December 2007
1993 renault espace v6 ok when cold but then cuts out intermittently when driving, just dies and then pulls again but this is more noticeable when hot and going through the gears the car will just die and if you change from 5th to 4th and then back to 5th again will start to pull again also if you keep it in forth and just touch the throttle it pulls where if you try ro accelerate the power dies.
Also noticed if you turn the ignition off/on this sometimes let the car accelerate. The car runs fine for the first ten minutes when it runs on the choke
Any help would be grateful
Many Thanks
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hi,
Got a strange problem with changing gear, it feels fine with the engine running when the car is not moving (change is notchy and changes easily) but with the car moving 2nd and 4th gear (nearest to the back) feel strange, the notchyness is gone and just feels wierd, althougth there is no cruching of gears.
gearbox oil was done at the last service.
any help appreciated
thanks
C. Read more
Company I have a vague connection with is offering for sale a 3 year old Ford Focus 2.0 zetec in Black 70k on the clock with full main dealer service history and in eat your dinner off it perfect condition.
£4k cash money.
I say bargain. What say you? Read more
Hang on is it a Mk II or a faclfy Mk I?
If a Mk II that is brill !!!!
My BMW328 has been suffering from erratic engine idle & then stall as well as power surge. Unfortunately it is an intermittent problem. It has been in to the dealer & they have replaced the throttle sensor, air mass sensor & cyclone valve and engine vent pipe. The problem is still there. It will be going back to the garage again this week. Does anyone have an idea of what could be causing this. Read more
Idle control valve?
Has anyone got any experience of replacing the standard "beesting" aerial on Skoda (or any car for that matter) with a better performing specimen - FM is a bit crackly and annoying. Read more
I was going to reply to an earlier posting, (with a flippant remark), but thought better of it since it would have appeared out of sequence and you would have deleted my original thought!
But try this anyway.
milkyjoe " iv'e got a 2 foot length of threaded steel bar as an antenna , works a treat"
'and I always thought you were more of a coathanger guy'.
PU Now you can delete both contributions.
Hi
My 2002 Ford Focus 1.6, 75,000 miles, manual gearbox, is making a noise when the engine is laboured under acceleration. The noise is quite loud, and a sort of grinding metallic clatter. There is no loss of performance when this happens, and no change to the engine noise.
It occurs when accelerating in any gear, at any speed, but does not occur when the engine is revved in neutral.
Finally, it only happens when the car is warmed up. It starts about 20 minutes into a journey, a long time after the engine has warmed up.
I have noticed some clutch slip recently, but only 1 or 2 isolated incidents when driving aggressively, so not sure if this is related.
Any suggestions?
Thanks
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I think you really need to take to garage it sounds awfully like the big ends are going or a camshaft bearing problem but without actually hearing it it is almost impossible to tell.
so there we have it, over 10 years no accidents broken by an idiot in a white van driving into me, insurance company says NCB will drop 2 years if he doesnt admit it, why 2 years?, will be driving around in a group one car if im lucky enough to get a courtesy car, and this idiot will get off with no points (waste of time ringing the police these days), but of course if I drive through a speed camera a few mph over the limit i will get hammered, my car crumpled a little too well - where can i get a family car with NO crumple zone?, and hardly a scratch on his van
how did it come to this
why arent we systematically getting idiots like this off the road?
mad mad mad
why arnt i allowed to shoot the idiot?
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impressed with the other driver even less so
Ok NOW you can start calling him Scum.
Peugeot 306 1994 Mardi Gras 5 door
Folks,
The left hand front road lamp is dimmer than it should be.
The right hand front road lamp works just fine.
All other lamps on the car are working just fine.
So I went down to Halfords and got another : the bulb replaced is a GE H4 12V 55/60W 50440U E1 2D7 HUNGARY C.
It was easy to fit but it did not fix the problem : I noticed as I took the bulb out that a lot of heat had built up around one of the contacts and that this had caused the plastic casing for the clip on contact joiner around that contact to be fried.
Looking from the back of the lamp the fried contact is on the bottom left as follows :
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Anyone any ideas ?
( I fitted a towbar kit recently but their is no electrics connected to the towing electrics at the back of the car so it seems to me unlikely this has casued a short ).
Regards
Jim
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From Jim's graphical description of the connector it would appear to be the Headlamp.
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Not a car question but close enough I hope!
This is a 4 stroke V twin engine fed through 2x36 mil Keihin CV carbs.
I recently replaced the end can of the exhaust (Think 'back box') and want to know how to tell if it's running lean.
I will be checking the spark plug colour and also doing some high rpm shut downs to check the spark plug colour at various points in the rev range.
But for now, are there signs if an engine is running dangerously lean? (Besides dropping a valve or two?!)
Temperature seems to have stayed the same even at motorway speeds.
I think there has been the odd backfire on the overrun.
Tickover rpm has not changed. Read more
Thanks cheddar. I know of MHP, they are on the estate near Byfleet train station I believe?
I want to buy a new Fiat Panda. I emailed Fiatsupasaver for some info - no reply. A little while after I phoned them - they didn't answer the phone and I didn't leave a message. On Friday I phoned again - yes you guessed it they didn't answer but this time I left a message explaining what I wanted and asked them to contact me. They didn't on Friday. They didn't on Saturday. They have now lost a sale. Honest John used to recommend this company. Anybody had any dealings with the online company Drive the deal?
Philvw
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You could try Perrys. They offer quite large discounts on Fiats.
e.g. Panda 1.3 multijet Dynamic 5dr for £5994.
They are a franchised dealership.
I bought a new Doblo from the Aylesbury branch for about £2000 less than my local (Swansea) dealer was prepared to sell me one for.
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a fuel line may be going kinky
not in the handbag sense obviously, so a bucket of cold water wont cure it.
check the lines as these are plastic front ended cars, i used to see loads that had burnt out under the bonnet and you might have found the reason why (ruptured pipe)