.e. glove box / dashboard area or possibly roof / windscreen / door. I know thats a lot of areas to start looking, so does anyone know of any common points where these cars might leak? Thanks. Read more
Is there anything you don't know about cars?
Plenty - I can assure you. Fortunately there are many others here who are knowledgeable in those areas that I am not.
ps, I am guessing it's the pollen filter cover, going on other postings on here. It may however be something else.
I hope to visit the USA later this year and have been looking at car rental websites.
I found that a two-week rental on Dollar's .com site was priced at USD550 - with no request to state the driver's nationality. Using the same company's .co.uk site produced a figure of about GBP400 for the same rental. Now, even allowing for non money market rates, this is a big difference!
So, do US rental companies 'load' foreign drivers - or would they honour (or honor) the dollar amount quoted? Do UK-based ones do the same? Read more
What the other posters in this thread have said is true. The cost in dollars you've been quoted includes no insurance of any type, because for US drivers it's usually included on their own car insurance.
But the answer isn't necessarily to do it through a .co.uk site and pay the extra.
This company (and there are a few others I think):
www.insurance4carhire.com/
will provide all the necessary insurance to allow you to use the dollar price, and save a bundle. If you do a fourm search on here for US car rental, you'll find it has been recommended by several people. For myself, it saved us enough money to mean we could afford to spend our honeymoon in a convertible rather than a Neon.
Would anyone know the reason for amber dash board light on 98 vectra. The symbol is of a engine with a bolt of lighting type shape in the middle. Thanx. Read more
The reason is simple - a fault has been detected by the ECU. You'll need to get the fault code read out to diagnose the problem.
Depending on your mechanical skills, you can either do this yourself with a paperclip and following the instructions on the the site I am about to mention, or cross a mechanics palm with silver and get him to put his fault code reader on it for you.
www.topbuzz.co.uk/info/fault_codes/fault_codes.htm
The diagnostic plug, by the way is under a removable cover beneath the handbrake. Post back the fault code(s) results if you do the DIY approach and someone will *try* and help you further.
Hi ,I have a Rover P6 3500 which runs a treat . In heavy traffic however its different story. Cutting out ,misfiring comes to mind. Leave it to cool down and im away again. Ive been told its vapour lock . New to me this is. How do i over come this please? Read more
David
I had the misfortune to run a 3500S in the baking summer of '76. It's the fuel pump that causes the problem - and the lack of a return line. The most successful quick-fix was to wrap the pump in a [well-secured] cloth and soak it in water.
Maybe a deflector plate to stop the fan blowing hot air straight at the pump would help? Fitting a proper return line would be the best bet. As said; that wing-mounted unit off a carb Sierra might fit the bill.
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hi, if you open the tail gate so your lookin directly at the casement, there should be two inset screws either side, remove them and you might have to take the boot trim off aswell. once you've done that, it should fall out.