November 2009
SWMBO's 01(Y) Berlingo has no brake lights - inc high-level array. No fuse is shown in handbook for brake lights so have checked them all visually. Have also checked conventional bulbs as I'd heard one of these blowing could put the whole circuit out.
How can I find and check the switch? Is there a hidden fuse somewhere?
Any ideas anyone please? Thanks in advance
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Hi,
I have a 2.0 TDCI Focus and noticed a leak near the manifold. Turns out that it is probably a leak off pipe that is leaking (a small amount of) diesel. My initial thought was to simply change the leaking pipe (leak off pipe is approx £25). However when I went to get the leak off pipe this morning was told by parts advisor and technician at Ford dealership that I would need to replace the leak off pipe, inlet manifold gasket and all four injector pipes. Is this correct? I thought the leak off pipe that is leaking could just be replaced but apparently not so. Any advice appreciated.
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Hi, I have a 05 2.0 focus and have a similar problem. I've replaced the let off pipes however, iv still a diesel leak! Has anyone got any answers from previous problems?
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Just purchased my first golf. It is a 55 plate 2.0 TDI 140 4motion. 53k and FSH.
When the engine is accelerating and de-accelerating i hear a small like siren noise coming from the car. This happens most and at it's loudest when the car hits smaller revs.
The car runs fine but this noise is starting to irritate me. Do i have a major problem here?? Have any of you experienced this or know what's causing this?
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Anyone else enlighten me on this further and give me an answer on what this could be for sure.
Not had time to get to garage due to work commitments....
Thanks
HI any one knows or have an idea why im burning oil,litre per month,no leaks,no smoke,regular oil changes,correct oil? Read more
hi there, i have a vectra b x16xel that i just put new head gasket, 16 new valves and new stem seals due to slipped cam belt, i started it and it runs fine for 10-15 mins but as it warms up starts to smoke slightly, then if i leave it ticking over it starts to missfire, at this point if i drive it down the roads it puts out a road full of smoke and smells like oil burning kinda smoke that lingers for ages, this slowly clears after 5-10 mins of hard driving or if i rev it hard and stay still then the same shed loads of smoke and after 5-10 mins revving clears up and missffire goes until ticking over 10 mins or so and comes back. i read somewhere that when installing stem seals you cant push them on too far or they open up or not enough n they get hit, well i hammered each one on quite hard, how am i supposed to know how hard or far to put them on and do you think this could be my problem, also how can i prove this, what if i run it till it misfires n remove plugs or something could i tell??
what is wet / dry compression testing, dry i assume is normal compression test what is wet?? and would this prove it was stem seals or rings?? or other?...
I've just bought a new satnav for SWMBO and it's set me thinking about the difference between actual speed and distance and that indicated by the car's instruments.
From comparing the speed on the clock against my satnav I know that my speedo is about 5mph on the optimistic side at an indicated 70. This is an error of ~7%. As the speedo drive also drives the milometer am I right in thinking that the error is also reflected in the milometer? If this is the case I can knock something like 14k off the car's mileage:)
I'd be interested in other members' opinions and experience; I've got to drive over to Wales this afternoon so I'll compare the mileage from the satnav against the trip meter.
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Ok now consider that you can only be at a single point of any one of the cones at any particular timing cycle, and that gps works on distance from each satelite, and then tell me what you have.
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Mapmaker, thanks again.
The buyer is paying for an independent report. Fingers crossed that will show the true state and we will have to go from there.
had my corsa engine light checked today.came back as maf sensor.injector 1,throtle sensor.egr valve.this is a new engine i have put in to the car.i have tried replacing all of above but dont have maf sensor.but even after changing them faults cannot be cleared on ecu.why is this does mean there an electrical fault somewhere.please help dont want pay garage a fortune Read more
hav just spent all nite trying to fix it.still run like crap.starts better when cold??wont when hot.noticed to when checked the spark plugs cylinder 1 is not wet with fuel.looked into and is dry.others are wet.why could this be?changed everything the ecu said was wrong.ahhhh help
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@ Altea Ego -
Our cops sometimes do exactly the same things as American Police except they hide the Mobile speed cameras a.k.a Talivans.
However, I wouldn't like to say that they don't jump out on suspected speeders as I nearly ran a suicidal Police officer down when she was "checking" my speed.
I was going along the A36 towards Salisbury, I was cruising at 57-60 along a single carridgeway around near Whiteparish. I was comfortably cruising around a light bend when suddenly a Female cop jumped out of the bushes in my path, quite literally in the middle of the road.
I swerved hard to avoid killing her as she was on a suicide mission to catch me speeding. I blasted the horn at her but she still had the contraption pointed at the back of my van. I saw that there were only 2 officers doing the speed checks, both female. They had parked the Volvo estate so it was well-hidden behind the foliage. I wanted to stop to get their car registration & their numbers on their shoulders to complain bitterly to the Police about it. I couldn't because I would have been late delivering the glass so I had to forget it.
In reguards to the americans hiding themselves I think you should see some of these pictures where our mobile speed cameras are camoflauging their vans better than the army does.
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SWMBO is looking to change her car, we've been considering a few options but it always comes back to the Golf VI, she had a MK IV and changed that for a Civic which for all its merits (brilliant 2.2 CTDi engine for instance) she never warmed to.
Now logic says that the Octavia is ostensibly the same car, for the money we're prepared to spend we could get a Petrol VRS with a few options (like curtain airbags) or a Golf VI 122 SE with options so they're about the same spec, probably decided to avoid diesels due to DPFs and the fact this car will be low mileage (5K pa). The 1.8 L&K Octavia is also a contender.
The sort of questions I have are:
Is the updated Octavia more akin to the Golf V than the Golf VI ? Having driven both of the Golfs the VI is a big improvement imho - a lot less rattly / plasticy and that's our concern with the Octavia.
Is the Octavia noticeably bigger - it looks it on the road - it's a second car so not necessarily a benefit.
Is the Octavia more reliable ?
Are the dealers better - they're certainly fewer and further between ?
Any other (polite) opinions, we're probably looking to place our order in the next week or so.
P.S. Seats don't seem to be 'that cheap' compared to Golfs so have been discounted, perhaps unfairly.
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The Superb estate could be a very good new buy too.
Quite likely, it'll be cheap, reliable and well equipped, I doubt anything will be close for the same money.
But having bought new once, it's not something I'll be doing again for a while. I prefer to spend as much of my money as possible on the wife, kid and cat.
But there's a part of me that really wants to change my current car, so it's only a matter of time I guess.
30 years ago the Japanese crept up and overtook European cars.
10 years ago Skoda became a no-joke brand.
Now, as each new model is released, we are seeing the main Korean brands become more mature. I bet the 'big boys' are having sleepless nights - private sales are being lost, even car hire firms appear to be happy to take on Kias and Hyundais where the usual VX/Ford fodder would have been no-brainer decisions.
i10, i20, i30 - not as dynamically impressive as KA, Fiesta, Focus. That's about all you can throw at them.
And HJ's review of the revised Santa Fe shows a very impressive SUV for not a lot of money.
It doesn't even have the farcical plastic-wood of the old model, and it's performance/emissions stats are really rather good.
Be afraid, Euro/Jap manufacturers. Be very afraid.
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What would I do during the time that it's being serviced? With my present 2-miles-away
dealer I can go home and wait in comfort.
Personally I prefer the adventure. I can be stuck in my own house waiting for something to happen any time I like!
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Thanks both.
In view of he lovely weather I took it to a local indy this morning. Cause was a build-up of gunge around the switch - sorted within an hour for the princely sum of £21.
Terryb