September 2007
Hi all,
I need to know the standard SPARK PLUGS that fits my Peugeot 406, 1.8i, manual Trans, model 2000 .. anyone could help me !!
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Any help would be appreciated. I've just had the engine and box out of this 2000 van with endura de 1.8 diesel engine to replace sump gasket. All rebuilt but won't start. Ingition lights on, nothing happens when turned to start position. Lights stay bright. Also telltale prob of immobiliser light flasing like mad with ignition on, pulses normally with ignition off. Am I missing something? Thanks Read more
Respect for having the stones to come back and give us the outcome.
Don't feel too bad - we've all done it at some time or another....
Glad to hear that you're all sorted.
Just followed a new XK whilst driving home from work and was shocked to see it?s radio aerial. Some kind of telescopic job, like on my £5 kitchen radio
Rest of the way home I kept a look out, TT, SLK, AF Spider all have neat ?bee sting? type ones on the rump.
To be honest, I had noticed this style of aerial before on the DB7 and the old XK, also on the MR2 and thought it odd.
Even my old BMW had the aerial in the rear window.
What on earth are Jaguar and AM playing at. It makes a lovely looking car look ridiculous. Does anyone have any idea why they do this ? surely it can?t be cost?
And sorry for such a boring question but its bugging me big time!!
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This had me baffled too.
It's the same aerial on my XJ, an electric telescopic unit that obviously needed design time to make sure it fitted OK on a new model (mounting brackets, boot sound-proofing etc.) It's even integrated into the sound system which beeps and displays a message telling you to "Clean aerial" when it collects enough muck to make the motor struggle.
Even if they had a truckload of unused aerials stuck in a shed around the back it would have been cheaper in the long run to install a modern rear window or bee-sting unit.
Kevin...
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Jaguar really need to get lighter on their feet if they want to survive against German and Japanese competition. They have the ideas, they have the talent - they just don't have the speed or management guts to make the jump.
In 2003 they dragged the RD-6 concept car around the car shows. I would have ordered one there and then but they never intended to build it.
www.honestjohn.co.uk/forum/post/index.htm?t=44294&...e
It should have been a completely new model but it's taken them four years to turn it into what looks like a Lexus GS and call it the XF.
Is it possible to re-set throttle settings by placing ignition key in "one click before engine turns over" for 30secs.I have been told this will re-set the engine management and the engine will learn to us the altered throttle
after 15mins.driving????
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More tripe about "re-setting." What mechanically-challenged Saxo-owning moron started this myth?
ECUs on whatever size engine, or fuel type, or year, that this is; are adaptive - i.e. they adapt their settings... Constantly.
What can possibly be gained from messing with them. If you lose the basic settings too, then you're into the dealers etc. for reprogramming.
Can anyone tell me how to remove the headlamp structure from my 2004 Legacy as the handbook says I need to return it to a dealer to change a sidelight bulb!? This seems rather daft as I'm sure I can do it myself but don't want toremove half the ducting simply to find out how to change on 5W bulb. Any suggestons appreciated. AlistairV. Read more
Remove the grill, 4 clips on the upper rear edge, 1 clip + 1 bolt each side.
For RH headlight, remove air intake duct, 2 clips.
Remove headlight, 5 bolts + 1 clip.
That should give you complete access to the back of the headlight unit.
I think dealers access the RH sidelight by removing wheelarch trim and the LH sidelight by removing the battery.
Does anyone know where I could get hold of a replacement oil filler cap for Daewoo Lanos (2000, v) 1.6 ecotec? There's a slight leak of oil from the cap - it has no rubber seal - I assume it should have. Alternatively, is it possible to get a replacement seal? I could try the breakers, or what about Vauxhall dealers as this is a GM engine? Read more
If your local motor factors don't stock one, try your local Chevrolet dealer (Daewoo became Chevrolet). Failing that, try a scrapyard - I have a feeling this engine was used in the Astra.
Hello all,
I've been offered FiL's 318i auto, which I'm intending to buy as soon as he decides what he's changing it for. The car has full BMW service history, and has just had its Inspection 2 at 60,000 miles.
I know from the CBCB that I should have the ATF changed on the auto box as BMW won't have done this, but what else should I look out for once I get it? The car is in top condition - its been cosseted from new - so I'm intending to give it a long and happy life. Any suggestions - especially from those of you who've owned and run 3s - would be welcome.
TIA,
Gromit
PS: Please don't post suggestions for what else I could/should buy, why running a BMW is badge snobbery etc. :-) The inlaws have one to sell, and they're not parting with their equally well cared-for Focus estate which I'd be equally happy with. Its either buy the BM, eke the ailing Punto along, or take pot luck with the patchy service histories that are the lot of the Irish used car buyer (most Irish motorists seem to think oil and filters are an optional extra!) Read more
Enjoy it, look forward to your impressions.
I notice in another thread one or two posters complaining that their wives apply steering lock while the car is stationary. Unless they are exceptionally mean and fear that it is costing them 0.002p's worth of rubber every time it happens, why do people care about this?
Certainly it tends to be drilled into learner drivers. But I strongly suspect that the reason is driving schools fear the damage that will be caused when learners do this while the n/s front wheel is graunched tight against a high kerb. Otherwise it has to be irrational, since clutch abuse is winked at by driving instructors.
I seldom get to drive my car without having to apply steering lock while it is stationary. Very tight parking slots are often the only ones available in London. Is it really the case that other people live in some spacious fantasy world where miraculously convenient lengths of unrestricted kerb are always present where they want to stop, as they are in nearly all Hollywood movies, even good ones?
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I still think that the fact that it causes the surface of tarmac to be
scrubbed off indicates the abnormally high load that it transmits through the steering linkages.
We have an 18 tonne (little 'un) truck at work that broke the concrete where the driver has to turn his front wheels to get it parked. The steering is fine. The concrete has been dug out and replaced with reinforced...
Hi all, i have a mk 4 fiesta and when im stationary my car revs with my foot off the accelerator. whether im in gear or neutral, recently it has gotten worse and the only way to stop it revving is to turn it off! when i come to a stop at a junction or lights the car can just cut out and further to this when i leave the car running the revs fluctuate as if the car is going to stall then revs climb... i have heard this could be the idle speed control valve and many ppl have the same problem but has anyone any advice? Read more
that picture helps alot...i will have a go at it when my girlfriend brings it back! she has stolen it for the day cos her fiats broke down!
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I hope his new site will be more reliable than the current one Read more
Mapmaker - tend to agree with you on all points.
See my earlier post for comments on your login. Also tend to agree with your comment that it would be even more readable at a slightly narrower width of 6" or so.
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