May 2008
I have a problem with my factory fit alarm. It is running continuously after changing the alternator. The sounder is on, hazards flashing and alarm indicator light is on continuously. The car can be locked from outside with the key, but cannot be unlocked. Neither front door will unlock with the key. Any help would be gratefully received. Read more
Does anybody know what the amber warning light on far left at top is. It looks like a container half full with pipes off on both sides at top. It came up before but went out within 15 minutes of around town driving. Car drove normally with no loss in power. Read more
The water trap warning on these is not very reliable. I had a 405 TD that regularly showed this warning. Change the filter by undoing the four allen key bolts on the black plastic lid about 4" in diameter on the front of the engine in the centre. The water trap release is I think the knurled ring at the base of the filter on the front of the pot.
Hi All,
I would like to know your thoughts on this product, i read it in an article in the Sunday post some of you's might also have seen it.
It is called a Fuel-pod and it makes Bio-Diesel by using eathier new or used veg oil and purifying it and adding methonal. i would consider purchasing it but have heard a lot of people on here saying not to put Bio-Diesel in your car.
i've just bought a V Reg 1.8 TDI Escort to commute to work which is 80 mile round trip so producing some of my own diesel would take the cost down would it be safe or would i just knacker my car?
greenfuels.co.uk/
Regrards,
Escortgti Read more
Properly made bio-diesel is supposed to be a direct equivalent for mineral fuel. Many makers ban it because very little home-made "bio-diesel" is to the required BS standard.
With the soaring cost of base plant oil and the methanol and caustic soda making it a very nasty process; properly-made bio is only marginally cheaper.
Before buying/storing large quantities of methanol; check with your insurers and the local council. You'll also need to make proper waste removal arrangements.
Any ideas how long an alternator should last on average.
Focus 2, 05 1.6 TDCI- Replaced after 23,000 mls
C-Max 05 2.0 TDCI- replaced after 28,000 mls
Spoke to a RAC technician who said they have been called out to many alternator faults on newish Fords. Is there an inherent problem with them? Read more
I think the answer here is yes and no.It would seem that models where the alternator is fitted low down at the front of the engine bay are suffering problems related to water ingress and subsequent corrosion of the internal electronics/connections.Mondeo variants appear to be ok as the unit is fitted to the rear of the engine.hth
Website designers can never let well enough alone. Now, the very useful former version of Multimap has been scrapped in favour of a less detailed one. I don't like AA or Viamichelin either. What else is there? Read more
Google maps send feature is handy.
Plan a route on your PC (much easier than a tiny touchscreen) change it to suit. Click send --> If you're a BMW, Merc or Audi driver, plop in your BMW Assist number.
Go out to car, switch on ignition and new message recieved!
Cool!
Peugeot 306 TD 1.9 Hi all I was driving along at 50 (motorway roadworks)and it started to shake through the steering randomly I then got off on to a side road and turned the car to the right and got a clonking on full lock so I thought it was the drive shaft I bought a second hand one from a scrapy put it back together and it is still doing it I checked the wheel bearing for play I even got the car off the ground and tried it with the engine runnig and in gear there was no noise I am right in thinking it's the drive shaft and only makes the noise when under load any help would be great .
Thanks Neil Read more
Hi again it was the shaft changed it again and it has cured the problem
Thanks Neil
I have a flight this Friday at 5:45pm.
That means check-in no later than 4:45.
I work in Old Street, on the Northern Line.
I am paid by the day, and cannot get away with leaving work earlier than 3pm and still getting paid.
I live in Surrey, from where my normal journey takes me on the train to Waterloo station and then on the tube.
My first plan was to catch a train from London Bridge to Gatwick Airport station, where my wife + kids, and luggage would meet me in our car.
My wife has other ideas, having recently passed her test she hasn't driven any more than 3 or 4 miles, and is not willing to to do the 35-mile drive.
I have contacted a 'folding scooter, we drive you home'-type company, and they want £110 to do it. Bit pricey I think when you add in petrol and parking.
So my next plan is for me to drive the car in in the morning, park it somewhere in South London, go into work on the Northern Line, and then going home at 3pm head on the Tube back to my car, zoom off to the airport, park the car, and meet the wife and kids, , who would have got the train, in the airport.
So I'm looking for advice on parking conditions and likely driving times around 3:30-3:45 from stations around the southern end of the Northern line. There are no motorways to utilise: can one make good progress over the A217 (or even possibly A23/M23, though I don't remember the A23 being great for driving).
Any thoughts? Read more
Anyone want to guess what flunky drives? "210 bhp with a 0-60 time of 7
seconds"?
Whatever it is, it is sadly wasted so far on Ms flunky. Perhaps a trip with a Paris or Rome taxi driver in the right mood will make her see the light...
:o}
ive recently noticed a few keep left bollards ( replacements) that are ever so thin about 3 inches thick and shaped like an elongated lozenge roughly the same colour as a rear number plate, any one else noticed them ? Read more
They are painted to represent various skin and hair colours ..........
That's "political correctness" taken to a ludicrous extreme.
It's time to fetch #1 daughter from university. How will the route M40-M42-M6-M62 be, leaving Oxfordshire at about 6 pm on the BH Mon 26th May? is most of the traffic coming S, or will there be hordes making their way N on the M6 from a w/e in the W Country. Read more
She cycles in from Carnatic Halls - can only afford to drive/run the communal kids' car that's being used to teach #2, so can't take that away to uni. Moving into a shared house slightly closer in for years 2+3.
I am thinking of getting an import frim Hong Kong. A CDA-9887. Anybody bought one or know anyone who has had any experience? Do they work ok over here? I have heard of problems with US imports when tuning the radio but I haven't heard much about these.
{dropped car make/model as I'm assuming this is a general question about Apine Stereos?} Read more
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The ECU holds the fan and pump relays off until it wants them. If it goes to limp mode, then it just lets them go and they run full-time.
Make sure that you haven't got something shorting the 5-volt reference circuit and dragging down the voltage. A fried exhaust gas pressure sensor after a blocked cat is one common one.