December 2007
MY 99 T Toledo TDi makes a loud engine speed clicking noise whenever the climate control is on. system has been re gassed, belt and tensioner replaced, alternator replaced to no effect. specialist air con man says probably the compressor but not certain. it works normally,just very noisy. any suggestions please. Read more
1991 Golf 1.8 Driver auto starts to die when slowed down on the brakes at a tight bend or setting-off at the top of a hill when cold. Can retrieve by flooring accelerator in neutral with black smoke in exhaust. Fine thereafter. Any clues folks? Read more
Its a Mark two and is a carb version of the 1.8 engine
hi there
i'm just wondering what you guys think of this.
I was invovled in an accident this is what happened,
i was coming to a T junction wishing to turn right onto a busy main road.
I checked both the right and left. As i looked to my right i see a Bus coming about
100 meters away. So i edged foward to the white dotted line, thus blocking
all traffic coming from my right but he was a fair distance away and can see i have pulled out.
The car on the left slowed down so i was ready to go (turning right) and join that traffic.
The next thing i know is the bus and i have made contact and my car was written off.
the bus did not hit the side of my car as i did not pull out infront of him, instead the front of my car.
He had not stopped and carried on by moving to the wrong side of the road as he wished to carry on and not let me get
through.
i hope that makes sense
who was in the wrong there, i'm a bit unsure?
cheers.
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Yes, of course we do. All the time we make little assumptions about what other people are going to do, but just occasionally circumstances or the really odd behaviour of others causes collisions or worse. In this particular case the reasonableness of the OP's anticipation seems to hang on the speed limit - 30 or 60?
When you build up speed on a motorway slip road, you assume that the car doing 70 you are just going to filter in behind of, will keep going at 70. Not, as once happened to a friend, suddenly do an emergency stop for some reason.
Hi all, becasue of the cold weather i thought id give the battery of our fiat punto 60 (1998) a bit of a charge up today, as the car lives outside and only does short runs. It has been labouring to start recently and we probably need to invest in a new battery. Anyway i thought a nice task would be to remove it to the kitchen, give the case and terminals a clean up and put it on charge for a couple of hours. On re-installing the battery to the car the engine cranked over nicely but absolutly nothing from the engine-not even a try to fire up. I've got a sinking feeling here that the ECU has lost everything, ive heard of this battery thing that fits into the cig lighter, but thought a 10 year old car would be tolerant of a battery disconection-my 11 year old Hyundai Sonata gave no problems at all when i fitted a new battery last year.
This battery removal and cleanup of the rusty tray etc is a little job ive enjoyed doing for years on different cars.
does anyone have any advice to offer?
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Screwloose - wonderous! I pulled and tugged at the red wires at the positive terminal ( the ones with a black convoluted covering) because I was beginning to think it didn't matter anymore, and one last try and it burst into life! Thank you so much - I think I'll join the leave well alone brigade now! thank you so much!
Just got a 2nd hand Corolla for a good price, alas it was as the result of an older person passing away, so all the papers can not be found. The Driver Manual (Handbook ) is missing. Anyone know where I can get one?
Usually I am pretty good with figuring all the toys (Radio, NAV, computer out, but cant see how to change the dam clock etc!
I will be blowed if I am paying Toyota for a new one, a scrapyad may have one.
same goes for a spare key £125 at the dealer, any other options?
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Thanks everyone for your help. Been of line a while my ISP has been having trouble, wish I could name & shame! I will e mail direct for the 03 manwell, thanks all again, Got the clock sorted. Was easy in the end with all your info.
Dennis
I'm currently doing around 1000 miles a week, about two-thirds of it on a motorway and although I shouldn't really be I am staggered at the poor driving I see, i.e. people pulling out without looking, not noticing the line of stationary traffic until they are almost on top of it then skidding to a halt etc etc.
My theory is that a good deal of the problem is that drivers today are not focused on their driving and have too many distractions.
My niggle is sat navs!
People drive along with these things suckered to their screen, often in such a way that must obscure their view (especially in small cars with small windscreens) plus the fact that often when I am sat in stationary traffic I see that the screens seem to change as if in a 'screen saver' mode. (I dont have one, I use maps!) Surely this cant be good for concentration?!!
Any other theories about the worst driver distractions?
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Good one screwloose. :-)
Just saw on the news that a huge lot of peoples driving details have been lost over in the states, also in Ireland not long ago too. Is it me, or does this sound a bit fishy, I mean c'mon, the governments have got to be up to something haven't they. All the info that was lost contains names, addresses, e-mail addresses e.t.c. This doesn't affect us of course, but I'm sure it won't be long until something happens that will cause us some problems. Read more
And I still don't understand why the data needs to be moved from site to site.
Surely it's just an old fashioned, cumbersome, and inaccurate way of looking at information.
Hi all. my fiesta engine recently gave up on me and blew a piston. i have had the enigine taken out and i have aquired what i thought was the same engine from another fiesta, however there are parts on it that arent on my original engine. i have a fiesta zetec s 1.25. the new engine has the same zetec s 1.25 badge on it and i assumed it was the same... my car is a 98R and the engine was taken from a N reg. is there anything that was taken off the zetec 1.25 in the time between these two cars and will it still fit,,, its on its mounts and mostly connected but theres a pipe coming out the manifold thats not on my original engine and i dont know where to connect it?!?
thanks all
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your ecu will be mapped for your old engine, mechanically the engine will be almost identical, so i would change all sensors, manifolds, flywheel etc ie strip the new engine of all sensors, (temp, crank, cam,) clutch, flywheel,alternator, starter, powersteering pump, and transfer all the bits over to the new engine
Ford want £60 + vat for a one hour diagnostic, i think ill get a laptop and software, £60 an hour?.....
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you dont need DEALER stamps in a book to comply for warranty, a vehicle has to be serviced in line with manufacturers guidelines, i had a brand new citroen which had its first service at citroen but after paying £188 for a filter and a can of oil it never went there again, except for warranty in its 2 year/100,000 miles of my ownership
and go back it did
again
again
again
again
and again
My mate has been told by his insurance company that they have received details of a claim against him for a hit and run incident that happened in November. My mate was no where near the area where the incident supposedly took place and his insurance company have told him that as the claimant has provided an independent witness, they will payout unless my mate can produce an independent witness to say where the car was at the time of the accident. They won?t provide details of the claimant because of the Data Protection Act and neither did the claimant report it to the police. Several questions spring to mind:
1. Is this a well known scam - have a crash, choose a reg number at random, produce a so called independent witness and hey presto you have your car repaired.
2. Can they get details of your insurance company just by the reg number. I thought you had to report it to the Police to get that kind of information.
3. The Insurance Company didn?t seem interested, particularly if my mate can prove that the car has no damage, has not been repaired and still has the original paintwork.
4. I thought that your Insurance Company will not process a claim until you had notified them of the accident.
5. Would the Police be interested in this?
My mate is seething, he seems completely powerless to stop this claim progressing. He?s now going to see some of his neighbours to see if they recall his car being in the drive and whether they would be prepared to produce a witness statement. Any comments gratefully received.
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"They" may not have found his details. The other party may well have claimed through their insurance.
Browse
I'd go for the compressor clutch too. It's not unusual to find the whole assembly lying on the undertray when the rivets fail on the Zexel pumps. About £95 from VW - change it before it flies off and takes the rad out too.