December 2009
I'm driven by the scrappage scheme and forthcoming price increases to replace my Mk 3 Golf for either a Jazz 1.4 SE or a Polo 1.9 td.
Jazz gets all the best reports. But I don't like the cabin layout and feeling of soilidity presdent in the Polo. prices are similarbut servicing costs vary.
Can you help me to decide?
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Hi!
I'm posting for my girlfriend who has a year 2000 daewoo matiz.
What the problem is, I bought her a new cd player for christmas since she has a crappy JVC cd player. I took the old JVC player out and put the new one in, though it gets no power?
As soon as I put the old JVC player back in it comes straight on? The fuses are fine the plugs are fine and the new cd player is fine as I tested it in my car prior to trying to fit it..
Any ideas? It seems the plug in her car works in the old cd player and not the newer one.
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To sum that up, the old player uses an adapter connected to the factory wiring in the car, whereas I tried using just the factory wiring for the new one, as it was the same plug. Do I need the adapter?
took car to garage about noise under bonnet,they said it was either the tensioner or fly wheel,because "they said" they couldnt tell, they wont do it.told fly wheel is £600 Read more
Might I suggest you take it to another garage that knows which end of the engine the flywheel is and which end the Auxiliary belt tensioner is, they are after all at opposite ends of the engine and if the noise is at one end then that should give them a clue.
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Keith
Typing with one hand and I find it very hard. Slipped on the ice on monday as most people will know and as a result got a broken elbow and my left arm is in plaster.
Do I need to inform my car insurance of this? my policy says i need to tell them if my medical history changes. Sorry about lack of details its painful typing. Read more
In my mind Blue's (and other similar) advice is akin to that given in a
sermon recently by Rev Tim Jones of St Lawrence and St Hilda in York.
Each to their own but I think the situations are hugely different.
I've just bought a 58 reg Focus (Zetec) 1.8 petrol. I have a remote control key which works correctly. I also have a key which is not a remote control key, i.e. has no buttons for unlocking the door. If I try to unlock the car with this, the alarm sounds, and the immobiliser does not allow the starter to turn.
I cannot find how to program this key, from the manual supplied.
On the 53 reg Mondeo (diesel), I could use the non-remote key by holding it in position II for a few seconds when the alarm would stop and the car would run, but this does not seem to work.
I'm sure there is a simple way of enabling this key. Does anyone know what it is ?
Any help is appreciated.
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Thanks Andy
I wonder why the dealer supplied it. They did say that Motability often hand over just one key. This extra key is not a Ford key, but has 'JMA' on it. The metal part is cut the same and it does turn, but the immobiliser is not fooled.
I'll see them when they reopen.
Michael
This year I got a automatic b&d wrench and an autoglym git so some good stuff for a change. I am a big fan of autoglyms products :) Read more
A vehicle document file...........
Just what I've always wanted. ;-]
I think this must the first Christmas in a long time that a few of the locals haven't been able to have a run out to the seaside at Bridlington for a warming coffee.
My bikes are beginning to pine for a run out (me too).
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must admit been a poor autumn and winter hardly used my bike at all.after the 6inches of snow we had in sussex before christmas,not brave enough for anything like that.
Hi,
In Scotland just now its about -6/-7 degrees. Today I went out to drop wifey off at work and came back 6 hours later to car went off and then discovered a flat tyre. I am completely baffeled how my tyre burst. I feel possibly science and nature play to this as I found no cracks, bulges, or nails, screws in the tyre? When inspecting it the only way I could describe it was like a crushed up cardboard box 1 part of the tyre the rest was okay. I have had burst tyres before but today site was shocking especially when you don't know how it was caused. My question is it possibly a tyre can burst due to severe weather conditions?
I forgot to mention I did put air in tyres 2 weeks ago at correct psi of 30.
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Hi, can anyone help me: VW Sharan auto tdi. Diesel. when the engine got warm ( normal operating temp) it would not change gear, I.E. over taking at 50 it would not change up. I replaced the accelater pedel & potentimenter. it 's still playing up I.E. at 40 m ph, 3000 revs, max ease my foot off gas and re apply no change. having to slow down and accelerate slowly.
also: engine cold, accellerating it changes up through the gears but it 's black smoking, which it hadn't used to. now i can only get upto 50 mph, where as before in the same distance i could get up to 70 mph, not as much power
thanks john
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yours will have a kat im sure. mine is a 99 and has 1. not sure if my problem is same as yours but when the fuel is real low and you put your foot hard down some times it seems to go onto some sort of limp mode. it sounds like the turbo goes off. when this happens i run some fuel system cleaner through it.
Went straight to my dads after work and met the wife and kids there.
When we left , son came in my car and as we passed Airdrie train station car park, he twisted my arm to go in and throw some handbrake turns in the snow.
So, like the dutiful father I am, I did as I was told and halfway through my first powerslide, I noticed my wife had followed me into the carpark in her Beetle.
Son and I both watched in amazement as she raced to one end, yanked on the handbarake and accelerated through a perfect powerslide!!
Looks like she has been kidding us when she pretends to read her book during Top Gear!!
Respect!!
So forget all the other issues about the snow and hold ups and lack of gritters - who else has had some good old fashioned fun in the snow?
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Terranaut,
Did you make it - they have various cones out, not sure if they are to aim through for slalom turns or whether they are highlighting kerbs!
Browse
My Polo has just arrived after 3 months wait - looked unders bonnet straight away - has Bosch abs so perhaps they have learnt ?