August 2008
Er...I want to scrap my old car. I picked a company from the list of ELV scrap dealers from the DoE website and spoke to them. They said they'd come and take the car away and I should give them the V5 document (I don't have a VC5) without filling it in and they'll send me a CoD later on.
Is that how it's done? I'm a bit worried about just handing over the car and the log book. Should I worry? Read more
I was googling for car sales and came across a few articles saying that the sales of new and used cars has basically ground to a halt. Probably why so many firms are now offering 0% finance on new cars.
I also gather that sales of 4x4s, MPVs and large saloons have ground to a halt with dealers now refusing to take them in part-ex out of fear of being unable to sell them on - does this mean we are all going to be driving around in tiny cars in the next few years as everyone ditches their big cars?
It might sound like the green and financial thing to do but surely this will proove impossible for tall guys like myself, people with families, those who are overweight and people with disabilities?
Anyhow, I am digressing my own thread. Anyone know what is happening in the UK car trade, both new and second-hand, at present? Read more
My friends had a crash in France on our summer holidays and their Scenic written off.
Insurance have just paid out their settlement and I have told them that the longer they can hold off buying a car the better as the values seem to be falling.
Although theirs was a 15 month old Scenic, I think they will now go for a 3 year old one and put some of the money towards clearing the loan.
They are also in quite a fortunate position of now being able to buy a car with cash, no trade in so think they will get quite a favourable deal. Yes, dealers normally prefer customers taking finance but I would imagine in this day and age they will be happy with a customer full stop?
Hi all new to this, i have a vectra 2.0 petrol 1999 t reg,
Having some problems ecu light on all the time idle poor and only revving to 4500rpm, have done the paper clip trick and have a number of codes, camshaft sensor, intake air temp sensor and Hego oxygen sensor can anyone advice on this as i am having a right nightmare with it. Read more
Any one with any advice would be much appriated.
2001 Passat estate 130TDI
I've just managed to blow a fuse (or two) while repairing/checking a trailer light board. I found and successfully replaced the 5A tail light fuse in panel at RH edge of dashboard but cannot find a fuse for the rear fog lights and brake lights. They are not listed on the card in the fuse panel. Does anyone know if there is a second fusebox and if so where is it? I read another post about the brake light circuit being linked to the engine management circuit - is this a clue?
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Well I think my eyesight must be on the way out. I just checked all the fuses again and one that looked good had in fact blown. So could have saved myself hours. Anyway all lights on car and trailer board now working. Hurrah!
Thanks again.
Hope you can shed some light on this one... When in 'cold mode' she runs fine with plenty of power and torque plus a smooth sounding engine. As soon as things warm up the engine becomes sluggish and noisy, under load sounding like an old sewing machine!. It'll still reach a good clip but takes sooo long to get there :-(.... This only started a week or so ago. Any ideas?
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After all this time, i finally got round to sorting this out!...
Stripped out the EGR valve and manifold pipe, both were clogged really badly - the egr was almost completely bunged up and the pipe was restricted to at least HALF its normal diameter. The swirl actuator was sticky. Slight panic after reassembly, no compression while the loosened carbon deposits worked through. She's now at 145k miles and running sweet.
I've had my 307 now for about a year and fear I'm suffering from a bad case of peugeot build quality, various MOT failing faults have cropped up first off my drivers seat seems to be collapsing, but got that covered. Now the Indicator is all over the place and my horn only works intermitentley have been informed that in all likelyhood that its my com 2000 unit but I hate the Idea of forking over £300 to peugeot for a new one. Anyone know where I might get one for less? And while I'm on anyone know where I might be able to get my hands on a cheap spare key??
I'm soo not getting another peugeot!
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Might give that a whirl, infact I recently spotted a peugeot specialist about 50 feet from the place I'm getting a new drivers seat from. but at this point don't think I'll ever own a peugeot again and might consider an insurance fire if it persists in its awful fashion.
help me, my golf has no reverse lights, which makes it difficult to reverse out of shopping car park spaces, and dont know where the switch is located to change it......pls help Read more
From your replies golf3driver i think you should take your car to an auto-electrician.
My car is revving by itself whenever power is taken from the car.e.g lights rear de-mister.heaters.brake lights anything
I have plugged it into the diagnostic machine four times now at two separate places,
it keeps coming up as throttle position sensor circuit 2. I have replaced that part twice with second hand parts and yesterday a brand new one from Peugeot and it still has the same problem, also the machine can not turn off the engine management as its a permanent fault apparently.
It also came up with underneath it premanent to ground. I duno if that is the earth or wot?its costing me a fortune taken it to dif places an they charge me and say they dnt no wot it is an they never heard of it.if any1 can help be rlly helpfull cheers
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Nearly all the APP sensor codes [P0221/0121 etc.] on these early HDi's were not the sensor .
Mike,...
We currently have a tiny little car which is about 15 years old. It's about to drop and with a little newborn we need something a bit larger.
We've been thinking about what we'd like and although perhaps more practical, we don't want an estate. Neither myself nor my wife want one so we've thought that the bets best option would be a nice compact SAV like the X3. We live in London but go away regularly, Cornwall, New Forrest etc.
We come down to two cars, the BMW X3 or the VW Tiguan. We've driven both. The Tiguan is certainly more flashy but the X3 is bigger and the engine is nicer. However there's nothing swaying us towards either. The X3 could be purchased second hand at about £18k. If we go for the Tiguan we'd probably buy it new for about £23k as the used prices are still above £20k.
Does anyone have any thoughts about either car? Any good reasons why we should choose one over another? Any advice, thoughts or help would be much appreciated! Read more
Funnily enough comments like those make replacing our largish pick up with a bigger one
more likely..;)
Nothing at all wrong with SUV's they've got many good points.
A man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.
The best thing about 4x4s is when we get some snow around my way, there's always a rash of invincible 4x4s stuffed in to trees or hanging out of hedges and ditches. Gives the rest of us a right good laugh.
Hi, some words of advice from the experts please.
We have a 1989 Mazda MX5 Japanese import which has a Texalarm ATX16 alarm/immobiliser fitted. It is an aftermarket item rather than an original fitment judging by the wiring
This device seems to have failed leading to us not being able to start the car at all, even if we just reconnect the battery the alarm goes off. What happened was that the alarm went off and would not respond to the fob, so I disconnected the battery to shut the thing up. Now if I reconnect the battery the alarm sounds
So currently the vehicle is on our drive with the multiplug disconnected from the alarm/immobiliser module, a dead, unusable car.
Question is how do I remove it from the car? If the device is likely to render the car unusable when it feels like it we would prefer not to have it.
I am a resonably competent amateur but I am concerend that if I simply follow all the wires, disconnect them and remove the unit will I then have to reconnect any wires which were separated when the device was fitted?
Any words of wisdom will be welcome, thanks in advance!
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Thanks for the suggestion, I hadn't thought of that as we are happy to have the the car with no alarm or immobilser because we will not likely be leaving it anywhere where it will be vulnerable to attention from undesirable people.
As I said I am capable and happy to do the removal myself, the question is whether or not I need to do more than just remove this aftermarket unit.
For example when these units are fitted is any of the original wiring cut so that I will have to rejoin it?
Thanks for your help,
Cheers,
Tony
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