Hi guys, I have an 01 cougar v6 and recently it has been revving up to 3500 when driving along and in between gears. When you aproach lights in neutral it revs really high then falls back down to idle speed after a few seconds. You can actually accelerate without using the throttle sometimes and then it will go normal again. Very confused as it doesn't seem to be throwing up any management lights. Any one else had these symptoms?? Read more

hi

I've got ford fiesta ghia (W Reg) can't get it to start for some reason when i put igntion on all the speedo rev temp etc go mad and fly round on dials. there is still nothing the car wont start turn over thr is nothing...

anyone shed any light on this ??

thanks

Neil Read more

Hi,

have had this car for a year and think it's using a lot of oil - last serviced 6 months ago and since then has done about 4k miles but I have topped it up twice with at least a litre of oil each time.
It only does short journeys, but the consumption still seems high - I am aware it is the same unit as the mazda 6 which has had a few issues (!) so wondered if high oil use is a symptom of things to come.....?

thanks,

Rosco Read more

I have a 2001 Honda Civic 1.6 SE VTEC with a Honda radio/CD player. Recently the radio/CD player suddenly stopped working and the clock, that is normally visible on the display whenever the ignition is on (even if the radio/cd is off), disappeared. I checked and changed the dedicated radio fuse in the accessories fuse box even though it seemed to be OK. The radio/cd player would still not work, neither did the clock reappear. Is there a fuse in the radio itself that could be the source of the problem? Or could there be another explanation? Any help would be much appreciated. Read more

Hi all, here's hoping some one can help me.

I bought a 2001 2.0HDi with 19k on the clock, really chuffed as it's one of the best I've seen whilst searching, from a husband and wife team who trade from home.

Rang the previous owner when I got home to check up on a few things (timing belt etc) who told me that it had been losing coolant in various amounts since 80k which was why he finally got rid of it when the loss increased to daily (he did do quite a few miles a day!) and he said that it never over heated!

Checked header tank next morning which was full (overfull!!!) and the rim around it was wet, which I dried. 300 miles later coolant has reached max level indicator and rim is again wet.

Over the last 250 miles don't seem to be losing much coolant but header tank is always wet.

Have read many posts and have checked for bubbles in header tank (none), hissing (none), smoke/smell from exhaust (none except on initial running), emulsion in oil (none), engine runs low 70 - 80, although if I squeeze what I think is the (squidgy!)manifold pipe I can hear a hiss from the filler cap even though the coolant seems to coming from the (overflow?) pipe when it does leak.

I want to keep hold of the car (last owner changed oil/filters etc every 10k, and it is in good nick) but if it is the head gasket will prob try and get money back from trader (only had the car a week) and they had been running it before selling so surley must've been aware of coolant loss??

I'm hoping to be able to do further checks this weekend and do a few more miles to see if it does fall any more before making final decision........any ideas or suggestions, surley it can't be that it's been getting overfilled for the past 30k????? previous owner did say that the warning light used to come on so maybe he did overfill it and has every time since, he did seem to have less mechanical knowledge than me (lol)

Thanks all, long post = sorry! Read more