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my k11 had a small misfire under small amounts of load and also didnt idle great, however also increased idle speed when revs brought down for a couple of secs and went normal?

i noticed that the air flow meters on the tb were often faulty and started with the soldering trick and its not worked in fact its now very much worse!! ive desided to work along the lines that its because of someting ive done first. does the plate that covers the sensor need to be totally air tight as not to allow ne to bepass the meter cos i couldnt be sure it was when replaced but didnt make ne differnce when engine run with plate off completely?

my friend did the soldering cos i cant see the contacts well enough could they be dameged now cos my friend was not finding it easy to melt the solder?

they are the two only things that i think could of gone wrong cos was very little striping, plugs, air hose and air box mounted correctly. there was a smell of unburned fuel and looked down the top of the tb and looked very wet now missfire very badly under ne load sum times dies and idle is a mess. am thinking if plate doesnt need to be air tight tb gonna,

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I am thinking of upgrading the wheels of my car from 15'' pressed steel to 16'' alloys (manufacturers genuine parts).

Can I expect any improvements in terms of ride and handling? I know they will lower the unsprung mass of the car and the wider tyres should offer more grip but will the differences be noticeable in normal conditions? Read more

I have some professional track record in the media as an unknown freelance, having done news and foreign reporting, a column and a certain amount of comment of various sorts in obscure and sometimes better-known papers and on radio. No TV because cameras and lights make me perspire which is a no-no. People like me who want to do TV these days probably inject themselves with that wrinkle-removing poison stuff, bolox or something, which prevents perspiration.

Virtually all the Western media seem to me to have lost the plot. This perpetual howling clamour about the economic crisis is something quite new in my experience. The media used to say we were going to get a recession or had got one, and why. Now they want to tell us how awful it is going to be, how we ought to feel about it and why we are going to feel like that. In fact they do this in a way that is insistent enough to make me (anyway) doubt most of what they say. Even respectable papers and TV do and say things I would never have done or said, and wouldn't do or say now. Have the media gone the same way as the banking industry and the political classes, i.e. so far downmarket that one wonders what use the carphounds are?

I think so. And it's dangerous, because the media influence the way people think, as well as being boring and depressing. Read more

My mechanic has told me the two front springs are ok now but will probably need replacing for the MOT in May. I am thinking it might be a good idea to do get this done before the MOT.

Now the bushes are a common fault on these Fiestas and the easiest way to fix that is to replace the wishbones, and then the shock absorbers won't last for ever. So would it be a better idea to get two new front wishbones, two new springs and two new shock absorbers or is there no advantage of doing this in terms of labour?

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My dashboard display (Golf MkV 1.9tdi SE) is currently showing the outdoor temperature as -25c and has done for the past few weeks (I live in Yorkshire not the artic) therefore the sensor is obviously playing up. Does anyone know where I can locate the sensor to check it or is this a job for a garage (any idea how much it will cost to repair/replace?)
Thanks in advance for any advice.
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