January 2010
Right 1st, hope someone can help before these small probs become 1 big one,
2nd, please bear with me as there is a lot I'd I like to say, so as not to have to backtrack later thanks
Ok so I bought my vectra 2.0 sri s reg 99, just after xmas with no obvious probs on the test drive.
After a week or 2 the exhaust started to smoke (white) but i'm not loosing any coolant, water, oil, e.g..
Plugs were dry but Iv popped in new ones and HT leads. Any help welcome
Also I have the engine management or ecu light up in the cockpit ( amber, pic of an engine with flash in the mid )
I comes on intermitted, the revs will drop off if I give it some welly they will pick up again but now and again it will stall
and not turn over again for a min or 2. I've used electric spray on all connections and looked at sensors. But with out
a haynes book i'm not to shore wots wot.
I also have tried to find the ALDL connector so I can do the old paper clip test, But I've looked at all the pics andread all the info on www.topbuzz1.carenthusiasts.co.uk/info/fault_codes...m but cant find it on my motor
I might be a bit thick and my car is to old! But any help please!
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Hi,
Just drove the car back from the garage after having a cracked water pipe replaced.
On the drive back the car would almost stall when sitting at lights idling. When I put my foot on the clutch the car was ok.
Problems started when the engine overheated due to the cracked pipe. It overheated whilst i was parked up (engine still running) sitting outside a shop after a 50mile motorway drive and then a short drive from motorway to the shop.
We got the car towed home after it began to stall, i turned off the engine after noticing steam coming from under the bonnet.
I then drove it the 2.5 miles to the garage refilling the water once on the way.
Any ideas why it might be almost stalling since this all happened?
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Yeah this is a petrol.
I attribute the fact that I have lived so long partly to the fact that (in my cycling days) when I approached a parked vehicle I would turn my head and look over my right shoulder to check for traffic behind me and then I would put out my right arm to signal that I was pulling out to pass the parked vehicle. If I didn't think it was safe to pass, I would stop and wait until it was safe. I can't remember the last time I saw a cyclist take any of these precautions. They must all have a death wish nowadays. Read more
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I wouldn't call that 'thinking'. My cycling proficiency in about 1960 was the same as
yours and backs up L'Escargot. With more traffic about the need for this is more
not less. And in really heavy traffic a cyclist would be safer to do what
b308 suggests.
I'm not in the least anti-cyclist but surely because in the nature of things they
are particularly vulnerable they need to take every precaution they can. That must be more
important than who is right and who is wrong.
Had cause to think about this again today. Arrived at major road junction and (a) wrong geared myself (b) decided to pass left of road excavation in a gap far to narrow for a car. No sooner had I taken a kerbside line then there was a silver Vectra 30cm out from my right knee. If I'd occupied my lane as I normally do he'd never even have considered that manoeuvre.
It's not directly about right or wrong but about how you claim or assert the rights you have. If there's a bus or lorry bearing down at speed then (IMO) I've failed to see them and postion myself to influence their behaviour soon enough. Obviously there are occasions where tucking in and waiting are the better part of valour but they should be few and far between.
All of this is in Central London and well inside the CC zone - tbh I find the urban traffic in Northampton more intimidating than "in the smoke"
2002 chrysler voyager 2.5crd, starts but cuts out after a couple of seconds and wont run. any ideas? i have replaced the high pressure pump and crankshaft sensor but no joy, the injectors and low pressure pump are ok, please help its driving me mad! Read more
see my report HJ back room > tech matters > select voyager dated 04 Jul 011
it may be that, IT'S LIKELY TO BE THAT....
Today I was on a short journey in town. The roads weren't very busy. I stopped at a familiar traffic light junction. Then I was surprised to see the lights change to amber, then red.
I'd stopped at a GREEN light!
I wasn't particularly tired I'm definitely not colour blind. The lights had been red as I approached them and I was preparing to stop and I hadn't registered that they changed to green before I actually stopped. Oncoming traffic was stopped behind the line too, strangely - that might be what threw me. Read more
Then I was surprised to see the lights
change to amber then red.
I'd stopped at a GREEN light!
Are you sure you stopped at green, what time did you stop, what time was it when you noticed the green light ?
I'm thinking - Alien abduction ;0)
Many Saturday nights, in my youth, I've gone from town to home, 8 miles, after drinking 8-10 pints of bitter on autopilot and not had a clue what colour any of the lights were at or which direction I had gone......
mind you I was asleep in the back of a taxi LOL ;0)
I'm trying to mount a new car alarm on my MONDEO I (Steereing WHEEL on the Left side - Italy). Does someone knows where is located the Door Locking Module?
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Black plastic case ,about 15cms across,with around 5 or 6 multi-pin connectors attached from below.hth
Just opened up HJ site on two different computers using IE. AVG immediately flashed up a Java virus threat. No hint of it on Chrome or Firefox? Read more
Thanks for reporting it in the various ways that you did - it is being fixed, it was a non-HJ site related issue/problem !
During heavy rain on motorways, a good amount of water is sucked (?) via front grill of the car.
Where does this water finally go?
How it is prevented from sucking via air filter? Of course it sucks air only but how it separates water? Why this mechanism can't prevent water going inside engine in a flooded car?
Is there any chance that water that goes inside engine bay can damage other electricals?(Eurostar?) Read more
Usually the water will hit the filter and drip off into the air-box as the filters tend not to wick water very well. The airbox has a drain hole through which water drains. I supposed the rest dries out due to engine heat and the air rush through the filter and is injected into the engine as small amounts of moisture.
Come on! You KNOW you had a medallion - your`re just trying not to remember.
Lud, would have had a solid gold one - in his Bentley period.
L,Escargot had a little St Christopher with `Ford Main Dealer` on the back - but lusted after a big silver `dinner plate` to hang around his neck - shirt open.
Remember the worry about whether the chain was soldered and links not just pressed together?
You went out to the disco then - having used that wide comb on the mop of permed hair. You were `advanced` in the finer points of civilized life and had a bottle of Liebfraumilch - and two glasses in the boot.
Your stories, Ladies and Gentlemen - please.
Let`s make this thread a good one `for the weekend` (as the barber used to say)
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Oh dear...confession time eh ?
OK, Triumph Spitfire with a ski rack on the boot lid, spacers and fat tyres. Replica WW2 flying jacket, 501s, cowboy boots, leather wristband and Turkish puzzle ring. Slightly later, hand painted ( orange ) Land Rover 90 3.5 V8, General Grabber tyres on white rims, rollcage, big Cibies mounted on bull bar, festooned with ski related stickers and of course the obligatory STP one. Rear mounted vertical ski rack. Clothes by now evolved into early Berghaus jacket and headband or bandana, the latter mainly reserved for non-UK use as wearing one on a Saturday night in Edinburgh might have resulted in tooth loss. Still jeans. Never ever flares. Dear me no. Mephisto Sherpa boots ( which I still have, can't kill 'em )
No medallion though. Bit too "English"......
;-)
I have driven Diesel cars for 20 years, and not misfueled yet, (or even picked up the wrong pump nozzle). As I am about to retire, (again), and recieve my state pension, will my brain instantly turn to mashed potato, and if so which misfuel device should I fit? Read more
What prompted the question was an advert on a Ford dealers parts counter, (oil filter for yesterdays oil change), promoting the Fuel Angel at £20 more than the online price.
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Iv been told that the excessive fumes from the exhaust might be a vacuum leak>> is this possible ?
I have found a hose that seems to just hang and not fit on to anything. but seems to be neer the sump? ( carnt see all that well as it dark ) should I investigate properly or am I just a bit dim!!? and missing somtheing