February 2008
Hello,
Does anyone know how to cancel or reset the 'Service Due' message that's displayed on the LCD screen in the dashboard? I get my car serviced at a local independent garage and am loathe to pay a main dealer to get rid of this message.
Many thanks
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I have golf tdi 2002 and getting 'luggage comp. open' error message on dash every 2 seconds whilst driving also when stationary. I now cannot lock vehicle as this is setting the alarm off. Any suggestions?
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This happened to my 2001 GT TDI.
The repair kit from the dealers is great, new pipe for the washer, gears and grease as mentioned.
A telltale sign of washer pipe breakage, is if the washer jet follows the wiper arm around, it should squirt in one vertical position!
Hi all
Have a Mazda6 Diesel that misfires off idle 1250 rev's it's been doing that for a few months sometimes. It's done 23K and had service at Dealers at 12K last May and I changed oil and filter at 18K with Mazda DPF Dexelia. Now last few weeks misfires all the time if you go slow enough in second gear and take it easy. I can even tell in these last few weeks it's not running right up to 2000 rev's. In traffic it's awful feels like it's off on a cylinder. Have to admit that I thought if I took it back to dealer at first they might not notice it but now having checked mpg this week and it's only doing 29mpg am going to phone local mazda dealer tomorrow Monday. Has anybody any ideas what it could be cause, sad to say I worry they will have me running back and forth. Thankfully it's still under warranty for sixteen months still. I was hoping to keep it for at least four years!
Last but not least I did try disconnecting battery all that happened was I got some practice at resetting eletric windows easy enough though!
Thanks in anticipation
vulcan7 Read more
Had the same issue since I bought the car 5 years ago.
Still not fixed, however, noticed the Management light only comes on if the outside temprature is over 10 Deg Centigrade....
hi
the infamous particulate filter system had fault code fuel cap sensor faulty replaced sensor and cleared faults gave the fuel cap a couple of removals to encourage system to dose my tank all ok, no anti pollution on on board display now have fault code b1022 intermittent short to earth unknown (everybody's favourite) seeing as its a b code it should be body related any one had this before and give me an idea wear to start thanx Read more
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I bought a new Dell PC last month - Inspiron 530 - with a Pentium 4500 Dual Core processor and told them I wanted XP and not Vista.
You can pay £50 extra and get XP Professional. I 'phoned my order and said I would not pay extra for XP, so my Dell came with XP Home Edition.
A mate is selling his S60 and has offered me first refusal.
2001 2.0T S on a 51 reg in Maya Gold
124k with a full Volvo history to 110k. Now 4k overdue a service.
11 months MOT
Timing belt done in the 90k service at a Volvo dealer.
New clutch (Volvo dealer) and new alternator (local indie auto spark) in the last 10,000 miles.
Drives absolutely A1 - engine is smooth, very punchy, sounds lovely under load, has bags of grunt and there are no nasty clonks or wandering on the road. A couple of minor trim creaks only. Otherwise quiet and refined.
Good spec - all electrics, part leather, radio/CD, cruise, air-con (all working)
Things wrong with it:
It's falsely reporting a blown sidelight bulb
One of the boot lid struts is broken
Minor scuffing on bumper corners.
Shortly in need of two front tyres.
It's going in Autotrader at £2800, but he's offered it to me for £2,500
My concerns are:
120k on a turbo petrol engine. It drives well, but how long before it's going to need a turbo?
I know nothing about these cars in terms of what goes wrong with them, what to look for, and what they cost to service and run.
Fuel economy. He really doesn't care about this and genuinely doesn't monitor it. What can I expect from it on a gentle motorway run? It's not going to be a diesel Mondeo, but neither does it go (or sound) like one. Could I get 35 mpg out of it on a gentle commute?
Strikes me as a heck of a lot of car fo £2500. What do you reckon? It's not a car I've considered, but you know what it's like when something comes up at what seems like a decent price and you know the recent history of it....
Cheers
DP
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Glad you're liking it.
I loved my old Volvo V40 2.0T, the best seats I've ever experienced and the overtaking punch / relaxed drive was great (even better after adding a bleed valve from Kalmar Union :-D)
Does anyone know how to reset the service indicator lamp on a mark 1 zafira? Read more
The proceedure to switch off INSP message is as follows.
1. Ignition Off
2. Hold Trip Reset In
3. Turn on Ignition
4. Still Holding Trip Reset wait for three (or maybe four) dashes
5. Turn off Ignition
6. Turn on Ignition
On later Vauxhall models you also have to hold the brake pedal down before turning the ignition on (same point as step 2 above)
Hello,
Just had car serviced and mechanic says the fuel pump has a leak underneath: he said its diifficult to see where it is coming from. He said it needs to go to a specialist to be repaired and will cost a lot of money, at least £300. I feel a prat as I have just bought the car! Anyway, does anyone have an idea of how much it will cost: is pump replaced, or repaired?
Thanks in advance for any help and advice.
Paul Read more
Would this problem make the car difficult to start? I have a leaking fuel pump but have not located the source yet, but the car will not start.
hiya does anyone know where to get detailed instructions and diagrams or tell me how to put a dump valve on my 306. i cant find my vacuum pipe or anything.
thanks
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Has no one noticed this thread is over a year old.
but to answer the question finally, you can fit a dump valve to a 306 1.9td, the kits that are available or can be diyed easily use a microswitch triggered by the throttle lever to tell the dump valve when to operate, it doesn't make any increase in performance at all, if anything it can marginally affect performance as the turbo needs to spool up again. people fiit them purely for the noise they make, i happen to like the noise but never fitted one to any of my 306's as i would only have one where it is actually required as a couple of hundred quid on a noise seems silly to me.
chris
I've recently bought (from a dealer) a 53 plate Focus Tdci estate but find the brakes fairly soft and not all that sharp/efficient. Previous car was a 306hdi and the brakes on this were lovely and solid and were really good. The Focus brakes just seem to be a bit poor really in comparison.
Have other owners found this? Can it be improved? On the Pug I found that certain makes of brake pads with different compounds varied in feel and efficiency, the Focus has Ford pads fitted front & rear (rear discs on this car) and I'm debating about changing them. I have bled the brakes & the fluid is clean with no air bubbles.
thanks
chris Read more
Ooookay. I have now bled the brakes through with Halford's best dot 5.1 fluid (actually I have no idea what Halfords brake fluid is like, reasonably quality I hope). Although I mentioned in an earlier message that I did previously bleed some fluid through on each of the calipers and found no air, when I bled it through fully this time, one of the rear calipers did have some air in it, hurrah! So much for dealer servicing then!
As a result the brakes do feel more solid and definately work better. Still not as good as my previous car but that's just wishful thinking. They are now much more of an adequate standard, so thanks to all for thoughts and advice...
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