December 2008
can any one tell me how to reset the service interval lights on my bmw 530d 2004.
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almost since new this fault code has been coming on, garage has over time carried out resets, forced regeneration, changed all associated parts, latest with the involvement of Citroen UK, 2 day investigation, special oil replaced and forced regeneration. Fault still coming on. Any idea's? Read more
According to the Daily Telegraph, "Jaguar-Land Rover is reported to be in line for a taxpayer bail-out worth up to £1bn after holding talks with Government ministers". Why are they considering doing this? Read more
Re XF - A neighbour has just taken delivery of a black one. Wouldn't say I hated him exactly but you know.....
V nice car actually. No good for the tip run mind.
;-)
Van started fine monday morning but battery light stayed on,Checked and it isnt charging.Have ordered an alternater, but while awaiting arrival has anyone come across anything else on this system which could have failed? Read more
Thanks for posting the update!
I really do wish that the price of fuel would come down to about 50p/litre, because this mimsing, slow-driver mindset is becoming a real issue at the moment in my experience.
The latest one to infest the roads (of the North East anyway) is drivers failing to accelerate in good time on sliproads -- many of them are still only managing 35-40 when they hit the carriageway.
Now this would not normally be a problem (they can be overtaken on most roads) but a particularly insidious creature has cropped up now, which sits in the middle of the road, between the two lanes, at <40mph. Forcing drivers behind to join the motorway at dangerously slow speeds, and/or perform risky overtaking procedures as they are joining the motorway, running over the white lines to get to a reasonable speed.
Most of the time drivers on the motorway are switched-on enough to pull into the outside lane when they see this happening, but with the best will in the world not all manage it, especially lorries and quite frankly it is not the responsibility of the vehicle already doing 60-70 on the inside lane to make way for these idiots.
What is it with these people? OK, most of them drive small cars, but I've driven 1l Micras on the motorway before and they are quite capable of hitting 60mph going downhill along the length of a typical sliproad. And if you are going to dawdle along and endanger other road users, at least have the common courtesy to do so in an appropriate lane!
This has happened to me four times this last fortnight now, once onto a road occupied by a stream of trucks where I was seriously considering the hard shoulder as a get out of jail card -- thankfully there was a gap but still. Read more
Thats the way to do it DH, and as one of the hundreds of trucks travelling along the inside lane, you'll be helped gladly as that type of approach more or less guarantees that you'll be gone in seconds and most unlikely to mince about in front causing mayhem.
Car has no power to accelerate Read more
Can you provide details of model and year. More importantly can you give details of the problem. Those on here than can help will need more information for the problem.
Rob
Car runs as if the choke was staying on too long. If you don't keep the car running when started, if it cuts out then the spark plugs need changed.
Parts already changed: temprature sensor, lambda sensor,cat & EGR valve. Read more
There's two temperature sensors on the engine. The one controlling fuelling is in the inlet manifold where #2&3 branch and is a two wire device, the sender for the gauge is the single wire device on the top hose union.
I assume that once there is a bit of heat in the engine everything is ok? If the engine takes forever or never gets to 90 deg on the gauge the thermostat may be faulty.
Im a 21 yr old lad and i want a car with good looks good power and something a bit fun but have to remember insurance, i'm thinkin about getting a 330d coupe about 3 yrs old prob 45k or so on the clock. The insurance even with my age isnt to bad on this and get a decent return on mpg which i probably need. Just wondering if anyone had any other ideas, I have about 14k to spend on it. I do around 20k miles plus a year and due to where i work spend about 1-2 hrs a day sat in very slow traffic.
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Beware turbo failure.
Trawl HJ for info.
No need to shout
Just been going round the insurance comparison sites to get a better quote for SWMBO's car and found Admiral came out with best package. Can anyone recommend them? I've not used them before. Read more
My understanding is that Admiral is more an insurance broker rather than first line insurer. List of its companies at:
www.admiralgroup.co.uk/corporate/our_companies.php
Just watching this programme, scary stuff, not the drivers you want to meet on the road. Read more
Malibu is only 20% ish alcohol IIRC - not that I'd touch the stuff. Depends on the measures. If they were spirit measures then it's the equivalent of 4 singles - 4 of whatever they are is still very low though!
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Its a complicated affair of pushing the trip button in a set sequence with the key in various positions. I have never got it to work successfully. Fortunately I have the luxury of high spec diagnostics so resetting is a touch of the laptop key. Cross your local independant workshop with a few shekels and they will reset it for you as I think most scan tools should have the facility to do it.
Thats assuming you have serviced it!!