July 2008
This diesel van occasionally refuses to start, though the plugs have warmed up.
( The glow plug relay failed, and I've connected them up directly from the relay supply via a hand-operated sprung switch).
Usually starts fine, but when it doesn't and you crank it too long it really shakes engine about and just won't fire.
However, on these occasions it will start immediately if you use jump leads, or bump start it, which seems to rule out fuel supply problems. Anyone any ideas?
robertk
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Hi All;
Was wondering if you could help, I bought my little peugeot a year ago, and have only three weeks ago but it through its MOT and 70,000 mile service, I had quite a bit of work carried out on the car including replacing the oxygen sensor, and for the first couple of weeks it run perfectly...
But then a couple of days ago I noticied it started to judder (almost like when you have pulled away in 2nd or 3rd) when pulling away and that the revs drop to practically nothing, the engine has also started to make a horrid noise, I have checked the cam belt and it dosen't look to have slipped and was replaced according to the history 18 months ago!
Being a typical women, I thought it may have been my driving, but then my hubby took it out and said there is definately something wrong with it!
Any suggestions peps, I am at the moment not driving it, and have left it on my driveway!
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Yesterday we had to bail 25 pints of water out of the spare tyre well out of our car and there's dampness underneath the rear seats (in the middle). I rang my local renault garage and they suggested that it might be coming in from a door seal or from around the rear light fittings but I've been tipping water over the car for the past 2 hours and I can't see anything coming in. The water was clear (apart from a few twigs) so I'm sure it's coming in from above but I'm stumped. Has anybody got any ideas? There is a large water mark coming from below the cup holder thing next to the rear offside seat but it appears to lead into the footwell and I can't see that that would end up in the boot. It does look as though what has collected under the seats has gone into the boot and there is a hole in the top of the rear offside window seal so I thought it might be seeping round inside the interior trim but I tipped a load of water over there and nothing seemed to happen (also took off the interior trim by that window and it was perfectly dry inside). Please help! Read more
Hi first post.
A man hit my car last week and drove off got his plate though its all going through the insurance have also been to the police.
He said he didnt do it..but he did
My car is 12 months old.. someone has mentioned there is somthing like a black box type of thing that newer cars have inbuilt that they use against warrarnty claims etc...does anyone know what im on about pls?
Thanks
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injection doc: im not in the wrong, i wasnt even moving, plus im a driving instructor by day so have every legal aspect covered.
My excess is tiny.
Only asked about date boxes, that it all..now i know thats sorted.
So the poor old Allegro gets a drubbing. But what was the best car available for the money from the same era?
Also, what would be your ideal car if you could pick anything built pre 1980? Read more
1965 Austin A40 countryman, I can remember regularly thrashing down the A3 into Wandsworth at an indicated 80 mph, this was years before they reduced the limit to 50mph. Also remember once whilst on the A3 hearing strange noises from the engine pulling in and finding the oil sump plug had fallen out. Called up my brother , replacement sump plug and fresh engine oil and off we went - no probs ! Those were the days.
Another great car was the Mk1 Rover 827SLi, had a 1988 version , what a rocket ship that was, 22mpg didn't seem to matter back then.
I have just looked at the survey about number plates,and got me wondering.Does any one know how they will work after 2009.At the moment they have a 0 or 5 to tell the months between march to august,and september to february that the vehicle was registered, then the number of the year but how will this work in 2010 and on.Would the plate in march 2010 be 2 letters 010 then three random letters which would then alter the spacing as it will be 8 characters instead of 7 which it has been for many years? Read more
The current system is the best one yet devised, in that it uses as many letters as possible, including O, I and Z (maximum number of permutations possible) and there is a twice-yearly "snob value" element of buying a new car. The downside is the easy identification of the car's place of registration, which may lead to the regional motoring rivalry once common in France, Italy and Spain (where regional identifiers have all been scrapped.)
To go slightly off topic here, will it be long before yellow rear reflective plates are ditched in favour of white like most of the rest of the world? Yellow stands out especially when driving abroad and it simply does not "go" with other colours (the huge rear yellow "fillet" often seen on Rover 75s sitting square in the middle of a black, red or green rump is hideous).
I was hopping mad when my car was broken into in a street in Spain many years ago - it was parked parallel to dozens of local cars and the yellow plates stood right out and almost invited car thieves to come along. I've recently noticed a lot of French cars travelling through Spain with white and black rear plates, which I presume are illegal modifications. (Not that foreign police can do anything about it, I would have thought.)
Fitted new battery and the radio code was lost. Local dealer far from adequate with solution. Audio technician is confident he can re-programme unit. The problem is ,how does the radio come out of the console? Any info. Gratefully received. Ka6e
{volume lowered - ie, amended the SHOUTING!}
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Just google "car radio removal"
www.fitaudio.com/index.php?CategoryID=21 heres one for starters
There is a quacking type noise coming from a part of the engine that sits under the left hand side of the plastic cover. I think this part has a diafram inside and when the pipe is taken off, the noise stops. It doesn't seem to affect the running of the car and only seems to make the noise when the weather is warm and the car has been running for a while. Read more
Thanks for all your help. I think i can safely say that it is EGR valve so i'll just go and get that replaced.
Thanks again
Pete
I am planning to take my two teenage boys to the motor show next week in docklands.
We will be travelling up by car from Dorset and aim to be there at 10.00 when the doors open. I have been to the shows at the NEC and Earls Court for the last 20+ years but didn't go last time to the new London venue.
What's the best way to get there? Previously when we went to Earls Court we would park at Richmond and take the tube into town but as the show is right over the other side the travel connections look long and complicated.
We will therefore probably loop around the southern half of the M25 then drive to the venue and use the car parks there. Where is the best place to leave the M25 and is there any place just off the motorway which would allow us to access a rail link to the show?
Any advice gratefully appreciated, as a country bumpkin I'd like to avoid any serious big city congestion if at all possible. Read more
My preference would be NOT to go in as far as Richmond.
I think it may be better to catch a train to Waterloo from an outlying Station easily reached via the M3 or M25, such as Staines, Sunbury, Weybridge, or further out at Farnborough, Guildford or Woking.
www.maps.live.com or google-maps will show aerial views of the parking facilities around these Stations.
Just had reason to buy some "genuine" rover parts, which were not available from the aftermarket !
I am sure you realise Rover does not exist any more; but the parts are still avaiilable (as genuine mg rover parts) from a network of specialist dealers etc !
Surely that proves (to those that believe that "genuine" parts are better) that genuine parts are not actually genuine; just made for and supplied to the vehicle assembler in their own packaging.
I have picked on Rover; but it happens to all makes ! Read more
Before Rover went bust they sold off their "spare parts business" to a Caterpillar subsidiary (IIRC)
They can obviously order parts from suppliers and put the MG/Rover stamp on the boxes as they bought the right to sell MG Rover spare parts -
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If the revs drop as you pull away, then get a second opinion. Clutch slip/judder is one thing; but it doesn't drop the revs - quite the opposite.