October 2010
I have a mini cooper 06 which has done about 27K miles.
Last month the coolant started leaking and recently BMW found the thermostat + thermostat housing was at fault. This was replaced by BMW and the coolant level on the day was topped up to max. It has only been a week since all this and already the coolant level has dropped to minimum! There is no obvious signs of a leak and there is no coolant leak on the floor (as there was originally with the leak before the thermostat was replaced). The car has been booked back in with BMW but there is a 2 week wait. Please help! Read more
Hi there,
I have four kids aged between 6 and 11 and am in the market for a three or four year old 7 seater and have a budget up to about £10,000 (preferably less). I have owned a 2003 Chrysler Grand Voyager (from new) and a 1997 Renault Espace (current car). I am considering:... Read more
Might have misslead slightly - not sure if the SE is still the top spec which my post assumed.
FTF
My car has just recently started to consume engine oil at a great rate.
There are no stains or marks on the parking lot nor do I see plumes of blue smoke on start up or when on the road.... Read more
Wow. if the car is running and you open the oil filler cap is the engine under pressure. ?
If you can remove the pressure pipe to the intercooler is the inside full of oil, there will always be some oil coating in there but it should not be excessive....
Hi, Out of the blue my daughters corsa will not start. It was ok 24 hours ago.
It's a 2005 1.2 twinport . The gauge says there's petrol in the tank although I thought I'd smell some if engine turning and not starting. I haven't. I've checked all fuses and all ok. I'm waiting for a set of jump leads as the battery is now getting low.... Read more
Get a £25 op-com off a well known auction site and declare the dealerships redundant. They take two weeks to arrive but worth the wait, you can do everything bar modifying the mileage and recoding the radio. Worth it just to program a new key.
Hi there,
Does anyone knows how to refill the gearbox oil on the above car?
Had to change drive shaft and lost quite an amount of oil.
Thanks
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You need to ask on one of the colt forums http://www.mitsubishi-forums.com/.
Not as simple as it first seems you generally need a dip stick because overfilling can be fatal and also the correct oil exactly the same as is already in.I did the same on a Renault it was reasonable easy the filling point is normally quite low down on the side of the box .
I will soon need some new front tyres on my A4 and dont want to spend too much (ie Continental/Michelin etc). Are Vredstein tryres generally any good, as they seem reasonable, and are not some unknown Chinese brand you see so much of these days, ie Linlong, Goodride, Freeway etc ? Read more
Find a local independent - £6 a corner at mine including a cuppa and a seat in his oily armchair while he fits them.
You are lucky, I live in the thames vally, there aren't any 'nice' tyre fitters like this in my area !
I have an ongoing problem with my ST70 (over a year). The car behaved fine up until this point (I've owned it for 6 years).
The problems and history -... Read more
Its great when you find the problem and everything is ok again.
im thinking of buying a vauxhall astra 1.7 CDTi 16V SRi does anyone no if they suffer all the same faults egr valve etc etc as the cdti 1.9 150ps model be gratefull for any info Read more
As well as having worked on and driven many, every car I've ever owned except one has been a Vauxhall. I would not buy one now though.
1976 Cavalier 1600GL - Fantastic car even if a bit under-powered. It was comfortable and I drove this to the south of France in 1985. Never gave me any trouble. I owned this for just under 5 years and I loved it....
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I have a 307 02 plate 2.0 HSI. ... Read more
Well to replace the battery would be a good place to start. Electronic control units do need a stable battery voltage otherwise all sorts of strange occurances can happen. In extreme cases ECUs can become damaged by voltage spikes produced by the car's charging system if the battery is unstable. As a matter of priority I would have your battery checked and replaced if unserviceble. Also I would check to make sure you have a good connection between the engine block, chassis and battery negative, also known as the engine earth. A fault here will also give very strange symptoms.....
My Ford Fiesta Finesse make a, "whirring sound" on engine start, I assume it is the starter motor, but it is not igniting. After several attempts, the car does start. The fault seems to only happen when the weather is cold/wet, and seems to be happening more often now we are moving in to winter. Initially the fault happen in May/June 2010, then did not happen again for a couple of months, any ideas?
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Damp weather is the pain in the back side to cars im afraid and damp weather on clutches causes judder but not in dry weather and electrical components like you starter motor takes a lot of current to get the solonoid to move over.
In the old days you may have heard of a distributor cap? Damp in this and no car would start.
Browse
Sounds like the system level may have dropped due to air lock from when the repair was done which is quite normal and can be topped up with water. If continues to drop in level then possibly is a prob but I would keep eye on it and see how it go's.