June 2007
We're in Florida trying to navigate around with a Tom Tom.
We originally had a Tom Tom 1 and bought a map of the US on an SD card which worked perfectly when we visited Florida last year. However, this year we have a Tom Tom 510 and inserting the card seems to cause it to freeze so it is useless. Any ideas? Could this mean that the maps are specific to the Tom Tom model or is it more likely to be a problem with a (corrupt?) card?
Any advice much appreciated.
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Can anyone please help me with a very annoying problem?
My 2007 Citroen C5 VTX has been back to the local Citroen dealer 5 times now with the same problem and it is as follows.
Without any warning the sat nav/operations screen that is built in will all of a sudden turn off, and everything goes black. If I then push the on/off button for the radio it all comes back on.
This used to happen when ever I went over a bump, but last week it did it when I was stationary, also this particular time all of the suspension dropped and the warning sign came on telling me that the car had gone into lower positioning, and the sat nav screen then came back on.
Citroen technical have said they have never heard of this happening before, my local dealer have 5 times thought they had found the cure (most of them being loose wires or loose fibre optics and once they said the software had not been loaded correctly) but still I have the same problem, and now my auto windscreen wipers are playing up, not working correctly when its raining hard, they usually go onto slow intermittent.
This is a brilliant car, fast, economical, comfortable and looks good! but these problems are doing my head in, has anyone got any SENSIBLE ideas as to what might be wrong??????????
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Surely can be still be rejected if on a lease?
Topical at the moment but actually prompted by the need to buy a full set of tyres for the m.m wagon...
What tyre choices would you consider if wet road grip was the number one requirement? I'm looking at H-rated 185/65x15 or 205/60x15.
I have a favourite that I nearly ordered earlier but thought I'd ask for opinion first.
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Another vote here for Goodyear Hydragrips fitted to my MK1 MX5 excellent in the wet
Mark
Would you be Sir Robert "major contribution to road safety" Mark?
it turns over then just cuts out. I've changed the sparks ran for a while but wont start again. just took the sparks out and they are covered in petrol. I'm going to change the fuel filter next. any ideas?? Read more
Hi
Are the plugs wet again? If so then it?s over fuelling or you have a poor spark. Are the correct plug fitted? Have you got a good spark?
my wife borrowed my 850 t-5 estate to take the kids to the forest walks on Sunday, when she got back she said there was a ticking noise coming from the engine??.
i inspected the car and found no oil whatsoever on the dipstick, and when i looked under the car the sump had a split in it so big you could fit a coin into.
i reckon she had driven 20 miles home with no oil in the car. she said she had to park on the side of the forest track and had heard a crunching noise but didn't worry about it!!!!
before i replace the sump and refill the oil, what other long-term or short term damage could this have caused by running an engine with next to no oil for 20 miles?.
does it mean a new engine?? :¬(
any help or wisdom very greatfully received.
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Either get it welded in situ if you can get someone to take that on or change the sump. The patch is a temp fix only. The termal shock of a hot sump and a puddle of water and the sump will leak again. Regards Peter
How do most people read the threads in this forum - flat or threaded?
I view them flat, and the manic post snipping that's currently going on makes the threads very hard to follow.
I tried viewing the threads threaded, but that means clicking on every individual post to read it, which is clearly untenable. Read more
Locked.
I am considering buying a 3 year old Honda Accord diesel. While I am really attracted by the better mpg and more accessible torque of diesel over petrol, I am concerned about various comments I have seen on here and elsewhere regarding long term reliability / cost of maintaining diesels and, in particular, the danger of putting petrol into a diesel car.
If the car I buy has been previously misfuelled, is it likely that any damage will have become immediately obvious, and therefore repairs done in the past? Or could the damage from previous misfuelling have been less obvious, so that repairs weren't necessary, potentially meaning I will have a large bill later in the car's life?
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Someone on here says if you do enough mileage you could be saving £500pa on
fuel alone with a diesel. I think you've made the right choice based on your
mileage because:
It can easily be £3500 over 100k miles, that goes a long way towards fuel system issues.
However there have been Honda CR issues reported on here not least of which is poor economy.
Hi,
I need an aerial adaptor to fit an aftermarket stereo into my S-Max. Is the Ford aerial Fakra, ISO or anything else as standard?
I beleive I will need an XXXX to DIN convertor to fit the aerial into an Alpine headunit.
(Somebody has told me it is a Hirschman to DIN that I need but i just want to check with guys that have done it)
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Reckon this is what you need:
tinyurl.com/2tggay
They do sell them in Halfords.
If not you will find it on this page:
tinyurl.com/3aklqq
Interesting thread on the 50 years ago cars so what about thirty years ago? I was riding round in a Victor 2 litre that drank like a thirsty camel and rotted merrily away. However I loved the sort of semi American style. Read more
Pondering this thread on the way to the Vets (don't ask) earlier. In 1976 if anyone told me that I'd be driving a diesel powered car I'd have laughed at them (remember these were the days when the perfectly worthy but noisy and smoky Pug 504 was state of the art.), If anybody had said I'd be driving a bi-turbo diesel sports saloon I'd have had them sectioned - Remember these where the days when that really pretty SaaB Turbo (or obruT) had just come out and that seemed so so exotic. I wouldn't have laughed if they said I'd be running a Landie though !
Can anyone suggest a fix for this problem, which only affect the drivers side?
So far I've tried replacing the blade, cleaning the screen. But the judder continues especially in light rain.
The blade seems to hop across the screen leaving water lines . Does this indicate that the set angle is wrong?
Grateful for any suggestions.
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I've seen a few of these where the spindle is worn.
Lift the arm and give it a wobble, does it move at the spindle end? Are there any signs the wiper has been rubbing on the under side of the bonnet?
IIRC you can buy the individual spindles seperately from each other, rather than a whole mechanism, but don't quote me on that.
Browse
you cant route plan with a sat nav. Use your Atlas to plan your route, check out the lie of the land, any interesting features, get your bearings, then programe the sat nav to get you there.
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