April 2007
Hi,
My Daughter has an '02 Corsa in red. It gleams but unfortunately the bonnet and roof have become 'milky'. I did polish with the 'buy from Halfords' colour majic and it did restore it for a few days. Is there a better solution (other than a respray). I want the bonnet and roof to look like the rest of the car.
Your advice and suggestions - as alwatys are appreciated.
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Just had the second coil pack in less than 2 years and 19k replaced on the 1.6 Megane, done by the RAC at home,they carry a variety of OE coils onboard as I was told that they are such a common fault. They go without warning and cause the auto box to go into limp home mode just as well I was local to home. The RAC man recommended that I buy a spare to carry and showed me how to change it, it really is a 30 second job. Have any other members had any problems. Read more
Aprilia's right; the pencil coils on the 16-valve Renaults are unique to them. There are three makers: Sagem [by far the worst - changed dozens;] Beru [better - but rare] and Denso [never changed one yet that wasn't drowned.] If they're before 330-3 date code; you can still wangle a free set.
The Scenics drip scuttle water onto the engine, that floods the plugholes and kills the coils; a basic design fault that doesn't help already hideously unreliable components at all.
VAG single coils are completely different and seem to be inadequately cooled; the later ones are better. BMW suffer from water ingress too and the Jag V8 ones just die for fun. Even Dodge Viper twin-spark ones suffer.
Plugholes are too hot and suffer too much vibration for what is essentially a coil and [often] an electronic amplifier. Saab started the idea in the 70's with the 4-way drop-in amp/coilpack. An elegant solution - but their dealers still sell two a day.....
Hi Posters,
This topic is far shot from cars...but here gos the story...
I wanted to get someone to install some metal railings at the boundary line of the driveway between my drive and the car trader's drive (neighbour). We share a semi-detached house with the drives adjoining each other and separated by a boundary line (about 1 inch height block pave brick - not sure the official name to described this)
My driveway had been constantly being used (trespassed) by the neighbour car trader, and our family car always get the dings and scratches due to the culprit neighbour's. The neighbour is a car trader whose has a second hand car business and every wekend he takes one or two back to his home to sell. I guess he is performing a private sale to avoid the obvious reasons. The drives are small (average width of a normal family size car), so when he drives his M5 and other larger cars he has to manoever (spelling) his cars onto my drive in order to drive his cars into his own drive.
Can anyone suggest some ways of protecting my drive and car being damaged? I thought if I install some metal railings that may at least stop my cars being damages and stop the neighbours coming onto my private drive to get into his cars. However, I'm not sure if I need planning permission or just go ahead and get someone to install it. (I think it will involve digging my side of the drive and fit some metal post to support the metal rails.) Not sure about the cost though...
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>> I will have a look at my Deed soon and report back.
:: ;-) :: come on, get on with it and do it now. :: ;-) ::
people have been asking you to do so a number of times, starting from
Installing Railings to driveway boundary - Chris M
Is there anything in your deeds about whether you can or can't erect a fence?
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Its knows if one is plugged in, there are a series of the pins shorted that can provide an indication the screen is there, but not if its turned on or any feedback to wake a PC up on an event. I mean what external events are there on a screen? it just does what the pc tells it to do
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I have noticed two separate Mondeo MK3 vehicles one on a 51 plate and the other on an 02 registration that have corrosion issues. The sill quite close to the front wheel on the nearside has started to corrode. On one example this was severe and it would be borderline with regards to an MOT pass. This corrosion does seem to be starting from the inside. Considering the Mondeo is supposed to be "electro galvanised" this does seem strange. I can confirm that it is NOT a bodged repair from accident damage on both vehicles as I have inspected both very closely. Has anyone else encountered similar problems? Read more
Pumas are the same. When my sister recently sold hers (X plate owned from new) she was horrified to see rust on a rear wheel arch, and leading edges of doors. there was some ominous bubbling on a sill as well, this from a car that was loved and cherished and had no accident damage repairs. Plenty of info on Pumapeople's website.
In basic english please!
When the 1.9 TDI PD engines came out on the mk4 golf for example, in the 110, 130,150 bhp version i thought they were amazing. I owned a mk4 150 for a short period of time and it was the best car I ever owned. (for the engine like).
I wanted a more up to date similar type of power car and got the "new" 2.0 TDI.
What's the big fuss about it? It's nice, but doesn't feel as powerful as the 1.9 150
So to me a setback?? Is it not ??
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My Mk5 105TDi PD is defininately much quicker than the MK4 110 (non-PD) that preceeded it. The MK5 is a big improvement over the MK4, imho. If I remember correctly, DieselCar (in the good old days before it changed) reckoned that the MK4 130 was a nicer drive than the 150, as the 150 had a larger turbo and suffered from more noticable turbo lag. Perhaps it's the delayed, but powerful, response from the engine room that gives you the impression that the 150 was quicker?
The MKV is a 16v and apparantly is happier to rev higher - I've no particular grumble with my 'old' 1.9 - it's less road noise that would give a better improvement to its refinement, I think.
Hi guys. I'd be grateful for a bit of help on this one. My girlfriend's corsa has started leaking oil, and my first thoughts were that she might have hit a raised man hole cover and cracked the sump. However, when I came to look at the car the sump was fine. I checked the oil level - normal - so I started the car and watched underneath for the drips to start.
It is leaking from what looks like a pressure sensor (immediately to the left of the oil level dipstick) I've looked through my Haynes manual and can't find any pictures or references to it. Any ideas of why oil should start to leak from here? When the engine is running it is dripping out pretty quickly, so it will be alright to drive to the garage 800 yrds up the road on Monday but not much further.
Any advice as to whether it is a fix I could do myself would be appreciated but I suspect it is a garage job.
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Many thanks. There is a green plastic concertina'ed baffle (sorry for the mangled description) around the barrel of the sensor and the oil is leaking past this, despite the clip still fitting securely on the outside of the sensor fitting. I'll have another look but couldn't see the o ring.
A friend of mine is buying a new Toyota with cloth upholstery.
Because she sometimes carries a dog she has been offered an 'upholstery treatment' before delivery of the car. I think its 'scotchguard'or a name similar to this?
Is this treatment effective or a waste of money?
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I'd suggest the best solution to the damp/hairy/grubby dog (or children) problem is to install all-over seat protectors such as used by the 4x4 fraterntity. They are said to be waterproof, so should keep hair, dirt and any "leakage" off the upholstery. Thick heavy mats of the floor should help with the carpets.
I have an astra 1.6 1998 running on 2 cylinders. the middle 2 are runing but ouside 2 are not..there is no spark on ouside cylinders from ingnition coil pack..so I bought a new ingition coil pack but no difference..still off two cylinders with no spark..engine management light is burnin steady any ideas....verno Read more
thanks for info but had ecu apart and no sign of corrosion..however am about to check a couple of tansistor tomorrow if they are faulty with component checker attachement to scope..will keep u informed..(cant see any dry joint under magnifier..willchech caps and diodes as well....verno.....
Is it worthwhile re-gassing my air conditioning with a recharge canister from Halfords? The car is a year 2000 model which I have just bought. I doubt that the air-con has been serviced in recent years. Do I need to spend out on a specialist service or do those canisters work?
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Thank you for your comments.
Regards - Horridhenry.
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done just that today on a ford red,
could use the car body as a mirror to comb my hair if i had some :-(