The D.I.L. 's Corsa 1.7 diesel has started to run rough, similar to having a missing plug.

It was refuelled with fresh diesel, the receipt says so.

I drove it after she used it and for me it ran OK. The local garage, not being a diesel specialist, looked at the fuel for water contamination and said it was fine but changed the fuel filter just as a precaution. Apparently the fault is still there.

I have now booked it into a diesel specialist for investigation.

Could anyone offer any advice as to what might be wrong. Do these engines have there known quirks?

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As requested, here are our first impressions of our lil car ( 2004 auto LX ).

Dealer: As with the Daihatsu, perfect, same dealer.

Practicality: Not a patch on the Daihatsu for packaging, but it is just about adequate for four people. Boot is very small but atleast its a practical shape. There are however many useful cubbies, decently sized too, including the under boot space which is well arranged so you can store various things in the tray provided.

Driving: OK, lets be honest, it is not a quick car, but with a decent space, it can overtake and the gearbox is ever so smooth, more so than the Subaru ( misses agrees ).
The engine is far more vocal than the Daihatsu, nor is it anything other than noise, but if you treat it moderately, it never gets too loud and doesnt need too many revs to get it up to speed. At speed it is quiet, but the gearbox does have a habit of changing down a gear if you dont ease the gas down gently ( the pedal is very sensitive ).
Steering and handling are much better than the Daihatsu and it never feels unsettled even on long, fast bends. Ride is not bad, but the Daihatsu does have the edge in this respect.
Very easy to park although rear window is small.
Rear seats fold down flat with the squabs folding forward, creating a very useful space although not ever so long.

Bits and Pieces: The dashboard plastic around the centre console is rather cheap looking in the shiny kinda way that the Daijit somehow seems to avoid, maybe its since improved but its a minor thing.
Cupholders are as ever, shallow and useless for anything other than cans, bottles tip over easily. Fit and finish generally is very good though, doors feel very solid and everything has a durable feel to it.
One nice touch is having elec rear windows, its a little thing but useful.

Running costs: Reports of poor economy havent been our experience at all - we got 40 mpg from exclusive town work, 43.5 with a mixture of A-roads and country lanes and on a steady dual carriageway run over to Norfolk, we got 54 mpg. This is not in the same ballpark as the Daijit for sure, but its not bad at all and not the 35 mpg that others have mentioned, so maybe our car with 31k is better run in perhaps?
Road tax is £120, and aside fro the Mitsui i and the Smarts, I think this is as good as it gets for small autos.

Overall, we like the car very much. It has different strengths and weaknesses to the Daihatsu, but its still a very likeable little car. Certainly my misses has no regrets about getting teh Subaru gone and she drove over 250 miels in it this holiday, something that she wouldnt consider in the Forester. All id say is, if your used to quick cars and you liek them that way, dont buy one, but otherwise, its a great automatic city car with decent out of town ability aswell. Read more

had an accident today. I was pulling out of a road, turning left onto a narrow one way street. there were cars parked to the right and to the left. immediatly to the left by the junction there was a transit van parked on double yellow lines which was an obstuction, there was no-where for me to go as it was one way so i tried to go past. I hit the van. there is damage to my left wing of my car and the bumper was completely hanging off. there was no damage to his vehicle. i pulled over and my passenger and i observed a gentleman guiding another car around this van.
I waited 20 mins and eventually a man came back to the van,the driver was the man guiding the second car around him, he clearly knew he was obstructing the road! he apparantly had been delivering to a local temple. he didnt understand my attitude to his parking and said that i should have seen his hazard lights. he refused to give me his insurance details and left. i took his reg number and informed the police. my insurance company have told me that as much as i wish to dispute liability, despite his vehicle being illegally parked and causing an obstruction, as it was stationary when i hit it, i probabaly wont get very far.

am i just supposed to accept this?
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Hello all,
Last year when i went to Majorca I wanted to hire a convertible and I was given a 307CC. I think it was the 2 litre HDI 136. It has a 6 speed box and held 2 adults and 2 kids and our luggage (for our trip from the airport). But on the windy road to Torrent de Parreis with 4 of us on board changing gear constantly between 2nd and 3rd became a tiresome chore and this car felt slower than the 1.9dci 120 Renault Scenic we rented the previous year. So i've gone all out this year and reserved myself a Mercedes CLK Cabriolet 320cdi. What does this drive like? Will there be room for our luggage as with the 307cc?

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hi there my sister has an audi A4 quattro 3.0L V6 52plate the problem is sometimes it turns over but wont start i plugged my diagnostics in and up came P0116 and P0118 it was telling me the engine coolent temp circuit was high also when the engine heated up it would not run properly and the engine was very hot with the fan running all the time.
I bought a temp switch but i couldn,t find where it went all the sensors i found did not match what they gave me unless its the wrong one,does anyone know where its located?,anyone any idea i dont wont to put it into audi for them to empty my bank account just yet.
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