January 2009
Hi folks, wondering if anyone can help me or has any ideas, long story short, took my clio to the renault garage to get the bonnet clip checked, they said the bonnet cable was broke so the could not check the clip or replace it till i got a new cable fitted for around £90, dont really want to pay this, so i had a look myself, the cable is still attached at the leaver end, but i can not get the bonnet open, ive spent hours trying, any ideas?
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Every so often the water in fuel light comes on. This has been happening for the last 4 years and when it started I took out the tank and drained it twice. It still happens occasionally but there is no loss of power or anything else to indicate a problem. I have filled up a different garages and let it almost empty to vapour a couple of times, but it still happens - anyone any ideas? Read more
About a week ago, my son's Punto began vibrating through the entire car, particularly at high motorway speed--and the vibration momentarily increases as you decelarate.
Theres not significant vibration at any speed through the steering wheel, which makes me wonder if its not actually a wheel problem, although my first thought was balancing/ tracking. I'm going to check the wheel nuts, tyre pressures etc first, but any advice before I do the rounds of the fast fit centres and get ripped off would be appreciated.
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Twas indeed down to the "egg" in the tyre..new tyre fitted, took the car on the motorway and as smooth as eleven year old silk.
Thanks to all for your replies. :0)
I seem to have given myself another problem I changed the fuel filter as procedure in Haynes manual but did not prefill the canister with fuel- not mentioned in Haynes- but everywhere else says fill it! thank you Mr Haynes! now when I run the engine I am getting bubbles in the pipe between the filter & the engine & the exhaust is smoky was OK before I changed filter! I have also changed the engine oil & filter. car is still offroad at present few more jobs to do before putting it back on road weather is delaying as garage is full so have to work outside.
Haynes says check for bubbles but not suggestion how to cure them if present!
No obvious leaks around filter but maybe clipped pipe connection is problem any other suggestions? Read more
Thanks for Info I didn't replace the O ring perhaps that is the problem when I can find the car under the snow I will fit a new one! & also check all the pipe connections.
Hello all,
I have been running my used 2003 S320 CDI (204 bhp) for about 10,000 miles and it has been brought back up to excellent condition mechanically through a full service, some new injectors, propshaft couplings etc.
Now I am looking for something extra from the 320 CDI which I believe tuning is widely available on this engine.
What I am looking for is the following,
- no more torque between 1,000 to 2,000rpm;
- possibly 15% extra between 2,000 and 4,000rpm; and
- extend the torque and power to 4,600rpm redline.
At the moment, there is a feeling of the torque reducing dramatically around 4,000 to 4,200 rpm which is when the auto box changes up.
What would be the best method to achieve this - Remap or tuning box?
Thanks in advance for your replies.
Kind regards,
Garrison Read more
Yesterday I nipped into the West End without having to pay £8, a right I exercise these days half a dozen times a year at most at a cost of £215 a year on top of the £110 to park in Kensington and Chelsea (the parking at least very good value by London standards incidentally).
To my horror though most of the parking in St James's has become telephone only, something I simply can't cope with and refuse to try to cope with after one expensive disaster with horrible Westminster. Had to go east as far as St James's Square to find a proper machine that would take plastic at least, £1.50 providing enough time for a brisk trot to my destination and back.
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Didn't he say "When a man is tired of London he is tired of life?"
I've made a lad an offer on what seems like a pretty good deal ('07 56 plate Vauxhall SRI NAV for £5k) subject to enquiring about insurance and running an HPI check. He's warned me that he still owes £4,700 on the car but says he'll pay it off with my money. I don't know him at all and can only take his word for it that he'll do this!
Worst case scenario - I buy it and he doesn't pay off the debt; presumably the finance company can repossess the car from me with absolutely no comeback!?
I'm very tempted but don't want to get stiffed (but at the same time he seems decent enough). Given the current climate possibly most of the private sales will be the same deal at the minute? (i.e. have outstanding finance) Read more
looks easy to me - get him to ask for a setlement figure from finance co - they will put this in writing. Then just settle the balance direct with them - in the current market I doubt they will care where the money is coming fom - just that they are getting it
Finance co's must take payments from third parties all the time when people trade cars in at garages etc
I just saw this today. On the westbound approach to the Greyhound roundabout on the A580 there is a metal central barrier of the normal type.
But, some paddles have been erected, about 2 feet tall, maybe a bit more, positioned every yard or so on top of the metal barrier so that they block out the view you would otherwise get of approaching traffic on the roundabout.
From reading HJ in the paper we know that this is on the grounds of safety, as some genius has discovered a new rule of driver psychology whereby if you can't see what's coming you have to stop. Is there a name for the law that states that decisions lower in quality the more of someone else's money you have to spend?
I think that traffic departments have to use up their budget or it gets lowered for the next year, which is why road management round here gets more and more ANNOYING!!!! Read more
Around our neck of the woods they use a prettier, but equally as daft, approach in that the central reservations have all sprouted shrubberies as you approach the roundabouts so that you can't see. Further to that the roundabouts themselves have taken on the appearance of small thickets so that you can't see anything on them.
However, they've now taken this to the limit with a road 'improvement' scheme in my local area. I live in a side road, one of several, off of a long straight one way road. For many years there has been a problem caused by vehicles parking right up to the junctions in the one way street and obscuring the view of drivers pulling out of the side roads, something which has resulted in many collisions; a scenario of which you are all familiar, I'm sure. The planners have finally decided that 'something must done' and have come up with a scheme to provide build-outs at the junctions to prevent parking too close to the side roads and giving us a fighting chance of seeing traffic approaching.
When I went along to the 'consultation exercise', where they listen to what we locals have to say and then they tell us that they're going to do what they were going to do in the first place anyway, the planner in attendance couldn't understand why I was gobsmacked to see what they proposed, and, of course, what we're going to get. On the build outs to the side from which traffic approaches they are going to put raised flower beds about 3' high planted with shrubs or rose bushes, on the other side, nothing. He really couldn't get his head around the fact that I thought the whole thing would be more dangerous than what we have already in that we would have an obstructed view 24/7 and that I would prefer it left as it is in that the Transit parked at the junction in every ones way does at least move six days a week!
The planner was absolutely insistent that the obstruction would make traffic pull out of the side road slower because they would have difficulty seeing clearly and that traffic turning into the junction from the main road would do so slower because they wouldn't be able to see if there is a vehicle obstructing the junction waiting to pull out. When I made the point that the reason there have been so many collisions has been that people already can't see each other he stated that 'the real reason is that people think they can see, now they'll know that they can't and act accordingly.' Personally I don't know too many people who aren't too sure whether they can see through a Transit or not!
Of course, he then went on to trot out the mantra that if this doesn't work then 'further traffic calming measures will be required' which is local Councilspeak for 20mph limits and speed humps. No they won't, we just want to be able to see down the road!!!!!!
My car has for a while now, but of course increasingly, suddenly failed to deliver correct power on heavy throttle when required, almost embarrassing on occasion. Usually it has recovered when revs pick up. I noticed though that when trying to rev under these circumstances there has been a hiss in the exhaust as if of escaping gas, accompanied by a strange drone from the engine, and there is sometimes a smell of exhaust being as it were forced out under the car. It always idles OK and is driveable in town until it gets really warm.
Is the cat breaking up? Is it worth buying a cat, available new for about a hundred quid, for such an elderly jalopy (still fairly good however if you know its little ways)? Or would an illegal but probably beneficial non-cat bit of pipe do until next MoT time? I'm afraid the car won't go more than another year even with care, so heavy expenditure seems foolish. My garage man seems to sympathise with all of this but is too canny to pronounce without taking a proper look, and is busy at present. Read more
hello, what i need to no is where to find the air bag module on my fiat doblo 1.9 -- 2004 reg , any ideas please , thanks in advance, carl Read more
By the air bag module, do you mean the on/off switch used if you intend to fit a baby seat?
If so, you'll find it in the passenger (L/H) footwell.
Browse
My light used to come on intermittantly and drive me mad as I knew there was no water in the filter having dismantled it and cleaned it out. I ended up disconnecting the plug from the filter housing to cure it. Too much technology - even in those days.