July 2007
Hi all,
Heard this story driving hom eon Five Live and there's something on the BBC News Website;
tinyurl.com/2yrqq8
Given everything that they have discovered I'm amazed its taken the authorities so long to realise someone was making a quick buck...
Richard Read more
Hi everyone. I'd like to bleed the brakes on my L reg Citroen zx TD. This'll sound really silly I expect, but I can't find the bleed screws despite looking at the calliper & reading my Haynes manual. Can anyone tell me where they are (front - discs & rear - drums) or send a picture?
thanks a lot
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Thanks alot for replying to me.......that sounds expensive though! The brake fluid hasn't been changed for 4 years.......maybe I'll just live with it and then scrap the car!
cheers
Hello all,
I need a few wise words of advice. As stated above, I am the owner of a "P" reg fiesta and I have a strange intermittent clutch pedal problem.
It changes gear fine but the pedal doesn't return itself properly, I have to help it the last half an inch with the end of my shoe. The real problems occur in rush hour traffic, where I discover that if I do not take my foot off the clutch completely every time I pull away, it returns less and less until my foot is on the floor, clutch completely deployed yet I can't get it into gear (or out of it .. which is interesting when you are trying to get out of a parking space in reverse!) unless I turn off the engine, put the hand brake on and flick the pedal all the way back up with my foot.
Bizarrely it keeps "fixing" itself, working fine for days then doing it again.
Obviously there is something going wrong somewhere. Checked the fluid which seems fine. Would bleeding the system work? Could it be air in the system? Or am I looking at a new clutch and if so does anyone have any idea how much it's going to cost to have a new hydraulic clutch put in.
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Sounds like the bearing is pushing through the cover of the clutch and its only a matter of time before it goes through and doesnt come back.
06 Avensis 2.2 D4D hatchback
I had my towbar & electrics fitted by a professional company but the interior lights fuse blows. Toyota dealership says the feed is taken from the boot light so the circuit is overloaded, towbar company says its 'in the manual and should work'. Where should the feed be taken from? Direct from battery, via a fused link?
Keith Read more
Thanks for this - you've triggered a recolletion, a couple of years back my local Toyota franchise displayed (Toyota) chiller boxes in the boot. Maybe there's a connector (for an optional boot cigar lighter socket) hidden away some place or perhaps the lead had to run through the split rear seats to the power outlet at the back of the centre console.
I have a 2003 Saab 9-5 2.2 Tid which recently had its water pump replaced after it had been leaking pretty badly for about a week. A week or so later it shredded and threw off the auxiliary drive belt - driving the ACC, power steering, water pump (not the timing belt, fortunately). This was repaired at the roadside but it has now partially shredded the new drive belt again some fifty miles later. The crankshaft pulley appears to be slightly bent; when the engine is running it looks as though the outer edge is wobbling from side to side.
Could this have been done when the first belt snapped and was thrown off? is anything else likely to have been damaged? the car is due to be recovered (again!) tomorrow. Read more
Hi
Most likely the vibration damper (rubber insert) in the pulley that has broken up and may well be from when the water pump was done.
I often forget to check tyre pressure for a long time!
Anyway, while searching for a pressure monitoring system, I came accross this device
www.savemoneyoncars.co.uk/tyre-pressure-monitor.asp
Seems resonably priced. Does anyone have experience of this or similar device?
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Generally, what a load of old cobblers!
I check my tyres once a week.
I tend to overinflate them by 5 psi. (I do a lot of motorway driving and it reduces fuel consumption).
If you bother to know your car you can soon gauge whether the tyres appear low. Tyres do not lose pressure over, say, a one month period unless there is a problem. So, if you usually have 32psi and you find that it has dropped to 26, then you have hole somewhere.
Hi all, don't laugh but I've just bought a used Vauxhall Sintra. My 6yr old daughter played with the spare key fob during the purchase and now the car's power lock unlock still works fine. However, the alarm will not cancel until it has gone off.this is what happens , I press the unlock button on the key fob and all the car locks unlock, I then open the car door and the siren sounds . I then have to press the unlock button again to cancel the alarm. I've contacted Vauxhall about this and they would be happy to fix it for around 100 quid, id rather buy everybody on my street ear defenders. Please help me if anyone knows of a fix Read more
The Sintra, being built in the USA, doesn't have many systems in common with European Opel/Vauxhalls - the alarm is one of them.
Try the Vauxhall Owners' Network ( www.vauxhallownersnetwork.co.uk ) for advice - don't hold your breath, not many Sintras were sold, so not many owners!
I have a problem with the speedo on my Citroen Xsara. I got the car jump started yesterday and when it was jump started the needle on the Speedo whizzed all of the way round so that instead of resting at 0 MPH, it just points straight down.
Could it be possible to jump start it again to try to see if the needle jumps back? Is it okay to jump start a car that doesn't need a jump start without damaging the car? Read more
Hello all,
I recently saw a motorbike on biketraker advertised as new, unused and unregistered. The advertiser has paid for the bike in full but has never had the opportunity to pick it up from the dealer due to an unfortunate personal circumstance. The bike is still at the dealer and has not been registered yet e.g. no owners from new. The dealer is over 200miles away so make a journey to view is too far.
I've spoken to the dealer who has backed up this guys story so I know there's no fowl play going on. On this basis I agreed to make the purchase as the price is quite reasonable.
The dealer wouldn't accept the money on behalf of this guy as they said taking in the cash would conflict with the end of month figures.
Anyway, I've paid the moneys in full direct to this guys bank account and will pick up the bike tomorrow. I could have paid a deposit but thought this was the quickest method to get things sorted.
I'm assuming worst case here but....
Where do I stand if I get to the dealers and it turns out there is something damaged on the bike or it's not as described? Does the dealer take responsibility?
Can I reject the vehicle/claim my money back bearing in mind I'm not actually accepting the goods and it's still on the dealers property?
I've not actually signed anything yet to say I'm having it - apart from depositing my cash into someones account.
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anyone heard from avit yet? wonder how he got on.
I'm sure this has been covered before, but I can't find it with a search. What is the best way to remove biro from leather seats? Read more
Thanks everyone, baby wipes got most of it off and a little bit of aftershave on a cotton bud the rest! I suspect if I'd noticed it straight away last night I would have only needed the baby wipes.
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I heard the whole of the Radio 4 programme and it seems that it is not clear that any law has been broken. The spirit of it perhaps but not the letter of it.