June 2007
Hello.
I am seeking a spare part for a trolley jack, Master Mechanic TJ4000. These were made in China for " Master Mechanic " based in Ipswich. Can anyone please advise who these people are and if they are still in existance. If not, any suggestions as to where parts could be obtained would be welcome.
Seeking a new pressure seal, item 77 on the parts list or a complete piston assy, parts 73 to 77 on their parts list.
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Any opinions on Dayco products?
My local motor factor stocks them and they don't usually sell rubbish. Read more
Not quite sure what your last post meant John F if I'm honest?
The post was in two parts, typed in what I hoped was comprehensible English. The first part was a question. The second part was a link to what I thought might be an informative and helpful article for anyone who, like me, has one of the millions of PSA 1.2 puretech engines in their car. ...
Can someone tell me the best way to change the Sparks for my 1.6 Zetec Focus?
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Does anyone have the Torque settings fot these plugs ??
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Does anyone know whether these engines (1.5 Dci and 1.9Dci) are belt or chain, and the change interval if they are a belt?
I'm considering one of these secondhand (03-04 plate) and would like to have all the facts at hand! Read more
They want doing well before 5 years they start to crack and harden at around 3 years.£500 is cuccoo land takes around 2 hours depending on how many cups of tea the mechanic has.
Wrongly or rightly, as it may well have some bearing on how sales people deal with you,, anyone in the new car sales trade (mass market or the lesser makes)care to share roughly how they earn their money?
Is it largely based on per car sold or on month end targets?
Do the smaller manufacturers pressure their dealer principles(& thus their sales people) a lot less than the big makes?
just curious to get some insight into how things work behind the scenes
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"estate agent when buying a house?"
Too right, cheeky monkey of the agent that was selling PU's latest home to us offered to handle the sale of our old house, offered discount legal fees (!) despite the fact that it was a private sale ! I then asked him to disclose his commission on our current property and he scuttled off in his Lexus !
My wife's kangoo which is just out of warranty is showing the following symptoms:
intermittent loss of power - usually when the motor is hot and at about 2000rpm and put under load
a refusal to rev above about 2500rpm by use of the throttle pedal
it will rev faster if thrown into a low gear and sometimes this puts things right
it always sorts itself out if I switch off and restart.
Any ideas out there? Is it a sensor, a valve or the "fly by wire" throttle potentiometer/ Must I take it to a main dealer to have it checked?
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"The technician was surprised to see this problem on a 1.5 - more common on the 1.9."
That was exactly the story my daughter got - EGR fault very rare on 1.5DCi - especially on a car like my daughter's which does a 50 mile commute up and then back down the M11 each day.
Problem was that EGR fault code registered occasionally and then after new one had been in 2 days car broke down again. Then RAC man said he saw a brief flicker of throttle fault when test driving it - it only showed for a fraction of a second when he happened to be looking at screen on his mobile computery thingy.
He said way to test it was to drive it back from Cambridge to London, if power loss occurred , switch off ignition (careful!!! only to first click on switch - don't engage steering lock!!!!) and switch back on immediately. I drove it back and power loss occurred 6 times, each time I did a quick click off and on, potentiometer reset itself each time and I carried on (entertaining when overtaking on M11!!). He said this meant it was potentiometer not EGR.
No probs in month or so since - daughter has done commute each day and we have had no phone calls to say "stuck in outside lane of M11 again, but don't worry!" which was fairly frequent and worrying previously!
Good luck
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Phil
Being mechanically illiterate I need to ask how to replace my squibb. Can I just replace the centre part in the middle of the steering wheel or do I need to replace the steering wheel aswell?
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aren't airbags always labeled then? I thought they had to be to avoid accidently obstructing them?
At one time (when buying a new car) you could ask a dealer if you could look through their list of available registration numbers and choose one. Has the latest numbering system put paid to this?
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L\'escargot. Read more
When I was buying a car a couple of years ago the dealer pointed out one of the registrations available ended with "5USY" (susie) which he thought was unusal to have just been generally released. I have no close connections with anyone named Susie but took it anyway.
hi can someone please tell me how to adjust my sons handbrake on a L reg peugeot 306 1600cc many thanks trev Read more
Trev's,
Richard is also correct that there is adjustment at the rear of the H.Brake lever itself to compensate for cable stretch.
You need to fully remove the centre consol to gain access....I have not owned a pug for about 2/3 yrs now soooo bear with me.
1. Apply the H.Brake, then pull off the H.brake lever hand (pull it forward towards the gear stick)
2. unclip the gearstick gaiter then undo the two 10mm nuts there.
3. Pop out the rear ash tray (there should be two phillips screws in there too)
4. now you can lift/slide the centre console out forwards/up.
5. at the back of the H.Brake lever you will see the two cable coming in to a single point, this is attached to the threaded bar and a 13mm nut...you can also adjust her here too (you will need a deep 13mm socket)
Hope this helps....
Wish I never got rid of my pug 306 DT, had that car for almost 6 yrs, since then I have had 5 different ones in 2 years.....
Having recently bought a 56 Astra 1.6 SXI I was wondering what the juddering was when setting off and crawling uphill in low gear. My previous 2001 1.8 SXI never gave me any problems and I always enjoyed driving it so I didn't do too much reviewing of the new model, assuming it could only be even better. My wife bought a new model Astra auto last year and is very pleased with it.
This juddering is not just an annoying niggle - it can be a real problem pulling out into traffic when all your concentration is diverted to a possible stall. Unfortunately it's intermittent, mostly but not always worse when starting from cold. Also seems to be an alarming loss of power when pulling away uphill in 3rd gear when you expect at least a bit of whoomph to overtake the trucks.
Neither the dealer I bought it off nor the local Network Q can find a fault (just my luck it wont make a murmur for these people) but I've been driving for a long time and know when things are not right. I only realised the size of the problem when I Googled 'Astra juddering' and saw the number of complaints. Hence this entry to add my voice. If I'd seen this before I would have thought twice about buying this car.
I have raised a case on the Vauxhall website and await a response. Read more
Hi well, as DD correctly said you are not alone.Not an astra owner but own an 04 corsa sxi which had the same problem,as I reported in earlier posts.
After months of wrangling with my dealer,who couldn't find a fault,I gave up with them and wrote to vauxhall.
This may not apply to your astra,but the letter I got back contained the following"To overcome the problem vehicles with F13 tranmission and Z10XE and Z12XE engine have an increased clutch size (190mm to 200mm)"
I was advised to return to the dealer,showed them the letter.and hey presto,the clutch was changed within a week!
My advice to you is, if its still under warranty keep at them,they know a problem exists!
Jim
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