May 2008
Saxo VTR W (2000) plate has developed a fault which has totally immobilised/stopped the car.
Problem:
No power, no lights, no ignition, Clifford alarm de-activated, no electronic/electical signs of life at all.
Tested battery and alternator. Both OK, in fact the battery is only a month old anyway as it was replaced when car had a previous start up problem.
It's as if the power is not getting from the battery to the car engine management system (assuming Saxo's have one?).
Oh and when the car is running we also have the normal airbag light warning but..... I think that is likely to be the connectors under the seat and not at all to do with this issue.
Have asked a Citroen garage for an opinion, all they want is for me to open my cheque book up for them to have a look and run diagnostics. problem is I have very limited financial resources and I'm not prepared to do that without some form of idea about the size of the problem first.
So that you are fully in the picture, the car first had a problem 2 nights ago, no power, no alarm (Clifford) nothing, slammed the driver door in frustration (in a multi storey car park at the time and had visions of AA getting stuck at the barriers) and everything came back on? Got home no problem. Next day. Nothing at all worked again and has remained that way.
Would an earth problem or a loose terminal cause this sort of symptom or is it more like to be something else? I don't think it will be a fuse issue as the power loss is total but, could something fusing have caused some sort of trip?
If you have an idea please tell me where to look, I don't know a lot about the mechanics of a car at all. Oil, water and petrol is about my limit. Probably a bit more than that in truth but you get the idea.
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"Fat people blamed for global warming"
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1973230/Fat-people-blamed...l
"British scientists say they use up more fuel to transport them around and the amount of food they eat requires more energy to produce ... "
So that is what Gordon and Darling are trying to do. Reduce use of big cars, make us walk more, so we get thinner, and can now happily fit in to smaller cars! At the same time, UK's contribution to global warming gets cut!
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It's a pity we don't practise the WW II era thinking of "Waste not, want not".
I've seen an Astra 1.4, 55 reg on the network Q site as a replacement for Mrs midlife's Getz. The only problem is it's over 100 miles away. Are Vx dealers amenable to moving a car to a local dealer, or do you have to commit first. It's not a bad price for a dealer buy (assuming I can get something half decent as a p/x for the Get) Read more
I have now...just thought it would save me going out in the rain. They were
adamant I would have to buy from the supplying dealer. The salesman didn't even offer
to see if he had any similar cars. Strange really I wasn't exactly fighting my
way through the crowds.
On a serious note I had cause to seek a van some years ago and inquired of Nidd Vale Motors up north somewhere of a van they had on their books. As a huge cynic I have to say that I was impressed by the salesman's attitude. He basically said that he would describe it in as much detail as I wanted and that they would have it delivered to my door (Devon) and if it was as described they would expect me to accept it. If it wasn't they would get the driver to bring it back. The guy actually spoke my language and not a load of bull.
No I didn't proceed, but bought new, but their price was not a million miles off of the mark.
Good luck MLC
VBR.....MD
Hi Guys,
I have just bought a Rover 45 2.0 24V V6 automatic, it has a good service history and the cam belt was changed a few thousand miles ago and all seems to be in good working order. I was wondering if there is any known faults that I should keep an eye out for or any other suggestions from experience.
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All input welcome
Nice!
Looking at the pictures could n't help thinking of the Hyudai Coupe and the Fiat Coupe.
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Any WhizzGo members here? How has the experience been? We could use something like this in my area, suitably localised and up-sized. Read more
I put on the fuel thread last night about this. We have whizzgo in Leeds and I don't live far from one of the bays. If 99% of the time you don't need a car and can manage on public transport, or live in a city centre and can walk to most of your destinations it seems like a good idea. Having a car on demand so you can go shopping, go out for the day, they even do weekend hire.
The big downside for me is the requirement to drop the car off where you pick it up.
If you could use it like true personal transport and use it to commute, leave it parked for others to use, then book a car to get home it could work very well.
With the petrol / diesel price differential getting worse instead of better as it should in the summer months, it might be heloful if between us we could come up with examples of particularly fuel-efficient petrol engines - clearly not the 1.6 Ford Focus as the current thread shows!
I'll kick off with:
Honda Jazz - a hard worked 1339 cc engine but people seem to get mid to high 40s with ease
New (08 model) Mini - SWMBO's Cooper does 40 mpg in town and 46 on a long run, about 5 mpg better than the'06 Mini One she had before. Read more
>>On the K-series, the MGF was known for giving very good economy figures - my sisters was a regular 45 mpg.
Driven normally my TF 160 achieves this quite easily. Using all of those VVCs and it drops to mid 20s though :-(
Girlfriend is still using our old 214 to go to work and back and over a typical week of 450 miles she is getting about 46mpg according to my calculations - about 380 miles on 37 litres is pretty typical.
Hi im lookin for some advice. Iv only had my 206 GTI hDI 110 for around a month now. At first i was very happy with the fuel economy! The last few days whilst driving all of a sudden the fuel consumption drops to between 38-42mpg. (yes on instant MPG) when this happens the average MPG drops down and so does the miles left to empty! I drove home on saturday a 40mile journey with my girlfriend with me and drove very gentle i.e no hard aceleration or anything and sitting at 60mph and only avreaged 42mpg. I could average that journey 40mpg in a fiesta ST!!!!! I was getting high 50s to start of with.
I got this car to save money on fuel, So please help me out!
Any help will be apreciated thanks
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It was probably regen-ing the FAP which may causes a short term spike in the consumption, and make it run slightly rough for 30 mins or so.
Had my idle control valve cleaned out today, seems to have sorted lumpy idle and stalling at junctions, but clever bluetooth diagnostic box that my friendly (and highly recommended) independent garage has invested in printed a "tool report" saying 'error code P0400 EGR flow malfunction' - now I know the EGR valves on Mondys can get a bit gummed up, but is it worth paying another hour's labour to get this cleaned out in the same way? Is it cheap to replace as a failsafe? Or shall I "see how I get on?" Any experts on EGR valves recommend a course of action? Seems to drive OK now. Read more
OK most people has GPS with tax camera locations on now but if all you need is the cameras and you can read a map then this has to be unbeatable.
Offer available on their website. Read more
Mine's just arrived. Cute little device and very simple to use. Does what it says on the box kind of thing.
Thank you :-)
Will have a look as soon as I can. Will let you know if it cures the problem.
lol, if not, you will probably hear me yelling at the car anyway.
Di