May 2008
im off to wembley on sunday...
where is the best place to park and how do i pay the congestion charge???
last time i drove to london was to earls courts about 8 yrs ago.
do i pre book a space like i did for earls court?? or is there a better way??
thx
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A pair of my tyres are due replacement soon and whilst I know the size 205/55/16, I'm finding it difficult to pin down the speed rating. V or W.
The handbook indicates the rating depends on the engine type and size, they can be H, T, V, or W.
I have a pair of V rated on one axle and W on the other.
Can anyone advise me as to the correct rating.
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Thank you all
P.
Car : Peugeot 1997 1.9 D-turbo phase 2 (115k miles)
Hello there, I have owned this car for around 6 months and recently have had a small problem.
When starting, the engine fires up no problem but for around 10 seconds it sounds as though the engine is misfiring slightly. Giving it a few revs usually cures the problem.
This only usually occurs when starting from cold and the problem dissapears after 10 seconds.
As I'm unsure about when the fuel filter was last changed, I thought I would start there but i'm unsure as to where it is located, and if any specialist tools are required.
Any help much appreciated.
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Thanks for the help guys but i changed the fuel filter at the weekend and the small white tap is the diesel inlet as far as i can see. When i pump the priming bulb diesel is pumped into the filter chamber. I move the white screw the opposite way and it doesn't seem to make a difference.
I was wondering if this was a shut valve to stop fuel going back to the tank when you change filters maybe?
Anyway, the problem is still there and i'm none the wiser!
It only seems to happen when the engine gets hot.
Cheers
Wev
I was waiting at some traffic lights. The road is two lanes wide here. I was the third car back in the nearside lane. As the lights changed to green and just as the first car had begun to pull away, a motorcycle shot down between the two lanes of cars, went past me and the car in front but clipped the mirror of the front car and rode away at speed. I know we quite often see motorcycles going between vehicles in similar situations. Is it legal for motorcycles to come down between lanes of vehicles like this?
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Someitimes the gap between cars in adjacent lanes at junctions would be big enough to get my Panda through. Is this legal????
Maybe, as long as he's cute enough! I assume he's a giant Panda - so weighs about the same as a medium motorbike?
I have a Ford Mondeo TDDi 2.0L 2001 and I've done a very silly thing. When leaning across to fetch something from the glove compartment, the plastic handle/doorcatch (flimsy piecece of kit) snapped off in my hand leaving the compartment jammed shut! As I keep my TomTom satnav in there when not in use I'm at my wits end as to how to get it out without having to take a two pound hammer to the door.......Any ideas? Read more
I managed to get just the handle from my dealer and don't remember it being that eye-watering, mind you that was just over a year ago and I am ageing..........
My 2003 Laguna 1.8 16v recently had the gearbox replaced as a result of differential failure. During the repair the battery was disconnected so I had to re-code the radio. (No problem)
However the digital odometer and trip computer will now only indicate metric units, so my 110,000 mile car now has 177,000km, my economy is measured in litres per hundred km etc.
Does anyone know if it can be reset without resort to a Renault dealer ?
Also I have noticed that the rev counter is now reading high. Before at 70mph it would show less than 3000 rpm, now it shows nearer to 4000. I know it's the rev counter that's faulty as before the car would only reluctantly accelerate to the red line, now you can take it to the end of the clock and still be accelerating.
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Thanks for the idea, but a laguna has only one button for the trip computer. I did try it, but nothing happened.
It must be something like you suggest, it's just the kind of thing I might have accidentally done to cause the problem in the first place.
Anybody got any ideas?
Hi all, The brake lights stopped working on my Audi A3 1.8, checked the fuse which appeared to be ok, but just to check i swapped it with another 10 amp fuse in the rack. Unbeknown to me i had just swapped it with the power supply for the onboard diagnosis/telephone. Now the damn thing wont start (the engine turns over but wont start). Have examined both fuses again and they both appear to be O.K. There appear to be no warning lights on the dash apart from the engine immobiliser light flashing once as it turns over. Any help would be greatly appreciated Read more
Brake light switches are a common fault; oft-modified, the current one is only around £7 - but very easy to break while fitting.
I've just been driving a borrowed new car at my more or less usual speed of posted limit plus 10% to allow for over-reading.
But do speedos still over-read or is that now an urban myth that's been carried over from a time when it really happened?
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My A3 is only 2mph high at 70 and 1mph high at 30, according to my sat nav.
Hi All
Quick question regarding my mondeo. It's a 1.8TD P reg, 157400 miles on the clock.
It's started blowing black smoke from the exhaust when ever I press the accelerator, it seems to get worse once the revs reach about 2000, the car labours when accelerating then suddenly jumps forward as if it has just had a power boost it's at this point the black smoke puffs out the back.
It went to it the garage on Friday, they checked the air filter (replaced about 7000 miles ago at service) and fuel line for blockages, all clear. The garage think it may be a blocked intercooler and that it is affecting the turbo, at the moment I'm waiting for the garage to contact me as they are trying to find a second hand intercooler as they have said a new one will be expensive (the garage is very good and have looked after my car since I've had it).
Is there anything else this could be?
I've had a lot of work done on the car in the last 12 months (this is how long I have owned it), cambelt change, new starter motor, new brakes front (discs and pads) and back, new heater matrix, new radiator, new fuel shut off valve and full servicing and a bit more and the car is due it's MOT in about 4 weeks time, is it worth perservering?(spelling, sorry) the down side is I can't afford to go out and spend alot on another car. Read more
As some for you may remember (earlier post), I was having a problem with my mondeo puffing out black smoke constantly, I was told I needed a new intercooler, after posting on the forum and getting some sound advice I consulted another garage and it did turn out to be the EGR valve, a new EGR solenoid valve was fitted (we were struggling to find a second hand EGR valve, new one cost £251+VAT, that's half the value of the car) and a diesel treatment put in to try and clear it, no joy. the day before the car was due to go in and have the new valve fitted and MOT the spring coil on front offside wheel snapped, the car has now been sold as spares (we had it for a year and every month it was in the garage having something done, hence we had had enough).
we've now got a ford escort 1.6 1999, 85000 on the clock with very little tax and only a week remaining on the MOT for £300, MOT'd it today and it passed with flying colours and with no advisory notices either. We bought it off a local man who just wanted rid of it as he didn't have the space for it anymore. We are WELL PLEASED and I think it's safe to say a REAL BARGAIN.
Thank you to those who offered advice, you were spot on.
CHEERS GUYS
Joined up with the original post - nice bit of closure !
Just had my garage replace a speedo pod for me.(2002 SX HDi) The old one had an electrical fault (surprise!), and just kept on ticking up all the time. - Often parked at 80!.
I also asked them to see if they could get remote locking working again. - I had done all the 'key synch' stuff, and reckoned the car has just decided it wasn't going to play any more. (It had stopped working one day when I tried to start the car (by mistake!) while in gear. - The car lurched, the hazard warning lights came on, and remote locking has never worked since. I did inform the garage of this)
Speedo was a second hand unit at £50, rather than a brand new one at £500.
My questions: They didn't reset the speedo to match the rest of the car, which I understand does know what it is. - They said they didn't do it because it was (and I quote) "Impossible". - So had they fitted a brand new one it would have shown next to nothing. - I find this one hard to believe.
They faffed around with my keys, and came to the same conclusion I did. They are adamant that this cannot be resolved by resetting the BSI, and are '90%' certain that to get the remote sensor in the car working again, will need a new Comms 2000 unit at a total cost of around £250. Of course they won't offer any guarantees that a new Comms 2000 unit will get my remopte locking working again. (Several other people have reported on the web that non working remote locking has been cured by a BSI reset/reconfigure.)
Am I being fobbed of, or are my requests really unreasonable??
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I think part of the reason the Xsara (mk2 especially) is pretty good is the fact its based on the 306 and ZX chassis before it, so by now hopefully PSA would have worked out many of the kinks of the design and manufacture process.
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thx for the tips
there will be three of us
me and two 22yr old hooligans.....hopefully not !!
leed suppporters in the doncaster end!!!!!!!!!!
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