September 2008
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My car cuts out when the temperature gauge appears to stop working and goes from it's proper reading to zero. The gauge can suddenly fail as you are driving along but it only cuts out when you have to stop and the revs drop so low that it cuts out.
The other thing it does is when you start the car from cold when the outside temp is warm it will rev to about 2000 and gradually come down. Though it doesn't over rev when the weather is cold. It still did this when the temp gauge was working properly.
The most obvious cause appears to be the coolant temp sensor and i understand how the cutting out could occur. I'm not too sure about to over revving though. It is likely to be the sensor deteriating and giving incorrect readings?
Any advice or suggestions would be appreciated.
Would also like to know where abouts on the radiator this sensor is located (if that is the problem!).
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hi everybody,
i've owned this 2001 E39 M5 5.0 V8 for amonth now, in that month she's been at BMW's workshop for the last 2 week's, i've spent a load of cash with them but still problem not solved.
basically water is leaking from inside the gearbox, my mate has just stripped the box removing the clutch kit including the flywheel. now behind the flywheel is our problem, there's a housing which the water is leaking from, we've removed this housing all the water stored in the engine (to cool the piston's) bursted out. once this cover is moved two piston's are visable on either side.
between these two pistons is ablank space with awee hole size of ant or even smaller, from this hole is our water leak, but i cannot figure out why it's leaking or how to stop it.
thank's
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A month ago I bought a high mileage (210k) 405 LXTD estate. Recently I have noticed that I can taste what must be fumes in the cabin. This seems to be getting stronger. I have changed the oil vapour hose as this was worn and leaking slightly. At the same time I was able to check the other hoses - all seem fine. I have replaced the air filter. There don't seem to be any strange smells from the engine under the bonnet. Opening the windows does not seem to make a difference. Nor does closing/opening the vents. Last week I took the car to the garage for them to look underneath. The engineer checked the exhaust and hoses and concluded they were fine.
Can anyone suggest the source of this, as I'm finding it a bit worrying? Read more
Perhaps you have a small leak in the heater radiator & you are smelling the vapourising chemically anti-freeze smell.
If so, try some Radweld or similar.
When driving, if I stop or slow down at a junction etc the revs drop and the car stalls.
This also happens when reversing. Some days it is quite random.
Please Help
slt
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Setting-up the idle speed and mixture was a delight on those - and that was when the volume airflow meter was new.
Check for all the usuals; air leaks, blocked breathers etc. but finding a grizzled specialist in L-Jetronics[?] is your best bet.
Just done a brim to brim test on the Focus.
It's a 1.8Tdci, 115bhp, now done 75,000 miles.
The old bus is returning just over 50mpg in day to day driving, 13-mile commute, occasional run down to the caravan in leafy N Yorks, pottering about, etc.
I'm not the world's fastest driver, but rarely get in anyone's way, either.
I reckon 50mpg is pretty good for a car that pulls pretty well if you give it some wellie.
There's a few people on here who are unhappy with their car's fuel consumption.
Are there any others - like me - who are quite pleased with the mileage they are getting? Read more
On my last fill-up I got 24mpg from my Impreza RB320 which amazed me.
This is an experience that is not to be missed.
It starts once you get a few miles West of Dumfries on the A75...
...it is like going back in time.
Bad drivers? Just be ready to give way to anything on the roads around you.
As for when you actually get in to Galloway - this is a whole new driving experience to behold in itself!
Speed minus is a serious understatement - no one is in a hurry to get anywhere.
Wigtown we saw not only double but even triple parking with people just stopping their vehicles (anywhere) to talk to people and even on on A roads as they pass each other, with little or no consideration for anything or one else around - they pull up, park, turn, pull out in front of you, u turn (even tractors....) with no form or warning or use of indicators and in 7 days, 7 whole days we saw one solitary police man, in his little Skoda car - and he was directing traffic in and around the meat market at Newton Stewart!
Throwing car doors open is a real speciality though - watch for this one!
B class roads are so pot holed the only vehicle that can safely use them are tractors - and if you think Cornwall/Wales/Norfolk or anywhere else for that matter was bad for farm vehicles - most people with access to these vehicles - use such as every day vehicles and we even saw 1 x JCB fastrack parked up in Morissons in Stranraer!
It is a lovely part if the UK to visit though and the people, heavens knows how some have a drivers licence mind you - are absolutely warming as welcoming as could be. Read more
Used to use that road a lot to and from the Belfast ferry. Rare to see a cop car but watch out around Castle Douglas. I was once "making good progress" in convoy with an R32 Golf and a Sierra Cosworth on my way home from an Irish trip very late at night and was overtaken ( eventually ;-).....) by the Cosworth. Glad he did that because about 5 miles later I passed him stopped in a lay by having a chat with the local traffic cops..........
Whistles innocently and tunelessly and drives by at 59.9 mph.............
We were looking at a fleet of Harley`s outside `Hill 60`. Very nice too. Gleaming paint and chrome. Big old lads heaving into the saddles, bellies protruding and `love handles` extruding to the rear.
At least the `old` lasses had made an effort and there was just a hint of the nymph of 40 years ago.
I admired it really. The ability to soak up a tarmac back flop without a full (glass) skeletal shattering on impact and 10 months in a full body plaster cast.
To bike or not to bike again. That is the question... maybe not...too thin these days, almost lizard like.
Hill 60.
Hot coffee. Shell cases. Death 90 years on.
How do you preserve it? erosion, original tree trunk with bullet holes. shell cases and radial engine with coroded alloy pistons, preserved push rod tubes. Tree at the end of trench line and unblemished farmers field after that.
Leper,
Museum, unbelievable.. artifacts for sale. Bayonets 100 Euros. Shell cap only 15...
Walking away and thinking of some of the poets on tourism. Foreseen.
High Wood, Albert - gold spire. `The old front line` and the trap of a single track road leading towards Thiepval from Albert- ending in a crossroads of 4 roads with a crucifix on a cross at the edge of a wood.
A mile long, tarmac at both ends, ultra narrow, no chance of turning, going from tarmac to crushed rock and then rough, sharp flint.. A few hundred yards of that and then back onto crushed rock and finally onto tarmac at the other end. No signs at either end. a perfect flint, tyre ripping trap for anyone new to the area.
Part 2,
The Search for the next handbag.
Eventually captured in the place opposite Europa.. or something like that. A blur..
Nautica,
Big fish circling above, in a cone, under an artificial sun... The inverse pyramid of reality- circulating with the flow. Later in a photograph one is seen to be purposefully upside down. looking down into the depths perhaps wondering..
misc,
Lodgings, Calais - Kyriad. flank speed. 64 mpg. Small single engine plane at twilight, heading out over the coast towards England. A helicopter caught up and then followed it about one plane length behind and just above. Suspicious? or what?
The Machinery,
Better than expected. A relatively normal performance envelope was sustained for a week with no hint of further care or emergency surgical interventions.
In Yorkshire, (returned 3 hours) the mind probes the continent for further adventures.. perhaps further afield? Next time...
oilrag
The Fiat? Need you ask? Flawless ;)
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Maybe it had a chip on its shoulder........
Hi I have a 53 reg focus 1.8 tdci estate car has been fine up until a few weeks ago when it seems like the power is a bit flat when accelerating and then other times it seems to go like the clappers. weather or not the starting problem is related I am not sure.
the starting problem is when you start the car the car judders violently and has trouble trying to fire up and will take approx 10-15 seconds before she will actually fire up.
I have noticed if you turn the ignition on for a 15 seconds or so the starting is not as bad, but still judders
it has been suggested by a friend it could be a software problem and the fuel not getting enough pressue from the pump? no idea
any ideas or help would be greatly received.
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if this is only happening on a cold engine it sounds like a glow plug problem
Given that most of us are on this site because we are especially interested in cars or driving in general, and prompted / bullied into posting this by a friend who is not quite the full shilling and who would possibly turn awkward if I don't. ( Sorry Albert but you know to take the medication now don't you ? ) :-)
I dropped something onto another thread about a daft ambition I have which is to drive a TWR XJS down the Pacific seaboard of the American continent. As I mentioned there I can't really say why but it has been festering for years and I suppose I shall have to do it or something similar eventually.....
Anyone else got a "driving ambition" ? Read more
I've always wanted to drive L.E.J.O.G, the vehicle TBC
;o)
www.expertverdict.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Pr...1
Maybe what you want.