July 2007
For the past year I have noticed intermittent steering vibration/judder which can happen at any speed but more likely when either braking or accelerating. Sometimes it just comes on all of a sudden and can be quite alarming. During the last year I have had all new tyres and the wheels balanced three times but the problem is still there. I live in France and strangely this does'nt seem to happen in the UK!
The car is right hand drive and has done 60K miles
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Hi
My father bought an '03 passat a few months ago and all was fine until he found a load of water in the passenger side footwell. He took it back to the place he bought it and they found there was a leak from the pollen filter gasket. They fixed it and it seems to have stopped leaking.
Problem now is with the cars electrics. The windows seem lethargic to move, the temperature sensor on the climatronic seems intermittant, the cars clock keeps resetting when the car is started. Perodically while driving the speedo and rev counter etc drop to zero, all the dashboard lights come on for a while, the car keeps going and the radio still operates.
Any thoughts? Could it be connected to the water problem? I wondered if the voltage to the electrics was dropping too low (battery problem) but the engine seems to turn over and start ok.
thanks for your help.
Rob
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Be careful with the warranty before you contact them, go through the T&C with a fine tooth comb.
They may not cover faults caused by other faults, faults that were already there when cover started etc...
I think a lot of people predicted this - myself included!
However, I wonder if the figures include double-cab 4x4 pick-ups - a lot more people seem to be using these as cars these days.
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One thing nobody has mentioned here.
I mentioned it earlier in the thread, thinking about the Nissan models, and that this is common in the US. The Jeep Grand Cherokees you hire in Florida have 4x4 badges on the tailgate but they're only 2 wheel drive.
Problem I see in the UK is that you'd still be attacked by lentlists as they can't discriminate between the 4x4 and 2x4 versions.
180 cars found in a Portugese barn that had been welded shut for the last 15 years.
http:forocoches.com/foro/showthread.php?t=548055
The above link is now dead. Someone has since posted a valid link further down, but is repeated here in case you didn't find it.
forum.autohoje.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=97706&whichp...7
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Wow! I'd be like a kid in a toy shop if I went in there.
That red Cooper S is stunning!
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A warning light which looks like a radiator with a fan on it has come on.
The air con does not work.
The engine cooling fan does not cut in when I let the engine idle until the temp gauge goes into the red.
My local Vauxhall garage ran a diagnostic test, they said the aircon sensor or switch needed replacing.
They replaced it but the light stayed on.
They now say it could be a wiring fault or it could be a cooling control module faulty.
Does this sound correct?
Has anyone had this problem?
Can anyone help please?
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Cooling fan module seems favourite here.It is located behind the front bumper below nearside headlight.This module controls the operation of the a/c pump & the cooling fans.Cost around £70.hth
I have a Saxo vtr 2001 (Y reg) mk2, 80k on the clock, in hte past few
months done a service of , sparks, oil, gear box oil, coolant. A few days ago, my engine warning light came on, so I checked out the engine and connectors and such like, running 100%
OK.
I disconnected the battery for 2 hours, to clear any fault codes,
restarted, still have the same light, took the car to my mechanic, whose has a full test setup, first used a new diagnostic tester, would not "see" the ECU, which was weird, so he then put on a old diagnostic tester, which was used on the car about a year ago, which at the time worked fine, again did not "see" or could talk to the ECU.
Any idea of what it could be? not normal is it?
The car is running fine, OK, just a tiny, and I mean tiny ( could be me) smell of petrol when you start it up, could be me, though!
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Changed the offside front headlamp unit tonight, then found both the front and rear offside side lights won't work. All the other lights, front and rear, on both sides of the car, work OK. Fuses seem OK. Anyone any ideas where to look for the fault please?
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whats an OE bulb ?
Original Equipment, as recommended and approved by a manufacturer.
I am considering buying an Accord 2.4 Executive saloon (approx 2004/5) , but would like to know if the rear seat can be folded down to extend the boot area. I know there is the estate version, but personally I don`t like the shape at all, so it has to be the saloon or nothing.
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>>>> you'd be better off with an estate of a rival hatchback>>>>>
Thanks for your helpful replies, whilst I hold Honda engineering integrity in high regard, I have decided to go for a BMW E46 325i manual Touring, only problem being that sub 30k mileage vehicles are now extremely scarce.
Hello all,
How do i reset the service indicator on my 2000 scenic alize? as its driving me mental.....
also does anyone know how to change the aux drive belt?
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Having nothing better to do I checked some of the reg. nos. in What Car. Many of the numbers come back as having no record.
Using the August 2007 issue:-
The MB C class shown on the cover; the number shows no record.
The Alfa non-date number on page 3 shows no record.
The Fiat non-date number on page 21 shows no record.
The Jaguar non-date number on page 29 shows no record.
Why do they do this? I would have thought that all the major manufacturers would have an ample supply of genuine non-date numbers.
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Big Bad Dave wrote:
"As well as stripping in Polish plates onto foreign registered cars, I often have to convert RHD to LHD. If I can't make it realistic enough, I tint the windows. Sometimes I'll drop a car against a well-known Polish landmark, when it was actually tested in Ibiza. I'll make two cars race each other that were shot on different days, I'll move mountains if they distract from the text, delete lamp posts, pylons, passers-by, snow and grey skies. I'll make a stationary car look like it's cornering at 90mph, turn a two-door Citroen into a four-door and I've even been asked by an editor in chief to change a black kid in a child seat into a white kid. When I've finished with them a technician spends another couple of hours fiddling with the colour balancing and profiles, so very little in the magazine looks anything like what it did when it comes to me."
As a regular reader of that mag, I can hereby confirm all those tricks actually work. Apart maybe from that black Mondeo estate from the last issue, on the cover. Ford main dealer's plates begin with "WU" instead of "CIN", so...
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Thanks charlesb. This is exactly what I wanted to hear, but thought it a bit bizarre to suggest. I have suspected this for some time although my garage could'nt see it. May have been lost in translation!! I will take it to a tracking station and ask them to track it French style!! thanks again.