hi all new to the forum, my question is as above really. i have just bought a gates cam belt kit which has a cam belt, tensioner plus another roller. i have also bought a new auxillary belt.

the car is a 306 1997 (face lift) d turbo 1.9

right im going to do this myself and have not changed a belt on one of these cars before so i thought i'd ask on here before i try if there is any specail tools i need, or if there is any info i might need while doing the belt (left hand threads, things that are a pain). any help will be much appreciated thanks :)

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(Can't be a Multispace II because production did not begin until late 2007, so have changed the title to Multispace. HJ)

Some may remember my story from 12 months ago: I went out to buy a Legacy Tourer and came home with a Berlingo.
Twelve months later, here are my experiences and opinions.
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Let's face it, it is an issue and to be honest SWMBO had huge reservations, seeing the car as the preserve of eccentrics/the very old/ the very odd. One day after I bought the car I was approached by a couple in a supermarket carpark. they had identified a Berlingo as ticking all their boxes for a second car (no.1 was the 3 Series they got out of I presumed) but ......image. However, as on here, most comments are favourable and I have now come to have a certain pride in owning one. It is a little like being in a club - not an exclusive one, more a sort of 'in the know' affair.

Driving.
The pedals. Smaller and closer together than I was used to and caused one or two scary moments in the first few weeks. Now I've acclimatised and it is no longer an issue. The striking thing when driving is of course, the seating position. More upright and higher. The view is just better than in a conventional motor. I have the 1.6 HDI and performance is (relatively speaking) fine. To date 48-50 mpg. Corners: steady as she goes with a little body roll. Gear change is on the vague side but somehow a rifle bolt shift would not really suit the car!

Reliability.
Aah....the big question. would it fall apart and die? Well, it has been a curate's egg. On the one hand, so far it has been back for two warranty jobs. A rear door handle assembly and a broken rocker arm cover. Neither problem caused me much inconvenience and both jobs were sorted by the dealer quite quickly and efficiently. On the other hand it has been reliable and does its' job well. Overall, I am satisfied rather than either delighted or disappointed.

Practicality.
This is where it holds all the aces. We have a house in France and the amount of stuff we take is swallowed by the various lockers and the huge boot. the modubox has proved useful as well. My son is 15, 6ft 4 and growing, so he played a big part in eliminating alternatives 12 months ago. The upright seating allows him to sit comfortably in the Berlingo. my daughter, oh the fickleness of youth, changed her opinion on the car 100% when she saw the twin DVD players that were the sweetener Citroen were offering at the time.
Overall, I just know that at the price, Citroen/Peugeot don't have any competition.

The Dealer.
Mmm. They bent over backwards to get the sale, I did get a deal I was not expecting and compared to other citroen dealers I know they worked very hard to get me the car I wanted (metallic and aircon) in a very short space of time.
But. £192 for a first service? Compared to say, £80 for my Toyota?
Suffice to say I shall be taking the car to a dealer in Brittany this summer for its 25K.

To sum up: I am very pleased. yes, I would buy another.
Do I still read about the Legacy I could have bought?

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21 months ago I bought a Note SVE. I like the car apart from the tyres and the price of spare parts. Last year, a puncture resulted in my having to get a new tye, there's only one manufacturer - Continental. The tyre cost ca. £120. This year, a vandalised rear wiper arm cost me £58.20 not including fitting. Today during its 2nd year service, the garage told me the front tyres were nearly worn out at only 8600 miles. I've never had such poor tyre life in 43 years of motoring. This is my first Nissan and I'm not impressed.

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I have a 1999 328i.
Recently the engine has not been running smoothly. Most of the obvious things have been changed including Air mass sensor, coils & spark plugs. The car now drives ok but I can sense a slight regular shudder, almost like a regular misfire....this is so slight you might miss it altogether..however, I know it is there.
I have put the car on a diagnostic computer and all parts of the car are running within normal parameters and there are no fault codes. However, the computer did show that the front Lambda sensors appeared to be "lazy"...these were changing voltage within normal limits but slowly.....instead of spiking up and down, they were going up quickly and then going back down slowly giving a curve more like a whales back...the cycle was 2-3 seconds.
Would this indicate that the front sensors are on their way out and would this give me the slight "misfire" or judder that I can feel?

Note that the car is otherwise running normally, fuel consumption is normal, acceleration is ok etc.

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Hi All

My Pug keeps randomly stopping and my engine light is on so I bought a code ready. the codes it came out with are:

P0200: Injector Circuit Malfunction
P0380: Glow Plug/Heater Circuit "A" Malfunction.

Could someone please explain in more detail what these codes mean? And what I can do about them, you know, what simple things I can check before taking it down to the local garage? Please explain things really simply - I'm not that technically minded ;0)

Many Thanks

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